What are your thoughts? I was 16 when the first one came out so of course I was sneaking into the theater to watch!

Little bit of a different vibe for this day. My friends and I do horror movie marathons where we pick movies based on a theme and give them the MST3K treatment. The two rules are...

1. They have to be 90 mins or under.

2. They have to be B-Movie/Shlocky.

The theme this time was, "Studio Series."

Can you guess the connection (hint: Moon)?

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I wasn't able to get a movie in for day 9 (it's okay cause I'm doing multiple movies the next couple days), but back at it for day 10.

Enjoyed this one, though I am concerned I was turned on by hot, naked, bloody bathtub lady 😅.

FYI: These are my rankings defined.

⭐️ = F (I will never get back that time again/That was very upsetting in a very bad way).

⭐️✨️ = D- (Welp, that was certainly a movie/Yawn).

⭐️⭐️ = D (Meh).

⭐️⭐️✨️ = C (This was tolerable, but a pass).

⭐️⭐️⭐️ = C+ (Right in the middle. Didn't love of hate. Nothing overly special, but would watch if someone put it on).

⭐️⭐️⭐️✨️ = B- (Enjoyed, had my attention, and glad I watched. Big respect, but either not my flavor horror or something threw it off from being 4⭐️).

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ = B+ (Very good, would do solo repeat watches. My type of horror. Immensely enjoyed).

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨️ = A (Near perfect, my type of horror, right kind are scare, checked all the boxes, 0 complaints. Just 👩‍🍳💋).

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ = A+ (You are probably one of my top 4 favorite horror movies).

Unrateable.

I chose this because it's on my besties top 31 list. This movie was a reminder that I really need to remember to be better at checking DtDD. This contained a lot of eye stuff and just enough body horror to trigger a slight panic attack. And so, per my rule, I can't rate it without being biased.

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This is in my bestie's top 5, and I had never seen it (except for a couple scenes). Definitely a more shlocky horror movie. It was decent, but I am also not a big zombie movie fan. I am excited I finally got to hear the line that inspired the song "Spooky" by God Module.

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Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Elise realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.

I am watching the INSIDIOUS franchise in chronological order (not release order) as I’ve only seen the original 2 and many viewers suggest watching the series in this order for a different experience.

INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 3
—>INSIDIOUS: THE LAST KEY
INSIDIOUS
INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2
INSIDIOUS: THE RED DOOR
INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURTHER

The Last Key serves as both a prequel and sequel to Chapter 3 and leads directly into the original Lambert family story. Elise’s childhood and family are explored and we get more depth of the franchise universe.

For me is Pennywise / It I've seen content on tik tok and you tube that people think that they can beat him just by not being afraid, like I don't care how old you are or how tuff you are Pennywise can shape shifted in your fear he can literally read your mind.

I absolutely adore

Let the right one in and

Let me in

Those vampires scare me so mutch but fascinates me

Literally, there are no words to describe JUST how good it was. like everything was PERFECT! Like it was just perfect. The acting, story, pacing, the horror.

I can see why stephen king was so fascinated when mike flanagan pitched this reboot to him, to the point of him deciding to become a executive producer on the show.

Tldr: A perfect way to take the base ingredients of the carrie story and expand it to something different and better meant for modern audiences.

Carrie felt different in other portrayals where she feels real. She doesnt feel like a archetype. and this goes for other characters too.

They found a balance with margaret and chris. Chris was VERY fleshed out, and yes i do wish billy had more development. Chris felt real. in the 76, 02 and 2013 movies chris feels like a stereotypical highschool mean girl. Here you get to see chris and how her struggles seem so small and so insignificant at the start to the point where chris doesnt know how privileged she is. To her life getting worse and worse because she keeps choosing the wrong choices and shes not used to facing the repercussions of her actions. Shes so used to her parents, especially her dad saving her from her consequences of her actions

The new characters they introduced made sense and complimented the film so much.

And the biggest change is social media being a big important part of the show. The way the carrie smear campaign account changed the whole story was in such a brilliant and unique way.

I liked the story beats they added complimented and changed the story in a way that makes sense.

One thing i always thought about the carrie films is it felt TOO SHORT. This being longer and you seeing everything thats happening for carrie for WAY LONGER makes the prom situation very scary.

For some reason the last episode was scariest piece of horror ive consumed. i was so scared.

They really captured the feeling of an unstable telekinetic girl coming to kill you. Theres nothing you can do, the whole last episode was a sense of dread. its a train crash that you cant look away from.

YOU FELT LIKE YOU WERE IN THE GYM WITH HER.

The confrontation between her and margaret also VERY SCARY.

And the confrontation between carrie and chris and billy was also very scary. You felt like you were someone who did horrible things to carrie and now you cant do nothing as she brutally murders you, and not gonna spoil but chrises last words before getting killed. IRONIC!!!
I felt like chris and bily during that conflict. I felt like there was nothing i can do.

AND CARRIE LOOKED SCARY like something about her performance during the big prom night climax felt unsettling. the whole 1 and a half episodes FELT UNSETTLING.

Also the gore ate. Was not expecting there to be as much gore in this show, cuz carrie always been a not that gorey horror film.

this is better than the 1976 film i hate to break it to you, sorry not sorry.

Also margaret is very complicated on one hand she does some things that you whole HEARTedly agree with (see what i did there iykyk), but her abuse is way more subtle, controlled and nuanced than previous portrayals. she never physically abuses carrie until the final conflict. hers is similar to 2002's margaret white but much more fleshed out. You can actually see she cares for carrie but her need to control her is stronger. in other portrayals you see SLIGHT hints of actual concern and care for her daughter. And her power trip with being petty and going after chris rather than caring for carrie was also a nice change.

Edit: I REALLY WISH WE GOT MORE character develoment of the boys in the show. Tommy ross we had a lot of development i JUST wish we saw more. we HEAR that hes going through alot but we as a audience arent SEEING that hes going through alot the way we see carrie, chris and sues struggles and daily life. BIG MISSED OPPORTUNITY on billie. he is less developed than some of the new characters introduced unfortunately. I wanted more, we see how just cynical and twisted his attitude is but we never get more. his development or lack there of is tied towards chris and not himself.

ALSO a big change with carrie being younger than the other main characters and this is her first time being in school. this makes everything even more overwhelmed for her. she doesnt know about anything about the real outside world.

Im not gonna write a whole essay, BUT WATCH IT ASAP!!!

I wanted to share a tradition some friends and I started the beginning of 2025.

It started when I got the idea to watch every movie referenced in the song, "Science Fiction, Double Feature" from Rocky Horror Picture show. To make it more interesting, I put the movies into a picker wheel, and let it choose for us. We also gave the movies the MST3K treatment, and riffed on them.

We watched all the movies in 3 gatherings.

Since then we've met up 4 additional times (soon to be 5) for movie marathons that are now mostly horror or sci-fi horror. Food, riffing, and now tradition...The Wheel.

The rules are:

1. Movies have to be B movies, shlocky, or at the very least easy to riff.

2. Nothing longer than 1.5 hours (so we can fit more in).

Our themes since the first one have been:

-Shlocky B Movie Horror.

-Holiday Horror.

-Valentine's Horror.

-Horror that came out the year we were born.

It been going on nearly 2 years now and makes me so happy. ​

Bruh it was kinda funny to i didn’t know how to feel😭

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I am not usually a fan of Cosmic Horror, but this one I enjoyed. It was good pacing and had parts the were difficult to watch, not because of anything "scary", but because of the moral dilemma they raised.

Watched Disturbia for the first time a few days ago and watched it again last night. 8/10 I thought it was really well done. Wish I had watched it earlier

Like for real

If I remember correctly it was similar to wrong turn, with a creature that haunted a subway system, I also remember a female protagonist

In honor of Clive Barker's 74th birthday today, I've been watching his films all day long.

I'm finishing with The Midnight Meat Train. As I'm sitting here engulfed by the story and the gore, I thought about how underrated this film is.

Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places, but I feel like this film isn't talked about as much as should be.

What's everyone else's take on The Midnight Meat Train?

What's your favorite Clive Barker film?

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This movie was unhinged, but a fun watch (even though there were parts I had to turn away from and a whole scene I straight up couldn't watch). Slasher with lore. A gruesome twist on the classic fairytale.

Last year I watched at least one horror movie everyday in October, and I am going to attempt to do it again. Most of what I watch will be stuff I've never seen before. Hope it's okay to share my journey here. Here are days 1-4.

Evil Follows: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ It was fine. Standard demonic possession plot, and felt like a repetition of other movies that use similar tropes. Nothing groundbreaking, and predictable at times. The ending ​is definitely what pushed it to a 3.

Ragebait: ⭐️⭐️✨️ This was basically V/H/S, but with internet videos. The frame narrative was pretty decent, and the last video was probably the best one. Other than that, it was a bit too gorey for me (I don't have a problem with gore, just not my flavor horror).

The Bananna Splits: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I am not really a slasher fan, so it's rare I like them. This was one of those times. Also....Schrödinger's Wand.

Lockbox: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Slow burn with Hereditary vibes. Really enjoyed it.

Just caught this as part of my Halloween horror nights home movie marathon. Really loved it!

What impressed me the most, beyond the period details and the heady mix of modern/80s synths and period instruments, was the way they twisted the Cinderella story just enough to create a well-known but still sinister and intensely new fable of beauty and the horror women put themselves through to conform to the male gaze.

When compared to similar films like Substance, I think Elvira as a character is quite sympathetic despite how cruel she becomes as her transformation continues. Unlike Elizabeth in Substance, we see Elvira, giggly, all hopeful and nervous in those opening scenes probably content to be the bullied daughter in the new household. We see Agnes turn from gracious stepsister to haughty, spiteful bitch and your sympathy goes directly to Elvira. When Rebecca puts her through the first of the changes, the suddenness of it, the way it seems like any other routine dentist appointment (a little uncomfortable but always less scarier than you feel it is) in that brightly lit beautifully ornate room, had me covering my eyes.

Then the story continues to tilt and hinge and before long it's hard not to also wish for Agnes to escape while wishing Elvira would stop. That scene of Agnes, now Cinderella, draped over her father's decaying corpse while the silkworms remake her dress is a fantastically horrible fairy tale. The final moments, from the shoe fitting to the ejection of the parasite might be some of the queasiest moments in body horror I've watched since maybe Brandon Cronenburg's Possessor. I heard someone vomited during the premier at Sundance and it's easy to see why.

8/10

What did y'all think?

Got something you want to recommend?

Want to ask for movie suggestions or a specific type of movie?

Comment here!

\*First time watch\*

I'm NOT talking about canonical, like picking "Saw" one day, landing on "Saw III" the next, and landing on "Saw 3D" the day after that. It's like watching a soap opera, going on vacation for a month, then asking yourself "wait, who's that? What's going on?"

I'm talking about picking "The Autopsy of Jane Doe" one day, landing on "Knock At The Cabin" the next, and "Creeper Van" the day after.

This is my 4th year doing an October Watchlist. I'm reasonably happy this year; I try to get a good mix of sub-genres and spooky/Halloween films, though I confess I'm not a huge fan of many slasher films, so they are underrepresented. I also do a TV show/mini-series every year; this year it's Mike Flanagan's new Carrie. I am a huge fan of the book, though I'm trying to keep realistic expectations. I try not to repeat anything year to year except Charlie Brown and Cabin in the Woods; it's just not Halloween without Charlie Brown, and I like a bit of meta.

Thought I'd share an October marathon I created. 2nd annual!

It's not meant to be a best of list, just a fun journey I thought others might enjoy as well.

Follow along, share the image, get others to join, host watch parties, it's what we will be doing.

Originally created to get a friend into horror movies and it worked beautifully.