Thursday, October 22, 2020

2020 Scary Movie Challenge Day 22

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  1. Joe Dante's GREMLINS (1984, 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray). First time seeing movie in 4K.

    Wait, Mister Futterman's MAGA now? Sad face!

    or

    Phoebe Cates, the psycho girlfriend next door.

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    1. Joe Dante's GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH (1990, Blu-ray)

      B-movie equivalent of "Dancing With the Stars"

      or

      Gremlins in every pot. VOTE CLAMP 2020!

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  3. Joe Dante's BURYING THE EX (2014, Blu-ray) for the first time.

    Yet another reminder Anton Yelchin's dearly missed.

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  4. Gamera, the Giant Monster (1965 - Noriaki Yuasa)

    Godzilla processed atom bomb - Gamera processed Godzilla.

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  5. Psycho (1998)

    "It looks like a movie" - Rob DiCristino

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  6. The Devil Bat, dir Jean Yarbrough, 1940

    That's the second largest bat I've seen

    Or

    Another reason not to trust free samples

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  7. Asylum, dir Roy Ward Baker, 1972

    Personally, I'd kill for the midday nap

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  8. The Sect, dir Michele Soavi, 1991

    My sinuses would handle non of this.

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  9. NOCTURNE (2020, Dir. Zu Quirke)

    Black Swan suite played in C minus.

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  10. THE H-MAN (1958, dir. Ishiro Honda)

    More radioactive monsters from postwar Japanese paranoia.

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  11. Spider Baby, dir Jack Hill, 1967

    Rabbit's fresh, you can hear it meow.

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  12. Psycho (1960)

    The mother of all twist movie endings

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  13. Hobgoblins (1988)

    In rake vs hoe, both are losers.

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  14. FINAL DESTINATION (2000)

    You can cheat death via plot holes?

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  15. Onibaba, dir Kaneto Shindo, 1964

    Have thighs ever been lit so lushishly?

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  16. Halloween (1978, dir. John Carpenter) (with Red Letter Media's commentary)

    Never noticed Carpenter's second hand cameo before.

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  17. Alone (2020) (Dir. John Hyams)

    The scariest horror I have seen yet

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    1. Oh, I've been wanting to watch something actually scary (The Nun didn't do it for me). Thanks! I'll check that out.

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    2. My girlfriend was really scarred. Mostly because, as she said, it's every womans fear.

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  18. FINAL DESTINATION 2 (2003)

    Shouldn’t have logged onto this zoom meeting.

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  19. May (2002)

    Excellent, even while watching through my fingers.

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  20. Poltergeist (1982, dir. Tobe Hooper)

    Fun rewatch. Can't think of anything clever.

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  21. Orphan Jaume Collet-Serra 2009

    Where does one order prepubescent false teeth?

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  22. The Mortuary Collection (2020)

    New QAnon warning: child-eating babysitter morticians

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  23. The Possession (1981, dir. Andrzej Zulawski)

    Sam Neill gets cucked by The Thing

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    1. I'll also say, this was the best film I've seen so far this October.

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    2. Nitpick: movie's called just "Possession," no "The." And yes, it's an effin' masterpiece. 🤡👺

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    3. I know! I saw it right after I hit Publish. Alas, still a fucking great movie.

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  24. Hubie Halloween (2020)

    It’d be a real boner to skip.

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  25. Psycho (1998)

    Way less irritating than Lion King remake.

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  26. Invitation to Hell (1984, dir. Wes Craven)

    Disappointed Daredevil and Luke Cage never appeared.

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  27. FINAL DESTINATION 3 (2006)

    Future foreseeing photographs for the win (-stead).

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  28. NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2

    Freddy comes out for Pride Parade!

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  29. Wishmaster 2 (1999)
    Should've called it Djinn Goes to Djail.

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    1. Hahaha. He's in jail for SOOOO long. That being said I really like this one, probably as much as the first. We get much more Divoff than the first.

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  30. Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966, dir. Terence Fisher)

    Discount Cary Grant fights Dracula. It’s awesome.

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  31. The Serpent And The Rainbow (1988)
    I'd zombify Pullman just to, y'know, hang.

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  32. Alone (2020)

    Engaging informative documentary about the year 2020.

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  33. Hocus Pocus
    1993, dir. Kenny Ortega
    109,575 Days horny townsfolk kept witches contained

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  34. Altered States
    1980, dir. Ken Russell
    Isolation used to be way more fun

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  35. House
    1986, dir. Steve Miner
    Katt runs from ghosts and gets Wendt-ed

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  36. THE FINAL DESTINATION (2009)

    3-D effects in 2-D sure are obnoxious.

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  37. My Bloody Valentine (1981)

    Problem is you got a busted Axel.

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  38. Silver Bullet (1985)

    Me everyday: "Holy jumped-up baldheaded Jesus palomino!"

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  39. Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)

    And it's a swing and a hit.

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  40. Host (2020)

    Caroline’s dad is my cowbell of quarantine.

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  41. FINAL DESTINATION 5 (2011)

    Bridge effects are great. Everything else? Yawn.

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  42. The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (1964, dir. Michael Carreras)

    But are Annette and John back together???

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  43. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)

    Effects worked especially well on this viewing

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  44. Aliens (1986)

    I will name my next pet Newt

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  45. Aliens (1986, dir. James Cameron) (with Blank Check Podcast's commentary)

    John Connor's foster mom was swole af!

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  46. Hostel (2005)

    Mask-wearing butchers ahead of their time.

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  47. Tales from the Hood (1995, dir. Rusty Cundieff and Darin Scott)

    Horror movie I want to be real.

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  48. The Mortuary Collection (2020)

    There can be only one -- eccentric mortician!

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  49. THE NINTH CONFIGURATION (1980)

    Are all military hospitals in abandoned castles?

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  50. Halloween II (1981)

    Hot tub or giant cartoon cooking pot?

    Or...

    “Greetings, Starfighter. You - oh! - some blood there...”

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  51. Leviathan (1989)

    Alien? I never heard of the Thing.

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  52. Don't Look Now (1973)

    I'll be honest, I took a peek.

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  53. Annabelle Comes Home (2019)

    Annabelle Home Cooking: A Conjuring Universe Story

    or

    "In memory of Lorraine Warren, professional fraud"

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  54. Blade (1998)

    Where would you even find ice hills?

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  55. Halloween 4 (1988)

    No. No! No! No! No! No! Noooo!

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  56. Countdown (2019)

    Wish app had worked 90 minutes ago

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  57. Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)

    I believe I was promised duckling torture.

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  58. Silent Rage (1982)

    Chuck Norris AND William Finley......I’m sold!

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  59. The Fly (1986)

    I love how gross this movie gets.

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  60. Darkness (2002)

    Before directing [REC] Balaguero directed this wreck.

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  61. The Devil's Rain (1975) Dir. Robert Feust

    Stop the world and melt with you.

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  62. RE-ANIMATOR (1985)

    Screenwriters, "Save the cat" sometimes doesn't work.

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  63. Kwaidan (1965) director Masaki Kobayashi

    For Anthology Lovers, Vow to Patiently Persevere

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    1. A beautiful film that certainly requires patience. Japanese filmmakers capture stillness in a way that no other country's cinema does. Maybe it can be off-putting, but it is an aspect of a film like Kwaidan that I most appreciate.

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    2. If it sounded negative, assuredly I didn't mean it that way. Lovely and haunting, with touches of pure shock. Just thought folks should know it's a tone play in a lot of great and breathy points.

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    3. I did not intend to sound scolding, nor did I read any negativity in your review, Babadook. You are right that expectations are important going into a film like Kwaidan.

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  64. The Witches (2020)

    It's good Hathaway but where's her intern?

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  66. THE CAT AND THE CANARY (1927) - A watch in honor of J.B.

    That is generally how family reunions go.

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    Always look out for those secret passages.

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  67. John Carpenter’s Vampires (1998)

    Woods tries slaying vampires with douche swagger.

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  68. Waxwork (Hickox, 1988)

    Your favorites! Werewolf, Mummy...Marquis de Sade?!

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  69. The Vampire Bat (’33, Strayer)

    I didn’t guess who the vampire was.

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  70. BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR (1989)

    Guessing Yuzna is a James Whale fan.

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  71. Halloween H20 (98)

    This film doesn’t even take place underwater.

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  72. The Eyes of My Mother (2016)

    Killing the mother is the ultimate neg.

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  73. Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)

    Jason got Arya Stark'd back to hell.

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  74. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) director Jack Sharman

    Charles Gray? Charles, Dance! Where's Charles' Band?

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  75. Willard (2003)

    Is there anything Crispin Glover can’t do?

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  76. The Vampire Lovers (1970)

    This Ingrid is anything but the Pitts.

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  77. From Beyond (1986)

    How she get a bomb so fast?

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  78. Dawn of the Dead (2004 Zack Snyder)
    Snyder’s cynicism was there from the beginning.

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