Wednesday, October 25, 2023

2023 Scary Movie Challenge

41 comments:

  1. Nobuhiko Ôbayashi's HOUSE, aka HAUSU (1977, CRITERION BLU-RAY).

    Strangest "Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon" episode ever.

    OR

    Sam Raimi-esque before Raimi's own "Evil Dead."

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

    Oh, I get it...puberty as subtext!

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  3. John Grissmer's BLOOD RAGE (1987, ARROW BLU-RAY).

    --'Louise Lasser's menstruating?'
    --"It's not cranberry sauce."

    OR

    Patrick Bateman Junior, Taking Care of Business

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  4. Poltergeist (1982)

    Glad that's over, everybody back inside now.

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  5. Enemy (2013, Dir. Denis Villeneuve)

    Walked in on your wife doing WHAT?!

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  6. Under The Skin (2013 - Jonathan Glazer)
    The Beach Baby broke me so bad.

    OR

    Not Johansson: "They sucked his brains out"

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  7. VAMPIRE CIRCUS (1972)

    This movie’s amazing. We can agree, right?

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  8. The Loved Ones (2009)

    Daddy-daughter time..... with sex and drill

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  10. FROM BEYOND (1986)

    I wish I had a forehead antenna.

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  11. It Chapter 2 (Dir by Andy Muschietti)

    Amazing cast! Also James Ransome and Jay Ryan
    or
    Flashback scare, real scare, repeat. It dies.

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  12. Lake Mungo (2008) dir. Joel Anderson

    There’s one ghost less scary than Affleck.

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  13. Unwelcome (2022)

    This ain't your daddy's leprechaun horror movie.

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  14. Night Of The Hunted (2023)

    In this world gasoline is apparently odorless?

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  15. Willow Creek (2013) dir. Bobcat Goldwaith

    Ten minutes Blair Witch, rest bad Gong Show.

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  16. COBWEB (2023)

    Twitter: “Fun Halloween movie!”
    Me: Overwhelming dread.

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  17. Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark (2019)

    Nope, I tried. Still don’t like it.

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  18. House of Wax (2005)

    Paris Hilton impaled by spear? That's hot.

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  19. Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
    Dir: Jack Clayton

    I miss this type of “kids” movie.

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  20. Don't Look Now (1973, dir. Nicolas Roeg)

    Hard to watch a movie without looking.

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  21. Underwater (2020, dir. William Eubank)

    They covered it, so I rewatched it.

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  22. Funny Games (1997) dir. Michael Haneke

    Why you never fear thinking “fuck politeness.”

    or

    Proves white-gloved anybody should be brained.

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  23. -Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

    Better movie if Gizmo watched Cobra instead.

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  24. High Tension (2003) dir. Alexandre Aja

    Lori Petty got the rusty truck from…?

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  25. DRACULA AND SON (1976)

    Not an accurate adaptation of Monster Mash.

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  26. Jigsaw (2017)
    What if killer was... vigilante law enforcement?!

    Spiral (2021)
    What if killer was... vigilante law enforcement?!

    Or

    Who spilled these traps in insufferable stand-up?

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  27. -Young Frankenstein (1974)

    "Enormous schwanzstucker" was in Shelley's first draft.

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  28. UNDERWATER (2020)

    Only thing missing is Andrew Ryan’s speeches.

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  29. SCREAM (1996):

    Some way, somehow, it’s still massively underrated.

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  30. Underwater (2020) dir. William Eubank

    All killer. No filler. Undersea monster drillers.

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  31. Demons 2 (1986 Shudder (TLDI))

    Zombie University Drama Club Performs The Raid

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  32. Deadly Blessing (1981)

    It's just another ordinary slashe.....

    .....wait....

    ...WHAT?!?

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  33. The Blair Witch Project (1999)

    It was Guaranteed in Stock at Blockbuster

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  34. The Devil's Candy (2015)

    Oneders bassist got ripped and started painting

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  35. The Intruder (2019)

    90s throwback thriller! Jack Torrance sells Overlook.

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  36. BARBARIAN (2022)

    An age undreamt of... in this basement.

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  37. The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)

    Why trombone bayonet if you can't play?

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  38. Underwater (2020)
    Being trapped with TJ Miller is scary

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  39. The Power (2021. Dir. Corinna Faith).

    I liked the concept, not the execution.

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  40. Tales from the Hood (1995)

    Listen up children. Crypt Keeper got woke.

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  41. Review count for day 25: 40
    Review total after day 25: 1414

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