October Horror Movie Marathon

[MrBarlow]

Bad Dreams. 1988.

Jennifer Rubin plays the sole survivor of a cult murder/suicide and wakes up from a 13 year coma only to be tormented by visions of cult leader Richard Lynch who starts bumping off people around her. This is a nicely paced ghost/slasher flick, Lynch manages to always play a villain and here he kicks it up a notch playing the near Jim Jones cult leader. Bruce Abbott appears as a doctor again this time being a psychiatrist and no re-animating the dead. The effects for the burning sequence haven't really aged well but you go with what you can do. This one didn't really sit with me the first time I watched but but has grown on me.

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[peter alex]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Naturally no UK release on disc. Pity as The Blackcoat's Daughter sounds great

the original tital of the film is called february wich sound not as great its was released by Lions Gate in the US.

[MrBarlow]

Hell Night. 1981.

Hell Night never fails to be entertaining,It's the fun early 80's slasher flick, designed for retro thrills, fun scares and popcorn munching. It takes itself seriously enough to stop from descending into a dismal of being crap. Of course, it all goes very slasher and the kids each gets killed off in various ways after discovering the remains of the Garth family in the tunnels under the house. The police have no interest in helping them, so they try and survive the night themselves so these college kids ain't as thick as other college kids in most horrors, even when they are in a room and do try to go out the window.

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[MrBarlow]

Death Ship. 1980.

Suspense, thrills, terror, tension, chills and is quite entertaining. Deserted ship is portrayed as a complete riddle with weird events, screams and grisly horrifying happenings. The movie paid attention to building up a terrifying atmosphere instead of violent and stabbing killing spree.The action takes completely place in a rusty ship wreck that disappeared during WWII and slowly takes over the captain of a downed luxury cruise liner and other survivors slowly unearth who the boat belonged to or more to the point what regime owned the boat. Dark atmospheric and great acting combined for a good chiller.

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[Frankie Teardrop]

PROM NIGHT - Disco. It's what they play on prom night, and it's reassuring to learn that both Jamie Lee Curtis and Leslie Nielson are about as dancefloor gifted as I am. 'Prom Night' really lays it on thick the way only an old skool slasher can; "He's burned, horribly deformed... he's escaped from the hospital, he's heading back here tonight!" etc 'He' is the guy who many hold responsible for the death of a local kid in an abandoned house back in the seventies, when things were probably a bit more prog than disco. We know from the credits sequence that actually a mean-spirited bunch of urchins did the kill when their game of hide and seek took a psychopathic turn, laying the groundwork for the classic set-up; slasher as avenger. 'Prom Night', in its blatant steals from 'Halloween' and 'Carrie', is as derivative as it gets, but just about weaves in enough suspense and atmosphere to help you overlook that it's taking its time about things. A balaclava'd baddie finally arrives to do some tame kills, making the big pay-off as anticlimactic as most proms, though the early eighties dancey stuff, all the high school drama, and the presence of luminaries like Nielson and Curtis give the film a bit of glow.

[nicholasrope]

Invitation Only

Taiwanese Horror which has some similarities to Hostel Part III, which sees people who claim to be what they aren't get lured to a mansion but it's a trap as they are tortured in front of rich people. It's not bad with some invented torture scenes but there's only 2 of them.

Sleepaway Camp 3: Teenage Wasteland

Angela is back and takes the place of a teenage girl who's about to go to camp and off course, she reverts to her murderous ways. Thought it was better than the second one with some interesting kills.

[MrBarlow]

Beyond The Door. 1974.

A low-budget, unabashed riff on The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby, Beyond the Door is one of the weirdest offerings in the possession horror sub-genre of the 1970s, and despite its unashamed ripping-off of about every possession film up to that point, there are still moments of technical flair and near terror. The film suffers tremendously from godawful dubbing, and Mills' foul-mouthed children who look about ten but talk like they are in the pre teen years. Juliet Mills does a commendable job with the script and is convincingly frightening as she transforms into a complete monster and Richard Johnson who plays a strange character but you never really know what side he is on. Not the best rip of The Exorcist but certainly not the worst.

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[MrBarlow]

The Hills Have Eyes. 2006.

This is actually a decent faithful remake to the original 1977 movie. Fans of the original film will be happy to see that the storyline does not deviate very far from Wes Craven's original tale, but fans of Alexandre Aja will be quite pleased with the gratuitous gore on display as pick-axes, baseball bats and even German shepherds are used as weapons. The film is very bloody and tense with a grim, gloomy atmosphere. Everyone turns in great performances despite some moments of clunky dialog. The desolate scenery is a character all its own, hellishly hot and red, littered with vultures and crows. and set in the middle of nowhere. What starts off with a slow build up of the family on a trip turns into a night and day battle of survival against mutant cannibals.

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[MrBarlow]

Livide. 2011.

Something different from the directors of Inside Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, story follows a young girl looking to be a new home help nurse, and meets a elderly coma patient who was once a ballet dancer and teacher. She is told of a hidden treasure in the house which follows a night of shock and horror. The main setting is a dark gloomy gothic style house with a few locked doors and windows that have bars on them that seem to come out from nowhere, you can tell straight away that something is off and we are shown in flash backs scenes what exactly went on. The makers have taken note from mentioning a pub from a werewolf movie, a dance school in Germany and a song from a halloween movie with similar masks. This isn't a all out gore fest but can be a hit or a miss.

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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Devil Rides Out (1968)

The film in which Charles Gray as the devilish Mocata delivers one of the most terrifying lines in horror cinema as he departs Sarah Lawson's home.

"I shall not return.... But something will. Tonight"

And with that he's gone and all hell breaks loose in one of the finest horror films this country has ever produced.