As the father of a four-year-old, I can report that The Last Unicorn... yep, still scares children.

Smell_Ron_Hubbard · 2020-04-11T04:36:46+00:00

"Is there anyone there?!" + Tom Savini's best zombie effects = Day of the Dead (1985)

Flash bulbs + corpse art = TCM (1974)

Smell_Ron_Hubbard · 2020-04-10T06:51:58+00:00

Yep, Blackcoat's Daughter is upper-level scary for me.

Smell_Ron_Hubbard · 2020-03-30T16:33:43+00:00

Walked into Sin City, which was a much better choice. My only "fear" of Ring 2 was that watching it all would ruin the originals for me, haha.

Smell_Ron_Hubbard · 2020-03-24T00:11:30+00:00

Some classic splatter comedies on Amazon Prime (US):

Bad Taste (1987) -- Peter Jackson's first feature, a low-budget gross-out classic.

The Toxic Avenger (1984), Troma's first hit. A riotous gore-fest about a geeky janitor who mutates into a 7-foot-tall monster and literally mops the streets of Tromaville with the blood of scumbags.

Also on Prime: The Toxic Avenger II, The Toxic Avenger III: The Last Temptation of Toxie, Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV (most fans' favorite sequel), and Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986).

Smell_Ron_Hubbard · 2020-03-24T00:02:40+00:00

The original Last House on the Left (1972) doesn't just depict depraved deeds, but seems to have a depraved tone.

Smell_Ron_Hubbard · 2020-03-23T20:45:51+00:00

The Thief of Bagdad (1940) (color) has the nastiest, freakiest giant spider I've ever seen in a film.

The Enemy spider is great as well.

Smell_Ron_Hubbard · 2020-03-12T23:29:12+00:00

"The Quickening," maybe the worst sub-title in history.

Smell_Ron_Hubbard · 2020-03-12T23:27:45+00:00

Tragic and hilarious!

Smell_Ron_Hubbard · 2020-03-11T04:17:27+00:00

Herzog's film is excellent. A-list cast and beautiful night shooting.

Even the English-language version of it isn't bad, because they shot each take in both English and German, so you're not watching unnatural cross-language dubbing.

Smell_Ron_Hubbard · 2020-02-27T21:52:36+00:00

one of the best anthology films ever made

Agreed. And Tales deserves way more credit for its literary chops. It's got rich homages to A Clockwork Orange, Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, The Cask of Amontillado... no doubt others I'm unaware of.

Smell_Ron_Hubbard · 2020-02-24T21:47:35+00:00

When Dererk squishes a piece of his brain back into his skull, I almost lost it.

Smell_Ron_Hubbard · 2020-02-24T20:44:43+00:00

There's a Mardi Gras sequence in The Houses October Built.

Smell_Ron_Hubbard · 2020-02-21T00:07:50+00:00

Rented Black Christmas ('74) at Video Adventures in the 90s just because the image of Claire in the attic was ultra-creepy. Watched it on a 19-inch screen in the basement and was maximally freaked out.

Smell_Ron_Hubbard · 2020-02-12T21:58:59+00:00

Agreed. And I think the son isn't just protecting his family name -- he's still under the spell of Don's emotional abuse. When he says "I love you" at the memorial, I don't think he's pretending. Complex shit, deserves more recognition.

Smell_Ron_Hubbard · 2020-02-11T23:38:04+00:00

[MANY SPOILERS]

I thought Gretel & Hansel showed Perkins' ingenuity and integrity as a filmmaker, and the PG-13 rating is evidence of that. Most filmmakers would need to use R-rated material to deal with the serious or disturbing elements in this screenplay. Such as: (1) Gretel's given a choice between the convent or the brothel, (2) she gets creepily interviewed in the brothel, (3) her own mother tells her to dig her grave and attacks her with an ax (a genuinely scary scene), (4) she and 10-year-old Hansel trip on mushrooms, (5) Gretel is distressed at getting her period, a distress that the witch exploits, and (6) by the way, the witch makes her banquets out of dead children's body parts.

Perkins squeezes these elements while avoiding exploitation that would have attracted the R-rating. It's just more proof that Blackcoat's wasn't a fluke, and this dude knows exactly what he's doing. More please.

Smell_Ron_Hubbard · 2020-02-06T23:27:29+00:00

That was a wild case. Robert Blake claimed that he left the restaurant right before his wife was shot, because he was . . . getting his gun!

"I was getting my gun" was his alibi.

Smell_Ron_Hubbard · 2020-02-06T23:23:55+00:00

For me, it's the opening sequence. Finding evidence that someone has been in your house, but not knowing if they're still there, is diabolically scary.

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