#classic horror film

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Jamie Lee Curtis with Nick Castle & Dick Warlock behind the scenes of Halloween (1978) & Halloween II (1981).

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FRANKENSTEIN (1931)

A feel-good classic horror about a doctor who is absolutely not insane, he just wants to bring a fully undead fellow to life (no big deal). This black & white creature feature might just have you feeling bad for The Monster!

(Trigger warning: child death)

⭐⭐⭐⭐.5

The movie starts out with our man Frankenstein (who is the doctor, not the monster, let’s not get into that argument since it’s right there in the credits) already snatching bodies left and right to stitch together his perfect man (Rocky Horror Picture Show, anyone?). There is a big emphasis on him being proud he created the creature with his own two hands, very much Doc Frank wanting to be a mom so bad (I mean a God (which some moms might find similar)). His fiancée and her little bitch boy, I mean her best friend who is totally in love with her, come along to check on him but end up watching The Monster™ be created and therefore could no longer call Doc Franky-poo crazy (because stealing dead bodies is totally sane).

Anyway, lightning! And bam! Life! Because of ultraviolet rays and the life ray that came from a thunderbolt. Sure. Science. I digress. We finally meet the man of the hour, who is really a man only hours old, and he is ADORABLE. Honestly, he is an enormous being with a child brain and sad eyes. I wanted to protect him the moment he turned around (after walking backwards through the door). AND ALMOST IMMEDIATELY they start to torture him because they scare him with fire and our best boy fights back when they lunge on him.

Suddenly chained up in the literal dungeon, The Monster, AKA Green Goobley, is being whipped and scared with fire by Frankenstein's assistant (who has a hump on his back but isn’t named Igor, I guess something was on the Fritz). I don’t even think Green Goobles is a day old at this point but he turns on the assistant and kills him (shocking that he didn’t want to be tortured anymore). Dr. Frankie literally only now thinks to himself, “Maybe I’ve gone too far…” Which is sort of hilarious when you think about it, smart people can be really dumb sometimes.

Frankenstein Sr. and the fiancée (Elizabeth) arrive because their timing is piss poor but they scurry out and think all is well… Until the wedding day and Beth has basically a common sense premonition that things aren’t actually okay at all (and she is right!) Our Green Mister Man is making his way towards the town and he stops by a little girl's house, she offers him flowers which he cautiously accepts. He is delighted by the look and smell, even smiling for what may be the first time in his entire existence but a miscommunication during their playtime leads to him throwing the girl in the water. The girl calls out in distress before she is below the surface for good and our boy is immediately stressed, he doesn’t know what to do, he runs, and it almost seems like he is looking for help but cannot find any. This death triggers the manhunt that will eventually kill The Monster who never wanted to be a monster.

The whole town is looking for him, just like in REVENGE OF THE CREATURE only instead of carrying flashlights they held fiery torches and bellowing hound dogs. The chase led them to a mill where our simple boy turned killer became trapped as they burned the building down around him. The townsfolk were even smart enough to stay behind to make sure he didn’t slip out while they weren’t looking (so we don’t have a HOUSE OF WAX 1953 situation on our hands). Finally you KNOW I gotta call shenanigans for Dr. Frankenstein still being alive at the end of the movie after rag-dolling off of the windmill so viciously BUT it was a cute ending so I’ll give it to them, classic and classy. (“Here’s a jolly good health to Young Frankenstein”)

Underneath that gruff exterior of The Monster was a man who had feelings, something that the good doctor seemed to overlook about his own creation. Our green boy craved input as well as kindness, without it he was just a large body with a criminal's brain that they kept locked in the cellar. It was no wonder the poor man went coo-coo bananas! But really, Frankenstein misunderstood the most incredible thing about his work, which was not just that he created life, but that it was feeling. He allowed his former assistant to torment his “experiment” and it drove him mad quickly. This was a beautiful but tragic movie for our creature as he was just trying to live and understand his new (and often painful) life.

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[lifewithaview]

B&W Advertising sheet used by movie theaters and newspapers for the promotion of the film "Baron Blood"(1972)

or "Gli orrori del castello di Norimberga"

A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. Peter reads aloud the incantation that causes Baron Blood to return and continue his murderous tortures.

A cult classic horror movie!

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Guillermo del Toro on AI

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Conrad Veidt and Lil Dagover in Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920)

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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

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[hannahwatcheshorror]

THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999)

The classic that inspired countless films like Mr. Jones (the artwork) and Grave Encounters (the endless location). This see-no-evil film piece is a staple for all horror movie fans. This is The Blair Witch Project and the worst part is that it depicts a group project, so strap in and prepare yourselves for a C to B minus at best because participation COUNTS. 

⭐⭐⭐.5

Three college age kids go into the woods and never come back out. Why? The Blair Witch, of course. We are graced with the found footage from the documentary they were making. Heather is really bad at interviewing people, she keeps interrupting them and it is very distracting, let the townsfolk get a full sentence out. Josh and Mike are da boys and they are mostly there to carry stuff and be comic relief. Once they go out into the woods though, things start to get intense in the tents. 

They start hearing all sorts of noises outside while they try to sleep at night. “How do we know it was people?” ”Even if it wasn’t, I’m not going to play with that either.” A chilling question and a chilling response. After only a few days out, getting lost, losing the map, they lose Josh. All they find is a parcel of sticks tied with clippings of Josh's clothes (don’t you worry about what is inside). When the final night is upon them they are lured into a home where we find Mike in a corner and Heather befalls a fate similar to the children from the stories she interrupted in the beginning of their documentary.

You realize that this movie shows you nothing right? I called it the see-no-evil film piece because the scariest thing we see is our good pal Mike standing in the corner (the bundle of teeth in the sticks was scary too, but that couldn’t actively harm us) but he doesn't do anything. That is part of what makes this film in part so great and bad. It is tense, but nothing actually happens. Nothing that we see, anyway. It is implied that great bodily harm comes to Josh but since Heather doesn’t say anything to Mike you almost feel as though it isn’t real, as though she didn’t find a scrap of Josh’s shirt filled with teeth. 

Other than noises heard (which could be explained away as any number of animals or even human pranks) there is no other scenario in the movie but their group stress and inability to navigate the woods which seem unending. Get yourself a stoic enough person and they could tell you that what the three people experienced during the Blair Witch Project wasn’t supernatural, it was all madness. I believe that. I believe that as much as I want to believe that this could be a real thing. But I know it's all for show and for that I’m mainly just disappointed they couldn’t show at least one really spooky thing (more spooky than Corner Mike or teeth).

[swanisabellas]

" There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable… I simply am not there. " American Psycho (2000) dir. Mary Harron

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Halloween (1978)

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Patty McCormack & Nancy Kelly in The Bad Seed (1956)