#halloween movie review

[bigfoto593]

👽🤡☠️💀

[hexgirlsxoxo]

Scary Christmas core

[goryhorroor]

slasher horror + letterboxd reviews ii

[u-n-c-o-m-m-o-n]

Nosferatu (2024) Directed by Robbert Eggers

[emilyscastlevania]

Dracula’s Brides in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

[artpicsrare]

Paranormal Activity

[yukipri]

Just re-watched one of my favorite movies: Van Helsing (2004)! Did anyone else enjoy this movie?

Posted thoughts on my Insta stories, so I thought I'd share them here too. I also recently watched the OG Beetlejuice for the first time, and this is me kinda being on a roll with watching movies I said I'd watch but haven't forever haha

Also I got a ton of fun fall/Halloween movie recs, so if you've got any to share, put 'em in the replies!

[small-sinclair]

My thoughts when watching Halloween 2007.

Justice for Elvis the Rat.

The bully at his school deserved to get his socks rocked.

I’m happy I heard Micheal talk. It gives me an idea about what his voice would sound like now.

His stepdad? Real dad? Whoever he is a jerk. His mother should’ve left his ass. His death was satisfying.

Why was his older sister that mean? What’s her deal??

He would’ve been the best big brother if he had the chance. You can’t tell me that he’ll be overprotective and try to keep boys away from his sister!

And he was cradling his baby sister on the step with so much care!? Love that.

Shout out to the movie team for the shots and props!! I looked so amazing.

Very talented in making masks! I love each one. They’re so interesting and unique to look at. Like, you can see how he put detail in making them and how careful he was when he made them.

That doctor dude (can’t remember his name) didn’t have the right to write that book about Michael. Yes, he’s an interesting person psychology wise, but I think he wrote that book when Michael was a kid. I think he must’ve read that book and grew to hate him and himself because he was painted to be a monster.

That janitor didn’t need to die.

Why naked women??? Why so many????

When he was in the house with the little girl, I think he was watching to movie with her. He’s definitely was reliving that moment from when he was a kid. I believe he is a classic horror movie fan.

The sheriff dad is a true dad.

When fell to his knees in front of his sister and took off the mask, my heart melted. I think he should’ve said something like “Hello” or her name. Still cute!

And he still held on to her baby picture!? Big Brother.

The doctor died! Thank goodness. Get your shit rocked.

I love how the movie end with an uncertainess. Did she kill him? Did she miss? Did someone else shoot and killed her? So many possibilities.

Will have him as a new muse :3

[tangledindolls]

Please execuse my messy doll room! Here is Emily next to my Bride of Frankenstein bust. She is so much taller than The Bride! Assembly was easy, but her hair needs so much work! The wig sheds, knots easily, and requires a lot of styling. I gave up for now and have not bothered with her veil either. Monster High poly is better than this!😅

The dress has an asymmetrical design, so it does not lay flat against her at all. Both glovelets are molded on her arms. The wig is sparse with visible bald spots. They can be somewhat hidden with some styling. The curls knot at the ends. I had to give her a trim, too.

Emily is quite impressive in person. I think she looks very movie accurate, too. No comment on her animation, as I have not tried it yet.

I am very happy with her!🦋

[sam-keeper]

The Visitor aka STRIDULUM (1979)

Ha ha yeah, wooo YEAH

da daaaaa dadadaDAA DAAA DAAAAAAA DADADAAAAA DADADADADA DA DAAAAA YEAH!!!!

This is the most prog rock movie I've ever seen in my life. This is spiritually being painted on the side of a van. Does it have a good plot that makes sense? I don't know, asshole, does Emerson Lake and Palmer's seminal classic Karn Evil 9 part 2 have a good plot that makes sense? I'm telling my kids The Visitor (1979) is Star Wars.

I noticed a pattern when looking at other reviews of this film: they fall back on comparisons, as a slight. Well, it's sort of The Omen, and it's sort of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and it's sort of Carrie, and a little Battlestar Galactica and maybe The Birds... which all sounds very derivative, I suppose, until you actually a movie smashing all those things together, and realize, wait a minute, that's bonkers. It feels like critics grasp for these comparisons while foundering in The Visitor's psychedelic sea, desperate for a point of stability. None of these references offer stable landmarks, though, if you hope to predict where the film will veer next in its crazy pursuit of cool ideas and weird setpieces.

Not that the comparisons are totally off base, mind. This IS the story of Katy Collins, a Wicked Little Kid in the vein of the Omen's Damien or Carrie's... Carrie. It's just that this generic convention of the Bad Seed gets set up at the beginning of the film with a bizarre cosmic encounter between an old space wizard and an apparition of the devilish little girl in what looks like a blizzard on mars, followed by a whole ass monologue by "A Jesus Figure" about cosmic psychic spirits of good and evil dueling it out across the planets, delivered to a bunch of bald, white robed children. Hell yeah. But! But. Katy Collins is otherwise a classic, average evil psychic kid who kills people with telekinesis. And uses it to rig professional basketball matches for her shitty step dad, possibly at the behest of the satanic businessmen he answers to who are REALLY giving some serious drone hive vibes what with the way they all turn their heads at the same time. Oh and she's got a pet hawk that murders people at her behest. No, trust me though, it's a really derivative movie. Not like the movies we have now like uhhhh

[sweating] uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Better touchstones than typical blockbuster fare might be the mind-expanding chaos of paperback epics--Clive Barker's Great and Secret Show, King's Dark Tower, Morrison's The Invisibles. Here's some other fun facts: it was directed by Giulio Paradisi (it's a heavily italian production) but he directed it under the brilliant name "Michael J Paradise". The italian title was "Stridulum", which I guess is latin for something like a harsh or shrill sound or shriek, which fits the whole repeating War Between Birds motif and the use of bird cries in the soundtrack. Oh, and one of the guys playing basketball in the first scene with Katy is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, actual famous athlete. It's sort of a bizarre and improbable movie!

But I don't think I'd be nearly so dazzled by all the crazy shit this film throws at the audience if not for Katy herself, played brilliantly by a young child star Paige Conner. She's written and performed in a way that suggests malice, yes, but a childish malice, a bit of a put-on, a belligerent front that gets more and more petulant and uncontrolled as John Huston as the space mystic Jerzy (yes) Colsowicz (get it) confronts her with the limits of her own powers. There's this sequence where Jerzy and Katy play pong against each other. Jerzy, smiling, accuses her cheating by speeding up the game with her powers. Katy, giggling genuinely, gloatingly informs him that no, she sped up the game using a switch on the game console. Later in the film she tries to drop a fire escape on his head, of course. In that conversation, though, there's this charming chemistry between them, the chemistry of a smart young person and an older adult willing to treat her, not as a peer exactly, but as a thinking being, not just a Thing to be smacked into shape. This dynamic is crucial to the climax of the film and its ultimate conviction that no matter how ghastly Katy is, there's more than just evil to her, which might not be the most seasonally horror-forward message but is honestly pretty damn refreshing. Like I don't know if The Visitor is as good a film as The Omen (ok, I know that obviously it's not) but on balance it's probably got its heart more in the right place. Perhaps notably along those lines, one of the horror subplots of The Omen involves possibility of a woman getting an abortion, whereas The Visitor explores the possibility of a woman being impregnated against her will. While it may lose out on form, The Visitor might just win the long game on its politics.

Also some shitty teens get thrown through a plate glass window, and there's a whole sequence where a big truck's lights are treated exactly like an approaching spacecraft, and it's awesome, I don't know what to tell you, I love this shit.

Read more horror reviews like this all season on my Patreon

[death-crusade]

My review of Salems Lot (2024) on Substack:

🦴🦴🦴 3/5 BONES

I love Vampires the entire concept once dreamt up rewritten twisted sparkling and center stage of musicals, not the habitat a vampires belongs. Refreshing to see a vampire story told in a way that is somewhat chilling, like i said, ‘corny’, but chilling. I don’t see how this movie could have worked if it.. read more

DEATH CRUSADE - Movie Reviews

[rinabirgul]

''you look very comfortable''

yes i am

[sparkiekong]

Gonna do this again this year but here's last year. I thought I had another one, but I can't seem to find it.

Kong's Halloween Review

31 days of Spooky movies... reviewed so you don't have to! I did this once before, but I'll give ya the reasoning. Before 2012 I was terrified of scary movies. Wouldn't watch any of em but then 2012 hit with some medical things and it sort of broke that fear of scary movies.

Rated 0-10 and can go into the negatives for the following:

Kid Death

Animal Death

Preachy

Making fun of a group type

Boring me

The Rule of 20 also applies. I give the movie 20 minutes to interest me, if it doesn't.. I move on because it likely will never catch my interest.

Also you can pre-screen movies on your own by using this website:

It covers more than just dog death and hits upon many different emotional triggers. Also if you are a member of the website you can add things and also suggest new triggers that will be voted for and provided they get enough up votes, added to the list of things to screen for.

Below are the first 14 movies in no particular order. When I get the rest done I will reblog and post the later half with my best picks from the 31.

Hellraiser 2022

Decent reboot but will never replace the old ones. Lots of body mod/horror involved filled with blood and gore filled. Wouldn’t be a Hellraiser without it. No animal slaughters, no kid slaughter. 5/10 Spoops and 3 bonus for not being cheap and using the trope of animal/kid deaths to make something scary.

Grand Total: 8

--

Grimcutty

Not bad… an interesting take on parenting kids who grew up on the internet… No animal slaughters, but some kid damage. 6/10 spoops +1 for no animal tropes -1 kid tropes. Since kids were kind of central to the whole story…

Grand Total: 6

--

Jessabelle

Really surprisingly good for a pg-13 scary movie. However, it’s got some depression, some kid killing in it. Pretty decent twist at the end. Some sacrificial animal deaths too. 7/10 spoops +1 for how scary the entity was portrayed, -1 for animal death visuals, and -1 for kid murder tropes. The kid death was kind of crucial to the plot, BUT You don’t have to kill animals to be scary!  

Grand Total: 6

--

The Accursed

I think this one suffers from my lack of knowledge on gypsy culture. It had some tense moments, some creepy things…it was good, but I didn’t quite get all the references. I understood the plot and I knew what was happening, but I think I would have enjoyed it more if I’d had some exposure to gypsy culture. 6/10 spoops. +1 for no kid/ -1 animal slaughter.

Grand Total: 6

--

The Cursed

I didn’t get 15 minutes in. Don’t bother. 0/10 spoops. -3 for not getting my attention fast enough.

Grand Total: -3

--

The Last Rite

23 minutes in and I’m bored. I have no idea when the demon is supposed to start plaguing her, but it certainly isn’t interesting enough for me to keep watching. 0/10 spoops. -3 for not getting my attention +1 for boring me to death.

Grand Total: -2

--

Lights Out

Holy cow, by the description… I expected a shitshow, but it was good. 8/10 spoops… though I think it was more a thriller suspense than spoops. +2 for the final girl who’s got one heck of a scream. It was a chilling, but somewhat sad story. +2 for no animal/kid slaughtering tropes. 12/10

Grand Total:  12

--

The Vigil

15 minutes in and I’m bored. I wanted to like it; but no spoops were hinted at… so I have none to give. No spoops for you. 0/10 -3 for not getting my attention.

Grand Total: -3

--

Wish Upon

20 minutes in and there’s graphic dog death. 0/10 spoops. It had no spoops and negative spoops for using an unnecessary trope. -3 for the doggy death and -2 for making it graphic.

Grand Total: -5

--

Room 203

Classic moving into a haunted place theme. Some Celtic lore, bit of some dark subject matter in some places, but otherwise a solid good spoopy vibe. 5/10 spoops, +2 for no animal/kid slaughter tropes.

Grand Total: 7

--

You are Not My Mother

This one was a slow simmer all the way through, good creep factor. Interesting take on Celtic lore, but really wasn’t spoopy all that much. 5/10 spoops. -2 for implied child death, +3 for [redacted spoiler], and +1 for a new take on an old monster.

Grand Total: 7

--

Lantern’s Lane

Standard college urban legend vibes… saw the plot coming a mile away. Bad acting, but… it’s sort of campy in an old school 80s vibe. 5/10 +3 for the vibe.

Grand Total: 6

--

Possessor: Uncut

Highly disturbing movie. Lots of body horror and I just didn’t quite know what was going on. I was more disturbed than anything. Not my cup of tea… 0/10 spoops. No bonus or negatives. There were no animal kills though. It's really hard to see a positive to this movie at all! -5 for kid death. It really was terrible and disturbing.

Grand Total: -5

--

See for Me

Thriller type spoopy movie. 0/10 spoops… It wasn’t all that thrill/spoop… +2 for no animal/kid death.

Grand Total: 2

--

[u-n-c-o-m-m-o-n]

The Pope's Exorcist (2023) Directed by Julius Avery

[emilyscastlevania]