ChaoticMusings

It Follows - takes a lot to give me the willies but this one is creepy. The thought of something coming for you, irrevocable and unstoppable, is scary.  There's definitely a nod to Night of the Demon - the passing on of the curse that instigates the entity stalking the victim.   Nobody but the victim can see it, and it can take the form of anyone so you never know who it is.

Dune is a sci fi classic but the 1984 version, though stylish and beautifully shot with amazing sound design, was a bit like eating a mouthful of dead sea fruit.   Hopefully, the latest version will stick more to the book and be less confusing.    You really had to be Dune fan to understand the David Lynch version.  And I'm loving the look of Beast Rabban! 

Sputnik - Russian Sci Fi horror.  Good. 

The Ritual - from a book by Adam Nevill    This guy writes some really really creepy stuff.  The movie had a slightly different more upbeat ending. 

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I thought Hellraiser was a good horror.



Antichrist starring Willem Dafoe is very eerie.

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 I don't think I've seen that one.

There are far, far too many to name but for films made over the last few years I watched Don't Breathe, A Quiet place, The Witch and Get out on Film4 and they were all excellent, modern classics in their own very different ways.

The claustrophobic atmosphere of The Witch in particular was superb.

I have yet to watch The Babadook which is another one that comes highly recommended and so does It Follows as Digs said.

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Syl wrote:

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Saw a little known film a good while ago SHE'S CRUSHED......it made Fatal Attraction look like a Disney movie.

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 I rarely watch slasher movies but caught the tail end of I spit on your Grave a few weeks ago.   When violent rapists get their just desserts, one can't help but exult....

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Over 98 years old - and still one of the greatest figures in all of horror history.

Literally walking death incarnate - fuck sparkly 'cute' vampires, I want pestilence, darkness and savagery!

Just got round to finally watching The Babadook, a beautifully crafted film with a subtext about the horror of mortality, mourning and pain.

Excellent stuff.

There were many excellent horrors in the 1980's (The Shining, The Thing, The Hitcher, The Howling, An American Werewolf in London, The Evil Dead 1&2, Poltergeist, Re-Animator, Aliens, The Fly, Fright Night, the first Nightmare on Elm Street, Society etc, ) but the original Hellraiser (to which Barker sold the rights straight afterwards hence the endless sequels) with it's themes of flesh, decomposition, obsessive love, the extremes pain and pleasure and more was a film I always found particularly fascinating hence my current avatar.

Clive is currently fighting to get the rights back and plans a direct sequel much like Halloween has recently done which will ignore all the other films so I hope he wins.