31 Days of Horror 2022 edition can't think of a catchy subtitle

[f.ramses]

10/20
Carnage (1984)

Also checked out a bit of the Secret Halloween 2022 disc from Thunderbean. I haven't seen one of these Halloween discs top the first one I got years back, Halloween Rarities, but they've all been pretty fun regardless and look nice + it's cool checking out these random, old horror-themed cartoons; hopefully he keeps doing these!

[James Reed]

I finally got around to watching The Evil Clergyman on Tubi. This was originally part of Pulsepounders, the anthology film from Empire Pictures that never got released. Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton star, it was based on a H.P. Lovecraft story and Charles Band produced and directed. A very strange short horror film, with David Gale as a rat monster! There's a mild sex scene and brief nudity, so I'm wondering if this film really was aiming at a PG-13 rating. Can you see a sex scene in a PG-13 movie? I liked it, but I'm also an Empire / Full Moon fan, so maybe I liked it more than some will.

So far, this is the only horror film I've watched this month. I'm glad I found the time to watch at least this. Thankfully the 29 minute running time played into me actually having time around 4 a.m. to watch something that wouldn't take long. I'll give it 2.5 stars!

[Newt Cox]

31 Days of Horror 2022 Day 20 Wrong Turn 5 Bloodlines




TITLE-Wrong Turn 5 Bloodlines



SOURCE-2oth Century Fox DVD

Got a set over a year ago with the first 6 Wrong Turn films. Sure I already owned part 1,but figured for 10 bucks I was getting a deal.

Before this I had seen 1,2 and 3 of the series. It was late one night and I wanted a movie to watch. Settled on Bloodlines,which is part 5,and was shocked how much I enjoyed it.

This film is set before the first 4. Giving us a bit of a origin/backstory for the crazy inbred hillbillies.

Seems a long time ago Dougla Bradley was a serial killer. And he became a father figure for our 3 killer West Virginia inbreds.Also notice how this film get the subtitle Bloodlines and Bradley was in Hellraiser 4 which was subtitled Bloodline.

Now after 4 films in the series you know going in what you are getting. Plenty of gore and manic hillbillies. Plenty of women in skimy clothing. And gorgeous scenery. Filmed in Bulgaria this passed for rural backwoods West Virginia. Which makes sense IIRC the Jesco White movie White Lightning also used Bulgaria to stand in for Boone County WV.

Our three killers are smart. They take out the phone lines and cell tower. Then kill the power for the entire town. Love it cause this gets around the modern horror trope of some checkign their cell and saying "I aint getting any signal"

Also with Wrong Turn you go in wanting gory kills and part 5 does disappoint. Piles and piles of gore. With the final kill being really well done.

I was expecting a by the numbers long in the tooth sequel and instead got a well made pretty fun prequel.

Wrong Turn 5 gets a solid C.

COdy covers Ring 2 Rasen
http://codysfilmandtvblog.blogspot.c...-1998.html?m=1

[Gary Banks]

OCTOBER 2022

001-Castle Of Blood **** Sinister Cinema dvd-r
002-In Search Of Dracula ** Kino bd
003-Dawn Of The Dead(78) **** bd
004-Carnival Of Sinners * TCM recording
005-The Whip and The Body ***1/2 Midnight Choir dvd-r
006-Panic In Year Zero! ** bd
007-Doctor Blood's Coffin *1/2 MGM dvd-r
008-Ladron De Cadaveres ** bd
009-Castle Of Evil **1/2 dvd-r of vhs
010-From Dusk To Dawn Season One ack! dvd
011-Whoever Slew Auntie Roo *1/2 bd
012-Curse Of Frankenstein (1:37:1)**** bd
013-Tales Of Frankenstein **1/2 bd
014-War Of The Planets** TCM recording
015-I Drink Your Blood ** BD
016-Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things **** bd
017-Tales From The Crypt Season One *1/2 dvd
018-Deathmaster **1/2 dvd
019-Planet Of The Vampires *** Old Kino bd
020-Night of the Demon (UK 1957) **** bd
021-Black Sabbath **** bd
022-I,Vampiri ***1/2 bd
023-Mark Of The Vampire *** bd
024-Dracula Vs Frankenstein (71) **bd
025-Mill Of The Stone Women ****bd
026-Beast of The Yellow Night ***1/2 bd
027-Creature With The Blue Hand *** dvd
028-Brain Of Blood ** BD
029-Star Crash * bd
030-The Poughkeepsie Tapes *** dvd
031-Dracula (58) **** UKbd

[Darcy Parker]

So far today, it has been the original Buffy: The Vampire Slayer movie and most of season 3 of What We Do in the Shadows.

[BW Haggar]

#24
Hammer House of Horror:
Charlie Boy
(Robert Young, TV, 1980)

Episode # 6! This one was very enjoyable.

Although the "I inherited a voodoo doll" plotline is old as the hills, and the script involves some extraordinary leaps of logic on the part of the protagonists, the execution is great, with strong direction, likeable/unusual characters and some satisfyingly bloody violence.

The highlight is probably the vaguely 'Performance'-esque sequence in which the murder of a scarfaced East End villian, stabbed to death in a nightclub basement, is crudely intercut with footage of the lead couple making love, reflected in the eyes of the episode's legitmately scary-looking African fetish doll.

One of the best HHoH episodes I've watched thus far, I think.

B+

[Dom D]

The Ghost of The Hunchback (1965). A Japanese riff on Hollywood haunted house spectaculars. They'd definitely seen The Haunting. All shadows and creaking doors and people creeping round. Good stuff if your into that sort of thing. There's a very acceptable subtitled version on YouTube

[f.ramses]

10/18
The Flesh Eaters
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
The Gorgon

10/19
Countess Dracula
Hands of the Ripper
Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde
The Revenge of Frankenstein

[Darcy Parker]

Today was Night Watch, streamed from Disney+. Sadly, Disney+ just uses generic subtitles for it, even though other services had the stylized custom subs in the past. Still a great movie, though!

[Newt Cox]

31 Days of Horror 2022 Day 19 Wrong Turn 4 Bloody Beginnings




TITLE-Wrong Turn 4 Bloody Beginnings



SOURCE-20th Century Fox DVD

Well I try my best to watch at least once every horror film I get a copy of. Which has lead to me watching some total crap. I also have every year since 2000 reviewed 31 horror films in the month of October. Never repeating a film and for years avoiding the big slasher franchises.




These two things tend to work against each other. For example 2012ish I bought a Echo Bridge 10 pack of horror movies. Was 5 bucks and I wanted Howling 4 on DVD.I had seen it back when it first hit cable decades ago and remember enjoying it. This multipack was a cheap way for me to get a copy of it. And well if any of the other 9 films turn out to be decent that is a bonus. My rule of trying to at least once watch every horror film I end up with a copy of and this pack is how I discovered Vampeggedon. A film I both love and hate.




All of this is trying to explain why I decided to watch and review Wrong Turn 4 Bloody Beginnings. I know I saw this a long ass time ago when it aired on Syfy. Back 10 or so years ago most Halloweens I would goto my cousins. And she would end up DVRing any horror films airing on AMC or SYFY to show her kids. We watched Wrong Turn 4 and I remember it having like 2 good kills and the rest just sucking.




The DVD,which is part of that pack of the first 6 films on dvd,is loaded with extras. Got a commentary with the director. A Music video for some song from the movie. Deleted scenes and other extras. The film looks and sounds decent. And by part 4 of this oddly long lived modern horror franchise the films were going DTV. But this looks and feels like a smaller budget theater released film.




Set in a asylum this movie gives us a kind of origin for the Hillickers. The 3 crazy inbred hillbillies from West Virginia. I enjoyed the first 3 films.




At the start we meet the three brothers,Three Finger,One Eye and Sawtooth. Malformed thanks to inbreeding they are locked up in a pretty brutal looking mental hospital. Guessing this is the 70s.




Thanks to a bobbie pin the three brothers get loose from their cell. They first attack an orderly and the slaughter continues for pretty much about an hour and a half.

After this flashback to the 70s the film skips ahead to 2003. And a bunch of college age kids are lost on their snowmobiles. It is night and a blizzard is hitting.So they go seek refuge in the old abandoned nut house. But the Hillickers are there so we get plenty of hillbilly hellish hijinx.

Film in Bulgaria. This was the start of a planned trilogy of prequels to the original Wrong Turn. Early on during the commentary with the director it is revealed why this 4th film in the series was the start of a 3 film set of prequels. I had forgotten this but Three Finger got killed off in Part 3. So the only way to have the three brothers in a film is a prequel. And learning their history could be a great premise for a film. This film isn't that film.




I did like that this was a slasher set in winter where there is snow. Surprised more films don't go for the winter/snow setting.Sure it is a pain in the ass to deal with. But it adds something to what is otherwise a run of the mill prequel/sequel in a franchise most fans forgot about 2 entries ago.




Worth seeing if you can find the pack of the first 6 films for 10 bucks or less. Appears each of the discs in this set is the old dvd releases. So you get all the extras on the original stand alone film releases.




Wrong Turn 4 Bloody Beginnings gets a C+



And Cody covers The RIng
http://codysfilmandtvblog.blogspot.c...-1998.html?m=1

[BW Haggar]

#23
Carnival of Blood
(Leonard Kirtman, 1970)

This may be a dead loss as a horror film, but as a quasi-documentary about the skuzzy underworld of the Coney Island amusement park cira 1970, it's actually pretty compelling.

In terms of the fictional story, some of the cast do surprisingly good work (not least Burt Young, delivering a truly heart-rending turn in his screen debut as Gimpy the Hunchback), but the whole thing has a strong Andy Milligan kind of vibe to it too -- that sense of every relationship turning sour, of every character being just a hairs-breadth away from letting loose with some vengeful, neurotic ranting.

It's one of those low budget movies in which everyone looks exhausted and filthy - not as a artistic decision on the part of the filmmakers, but just because they were.

Even the Assistant DA is a sleazy guy in a polyester shirt and kipper tie who shares a one room apartment with fishing nets hung above the bed with a hippie/artist chick. What a world.

And those horrible, cheap-ass teddy bears the guy gives away at his carnival stall - god, they're more disgusting than any of the (fairly minimal and unimpressive) gore effects.

Purely as a textural experience / cultural artifact though, it's really got something unique going on.

I also enjoyed the music (strung-out coffee house folk and some acid rock jamming during the final reel), and the few seconds of accidental porn spliced into the mangled print AGFA scanned for their release.

B

[Gary Banks]

I watched this double feature today. Yellow is a Filipino metaphysical horror movie and Blue is an Edgar Wallace krimi/horror thriller. First saw this combo back in 1977 or 1978 at the drive in.

OCTOBER 2022

001-Castle Of Blood **** Sinister Cinema dvd-r
002-In Search Of Dracula ** Kino bd
003-Dawn Of The Dead(78) **** bd
004-Carnival Of Sinners * TCM recording
005-The Whip and The Body ***1/2 Midnight Choir dvd-r
006-Panic In Year Zero! ** bd
007-Doctor Blood's Coffin *1/2 MGM dvd-r
008-Ladron De Cadaveres ** bd
009-Castle Of Evil **1/2 dvd-r of vhs
010-From Dusk To Dawn Season One ack! dvd
011-Whoever Slew Auntie Roo *1/2 bd
012-Curse Of Frankenstein (1:37:1)**** bd
013-Tales Of Frankenstein **1/2 bd
014-War Of The Planets** TCM recording
015-I Drink Your Blood ** BD
016-Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things **** bd
017-Tales From The Crypt Season One *1/2 dvd
018-Deathmaster **1/2 dvd
019-Planet Of The Vampires *** Old Kino bd
020-Night of the Demon (UK 1957) **** bd
021-Black Sabbath **** bd
022-I,Vampiri ***1/2 bd
023-Mark Of The Vampire *** bd
024-Dracula Vs Frankenstein (71) **bd
025-Mill Of The Stone Women ****bd
026-Beast of The Yellow Night ***1/2 bd
027-Creature With The Blue Hand *** dvd

[Newt Cox]

31 Days of Horror 2022 Day 18 Damien The Omen II




TITLE-Damien Omen II



SOURCE-Scream Factory Blu Ray

While the original Omen doesn't get the praise that fellow possession films like Rosemary's baby and The Exorcist get,for me it is the best of those films.




And while the sequels to Exorcist and Rosemary's baby are hated and shit on Omen 2 isn't. Why is that? Cause it is actually pretty good.




Based somewhat on the second novel in the Omen series. This film skips ahead a bit. Damien is now a pre teen and attending a military school. Where Lance Hendrickson helps young Damien realize what his legacy is.




Now sure this pales when compared to the amazing first film in the series. But it is still much better than mosst people make it out to be. The gore fx are all well done. With some really good kills. Acting is decent. And I like the plot.




The only real drawback to this film is the ending. Since a third film was gonna happen there is no way this film could solve the issue of Damien being the Anti-Christ.




Scream Factory's Blu Ray has a decent amount of extras. Got a few interviews,two commentaries and a shortish BTS feature. It looks better than it ever has and sounds great.




Damien The Omen II gets a C+

Cody covers Cronos
http://codysfilmandtvblog.blogspot.c...-1993.html?m=1

[f.ramses]

10/17
Curse of the Devil

[Gary Banks]

OCTOBER 2022

001-Castle Of Blood **** Sinister Cinema dvd-r
002-In Search Of Dracula ** Kino bd
003-Dawn Of The Dead(78) **** bd
004-Carnival Of Sinners * TCM recording
005-The Whip and The Body ***1/2 Midnight Choir dvd-r
006-Panic In Year Zero! ** bd
007-Doctor Blood's Coffin *1/2 MGM dvd-r
008-Ladron De Cadaveres ** bd
009-Castle Of Evil **1/2 dvd-r of vhs
010-From Dusk To Dawn Season One ack! dvd
011-Whoever Slew Auntie Roo *1/2 bd
012-Curse Of Frankenstein (1:37:1)**** bd
013-Tales Of Frankenstein **1/2 bd
014-War Of The Planets** TCM recording
015-I Drink Your Blood ** BD
016-Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things **** bd
017-Tales From The Crypt Season One *1/2 dvd
018-Deathmaster **1/2 dvd
019-Planet Of The Vampires *** Old Kino bd
020-Night of the Demon (UK 1957) **** bd
021-Black Sabbath **** bd
022-I,Vampiri ***1/2 bd
023-Mark Of The Vampire *** bd
024-Dracula Vs Frankenstein (71) ** bd
025-Mill Of The Stone Women **** bd

Dracula Vs Frankie is the Al Adamson movie. The version of Mill that I watched was the English Export.