Post your favorite films to watch around this time of year. I'm looking for suggestions and figured others might be as well My favorites are the classic Halloween movies. I watch them all every year, even the shitty ones lol I know alot of people dont like the newer ones, but I'm still looking forward to it
So this could technically be a Halloween or Christmas movie, but this is my favorite. Scream is second
Spoiler 1987: Adapted by Clive Barker from his own story "The Hellbound Heart" this has long been a favorite among horror-film devotees. Clive Barker is an outstanding writer. In terms of literary style light years ahead of Stephen King. His awesomely unhinged imagination is given free rein in this tale of the darker side of the human psyche. Frank Cotton (Sean Chapman) is as immoral and perverted a scumbag as you could hope to find in the English speaking world. Ever alert to the potential for some new thrill (sexual or otherwise) Frank comes by a small carved wooden cube that just happens to be (in the right hands) a gateway to Hell. Not your normal run of the mill pit of hot sulphur fumes presided over by a horned Lucifer wielding his time-honored pitchfork, but a most unpleasant parallel dimension, home of the wickedly inventive Pinhead and his cenobite cohorts. As the series worked its way onwards, Pinhead (Bradley) became a retro cult hero much like Freddy Kreuger and was given increased screen-time! Frank ends up paying the ultimate price in his search for new pleasures and to his everlasting discomfort, inevitably discovers the real meaning of the film's tag-line "He'll tear your soul apart." This leaves Frank's ex well and truly home-alone and she takes up with his wimpy brother Larry, crawlingly played by Andrew Robinson. Things might have worked out for Julia (Higgins) and daughter Kirsty (Ashley Laurence) had not Larry cut his hand badly and the blood run beneath the floorboards where Frank's decimated but undead corpse responds dramatically well to the corpuscled cocktail! Frank's gory resurrection is actually one of the film's highlights, aided and abetted as it is by a superb musical score from Christopher Young! Frank of course is a little miffed over Julia's dalliance with his brother and persuades her to bring him an assembly line of fresh meat to ensure his complexion is brought up to scratch. The demise of the first victim especially is quite shocking horror and on its own would have earned the film its "R" certificate. Without giving anything else away, it is left to daughter Kirsty to combat both Frank, her socially distasteful step-mother and Pinhead. It is the ultimate learning curve you might say. One hell of a lot goes wrong before it starts getting any better. Frank's second whirl on the block is distinctly gruesome. Kirsty who under normal circumstances would be left a gibbering idiot, survives to take on the sequel and a further appearance by her awesomely repulsive stepmother! You want horror? you want originality? you like blood on tap? you need HELLRAISER! Spoiler After the strange events of the first movie,Kirsty is sent to a Institution for the Mentally Sick, commanded by the mysterious Dr. Channard,a crazed psychologist who is willing to open the doors of hell by manipulating the Puzzle Box.In doing so,Channard brings Kirsty's perverse stepmother Julia back to life,and consequently he provokes the rage of the dreadful cenobites,the cruel and evil creatures that give pleasure and pain in the same measure.Hellbound Hellraiser 2 is an extremely well-done film,thanks to the generous budget given to newcomer filmmaker Tony Randel and a first-rate production.The special effects are simply terrific (specially considering the time in which the movie was done,1988) and they create a bombastic,scary visual.I never saw a movie with such an incredible scenery and imagery,except maybe for Dark City.Clive Barker's vision of hell is brought to life with mastery through the work of Randel and Director of Photography Robin Vidgeon. The plot sustains the tension and keeps you on the edge of your seat from start to finish,though the first half hour of Hellbound: Hellraiser II is a little bit slow and descriptive (but never boring); a great portion of the action and the terror is concentrated in the last minutes. The last thirty ones are a realistic and gutsy "tour de force" through fear,violence and suffering.This is definitively a masterpiece, but not for the squeamish.Hellbound: Hellraiser II is rated R for extreme violence and sex scenes,it runs 99 minutes(uncut version released by Anchor Bay).It stars Clare Higgins as Julia, Ashley Laurence as Kirsty, Imogen Boorman as Tiffany,William Hope as Kyle McRae and Kenneth Cranham as Dr. Channard.If you like this movie, you might also enjoy Phenomena and Suspiria. Spoiler Enter the mistake all horror films with on screen villains make: because the heroine dies and/or moves on to other projects, the villain moves to the spotlight. This is an even more fatal blow to Hellraiser because Pinhead never was meant to be in the spotlight, have too many lines, and this series was not meant to be a slasher. Ooh, I know, since Hellbound: Hellraiser II made the mistake of pulling off a tolerable explanation let's correct that mistake and explain it to death! Let's go into more detail about pinhead and the box and set us up for Hellraiser: Bloodline with 90 minutes of backstory and no story for itself! I really don't have much else to say and don't think I need to say much else. Ashley Lawrence isn't the only one abandoning ship on this one (no, the 10 second cameo doesn't count), Chris Young also disappears on us. The concepts of the first two films go away, and we have Pinhead moving to Elm Street with his band of `clever' new cenobites. This is hardly an ambitious move for any horror franchise, especially for Hellraiser. I mean, don't we have enough ominous unstoppable killing machines wandering around the horror aisles at your local rental place? At least Jeepers Creepers did some things differently. All the latter Hellraisers get points for ambition. #3 is just mediocre slasher with Cenobites and a box. It's not necessarily the worst in the series, but damn it's the most boring . . .
mine is spookly the square pumpkin hahahah the grand baby and i have watched it at the least a hundred times lol
Good choices , do all horrer movies count as Halloween or just the Halloween series and movies on Halloween day ? It is creepy as hell lol For Halloween I’d say the one that came out 2018 or so was good. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
The thermal coffee mug/bong was a fully functional mug and bong as portrayed in the film, the prototype of which cost $5000 to make went for about $80 each Spoiler I was just talking about it yesterday ..lol
Sis, I wished you could see my horror movie collection. I have everything you can think of and a few golden oldies from the 1970s. Stephen King makes a small portion of what I got.
No, I haven't seen that one. I've been looking for it on a streaming service. Haven't found it yet. I have so many favorites, I just can't pick one. One of my favorites is called Gargoyles. A 1970s TV movie with a very young Scott Glen. And another TV movie called Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. Not the new one, this one was made in the 1970s with Kim Darby from True Grit. For a TV movie, they are scary. Pet Semetery is one of my favorite Stephen King movies. The movie follows the book very closely.
Ya Pet Sematary Really A Scary Book Too My Fav Part Is When Jud Tell Louis The Story Bout What Happen When Timmy Bateman Was Buried In The Bad Place. You Know What I Mean? ~Toni~
Definitely! I love the ending of the book. When the doctor had to cover his head with a hat because his hair was totally gray and he had to wear gloves because his hands were bloody from digging with his bare hands in a desperate attempt to bring Racheal back to life. Now I know why my youngest loves that book so much.
Ya I Remember That. His Wife Come Back At The Very End But They Don Tell What Happen Next Lol. I Guessing She Come Back Evil Like His Son An Cat Tho. ~Toni~
In the book, the ending went like this, "Her voice was grated and full of dirt. 'Darling'..it said." In the movie she reaches for a butcher knife on the table, the screen goes black and you hear Louis scream. If you read the book, you have seen the movie. It's that close to the book. A lot of his movies don't do so well in the theaters because the screenplay doesn't do Stephen King's stories justice. They can't bring it to life like he does. And the fact that they cram a large book in a 1-1/2 hr. movie. They did just that with the Gunslinger books. I loved the movie but was disappointed to find out it didn't do good in the theater. I'm usually first in line when one of his books is made into a movie. The last one I watched was Doctor Sleep. It was really good.