Rank the Halloween films

It's like a Friday The 13th ranking thread but with Halloween films

1. Halloween (1978)
2. Halloween II (1981)
3. Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
4. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
5. Halloween III: The Season of The Witch
6. Halloween H20
7. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
8. Halloween: Resurrection
9. Halloween (2007)
10. Halloween II (2009)

H20 is very average, but still the best in a long while. Hope the new one is good.

Surprised that 5 would rank that high but I do like it.

Rob Zombie's Halloween's might be better productions with an auteur vision than say Curse of Michael Myers, but still add up to be the worst Halloween movies for me.

Similar movies like Messiah of Evil (1973) ?

Messiah of Evil is such a beast of a movie, and creepy as hell! Such a great find. Does anyone have some good creepy, atmospheric horror recommendations like it? I am in the mood to watch something creepy

What movies did you watch or buy this week? (6-24)

I actually managed to see two films this past week and am even having time to start this thread, a major accomplishment.

Last night I watched the Dementia 13 remake. It's not great but had much better production values than the original. I really liked the location and wish it could've been put to better use. There are a few axe murders and it is set at a castle and there is a death of a little girl years earlier, but nothing else from the original is the same here. This ends up being mainly a home invasion story with a ghost thrown in for, well, I really don't know what for. What I mainly liked was the house itself and the production values, and the one girl who gets killed right away had a fantastic body.

The other movie I saw was Massarati and the Brain. Not horror, but a TV movie I missed back in the day because it aired shortly after my grandmother had a stroke in '82 and I was too busy to see much of anything on TV that summer. I've wanted to see this one ever since and to my knowledge it was never shown again. I found it on YouTube the other day by accident. It had Dutch subs so that reinforces my thought that it's a rare film and probably didn't get a USA release even on VHS. Anyway, it has Christopher Lee, Markie Post (from Night Court and The Fall Guy), Camilla Sparv (from MacKenna's Gold, Downhill Racer, Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round and a slew of other big budget late 60s films where she usually played a sexy foreigner), Christopher Hewett (from the TV sitcom version of Mr. Belvedere) and Peter Billingsley (the kid from Christmas Story and Death Valley). Billingsley plays a genius kid, nicknamed The Brain, who is staying with his uncle, who is some sort of international spy/James Bond type character. The kid makes all sorts of electronic tracking devices and weapons for his uncle to use to catch crooks. The Uncle is played by Daniel Pilon, who was in Island of the Dead (the killer fly movie with Talisa Soto and Mos Def that everyone hated because the title led them to believe it was about zombies). Lee is a Nazi war criminal out to retrieve a cache of priceless ancient coins from the bottom of the sea so he can sell them and use the cash to fund the rebuilding of the Third Reich. I'd have loved this if I'd seen it back in '82. I still enjoyed it but it was clearly aimed at younger people. It felt like a pilot for a series that never got off the ground. Too bad - it would've made a fun series.

Creighton Duke movie - Jason Goes To Hell Spin-Off

https://movieweb.com/creighton-duke-movie-jason-goes-to-hell-spinoff/

Everyone's favorite Friday The 13th side character from everyone's favorite F13 sequel is getting a proposed spin-off, from everyone's favorite F13 director Adam Marcus, director of Jason Goes To Hell.

To be honest, the article stating that Jason killed Creighton's girlfriend is more backstory than Jason Goes To Hell even gives.

yeah mate, ukraine holiday

now Im about off in like 21 days
but being the good soul I am, I think perhaps I should throw this out there, I love enriching other ppls lives thats just how I am
Normally with a holiday I go with myself alone, last time was hawaii (though that was with my GF) but normally its alone, now this one is alone, alone to East europe for a month or so.
I was thinking how about one or more of yous joining me, Nicko,Znep,Hairy box (we'll see plenty of those in eastern europe believe me)
All I promise is the time of your life, 2 weeks =$800US (plus you pay your airfares), the 800 is all accomodation and as much bnooze as you can drink in 2 weeks, surely you can afford that?

all I promise is some great sites (chernobyl) , and the most beautiful woman on the planet



... Im not joking ... I've visted a lot of lands but here FFS, I can remember the first time I was behind the iron curtain ~1993 my jaw dropped from the womans beauty, my comment was to noone since noone spoke english, "now I know why they built the iron curtain" Im paraphrasing but the jist is true

Shithole: The History Of Desperate Living



Prologue - Dreamland is dead. David Lochary is dead. Divine is busy and probably not interested in Dreamlandish shenanigans by now, anyway. This is a new day for John Waters' film career, but far from a departure. John Waters isn't done making trash just yet. One more, and then, maybe something normal. Next up is Desperate Living. An insane fairy tale about killer lesbians and other social outcasts, doing what they can to survive in a town they never imagined they would be apart of. A town which is the only thing standing between a criminal and justice. When all else fails, there's always Mortville.

Once upon a time, there lived an upper class snob named Peggy Gravel. Peggy actually has a pretty swell life in a nice house with a nice, normal family. Peggy's only real problem is that pesky insanity that is making it impossible to get any peace. And when Peggy gets no peace, nobody else does. Today, Peggy is having quite the meltdown, and pretty much anything anyone says or does makes things worse. After taking her frustrations out on some kids, playing outside, Peggy turns her aggression to her own kids, whom she shames for playing Doctor. Well, in her defense, that WAS a little weird.

I take it Peggy was never overly fond of the husband even when she was sane, assuming she ever was. Bosley is as understanding as a husband can be in this situation, and only wants his wife to get better. He means well, but there's only so much Bosley can do by himself. The maid is pissed at him and probably wouldn't be any help, anyway. As Peggy carries on about Bosley's murder attempt on her, Grizelda rushes in, not at all interested in facts, takes Peggy's word for it and crushes Bosley with her ass, destroying him for all time!

Bosley is dead, the kids are probably hiding under their beds by now, and all these two ladies know is that they are in some deep shit. Or they will be if they don't leave this place, now. Peggy and Grizelda take off, and of course, Peggy immediately starts bitching and ranting, but quickly gets put in her place by Grizelda, who outweighs her by 300 pounds, and makes it clear that she is no longer the maid. These gals have no game plan, but are pointed in the direction of a place to hide by a cop who makes sure and gets payment for the info. Peggy and Grizelda have learned of a town called Mortville, where fugitives can go to find sanctuary. This is a town populated entirely by people who should be in prison. Mortville isn't exactly what Peggy and Grizelda had in mind, but killers can't be choosers.

This is the kind of town where you might actually catch something by breathing the air. A real shithole, populated by killers, drug addicts, freaks of all types, all controlled by the the tyrannical Queen Carlotta and her guards, who aren't above taking liberties by bullying the town's people. After moving in with an angry dyke and her slut, Peggy and Grizelda are seized by the Queen, but only to be smartened up as to how things go around here. That and to be transformed into ugly bitches!

The ugly bitches head back to their new home to trade stories with Mole the dyke and Muffy the slut, where we learn a thing or two about them. Mole's story is pretty simple. She was a Pro Wrestler who got a little carried away and killed a guy. Muffy's situation, however, seemed to involve temporary insanity, which caused the death of her drunken husband and neglectful babysitter. And in Mortville, Muffy found the person of her dreams. Mole is a bit on the abusive side, but it's nothing Muffy can't handle. Mole will probably lighten up once she gets that sex change she's been talking about... Or not.

And just as the four ladies do some bonding, we are then plunged into a scene we can never unsee. Mole and Muffy getting it on is to be expected, but I guess the moans got to Grizelda. As she gets all hot and bothered, Grizelda turns to Peggy for sexual relief. Peggy naturally isn't crazy about the idea, but finally gives in. On this night, everyone got their cooters licked clean. Yes. Everyone.

But then, there's Princess Coo-Coo: A kind woman who wants nothing to do with her mother, the Queen, and even less to do with her evil ways. Injected with Rabies for rebelling, the Princess has nowhere else to turn but the four Lesbians, which creates some dissension. Peggy not only refuses to help Coo-Coo, but she takes it upon herself to offer her services to the Queen as the new and improved, evil Princess. Peggy proves to be an exceptional replacement for the now dying Coo-Coo, and quickly gains Carlotta's approval.

After a brief discussion, it is decided that the entire population of Mortville needs to be killed off as soon as possible. It's now up to Mole, Muffy and some other dykes, to band together and exterminate this evil, so that maybe Mortville can become a nice place to live. Just give Mole a minute to recover from her sex change, which didn't exactly go as planned. Nobody is better at overthrowing evil Queens and liberating sanctuary cities than angry dykes. This is a new day for Mortville and a new day for low-life scum. The End.

Epilogue - Desperate Living really did turn out to be John Waters' last hurrah before making the transition to mainstream. It would have been nice if Divine had been a part of it, though. Instead, we have Liz Renay in the role he was originally meant for. I'm not a fan, as she always sounded like a dumb fuck to me, but at the time, this was the biggest actress Waters ever had in a movie. Then, there's Susan Lowe, who really threw herself into the "dyke" role and made the movie far more entertaining than it would have been, otherwise. Edith Massey was great, Mary Vivian Pearce was great, despite aging 20 years since Pink Flamingos. What exactly happened there? Well, the highlight for me was Mink Stole's portrayal of the neurotic snob who wishes death on anyone she sees as beneath her. Oh, and good God! How could I forget Jean Hill? A person who was on her way to making two of Divine. Her presence was nothing short of a nice touch, and filled that void Divine's absence had left.

Desperate Living tackled just about every taboo Water's earlier movies didn't, and at the time, was despised by the very audience it was meant for. Yep, Shockingly, the lesbians didn't get it at the time, but have since warmed up to it over the last 40 years, as all Waters' trash classics were eventually immortalized by a future generation. 7/10



#Review

Rob Zombie's Halloween or Eli Roth's Death Wish?

Which was the 'better' remake?

If you wrote a book...

My mind has been blank lately. I'm zoning right the fuck out, and I don't have any inspiration for anything. I spent the last few months writing my second book "White Trash Dracula", and that took a lot out of me, but I enjoyed the process. I want to write something else to keep me distracted, but I don't know what.

I have ideas for more stories based on universal monster movies, but I don't want to push the next one until I've got a solid outline, so I'm debating whether or not I should try writing something else in the meantime.

Sometimes, you hear an idea that sounds so stupid, you need it in your life. I'm trying to find the right idea to write about, but I can't think of anything that clicks just yet.

Maybe I just need to write something very gimmicky? Something different? Something that's pure horse shit, but what?


Anybody written a story that you're particularly proud of? Anything you wish could have been written better? In fact... do any of you even write? Does anybody write anymore, in this age of micro-tweets and vanity posts?

And then there's La Casa....

1. The Evil Dead AKA La Casa (1981)

2. Evil Dead II AKA La Casa 2 (1987)

3. Ghosthouse AKA La Casa 3 (1988)

4. Witchery AKA La Casa 4 (1988)

5. Beyond Darkness AKA La Casa 5 (1990)

6. House II: The Second Story AKA La Casa 6 (1987)

7. The Horror Show AKA La Casa 7 (1989)

The first two and last two aren't even Italian. Evil Dead I and II are classics, of course. Ghosthouse and Witchery are kind of dumb, but I like them for some reason. I saw Beyond Darkness (not to be confused with Beyond the Darkness) less than a year ago but I don't remember one single thing about it, but I gave it a 5/10. House II is stupid as hell, but kind of amusing. The Horror Show, known as House III in some places, was kind of a dull, unfunny version of Wes Craven's Shocker.

Night of the Living Dead: Genesis

I still haven't seen this. Have many people here managed to watch it somehow? What did you think?

I'm not sure how to watch it. it reminds me of Radio Free Albemuth in that way, like, they made it years ago and it got stuck in legal limbo somehow.