Saturday Evening Movie Thread [moviegique]: Trick 'r Treat (2007)

The fall typically brings a spate of horror films as moviegoers seeking safe thrills head to the cineplex in advance of Halloween, which simultaneously expands its reach into the summer while being consumed by Christmas on the other end. While the stores are already full of Santa Clauses, the movie holiday window actually seems to narrow over time—nobody's watching "It's A Wonderful Life" in October.

Oddly, this year, the cineplexes are not exactly flooded with horror fare: The (perhaps final) entry in the Conjuring series; The (perhaps not final) entry in the Black Phone series; Good Boy (a horror movie with a dog as the final girl); and of course, scads of throwbacks, like Halloween, etc.

We happened upon the New York Film School's first horror movie marathon to help get in the spirit—a side-effect of going to Knott's Halloween Haunt in September is that by the time October rolls around, we've pretty much moved on, emotionally—and they showed, in one day, Funhouse (1981), Phantom of the Mall (198, In the Mouth of Madness (1991), Meathook (2024), and Re-animator (1985). We skipped the last, having just seen it.

But we also caught one special event from Fathom (at a price of $60 for the two of us, plus popcorn and a soda!), on the semi-obscure, semi-cult, semi-classic Trick 'r Treat, an anthology picture that feels like the last gasp of an era.

Even the lollipop is a thread that runs through more than one story.

An early Legendary Pictures film, this movie is a kind of throwback to Creepshow and other '80s movies and TV shows, but with a more integrated and cinematic feel.

We start with a very random, very standard horror movie kill, as a young couple comes home from a night of revelry, and the wife insists that the decorations be cleaned up before her mother gets there in the morning. He demurs so she starts cleaning things up on her own, apparently unaware that There Are Rules.

It's not novel, but horror movies (of this sort) are like musicals: It's not that you're looking to be surprised to discover someone bursting into song-and-dance, it's the quality of the song-and-dance. This first kill is fine, a bit above average in terms of visuals, but nicely revisited at the end where things come together and we see the scene recontextualized after the other stories. ("Three hours earlier...")

Brett Kelly, known through the '90s as "That Fat Kid," works regularly today as a slightly doughy 30-something actor.

From here we have Dylan Baker as a serial killer, comically interrupted by neighbor Brian Cox and others as he tries to bury his latest kill. This segues into a town party where, dressed as a vampire, he kills a female partygoer. At the same party Anna Paquin's and her slutty friends visit a costume store (because we all buy costumes on Halloween night, right?) and pick up guys for a later shindig, leaving virginal Anna alone. We break for a ghost tale of children visiting an old quarry where a school bus full of "unspecified special children" are sent to their demise at the behest of their parents, and their vengeful ghosts remain. Then we finish the Paquin story and cut back to Brian Cox who, lives across the street from our first vignette couple and finds himself terrorized by tiny Sam Hain because he sends his dog out in a Halloween mask to scare the trick-or-treaters, rather than giving them candy. (Now, he steals their candy, which to me is a very Halloween thing to do, but Sam Hain disagrees and tortures Cox for about 15 minutes.) Close on opening vignette and final coda.

For stories, this stuff is all very stock, but there are things that elevate this and make it worthy of a watch. Most famous for writing X-Men 2: X-Men United and Godzilla: King of the Monsters, my favorite work by writer/director Michael Dougherty is the under-rated Krampus, but it's really his direction here that makes this more enjoyable than a typical horror anthology, as well as kick-ass set design, music and acting.

The typical situation with a horror anthology is: We have this great idea for a story but it's only about 40 minutes long. So we package it with two or three twenty-minute throwaways, and we got ourselves a feature!

Cute girls, but if this had been made in the '70s, they'd all have been topless in the first 20 minutes.

These stories are all in the "fine" category. The twists aren't likely to shock you, although the Dylan Baker one is kind of "nice". But the threads of the first story feeding into the second and the fourth, and the fourth story feeds into the third story and the bookend story (which might be considered just a part of the fourth)—the whole thing coalesces like a classic "Simpsons" storyline and becomes satisfying in a way the basic stories would not be by themselves.

Meanwhile, this movie looks great in 4K. Taking place over a few hours on Halloween night, gorgeously lit with alternating bright orange-and-black and vague, misty blue-and-green, this feels like a bookend to the horror tradition that started in the late '70s with Halloween and, yes, Creepshow, down to comic-book-style title cards. It's R-rated but has basically vestigial nudity and mostly implied gore, with black humor running through some of the most "horrific" elements.

This photograph recalls "The Shining" to me. What do you think?

Great traditional score by Douglas Pipes (also of Krampus and Monster House).

It's fun and it's not boring. Even if it's sort of a throwback (for 2007, to say nothing of today), it was clearly done with a lot of love and sincerity.

"Make me look like John Carpenter," quoth Brian Cox, who goes on to recite a very famous line from "The Thing".

And now for some background info: Researching it, it appears that writer/directory Dougherty had no plans to direct originally. In fact, he had Tobe Hooper, George Romero, Stan Winston and John Carpenter set to direct the segments, but in the end not a single studio wanted to buy it.

Every studio passed on it. Not every studio, but I remember one keynote we got was, 'Nobody wants to see vampires, werewolves or zombies because they're too old-fashioned

This would've been in the early 2000s, around the time of 28 Days Later (2002) and not long before Twilight (200 and Walking Dead (2010). This truly encapsulates Hollywood wisdom.

On the plus side, I'm not sure this film would've been as good if the four stories had been as segmented as they'd have to have been with four separate directors. Either way, we'll never know, since Carpenter is the last man standing of those four.

Look at that! Pumpkins! How Halloween can you get?

Posted by: Open Blogger at 07:30 PM

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Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 07:29 PM (vwL3N)

2 The gracious host lets the guests post first.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 07:29 PM (asXVI)

3 (That was win-win for me, either way.)

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 07:30 PM (asXVI)

4 Why watch horror movies when you can read history?

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 07:30 PM (vwL3N)

5 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 07:30 PM (+qU29)

6 Cute girls, but if this had been made in the '70s, they'd all have been topless in the first 20 minutes.

Ah, so you too watched Beneath the Valley of the Cheerleaders.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at October 25, 2025 07:30 PM (jc0TO)

7 4 Why watch horror movies when you can read history?
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Because I'm not a masochist?

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Ah, so you too watched Beneath the Valley of the Cheerleaders.
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You can't prove that!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 07:33 PM (asXVI)

8 So, how about Halloween III: Season of the Witch? Canon or no?

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at October 25, 2025 07:33 PM (jc0TO)

9 Can I make one OT comment, err, besides this one?

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at October 25, 2025 07:34 PM (jc0TO)

10 The original Halloween watched recently, but the others are not as good

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 07:35 PM (+qU29)

11 8 So, how about Halloween III: Season of the Witch? Canon or no?
Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at October 25, 2025 07:33 PM (jc0TO)

It follows the original concept of Halloween: it was supposed to be something of an anthology series.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 07:35 PM (vwL3N)

12 Those old Halloween photos always look like Diane Arbus took them at an asylum.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 25, 2025 07:35 PM (kpS4V)

13 I wondered who that kid was

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 07:36 PM (bXbFr)

14 Thats the only halloween one i liked

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 07:36 PM (bXbFr)

15 10 The original Halloween watched recently, but the others are not as good
Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 07:35 PM (+qU29)

The first two. The others? Meh.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 07:37 PM (vwL3N)

16 8 So, how about Halloween III: Season of the Witch? Canon or no?
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Canon? Well, there wasn't supposed to be a canon, originally, as Cow Demon notes. More like a movie version of "American Horror Story".

It deserves to stand on its own two terrible, ridiculous, snort-worthy feet.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 07:37 PM (asXVI)

17 Tubi has some nice horroranthologies from Japan, South Korea and other countries.

They are enjoyable because they are different.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 25, 2025 07:37 PM (Sco7b)

18 BOO!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 25, 2025 07:37 PM (jFCkp)

19 "Halloween" is a good one. I think it's playing this month at our theater. And isn't it neat that googleplexes are showing older movies?

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 25, 2025 07:37 PM (kpS4V)

20 Why watch horror movies when you can read history?
Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 07:30 PM (vwL3N)

Or just keep up with current events…like la Diabla.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 25, 2025 07:38 PM (ZVgZ4)

21 I meant "Trick or Treat", although yes, the original "Halloween" is good.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 25, 2025 07:38 PM (kpS4V)

22 12 Those old Halloween photos always look like Diane Arbus took them at an asylum.
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Definitely nailed the look.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 07:39 PM (asXVI)

23 I saw Halloween in the theater, of course, it was ... tense. It had that horror sound track ... You thing they're dead but they're not .. You thing they're dead but they're not .. and then a pigeon explodes from at your feet.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at October 25, 2025 07:39 PM (jc0TO)

24 It was silly with a twist redolent of lovecraft

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 07:39 PM (bXbFr)

25 I might catch "K-Pop Demon Hunters" on Halloween. They're also showing a Depeche Mode concert film.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 25, 2025 07:40 PM (kpS4V)

26 Or just keep up with current events…like la Diabla.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 25, 2025 07:38 PM (ZVgZ4)

Which will become history, underscoring my point. : )

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 07:40 PM (vwL3N)

27 and then the baddie gets you as you relax.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at October 25, 2025 07:40 PM (jc0TO)

28 19 "Halloween" is a good one. I think it's playing this month at our theater. And isn't it neat that googleplexes are showing older movies?
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It's a life-saver when the studios and even the indies are putting out trash, for sure.

I just bought a 100-pack of tix for my local bijou ($7/ticket) and they started showing practically nothin' but garbage.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 07:40 PM (asXVI)

29 I watched the literally shiteous "The Long Walk" on VOD. Yeesh. It's my own fault. I knew better.

Good passel of young actors, but a stupid idea.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 25, 2025 07:42 PM (kpS4V)

30 19 "Halloween" is a good one. I think it's playing this month at our theater. And isn't it neat that googleplexes are showing older movies?
Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 25, 2025 07:37 PM (kpS4V)

They really should, because there are entire generations that grew up with various movies but never experienced them in the theater.

This is why I went to see the Star Wars OT in theaters when rereleased in 1997. Yeah, they weren't the true originals, but I was too young to see the original ones in the theaters. My friends and I rushed to see them when they came out.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 07:42 PM (vwL3N)

31 Kind of like tales from the crypt except less tongue in cheek

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 07:43 PM (bXbFr)

32 Saw "Chainsaw Man: The Reze Arc" yesterday.

I don't want to over sell it but this is an excellent anime movie. Great action sequences. Great animation. And a strong story built around the characters if the. Series/manga.

The downside? You have to have seen the series or read the manga to understand all that's going on in the story.

Or just sit back and roll with the crazy tide of animation stimulating your eyeballs.

One thing I like is the lack of sentimentality in this series.

The movie is in theaters and the series is streaming in a few venues.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 25, 2025 07:43 PM (GYxzN)

33 The scariest mask you can wear this Halloween is a "Kamala Harris" Mask.

It would be Nightmare on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue if that had happened......

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 25, 2025 07:43 PM (J9q9v)

34 There is a Japanese launch in about 17 minutes if interested

JAXA MHI Launches Maiden Flight of HTV-X 1 from Japan

https://youtu.be/TflC6smN1qQ

Posted by: Joyenz at October 25, 2025 07:43 PM (2F0/Y)

35
RIP, June Lockhart

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2025 07:44 PM (tgvbd)

36 Mark hamill is a caricature of himself as if luke became the emperor not in a good way

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 07:44 PM (bXbFr)

37 It deserves to stand on its own two terrible, ridiculous, snort-worthy feet.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 07:37 PM (asXVI)

I saw Halloween III a decade ago. It wasn't bad. Nor was it a horror classic by any means. I saw it out of curiousity more than anything else.

I wonder what it would have been thought of had it not been named Halloween III.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 07:45 PM (vwL3N)

38 It's my own fault. I knew better.
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Did you not read my FOUR THOUSAND WORD ESSAY ON THE TOPIC?!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 07:46 PM (asXVI)

39 I didnt realize this was the first time svengoolie reviewed thd fly (original)

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 07:46 PM (bXbFr)

40 Horror books or horror movies...Which do you prefer and why?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 25, 2025 07:47 PM (IBQGV)

41 Tom atkins elevates the material

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 07:47 PM (bXbFr)

42 Tonight on Svengoolie is the 1950's The Fly at 8pm ET. Followed by The Return of the Fly.

Posted by: Joyenz at October 25, 2025 07:47 PM (2F0/Y)

43 Cow Demon -

But isn’t there a certain distance with history? Like that happened then, but it’s not happening now. It’s a shame and a horror that the worst things in history are happening now. Not everywhere, thank God! But somewhere it’s happening now.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 25, 2025 07:47 PM (ZVgZ4)

44 Horror is my least favorite genre.

One reason is that i can’t suspend belief . Not for the supernatural / horror aspect but for the actions taken by the characters in light of the supernatural /horror.

It seems they always do the opposite of what I or any normal person would do.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 07:48 PM (EYmYM)

45 Although i mix him up with christopher stone

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 07:48 PM (bXbFr)

46 Why the Major didn't leave Dr Smith at the first planet is beyond me

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 07:48 PM (+qU29)

47 Ah-ooooo! It'll scare the pants right off you! Ah-ooooo!

Posted by: Count Floyd at October 25, 2025 07:49 PM (i0F8b)

48 I saw Halloween III a decade ago. It wasn't bad. Nor was it a horror classic by any means. I saw it out of curiousity more than anything else.
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I saw it when it came out. Then I saw it again in 2022 at a drive-in in Memphis with Joe Bob Briggs hosting. His director had a highly abbreviated supercut of all the times he trashed it that he played before the movie.

The director and two stars were in attendance, and it was all in good fun, and it definitely has a fanbase, but while it has many fine qualities, the story is (needlessly) slapdash, and it feels more like a cop movie than horror.

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I wonder what it would have been thought of had it not been named Halloween III.
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It would've been forgotten, then probably rediscovered and celebrated today by about the same number of people.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 07:49 PM (asXVI)

49 I did like The Others .

Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 07:49 PM (EYmYM)

50 Sort of like live action tree house of horror

In the original, the fly is set in france even all the characters have english accents

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 07:50 PM (bXbFr)

51 40 Horror books or horror movies...Which do you prefer and why?
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As someone who reads a fair number of horror books and watches a fair number of horror movies, I can't really say. Like seeing a movie doesn't scratch the itch of reading a book and vice-versa. There are many things possible in books not possible in movies, so there's an advantage. OTOH, movies have boobs. So.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 07:51 PM (asXVI)

52 44 Horror is my least favorite genre.

One reason is that i can’t suspend belief . Not for the supernatural / horror aspect but for the actions taken by the characters in light of the supernatural /horror.

It seems they always do the opposite of what I or any normal person would do.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 07:48 PM (EYmYM)

I grew up with the great 1980s slashers and other horror movies but it got old quick.

I read too much history to go all in into horror.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 07:52 PM (vwL3N)

53 Me, I’d rather watch CITY the Animation rather than anything Chainsaw Man. I’ve had enough horror in my life. I don’t need any artificial simulation.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 25, 2025 07:52 PM (ZVgZ4)

54 29 I watched the literally shiteous "The Long Walk" on VOD. Yeesh. It's my own fault. I knew better.

Good passel of young actors, but a stupid idea.
Posted by: All Hail Eris

The short story it's based on isn't bad though. I liked it. The movie was always destined to be garbage.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 25, 2025 07:53 PM (jFCkp)

55 Rob Zombie had a great horror trilogy out starting with the house of 1000 corpses. It was pretty messed up so I liked it.

And his daughter was hot.

One horror movie I hated was "Midsommar." Beautifully filmed but not much happened in that 2.5 hour opus.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 25, 2025 07:53 PM (Sco7b)

56 Im not a fan of slash porn tripe like roth and co, that repellent not horror

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 07:53 PM (bXbFr)

57 In the original, the fly is set in france even all the characters have english accents
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The novella is set in France.

The 1958 movie is set in French-Canadia. (Quebec?)

The 1986 movie is set in Toronto.

The opera by Howard Shore is...I have no idea.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 07:54 PM (asXVI)

58 The best horror films of all time are Alien and Jaws.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2025 07:55 PM (XV/Pl)

59 The movie "Broke" stars Wyatt Russell as a struggling rodeo rider who's holding out for the big win and payout, getting more and more reliant on painkillers to get through the day, and is being pressured by his father to enlist in the Marines or find a "real" job. One night he drinks and pops pills, swerves off the road, and his horse escapes the trailer. He collapses outside and wakes up the next morning covered in snow from a freak blizzard and must find shelter miles away. His long trek and time in a freezing cabin gives him time to reflect on his life.

Really good movie; never saw it listed in theaters.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 25, 2025 07:55 PM (kpS4V)

60 There’s a scene in Return of the Fly where they run a hamster through the transporter and it comes out with human feet.
It’s actually of the funniest sci-fi/horror scenes ever.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2025 07:55 PM (WtEb/)

61 Trick r Treat is one of the few films I've bought on Amazon for repeated viewing. I watch it every year at this time. I love Halloween anthologies and this one is one of the best.

Yesterday, I watched Weapons on HBO. I'm still deciding if it was okay or a complete miss. Interesting approach though.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 25, 2025 07:55 PM (yjljJ)

62 I also liked The Shining.

Didn’t read the book.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 07:56 PM (EYmYM)

63 I kind of like cabin in the woods where the comeuppance are dealt at the end

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 07:56 PM (bXbFr)

64 About the only Halloween anything I consistently watch every year is 'It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown'. Those WWI scenes with Snoopy got pretty intense!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 25, 2025 07:56 PM (jFCkp)

65 58 The best horror films of all time are Alien and Jaws.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

I wonder if Gone Girl counts.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 25, 2025 07:56 PM (gKWVE)

66 I read too much history to go all in into horror.
Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 07:52 PM (vwL3N)

Same here, I see too much of this world , if I want escape give me comedy or fantasy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2025 07:58 PM (WtEb/)

67 Not sure if it qualifies as horror but I recently saw THE UGLY STEPSISTER. It's a take on the Cinderella story that ends up being pretty graphic. Kind of like THE SUBSTANCE with Demi Moore from last year. It was inventive in some ways, but too gross for me in the end.

Posted by: Lex at October 25, 2025 07:58 PM (y4H1r)

68 Jaws is not a horror film. It's an adventure film. If you say "but the shark was scary" you may as well say "there are no adventure films" because every adventure film has to have some scary parts to it.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 07:58 PM (asXVI)

69 Thx moviegique. By chance today I was wandering around YouTube and came upon Critical Drinker's retro look at John Carpenter's The Thing. CD called it a horror classic. Agreed

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 25, 2025 07:59 PM (8RjCi)

70 Lol i missed that one..

They were more subtle in the originals unlike cronenberg who always looked serial killerish (he was perfect for the cive baker one)

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 07:59 PM (bXbFr)

71 Another good film is The Pretty Thing that Lives in House (I think). It builds horror suspense as well as the original Haunting. No slashing.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 25, 2025 07:59 PM (yjljJ)

72 I might look for 'The Wicker Man' (1973) online and watch it again. Christopher Lee and Edward Woodard are always good. Plus, a nekid Britt Ekland (or her double, whatever).

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 25, 2025 07:59 PM (jFCkp)

73 The Changeling. 1980.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 25, 2025 07:59 PM (Wnv9h)

74 Not hellraiser

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 08:00 PM (bXbFr)

75 I haven't watched any movies lately, but since Halloween is around the corner, I'll probably watch a movie or two this week.

Two of my favorites:

Prince of Darkness
In the Mouth of Madness

(both John Carpenter films)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 25, 2025 08:00 PM (IBQGV)

76 Saw the long trailer of The Walk, assumed it would be everything the Marxists wish they could do but show it as some Nazis doing

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 08:00 PM (+qU29)

77 What is everybody giving out for Halloween this year? I'm thinking Vienna sausages again.

Posted by: fd at October 25, 2025 08:01 PM (vFG9F)

78 I also liked The Shining.

Didn’t read the book.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 07:56 PM

The book is much better.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 25, 2025 08:01 PM (Wnv9h)

79 Tom atkins elevates the material
Posted by: Miguel cervantes

There's a little bit of Tom Atkins in all of us. - Jonah Heston aboard the Satellite of Love with Tom and Crow.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 25, 2025 08:01 PM (yjljJ)

80 Been a while since I watched Halloween III. I enjoyed it more than I enjoyed Halloween II, though.

III wouldn't be 'canon' if only because there's no Michael Myers; thought I read somewhere that Nigel Kneale (Quatermass, The Stone Tape) was on board to script it, but left the project over changes to his story line. What's left is okay, though it's a long way from a classic.

Now, the original Halloween still holds up nicely. Saw it when it first came out and thought it one of the scariest things I'd seen in who knows when. Haven't cared too much for any of the sequels or reboots that I've seen.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 25, 2025 08:02 PM (q3u5l)

81
Abbot and Costello meet Prometheus.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 25, 2025 08:02 PM (D6JX6)

82 What is everybody giving out for Halloween this year? I'm thinking Vienna sausages again.
Posted by: fd

We're moving to a rental while we remodel. I will miss handing out candy this year.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 25, 2025 08:02 PM (yjljJ)

83 Nighr breed

And by the time of night of the creeps

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 08:02 PM (bXbFr)

84 That would be crossing the stream

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 08:03 PM (bXbFr)

85 Pandorum >>> Event Horizon

Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 08:03 PM (EYmYM)

86 Carnival of Souls and Rosemary's Baby are next up at TCM

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 08:03 PM (+qU29)

87 After alien earth prometheus is almost aliens level

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 08:04 PM (bXbFr)

88 CD called [The Thing] a horror classic. Agreed
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"What good does that do me?" -- John Carpenter

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 08:04 PM (asXVI)

89 Event horizon is much better

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 08:04 PM (bXbFr)

90 Disney has a streaming channel of all Simpson's Halloween specials with NO commercials. I barely remembered we had Disney.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 25, 2025 08:05 PM (yjljJ)

91 " Carnival of Souls" is like no other movie. Like a weird waking dream.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 25, 2025 08:05 PM (kpS4V)

92 With hints at what was left on the cutting room floor

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 08:05 PM (bXbFr)

93
Ah-ooooo! It'll scare the pants right off you! Ah-ooooo!
Posted by: Count Floyd

Dr. Tongue's 3D House Of Stewardesses

https://youtu.be/8SJY6w0HD50

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 25, 2025 08:05 PM (pkeXY)

94 The Omen was well done and just creepy enough. The kid they cast nailed creepy .

Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 08:05 PM (EYmYM)

95 Ah-ooooo! It'll scare the pants right off you! Ah-ooooo!
Posted by: Count Floyd

Knock knock

Who's there?

Ah

Ah who?

Werewolves of London.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 25, 2025 08:06 PM (yjljJ)

96 I forgot vincent price was in this

I liked when joe bob was on tnt before he went over to shudder

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 08:08 PM (bXbFr)

97 The shot for shot remake was unneccesary

The original was subtle the dread settles in slowly

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 08:09 PM (bXbFr)

98 Spoiler Alert!

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In The Wicker Man (1973), For all his suffering in the fire, Seargent Howie goes to Heaven whereas next year, when the crops fail again, Lord Summerisle will burn to death as the sacrifice and then will continue burning in Hell. Horror indeed!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 25, 2025 08:10 PM (ZVgZ4)

99 The book is much better.
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This is a popular, wrong opinion.

And even King knows it's not true.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 08:10 PM (asXVI)

100 They cant really capture the atmosphere of dread in modern films

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 08:10 PM (bXbFr)

101 Today is the anniversary of the day Vincent Price died. I thought that was appropriate to note for the season.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 25, 2025 08:10 PM (CHHv1)

102 Trick R Treat is a pretty good anthology film where all the stories merge together. Still wonder what Pumpkinhead Kid was supposed to be, though.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 25, 2025 08:12 PM (CHHv1)

103 The shot for shot remake was unneccesary
The original was subtle the dread settles in slowly
Posted by: Miguel cervantes

There's a series on Netflix called Monster: Ed Gein. I was surprised how much I liked it. They showed a bunch of serial killers congratulating Gein as a role model. It was an hallucination, but pretty good. If you don't know about Gein, woof!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 25, 2025 08:12 PM (yjljJ)

104 "Today is the anniversary of the day Vincent Price died. I thought that was appropriate to note for the season.
Posted by: BeckoningChas

*tips one to the great Vincent Price*

Posted by: fd at October 25, 2025 08:13 PM (vFG9F)

105 91 " Carnival of Souls" is like no other movie. Like a weird waking dream.
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One of my favorites. Very arresting.

Point: Rifftrax version
Counterpoint: Joe Bob Briggs did an episode/deep-dive on "The Last Drive In" where he really celebrates Herk Harvey and the talent on that film.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 08:13 PM (asXVI)

106 James clavell wrote the screenplay

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 08:13 PM (bXbFr)

107 I remember stumbling across the trailer for "Meat Hook" a few months ago. It was memorable in that it was like they were playing a montage of campy, stereotypical slasher highlights right down to the dialogue. But, the thing that really made me chuckle was that it included "accolades" from some reviewer where he said it was "Off the Hook."

Posted by: Orson at October 25, 2025 08:13 PM (dIske)

108 Have been watching a horror movie a day this month, and revisiting a bunch of titles I enjoyed as a kid (and as an adult, if in name only). A few of Corman's Poe flicks (Pit and the Pendulum in particular), Burn Witch Burn aka Night of the Eagle from Fritz Leiber's Conjure Wife, The Thing (1951 and 1982), Prince of Darkness, In the Mouth of Madness, The Haunting (the Robert Wise, yuck the remake), The Legend of Hell House, It, the Terror from Beyond Space ... and there are several days left -- time enough for The Shining, Halloween, and some Val Lewton.

Grew up on this stuff and still enjoy it.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 25, 2025 08:13 PM (q3u5l)

109 56 Im not a fan of slash porn tripe like roth and co, that repellent not horror
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 07:53 PM (bXbFr)

That is torture porn. In no way are those like the slashers of the 1980s.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 08:14 PM (vwL3N)

110 Yeah no thanks i know too much about gein already

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 08:14 PM (bXbFr)

111 Noooo!! Not The Boobs!! Noooo!!

Posted by: 'The Wicker Man' (1973) at October 25, 2025 08:14 PM (i0F8b)

112 102 Trick R Treat is a pretty good anthology film where all the stories merge together. Still wonder what Pumpkinhead Kid was supposed to be, though.
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Sam Hain = Samhain

He's the spirit of Halloween. He gets upset when the rules aren't followed. I don't think he's a kid, exactly.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 08:14 PM (asXVI)

113 I've seen "Pulse" and "Cure" (hey, one word titles with "u" and "e" being common!) and would like to see more films from Kiyoshi Kurosawa. His stuff is creepy without being overt. And the sound design is great. If you haven't seen either, I recommend both.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 25, 2025 08:14 PM (CHHv1)

114 Wife's upstairs watching Halloween 1-4. I'm downstairs watching HNIC.

This is how we've stayed together for 40 years.

Posted by: Archer at October 25, 2025 08:14 PM (YGRGv)

115 The boys at RedLetterMedia have their annual Halloween Spooktacular up, and boy are the movies stinkers.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 25, 2025 08:15 PM (kpS4V)

116 Rob zombie hes kind of psycho from little ive seen

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 08:15 PM (bXbFr)

117 Didn't Alice Cooper use Vincent Price in one of his music videos?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 25, 2025 08:16 PM (jFCkp)

118 It is, alas, not Elke Sommer's butt in "The Wicker Man". And I think she went through a trajectory on it.

"No, I'm not getting naked for your movie."
"No, that wasn't me in the movie."
"OK, I'll sign your stupid poster of a naked butt that isn't mine."
"I WISH IT HAD BEEN MY NAKET BUTT IN THE MOVIE!"

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 08:16 PM (asXVI)

119 103. I watched 4 of the Ed Gein episodes but gave up. I didn't quite get the angle with his psychotic girlfriend and wondered if they really had enough material on him for 8 episodes.

Posted by: Lex at October 25, 2025 08:16 PM (y4H1r)

120 There's a series on Netflix called Monster: Ed Gein. I was surprised how much I liked it. They showed a bunch of serial killers congratulating Gein as a role model. It was an hallucination, but pretty good. If you don't know about Gein, woof!
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 25, 2025 08:12 PM (yjljJ)

DANCE WITH THE DEAD IN MY DREAMS
LISTEN TO THEIR HALLOWED SCREAMS
THE DEAD HAVE TAKEN MY SOUL
TEMPTATION’S LOST ALL CONTROL

SIMPLE SMILES ELUDE PSYCHOTIC EYES
LOSE ALL MIND CONTROL, RATIONALE DECLINES
EMPTY EYES ENSLAVE THE CREATIONS
OF PLACID FACES AND LIFELESS PAGEANTS

IN THE DEPTHS OF A MIND INSANE
FANTASY AND REALITY ARE THE SAME

Posted by: Slayer at October 25, 2025 08:17 PM (vwL3N)

121 My favorite Stephen King novel adapted movie is The Dead Zone. I don’t consider it horror but suspense.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 08:17 PM (EYmYM)

122 Oh they dredge the bottom for those

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 08:17 PM (bXbFr)

123 Rob zombie hes kind of psycho from little ive seen
Posted by: Miguel cervantes

I liked his Halloween remake. It showed how a young Michael became such a monster. Plus, Sybil Danning. Hubba hubba.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 25, 2025 08:17 PM (yjljJ)

124 I'm not a fan of slasher flicks. I don't get it.

Posted by: fd at October 25, 2025 08:18 PM (vFG9F)

125 Its a good ine

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 08:18 PM (bXbFr)

126 Abbot and Costello meet Prometheus

My late wife loved Abbot and Costello: she could watch their movies over and over, especially the “horror” movies. She liked the Three Stooges as well, I was lucky to have married her!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 25, 2025 08:19 PM (ZVgZ4)

127 Didn't Alice Cooper use Vincent Price in one of his music videos?
Posted by: Puddleglum

Dunno about that, but he did the spooky voiceover in MJ's Thriller.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 25, 2025 08:19 PM (ftFVW)

128 I watched 4 of the Ed Gein episodes but gave up. I didn't quite get the angle with his psychotic girlfriend and wondered if they really had enough material on him for 8 episodes.
Posted by: Lex

Episode 5 is where he gets caught (I think). Then three episodes of him in the loony bin. But that's where he gets letters from Ted Bundy, Richard Speck, etc. I thought the actor that plaid Gein nailed it. Really resembled him. Gein was the source material for Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Buffalo Bill in Silence of the lambs.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 25, 2025 08:21 PM (yjljJ)

129 126: a woman who liked the Stooges?

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 08:21 PM (vwL3N)

130 6 Cute girls, but if this had been made in the '70s, they'd all have been topless in the first 20 minutes.

Ah, so you too watched Beneath the Valley of the Cheerleaders.
Posted by: toby928(c)
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Hard Bodies

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 08:21 PM (j04bB)

131 Good one

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 25, 2025 08:21 PM (bXbFr)

132 I don’t understand serial killers not getting the death penalty or not having it carried out in at most a year.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 08:23 PM (EYmYM)

133 @118 I think it wasn't the butt of Britt Ekland

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 25, 2025 08:23 PM (8RjCi)

134 115 The boys at RedLetterMedia have their annual Halloween Spooktacular up, and boy are the movies stinkers.
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I have never been able to make it through "The Howling 2: Your Sister Is A Werewolf".

"Black Devil Doll From Hell"'s a classic, tho'.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 08:23 PM (asXVI)

135 Have always really liked Trick 'r Treat. Good fun Halloween horror.

Think I saw someone mention Cabin in the Woods up above. To me, these two have a similar feel in that there is a fair amount of humor built in, but the horror aspects are still well done. They treat the content well without taking themselves too seriously.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 25, 2025 08:23 PM (ftFVW)

136 Didn't Alice Cooper use Vincent Price in one of his music videos?
Posted by: Puddleglum
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The Black Widow from the album Welcome to My Nightmare.

Posted by: JQ at October 25, 2025 08:23 PM (rdVOm)

137 117 Didn't Alice Cooper use Vincent Price in one of his music videos?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 25, 2025 08:16 PM (jFCkp)

I think that was Welcome to My Nightmare.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 25, 2025 08:24 PM (syz1S)

138 No scary movies for ole EO, real life is scary enough..

Posted by: Eromero at October 25, 2025 08:24 PM (LHPAg)

139 133 @118 I think it wasn't the butt of Britt Ekland
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Are you gaslighting me now?

I'm on the edge as it is!

The edge of what, you ask? A mutant meet-up in Dallas! Which I will be attending next Friday!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 08:24 PM (asXVI)

140 118 It is, alas, not Elke Sommer's butt in "The Wicker Man". And I think she went through a trajectory on it.
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Posted by: moviegique (buy my books)
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She did everything else, it must have been early in her career.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 08:24 PM (j04bB)

141 oops. Hit post too soon..

Don't know about any video, but Vincent Price did narration on the vinyl LP

Posted by: JQ at October 25, 2025 08:25 PM (rdVOm)

142 Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 08:26 PM (+qU29)

143 A high percentage of serial killers are homosexual. Hmm why is that? Bad wiring?

Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 08:26 PM (EYmYM)

144 128. It was interesting how they would cut away to Hitchcock or the Texas Chainsaw Massacre set to show how Gein inspired their work (although this could be confusing), but it all just seemed a stretch to get it to 8 episodes, and I had no more interest in his necrophilia after episode 4. But it was well made and the performances were solid.

Posted by: Lex at October 25, 2025 08:26 PM (y4H1r)

145 The Dead Zone predicted national populism... sort of. But really it was a product of the American 1970s.
Greg Stillson is George Wallace in Maine. The moral of the story is - if you see a George Wallace on the up, shoot him.
And now you know why King tweets like he does.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 25, 2025 08:28 PM (gKWVE)

146 Cooper made a TV special based on the Welcome to My Nightmare album. Price also appeared.

Alice Cooper: The Nightmare
Wikipedia
https://is.gd/JjzK8G

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 25, 2025 08:29 PM (syz1S)

147 @68

>>Jaws is not a horror film. It's an adventure film.

Uhm, Quint is literally eaten alive at the end of Jaws, there are also elements of suspense, dread and impending danger and scenes of horror, all throughout the film.

That it's also one of the greatest adeventure films is a bonus.

It's a textbook horror film though.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2025 08:29 PM (XV/Pl)

148 Been meaning to pull out a couple episodes of Masters of Horror for the season. There are a lot of good ones, but I always seem to gravitate to "Fair-haired Child" and "Cigarette Burns." Not sure why those two in particular stick in my head, but there they are, rattling around.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 25, 2025 08:30 PM (ftFVW)

149 Since we’re past 100 comments: don’t you hate it when you’ve completed the captcha correctly but it tells you to try again? You know the striping is for a median, not a crosswalk, but the algorithm wants you to call it a crosswalk because some idiot already did? Bother!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 25, 2025 08:30 PM (ZVgZ4)

150 132 I don’t understand serial killers not getting the death penalty or not having it carried out in at most a year.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 08:23 PM (EYmYM)

In the case of Jeffrey Dahmer, WI did not have the death penalty. He was killed in prison anyway.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 08:30 PM (vwL3N)

151 She did everything else, it must have been early in her career.
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Mid-career.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 08:32 PM (asXVI)

152 My favorite horror films for Halloween are “The Abominable Dr. Phibes” and “Dr. Phibes Rises Again.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2025 08:32 PM (WtEb/)

153
In the case of Jeffrey Dahmer, WI did not have the death penalty. He was killed in prison anyway.
Posted by: Cow Demon
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He bit Butch?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 08:33 PM (j04bB)

154 It is a dark and stormy night here, although it looks like the worst of it will pass south of me.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 25, 2025 08:33 PM (ULPxl)

155 I assume most people don’t have madmen in their immediate family. When you do, you have a different perspective on madmen in horror.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 25, 2025 08:33 PM (ZVgZ4)

156 I generally don't like Horror. But I really enjoyed "Cabin in The Woods." If a horror film has humor...

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 25, 2025 08:34 PM (W7XSX)

157 I have a madwoman in my immediate family, but luckily it’s not my wife. She’s only kind of nuts.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2025 08:35 PM (WtEb/)

158 Abbot and Costello Meet Prometheus? Really? Hmmm. You know, I think I'd probably pay to see that.

Horror books or movies? The books are generally better, but I seem to revisit the movies a bit more often -- don't know why that is.

Re: The Shining. I thought the novel was a wonderful bone-chiller (just for giggles, try reading the Room 217 sequence alone in the house around midnight some time and see if you're not a little bit creeped out by it). Revisited the book a few years ago, and it still holds up. YMMV, but I think King did a terrific job on that book. The movie is gorgeous to look at, well-acted, but makes hash of some of the elements of the book, slaps a dumb Twilight Zone-wanna-be finish on it with the photo of Nicholson at the 1921 gathering, and has only one truly chilling moment (which is not in the book as I recall) and that's the scene where Shelly Duvall reads Nicholson's manuscript. Even so, I like it -- the movie's never dull, but it would have been better if it had stuck more closely to the novel.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 25, 2025 08:35 PM (q3u5l)

159 >>I always seem to gravitate to "Fair-haired Child" and "Cigarette Burns." Not sure why those two in particular stick in my head, but there they are, rattling around.

"Cigarette Burns" is the one really great episode of the show. And kind of surprising, in a way, since Carpenter hadn't been hitting it out of the park, exactly.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 08:35 PM (asXVI)

160 My favorite horror films for Halloween are “The Abominable Dr. Phibes” and “Dr. Phibes Rises Again.”

Posted by: Tom Servo
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*fistbump*

You have excellent taste, sir

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 25, 2025 08:36 PM (KEwlz)

161 In the case of Jeffrey Dahmer, WI did not have the death penalty. He was killed in prison anyway.
Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 08:30 PM (vwL3N)

Iirc, another inmate shoved about 4’ of a mop handle up his ass. It was the death he deserved.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2025 08:37 PM (WtEb/)

162 @129 A plot point in "Penn and Teller Get Killed."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 25, 2025 08:38 PM (CHHv1)

163 >> Uhm, Quint is literally eaten alive at the end of Jaws,

H. Rider Haggard describes a man pulled in two by an elephant in "King Solomon's Mines", still an adventure film.

>> there are also elements of suspense, dread and impending danger and scenes of horror, all throughout the film.

All aspects of adventure tales as well.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 08:38 PM (asXVI)

164 In fact, there are more scenes of gore in Jaws than Halloween or Friday The 13th.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2025 08:38 PM (XV/Pl)

165 *still an adventure book

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 08:38 PM (asXVI)

166 Was home alone with my 2 cats (RIP, girls!) and watching Pet Sematary.

Well, of course they both decided to get The Zoomies when the horror re-incarnated cat showed up!

Posted by: JQ at October 25, 2025 08:39 PM (rdVOm)

167 164 In fact, there are more scenes of gore in Jaws than Halloween or Friday The 13th.
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Gore is neither necessary nor sufficient to put a story in the "horror" category.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 08:39 PM (asXVI)

168 A family member has a Christmas card from John Wayne Gacy. (Prior to his arrest)
He was very social with the normals when he wasn't homiciding.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 25, 2025 08:39 PM (KEwlz)

169 Dr Phibes is fine.

But Vincent Prices best horror movie is "Theater of Blood".

Where in he plays a Shakespearean actor, Edward Lionheart, who gets revenge against the critics who ruined his career by killing them according to the murders in Shakespeare's plays.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 25, 2025 08:39 PM (iJfKG)

170 OK, that tears it, my next two entries:

1. Why and how "The Shining" sucks as a novel which Kubrick changed drastically in order to create one of the greatest all-time horror movies.

2. What a horror story is, and why Jaws isn't one.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 08:40 PM (asXVI)

171 Sitting in my patio, there’s a thunderstorm going right now. One of those good ones where the rain isn’t too hard and the lightning rolls across the sky, jumping from cloud to cloud,
Just saw an awesome trident cover about 1/3 of the sky.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2025 08:42 PM (WtEb/)

172 1. Why and how "The Shining" sucks as a novel which Kubrick changed drastically in order to create one of the greatest all-time horror movies.

I'm looking forward to it because, seriously, fuck Stephen King.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 25, 2025 08:42 PM (gKWVE)

173 @163

>>All aspects of adventure tales as well.

Yes, but you're saying Jaws is not a horror film and I'm saying its explicitly a horror film.

It's also happens to be an action adventure, a deep multi-faceted character study, a buddy film and about three other films all rolled into one awesome film.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2025 08:42 PM (XV/Pl)

174 Novels and movies made from novels are completely separate things and should be judged accordingly.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 25, 2025 08:42 PM (ZVgZ4)

175 Novels and movies made from novels are completely separate things and should be judged accordingly.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

The original Haunting is far better than the book, I thought. It happens I guess.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 25, 2025 08:44 PM (yjljJ)

176 I highly recommend a podcast called Staff Picks by Mario Lanza, where he talks through mostly obscure movies with a different guest each time. He has an episode about Trick or Treat. He loves horror movies, so many of his episodes are about scary movies but not all of them. He has made the bold statement that 1999 was the best year for movies, and after reviewing a long list of movies that came out that year, I agree.

Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara at October 25, 2025 08:44 PM (FFn+L)

177 Scariest movie as an adult, "Alien".

I went to see it with a friend and his very pregnant wife. Mistake. When the alien burst from Kane's stomach she ran to the bath room and wouldn't come out. Truth be know, I wish I had joined her.

Posted by: javems at October 25, 2025 08:45 PM (8I4hW)

178 @167

>>Gore is neither necessary nor sufficient to put a story in the "horror" category.

Listen, just because you don't regard Jaws as a horror film doesn't make it so.

Jaws satisfies all elements to be considered a horror film.

List out the elements of a horror film and say how Jaws doesn't fit them.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2025 08:45 PM (XV/Pl)

179 Redrum.

Redrum!

Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2025 08:46 PM (viF8m)

180 174 Novels and movies made from novels are completely separate things and should be judged accordingly.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

HERETIC!!!

Posted by: LoTR nerdz at October 25, 2025 08:46 PM (jFCkp)

181 To me a horror film has to have a supernatural aspect or violent criminal aspect .

Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 08:46 PM (EYmYM)

182 Madmen work hard to pass as normal, and it can work for a good number of years, but, alas, not forever (or they wouldn’t be mad).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 25, 2025 08:46 PM (ZVgZ4)

183 if this had been made in the '70s, they'd all have been topless in the first 20 minutes.

Hell, in the opening credits. Gotta get your attention.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 25, 2025 08:46 PM (MZ+PY)

184 > List out the elements of a horror film and say how Jaws doesn't fit them.

1. Ghosts
2. Halloween candy
3. "The Monster Mash" played on repeat
4. A twist ending
5. Cthulhu
6. Charlie Brown getting a rock

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 08:47 PM (asXVI)

185 Where in he plays a Shakespearean actor, Edward Lionheart, who gets revenge against the critics who ruined his career by killing them according to the murders in Shakespeare's plays.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 25, 2025 08:39 PM (iJfKG)

I love that!! I have always thought that must have been one of Vincent Price’s favorite roles. A great actor, disrespected as a ham by the critics, gets to murder all of them one by one in the most gruesome ways.
And Diana Rigg is delicious in a rare movie role!

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2025 08:48 PM (WtEb/)

186 Comic horror?

Night of the Creeps has already been mentioned above in passing (and Tom Atkins is a delight in that flick).

But let's not forget The Return of the Living Dead.

Tremors and Tremors 2 aren't too dusty either.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 25, 2025 08:48 PM (q3u5l)

187 LOVE the Trick r Treat film!

great write up

just finished watching the film "Other" on Shudder

it was .. good!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 25, 2025 08:49 PM (emBoF)

188 >> Hell, in the opening credits. Gotta get your attention.

In "Jack-O", Linnea Quigley is introduced to the audience in the shower. She soaps up. She's clean, but she's soaping and rinsing anyway. Cleanliness is important. Minutes pass.

We cut back to some other crap.

Cut back to Linnea, still in the shower. Still getting clean. The phone rings. She calls to her sister to answer it. Her sister doesn't respond. She continues showering while the phone rings and rings.

Finally she gets out, picks up the phone, and hears "Can you babysit for us?"

That's characterization AND suspense all rolled into one.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 08:50 PM (asXVI)

189 moviegique, King hated The Shining, and I suspect the reason is that King mostly writes mary sue's, and identified with Jack who was an alcoholic who goes insane.
However Kubric (per some rando commentator on these things) directed a movie about a man who was seduced by evil to become one of the twisted elites he longed to be by destroying everything in his life that mattered.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 25, 2025 08:50 PM (rbvCR)

190 Tremors and Tremors 2 aren't too dusty either.
Posted by: Just Some Guy

Got home from grocery shopping one day last week to find the biggest little hobbit watching Tremors. Made me smile.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 25, 2025 08:50 PM (ftFVW)

191 >> great write up

Thank you!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 08:50 PM (asXVI)

192 >>List out the elements of a horror film and say how Jaws doesn't fit them.

It can't have some of my high school classmates getting a free ferry ride to be in the movie.

PS. Sharks don't eat boats.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2025 08:51 PM (viF8m)

193 Jaws is a horror film like Saving Private Ryan is a horror film.

Posted by: fd at October 25, 2025 08:51 PM (vFG9F)

194 The original movie The Haunting works so well because you never quite know what is real and what is imagination. It is all the more convincing because of that. As for the remakes: they all suffer by comparison, some dreadfully so! As far as the original story, movies and the stories they are made from are separate things and should be judged accordingly.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 25, 2025 08:53 PM (ZVgZ4)

195 Define horror movie for yourself , but Die Hard is a Christmas movie

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 25, 2025 08:53 PM (8RjCi)

196 1. Why and how "The Shining" sucks as a novel which Kubrick changed drastically in order to create one of the greatest all-time horror movies.

2. What a horror story is, and why Jaws isn't one.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 08:40 PM (asXVI)

I read the book eons ago, I'm not sure I remember enough to do any kind of why or how, but I do know I have the opposite view: The movie sucks because Kubrick is a hack, and the book succeeds because King knows how to write.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2025 08:53 PM (8nyAR)

197 PS. Sharks don't eat boats.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2025 08:51 PM (viF8m)

Everyone who has watched Shark Week have seen then attempt it though.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 08:54 PM (EYmYM)

198 189 moviegique, King hated The Shining, and I suspect the reason is that King mostly writes mary sue's, and identified with Jack who was an alcoholic who goes insane.
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Absolutely. And I get a kick out of it because he can't NOT talk about it. In the 'saw documentary we just watched? He brings it up. Talks about it more than TCM.

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However Kubric (per some rando commentator on these things) directed a movie about a man who was seduced by evil to become one of the twisted elites he longed to be by destroying everything in his life that mattered.
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Heh. That's kind of a stretch, I think.

But what's definitely true is that Danny is the hero of the movie, and Jack is a scary monster to him and his mother. This makes a much, much better movie (whatever you think of the book), and not for nothing is the King-guided TV series a 6.1 and the Kubrick movie is an 8.4 and #66 on the greatest-movies-of-all-time list.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 08:54 PM (asXVI)

199 Tremors is that rare parody that transcends itself and becomes a fine example of the genre it's riffing on.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 25, 2025 08:54 PM (kpS4V)

200 "Carrie" 1976 opening sequence leaves little to the imagination.

Posted by: javems at October 25, 2025 08:54 PM (8I4hW)

201 Jaws was more about the people and the town, and their reaction to the shark. But I'm a nobody and what do I know.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 25, 2025 08:55 PM (KEwlz)

202 PS. Sharks don't eat boats.
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Sharks explore by biting.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 25, 2025 08:55 PM (kpS4V)

203 184 > List out the elements of a horror film and say how Jaws doesn't fit them.

1. Ghosts
2. Halloween candy
3. "The Monster Mash" played on repeat
4. A twist ending
5. Cthulhu
6. Charlie Brown getting a rock
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books)

7. Snoopy getting shot down by the Red Baron

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 25, 2025 08:55 PM (jFCkp)

204 Speaking of not horror, I watched "Weapons" last night.

Fantastic film.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2025 08:55 PM (8nyAR)

205 My mother liked horror movies when I was little, I wasn’t allowed to watch them. I was sent to bed when I was 6 so she could watch The Haunting of Hill House, but I snuck out of bed and watched it through a crack in the door behind her. Scared the shit out of 6 year old me, and I freaked out about it all night!

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2025 08:56 PM (WtEb/)

206 I remember, at the time, we were all King fans. I mean, like, everyone. We loved Carrie, thought Salem's Lot was the scariest thing ever, then I sat down to read "The Shining", and that was, seriously, the end of my King fandom.

Of course, I died a few years later and came back, in...lessee...2025-29...1996?

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 08:56 PM (asXVI)

207 In the shower scene in "Psycho" Hitch used chocolate syrup to simulate blood. The joys of B&W making things easier for the special effects gang.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 25, 2025 08:56 PM (gm9Sb)

208 The best horror films of all time are Alien and Jaws.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

I don't think of either of these as horror movies. These are scary movies, which is a category of its.own.
Play Misty for Me would fall into this category. Scary, not at all horror.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 25, 2025 08:57 PM (n4GiU)

209 I read the book eons ago, I'm not sure I remember enough to do any kind of why or how, but I do know I have the opposite view: The movie sucks because Kubrick is a hack, and the book succeeds because King knows how to write.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2025 08:53 PM (8nyAR)

King knows how to write: to a point.

His problem is that he lacks artistic restraint. He does not know how to close the sale. Or when to shut up after he has made his point.

Seriously, do we NEED a 20-30 page backstory on one event in a character's life that effects him to this day, or can we just hand a blurb? For EVERY CHARACTER?

And some of his book endings leave much to be desired because he can come up with an intriguing concept but can't finish it in a satisfying way.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 08:57 PM (vwL3N)

210 "Sharks explore by biting.
Posted by: All Hail Eris"

I thought that was puppies.

Posted by: fd at October 25, 2025 08:58 PM (vFG9F)

211 The main reason people debate whether Jaws is a horror film boils down to it being too good and that it's a multi-genre movie.

But it's a horror film nonetheless.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2025 08:58 PM (XV/Pl)

212 My mother took me to see Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte when I was 3 or 4. I think it's the reason I am the way I am.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 25, 2025 08:58 PM (yjljJ)

213 The Birds scared me as a kid. Probably for the same reasons flying monkeys scared me too.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 08:58 PM (EYmYM)

214 201 Jaws was more about the people and the town, and their reaction to the shark. But I'm a nobody and what do I know.
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Yes. It's very much a character study. The mindset is "We're going to tackle the problem and probably win."

N.B. The heroes could, like, just NOT go in the water. It isn't till Jaws IV that the shark learns to use credit cards and by reverse-scuba gear so that it can go on land.

A lot of what today is called "survival horror" is really just action films in horror drag.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 08:59 PM (asXVI)

215 I would think Jaws is a horror movie, but if not horror, than suspense is a good substitute.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 08:59 PM (vwL3N)

216 213 The Birds scared me as a kid. Probably for the same reasons flying monkeys scared me too.
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It's the poop, isn't it.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 08:59 PM (asXVI)

217 I put Jaws in the Suspense /Action genre.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 09:00 PM (EYmYM)

218 My mother took me to see Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte when I was 3 or 4. I think it's the reason I am the way I am.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly

I can still remember Bruce Dern nursing his severed hand.

I realize I commented on my own comment and that is conduct unbecoming. But it had to be said.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 25, 2025 09:00 PM (yjljJ)

219 Re Tremors,

Missed seeing it in the theater, but caught it as a VHS rental later. Loved it. Except for some PG13 language, it was EXACTLY the kind of monster movie I grew up on, but with better effects and a terrific cast. Didn't know anyone was willing to try making 'em like that any more. Tremors 2 was as good, and 3 almost.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 25, 2025 09:01 PM (q3u5l)

220 209 I read the book eons ago, I'm not sure I remember enough to do any kind of why or how, but I do know I have the opposite view: The movie sucks because Kubrick is a hack, and the book succeeds because King knows how to write.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2025 08:53 PM (8nyAR)

King knows how to write: to a point.

His problem is that he lacks artistic restraint. He does not know how to close the sale. Or when to shut up after he has made his point.

Seriously, do we NEED a 20-30 page backstory on one event in a character's life that effects him to this day, or can we just hand a blurb? For EVERY CHARACTER?

And some of his book endings leave much to be desired because he can come up with an intriguing concept but can't finish it in a satisfying way.

Posted by: Cow Demon

Yea, King definitely needs an editor. (slowly backs out of thread)

Posted by: Ayn Rand at October 25, 2025 09:01 PM (jFCkp)

221 >>Sharks explore by biting.

Yea, me too. Got the restraining order.

It's easy to see how sharks have become villains.

Personally, I'm more afraid of werewolves.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2025 09:01 PM (viF8m)

222 207 In the shower scene in "Psycho" Hitch used chocolate syrup to simulate blood. The joys of B&W making things easier for the special effects gang.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 25, 2025 08:56 PM (gm9Sb)

Much as the Battle on the Ice in Alexander Nevsky was in fact shot in Kazakhstan in the summer, and what looks like snow is in fact dust.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 09:02 PM (vwL3N)

223 Seriously, do we NEED a 20-30 page backstory on one event in a character's life that effects him to this day, or can we just hand a blurb? For EVERY CHARACTER?

And some of his book endings leave much to be desired because he can come up with an intriguing concept but can't finish it in a satisfying way.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 08:57 PM (vwL3N)

I've not read the longer ones, like "It." I read The Shining when I was still in my teens, and most recently, The Stand (shorter version).

I was immersed enough to not really care if there was... excess exposition.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2025 09:02 PM (8nyAR)

224 The book is much better.
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This is a popular, wrong opinion.

And even King knows it's not true.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 08:10 PM

This is, of course, wrong, and King is a fuckwit. That is all.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 25, 2025 09:02 PM (Wnv9h)

225 Jaws is literally a f**king movie about a man eating shark that terrorizes a beach resort town and eats people, literally eating one of the main protagonists alive at the end.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2025 09:02 PM (XV/Pl)

226 Fuck the blow jobs

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 25, 2025 09:03 PM (mT+6a)

227 One more reason to hate rush

Fucking Canadians

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 25, 2025 09:04 PM (mT+6a)

228 King doesn’t know how to write an ending though he gets it right occasionally.

The Dead Zone was perfect.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 09:04 PM (EYmYM)

229 King tends to write too much. The first 2/3 of The Shining was great, but the last third was completely unfocused. Salem's Lot was probably his most economical

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 25, 2025 09:04 PM (8RjCi)

230 Suspense, Action, Thriller--all good words to describe Jaws.

A few jump scares are not enough to put it into the horror category.

And if you were 8-year-old me, going to see it, you might have your entire experience of the film colored because everyone says "Oh, it's a great horror movie," and it's not a horror movie at all. o_o

Then you might see it decades later and think "As a horror film, that's a really great adventure movie."

https://moviegique.com/2016/08/jaws-1975/

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 09:05 PM (asXVI)

231 Yea, King definitely needs an editor. (slowly backs out of thread)
Posted by: Ayn Rand at October 25, 2025 09:01 PM

Have I described this new weapons system for you?

Posted by: Zombie Tom Clancy at October 25, 2025 09:05 PM (Wnv9h)

232 A film that should be made and hasn’t yet - the Battle of the Tim Can Soldiers, Taffy 3. Today is the anniversary, one of the most heroic moments of the Pacific.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2025 09:05 PM (WtEb/)

233 I've not read the longer ones, like "It." I read The Shining when I was still in my teens, and most recently, The Stand (shorter version).

I was immersed enough to not really care if there was... excess exposition.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2025 09:02 PM (8nyAR)

I will grant that I have not read The Shining. I have read It and can't figure out how it got past editors. The Stand is one of my favorite novels but I tired of how King's lack of restraint bogged things down. I broke that into three-four long reading sessions over a summer, interspersed with other novels. The Dead Zone, which someone else mentioned, I liked because King seemed to control himself better.

No King for me since Needful Things, and that was in 1992.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 09:06 PM (vwL3N)

234 229 King tends to write too much. The first 2/3 of The Shining was great, but the last third was completely unfocused. Salem's Lot was probably his most economical
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Yeah, I really struggled to get through it. And then I'm like...oh...animated hedge monsters. Sure. That's...scary...I guess.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 09:06 PM (asXVI)

235 Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 25, 2025 09:06 PM (zdLoL)

236 @232 IMHO the bravest action in USN history

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 25, 2025 09:06 PM (8RjCi)

237 Fuck the blow jobs
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 25, 2025 09:03 PM

Wait...whut?!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 25, 2025 09:06 PM (Wnv9h)

238 However Kubric (per some rando commentator on these things) directed a movie about a man who was seduced by evil to become one of the twisted elites he longed to be by destroying everything in his life that mattered.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 25, 2025 08:50 PM (rbvCR)

Could almost be a description of Full Metal Jacket.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2025 09:07 PM (8nyAR)

239 A film that should be made and hasn’t yet - the Battle of the Tim Can Soldiers, Taffy 3. Today is the anniversary, one of the most heroic moments of the Pacific.
Posted by: Tom Servo

That would be awesome.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 25, 2025 09:07 PM (yjljJ)

240 Jaws is literally a f**king movie about a man eating shark that terrorizes a beach resort town and eats people, literally eating one of the main protagonists alive at the end.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2025 09:02 PM (XV/Pl)

You’re really invested in this. People get attacked and killed by sharks every year. They close beaches in Australia every other Tuesday.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 09:07 PM (EYmYM)

241 >>Jaws is literally a f**king movie about a man eating shark that terrorizes a beach resort town and eats people, literally eating one of the main protagonists alive at the end.

It's about a man who lives on an island and not only can't swim but is terrified by the ocean but then kills his greatest fear and swims home.

And that's what it's all about Charlie Brown.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2025 09:07 PM (viF8m)

242 Have I described this new weapons system for you?
Posted by: Zombie Tom Clancy at October 25, 2025 09:05 PM (Wnv9h)

Clancy wasn't nearly that bad. But my favorite novel of all time is RED STORM RISING so I am biased. I thought Clear and Present Danger was where the writing got seriously bogged down.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 09:08 PM (vwL3N)

243 If pigs could fly more people would wear hats!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 25, 2025 09:08 PM (ZVgZ4)

244 USS Indianapolis movie is not a horror movie.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 09:08 PM (EYmYM)

245 221 >>Sharks explore by biting.

Yea, me too. Got the restraining order.

It's easy to see how sharks have become villains.

Personally, I'm more afraid of werewolves.
Posted by: JackStraw

ZOMBEAVERS.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 25, 2025 09:10 PM (0s9v+)

246 227 One more reason to hate rush

Fucking Canadians
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 25, 2025 09:04 PM (mT+6a)

Blasphemy

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 09:10 PM (vwL3N)

247 No King for me since Needful Things, and that was in 1992.
Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 09:06 PM (vwL3N)

I stopped after I got to a short story anthology, and it all started to blur together.

I read The Stand more recently though, and it was during the plandemic. In an odd way I think that helped me with the book.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2025 09:10 PM (8nyAR)

248 i figured it out... Nurse is referring to the Toronto Blue Jays

Posted by: gKWVE at October 25, 2025 09:10 PM (gKWVE)

249 I’ve heard people criticize the kid orgy in IT.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 09:11 PM (EYmYM)

250 The guy who directed "Tucker and Dale vs. Evil" did this year's "Clown in a Cornfield" which is pretty good (for a GenZ-oriented rehash of every slasher trope) but the two main male characters are guy, and this was a "twist".

I watched it with my mom last night on The Last Drive-In and I said, "The least surprising twist in 2025 is two guys kissing." She agreed. (She watches regular TV and that's all gay all the time.)

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 09:12 PM (asXVI)

251 ZOMBEAVERS.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 25, 2025 09:10 PM

Band of Beavers >>>> Zombeavers

https://youtu.be/YcdvP8CYPB0

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 25, 2025 09:12 PM (Wnv9h)

252 It's about a man who lives on an island and not only can't swim but is terrified by the ocean but then kills his greatest fear and swims home.

And that's what it's all about Charlie Brown.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2025 09:07 PM (viF8m)

Jaws is the story of an academic, who moves to a new town, and struggles with being taken seriously by the common folk, until he puts on his big boy pants and goes fishing with the local crank and the sheriff.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2025 09:12 PM (8nyAR)

253 ZOMBEAVERS.

Posted by: nurse ratched

+1
It was silly horror. Morons would like it because there's boobs and beavers.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 25, 2025 09:13 PM (KEwlz)

254 Jaws is the story of a shark who is tormented by townsfolk who keep dangling naked hot chicks in front of him and daring him not to eat them.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 09:13 PM (asXVI)

255 I watch "In the Mouth of Madness" whenever I can. Slow burn of a movie, as Sam Niel, playing a cynical insurance investigator, stumbles into Lovecraftian horror in a small town.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 25, 2025 09:13 PM (TR4+2)

256 I would classify Alien and Jaws as terror movies not horror. There is nothing supernatural about either movie but they will scare the heck out of you. I.E. terrorize you. YMMMV

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at October 25, 2025 09:13 PM (89Sog)

257 Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2025 09:12 PM (8nyAR)

I see you didn’t read the book. I’m glad Spielberg adjusted the screenplay.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 09:14 PM (EYmYM)

258 Jaws is the story of a shark who is tormented by townsfolk who keep dangling naked hot chicks in front of him and daring him not to eat them.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 09:13 PM (asXVI)

Ultimately, an allegory for addiction.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2025 09:15 PM (8nyAR)

259 It seems that nowadays King can’t properly finish a novel. That sort of ruins the fun you were having reading it when it just won’t end!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 25, 2025 09:15 PM (ZVgZ4)

260 Wait...whut?!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 25, 2025 09:06 PM (Wnv9h)

BLUE JAYS

FERKING YANKEE

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 25, 2025 09:15 PM (mT+6a)

261 watched it with my mom last night on The Last Drive-In and I said, "The least surprising twist in 2025 is two guys kissing."

Yeah, Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan's "Knock at the Cabin" (I'd even forgotten the title of it) featured a gay male couple and it just felt like pandering.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 25, 2025 09:15 PM (gKWVE)

262 Lily the Cat has the psycho-zoomies.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 25, 2025 09:15 PM (kpS4V)

263 >>ZOMBEAVERS.

Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2025 09:16 PM (viF8m)

264 I am very picky about horror films, but Trick r Treat was really good. I need to find that one on DVD, or Blu-Ray.

As for not really a horror flick, but an excellent role-reversal play on slasher films is Tucker and Dale vs. Evil. I love that one.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at October 25, 2025 09:16 PM (0aYVJ)

265 I see you didn’t read the book. I’m glad Spielberg adjusted the screenplay.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 09:14 PM (EYmYM)

Yeah, in the book Hooper has sex with Brody's wife?

Not sure how that fits into the story, but I'm sure it makes sense.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2025 09:16 PM (8nyAR)

266 @252

>>Jaws is the story of an academic, who moves to a new town, and struggles with being taken seriously by the common folk, until he puts on his big boy pants and goes fishing with the local crank and the sheriff.

It's also a story of a devoted wife and loving father trying to make a new life for themselves after leaving the hustle and bustle of the big city for a small quint beach side resort town.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2025 09:17 PM (XV/Pl)

267 235 Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 25, 2025 09:06 PM (zdLoL)

Incredible book, would be an incredible film.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2025 09:17 PM (WtEb/)

268 Dog Soldiers is a good Werewolf movie.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 09:17 PM (EYmYM)

269 Hundreds of Beavers >>>>> Band of Beavers >>>> Zombeavers

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 25, 2025 09:17 PM (kpS4V)

270 +1
It was silly horror. Morons would like it because there's boobs and beavers.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

I drunk live blogged it several years ago.

It’s hysterical.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 25, 2025 09:17 PM (68lhN)

271 Yeah, Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan's "Knock at the Cabin" (I'd even forgotten the title of it) featured a gay male couple and it just felt like pandering.
Posted by: gKWVE

It really did. I still like Signs, though.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 25, 2025 09:18 PM (yjljJ)

272 It seems that nowadays King can’t properly finish a novel. That sort of ruins the fun you were having reading it when it just won’t end!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 25, 2025 09:15 PM (ZVgZ4)

But enough about George RRRRRRR Martin....

Dinner time, later gators.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2025 09:18 PM (8nyAR)

273 >>Lily the Cat has the psycho-zoomies.

See?

I'm not saying your pet will kill you in your sleep this autumn but I'm not saying they won't. It's science.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2025 09:18 PM (viF8m)

274 132
'I don’t understand serial killers not getting the death penalty or not having it carried out in at most a year.'

Judges and lawyers creating work for themselves.

By denying us justice, they get to demonstrate their power and majesty.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 25, 2025 09:18 PM (fd80v)

275 The real life events that inspired Jaws occurred circa 1900. For some reason they didn’t want to set the film it in that era. I wonder why…?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 25, 2025 09:19 PM (ZVgZ4)

276 @256

>>I would classify Alien and Jaws as terror

There is no genre of film called terror, terror is an element of horror films.

Jaws satisfies the element.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2025 09:19 PM (XV/Pl)

277 Yeah, Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan's "Knock at the Cabin" (I'd even forgotten the title of it) featured a gay male couple and it just felt like pandering.
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Yeah, I didn't bother with that one, because the trailer was just full of red flags. Also, M. Night.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 09:19 PM (asXVI)

278 BLUE JAYS

FERKING YANKEE
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 25, 2025 09:15 PM

*phew!*

You had me worried there for a minute.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 25, 2025 09:20 PM (Wnv9h)

279 I'm not saying your pet will kill you in your sleep this autumn but I'm not saying they won't. It's science.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2025 09:18 PM (viF8m)
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The cat/human dynamic would be very different if our respective sizes were swapped.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 25, 2025 09:20 PM (kpS4V)

280 275 The real life events that inspired Jaws occurred circa 1900. For some reason they didn’t want to set the film it in that era. I wonder why…?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 25, 2025 09:19 PM (ZVgZ4)

“Oh Muffy, I see your leg has been bit off. Well isn’t that just perfectly awful?”

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2025 09:20 PM (WtEb/)

281 Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 25, 2025 09:18 PM (fd80v)

BTK is still breathing and spending my tax dollars.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 09:21 PM (EYmYM)

282 BTK is still breathing and spending my tax dollars.
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The K-Pop boy band?

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 25, 2025 09:21 PM (kpS4V)

283 I drunk live blogged it several years ago.

It’s hysterical.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 25, 2025 09:17 PM

Okay...now I have to watch that with alcohol.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 25, 2025 09:22 PM (Wnv9h)

284 267 235 Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 25, 2025 09:06 PM (zdLoL)

Incredible book, would be an incredible film.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2025 09:17 PM (WtEb/)

Agree..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 25, 2025 09:22 PM (nbLIj)

285 A “quint” beach side resort town?!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 25, 2025 09:22 PM (ZVgZ4)

286 || I would classify Alien and Jaws as terror movies not horror.

Alien is an "old, dark house" movie with an alien instead of a ghost. It's also a ten-little-indians structure (although it should be noted that structure comes from Agatha Christie).

Is it horror? I would say so. But that will all become clear in my epic treatise: Why Alien Is A Horror Movie And Jaws Is Not.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 09:24 PM (asXVI)

287 >>The cat/human dynamic would be very different if our respective sizes were swapped.

Are you sure? What if they have been planning this for generations and maybe this is the year they seek their revenge?

Cats used to roam the world and now you make them crap in a box. The kind of anger that comes from that is terrifying.

But I'm sure you have nothing to worry about.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2025 09:25 PM (viF8m)

288 Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 25, 2025 09:18 PM (fd80v)

Alien is a monster movie.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 09:25 PM (EYmYM)

289 Wait, are we hating on the Blue Jaws because they're winning or losing?

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 09:25 PM (asXVI)

290 If memory serves, King once said in an interview some time in the 80s that he tried to create sympathy for his characters before turning the monsters loose. These days, his politics have poisoned not only King himself but too many of his characters. But early on that wasn't the case. For me, The Shining, Salem's Lot, Cujo, Pet Sematery, Misery, The Dead Zone, the novellas in Different Seasons, and some of his other titles, hold up very nicely even now. If he didn't spend the wordage on his characters, those books wouldn't be as good as they are. I doubt he gets much editing now, and thus the bloat of a number of the later books -- but even in those there's sometimes fun to be had. 11/22/63 is something like, what - 800 or 1000 pages?, but it doesn't feel that long (And then there's Under the Dome, which for me felt like 800 pages before I was 200 pages into it and gave up).

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 25, 2025 09:25 PM (q3u5l)

291 The Thing is a horror movie. Maybe one of the best. And it almost didn't get made.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2025 09:27 PM (viF8m)

292 I’m hating on the blowjobs because they’re assholes.

And they beat the Mariners.

But their fans are asshats. Ask me how I know.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 25, 2025 09:28 PM (mT+6a)

293 How do you know?

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 09:30 PM (asXVI)

294 Embrace the power of “and”: it can be a horror movie and a monster movie, etc.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 25, 2025 09:30 PM (ZVgZ4)

295 If memory serves, King once said in an interview some time in the 80s that he tried to create sympathy for his characters before turning the monsters loose.
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I wonder if that was before or after he "directed" "Maximum Overdrive"?

Because, man, those characters are awful and it's a mitzvah when they get squooshed.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 09:30 PM (asXVI)

296 Remind me that TJM had an adverse event in his life. Hoping it works out soon

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 25, 2025 09:33 PM (5UzTY)

297 You know, Robert Shaw sings two songs in Jaws, so it's also kind of a musical when you really think about it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2025 09:33 PM (XV/Pl)

298 161 'In the case of Jeffrey Dahmer, WI did not have the death penalty. He was killed in prison anyway.

Iirc, another inmate shoved about 4’ of a mop handle up his ass. It was the death he deserved.'

From what I remember Dahmer was clubbed to death by another inmate with a dumbbell from the weight room.

An already violent black felon who took offense to most of Dahmer's victims being black. I always thought it was setup. I don't have a problem with that.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 25, 2025 09:33 PM (fd80v)

299 294 Embrace the power of “and”: it can be a horror movie and a monster movie, etc.

Well, of course. But labels have to mean something or...they'll mean NOTHING. [music sting]

Back in the '90s, people would try to slap a "horror" label on Dean Koontz, and he would strongly object. He wrote suspense-fiction =sometimes using horror elements=, he would say.

And his argument was that horror has an element of nihilism, and he would not have that in his books. (I believe he's devoutly Christian.)

Now, I don't think he's =quite= right because, yes, alongside of Shelly, Poe, Lovecraft, and that whole branch of horror, there's also "Dracula," which--Well, Bram Stoker wrote mainly romantic-adventures, and that's a whole 'nother debate.

Anyway, it's a long and detailed topic.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 09:34 PM (asXVI)

300 >>I’m hating on the blowjobs because they’re assholes.

Might be doing wrong.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2025 09:36 PM (viF8m)

301 293 How do you know?
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October

Because a TON of their fans travel to Seattle for games.

They are obnoxious foul mouthed aggressive litterbugs who spew in your face to scream nonsense at you. For no reason.

At least when the Vancouver Canucks come to town they show a modicum of class.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 25, 2025 09:37 PM (mT+6a)

302 Jaws is a monster movie. I'd like to see it told from the monster's point of view.

Posted by: fd at October 25, 2025 09:37 PM (vFG9F)

303 Stephen King. I haven't read anything by him in 30 years. But "It" scared the hell out of me. The TV miniseries was very good. Clowns are both horrifying and terrifying.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 25, 2025 09:38 PM (KEwlz)

304 They are obnoxious foul mouthed aggressive litterbugs who spew in your face to scream nonsense at you. For no reason.
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Canadians?

Way to ruin the rep!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 09:39 PM (asXVI)

305 "Because, man, those characters are awful and it's a mitzvah when they get squooshed."

Aren't they, though? And yeah, it is. (Can't figure why nobody threw Yeardley Smith to the trucks by the halfway point)

I think he said someone asked him once why he never directed another movie after Maximum Overdrive, and he said Maximum Overdrive was why.

And yes, it's a guilty pleasure of mine.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 25, 2025 09:40 PM (q3u5l)

306 I'll post the end quote from a Fangoria writer, who wrote an article about how Jaws is a horror movie.

"Maybe at the end of the day, the most obvious indicator is simply the film's title. It's called fucking Jaws. Not Terror on the Sea or Dark Waters or something a thriller would be called. Jaws is a horror movie title."

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2025 09:40 PM (XV/Pl)

307 Right?

My son takes me to a Mariners game for Mother’s Day every year.

Last year we didn’t go. Because we were playing the blue jays. They are asshole fans.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 25, 2025 09:41 PM (mT+6a)

308 An already violent black felon who took offense to most of Dahmer's victims being black. I always thought it was setup. I don't have a problem with that.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 25, 2025 09:33 PM (fd80v)

That guy had a incurable cancer. He didn't care what happened. However, he did society a favor.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at October 25, 2025 09:41 PM (89Sog)

309 Nooo!! Not The Bobber Barrels!! Nooo!!

Posted by: The Shark at October 25, 2025 09:41 PM (i0F8b)

310 Stephen King. I haven't read anything by him in 30 years. But "It" scared the hell out of me. The TV miniseries was very good. Clowns are both horrifying and terrifying.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Yoo-hoo!

Posted by: Art the Clown at October 25, 2025 09:41 PM (ftFVW)

311 249 I’ve heard people criticize the kid orgy in IT.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 09:11 PM (EYmYM)

Hence why I said I was shocked it got past editors.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 09:42 PM (vwL3N)

312 Speaking of horror shows . . .

NY AG James@NewYorkStateAG
This isn’t about me. It’s about all of us.
It’s about a justice system which has been weaponized. A justice system which has been used as a tool of revenge.
My faith is strong. I have belief in the justice system and the rule of law.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, OMGWTFBBQ! at October 25, 2025 09:42 PM (L/fGl)

313 >> Jaws is a monster movie. I'd like to see it told from the monster's point of view.

This guy gets it.

Horror works by playing on what you don't know and having someone project the worst case no matter how implausible because you wan't to believe it's true.

Sharks don't hunt boats and then eat them because they are pissed off at some guy who might have killed their 8th cousin twice removed.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2025 09:42 PM (viF8m)

314 Shark jaws don't invoke horror on the average person. Everyone knows what sharks teeth can and will do. People don't go seeking out sharks to be horrified of them.

They seek the thrill of the terror if anything other than stupidity.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at October 25, 2025 09:45 PM (89Sog)

315 I’ve heard people criticize the kid orgy in IT.
Posted by: the way I see it

Hence why I said I was shocked it got past editors.
Posted by: Cow Demon

Editors got bored of reading by then.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 25, 2025 09:45 PM (ftFVW)

316 Yoo-hoo!

Posted by: Art the Clown at October 25, 2025 09:41 PM (ftFVW)

Noooooo!
*furiously makes the sign of d the Cross and bargains with God*

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 25, 2025 09:46 PM (KEwlz)

317 @313

>>Sharks don't hunt boats and then eat them because they are pissed off at some guy who might have killed their 8th cousin twice removed.

There's also no such thing as Deep Space Mining Vessels or Xenomorphs.

It's called suspension of disbelief which is a basic necessity for watching any horror film.

If you can't suspend your disbelief then Jaws can't be enjoyed no matter if you think it's a horror film, a thriller or a buddy flick.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2025 09:46 PM (XV/Pl)

318 I think we can all agree that Jaws is a Horror/Action/Adventure/Suspense movie.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 25, 2025 09:47 PM (fd80v)

319 Other movies that must be horror movies based on the title:

"Elevator To The Gallows"
"Live and Let Die"
"Better Off Dead"
"Wages of Fear"
"Captain Blood"
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"

Movies that must NOT be horror films because of the titles:

"The Astronaut's Wife"
"The Lighthouse"
"The Babysitter"
"Midsommar"
"The Invitation"

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 09:47 PM (asXVI)

320 303 Stephen King. I haven't read anything by him in 30 years. But "It" scared the hell out of me. The TV miniseries was very good. Clowns are both horrifying and terrifying.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 25, 2025 09:38 PM (KEwlz)

I think "It" was when I realized King lost his mojo for compelling story endings. Pet Cemetery? Great ending. Cujo? Satisfying. The ending for "It" was....out there...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 25, 2025 09:47 PM (nbLIj)

321 I think we can all agree that Jaws is a Action/Adventure/Suspense movie.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 09:49 PM (asXVI)

322 I’m hating on the blowjobs because they’re assholes

I thought "never the twain shall meet" applied here....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoSHQ's at October 25, 2025 09:49 PM (SRRAx)

323 "I think we can all agree that Jaws is a Horror/Action/Adventure/Suspense movie."

Help me understand what is so horrifying about sharks teeth. I'm with TJM on this one.

I don't get it.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at October 25, 2025 09:50 PM (89Sog)

324 @318

>>I think we can all agree that Jaws is a Horror/Action/Adventure/Suspense movie.

Well that's the problem essentially, because Jaws is a multi-genre film, it's hard to fix it to a single genre, it's also, in the words of Quinten Tarantino a perfect movie and one of the best movies ever made.

There's a certain snobbery element that a film that good can't possibly be a horror film.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2025 09:50 PM (XV/Pl)

325 Shit

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 25, 2025 09:50 PM (mT+6a)

326 I think we can all agree that Jaws is a
movie.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 25, 2025 09:51 PM (q3u5l)

327 Dropped cat food on my foot

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 25, 2025 09:51 PM (mT+6a)

328 The ending for "It" was....out there...

Posted by: Joe Kidd

Yea. But there was a clown. Yikes!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 25, 2025 09:51 PM (KEwlz)

329 And with that, good night, Horde.

Thanks for the thread, moviegique.

Have a good one, gang.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 25, 2025 09:53 PM (q3u5l)

330 >>If you can't suspend your disbelief then Jaws can't be enjoyed no matter if you think it's a horror film, a thriller or a buddy flick.

You're probably right. But I can't when it comes to Jaws. It's so stupendously stupid when it comes to real shark behavior it's clownish to me.

Do you know why Benchley picked an area between Long Island and Martha's Vineyard for his novel? Because this area is teaming with sharks including Great Whites. Always has been.

Guess how many boats have been eaten along with gnarly fisherman over the last 200 years here.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2025 09:54 PM (viF8m)

331 330
'Guess how many boats have been eaten along with gnarly fisherman over the last 200 years here.'

12?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 25, 2025 09:56 PM (fd80v)

332 Let's all remember that the Internet wasn't a thing back in the 70's - for most people, stuff in The Ocean consisted of Jacques Cousteau specials, and those were all relatively harmless.

The Ocean was a scary unknown; the thought of a giant, menacing shark getting that close to people was terrifying!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoSHQ's at October 25, 2025 09:56 PM (SRRAx)

333 People who disdain horror like to come up with alternate names for specific horrors they like to just keep that level of snobbery going. Last couple of years, it's been "folk horror".

"Liminal horror" seems to be a thing, too.

There are many great horror movies, as good as any other films ever made (if you are able to enjoy horror movies). There's no need to throw "Jaws" in there just because you want to say you like horror but can't come up with a real horror film.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 09:56 PM (asXVI)

334 A couple of really scary movies that are hard to find:

"Caltiki, the Immortal Monster"

and

"Island of Terror", with Peter Cushing.

Posted by: Toad-0 at October 25, 2025 09:57 PM (+JPS+)

335
Yea. But there was a clown. Yikes!
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 25, 2025 09:51 PM (KEwlz)

Maybe you should pass on Killer Clowns from Outer Space...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 25, 2025 09:57 PM (nbLIj)

336 'night JSG! Thanks for coming by!

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The Ocean was a scary unknown; the thought of a giant, menacing shark getting that close to people was terrifying!
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Well, no, not until Jaws. Jaws was the worst thing ever to happen to sharks.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 09:57 PM (asXVI)

337 @319

>>Other movies that must be horror movies based on the title:

I don't know the guy writing for the Horror Magazine Fangoria was pretty convinced that Jaws was a horror film.

List the reasons Jaws is not a horror film in your opinion?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2025 09:58 PM (XV/Pl)

338 334 A couple of really scary movies that are hard to find:

"Caltiki, the Immortal Monster"
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Only $603 for a DVD on Amazon!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 09:58 PM (asXVI)

339 Jaws was the worst thing ever to happen to sharks.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books)

feh

Posted by: shark fin soup at October 25, 2025 09:58 PM (gKWVE)

340 Let's not argue about 'oo bit 'oo! 🦈

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 25, 2025 09:59 PM (kpS4V)

341 Thanks for coming by everybody!

Good night!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 09:59 PM (asXVI)

342 >>12?

Even if that was true, it's fewer than get murdered in an average Chicago month.

And that happens to be true.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2025 09:59 PM (viF8m)

343 340 Let's not argue about 'oo bit 'oo! 🦈
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Or who put who into a sandwich.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 09:59 PM (asXVI)

344 Plus, that painting "Watson and the Shark" was really scary!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoSHQ's at October 25, 2025 10:00 PM (SRRAx)

345 Not a big fan or horror movies, so Halloween isn't much a movie-season for me. Although I remember liking Hocus Pocus when I was younger...

I recently watched the B-movie classic 'Time Cop.' Because it was featured on RiffTrax Live, and the digital version was just released. I think it is usually only brought up when it is about to be mocked, but...It's kinda good. At least compared to what gets produced today. Re-write one or two silly scenes and get rid of one of the cheesier conceits, and I would call it genuinely enjoyable.

Posted by: Castle Guy at October 25, 2025 10:00 PM (Lhaco)

346 Thanks for another fine movie thread, 'Gique!

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 25, 2025 10:00 PM (kpS4V)

347 341
'Thanks for coming by everybody!

Good night!'

I wanted to argue some more but if you have to go,...

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 25, 2025 10:01 PM (fd80v)

348 Caltiki ==

free to view on tubitv.com, or 3.99 to purchase streaming at Amazon.

Need to watch that again -- haven't seen since high school.

And now, really, g'night.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 25, 2025 10:01 PM (q3u5l)

349 ONT is NOOD

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 25, 2025 10:01 PM (KEwlz)

350 'night all, for reals!

Don't let the Halloweenies get ya! Or the BJs!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at October 25, 2025 10:05 PM (asXVI)

351 199 Tremors is that rare parody that transcends itself and becomes a fine example of the genre it's riffing on.
Posted by: All Hail Eris,,
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Tremors is a wonderful movie.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 10:21 PM (j04bB)

352 Another thing that augers for Jaws being a horror film...

The Poster.

Does that look like the poster of a Thriller or action adventure?

No, it's a shark that's about to eat a woman.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2025 10:28 PM (XV/Pl)

353 Tubi has some nice horroranthologies from Japan, South Korea and other countries. They are enjoyable because they are different.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless
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I've seen 3-4 of the Korean exports. The Wailing needs to be watched twice to be grasped imo. And then it gets under your skin. The Piper is a great tale of retribution.

Posted by: Dagwood at October 25, 2025 10:54 PM (CC0N1)

354 Skeleton Key while not really a horror movie is very good creepy movie. Especially after the end and you go back and think about some things that happened. Plus a very attractive Kate Hudson.

Posted by: Ripley at October 26, 2025 12:15 AM (PTDkx)

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