Oof, we don’t talk about that film
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Yeah, it would also probably benefit you to elaborate for those who haven’t heard of the film that the term “Holocaust” in the title isn’t in reference to you know, THAT Holocaust.
Also though, interestingly enough aside from the controversy and failures of this film, it is also TECHNICALLY the first found footage film.
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Evil dead movies are rad to watch, i love the 2nd one the best as it really shows a good origin of Ash without making it boring to sit through
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yeah, ed 2 is cracking. campbell’s performance when he goes insane is brilliant.
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Kill List
Kill List
Kill List
Kill List
Kill List
(Oh, and Saint Maud too)
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Coincidently, I watched the 2013 remake yesterday. Havent seen the originals so I’m not too biased towards it. Thought it was okay. Bit of a gore fest but I respect what it did using only practical effects. That’s always a +1 in my book.
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You’re Next (2013)
The Descent (2005)
Dracula (1992)
In The Mouth Of Madness (1994)
It Follows (2014)
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I’ve seen and love that movie!
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I’d say this movie only really works if you’re claustrophobic. Everyone seems hyped or traumatised from this flick but I’m not really feeling it tbh. Spoiler: The intro was really good. Up until the part where the first monster is introduced. After it is revealed that an entire flock of ghouls is living down in the pit the movie turns into a great prey vs predator clusterfuck. That turned me off sadly. The ending, however, I thought was pretty strong. So yeah, to everyone their own. 
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
First, I have a theory that like 75-80% of eighties movies are actually rape fantasies. The tongue-phone and the claw between the legs in the bathtub don’t exactly help this movie’s case…
That said, I loved this movie! It was creepy, visceral, unsettling, and surreal. I also really enjoyed how in your face and talkative Freddy was. It was a nice change of pace compared to how the other films I watched handled their killers. Don’t get me wrong, the silent, stealth approach worked for them but I appreciated Freddy differentiating himself from Michael and Mama Voorhees.
Another benefit of the approach I’m taking is seeing the difference in approaches to the protagonist/final girl. Laurie was good (though the other characters were generally unlikeable and not a high bar to clear) and Alice won me over by the end (but #JusticeForAnnie and more on that in a minute) but Nancy blew them both out of the water. This movie introduces another girl (Tina) first only to pivot to another, much like Friday. Unlike Friday, however, the second and true protagonist (Nancy) has a connection to the first and a smaller group to work with and starts standing out before the bodies start dropping. This was a false protagonist done right.
As for the kills, they were (jail hanging aside) incredible. Unless you’ve seen CinemaWins on YouTube, you won’t get this reference but when they offed Tina I thought to myself “Brutal!” Turns out I was naive, though, because when the killed Johnny Depp I was like “BRUTAL!!!”
I will say, I wish these movies could stick the landing. Halloween and Friday the 13th had mostly ridiculous final fights and just kind of ended. This movie had a pretty good fight but I’m still not sure what happened at the end. Was the whole thing a dream? Did everyone live? Or did they die? Only try to explain if you can avoid spoilers; I mostly just wanted to voice my confusion.
Minor complaint about the end aside, this was a fantastic movie! I’m simultaneously excited to see more but also concerned the sequels will not fail to live up to this one but also somehow drag this one down in hindsight.
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Yeah that’s probably because of how Freddy was initially going to be written. Originally he was written to be a child predator as well instead of a child murderer, however Wes Kraven (the writer and director) decided to change that fact as he didn’t want it to feel like it was child exploitation or capitalizing on similar kinds of incidents going on in California at the time. I think it works a lot better with that change since I don’t think it should or needs to be directly addressed, Freddy is already a despicable character, no need to possibly make things worse or possibly unwatchable.
What definitely sets Freddy apart is him having an actual personality instead of a voiceless/cold killer like the rest in the slasher genre. That, and his brilliant portrayal by Robert England throughout the series elevates it through his commitment to the character.
Yeah, I think that ending scene was something they did last minute, it’s not something that ever gets addressed in the future so I wouldn’t worry to much about it.
Here’s some interesting trivia:
This film effectively saved New Line Cinema from bankruptcy, which is why it’s sometimes referred to as “the house that Freddy built”
A revolving room was built for this movie for some of the kills, in which furniture was nailed down in order to express the idea of going against gravity.
The idea of Freddy being a “dream demon” was likely inspired from a set of incidents involving Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome (SUNDS) that was afflicting a specific group of refugees that were coming to America at the time. These refugees came to America due to being branded traitors by their home country after assisting America in the vietnam war. They had suffered a lot and were often heavily traumatized by their role in the war and the treacherous journey.
It was likely from a combination of this trauma, the social isolation and fear of living in a new place disconnected from many of their originally communities, an increased frequency of a genetically weak heart that was more common in that population, and cultural perceptions of the power of dreams and spirits that likely collectively caused such cases to occur.
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Definitely works better but the original characterization seems to be a symptom of the time. It’s not really direct or extreme stuff like that though, more how they generally treat and deal with female characters during the decade.
Oh yeah! I forgot to mention Robert Englund directly; it looked like he was having the time of his life.
Yeah, it kind of reminded me of how Monty Python and the Holy Grail ran out of time, money, and ideas except it worked a little better there because of the genre.
That is pretty cool (and certainly more fun than killing someone’s pet snake coughfridaythe13thcough)
Child’s Play (1988)
As the film opens, you’d be forgiven if you though you were in the middle of a late eighties action movie as police pursue a serial killer through late night downtown. Then, the bad guy transfers his soul into a doll moments before being killed in a shootout. Then, it kind of continues to be an eighties action movie but with a homicidal doll and horror elements. Especially before Chucky gets outed, you get a lot of tense, dark, thriller-esque moments of things creeping in the shadows. While, particularly after he’s exposed, you get car chases and explosions. It’s pretty wild stuff.
Other than the kid, who I did not like, and Chucky, who I did, the characters were fine but forgettable. On the same note, other than the kid, who couldn’t act to save his life, and Chucky, who seemed to relish the role and elevated the material, the acting was on the whole pretty good. Speaking of Brad Dourif, I don’t think this is the same movie without him.
All in all, this was a pretty fun time that I’d rank slightly above Friday the 13th, itself narrowly above Halloween. I think this and Friday just have more fun and revel in their ridiculousness. I give this one the edge because of Chucky himself, general creativity (sans the kills), the genre mashup and because this film seems to take itself even less seriously than Friday. It’s not touching A Nightmare on Elm Street, though.
I’m curious to see how they bring Chucky back and if they can shake things up a little more.
Yeah this movie is kind of ruined by the retrospect of the cultural impact of the franchise, it’s main appeal for original audiences was the lack of clarity of it it was Chucky or Andy (the kid) doing the murders. The idea of a sentient doll being a killer is obviously now very familiar to us, but for older audiences it was a much fresher concept.
On another note the practical effects with the doll animatronic is really well done for its time. We take so much of this stuff for granted nowadays because of the convenience of CGI provides to modern audiences (and just how much cheaper most of this stuff has gotten).
Trivia fact: Charles Lee Ray (The bad guy who possesses chucky) name is derived from three influential killers who gave the writer nightmares: Charles Manson, Lee Harvey Oswald, and James Earl Ray.
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Sleepy Hollow (1999)
The Others (2001)
The Woman In Black (2012)
Maniac (2012)
Morse (2008)
Scream (1996)
Before I get to the movie itself, I just wanted to shoutout the nineties for vomiting all over the essence of this movie. Like, seriously, I hadn’t been beaten over the head by anything so obnoxiously nineties since I grew up in them.
Anyway, slight nineties slander aside, I really enjoyed this. I’m glad I watched the handful of other movies because this was very meta. I knew going in that it was kind of a spoof of horror movies more than a pure horror movie in its own right but I had no idea just how much it leaned into and played with all the tropes of the genre.
On top of all that, though, it creates a compelling narrative of its own. For a few reasons, I actually knew who the killer was but the mystery was so well plotted (with a little stretching in regards to Sidney’s dad a minor exception) that there were several moments that had me second guessing who was doing it. It could also be down to performances as well; Skeet Ulrich was masterful at being sus af or beyond reproach at need.
Speaking of great performances, I can see why they built the franchise around Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette. Based on this film, Sidney Prescott’s life must absolutely suck but I’m excited to see what’s next. I also know there isn’t one single killer throughout the series but it don’t know who the other ones are this time; the only thing I want to see is how they justify continuing to make Sidney’s life miserable in the sequel (and beyond).
This one was right up there with A Nightmare on Elm Street (a little below it) for me. I think it says something that my two favorite movies so far in this endeavor involved Wes Craven. It’s also more than a little unfortunate that it also involved a certain disgraced producer AND the actress who precipitated his downfall (as well as her own).
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Enemis blu
Im not going to said much about tbe film But is better than a lot of hollywood horror films is free on youtube is a tf2 horror film but has ko jumpscares is smart terror is pure phsilogic horror a fucking masterpiexe of movie is free on youtube and you should watch it before ypu die is free on youtube well is not cñasdic but im bet that is gokng to pasd as clAsskc
(2023)
I don’t think this is a “classic” quite yet 
it is going to be a classic