31 Days of Halloween (2022)

[Caldwin]

I honestly had no idea what I was going to do for this thread this year. As a matter of fact, I was thinking of just letting it lie. But then I was reminded of two "how the hell have you not seen these yet" movies: Drag Me To Hell and Saw. Slim picking this year, I know, but that's probably a good thing. Slim funds as well.

Today will be

Drag me To Hell

Before I watch, let me just say that I do believe in hell and demon possession and such. Like, Exorcism of Emily Rose kept me awake for days!

But I do not believe that an otherwise innocent person can be sent to hell at the sole discretion of a single gypsy. So I'm going into this with a viewpoint of "oh great! Another Hollywood failure to understand religion." I doubt I'm going to come away from this unable to sleep. More likely it'll be an eyeroll and a chuckle. But we'll see.

After the movie:

Well, that was a stupid.

Up next, not sure when but hopefully soon, I'll be doing Saw!

 

[Caldwin]

Saw

Holy hell, that was hugged up! Like, totally in a "I'd probably watch that again" type way. Because, yeah, I'd totally watch it again. That was hugging intense!

Now I have heard that the sequels kinda loose the point of the first one. Like, they lean more towards simple gore and sadistic traps than the whole "appreciate life now" thing. Not sure how true this is. Anyone here watch the other movies in the series that could tell me if the rest of the series is worth watching or not?

 

[Fero McPigletron]

I never saw a complete Saw movie but I saw clips of all the kills on YouTube.

Evil Dead remake is still one of the scariest movies I've seen, even with only a few characters.

 

[Ultra Magnus13]

Saw

Holy hell, that was hugged up! Like, totally in a "I'd probably watch that again" type way. Because, yeah, I'd totally watch it again. That was hugging intense!

Now I have heard that the sequels kinda loose the point of the first one. Like, they lean more towards simple gore and sadistic traps than the whole "appreciate life now" thing. Not sure how true this is. Anyone here watch the other movies in the series that could tell me if the rest of the series is worth watching or not?

I didn't really care for any of them. If I recall correctly the second one was a script for a different movie that got a quick rework when the first Saw was such a hit and they wanted to pump out a sequel quick. I think I remember finding 1 and 2 on about equal footing. I know Ive seen 3 and maybe 4, but they were forgettable enough I don't think I remember anything about them, other than one having a shotgun collar that wouldn't have really worked as depicted.

 

[Videomaster21XX]

Over at my place, we're doing a few things.

Sat down with roommate to watch ParaNorman. They'd never seen it before, so glad we could do that. (And yeah the upcoming Thrifting thing for ParaNorman was the main reason)

This Saturday (so aka Tomorrow) We're doing the Saturday Morning Stream I always do, but this time it'll be just about every kids anthology 'horror' show we can find.

'Horror' because a couple are loosely horror. Like Round the Twist, and Eerie Indiana. Otherwise, I have an episode of such shows like: Deadtime Stories, Creeped out, Goosebumps, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Bone Chillers, Spooksville, Freaky Stories, Nightmare Room, Haunting Hour, and possibly adding an episode of Grizzy tales, and Moville.

Then the next Saturday (The 25th) We are doing the normal Halloween stream, which will be all about Vampires this year!
Scooby Doo Music of the Vampire (because others must suffer through this like me)
Dear Dracula (Haven't seen it, but it's about a kid who doesn't want to wait till Christmas to write Santa, so he decides to write Dracula for Halloween instead. Dracula responds, but is a shadow of his former self and can't scare anymore, so the kid decides to help him get his mojo back.)
Transylvania 6-5000. (I don't think it's exclusivly vampires. Never seen it, but it says it's about two journalests heading to a town to find Frankenstien's monster, only meeting a vampire and possibly other creatures. Got it because of the cast. Jeff Goldblum, Ed Begley Jr, and Michael Richards!)
Dracula 2000 (I remember it being decent. I have a feeling it's going to be 2000's as all heck though.)
Fright Night (never seen, but heard good things. Seen the vampiries in it. Holy hell that'd scare the bleep out of me in real life)
And finally going to end it on a classic I don't think many of my viewers have seen.
Dusk till Dawn.

 

[Fero McPigletron]

ParaNorman was awesome!

Watch choice eps of Real Ghostbusters! Beware of Lupusville, Sliders Go Home, Ragnarok and Roll,