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One horror trope I will almost always enjoy is the moment where the characters finally believe they understand what they're dealing with.

They've found the old newspaper clipping. Someone translated the creepy inscription. The survivor from 30 years ago explains what happened. Great. We have rules now.

Then somebody follows those rules perfectly and still gets absolutely wrecked.

That scares me way more than a monster simply being "unstoppable."

If the characters never understand anything, the threat can eventually start feeling arbitrary. But if they build a theory that makes sense based on everything they've seen, I start relying on it too. When the movie later reveals that one assumption was wrong, suddenly every previous scene becomes uncertain again.

I especially like when the information isn't deliberately fake. The old expert wasn't lying. The previous victim genuinely believed burning the object worked because nothing happened to them afterward. They just survived long enough to reach the wrong conclusion.

That's much closer to how people would actually deal with something impossible. Nobody would have a supernatural instruction manual. You'd have frightened people collecting anecdotes, noticing patterns and confidently mistaking correlation for rules.

The weakest version for me is when someone conveniently knows the entire mythology and explains exactly what the entity wants, where it came from and how to defeat it fifteen minutes before the finale.

Give me incomplete folklore. Give me contradictory accounts. Give me a character confidently saying "it can't cross running water" and then realizing the person who invented that rule simply never saw it try.

Is it bad that I thought that this was actually a good horror movie but it never should have been a part of this franchise? I was told a while ago to just watch the first two Halloween movies and forget the rest existed and that's what I did since I saw the first one. (I saw the first one countless times and it never gets old for me)

The first Halloween by Carpenter is one of my favorite movies (not even just horror) of all time and I have nothing but respect and care for the fanbase of this franchise......but seriously? That wasn't even bad.

Towards the end when the credits rolled I said to myself "If this was called literally anything else BUT Halloween 3, it would have been hated on far less and it would have been a great standalone film."

Did anybody else think the same way? What did you guys think of this? I thought this had some damn creepy ass scenes and I can see myself watching it again for sure.

I'm a Shudder subscriber and just renewed in July for the year. Tonight, I noticed a special deal they're offering for $29.99 for a year. But here's a bonus: If you're already a subscriber like me and switch over, they'll prorate your subscription price difference with a refund.

Either way, $30 for a year of Shudder is a steal!

Critically panned but man do I love this film. Such a fun 2000s stoner horror comedy. Funny violent dumb and outrageous with an awesome soundtrack. The Halloween backdrop makes it a perfect film for the Halloween.

Was listening to Frankie valli and the 4 seasons' danger thought it was really creepy and eerie.

Do you guys know songs like it?

Like actually eerie not those cringe just bad music .

No matter how many times I watch The Thing, I'm still amazed at the tension level and suspense throughout the entire movie. It just never lets up from beginning to end.

Clayface made me think of this. It’s rated 18 in the UK… which means you must be 18 to watch it regardless if you’re with a parent or guardian.

Clayface is amazing and I was legit surprised how violent it was.

I don’t think Clayface should be NC-17… it just made me think of this topic.

Can anyone recommend a horror movie where the characters aren't stupid, and the monster is genuinely intelligent, too? Something where the creature actually thinks, plans, and hunts instead of just chasing people around.

I want to feel the same tension I got from 30 Days of Night. The kind of movie where the threat feels terrifying because the monsters are smart and the characters have to fight for every chance to survive.

Any recommendations?

I’m thinking of the movies that are horror themed but mixed with enough action or camp appeal that you may get some good jump scares or gore but you are having too good a time to really feel uneasy after.

The Lost Boys
The Blob
American Werwolf In London

What’ve you got?

Why is it so hard to get other people like your parents or your friends or family to watch horror movies with you because they don’t like horror movies and it seems like a lot of people don’t like horror movies in general as I’ve experienced it many times with a lot of people.

Have you guys experienced that before wanting to watch horror movies with other people only to have them not wanna watch them.

Barry Levinson was doing a documentary on the environmental effects chesepeake bay has in real life and thought to himself no one is gonna watch a documentary so they made this pseudo chaos flick based on some real science and make a dam entertaining film.

If you haven't seen this? you should check it out the real science behind it is kinda fascinating and the real issues surrounding that bay they over dramatize is also fascinating as well.

I've told a few people i know to check this one out cause it surprised me how good it was. not knowing anything about it. OOOPS stupid keyboard I didn't see the typo before I hit post , sorry bout that :(

Every October I do a "31 for 31," one scary movie a day for every day in October. While I was putting my list together I idly asked my dad what was the scariest movie he ever saw. He thought about it for a minute and then said the 1974 movie "Towering Inferno."

Those in the audience who have seen Towering Inferno will realize that it is not a horror movie. Not in the "Shawn of the Dead isn't a horror movie," or "Silence of the Lambs is technically crime thriller" kind of way, I mean it literally isn't a horror movie along any axis. It's a movie about rescuing a bunch of people from a burning skyscraper.

So he explains that it scared the bajeezus out of him in the theater because he was in a fire once. Some time when he was a kid, him and my aunt were visiting their grandparents and the barn they used as a guest house caught on fire. Nobody got hurt, but it was this whole big thing that happened to my dad when he was like 9 or something.

Makes me wonder what other movies are out there like that. I bet some kinds of medical dramas, or police/crime movies, or legal dramas, etc., give people an experience of terror who have been terrorized by those systems, or if disaster movies that I think are objectively goofy like Day After Tomorrow would be very scary to people who survived floods.

Movie of the day...Lake Placid (1999).

I had forgotten how funny this movie is.

In many ways, it’s a typical creature feature. There’s something awful in the lake. Our heroes must figure out what’s going on—it turns out it’s a 30-foot crocodile that has unexpectedly showed up in Maine for reasons that are never entirely clear—and do something about it.

What elevates the film is a solid cast (Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Brendan Gleeson, Oliver Platt, etc.) who know exactly what kind of movie they’re in.

The characters are a little exaggerated for comic effect (the lady scientist from New York who complains about everything, the rich expert who is a bit of a nutcase, etc.). They’ve got reasons to dislike each other at first, and a lot of things are played for laughs, but gradually they learn to like and respect each other.

There’s snappy dialogue galore. In particular, Gleeson’s Sheriff Keough gets about as much respect as Rodney Dangerfield. And Betty White (as a possibly insane senior citizen who treats the crocodile as a kind of pet) is a national treasure.

Everything else in this movie is solid entertainment, too. The film is well-directed and suspenseful. The special effects seem to get a lot of hate from people, but they're okay. The kills are shocking and bloody.

I’m pretty sure this is not how things would be handled if a giant crocodile actually showed up in New England, but I don’t care. It’s a good movie. Watch it and have a good time.

Rating: B

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Won a Grammy for writing the liner notes on Korngold: The Classic Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Moments / scenes where you're watching and thinking "Holy shit. This is amazing, I need to show this to somebody right now. This is why I love horror so much." Personally for me, the ending of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre has always been a scene that really encapsulated what I loved about the terror, dread, and catharsis of the genre.

Currently rereading this book, and honestly, not only is it my fave Grady Hendrix book (though I love all of his) but it's one of my favorite books in general. I'm a huge fan of the slasher genre and the Final Girl trope, and so I love seeing it explored in the book and all the references and easter eggs (the names of the final girls referencing the actresses of the final girls they're based on, the article excerpts throughout, the fictional franchises mirroring real life one's throughout, etc) scattered through each chapter. The concept itself, of a bunch of real life Final Girls coming together in a support group, is really awesome and cool in general. I really like Lynette's character arc (and her awesome plant Fine) and I think her trauma (the survivor's guilt, hyperarousal, paranoia, isolation) is written pretty well and I just felt absolutely terrible for her how she was wrong every time about what she suspected was going on. I feel like everyone is the group was written pretty well and have really distinct personalities, and I just absoluelty love how unapologetic and chaotic Heather is. Skye and Stephanie give me MAJOR Richie and Amber from Scream 5 vibes (especially with the reddit excerpt in the beginning), does anyone else feel that way lol? I really like the ending where the girls refuse to continue the cycle of violence and stay together to try to bring Stephanie into recovery. The book is getting a movie adaptation from Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day, Freaky 2020, The Paranormal Activity franchise, etc) and although I am so stoked for that, after what a disappointing disaster the My Best Friend's Exorcism adaptation was, I'm gonna go into it with cautious expectations when it comes out. Overall, I really love the book, though I totally understand why it could've fallen flat for some people and has mixed reviews compared to his other ones. What were your thoughts on the book?

A few of my favorites of the twist/first time "🤯" are The Others, The Skeleton Key, and The Game (not horror but twisty). I know this has been asked before but I would love some new suggestions! Nothing like that feeling of the first twist viewing. And then afterwards u have to persuade the homies to watch it with u to twist vicariously thru them. Appreciate the suggestions 🙏