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Martin Scorsese used part of the cemetery nightmare sequence in his episode of Amazing Stories way back when. What impressed me most at the time was the unnaturally vivid coloring lent a puddle of fetid water by a trick of cinematography. That episode is also notable for being the only time that...

June 9 - 2008 - US June 9 - 2008 - 6/10 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lVoGyLmmc68 School's out for the summer of 1999, no more teachers, no more books, etc., and a merry band of idle suburban teens are killing their spare time by roaming the streets of their town in a white minivan and...

The Bermuda Triangle - 1978 - Mexico/Italy The Bermuda Triangle -1978 - 6/10 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fgZWIJP87V8 Perhaps the most enduring mystery attached to this fabled shape of water is the startling and inexplicable appearance of John Huston in this barely seaworthy contraption...

Death Dimension - 1978 - US Death Dimension - 1978 - No rating https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mkdB5qVYJpY The title promises much, as does the intriguing scene that plays out under the opening credits: a tight shot of a woman's eye and upper left temple as a surgeon's scalpel deftly incises a...

MIKEY - 1992 (US) & BLOODY NEW YEAR - 1987 (UK) Mikey - 1992 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E5kpS6OyKQU The first lesson of the film Mikey should be "do not confuse Mikey with Chucky". Despite some similarities in name and appearance to that murderous freckle-faced animatronic star of an...

Re: I Heard It Too - 2014 - UK I remember liking this one a lot, the unresolved eeriness, the enigmatic supernatural aspect, the still, lingering wide shots and desolate locations that always seemed to be hiding something. It reminded me more than a little of Don't Look Now. Since the DVD...

Re: Dead End - 2003 - France I seem to remember liking the first 3/4 or so of this well enough, a solidly executed example of "quiet horror" that gradually worked up a decent atmosphere of mystery and menace, dread and despair, in the vein of a classic Charles L. Grant story. But the rest of...

The Manson Family - 1997 - USA The Manson Family - 1997 - 6/10 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gEj7m1PdiaU Not like I wanted or needed another telling of this story. But having lately enjoyed Van Bebber's cult classic Deadbeat at Dawn (ten times more entertaining than Hill's The Warriors at...

Found Footage - 2011 - 6/10 ["]https://tubitv.com/] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYX90diQlj0 The kind of hidden gem that only streams from Tubi, that dauntingly vast treasure vault of obscure, impossible video curiosities that endlessly rewards only the most catholic and discerning tastes...

[REC] 4: Apocalypse [REC] 4: Apocalypse - 2014 - 4/10 How did it come to this? The original REC was a sublime creation, taking two of the most maligned concepts in modern horror, the jerky “infected” zombie and the shaky found-footage camera, and making of them something compelling, a true...

Kill Command (2016) - IMDb It might depend on your tolerance for futuristic military shenanigans featuring all sorts of fancy combat cybertronics and sundry obscure A.I.-enhanced intelligence augmentations, but as someone without much enthusiasm for syfy generally I can say I found the above an...

The Vault (2017) - IMDb A desperate family band's deviously plotted bank job starts coming apart fast, and the crooks turn their attention to a secret underground vault reputed to hold vast wealth. In a surprising twist, opening the vault actually unleashes a horde of evil spirits and horror...

Terrifier Terrifier (2016) - IMDb Finally, an American horror flick that shrugs off the dull, socially and academically respectable conventions of a tame "slasher" genre and aspires to a genuinely Grand Guignol level of gleefully meanspirited, sadistic cruelty, without remorse, moral, or...

A Quiet Place (2018) - IMDb Really? People were raving about this one? It might have worked with an all-adult cast. There's no way any kid would last for a week in this situation, let alone a year or so. But then nothing in the movie makes much sense if you try to take the scenario even a...

It sounds like something that will become more widely available, for rental preferably, but I'm willing to buy if the price is reasonable. It isn't the physical copy that concerns me, just that I'd rather not watch movies in front of a PC or iPad and I don't have any sort of streaming gizmo...

Re: Le Chalet Is this available on a DVD with English subtitles?

Re: House Of The Dead I caught this on TV long ago under the title Alien Zone, one of those oddities that just seemed to pop up as the Sunday Afternoon Movie on WOR TV or some other local channel while I was pretending to be doing homework. I remember the mean teacher getting her comeuppance...

Re: Truman Yeah, I've seen him in a couple of other things, The Secret in Their Eyes, Nine Queens, Carancho. I might have seen Aura, too. It sounds a little familar, but I can't quite bring it to mind. I'll have to give it a look and see.

Re: Truman This guy on the right was in another movie I enjoyed recently: Wild Tales Entertaining anthology of short black comedies that feel like a collaboration between Hitchcock and Roald Dahl, at times. Clever suspense with a dash of bitter misanthropy and fortified with cruel irony.

I didn't think it was too bad, about average really, but all a little too slickly executed, without any real surprises or jolts or any really moving or unsettling moments. And the zombies were just the same sort of bland, undifferentiated horde you can see on The Walking Dead. Even the mediocre...