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2013-09
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Star Trek: Into Darkness.
2013-09-14.
Now and then I listen to a podcast called The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe, which is basically about debunking popular myths like UFOs and ghosts and homeopathy with scientific skepticism. Sometimes they also review the science in science fiction movies, and a while back they looked at Star Trek: Into Darkness. I skipped it because I hadn’t seen it yet, and I’ve been waiting for Amazon Prime to let me rent it ever since.
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2015-03
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Mockingjay Part 1.
2015-03-21.
Am I crazy or should they have skipped Part 1 and gone right to Part 2? The entire movie seemed like a prologue. Which, I guess, it was. For Part 2.
Other than that, it was a great depiction of rubble.
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2023-10
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Black Sunday (1960, Mario Bava).
2023-10-01.
Old Italian Mario Bava black and white fare.
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Get Out (2017, Jordan Peele).
2023-10-01.
Finally got around to watching it.
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Haunt (2019, Scott Beck, Bryan Woods).
2023-10-02.
A well-shot SAW-ish movie that had its moments (well, one moment… the end) but overall kind of a predictable story full of shallow kids I didn’t really care about, and too much slasher for my tastes.
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The Wailing (2016, Korean).
2023-10-02.
The first half hour is a subtitled fever dream.
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Devil (2010).
2023-10-03.
This is my favorite kind of Stephen King story, except it’s not a Stephen King story, it’s credited to Brian Nelson and M. Night Shyamalan.
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A Bay of Blood (1971, Mario Bava).
2023-10-03.
Another cheap Italian Mario Bava movie from the film era before sound design mattered, so everything sounds like a badly dubbed, warbly cassette tape.
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The Keep (1983, Michael Mann).
2023-10-04.
Lots of star power and Tangerine Dream but I think I must have had a stroke because what was that? It started very promising, but it wasn’t my imagination that it felt like half the narrative had been cut out, leaving random gibberish, because it was.
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Train to Busan (2016, Korean).
2023-10-04.
It’s okay, but I got a bit bored in the middle of it.
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The Exorcist (1973).
2023-10-04.
Well I finally watched it.
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Jigoku (1960, Japanese).
2023-10-05.
Um.
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The Sentinal (1977).
2023-10-06.
The one where Christopher Walken gets a higher credit than Jeff Goldblum by chewing gum and saying nothing whatsoever, and where Tom Berenger makes a surprise one-line appearance at the end.
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The Caller (1987).
2023-10-06.
It’s a unique movie, I’ll give it that.
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Dracula (1931).
2023-10-06.
Not something I meant to watch, but it just happened to be on the front page of Amazon Prime one day.
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Nope (2022, Jordan Peele).
2023-10-06.
Turned out it wasn’t really a horror movie, it’s more of a science ficion movie.
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Hell Fest (2018).
2023-10-07.
Typical factory-produced teen slasher made to pay the bills.
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Triangle (2009, Christopher Smith).
2023-10-07.
Started a bit slow, but has some very compelling plot developments.
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Resolution (2012).
2023-10-07.
Very low budget indie movie.
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Maniac Cop (1988).
2023-10-07.
I could tell from the title and the description and the first five minutes that this movie wasn’t going to work for me so I just fast forwarded through it.
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Horror of Dracula (1958).
2023-10-07.
One of those classic “Hammer horrors” you’ve heard about all your life, but never actually seen.
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Phantasm (Remastered) (1979).
2023-10-07.
I lost interest in this after an hour.
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1408 (2012).
2023-10-08.
Always meant to see this one.
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 40th Anniversary Edition (1974, Tobe Hooper).
2023-10-08.
I didn’t expect so much of this movie to be slow and boring.
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The Descent (2005).
2023-10-08.
A movie that I avoided because I thought it would be too dern gruesome for me when I first saw trailers for it.
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The Blair Witch Project (1999, Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez).
2023-10-08.
Brian the Dog said, “Nothing’s happening, nothing’s happening… something about a map.”
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Paranormal Activity (2007, Oren Peli).
2023-10-08.
Fast-forwarded through most of this one.
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The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005).
2023-10-09.
I remember this as one of the spookiest horror movies I’ve ever seen, so when I saw Jaedia’s review giving it only three stars (and describing it more as a courtroom drama, which I didn’t remember at all) I had to rewatch it to see if I misremembered.
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Freaky (2020).
2023-10-09.
The urge to make fun of the younger generation is strong, but it’s cute.
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The Menu (2022).
2023-10-09.
Not what you think.
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The VVitch (2015, Roger Eggers).
2023-10-09.
Nice supernatural period drama but pretty slow-paced.
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Old (2021, M. Night Shymalan).
2023-10-09.
Cool “what if” idea, but I didn’t quite buy into it.
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Last Night in Soho (2021, Edgar Wright).
2023-10-09.
A fantastic movie in every department.
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Insidious (2010, James Wan).
2023-10-10.
Seemed like it was supposed to have been a television series pilot.
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Black Swan (2010).
2023-10-10.
I never knew this was considered a horror movie.
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Knock at the Cabin (2023, M. Night Shymalan).
2023-10-10.
I really liked this movie, but I can’t quite decide if I loved it or not.
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The Oblong Box (1969).
2023-10-11.
Edgar Allen Poe and Vincent Price and all, but I found it difficult to follow the plot because I fell asleep the first time.
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A Quiet Place (2018, John Krasinski).
2023-10-11.
When I first saw the trailer for this movie in 2018, I thought, “This entire premise is just a justification for jump scares isn’t it.”
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Pet Sematary (2019).
2023-10-11.
Just getting around to evaluating this unnecessary remake.
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Blind Beast (1969, Japanese).
2023-10-12.
I mean it’s better than The Oblong Box for a film from 1969, at least, in a weird can’t-look-away-from-the-trainwreck kind of way.
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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969).
2023-10-12.
A Hammer Horror with Peter Cushing, allegedly the highest grossing horror movie of 1969 according to IMDB.
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Suspiria (1977, Dario Argento).
2023-10-12.
Italian.
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Eraserhead (1977, David Lynch).
2023-10-13.
David Lynch’s first feature film, I believe.
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The Hills Have Eyes (1977, Wes Craven).
2023-10-13.
Wes Craven’s second film, I believe.
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The Empty Man (2020).
2023-10-13.
Is smoking cool again?
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Lifeforce (1985, Tobe Hooper).
2023-10-14.
A cult favorite from the director of Poltergeist.
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Day of the Dead (1985, George A. Romero).
2023-10-14.
Zombies with a Magnum P.I.
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Halloween (1978, John Carpenter).
2023-10-14.
Never realized this was a John Carpenter movie.
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The Host (2006, Bong Joon-ho, Korean, English).
2023-10-14.
A monster movie with an absurd sense of humor, but I liked it.
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Ghost Story (1981, John Irvin).
2023-10-15.
Based on the very first horror book I ever read (although I didn’t read it until the early 90s).
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984, Wes Craven).
2023-10-15.
Not once since I first heard about this movie in the 80s has it ever occurred to me that I’d ever want to watch this movie.
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No One Will Save You (2023, Brian Duffield).
2023-10-16.
What if there were a new crop of movie directors who were heavily inspired by M. Night Shymalan movies?
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Older Gods (2023, David A. Roberts).
2023-10-16.
A dude tries to unravel the mystery of his friend’s elder god cult.
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Scream (1996, Wes Craven).
2023-10-16.
It’s possible I first saw some or all of this in the 2000s.
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Scream (2022, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett).
2023-10-17.
Deja vu.
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It Follows (2014, David Robert Mitchell).
2023-10-17.
It was on my watch list for 2014 horror movies, and it was mentioned in Scream (2022) as an “elevated” horror film, so I had to watch it.
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Hereditary (2018, Ari Aster).
2023-10-18.
Another “elevated” horror movie referenced in Scream (2022).
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The Faculty (1998, Robert Rodriguez).
2023-10-18.
I didn’t realize this was going to be a comedy.
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The Conjuring (2013, James Wan).
2023-10-19.
The grand tradition of the haunted house, and this time it’s apparently an entire cinematic universe.
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Stir of Echoes (1999, David Koepp).
2023-10-20.
The search for a 1999 horror alternative to Blair Witch.
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eXistenZ (1999, David Cronenberg).
2023-10-20.
The search for a 1999 horror alternative to Blair Witch.
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Friday the 13th (1980, Sean S. Cunningham).
2023-10-21.
Just checking the box.
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Let The Right One In (2008, Tomas Alfredson, Swedish).
2023-10-21.
A sad but engrossing story about a kid befriending a vampire.
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Alone (2020, John Hyams).
2023-10-21.
Beware passing strangers on a mountain road.
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Bone Tomahawk (2015, S. Craig Zahler).
2023-10-21.
Character-driven period western with a survival horror twist.
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Let Me In (2010, Matt Reeves).
2023-10-22.
Not as good as the Swedish version.
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In The Tall Grass (2019, Vincenzo Natali).
2023-10-22.
Started well but fell apart in the middle.
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Cronos (1992, Guillermo del Toro, Spanish, English).
2023-10-22.
I don’t know what this was supposed to be.
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Cat People (1942, Jacques Tourneur).
2023-10-22.
Surprisingly watchable psychological drama, and the origin of the jump scare.
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The Cursed (2021, Sean Ellis).
2023-10-23.
Moody Victorian period drama about a monster curse.
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Saint Maud (2019, Rose Glass).
2023-10-23.
A quiet, character-driven psychological journey.
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Alien: Covenant (2017, Ridley Scott).
2023-10-24.
If only they’d had a mask mandate.
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The Stepford Wives (1975, Bryan Forbes).
2023-10-25.
A window into the culture wars of 1975.
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Us (2019, Jordan Peele).
2023-10-25.
There’s never a good reason to go into a funhouse.
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Tucker & Dale vs Evil (2010, Eli Craig).
2023-10-25.
Perfectly reasonable representation of West Virginians.
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The Woman In Black (2012, James Watkins).
2023-10-26.
Downton Abbey with a haunted house.
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Byzantium (2012, Neil Jordan).
2023-10-26.
Is this the best vampire movie ever made?
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The Last Exorcism (2010, Daniel Stamm).
2023-10-27.
Hope you’re into documentary-style and evangelicals.
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Shaun of the Dead (2004, Edgar Wright).
2023-10-27.
Still funny.
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Hot Fuzz (2007, Edgar Wright).
2023-10-27.
Shaky cam, epilepsy, and some laughs.
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The World's End (2013, Edgar Wright).
2023-10-28.
Simon Pegg and pubs again.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968, George A. Romero).
2023-10-28.
Zombie apocalypse, 60s black-and-white style. The survivors hide out in a house.
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Dawn of the Dead (1978, George A. Romero).
2023-10-28.
Zombie apocalypse, 70s style. The survivors hide out in a shopping mall.
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Deep Red (Uncensored English Version) (1975, Dario Argento).
2023-10-28.
Investigating the murder of a psychic for inexplicable reasons.
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Land of the Dead (Unrated) (2005, George A. Romero).
2023-10-29.
Zombie apocalypse, 2000s-style. The survivors live in Pittsburg with lots of guns.
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Diary of the Dead (2007, George A. Romero).
2023-10-29.
Zombie apocalypse, Internet-style. The survivors make a documentary.
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The Fog (1980, John Carpenter).
2023-10-29.
Ghosts looking for their gold.
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Rubber (2010, Quentin Dupieux).
2023-10-29.
Not every idea needs to be a movie.
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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1977, John DeBello).
2023-10-30.
At least they tried to make it funny.
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Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022, John Lee Hancock).
2023-10-30.
This is why you should get an Android phone.
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The Fly (1958, Kurt Neumann).
2023-10-30.
He said help me not squash me.
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The Thing (1982, John Carpenter).
2023-10-31.
Nobody ever listens to the dogs.
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Ring (1998, Hideo Nakata, Japanese).
2023-10-31.
Sometimes the original isn’t better.
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The Ring (2002, Gore Verbinski).
2023-10-31.
A good reason to replace VHS technology.
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2023-11
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The Birds (1963, Alfred Hitchcock).
2023-11-01.
At least they saved the love birds.
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Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock).
2023-11-02.
Don’t steal money from your boss.
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Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 (2023, Christopher McQuarrie).
2023-11-14.
Not surprising but still fun.
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2023-12
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023, James Mangold).
2023-12-11.
Not like the old days, but not terrible.
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2024-01
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The Creator (2023, Gareth Edwards).
2024-01-20.
Well at least it wasn’t a superhero movie.
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