A scary thing happened on the way to the Movie Forums - Horrorcrammers

Uncle Peter is the best. "Don't hog the stuff, Shlocker!"

Thanks. We should have known better scheduling a trip there during hurricane season. We took a chance due to really wanting to see their Halloween parade.

Disney lets you reschedule, so the Haunted Mansion will have to wait until another day.

But yeah, nearly everything Pete says or does is funny. "Their fortune was...quite vast, actually!"

In the subtitles, as soon as he tackles her

Peter enthusiastically carving the "roast", and not even flinching at the bowl of dried grass is absolutely hilarious to me.

I just watched Spider Baby earlier today, and I feel concur that Uncle Peter is the rug that really brings the room together.

I'm watching The Entity and Ron Silver is suggesting that hysteria is why the main character has bite marks on her body and, woof, so punchable!

How are you watching it, I've been trying to see it for years. I had watched it a bunch when I was a kid.

Just got added to Criterion Channel.

This movie should be titled Being a Woman Seeking Medical Care: The Movie.

I sometimes feel alone as the only RT'er who doesn't do horror marathons every October. I'm just not good with committing to one genre/decade/etc for an extended period of time. I've done a few marathons in the past, but I often struggle to commit to them fully and am usually relieved when they finish. I also think I bailed on one in the past, not due to disliking the horror films I chose but because I wanted to get back to my normal wheelhouse. I'm all about variation.

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Do you mean that you would not want to commit to only watching Horror or Halloween-related movies for a month?
I can certainly understand that but I'm a nut for this shit. I don't wanna watch anything else in October. So the Horrorthon is really just a formalizing of that.

It's hard for me to commit to a genre like that as well - I've tried to do Noirvember and gave up quickly - but it's easy for me to commit to a horrorthon. There's lots of variety in horror's many subgenres (folk, slashers, body, monster, etc.), the many countries that produce it, and since it's such an old genre, you can also add variety by considering different eras.

Horror/thrillers make up most of what I watch year-round, so amping it up a bit in October isn't that big a change. And this is also a time of year when films become available on streaming services that you don't usually get.

I also do really well with a list/focus. If I'm just like "Let's watch a movie!!" I end up spending 25 minutes scrolling JustWatch and different services and half the time I'll just give up and put on sports or a cooking show.

I also think that marathons are . . . just a thing that you can do or not do. Honestly, if everyone was doing a marathon, it would be exhausting to keep up with all the threads and posts.

Watch as much or as little horror as you want. Forcing yourself to do something you don’t want to isn’t going to be a fun experience anyway. While some folks choose to get extra horror movies in during this month I’m sure it’s a minority of people actually watching only horror every single day.

If you still want to do some horror but not all month maybe limit it to just the week leading up the Halloween, and pick like 7 you really want to see or something like that.

Frankly I get a chuckle when I open Letterboxd and see a bunch of horror films on my "friend's activity" list, and then there's one Belgian arthouse film in the middle of them. I know that one belongs to Speling without even checking the name. I respect it.

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For me, I try to watch a film every day, and on days I'm not working, I try to aim for three (I may try to increase this if I get more free time down the road though). I generally use curated lists to get recommendations from which encompass all sorts of genres, decades, countries. That's what I've been doing for years and that's what I'm comfortable with. I could do genre binges for a week, but though a month might not seem like a long time, it is for me. Once I feel I start to run out of films to watch on the lists I normally use, I may change my wheelhouse up, but that will take awhile.

That's a good suggestion though.

Anyways, I don't know if anyone plays videogames here besides Wooley, but Amnesia: The Bunker is incredible.

Oddity. After a woman is murdered her twin sister uses her psychic powers to investigate. Like The First Omen I solved the mystery extremely early, but that’s not really what was important here. It’s an expertly told story and all the characters are compelling and sympathetic in their own way. I’d heard how scary this movie was but was surprised to find it very funny too, especially Darcy. I’d watch a whole hacky show where this blind psychic and her creepy petrified body sidekick solve murders.


Exhuma. When a wealthy family’s baby is born sick the patriarch hires a team of shamans and geomancers to lift a curse on his deceased grandfather. It was such a fascinating concept to me that you need to bury loved ones in a good plot or they’d haunt you, and then you’d have to call in a geomancer to relocate their body. I don’t know anything about religions but I’m assuming this is all based on a real belief system. Anyway this movie is a wild ****ing ride that educated me on a whole host of rituals and superstitions.

I highly recommend both of them.

I find the glut of horror movies I watch in October helps balance out all of the dramas I seem to be watching throughout the rest of the year. But the recommendation of doing a smaller marathon is probably better if it's not your thing (either the 7 days leading up to Halloween, or do like 7 in one day on the weekend before, like you're creating a program for other people (or do it as a program for other people), so it encourages you to think about trying to get a variety).

I watched this some time in the past decade when it was screened at a theater. Something about the premise being based on a true story made the movie just seem extremely exploitative to me in a way that I normally don't with films.