TODAY I WATCHED (Movies, TV Shows) 2016

007 wrote:

I remember that Dark Night Of The Scarecrow movie. Both of these are in YouTube, no?

Yep.

Great. Now that the weather is starting to turn and I'll be indoors more, it will be time to catch up on all these.

007 wrote:

Great. Now that the weather is starting to turn and I'll be indoors more, it will be time to catch up on all these.

That's what I keep saying.... but the watch list just keeps growing bigger and bigger!

The Magnificent Seven (2016)

Witchfinder wrote:

The Magnificent Seven (2016)

Man I hate the theme song from the original version. We had to play that over and over and over when I was in high school marching band; I got soooooo sick of it. I haven't played trumpet in over 30 years but I bet I can still remember the valve fingerings for that damn song.

"Mountain of the Cannibal God" (1978)
Ursula Andress is totally slummin’ it as a wealthy woman who heads into the jungles of New Guinea to find her missing scientist husband in this Italian cannibal flick. As you might expect, lotsa lush jungle scenery, animal cruelty, gruesome gore, gratuitous nudity and violence follow. “Mountain…” obviously had a bigger budget than your average cannibal flick but it’s still sleazy as hell. Enjoyable trash that will make you feel like you need a shower when it’s over.

Bob's Burgers season premiere
The Simpsons season premiere
Fear The Walking Dead

Fat Freddy wrote:

Finally startin' to feel like Fall around here... which means it's time to start setting the Halloween movie mood...

"Dark Night of the Scarecrow" (1981)

A posse of local yokels kill a mentally handicapped man they mistakenly suspect of murdering a little girl. Soon the rednecks are being picked off one by one by a vengeance-seeking spirit hiding in the body of a scarecrow. This made-for-TV flick does a nice job of setting a creepy mood and features a great performance by Charles Durning as the leader of the posse.

Man, I remember that movie. Scared the hell outta me as a youngin'. I guess since it was on network television, my parents figured it was ok for me to watch. Wrong.

The movie, "Practical Magic" - on DVD.

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"The House on Sorority Row" (1983)


A group of sorority sisters pull a prank on their mean ol' housemother which backfires fatally. When they try to cover up their crime so they can proceed with their big graduation bash, things get worse because someone starts picking the guilty parties off one by one. A mostly forgotten, but effective, lil' slasher/mystery flick that takes a while to get goin' but features some truly sick moments when it finally kicks into gear.

ROH

Since the Pirates were losing I turned over to the ultra campy Scream Queens and then watched Agents Of SHIELD.

"Def-Con 4" (1985)


The crew of an orbiting defense satellite watches helplessly from space as nuclear war breaks out across the globe. When they return to Earth a few months later they land in the middle of a conflict between a militia run by a crazed dictator and radiation-scarred "Terminals."
This flick starts out pretty promising but devolves into yet another crappy "Mad Max" post apocalypse wanna-be once the astronauts return "home."
Don't be sucked in by the badass poster art for this flick, because it bears no resemblance to any events in the movie...

American Horror Story : Roanoke

Fat Freddy wrote:

"Def-Con 4" (1985)


The crew of an orbiting defense satellite watches helplessly from space as nuclear war breaks out across the globe. When they return to Earth a few months later they land in the middle of a conflict between a militia run by a crazed dictator and radiation-scarred "Terminals."
This flick starts out pretty promising but devolves into yet another crappy "Mad Max" post apocalypse wanna-be once the astronauts return "home."
Don't be sucked in by the badass poster art for this flick, because it bears no resemblance to any events in the movie...

I so desired this as a kid at the video store because of that art. While it was a let-down (when I finally BOUGHT the VHS in my twenties--still own it, in fact), I still get a kick out of it. Something about the dry, ironic humor, and you never really know where the movie is going. It's kinda ballsy for its breed.

But damn, did it have some sick poster art.

"Assault on Precinct 13" (1976)


The caretaker crew at an L.A. police precinct that's due to shut down for good in the morning spends a night under siege, battling against a seemingly endless stream of homicidal street gang members in John Carpenter's cult classic shoot'em up that's still holding up well after 40 years.

Supernatural

Re-watched Men Behind the Sun

Ash vs the Evil Dead season 1 , episdodes 1-3

"Iron Maiden and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal" (2008)


A lengthy and thorough "unauthorized" doc about the NWOBHM era and Maiden's ascent from front runners in the British metal scene to global superstardom. Commentaries are provided by noted U.K. rock journalists like Malcolm Dome, Jerry Ewing, and Geoff Barton, and musicians including former Maidenites Paul DiAnno and Dennis Stratton, Brian Tatler of Diamond Head, and members of Samson, Praying Mantis and Tygers of Pan Tang.
With a run time of two-plus hours this doc took more than one sitting to get through and there were some surprising omissions (Venom was barely mentioned, and Raven was ignored entirely!), but overall this was a pretty cool history lesson.

Mglaffas81 wrote:

Re-watched Men Behind the Sun

I still can't bring myself to watch that one because I know about the live cat thrown to the rats. And that was real. The human torture stuff doesn't bother me as I've seen that sort of thing countless times.

Dead Silence

I gotta say I really enjoyed this one.  And you can tell it was directed by the same person who directed Saw because it ends with that same "accelerating musical score accompanying flashbacks of previous scenes with more exposition" gimmick.   I still have to watch the ending again though to make sure I understand it.  I finished it up pretty late last night so I was half asleep but it seems some stuff didn't quite add up.

EDIT:  I was just reading the Wikipedia writeup on this movie.  Apparently this movie was almost universally panned.  I found this tidbit from screenwriter Leigh Whannel to be interesting:

Quote :

In a candid post entitled "Dud Silence: The Hellish Experience of Making a Bad Horror Film", Whannell explains that the film was conceived following the advice of his agent at the time and that a "script doctor" was eventually employed by the production studio. Whannell concludes the post with a description of the key lessons that were learned following the Dead Silence experience:


After everything is said and done, I'm almost glad Dead Silence happened, because it gave me an extreme, coal-face lesson in what not to do. It was like learning to swim by leaping off Niagara Falls. I only write scripts on spec now, which means that I write them in my own time without getting paid and then take them out into the world to see if anyone's interested. Never again will I enter the arranged marriage of selling a pitch. I have also become very gun-shy about working with studios. In the world of independent film, what you write ends up on screen. Plus, they don't have the money to bring in script doctors! Works fine for me. Who knows, maybe one day I will work with a studio again...[11]

I also learned that the cool effect of Mary Shaw with her freakishly long tongues wasn't in the theatrical reason for some reason. Shame because that was one of the best parts of the film. It's an effect that looks like something Screaming Mad George would have used in "Society".

Q The Winged Serpent (1982)

Finally got around to watching this last night and I gotta says that it's a lot better than expected mainly due to the cast with David Carradine, Richard Roundtree, and Michael Moriarty.


Followed that up with 3 episodes of Ash vs the Evil Dead.

The last movie I watched: The Magnificent Seven.
The last TV show I watched: The new episode of Family Guy.

"P2"(2007)


A female executive is trapped inside her office's parking garage after hours on Christmas Eve - by a deranged security guard who's fixated on her. An effective, claustrophobic little suspense thriller produced by Alexandre "High Tension" Aja, with a great performance by Wes Bentley as the wack job. Also, damsel-in-distress Rachel Nichols has an impressive rack. Just sayin'.