FINAL GIRL explores the slasher flicks of the '70s and '80s...and all the other horror movies I feel like talking about, too. This is life on the EDGE, so beware yon spoilers!

Oct 13, 2024

SHOCKtober: 480-453



*morse code noise* This just in on the wire! Each of the following films received one vote!

480. Duel -- 1971, Steven Spielberg
479. Dream Demon -- 1988, Harley Cokeliss
478. Dracula's Daughter -- 1936, Lambert Hillyer
477. Dracula -- 1931, Tod Browning 
476. Dr. Terror's House of Horrors -- 1965, Freddie Francis
475. Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde -- 1971, Roy Ward Baker
474. Don't Torture a Duckling -- 1972, Lucio Fulci
473. Don't Go to Sleep -- 1982, Richard Lang
472. Doctor X -- 1932, Michael Curtiz
471. Digging Up the Marrow -- 2014, Adam Green
470. Demons 2 -- 1986, Lamberto Bava
469. Demons -- 1971, Toshio Matsumoto
468. Demon Wind -- 1990, Charles Philip Moore
467. Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight -- 1995, Ernest R. Dickerson
466. Delicatessen -- 1991, Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet
465. Deep Blue Sea -- 1999, Renny Harlin
464. Strangeland -- 1998, John Pieplow
463. Death Walks at Midnight -- 1972, Luciano Ercoli
462. Death Spa -- 1988, Michael Fisha
461. Death Becomes Her -- 1992, Robert Zemeckis
460. Death at Love House -- 1976, E.W. Swackhamer
459. Deadstream -- 2022, Joseph Winter and Vanessa Winter
458. Deadly Eyes -- 1982, Robert Clouse
457. Dead End -- 2003, Jean-Baptiste Andrea and Fabrice Canepa
456. Dawn of the Dead -- 2004, Zack Snyder
455. Dashcam -- 2021, Rob Savage
454. Dark Water -- 2002, Hideo Nakata
453. Dark Mirror -- 1984, Richard Lang

  • Deadly Eyes rules my world! I would be perfectly happy watching those dachshunds-in-rat-costumes run up and down tunnels all day every day forever.
  • Death Spa is so much fun. Maybe you haven't seen it for a while, or maybe you've never seen it at all...no matter your current relationship with Death Spa, please consider making it a part of your SHOCKtober 2024 rotation, thank you.
  • I had never heard of Dark Mirror before someone included it on their list, and when I read the description of it they included I gasped. Made for TV? 1984? Jane Seymour as twins (one of whom is evil, natch)? How has this not been integral to my life since...1984, I guess? Do I even deserve to have a horror blog??
  • A reader on Delicatessen: "Who knew dread, cannibalism, and apocalypse could be this funny?"
  • I need to rewatch Dead End, it's been many a hot minute and in my memories at least it's a little gem. And who doesn't need more Ray Wise in their watchings?
  • It's a bit shocking that Snyder's Dawn of the Dead only got one vote. It's always had a pretty good showing--in 2020 it received seven votes and in earlier SHOCKtobers it got even more. Hmm! I'd like to see what the faves list looks like ten years from now--tastes and trends fluctuate of course, but there's just so much damn horror coming out every single minute and viewing habits / methods have drastically changed since I started doing this...how will the beloveds and classiques hold up in the future?

1 comment:

Steve K said...

Because of Criterion's Gialli offerings this month, I finally saw Don't Torture A Duckling, which, although not my favorite giallo by any means, has one of the coolest visuals: someone with grubby hands pushing stickpins into grimy waxen figurines. There's something about the way the pin squelch-pushes into the substance (because you don't know they're wax right away) that is so primally ooky -- I want some of these grimy waxen figurines.