Feels like we've been in the 500s forever, doesn't it? I'm not saying I mind, mind you, as there are so many delights to be found within. Don't believe me? Then just check out the following films, each of which received one vote.
535. Humongous -- 1982, Paul Lynch
534. Howling III -- 1987, Philippe Mora
533. Housebound -- 2014, Gerard Johnstone
532. House on Haunted Hill -- 1999, William Malone
531. House -- 1985, Steve Miner
530. Horror of Dracula -- 1958, Terence Fisher
529. Horror in the High Desert -- 2021, Dutch Marich
528. Home for the Holidays -- 1972, John Llewellyn Moxey
527. History of the Occult -- 2020, Cristian Ponce
526. Hide and Go Shriek -- 1988, Skip Schoolnik
525. Hellbent -- 2004, Paul Etheredge
524. Heathers -- 1988, Michael Lehmann
523. Hatching -- 2022, Hanna Bergholm
522. Happy Birthday to Me -- 1981, J. Lee Thompson
521. The Happiness of the Katakuris -- 2001, Takashi Miike
520. Halloween -- 2018, David Gordon Green
519. Halloween II -- 2009, Rob Zombie
518. Habit -- 1995, Larry Fessenden
517. Gretel & Hansel -- 2020, Osgood Perkins
516. Gremlins 2: The New Batch -- 1990, Joe Dante and Chuck Jones
515. The Grapes of Death -- 1978, Jean Rollin
514. Gods and Monsters -- 1998, Bill Condon
513. Ghosts of Mars -- 2001, John Carpenter
512. Ghostbusters -- 1984, Ivan Reitman
511. Funeral Home -- 1980, William Fruet
510. Frozen -- 2010, Adam Green
509. Frontier(s) -- 2007, Xavier Gens
- I feel like someday the dam in my mind will burst and I will fully embrace the WTFery of Ghosts of Mars. Today is not that day! But someday.
- My affection for House on Haunted Hill will never wane. Kind of strange to have such a personal attachment to it, but hey. It's also wild that it came out *~* last century *~*
- Someday I will do...something to tackle all of the Howling films as I've only seen the first and I am so very curious about the others. I mean, The Marsupials? Your Sister is a Werewolf? Hard to believe I've never engaged. Today is not that day! But someday.
- A reader on Halloween II: "Much of Rob Zombie’s work, including his first Halloween, falls into the genre-spanning category of Ugly People Doing Ugly Things. There’s some of that here, but for me this movie plays like fucked up but sincerely felt fanfiction based on the 1978 movie. And the atmosphere Zombie creates really feels like Halloween (much more than something like Trick 'r Treat does, for example). I think this is the second-best film in the whole franchise."
- Am I the only person who had no idea that Gretel & Hansel is an Osgood Perkins film? I haven't seen it, but still.
- Forever "heck yeah" to Humongous, Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Home for the Holidays!
- And Housebound!
- And Funeral Home!
- And...I will stop here because otherwise I'll be heck yeahing forever.
I had to look it up, because my first thought was "how do I not remember that Home for the Holidays had some sort of horror element...?" but a 70s christmas horror made-for-tv-movie with Sally Field and Jessica Walter?? Sign me up!
ReplyDeleteHome for the Holidays is SO GOOD! The cast is incredible and it's a legit terrific slasher film. It's maddening that it hasn't had a restoration and proper modern release, but it's still worth adding to your Christmastime horror rotation.
DeleteIf at all possible, the ideal way to watch my one-vote-wonder HABIT is without reading any blurbs or synopses about it. Then we discover and try to interpret the horror creeping into the troubled main character's life along with him.
ReplyDeleteA review of the whole series of Howling films sounds like a great idea. I've only seen the first four, but it seems that each film goes its own way with little-to-no regard to any others in the series.
Though I've always loved Halloween III, as a know-it-all teen I was oddly not very accepting of the weirdo series that weren't pretty much just formulaic. As a know-it-all adult, though, I say gimme gimme all the weirdos!
DeleteI can understand being the only vote for Ghostbusters, but Gremlins 2 as well?
ReplyDeleteThere are some seriously unexpected results this time around, that's for sure.
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