#HumpdayHorror Deathdream (1974)
Bob Clark directs this quasi-zombie film of a returning solider who was pronounced dead in combat.
Co-starring Faces stars John Marley & Lynn Carlin, who hated eachother in real life, Clark uses the genre as a way to examine PTSD.
#HumpdayHorror The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Released during a horrid era of (mostly) terrible remakes, Aja's THHE stands strong as a well paced and tension filled movie. W/ incredible cinematography and strong performances, there's an argument that the remake rivals the OG.
#HumpdayHorror Son of Dracula (1974)
Infamous turkey devised by Ringo Starr, & starring Harry Nillson as Count Downe, son of Dracula is an anarchic musical made when both musicians were indulging in the R&R lifestyle - so much so, dir. Freddie Francis had to check into hospital
#HumpdayHorror Terror Train (1980)
"Halloween on a train" is what they asked for, & what they some-what get, in this NYE slasher starring scream queen JLC, in a claustrophobic horror that somehow includes the disco-fied presence of magician David Cooperfield.
Bloody good fun
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Less acclaimed than its predecessor, Gremlins 2 is a great horror film in its own right, and a vicious critique of corporate greed and franchise exploitation. At Joe Dante’s request, Chuck Jones came out of retirement to create the opening.
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In the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Leatherface wears 3 different masks: 'Killing', 'Old Lady' & 'Pretty Woman'. The first represents hostility, the second represents domesticity, and the 3rd represents hospitality.
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#HumpdayHorror The Beyond (1981)
Fulci nixes narrative in favour of southern gothic surrealism in his 2nd entry into his Gates of Hell Trilogy.
Gruesome death scenes and a fantastic Frizzi score make this Catholic zombie shocker a must see!
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While it may suffer from budgetary constraints and script shortcomings, The Void is steeped in Lovecraftian horror, with a story that gradually takes us deeper and deeper into the nightmare until we're as overwhelmed as the characters.
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#nowwatching for today's #Humpdayhorror BRING HER BACK.
Foster homes. Secrets. Occult rituals - all from the same filmmakers of the standout teen horror Talk To Me.
What's everyone's thoughts of this?
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Lacking the legendary reputation of the first and the true batshit insanity of the second, The Exorcist III deserves its own place in horror history, with an eerie atmosphere, striking cinematography and a chilling villain that’s up there with the genre’s best.
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The penultimate film from British director Michael Reeves, The Sorcerers sees him dissecting the Swinging Sixties and the glaring generational divide. Lead actor Ian Ogilvy, a childhood friend of Reeves, would star in all 3 of his movies.
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The very definition of a film creeping up on you, Soft & Quiet uses the single take conceit to slowly drag you into a world of rage and ugliness, where even the kindest soul can be coaxed into committing the most horrible acts.
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One of the hidden gems of 2022, Fresh puts a twisted spin on the world of modern dating and our obsession with all things physical. Screenwriter Lauryn Kahn's intention was to make a horror film for people who were on the fence about the genre.
#HumpdayHorror The Vampire Lovers (1970)
Hammer pushes their 'bloodshed and bosoms' formula into overt erotica in this adaptation of Carmilla - a vampire novel released 25 years b4 Stoker's Dracula. The book would be used against censors who weren't happy with the lesbianism.
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A composite photo of 6 cinematic horror books and magazines, as follows: 1. The Rue Morgue Library. Rue Morgue Magazine's "Shark Movie Mania – a bloody history of Cinema's greatest killing machines," by Michael Gingold. On the cover, the iconic Jaws poster shark, surrounded by a collage of 8 other shark attack related films. 2. "Queens of Scream – the new blood." Edited by David Byron. Cover concept and design by Dennis M. Willman. A blood red tinge saturates this vintage-looking image of a smiling, seductive nude woman on a Victorian divan. Superimposed behind her back is the terrifying face of a tortured woman with yellow eyes and a steel pipe bridle in her mouth. 3. "Discover the Horror – one man's 50 year quest for monsters, maniacs, and the meaning of it all," by John Kitley. The cover is an innocent child in a library, aghast, reading a book called Scary Movies. 4. Monster! Number 2, Feb 2014. A 1950s alien movie monster is reproduced in shades of yellow and green. 5. Monster! Issue 6, June 2014. A black and white image of two men handling a 10-foot giant body concealed in tarps and tied with ropes, as if cargo. 6. Weng's Chop III – this shit will fuck you up! A collage of 3 very heavily altered images that appear to come from Asian crime cinema.
Have a little #HumpdayHorror!
9/10/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.
Recap: I shared some of these before. If you want interesting, unusual, creepy books lurking your pad this #SpookySeason, #BonnettsBooks can help, w/ novels, mags, comics, & DVDs, too!
Tomorrow's aim: #GoldenAge #Funnies!
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A key film in the Australian New Wave movement, Long Weekend makes heavy use of folk horror elements, as well as the inherent dangers of the Australian wilderness, with an intangible villain which exacts a brutal revenge that is, undoubtedly, very well deserved.
#HumpdayHorror Fascination (1979)
Master of the cinema of fantastique, Jean Rollin, brings his surrealistic take to the vampiric genre. Ox blood drinking elites, aristocratic vampires and led by porno star Brigitte Lahaie, Fascination is a study of atmosphere and aesthetic.
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Featuring classic folk horror tropes (rural setting, isolated community, women the root cause of all evil), The Severed Sun was filmed in Cornwall, also the filming location of Mark Jenkin's own folk horror Enys Men, which we covered almost 2 years ago.
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#HumpdayHorror Repulsion (1965)
The first in Polanski's 'apartment trilogy' Repulsion - a story of a fractured mind in isolation, with a perfect performance from Deneuve - struggled to get financing, ended up with Compton Pictures, aa company known for financing soft porn.
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Rather than simply recycling the 'Man vs Shark' premise we've seen a million times before, Dangerous Animals, Sean Byrne's first feature film in 10 years, is more like 'Man vs. Self' with a few sharks thrown in.
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#HumpdayHorror Candance Glendenning's name might not come up too often, but this British 70s scream queen worked with likes of Norman J. Warren in the great Satans Slave(her biggest leading role), and was also in the early slasher film The Flesh and Blood Show (1972).
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With sickeningly real practical effects, a permanently bleak atmosphere and one of the most disturbing real life stories serving as the narrative, Men (or Man) Behind The Sun was the first film to receive a level III rating in Hong Kong, equivalent to an NC-17.
#HumpdayHorror Duel (1971)
The best TV film of all time? Possibly. Spielberg's debut removes any excess, & gives the audience a minimalist & streamlined horrorshow of primal (road) rage, set against the burning heat of the desert, tht perfectly delivers Hitchcockian delights
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Ditching the original’s gritty documentarian realism in favour of noughties glossiness and graphic gore, the 2003 Texas Chainsaw Massacre has a divisive reputation, but remains the franchise’s most profitable.
#HumpdayHorror Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom.
De Sade's work gets a makeover in Pasolini's final film, that would take aim at the brutal authority of fascist era Italy, in this precursor to torture porn.
Pasolini also points his finger at consumerism - crap in, crap out.
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The Decent was only Neil Marshall's second film in the directors chair, but he demonstrates a complete mastery of steadily escalating tension, as well as giving us a group of unique, memorable characters; both anomalies in 2000s horror films.
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#HumpdayHorror Kotoko.
Mental illness, an unreliable narrator & injections of blood & depravity coalesce in Tsukamoto's psych-horror masterpiece.
W/ a story by, & starring J-pop singer Cocco in a tour de force of a performance, Cocco grounds the film in a disturbed reality
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Slightly too infatuated with the films that came before it to truly do its own thing, Bloodlines explores generational trauma with the franchise’s typical blend of scarily accurate premonitions and cartoonish deaths, and includes a heartfelt send off for Tony Todd.
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#HumpdayHorror The Ninth Gate.
This Satanic horror released in 1999(inverted, 666), deals in bibliophilia, the mundanity of evil & the occult. One of Polanski's most underrated films, & a film our upcoming guest calls 'the most true to life depiction of Satanism in cinema'
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