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I've signed up for the seven-day free trial; does anyone have any recommendations?

I can recommend Host, it's really good. It's just under an hour long and terrifying. :D

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I've just signed up too, not had a chance to have a good look, but Terrifier is brilliant, if low budget. But the main protagonist is absolutely fantastic. Makes Pennywise look like a clown!
 
I signed up a couple of nights ago and now I have watched, Revenge, Host and The Wind.

I've commented on Host already and yeah, it's full on.

Revenge was much more stylish and cartoonish than I was expecting. A bit light weight but a good watch.

I'm not sure what I make of The Wind. Slow burn minimalist horror set on an isolated homestead on the western frontier. Not for everyone. I'm not sure there were enough ideas to sustain it but then I'm not sure I picked up on all the ideas.

Anyway good idea for a thread.
 
I'd subscribe to Shudder but the last time I checked, they offered all their titles dubbed into German only here in Germany. Many of the horror films I've watched this year are on Shudder though. It's especially good for foreign horror films.


The Argentinian Aterrados (Terrified) is very creepy and one of my favourite horror films of the last few years.

Impetigore from Indonesia is good.

The Nightshifter is a Brazilian horror film about a morgue attendant who faces the wrath of the dead when he abuses his power to be able to speak to them.

La Llorona is a Guatemalan film which blends political thriller with ghost story.
 
I just watched Host tonight and it was decent. It didn't seem to drag on and kept me entertained till the end, which some of these found footage/live footage films can do.

A solid 7/10 with some good jump scares.
 
Well I watch Blood Quantum last night. It's a good low budget Canadian zombie flick. It turns the tables on the relationship between the Indians and the white folk, but the point it's trying to make evades me. The antagonist in the film is both sympathetic and inexplicably, unnecessarily destructive which leaves me scratching my head. But it's certainly worth watching.

Rewatching Troll Hunter now. Yes Troll Hunter is on Shudder. Callooh callay!.
 
Rewatching Hell House LLC and it's a good found footage film, genuinely scary in parts. Would recommend.

The two sequels are on too, but not seen them so can't comment on how good/bad they are.
 
Now watched One Cut of the Dead. I won't say much about it but it's not really a horror film despite it's first appearances and it's more about film making. It is however, really entertaining. Do watch it if you haven't.
 
We’re going to town with Shudder this weekend to get the most of the 7-day trial, so expect a few more reviews from me... :)

We’ve just watched Deadwax. It’s a small miniseries (not only just 8 episodes, but each ep is just 10 minutes long, so it doesn’t get long to complete). It’s not superb but watchable, I’d say 6/10. Easy to watch anyway and episode 4 was very enjoyable. Interesting premise as well, and a bit dark.
 
Mayhem: a horror comedy, with the emphasis on comedy. Funny and entertaining throughout, just like a a horror comedy is meant to be. One of the best ones of the genre I’ve seen in a while.
 
Don’t bother with Beach House. It’s shite, or mediocre at best.

Anyways, I’ll probably wind down my reports now but I would advise peeps to get the 7-day free trial to at least watch Host, followed by The Mortuary Collection, Mayhem and Hell House. You’ve got nothing to lose (so long as you ensure you cancel it within the week, which according to the missus looks like iis as simple as a couple of mouse clicks.

ETA: I had to come back to recommend one last film: Scare Me. It’s a comedy-horror written, directed and played by Josh Ruben. Feels like a play rather than a film in its set up, and it is really fucking good IMO. Great dialogue and performances.

It will not be for everyone, and I suspect it’ll end up being a proper Marmite film. But if it’s your thing, you should enjoy it.
 
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Rosemary Jest said:
I've just signed up too, not had a chance to have a good look, but Terrifier is brilliant, if low budget. But the main protagonist is absolutely fantastic. Makes Pennywise look like a clown!
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I have just watched this and honestly I found it really boring. :(
I didn't care that any of them died. The gore, although extreme just felt so over the top that I wasn't bothered by it.
I ended up skipping ahead through the final third to get it over with.
 
I'm currently watching Eli Roth's History of Horror, a documentary series about horror films, every episode dealing with a different sub-genre. Doesn't tell me much I didn't already know, but it's entertaining, the clips are well chosen and the contributors are of a high caliber.
 
I was wondering about that. I was put off watching it because I'm really not a fan of Eli Roth. But I guess he knows his stuff.
 
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I was wondering about that. I was put off watching it because I'm really not a fan of Eli Roth. But I guess he knows his stuff.
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I'm not a fan of everything he's made, but there is a certain snobbishness about Roth because the Hostel films/torture porn were considered to drag the horror genre back into disrepute. I think every so often, horror still should be disreputable. He always struck me as enthusiastic and knowledgable about the genre, so he's a good host for this. Never cared for Cabin Fever or The Green Inferno but his kids horror movie The House With a Clock in its Walls was a better Tim Burton movie than most recent Tim Burton films.
 
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I'm not a fan of everything he's made, but there is a certain snobbishness about Roth because the Hostel films/torture porn were considered to drag the horror genre back into disrepute. I think every so often, horror still should be disreputable. He always struck me as enthusiastic and knowledgable about the genre, so he's a good host for this. Never cared for Cabin Fever or The Green Inferno but his kids horror movie The House With a Clock in its Walls was a better Tim Burton movie than most recent Tim Burton films.
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I didn't mind Hostel and Cabin Fever, but I thought Green Inferno and Knock Knock had a smug supercilious cynicism to them. Like if Sargon of Akkad decided to take up film making. It's not so much I thought they were especially bad films, I just ended up disliking the person who made them.
 
On a brighter note you can get Noroi: The Curse - odd Japanese slow burn found footage supernatural horror on Shudder. It doesn't hold my attention but it's different and has some really freaky scenes and some people love it. So definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it.
 
Thought The Wind was great

reminded of of how many frontiers folk did actually go insane due to the constant wind and dust

Best of all though was Scare Me, which turned out to be much funnier and cleverer than I thought it was gonna be. Absolutely spot on, especially if you're a writer yourself.

Don't bother with Spiral - it's shit.
 
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I thought Scare Me had a bit of an MRA vibe to it with a character of a talented successful woman who seems to enjoy making men feel inadequate. Maybe it wasn't going for a particular message but I kept thinking that in reality successful, talented women have better thing to do than mess with male insecurities. Interesting idea for a film though and I thought it worked reasonably well.
 
While I'm here - there's a film called Boar about a giant killer boar in the Australian outback and well... I didn't exactly hate, but it was an unconvincing waste of time.
 
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I thought Scare Me had a bit of an MRA vibe to it with a character of a talented successful woman who seems to enjoy making men feel inadequate.
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That's an interesting perspective Knotted

I mostly identified with her, as an intelligent female writer who experiences jealousy from male writers who either cannot keep up, don't want to put the work in, or are just simply jealous of any achievements. She didn't seem to me to 'enjoy making men feel inadequate', more that he just did feel inadequate, and she didn't suppress her own spark or intellect to accommodate that. In fact, it looked to me like she was being constructive in helping him to develop his stuff by instigating the story game
 
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Ah, we started watching it and had't got into it after twenty minutes and decided to leave it for another day. I don't think we'll bother now...

Deadtectives is a very silly low budget comedy-horror, and the first few minutes suggest it's going to be really bad, but it markedly improves soon after and ends up being fairly watchable if you're after cheap entertainment.
 
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