2015 Track The Movies You Watch Discussion Thread
 

Hopefully this isnt a waste but I figured to keep the clutter down on the thread of our lists we should have a thread for any comments or questions about our lists and or general discussion on the movies we list. Maybe it will keep the list thread a little less hectic to go through.

Sounds doable. Great idea.

Good call.

It would be awesome if V, the most awesome of super mods who I hope is not quitting his job as awesome super mod, would be so kind as to move the non-"tracking" posts from that thread to this thread.

And tommy, if you wouldn't mind editing your initial post in that thread to clarify that people should only make posts for movies they watch, not other discussion.

Done. Meant to do that earlier but got sidetracked.

Angra, I see you added Watcher in the Woods. That movie scared the crap out of me when I saw it in the theater as a kid. Probably one of the biggest influences on me ending up loving horror.

That was one of the first "horror" films I let my children watch. It was and still is awesome.

First time I saw The Watcher in the Woods was about 10 years ago. Didn't have the same impact on me, most likely because I was 28 and not 8. ::wink::

After a second watch i still find it too family friendly to be remotely scary (for an adult). Doesn't hold a candle to Lady In White, but at least it wasn't goofy as so many other Horror flicks from Disney.

Yeah I've seen it a few times since then and it's not very scary, although still holds a bit of a spooky factor for me, and the acting is pretty good. Just thinking about the word "nerak" gives be a bit of a chill. (Funny, I ended up marrying a Karen.)

And if course, Bette Davis.

You also ended up marrying Bette Davis? Hm, must've been for the money. ::roll eyes::

Haha, yes, that doesn't read quite right, does it. :)

GiganticFace, have you seen The Bleeding House?

If so, Isn't that kinda the same story as Borgman?

I haven't seen The Bleeding House. Is it good? Reading the synopsis, it does sound like it has a similar "stranger amongst us" theme.

If you haven't seen Borgman, I'll warn you that it's a bit art house, has kind of a drama feel to it as opposed to straight horror (but would probably be classified as a thriller), is somewhat sci-fi themed, and a slow burn. Also, reading some user reviews, a number of folks are frustrated by ambiguity in the explanation for certain characters' motives. Having said that, I thought it was really interesting, challenging and well done, and the "horror" stuck with me for days.

The Bleeding House is pretty good yes. But you also find the daughters behavior and actions rather odd and frustrating in that one.

I think I'm gonna give Borgman a try as the story sounds interesting and it does have a 6,8 rating on IMDB, so it can't be all that bad and artsy. ::smile::

Absentia one star? : / I gave it 4 stars. I didn't see it as a stricly horror movie, but as a movie about dealing with the disappearance of a love one and how it can affect you. The horror aspect made it easier to understand the experience. As well the sister's acting was really good. And it was nice to see a good horror movie without Hollywood's ideas of beauty.

I guess our tastes differ greatly. I found it to be extremely boring and after the film was done was just left feeling like I wasted an hour and half with no pay off and nothing to really speak of.

Wow don't watch so many movies!

LOL, I've had no time. Although I should add The Shrine.
The Babadook

More people need to stay up to date. I love seeing all the movies you guys watch!

Done!

Damn, how'd you watch the bunny game? Couldn't make it past like 5 minutes.

It was pretty bad. With no plot, it's hard to stretch something like that to full length, and it was also just, in general, pretty stupid. Guinea Pig does plotless torture better, but that's typically more like 30 minutes. The artsy stuff was halfway interesting for like 2 minutes, but wore out its welcome real fast. Not recommended.

Bumping this thread to limit discussion in the sticky thread.

should rewatches be included?

Sure, why not! I think of this thread as a way to just see, in general, what everybody's watching over the time that we hang out around here. I don't think there are any rules -- do whatever you want. I include shorts, non-horror and TV (when I finish a season) too.

I've been including non horror as well. I've just forgotten to put rewatches, and then I don't remember when or what I watched. I have been including reevaluations, though, just because I'll watch some movies again to see if my tastes have changed. I think I'll only include ones that I've rated.

I'm sticking to just listing horror. Just about all I watch lately anyway. lol
And I certainly include rewatches. Shows if a movie is worth a rewatch then it MUST be good.

Has anyone seen 'The Houses October Built'? I just watched and added it to my list. I have no idea what to think of it.

I thought it was kinda disappointing. The only thing it really did was make me more interested in extreme haunts.

Me too. Sadly I know of no year round haunts.

SPOILERS- But I think the movie was a little disappointing cause I actually wanted the characters to make it out this time. They weren't your stereotypical stupid and horny teenagers (okay strip club scene aside) that are just asking to be axed. But in a sense that also made it a good horror flick because they didn't. Scary as shit to be buried alive, so if they wanted to freak out their audience they chose an appropriate ending.

I liked the characters as well. I just thought the pacing was horrible and the ending was them basically running around a haunted house. It seemed like the ending should have been much darker than it actually was. And was the whole thing supernatural or was it just some insane group of rednecks?

I actually kinda liked it. I don't think it's necessarily a great movie, but there were scenes that I found pretty scary. Maybe that's because the redneck genre works for me, and I also have a general mistrust of any kind of loosely-regulated "ride"-style entertainment, like carnivals and haunts. I just feel like bad things, both accidental and malicious, might happen at those places.

I didn't mind the possible supernatural aspect, nor the vagueness around it, however I didn't think it was necessary. Straight up bad guys would have been enough.

That's what makes it exciting! It's like one of those choose your own adventures ya know.

I agree with the pacing. When things started getting weird like seeing characters around from houses over 100 miles ago, that was intense and started to get exciting, but it took forever to get there, and then it went too fast and the ending felt rushed and as you said, could have been darker. It was good enough, but it felt anti-climatic. From the point of finding the masks on the windshield it lost a lot of the drama the pace was making. I really freaked over the filming at night part though. I did a double take and thought 'wait wasn't there five of them... who's recording?!' XD

I don't know if I understand what you mean by redneck genre here...
But I do really love the idea for the movie, it being the idea of a haunted house alone as the scare. All the interviews and what not making it clear that these things can be taken too far and have gone too far. In that view it would have been fine without any supernatural aspect (if there even was, it was a bit vague to say if it was or not), but at least they kept it minimal.

Sorry, i'm kind of a genre classification nerd - both for music and for movies. I did the genre definitions for http://screambox.com (also happened to build the site :) ... Btw, they don't necessarily apply the genres how I recommended).

I would classify films in the Redneck subgenre if the primary source of fear is caused by the protagonists being in an unfamiliar location, and being harassed by the locals of that location. That could range from total freaks like The Hills Have Eyes and Wrong Turn, to actual rednecks like Deliverance, to simply country bumpkins like Straw Dogs. Since the concept is similar, I would also include primitive humans like Offspring, Italian cannibal films, and even hoodie horror, like Ils and Eden Lake.

In Houses October Built, the threat doesn't really come from the haunts themselves, but from the local freaks that work and hang out there -- starting with the scene in the bar where the locals start shit, to them hanging outside the haunts staring them down, to finally tracking them down and capturing them. The characters actively put themselves in unfamiliar locations, and debate whether to continue the journey. If I remember correctly, however, the film does manage to avoid the trope of being stuck in that location because their car broke down.

Oooo Hills Have Eyes is one of my favorites too... Been wanting to rewatch that lately but I digress.

I understand now, thanks very much. I was also relieved by the absence of the 'broken down automobile' trope too. To say it's been overdone is an understatement.

Updated.

omg I'm always updating mine thanks to Netflix. Made my year to finally watch a few classics like the 'Scream' series, 'The Fly', and 'Re-Animator'. Never got to before and lawrdy do I regret it. Certainly going to need to rewatch them. Especially 'Re-Animator'. I think I have a new faaaaaaaavoriteeeeeeeee ::love::

I've only been able to watch 2 movies so far this year ::mad:: At least summer vacation starts on Monday.

Great news horrorcrux. Hang in there and then begin the summer with a marathon.

I haven't watch a single horror movie all month!

That changes now.