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Dayum, girl!
You been watchin' horror movies 24/7?
MAGA! FAFO! Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder.

Well there was the Spanish Flu a long time ago. It was a pandemic I think.

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contagion apparently is the most accurate, eerily similar and prophetic horror movie about the corona virus pandemic that has ever been made have you watched it?
lukejbarnett

I watched Phantasm. It's kind of a scam. There are several references to Dune for some reason.

I stopped keeping track. I've watched several horror movies and series. Most recently I watched Fear Street.

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I watch horror movies year round, so I don't specifically watch horror in October. If It happens, it's incidental.
….out of darkness, out of mind, cast down into the Halls of the Blind!

except the end ruined it bc the end of the babadook you find out it's not real that's a cop out.
lukejbarnett

I need to see
The Last Wave
.
Thanks for the plug.
With the exception of
Gallipoli - '81
and
Green Card - '90
which I adore, I wasn't too enthralled with much of Weirs output in the 80's.
I thought
Witness - '85
was unexciting and flat and
Dead Poets Society - '89
was too cliched and even corny in parts.
Norman! What did you put in my tea?

I have that movie on DVD. It's wonderful! Peter weir is one of my favourite directors. Have you seen The Last Wave? David Gulpilil is incredible in it. This movie is also full of
imagery, shot composition and even visual story-telling.
It's one of my most treasured DVDs.

Aussies do great psychological horror as well as slasher.
I wouldn't regard it as a horror film as such, but I re-watched Peter Weir's
Picnic At Hanging Rock - '75
last night and that sure is enigmatic, beautiful and poetic, yet manages to also get an eerie vibe down pat.
A masterpiece of imagery, shot composition and visual story-telling.
The ambiguity is what makes it so effective and doesn't need explanations.
Norman! What did you put in my tea?

Yeah, great, great movie.
"The Dig"
http://cinemarchaeologist.blogspot.com/

have not. will look for it.

I find The Babadook totally enthralling. It's the kind of horror that I really appreciate.
Aussies do great psychological horror as well as slasher. Have you seen Lake Mungo? It's awesome.

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I'll try to sell you on the other three:

1. Under the Skin–the best of the group, a true masterpiece. Uniquely strange and a memorable experience. The ultimate compliment is it gets better upon rewatching.
2. Personal Shopper–a great lead performance centers this eerie ghost story. Bring your reading glasses because there's a lot of onscreen texting. I think the film works and I love the ending.
3. Simon Killer–what does misogyny look like? Is he a normal guy? Would you spot him walking down the street. Set in Paris, this way offbeat slice of awkward life is hard to watch but harder to look away from! See what I did there?

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Oh yeah the book the mother wrote to scare her son! When I watched that scene, something about it made me not trust his mother. She seemed to have a dark side.
I think the message of the story was a morbid interpretation of motherhood. The bitch was insane and we find out why her child had behavioral problems. It was her pretending to become a monster and terrorizing her own child.

I can't speak to its following but I find it exceptionally well done. It's smart, scary and the leads are compelling. I like the central metaphor and I believe the film deals with the subject matter creatively and convincely. It's a rare movie that has something to say. (I also think it nails the ending.)
Tastes vary, obviously, but I'd encourage you to rewatch the scene when they first read the book. The editing is masterly as the visions we get of the boogeyman are really the only ones we ever get and even then they slip from our sight before we know exactly what we're dealing with.
I'll be honest: I find it brilliant.

Once you know the twist in the Babadook, the movie is a let down. I have no idea why it has such a small cult of followers stemming from IMDb message boards. To my knowledge, the film wasn't a success in theaters.

Rewatched The Babadook again. It's just a damned good movie, horror or not.
Mentally, I put it in a category with other disturbing movies I watched during that period. All are well-made.
Personal Shopper–Kristen Stewart
Under the Skin–The beach scene
The Witch–Black Phillip is GOAT
Simon Killer–My man
A Ghost Story–For the song alone

The second one was pretty fun!
The third tried way too hard to be deep and serious with its cheesy teen melodrama bullshit, really didn’t like it. Can’t even remember the first movie.
The kills are always good though!
Even that ****ty “there’s someone inside your house” movie had pretty good kills.