Did you see the original? It was just a brutal, nasty movie. It goes from “this could just be a cultural misunderstanding” to “cutting a child’s tongue out in front of her parents” in the blink of an eye. I heard the new version chickens out of the grand guignol ending of the original, so I don’t think I’ll bother with it.
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I didn’t know it was a remake 'til I encountered the new one. But the ending is probably the least important part of it (the new one).
-Wade
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I (both alone and with my partner) have been watching a lot of movies lately. I’m now completely caught up with the Planet of the Apes movies, the Alien franchise, and several really solid horror movies including Black Phone and the absolutely phenomenal Cuckoo.
With the understanding that streaming services have a lot of region-locked content, does anyone have any favorite horror movies made within the last ten years or so they could recommend? (Bonus points if it’s streaming on Hulu or Prime in the U.S.). Basically anything that isn’t torture porn works for me.
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I loved Cuckoo as well! My sister and I are huge horror fans - not in the US so not sure what’s streaming but some recent favourites have been Skinamarink, His House, Gonjiam Haunted Asylum, Late Night with the Devil, Immaculate, X and The Feast. If you want something a bit more campy and fun, The Pope’s Exorcist or Malignant.
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Well, sometimes I think the horror fans (e.g. myself) have largely taken over this thread anyway 
If you go backwards through the thread you will find a lot of horror capsul reviews from myself and @AmandaB in particular. Mine are often new from the cinema (meaning you might now find them on streaming), or from Shudder, or from Tubi (which is free, but we’re usually talking pretty ragged, old or weird stuff when I’m watching Tubi).
Favourites of mine from this year have included Immaculate and Speak No Evil. I love the Orphan films, so Orphan: First Kill from a year or two ago I’d plug. Someone mentioned Malignant - yep! Renfield’s been mentioned. I rewatchwd The Mist from 2007 and think it’s a really savage monster movie, even if everyone says it’s about the horrors within unlocked (yeah, but you need killer spiders to unlock them). etc.
-Wade
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The Mist is such an underrated gem I think!
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One of my all-time favourite horrors is Demons (1985).
I watched it again about a year ago and there is something about the spectacle of the scenes. Camera shots that linger just long enough to make you uneasy, but never overstay their welcome. Also, I’m always amazed how well Italian movies work with English dubbing. It rarely feels weird to me.
Enjoy it for free on Tubi! I loves me the Tubi! 
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Good recs already! Also: The Babadook, Green Room (Patrick Stewart as the bad guy!), A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, It Follows, Talk to Me. I’m pretty sure those are from the last decade.
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Jordan Peele feels like the obvious recommendation for recent horror movies. Get Out is probably better than Nope which is probably better than Us, but they’re all worth watching.
I thought Barbarian from 2022 was pretty good. Some vague spoilers that aren’t even really spoilers: It’s got a few plot twists, which, in my opinion, twist the plot in less interesting directions. So the first half is more compelling than the second. But even when it gets bumpy, it’s interesting.
Men from 2022 was mentioned earlier in this thread. Probably worth mentioning again! Very visually striking.
This isn’t a movie, but the TV show Swarm from 2023 is horror-adjacent. Well, in some respects it’s outright horror, but it’s a comedy too. Only seven episodes. Long-term lingering creepiness from this one. I’d say it’s more disturbing than the movies I’ve mentioned. And it’s on Prime!
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Never seen Clash of the Titans, but the above comments make me want to check it out. Sadly, my usual source for descriptive audio only has the 2010 version.
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I’m curious… I once made a cassette recording of Star Wars: A New Hope and listened to it in my car as I drove to and from work. The sound effects and music are so good in that movie. If you have any recollection of it, when your eyeball was working, I’d be curious what you think of it now as a pure audio experience without any description.
If you ever find yourself in the mood, I truly believe you’d enjoy every second of it. The hum and sheathing of a lightsaber. The beeps and warbled boops of R2-D2. The roar of a TIE Fighter. Vader’s iconic breathing. All still amazing, and arguably unequalled to this day!
Fun Fact: Chewbacca’s signature sound was designed by combining several real life animal noises.
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So when I was a kid and had terrible taste in movies I did this with a stupid comedy movie called Brain Donors. It worked pretty well because it’s like 95% dialogue (even if the quality of the movie is very, very low lol).
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Excellent recommendations! I know cause I’ve seen all but one of them lol.
I guess I’m catching up faster than I thought I would.
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Loved all of these! And I think I agree with your ranking. The only thing I hate about a lot of movies and Nope was really bad at this was poorly lit dark scenes where unless you’ve eliminated every pinprick of light in your viewing environment you may not be able to see a damn thing (lots of modern films do this, I’m not calling out Peele as the worst example of it or anything).
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Yeah, it’s a fave of mine. In some ways, it’s the ultimate example of 80s style horror. This is from Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide review: “Extremely gruesome and violent; no characterization, no logic, no plot. Achieved critical fame in some quarters.”
There’s a contemporary interview with Argento on the set of the crashed helicopter. And he talks about how in the 80s, if you want to show a scene of a helicopter crashing into a cinema, you crash a helicopter into a cinema and film it. “Previously we’d have done this with special FX,” etc. And today, that pendulum’s swung back beyond the start point. Relatively simple things (especially compared to a helicopter crashing into a cinema!) that we could shoot for real, we just use CGI.
Ha! I wouldn’t say it feels weird to me because I’m so used to it. But it’s always an effect. Combined with the translation, it doesn’t result in traditionally believable performances. Then, when you’ve seen tons of Italian exploitation, you hear the same five actors doing all the English voices. It’s not only that the films were similar, it’s that you’d start watching one, feel you’d seen it before, then realise it’s just the voices.
-Wade
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Yeah, I remember that guy on TV. 
I found this snippet from a review that sums up why I like it so much.
This pointed refusal to coax any kind of faux-sentimental attachment to the characters emboldens Demons with a level of blunt honesty that lingers in the memory. The film’s subtext could be summed up as “this is what you came for.”
→ https://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/demons-4k-uhd-review-lamberto-bava/
To which I feel compelled to respond with, fuck yeah. 
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@Hal9000: I’ve never actually experienced any of the Star Wars movies from beginning to end in any format. There was, however, a period from around 2014-17 were I was purchasing audiobooks on CD on the regular. During that time, I picked up the audiobooks of The Princess, The scoundrel, and the Farmboy, So, you want to be a Jedi, and Beware the Power of the Dark Side as well as the Radio show versions of A New Hope and The Empire Strikes back(wasn’t able to find Return of the Jedi at the time, though I understand that while the first two movies got their Radio Adaptation during the OT’s original run and mostly has the movie cast reprising their roles and makes good use of the extra runtime afforded by a radio show, I understand RotJ’s radio show was made years later and was more of a poorly done cash grab that didn’t even try for the original cast). Also have hte audiobooks of the novelizations of the prequels, The Force Awakens, and Dark Forces from the Legends EU… Had plenty of other SW novels I wanted to get as audiobooks on CD, but my budget for such things went down the drain and never really recovered after my father died back in 2017 and I went fromliving under my father’s roof and mostly eating food he bought to having to pay my own rent and buy my own groceries.
And in general, I enjoy plenty of movies and television shows even without descriptive audio, but it does tend to add to the experience, and my first stop for movies and television shows offers audio-only downloads of described audio and only described audio, and availability is a bit biased towards works released in the last 15 years because that’s around when congress passed a law requiring studios to produce descriptive audio for new work.
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I’ve seen three new movies at the cinema this week - Strange Darling (really disliked), Blink Twice (quite enjoyed) and The Substance (LOVED). If you’re not squeamish I’d recommend going to see The Substance while it’s still in cinemas, it’s really one that benefits from the full movie-going experience!
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Has anyone seen the (long) documentary on the making of Psychonauts 2? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKoy_KMVIyU
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I watched a 1985 sci-fi/horror film called Nightmare Weekend on Tubi. My review will refer to all the R-rated things in the film, and the trailer I’ll be sharing also shows all of those things.
Summary
In my twenties, I would have said of Nightmare Weekend, ‘This is one of the worst films I’ve ever seen.’ For me today, worst means either utterly boring, or utterly angry-making. Nightmare Weekend is incompetent, outrageous, semi-incomprehensible and silly, but it’s certainly not either of the other two things I mentioned. I’m glad I saw it.
The story involves an inventor doing psychology(?) experiments with his 80s idea of a super-computer. His airhead babe daughter grew up with a robot extension of this computer as a friend in their mansion. The robot is an Albert Einstein hand puppet with its hair painted green and a cute Smurf voice. It says things like, ‘Need more input! Diagnosis: Love.’
However, the dad’s colleague uses the computer for evil. How makes no sense, but anyway, I’ll try: The computer, which is basically magical, creates silver balls that sneak around and then fly into people’s mouths, deranging or killing or zombifying them. The zombies only appear in the last ten minutes of the film. The ‘Nightmare Weekend’ involves a bunch of young people visiting the computer house so they can be guinea pigs for the balls. The silliest death has one guy sniffing the pants of a woman he just slept with, and the ball’s hiding inside, and it flies into his mouth. This highlight appears in the trailer.
There’s a ton of softcore sex, the odd bit of outre gore, and parts where the daughter plays a racing game on a Colecovision with the Einstein puppet and ends up controlling people’s real cars. The editing of the film throws up bizarre juxtapositions that push it into, well, some kind of territory of fascination.
This is probably the most NSFW trailer I’ve ever shared. You’ve been warned!
-Wade
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