SHOCKtober: 732-705
We are blasting through this list like a...like a...thing that blasts. Listen, I am only half-a-cup of coffee into what is looking to be a way more coffee than that day, okay? My words aren't all here yet! And YES, before you ask, I am drinking pumpkin spice. As expected my body rejects all other flavors during SHOCKtober.
Also as expected, each of the following films received one vote.
732. The Invisible Woman – 1940, A. Edward Sutherland
731. The Invisible Man – 2020, Leigh Whannell
730. The Innocents (aka De uskyldige) – 2021, Eskil Vogt
729. The Initiation of Sarah – 1978, Robert Day
728. The Incredible Shrinking Man – 1957, Jack Arnold
727. The Hunt – 2020, Craig Zobel
726. The House That Jack Built -- 2018, Lars von Trier
725. The House That Dripped Blood – 1971, Peter Duffell
724. The House by the Cemetery – 1981, Lucio Fulci
723. The Hourglass Sanitorium – 1973, Wojciech Has
722. The Hills Have Eyes – 2006, Alexandre Aja
721. The Grudge -- 2004, Takashi Shimizu
720. The Girl with All the Gifts -- 2016, Colm McCarthy
719. The Gate – 1987, Tibor Takács
718. The Fourth Kind – 2009, Olatunde Osunsanmi
717. The Final Terror – 1983, Andrew Davis
716. The Final Destination – 2009, David R. Ellis
715. The Fifth Cord – 1971, Luigi Bazzoni
714. The Feast (aka Gwledd) – 2021, Lee Haven Jones
713. The Eye 2 – 2004, Danny Pang and Oxide Chun Pang
712. The Endless – 2017, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
711. The Dunwich Horror – 1970, Daniel Haller
710. The Devil's Rejects – 2005, Rob Zombie
709. The Devil's Rain – 1975, Robert Fuest
708. The Devil's Carnival – 2012, Darren Lynn Bousman
707. The Devil's Backbone – 2001, Guillermo del Toro
706. The Devil Commands -- 1941, Edward Dmytryk
705. The Devil (aka Diabel) – 1972, Andrzej Zulawski
- Ooooooooohhhh I can feel it! The mere mention of The House by the Cemetery has got me in my Fulci feelings. I'm gonna have to indulge in some weird nonsensical gross magic soon. Also, Bob kind of looks like all the members of ABBA smushed into one person. Bob? BOB!
- The House That Dripped Blood is such a great title...something about it just stirs up all kinds of monster kid vibes.
- I need to revisit a few movies on this list-chunk: The Devil's Rain and The Final Terror to name a couple. I remember being kind of lukewarm on the former, but it stars Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, and Ida Lupino (amongst a shitton of other names) and there are Satanists and peoples' faces melt off, so I don't know why I wasn't completely in love with it like one reader clearly was.
- Speaking of one reader, here is one reader on The Hourglass Sanitorium: "Very heavy mood, like a nightmare you can't wake up from. Accomplishes horror way better than many genre 'horror' films do."
- I think The Invisible Man and The Invisible Woman should get married and have The Invisible Baby <3 <3
- I love The Initiation of Sarah, it's so much fun. And Robert Hays, Morgan Fairchild, Kay Lenz, Shelley Winters, and Tisa Farrow? Please. Flawless. (Also, fun (?) fact: Gaylords of Darkness did a li'l feature on the Arrow Blu-ray of this movie talking about how very delightful (and oft gay) it is. That means you can hear me through your television speakers if that is how you watch Blu-rays.)
- Though it is now 20 years old (dafuq), I have still somehow never seen The Grudge. I know! I've been mulling over doing something about all of those mid-aughties remakes of Asian horror films, but so far I've yet to talk myself into it. I also want to do something with the Ju-on series, at the least finally untangling the actual order of them because man, it might even be more confusing than the order of Zombie films.
- Oooh! Zombie! There go my Fulci feelings again...
