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Okay Sssssss(7 s') is a totally scrappy B-horror movie that I've only met like 5 people who've seen it, two of which are my parents. It follows the story of a mad scientist who is obsessed with snakes and kind of just spirals out of control from there.

The acting is hilariously bad but I found myself getting really into the movie and the characters.

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Beginning of the End (1957)

5.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Sci-fi B-movie. When a small town in Illinois is mysteriously destroyed, a plucky female reporter...

Chronicle (2012)

6.9 (12 Ratings) Rate It

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In this tense, mind-bending thriller, three high school friends who make an extraordinary discovery...

Awix (3310 KP) rated The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) in Movies

Mar 4, 2018 (Updated Mar 4, 2018)

The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)

1955 | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

6.8

(4 Ratings)

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The original Hammer horror movie; the studio did actually know how to spell 'experiment', but the title refers to the 'X' certificate that all self-respecting horror films had at the time this was made. Astronaut comes back from space a changed man; the rest of his crew mysteriously vanished - just what went on out there? Professor Q must figure it out before the mutation afflicting the astronaut reaches its final form.

Actually really, really tame as a horror movie by modern standards, obviously, but also of great historical interest as the birth of a legend in British cinema. One can't help suspecting the TV show was a lot more thoughtful, but this still works pretty well as an SF movie, and an influential one at that, and the juxtaposition of B-movie SF ideas and images with post-war Britain is interesting. Imported American star Brian Donlevy is not very good as Professor Q (original writer Nigel Kneale claimed he was on the sauce all the time); Richard Wordsworth is mesmerising as the doomed astronaut.

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This Horrifying Force (The Desire to Kill) (with Skeletonwitch (Metal)) by Skeletonwitch

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Zuky the BookBum (15 KP) rated The Monkey's Paw: Short Story in Books

Mar 15, 2018

He wanted to show that fate ruled people's lives, and that those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow. He put a spell on it so that three separate men could each have three wishes from it.

Can you believe that I'd never heard of this short before and knew nothing of the plot what-so-ever, before today? Well it's the truth. I think being so ignorant to it made me love it more. I got completely immersed in the story and the lives of our caring and lonely White's.

The panic felt in this book translates to the reader so much so that you find yourself short of breath, praying, hoping, that the front door stays shut.

Excellent horror short, well worth taking 10 minutes out of you day to read.

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Rickey A. Mossow Jr. (689 KP) rated Hell Fest (2018) in Movies

May 21, 2019

Hell Fest (2018)

2018 | Horror

7.2

(17 Ratings)

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A really good stalker/slasher film, which is rare these days...

Another case of no expectations creating amazing results. Went into this one expecting another B movie with the same old tropes that would be decent, but nothing memorable. So happy to say I was very pleasantly surprised. The movie takes all the normal tropes and scares of the usual stalker/slasher flick but put twists and turns throughout. The mix of the stalker and the horror fest worked so beautifully. From start to finish, you were kept on the tense edge with much-welcomed surprises. You expected one thing and got another. Haven't seen a slasher flick this smart in a while. The ending is the perfect bow on the gift of this film. Would highly recommend to any horror fans, even with the waste of a Tony Todd performance.

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Kim Newman recommended The Most Dangerous Game (1932) in Movies (curated)

The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

1932 | Classics, Drama, Horror

8.0

(6 Ratings)

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"Made on the wonderful jungle sets of King Kong while that epic’s special effects were being finished, this is one of the great action-horror films and has provided a template for many “rich sicko” melodramas—the entire “torture porn” subgenre springs from the obsessions of its villain, Count Zaroff (Leslie Banks). Adapted from a short story by Richard Connell and codirected by Kong’s Ernest B. Schoedsack and character actor Irving Pichel, it has one of the most perfect plots in horror: a big-game hunter (Joel McCrea) changes his mind about how much fun his preferred sport is when he’s shipwrecked on an island where a mad Russian who’s grown tired of lesser game has opted to hunt human beings. Fay Wray, another Kong holdover, screams on the sidelines, and a pack of baying hounds provides additional menace."

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