Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Like Sleuth and Carnage, this is a film based on a play, featuring a number of actors you can count on one hand, and set in a very small number of locations. Also like Sleuth and Carnage, when watching it I felt like the goal of the film was geared more towards "overwritten" dialogue and over-the-top characters than telling a good story. That's not to say the story of any of these films is bad, but I feel like this style of film would be better if the actors and the script weren't so concerned with "getting themselves over", to borrow a wrestling term. The performances were fantastic, as they always are in films based on plays, but it isn't sufficient for a great film.

I would certainly take Sleuth and Carnage over Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The story of the movie is the night when a resentful couple finally snap and unload their full artillery on each other, dragging an unfortunate young couple into the mix. That is the plot. It's essentially a couple of pricks being awful to each other, and I can't bring myself to care about that for over two hours. I'm not blaming the script for that - there's plenty going on. The mind games and verbal manouevering the husband and wife use to hurt one another are intricate to say the least, and become more so when parts of the young couple's lives get thrown into the pot of misery. But, as I said, this kind of story is not for me, so when the final revelation came and the film drew to the close, it was met with a resounding "meh". I'll give credit where credit is due: this script being performed by lesser actors would have had me tuning out a lot earlier and I may not have even seen it to the end. Elizabeth Taylor was fantastic (and won Best Actress) but in my opinion Richard Burton was even better and stole the show.

Apparently this is a black comedy, but at no point did it come close to making me laugh. I'm not even sure when it was meant to be funny, to be honest. Carnage shares many of my perceived faults with this genre, but it did succeed in making me laugh quite a lot.

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Oct 6, 2018 20:12:07 GMT Emperor said:

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Like Sleuth and Carnage, this is a film based on a play, featuring a number of actors you can count on one hand, and set in a very small number of locations. Also like Sleuth and Carnage, when watching it I felt like the goal of the film was geared more towards "overwritten" dialogue and over-the-top characters than telling a good story. That's not to say the story of any of these films is bad, but I feel like this style of film would be better if the actors weren't so concerned with "getting themselves over", to borrow a wrestling term. The performances were fantastic, as they always are in films based on plays, but it isn't sufficient for a great film.

I would certainly take Sleuth and Carnage over Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The story of the movie is the night when a resentful couple finally snap and unload their full artillery on each other, dragging an unfortunate young couple into the mix. That is the plot. It's essentially a couple of pricks being awful to each other, and I can't bring myself to care about that for over two hours. I'm not blaming the script for that - there's plenty going on. The mind games and verbal manouevering the husband and wife use to hurt one another are intricate to say the least, and become more so when parts of the young couple's lives get thrown into the pot of misery. But, as I said, this kind of story is not for me, so when the final revelation came and the film drew to the close, it was met with a resounding "meh". I'll give credit where credit is due: this script being performed by lesser actors would have had me tuning out a lot earlier and I may not have even seen it to the end. Elizabeth Taylor was fantastic (and won Best Actress) but in my opinion Richard Burton was even better and stole the show.

Apparently this is a black comedy, but at no point did it come close to making me laugh. I'm not even sure when it was meant to be funny, to be honest. Carnage shares many of my perceived faults with this genre, but it did succeed in making me laugh quite a lot.

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I had no idea Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf was meant to be a comedy. I viewed it in the vein of a drama originally, and stand by that interpretation. It was just a pure tour of awkwardness, discomfort, sadness, and misery throughout the evolution of the story. Maybe I'm forgetting, but I didn't think the plot was about the older couple tormenting each other. I thought this was all because of their child's death, and inability to cope? I'll have to rewatch.

That said, I'll take Carnage over Who's Afraid of Virgina too, and still want/need to check out Sleuth. 12 Angry Me is also still my number one pick so far for movies that pretty much take place exclusively in one setting.

Thanks, Emp, for taking me up on a recommendation and checking this out. Apologies it didn't do as much for you as it did for me. Maybe next time!

Oct 6, 2018 20:20:28 GMT 🤯 said:

I had no idea Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf was meant to be a comedy. I viewed it in the vein of a drama originally, and stand by that interpretation.

Wikipedia says black comedy, so I went with that. Agreed that it is drama.

Oct 6, 2018 19:06:41 GMT UT said:

Oct 6, 2018 18:11:11 GMT shinobimusashi said:

Never seen The People Under The Stairs, 1991 horror movie directed by Wes Craven. It caught my eye as I was browsing Amazon looking for something to rent. I just finished watching it, Wow that was really stupid.

That’s a real guilty pleasure of mine. Watched it all the time as a kid and still enjoy the pure silliness of it to this day.

Crazy it was made in 1991 - that movie oozes the 80s.

Funny you say that i just watched the most 80s movie ever last night, Mannequin 2 made in 1991. Loved it as a kid and came across it on Vudu had to check it out. My god its so 80s it hurts, more evidence that 90-91 was just an extension of the 80s turned up to 11.

Just watched the new Star Wars Solo story in 4K. Not great but not bad, pretty cool. I shat my pants for Darth Maul, they should make an r rated Star Wars with him as the heel.

shinobimusashi, I just watched the Solo movie twice on a plane ride. I thought it was really good. The guy playing Han, exceeded my expectations and overall, felt it was a much more accessible Star Wars story for those, who don't want all the excess or put off by the main series.

Venom: First off Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock/Venom, is so much better than Topher Grace was, as far as playing the same character goes. I was a bit worried at first with Spider-Man not being in the film, given how much of Brock's origin is tied into the character, but I think going with a movie loosely based off of the Lethal Protector story arc really helped them. Despite this being my least favorite comic book movie of the year, it was still pretty enjoyable in my opinion, which has pretty much been the case all year, as far as comic book properties are concerned.

Also that mid credit scene...

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Carnage BAYBAY~!!!

Though that red hair, that Woody Harrelson was wearing, was awful as fuck.

I also recently seen both Peppermint, as well as the new Predator movie, both were decent enough action flicks, I ended up seeing them at the nearby theater on cheap night. I probably wouldn't go out of my way to watch either film again, but if they happened to be on TV, and nothing better was on, I wouldn't be opposed to watching them either.

My 2018 Movie Rankings

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11. Pacific Rim: Uprising
10. The Predator
9. Peppermint
8. Tomb Raider
7. Venom
6. Ant-Man & The Wasp
5. The Incredibles 2
4. Black Panther
3. Solo: A Star Wars Story
2. Deadpool 2
1. Avengers: Infinity War

I really need to get around to watching both Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, and Ready Player One.

Lony Ready Player One is one of the worst films I’ve ever seen, hopefully you enjoy it more than me 😂

Bad Times at the El Royale:
Coen brothers meet Tarantino, has to be one of my favourite films this year.

A Quiet Place
I love the premise, and I completely understand what the film was going for - a suspense heavy narrative with some character development. However it didn't do anything for me. The first 30 minutes of watching the family live their life under these unusual conditions was boring, and I didn't have much investment in the characters, so when the action picked up, I didn't really care. Only two scenes really affected me. The opening scene where the kid set off the rocket toy, and the scene in the silo. Otherwise, I was mostly thinking about how the mother is Cillian Murphy in female form. Turns out it's Emily Blunt, who is a famous name, but it's the first time I've seen her. The final scene was pretty neat. Overall, meh out of ten.

I found Highway To Hell on Vudu for free. This is the first time seeing this in 19 years. Rented it once in the Summer of 1999 and it's one of the more peculiar straight to vhs movies I came across in my days of renting movies across the state of Texas as a youth. I remember this video store in a small tiny cow town about an hour outside of Bryan Texas(home of Texas A&M Aggies) in the middle of bum fucked egypt nowhere really. It sucked because when we first moved there for a few weeks we had no cable AND they had no wrestling section in this video store, all they had was Rebellion UK 1998 tape but whoever rented it out never took it back because I would always see the box and ask about it but it was never in, finally I stopped asking.

This particular video store had a pretty dope horror and action sections though, I remember they had the action section divided by actor instead of alphabetized, so they had rows on the shelves for Arnold, Stallone, JCVD, Seagal, etc. The horror section was one of the best I can remember, this was where I first seen Phantasm 1 among others. This Highway To Hell movie is kinda weird because I never usually rented tapes like this, for some reason I grabbed it and absolutely loved it when I watched it. Took it back the next day or two later and never seen or heard about it again until about a year or two ago looking it up on the internet, it's apparently a pretty big time cult classic, they brought it up on one of the VHS documentaries I watched a while back when they were covering how the VHS tape created this huge market that produced movies like this one to fill store shelves during a huge boom/demand for content.

Really enjoyed rewatching it the other night, a hell of a lot of fun, some great gags and effects, a great sense of humor, cooky, crazy, totally fucked off early 90's movie. I need to get a VHS copy of it I believe that's the best way to watch it, fuck a blu ray/dvd(and streaming).

Fun Fact: The Hell Cop in the movie is played by the same actor that played Jason Voorhees in Friday The 13th part VI: Jason Lives! How cool is that?

Searching (2018)

John Cho's estranged daughter goes missing and his only lead is her laptop. The majority of the investigation takes place through face-time calls, live-streams, facebook chat-logs etc. and it's so authentic that it's easy to get immersed in the drama. It's one of those movies where you're better off knowing as little as possible going in, but I'd recommend this to fans of movies like Gone Girl, The Social Network and Prisoners. (aka go and check this movie out, UT)

So far, my favourite movie of 2018.

Finally caught Anaconda from like 1997 or 98 starring J-Lo, Ice Cube, Owen Wilson, and Jon Voight. Haven't seen this since it came out and man it is better than I remember it. Really corny and b-rated feel to it especially with the CGI effects that have aged like sour milk. But man I just love that cast and the settings are great. Pretty fun creature flick overall I'd say 7.7/10

And I'm watching Shocker right now, 1989 Wes Craven flick, my god it's fucking wild over the top, I forgot the guy who plays the main villain is Mitch Pillegi the guy who plays Skinner in X-Files. Man this is great.



Just finished it, definitely a fun 80's horror romp but it goes a little too far off the rails down the stretch. Starts off really good though and overall I enjoyed it 7.5/10

Just got back from Venom, pretty solid flick, not the most memorable and has the common pitfall of a weak antagonist(s). But overall pretty fun.

Yesterday I watched Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre part 3, not to be confused with the garbage Leatherface movie that came out last year or so, this one is from early 90's I believe, starring a young unknown Vigo Mortenson(however you spell it, I don't really care). I had never seen this before it's pretty cool, better than I thought it would be, not quite as over the top as part 2 but better than part 4, altogether I enjoyed it and thought it was solid. It's only like an hour and 20 minutes so it's pretty short, it's onsale on Amazon for .99 cents for 48 hour rental(all old movies should cost this much, fuck video stores would rent old movies out for $1 for 5 days). Overall I'd go 7/10

rained out again so I'm laid up resting my broken body watching old forgotten horror movies, today I watched Lord Of Illusion from 1995 starring Scott Bakula. I LOVE Scott Bakula going back to Quantum Leap. I remember really liking this when it first came out, I remember renting it often. This is the first time I've seen it probably since the 90's. I don't know that I would call it a "great" movie but it's certainly interesting and not boring, it's quite watchable but my god it's fucking bizarre and off the rails. It's directed by Clive Barker the director of Hellraiser. i think the thing about it I dislike the most is that it tries to be this "Noir" shit. I've come to the conclusion that I really don't like modern movies that try to be "Noir". I like the actors/characters, cinematography, special effects, feel/atmosphere, and I feel like it could have been a great movie with a better more straightforward story with less noir bullshit. Still I'd say this was at least a solid 90's horror flick and definitely fun watch, I'd go 7.3/10

I saw First Man last night and really enjoyed it. Damien Chazelle is a fantastic director - loved the way all the spacecraft scenes were shot first-person to emphasise the danger and claustrophobia, starkly contrasted with the beauty of the special effects spacescapes. My only (minor) complaint would be that despite casting an unreal group of actors like Kyle Chandler and Shea Wigham, most didn't have enough screen time to really impact the movie.

Going to see A Star is Born tomorrow night - expecting my heartstrings to be tugged by a few Queen Gaga ballads!

All these horror movies I've been watching in my den on my 50 inch 1080p poverty box. Last night I moved into the living room and watched the 1989 Fly on my 4K rig and oh my god. This was a regular DVD and man I'm really impressed sometimes with what this set up does for these old movies, such a great look, colors so vivid. This is truly an all time classic movie I really enjoyed it on this go around. Great performance by Goldblum, some of the best special effects you will ever see in a movie, excellent story, whole thing was just spectacular all the way around 9.4/10

Saw Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom last night.

On the overall, thought it was better that the first Jurassic World.

I had to remind myself to turn my brain off and as much of the critic mindset along with it. But once I figured out how to do that and actively decided to just go for the fun ride, it really wasn't that bad.

BDH looks so much like her dad that I'm not sure it's possible to get into her as an attractive female lead. I just keep seeing Howdy Doody.

Pratt meanwhile is the luckiest dude alive, locking down the feature hero role in the GotG/MCU franchise and Jurassic reboot. To go from Parks N Rec to this. Must be rolling in that insane money.

Wife legit bawled her eyes out at the Baby Blue scenes, the dinosaurs who weren't able to escape the erupting island, and the animal torture scenes. Gotta admit, despite the sometimes uncanny valley cringey-ness of the dinosaurs... Some of those scenes kinda got to me too. Or actually, what I think got to me was them reminding Wife of the dog scene in John Wick, and thinking back to THAT is what got to me. Anyway...

On the overall, it felt a little long, could've probably been shortened a bit for what it was, but wasn't overly offensive or boring. It had a twisted twist involving a revelation about a side character that I didn't see coming, for anyone who's into twists.

Jeff Goldblum's cameos were as minimal and meh as I'd figured they'd be, so don't hope for a lot there.

And my biggest gripe, whether or not my brain was turned off, was not getting to see if Pratt finished constructing his cabin.

Caught Halloween, honestly, might be my favorite Halloween since the original. I like the cleaned up two movie timeline. I kind of hope they leave it at that, but if the movie makes good money (as it seems to be), good chance they milk the new timeline as well. Very minor spoiler:

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The little black kid might be the most intelligent character in horror movie history. Just "Oh shit!" books "If you go up there, you're gonna die." and that's the last you ever see of his little ass anywhere near any murders. I like to believe he's still running today, Forest Gump style.

Also watched Halloween. I have two struggles with it, but otherwise it was a good movie. I liked the Rob Zombie reboot better but this was good.

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So my struggles:

1- I haven’t seen the original in a long time, but this movie suggests he’s killed five people total. I don’t believe someone that killed five people total would be the subject of this level of interest forty years later.

2 - The therapist as a means to get Michael to Lori’s house was obnoxious.

The missus and I are clearing out our Netflix queue, and we finally watch the Netflix movie "The Dinner" with Richard Gere.

One of the most poorly-paced, self-indulgent films I've ever seen. -**/*****

Oct 18, 2018 23:18:52 GMT @admin said:

Going to see A Star is Born tomorrow night - expecting my heartstrings to be tugged by a few Queen Gaga ballads!

She got me twice. 😭

Such a good movie though, way better than I anticipated. I know a few of you are real neanderthal types but take your lady friends on a date night to see this!

Just finished The Blob remake from 1988. Not as good as The Fly but still fucking awesome remake of the 50's original. Excellent special effects and really fun popcorn flick. I forgot how cool this movie was. 8.3/10

Also last weekend I watched In The Mouth OF Madness by John Carpenter. This is only the second time watching this, I had never heard of it until about a year or two ago. This is one of the few movies that legitimately creeps me out at times. The story is one that I really like, everything about this movie is pretty cool. 8.4/10

Oct 21, 2018 22:40:31 GMT mikec said:

Also watched Halloween. I have two struggles with it, but otherwise it was a good movie. I liked the Rob Zombie reboot better but this was good.

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So my struggles:

1- I haven’t seen the original in a long time, but this movie suggests he’s killed five people total. I don’t believe someone that killed five people total would be the subject of this level of interest forty years later.

2 - The therapist as a means to get Michael to Lori’s house was obnoxious.

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Manson murders were only 7 people, and he was getting press all the way to the day he died. Way I see it, Lumas painted an intriguing enough picture that psychologists took an interest. Plus the premise of the escape was that interest had waned to a point he was being transferred away from the high value facility, the reporter was trying to get in on a last interview just prior.

Shows much society’s changed when people are just like “eh he only killed FIVE people” that night.

Enjoyed the new film, only seen Halloween 1&2 H20/Resuurection
and the 2 Rob Zombie films so not a huge fan but I enjoyed this.
Having three films just called Halloween is confusing.

agreed @hr saw it with my gf and I absolutely loved it.

Manson was actively seeking publicity the whole time. Myers is supposedly just sitting somewhere for forty years not talking.

And Manson’s was more interesting too. He got other people to do his work, he had a celebrity murdered, etc.

Mullholland Drive: Absolutely loved it. They were talking about it on Cultaholic so decided to give it a go and I’m glad I did.

I ought to go back to Mulholland Drive at some point, it's been about 10 years since I last watched it. I thought it was a fantastic mystery and of all the scenes that have bugged me in cinematic history, the 'convenience store' is the one that messed me up the most. The way Lynch was able to build tension and the reveal itself was so well done.

Have you had a chance to check out Lost Highway? It's a similar style of movie to Mulholland and your boy Marilyn rocks up at one point.

Twin Peaks also has a lot in common albeit, it was made for a commercial audience nearly 30 years ago and it shows. The recent return is also a nice love-letter to fans but if you're not a fan of Lynch's other works I couldn't recommend it. At times, it's almost anti-entertainment.

If you want more experimental movies, check out El Topo.

Twitch Of The Death Nerve (aka Bay Of Blood)

I first heard of this movie through either the His Name Was Jason or Crystal Lake Memories documentary. Sean Cunnigham mentions that unintentionally Friday The 13th basically uses the template from Twitch Of The Death Nerve and he was not wrong. This movie uses POV shots and quick cuts (hand with weapon ---> gore) when the slasher does the deed. There is plenty of blood by 1971 standards and the dubbing is very similar to the Leone Spaghetti Westerns with English over the Italian dialogue. It has a very good murder mystery element as someone is murdering all the potential heirs to a large plot of land near a lake. It also has all the other tropes of women getting nude/having sex meaning certain death and a pretty good twist at the end. I figured this was a must watch before I made my slasher list and I'm glad I made this decision as it has a good chance to make my top 10. A true innovator of the genre. ***

Oct 28, 2018 15:46:20 GMT mikec said:

Manson was actively seeking publicity the whole time. Myers is supposedly just sitting somewhere for forty years not talking.

And Manson’s was more interesting too. He got other people to do his work, he had a celebrity murdered, etc.

He was a guy who murdered his sister when he was a child, then at the age of 21 escaped from custody and killed more people, that's a story that'd stick around, America has ever been fascinated with criminals and killers. There's an entire channel dedicated to them. Son of Sam got 6 people, chick they based Monster on got 7, really doesn't take all that much.

Been watching a lot of horror movies lately. I bought a Blu Ray copy of The Thing at Best Buy for like $6! What a steal. The last time I watched this movie was on a worn out old VHS tape back probably 15 years ago. I remember thinking that the movie was really too dark and too grainy and that all those wonderful special effects were kind of wasted because you couldnt' really see them that well. Watching this Blu Ray I was really blown away by how much they cleaned this movie up, it looks fucking EXCELLENT, especially on the ole 4K beast I have. What a fucking classic. 9/10

Also watched House and House II. The first one was REALLY stupid 4/10. The sequel is really stupid but just the right level of over the top, I remember I LOVED this movie when I was little but completely forgot about it until last week. I never knew the name of the movie back then so I was tripping out when watching this and rediscovering a forgotten lost movie that I loved in my childhood. Nostalgia aside I'd probably go 6.6/10 with this one, it was at least fun.



And I watched The Mummy the original Boris Karloff classic. This had a few cool moments but overall was very weak compared to the other Universal monster classics I've seen, possibly the weakest of the OG Universal monster flicks. Almost like it's not really much of a horror movie at all just kind of bizarre love story thing. 5/10

Then I caught the original Creature From The Black Lagoon from the 1950's. I enjoy watching the old black and white horror movies especially after waking up at 5 am on a Saturday morning smoking a spliff and sipping coffee. This was ok, I wasn't really blown away by it but it kept me interested enough to keep watching til the end. I got to tell you I enjoyed the documentary about the film that was included on the special features of the DVD more than the actual movie itself. Would love to see this movie on the big screen in 3D the way it was intended back when it came out. 6.9/10

Also woke up early for work one morning last week and Mr. Sardonicus from 1961 was on one of the over the air antennae channels I get. I REALLY liked this one, had never seen it before. Wicked story about a struggling ranch owner who wins the lotto but the winning ticket was burried with his dead father in the jacket they burried him in. So ole dude digs his father up to get the ticket but the garish look on his rotting face sends him into shock and leaves his own face permanently disfigured in the same look that he seen on his father's corpse. So he brings in a special doctor to fix his face but the doctor discovers a bunch of fucked up shit going on in the house, like one of the maids being tortured with fucking leeches! This whole movie hit the spot and I loved it. There was a gimmick at the end where somebody would come on screen and poll the audience about the fate of Mr. Sardonicus, theater goers could hold up a sign showing thumbs up or thumbs down and the person on screen pretended to count all the cards and it would impact the end of the movie. I'm pretty sure it was just a gimmick and the end was decided no matter what the audience voted.



Speaking of gimmicks I also caught The Tingler, Vincent Price film from 1959. I caught this on the same channel last week early in the morning. I thought it was pretty goofy though, the main monster is just silly. The gimmick copy and pasted from Wiki:

"Percepto!" was a gimmick where Castle attached electrical "buzzers" to the underside of some seats in theaters where The Tingler was screened.[8] The buzzers were small surplus airplane wing deicing motors left from World War II. The cost of this equipment added $250,000 to the film's budget. It was used predominantly in larger theaters.

During the climax of the film, The Tingler was unleashed in the movie theater, while the audience watches Tol'able David (1921), in which a young woman escapes the unwanted advances of her boyfriend and is targeted. In the real-life theater, a woman screamed and then pretended to faint; she was then taken away in a stretcher, all part of the show arranged by Castle.[6] From the screen, the voice of Price mentioned the fainted lady and asked the rest of the audience to remain seated. The film-within-a-film resumed and is interrupted again. The projected film appeared to break as the silhouette of the tingler moved across the projection beam. The image of the film goes dark, all lights in the auditorium (except fire exit signs) went off, and Price's voice warned the audience, "Ladies and gentlemen, please do not panic. But scream! Scream for your lives! The tingler is loose in this theater!"[9] This cued the theater projectionist to activate the Percepto! buzzers, giving some audience members an unexpected jolt, followed by a highly visible physical reaction. The voices of scared patrons were heard from the screen, replaced by the voice of Price, who explained that the tingler is paralyzed and the danger is over. At this point, the film resumed its normal format, which was used for its epilogue."

Again, probably a movie that was way better in theater the way it was intended to be seen back when it came out. 4/10

And I watched the original Poltergiest twice, once on my 4K rig and then I showed it to my little niece in my den, she loved the hell out of it. I figured it would be a good halloween movie to watch with her because it's actually pretty tame, no nudity, no blood, no real nasty language, but somehow it's still so damn effective in what it does. What a classic. Also watching it on both of these tv's I noticed a markeable improvement in the color watching it on my 4K blu ray player on my 4K curve, never really noticed just how much it brings out the color in a regular old DVD, it's pretty great. One of my favorite little parts in the movie is when the one paranormal investigator comes downstairs to show everyone he got bit on the side by what looks like a fucking shark or something, the little boy's reaction is so great, "You got bit?!" :lol: 8.7/10

Ah what else what else, I'm forgetting something, OH! I watched the 1922 silent horror classic Nosferatu. Honestly it's hard to judge a movie that is almost 100 years old but I kinda didn't like this. I watched the version that has Type O Negative music playing over it and there were several times when I wanted to give up on the movie and watch something else but the music kept me watching until the end. This has it's moments but overall it's not all that great, certainly hasn't aged well but I guess few things made 100 years ago have. The Type O music went great with it and without it I don't think I would have been able to watch the whole movie. 2/10 without the Type O, 4/10 with Type O.

Also I forgot I watched House On Haunted Hill on Amazon Prime a week or two ago and really enjoyed it. I never gave the original black and white version a chance because I always thought the 1999 remake sucked so bad. But man the original is really great for it's time. 8.5/10

And I'm watching 1960 classic Psycho right now, the OG slasher movie that really started it all for Halloween, Friday 13th, etc. This movie holds up very well for it's age. I went into it knowing that the main character gets killed off pretty early in the film but it was still so effective after spending so much of the early part of the movie getting to know that character and then that one scene where the camera shot backs off of her dead face and shows her laying in the shower, pretty chilling stuff. This is one of the best horror movies ever made imo, 9.6/10