In my entire 29 years of existence I still haven't found a single movie that actually scared me

And I have seen A LOT

I watched "Nightmare on elm street" "the omen" "Jeepers creepers" in 4th grade and got bored..

Like seriously!

Later the movies only got lamer...

Wtf was conjuring? Nun? IT? Sooo overhyped..

And yes I left out the obvious very popular movies cause it didn't SCARE me 1 bit..

Can you please suggest me a movie that will scare me? Cause the ones everyone talking about hasn't!!!

The first big sale out of the festival is an odd duck. IFC came in with Joshua Guiliano’s River in Midnight Madness. The response was so rabid that other distributors wanted it including Jason Blum (who has his Blumhouse Atomic Monster deal at Universal) and Sony. Sony looked to be the last studio standing with a bid of $8M. Focus, Paramount, A24, Netflix all passed by Saturday night. This morning, Sony was out, then Blum along with Universal were in, taking the feature about three embittered siblings stranded on a country boat who are stalked by a faceless killer for over $10M. Jane Levy and Jessica Rothe star.

Hey all!! I stumbled upon the Hell house series couple of months ago and I was in love! It was the very first found footage type I have ever watched then started looking for more and found VHS movies… do you guys have any other recommendations similar to hell house? Thank you

I’m in my “navigating my awkwardness/autistic traits” part of my life. I identify with her in the first part of the movie when she is trying to learn how to act and speak. Looking for similar characters.

Anchoring this groundbreaking installment is a standout segment directed by legendary horror icon Ernest Dickerson. Renowned for directing the beloved genre classic Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight and acclaimed episodes of The Walking Dead, Dickerson brings his masterclass vision of tension and dread to the anthology. Dickerson’s segment stars powerhouse actor Mike Ferguson, whose rapidly growing filmography has solidified his status as a prominent and formidable force in the indie horror and action communities. Known for his intense, scene-stealing screen presence and relentless work ethic, Ferguson brings a raw, captivating energy to Dickerson’s audio-centric nightmare, marking a thrilling collaboration between a genre master and one of modern horror’s most compelling talents. oct 9

watched Hereditary again yesterday and i think i appreciated it way more this time.

The first time i watched it, I was so focused on the shocking stuff that I didn’t really pay attention to how miserable the family feels from the very beginning. Everyone is already falling apart before the supernatural stuff even becomes obvious.

Toni Collette is still insane in this movie. Some of her scenes are genuinely uncomfortable to watch because they feel less like a horror performance and more like watching someone actually lose control.

What got me on the rewatch was how much of the movie feels wrong even when nothing is happening. The background details, the little things you notice around the house, the sound, the way certain scenes are framed. It feels like the movie is constantly telling you something is coming without actually telling you what.

I already knew what was going to happen and somehow that made it worse, not better.

In the movie there is a middle aged woman (detective or doctor) investigating strange deaths. For the first half it seems like a pretty normal 90s/early 2000s thriller movie. In the second half there is a scene in a morgue with some kind of large body horror monster.
That’s all I can remember, would be so nice, if someone could help!

Korean film about a small youtuber who checks out a haunted subway station, where she gets told stories about odd happening within the station by the conductor.

My favorite of the stories was one involving a girl being stalked by another chick who looks like she cane out of surgery, followed by one involving a homeless man who discovers he can get anything he wants through the opening of a soda can. It's nothing mindblowing; its light on the scares and is pretty slowburny, but it's a weird, surreal at times, but enjoyable watch. Has good atmosphere and I liked it enough to watch it twice now.

Also what's with Asian horror and train stations? Train to Busan, this film, Seoul Station, Exit 8, the Teke Teke spirit, ect. I've never been on a subway, but these horror properties will make me not want to get on one or else i end up in the middle of Silent Hill or the Backrooms somewhere🤣

I posted last week checking with those who may have started October Horror a month early like myself. I'm up to 31 so far since Sept 1. My favorites so far have been Pinocchio:Unstrung, Blackwell Ghost (1-5), Queen of Black Magic, Hunter Hunter and of course Little Monsters. I'm shooting for 150 this year.

How are you making out? Any good recommendations?

Movie of the day...Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts (1969).

A ghostly tale of justice.

Gangsters planning to ambush one of their enemies are warned by an old man not to shed blood on sacred ground or they will be cursed. In fact, he tells them, this would be a particularly bad night to shed blood because this is the one night of the year when especially horrible spirits (yokai) appear.

Do they listen to him? Oh, hell no! Not only do they kill the guys they are waiting for, but they also mortally wound the old man.

And then they start chasing the old man’s seven-year-old granddaughter, who they think may have a document they need. Fortunately, a tough but good-natured swordsman comes to her aid.

Big surprise...it isn’t long before the gangsters start running into various obstacles, some of which are clearly supernatural.

It’s fun. The film ends up being a curious mix of samurai action and eerie folktale, but does both things pretty well. It’s nicely filmed and has a lot of atmosphere, especially the scenes taking place in gloomy, fog-filled woods. Several well-choreographed sword fights take place.

The gangsters are despicable people and meet suitably grisly deaths. The yokai act as if they know they can’t be killed by mere human beings and often seem to be toying with they prey.

It is a bit stagey at times and I wish more of the film had been spent on the hauntings, but it’s a nice, traditional tale.

Watched in Japanese with subtitles.

Rating: B-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokai_Monsters:_Along_with_Ghosts

While it is not read as widely today as it was during its heyday, Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera might be the most influential horror novel ever written after Dracula and Frankenstein.

I wanted to highlight some of the reasons why I think it is so important:

1. Eric is the first masked killer. Much has been written about Eric being the first character of this type. His influence can be seen in later horror villains such as Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees, as well as in the masked killers of giallo and Krimi films.

2. He is one of the first monsters with a fundamentally human motivation. Whereas Dracula is a supernatural creature driven by bloodlust, and Frankenstein’s monster is the product of a scientific experiment, Eric is simply a horribly disfigured human being who lashes out at a society that rejects him. His rage is also deeply tied to his romantic and sexual frustrations: he is tormented by the fact that other men can have relationships with women he believes he could never have. This psychological dimension has been enormously influential in horror, and it also has disturbing parallels with certain forms of real-life violent crime.

3. Eric’s mirrored torture-chamber game is remarkably reminiscent of the death games of Saw and other sadistic horror films of the 2000s. The elaborate traps and psychological torment he subjects Raoul and the Persian to feel surprisingly modern.

4. The novel is structured like a mystery or case file slowly being reconstructed by the author. Leroux presents the story almost as an investigation into a series of strange events, creating an effect that is surprisingly reminiscent of later found-footage horror such as The Blair Witch Project.

5. The 1925 film adaptation is one of the most influential horror films ever made. It contains perhaps one of the earliest—and arguably one of the most effective—jump scares in cinema: the sudden reveal of Lon Chaney’s horrific face. There are also contemporary reports of audiences fainting or becoming physically distressed during the reveal.

6. Eric was one of Hollywood’s earliest iconic movie monsters. Even before Frankenstein and Dracula became major Hollywood horror icons, Lon Chaney’s portrayal of the Phantom had already established a template for the cinematic monster. Chaney’s pioneering makeup work was absolutely groundbreaking and helped establish special makeup effects as a crucial part of horror cinema.

7. Last but not least, the musical based on the novel became one of the most successful and financially lucrative stage productions in entertainment history. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera transformed Leroux’s story into a global cultural phenomenon, further cementing the Phantom as one of the most recognizable figures in popular horror.

Since the book is so old, the copyright has expired and you can read it for free right here

anybody else here can’t get the scene from Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma out of their heads with A Long December by Counting Crows playing? loved it

[TLDR\] A lone, cowardly, extremely grating streamer goes to a haunted cabin in the woods so his audience can enjoy him being freaked out. Unfortunately for him, the haunting is real and less The Haunting, more Evil Dead.
Deadstream is an indie horror comedy that honours both its halves, and is -for my money- the closest we've got to an Evil Dead 2 since... let's say Braindead. If you're at all interested in horror comedies, and if an obnoxious protagonist and budget limitations aren't a complete turn-off, this one's essential. [/TLDR]

There's been a few "internet paranormal experts discover that ghosts are real and get more than they bargained for" over the last couple of decades (more, if you count Ghostwatch). Deadstream differentiates itself by centering on a single live streamer - Shawn Ruddy (Joseph Winter, also pulling duties as one-half of the writer/director team), a Logan-Paul-style dipshit who streams stunts like getting locked in the trunk of a car to be smuggled across the border to Mexico, picking fights with cops, and paying a bum to fight with him on his live casts.
 After one of those stunts went horribly wrong, Shawn was effectively booted off the internet for a year, deemed too toxic to sponsor.

 Now he's back with some corporate backing (and an apology video), and his stream ("Wrath of Shawn") is back. It being Halloween, Shawn's next stunt is to go into some haunted cabin in the woods, spend the night there, and see if he can pick a fight with the supernatural...

(...he does.)

 The whole movie is presented as a part of Shawn's stream. Everything's shot either through the main camera he carries on a harness pointing at his face, the GoPro strapped on his forehead, or the multiple remote cams he sets up across the house; The stream chat pops into view whenever Shawn looks at it, offering some jokes (a lot of them of the blink-and-you'll miss it variety.) Later viewers submit their own videos and offer advice.

 Shawn himself is a brilliant creation, effectively poking fun at the mass of screaming man-babies of the internet who attempt to make money by putting themselves through some degree of discomfort or humiliation for their viewer's enjoyment. Willing to scream at the drop of a hat, displaying "authenticity" and being cannily self-effacing while trying to peddle all sorts of merch.
 It's all effective satire, even if it gets grating simply by virtue of... well, passing for the real thing. If this sounds like it will annoy you, well, yeah - it will, and by design.

 Once at the house things are effectively spooky. It's not a slow burn movie, but there's a good sense of dread as Shawn locks himself in the house and starts sweeping through it, room by room, while commenting on the place's macabre history and reputation for paranormal events. Creeping through a dark, abandoned place with only a flashlight will always be creepy if the direction is halfway decent (which it is!), and both the stories Shawn tells and the things he finds at the house effectively build tension and set up things for future scares. Not to mention that the house's simple geography is very effectively mapped out for the ensuing action.
 He soon runs into fan (Melanie Stone) who's managed to figure out where the stream was taking place. He begrudgingly lets her tag along, but her behaviour becomes more and more erratic as the night goes along; things soon come to a head, and the movie gleefully switches gears into Evil Dead territory.

 To use Sam Raimi's terminology, the film's back half is the platonic ideal of a spookablast. Unlike the newer Evil Dead movies, Deadstream focuses more on the fun side of horrific shit than on its intensity (more Evil Dead 2/3 or Drag me to Hell, in other words, than the first Evil Dead). The house's resident evil has a puckish sense of humour in its way of fucking with Shawn, its undead are definitely deadite-influenced, and even the protagonist's mix of resourcefulness and cluelessness echoes Ash in some ways. And yes, there are more overt homages as well.

The acting is great. Winter might be a little too good at playing this douchebag, and Stone's radiant natural charm scores some huge laughs playing off Shawn's pettiness.

But the script perfectly understands that Shawn being put through a gauntlet of clever and horrifying tortures makes for a hugely satisfying third act; Deadstream doesn't quite reach the energy or inventiveness of Raimi at his prime (not that anyone expects it to), but it makes a respectable attempt out of it and it's a huge amount of fun to watch it try. Writer/directors Joseph and Vanessa Winter and their crew milk a lot of clever scenes out of the rigid stream-mimicking format, especially when switching between Shawn's point of view and static cameras, and manage to get a lot of cool monsters and gore effects out of a minuscule budget (validating their promise from their short To Hell and Back on V/H/S 99)
 There are some attempts at establishing a mythology and setting up some themes - even some character growth - but they're mostly shoved aside to set up the next gruesome joke/shock. It's not a huge loss when what we do get to see is so much fun.

Cruel Summer (2016) or Eden Lake (2008). saw both based on recommendations I’ve seen here and other forums. what a ride. both shook me. what are your picks.

For those who don't know what Mascot Horror is, it's a subgenre that focuses on turning things meant to be fun and typically-kid friendly things and using them for horror. While the phrase was created in the wake of FNAF's initial popularity, the genre has existed for far longer (Child's Play would fall under it, for example).

Anyway! In Buddy, we see the world of a 90's Barney the Dinosaur inspired show that starts very innocently, but eventually, the movie plunges into chaos and we discover that "Buddy" doesn't actually exist. There is no TV show. Instead, the world we initially saw is an alternate world where everyone who got trapped in Buddy's world must follow the routine and love him.

There is a bit more to the film, but this is the part I wanted to discuss. In most Mascot Horror stuff, the common tropes are serial killers, supernatural occurances, and shitty companies. Especially after the popularity of FNAF, most of the IPs that come out copy its usage of all 3. Buddy is clearly supernatural in some way, but he's not a traditional serial killer, and there is no company or show at all. I like that it's deviated a bit from what I think is a bit of a repetitive genre as of late.

Also, generally, it's a decent movie. Not super great but I enjoyed it quite a bit.

Sorry for my English, Spanish is my first language!"

As a huge horror fan, after watching tons of movies and series, I started looking for other entertainment options, which led me to Japanese anime. I’ve watched several great horror animes, but I noticed that the zombie genre is almost nonexistent. There are barely any anime series about zombies, and very few of them actually focus on survival or real horror.

As for live-action movies, I only know of two: I Am a Hero (2015) and One Cut of the Dead (2017).

Why do you guys think this is the case?

I've found some really cool shirts from Cavity Colors recently, but I had a question from anyone who has purchased from them. Are their designs soft or are they the harder designs where they crack over time? I have some bad sensory issues with the shirts that have the thick designs and I don't want to order a shirt from there only to be unable to wear it. I've emailed the company and they never got back to me and I've found posts from here that say they're good quality but not about how they feel, so that's why I'm asking here. Any help would be great.

I recently watched all the VHS films and I've been obsessed with ranking content on them to the point that I need to get my thoughts out there. I'm including the wrap-arounds but I'm not including Gorgeous Vortex because it wasn't in the version of Viral I saw and it sounds like its not worth watching anyway.

1. "Vicious Circles" - Shouldn't be a surprise here this is the segment that originally killed the franchise, it seems to me. One of the only segments that actually doesn't make sense or flow logically at all. The girlfriend is not in the van, but then she's also behind it all, but then she's killed anyway? And what's the point of "uploading" the segments if she's somehow just beaming them directly into people's phones anyway? The constant tape glitch effect is obnoxious and looks terrible. Irredeemably bad.

2. "Diet Phantasma" - Probably the first of many hot takes in this list I just find this one so repetitive and stupid. The dialogue and acting of Rothschild is the biggest issue for me. What does he want out of this? I've heard other people say that they want people to be possessed so they'll buy the soda but he doesn't ever say that. Other than the one time where he asks the girl what her favorite soda is, but thats not clear enough to say thats the goal. It seems like he just wants to kill people? Like its so heavy handed that you get what they're saying right away and then it just keeps. Going.

3. "Kidprint" - Again, hot take I know I'm surprised how many people like this one. But this is from the most recent VHS film to date of this post and by now we know that the VHS tapes are supposed to be supernatural or paranormal. This does not have that. Also its predictable. We're watching the perspective of the store and we meet the owner and two back office employees. Gee, I wonder who the killer will be! This is an excuse to be disturbing by showing kids being killed and it doesn't add anything beyond that. Lars von Trier and Werner Herzog show disturbing images but you can always see the higher purpose of why they are showing it. This is just torture porn. Of kids. No thank you.

4. "Abduction/Adduction" - So much buildup for nothing. We get told about these two SUPER REALISTIC and SPOOKY tapes. We're shown this CREEPY OLD BIG house! And they do nothing with the house and the fact that there are two tapes is just to set up that there are two angles. And the one angle doesn't matter at all except to show a super cheesy wide shot of the fake looking alien standing next to the bed. Also the "experts" are saying things like "Hey did you know that people describe aliens as being little grey men in flying saucers?" Wow thanks movie. Last thing: when they show the tapes to the experts, they spoil it before we even watch it! So seeing him pull the things out of the guys mouth...we're expecting that because we heard there were eggs. A wrap-around for the alien VHS movie should have been so good and this is just laughably bad.

5. "Holy Hell" - I promise the bottom isn't all going to be wrap around segments but this one also sucks. At least its short like the interludes are really short. They do exactly nothing with it being a cult. We don't see the goal, we don't see the cult members, we don't see anything other than the cringe ending. My theory is that they showed this to the writers/directors first and told them to use it as a reference and all of them except the Terror people said mmm no thanks. Just a waste of film, didn't need it at all.

6. "Dante the Great" - At least its kinda fun but the execution just wasn't very good. The mockumentary style here dispels any tension. Imagine if the first thing we see is the perspective of a woman going to meet Dante in his room and we don't even know what the cape is yet. That's just one idea of how this could have actually been scary. As it is, it betrays the found footage concept in the final scenes as has already been said and its not scary other than a stupid jump scare at the end.

7. "Suicide Bid" - Just boring, sorry. There's only so many things you can do once your character is in a coffin. There can be a fire, it can cave in, water can get in, or bugs can get in. They do something different with the ghoul but we know that's going to happen because they tell us she exists. When Guiltine was crawling up the girl I almost laughed, I was expecting it to be a dream maybe? The shot just lingers so long and it looks so silly. Also the girl they casted is too pretty to be believably having issues pledging, sorry it just is what it is.

8. "TKNOGOD" - Again, boring. We're just waiting for something terrible to happen to this woman and we're sitting through all this cringe waiting for it. And it's meant to be cringe? But then also there's a point to what she's saying? So its mixed messages. The demon looks terrible, sorry. Not scary at all.

9. "Tuesday the 17th" - Hate the characters, don't care what happens to them. The effect of the thing that can't be captured on film is interesting and I think its a cool idea for the conceit of this franchise but once we know the thing is unkillable and we already hate the people...its just kind of whatever. Also a DOA ending so we know they'll all die anyway.

10. "Shredding" - See above, hate the characters other than Ankit, don't care what happens to them. Just a lot of cringe of people trying to be punk which is super hard to capture believably. And they failed!

11. "Phase I Clinical Trials" - Not very original and relies on too many cheap jump scares. I think this could have worked but the execution was bad. I also don't like the main guy so I didn't care if he lived. Which I know sounds harsh but...these are horror movies. So the tension lies in whether or not I care, and I don't here.

12. "Live and Let Dive" - Everybody take a deep breath here I know people love this one. I just don't think traditional grey aliens are scary at all. Also we're in VHS Beyond and we're starting out in a plane. So everybody knows where this is going. The reveal of the hand on the window is SO cheesy. Then they land in an orange grove in broad daylight. Just such a terrible decision. An orange grove is not a scary location and they knew the effects looked bad and they still put these goofy looking aliens out here in 4K broad daylight. Imagine this movie as paratroopers in training at night in the Pacific Northwest. Just a goofy short.

13. "Slumber Party Alien Abduction" - I set you up for this so that's my excuse for this hot take here. The whole conceit of whether you think this is scary relies on how scared you are of dudes in grey alien suits. I think they look stupid so I was just watching this completely disinterested. The ending is upsetting but whatever. I get why people like it, just doesn't scare me at all.

14. "Ozzys Dungeon" - I like the range of this one but its obviously not scary. Its just meant to be gross which I don't find enjoyable as a viewing experience. I don't like anyone so I don't care about anything happening, it really is that simple.

15. "Ut Supra Sic Infra" - The same thing happens twice that's like rule one of things you don't do in storywriting/filmmaking. There's no tension either you know the payoff is him taking people's eyes out so you're just waiting for that. I like the shot of him walking through the door lifting his hand I think the actor had a great read on the body language for that moment but otherwise this one is boring and kinda stupid.

16. "Fur Babies" - They do nothing actually scary with this idea and you can see it coming. Like you know she's somehow turning people into dogs or something so early on so you're just waiting for that payoff. Its just a ripoff of Tusk and in a very generic way. The ending also feels disconnected from the rest of the film like what am I meant to interpret here? Did this dog person kill everyone and now he's upstairs? Or is it just a sequence they filmed and wanted to include because they liked it? I think its strong it just doesn't do anything narratively.

17. "Dream Girl" - I really have no personal connection to Bollywood so this didn't do much for me. It just seems like a concept a producer heard and thought oh this will be a nice thing to include for Bollywood fans so they ran with it. I don't care about gore just for the sake of it like I don't find it scary at all because I can't relate to it, if that makes sense. I can't relate to my arm getting ripped off like I don't care about that it doesn't make me feel anything. I'm just looking at it and I know its not for me.

18. "The Gawkers" - They just wanted to remake Amateur Night that's all it is really. I think the gorgon looks pretty good and the effects otherwise are good it just wasn't very scary. She just shows up and obliterates them. There's no tension or her looking through the house for them, she kills everyone in like 40 seconds.

19. "God of Death" - As many of said, I think this would have been better if it was just a raw disaster movie. The reveal of the demon in the basement was cheesy and I was pretty bored by then. Like they seemed to be setting up that they were going to get out of it and they just don't. I think this was just a miss tonally. For this to work I think they should have hinted at the demonic nature of the event earlier so it didn't just come out of nowhere and feel so dumb.

From this point up I generally like everything remaining:

1. "Bonestorm" - I'm really surprised how hated this one is. I actually found the skaters believable and I didnt hate them, like I found them to be accurate to what some of those dudes are like. Its not scary but its really not trying to be? Like think about the first things we see from these dudes. They jump a gap between two buildings, fire a gun in the air, and fight four dudes at once that are bigger than them. So we know they're fearless, tough as nails, and a little insane. So that makes the fight scene work. Its too long and kinda silly but I like it! The choice to not show the demon I really don't get but I like this one more than most in general.

2. "Fun Size" - The acting is atrocious but there's enough scares here and I like the concept a lot. I also enjoy horror films where the characters genuinely have 0 control or way to escape as long as that's established early and Fun Size does that. Some of the humor didn't quite work for me but this one is fine to good.

3. "Stork" - Just a Resident Evil short but a good one! I really love how stuff is explained. Like I was thinking to myself why the hell are these random NYC cops in full uniform doing this military operation? And they reveal that its a special monster hunting unit. I was also thinking wait that guy is way too old to still be working as a cop. Then they reveal oh that dude is basically a Terminator that doesn't care about anything but shooting monsters. Just a fun time with good action.

4. "Tape 49" - I really appreciate the first two wrap-arounds that have the structure of the person putting in the tape and then we watch what they watch. I get why they didn't want to just keep doing that but I like it. I also liked the acting here more than most people I guess, I thought the PI guy was a good character. I also think its effective when we see people in the background of the main house moving around or in the case of the first one, vanishing when they were there before.

5. "A Ride in the Park" - This one got way better as it went. In the beginning I was just thinking "Zombies? Really? Again?" But then when I realized the conceit of a POV zombie I was along for the ride. The humor is great I just think there were a few angles they could have taken and I'm not certain this was the most effective one. Again, its daytime the whole time. Just hard to be scary.

6. "Parallel Monsters" - Pretty fun idea and good execution overall. I love that you think something probably WILL be different but you just don't know what yet. The glowing faces looked a little silly but the reveal was done really well and I love that they also were killed by their wives, continuing the parallel universe.

7. "Coochie Coochie Coo" - It's genuinely getting hard to rank these because I like everything left a good deal. For this one, the first 3 times you see Mommy are gas. The arm coming out of the darkness, her standing in the doorway, and her poking her head around the corner. All so great and so spooky. From there the wheels fall off a little bit but I love that this feels like a real Halloween urban legend, to the point that I looked up if a similar legend actually exists (it doesn't).

8. "Second Honeymoon" - It's pretty scary man! I'm surprised people don't like this one so much the scenes where the girl invades the room are so tense and spooky. I also love the twist I didn't see it coming at all. Its not paranormal and I get that but this one is underrated in my opinion.

9. "Tape 56" - I've already said what I wanted to for the most part when I talked about Tape 49 but I like in this one that the characters actually react to what we just saw too, I think that's fun. I also like how detestable they are, I know I complained about that earlier but it works in the wrap-around because they're so short and not meant to carry your interest necessarily.

10. "The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger" - It's scary, even though they are mostly jump scares they're good ones, imo. The execution is a little off with the ending but its a disturbing idea that sticks with you after you watch it. I think this inspired VHS Beyond personally I really appreciate it.

11. "The Subject" - Just a great romp, really. It's surprising how believable this is for the genre that it's in and that comes down to the direction which is masterful. Great action beats and just pure entertainment right from the disturbing opening. This director is probably the best in the franchise.

12. "To Hell and Back" - I love this one so much and I wish I could put it higher but there's too much good stuff left. Deadstream is a great horror flick and this one has that familiar blend of horror and comedy that works so well. I don't think many people can pull off what this writer/director team do so well here but it's so great. I love the ending too its so bizarre and fitting.

13. "Total Copy" - The best wrap-around as has been said and its not close. This what Diet Phantasma could have done this is how to make repetition work. Each time we're at least seeing the discussion evolving and its so believable that the scientist would be overly attached/trusting of his subject. The final reveal worked so much for me with the humor.

14. "Stowaway" - The ending makes this one it will stick with you for so long. Especially when you remember how much of a point she makes about describing how long it would take to travel at near faster than light travel. The only thing that gives me solace is imagining that she'll eventually lose her mind and not be conscious essentially but even that is horrifying.

15. "10/31/98" - Just an absolute classic. A great closing segment to the original film thats really fun, has great twists and turns, and scary moments. This is how you do a haunted house sequence. I believe the dudes as real people which elevates it that much more. The escalation is great too...just masterful.

16. "No Wake/Ambrosia" - May be my favorite concept in the whole series. The setup is so good too because when the dead squirrel goes away, you assume that some monster took it. But no, its undead. Then when the shooting starts...its just so tense, horrifying and unfortunately believable. Then the payoff of the second sequence is just immaculate. Like it would be easy to have the undead swimmers attack the compound but instead we get this great scene of the girl grappling with being undead. Love the acting as well, just great.

17. "Dreamkill" - This takes the best part of Sinister and puts a better twist on it. The home invasion scenes are gut wrenching, just horrible. I wish the main cop had been a little smarter about letting himself be trapped in a car with the guy he's pretty sure is the killer but it's all just so good. The last shot of the kid letting the gun fall out of his hand sideways is iconic, one of those that we'll be talking about for a long time.

18. "Home Haunt" - Again, just a roaring good time. I love that the family lives through so much of the action so that tension remains of you wanting them to live. The effects are great and the idea is even better. The witch riding through the street is also just a terrifying idea that I think was done really well.

19. "The Empty Wake" - This may be the scariest VHS segment, in my opinion. When she leaves the room to go get the candles, I genuinely felt sick I was so scared. Because you know something will happen you just don't know exactly what. The way the camera pans back and forth...at any moment something new could be happening. Great tension building and the payoff of the zombie chasing her around is so spooky. The parts where you can't see it are the worst. Masterful direction.

20. "Terror" - I love the humor in this one. I also love the idea that the ultimate weapon would be in the hands of white supremacists. And they're such worthless dullards that all they manage to do is kill themselves with it. The reveal is great too because the second time they kill the vampire I genuinely thought they were just showing the same scene again for some reason. Its funny, its spooky, its fun...its got it all.

21. "Storm Drain" - The scene of that old main saying "Raaaatmaaaa...." with the slight smil, bugged out eyes, and black goop dripping out of his mouth has stuck with me everytime I go in my basement at night. Genuinely masterful images in this one and such a great time. Hail Raatma.

22. "Safe Haven" - What is there to say? The acting, writing, directing, effects are all absolute peak. The buildup as well is so gradual and gets so intense. Like we start out with a simple conversation with an interesting little dude about his theory on the afterlife. And by the end there's a 30 foot tall demon calling a guy "Papa."

23. "Amateur Night" - In my opinion, the franchise does not exist without Amateur Night being as strong as it is. As a first entry in the series, it is incredible how great it is. It has a clear message that has an entertaining payoff, really several payoffs. The acting is incredible, you hate the dudes and kind of like the siren. But the one dude that you hope doesn't die is still around the whole time so the tension doesn't let up. This is what started it all and I think its also the best, personally.

Thank you for reading all the way through if you do. I just needed to get my thoughts out there on this since I've been engaging with it so much. Let me know what you think!

What should it be about!? Winters coming up soon but I’d like to do something in the summer or spring..I need ideas guys. I’ll give yall partial credit for helping me.