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Day 47 - Monster From Green Hell (1957)

I usually enjoy a giant insect movie, but Jim Davis is a real dipshit on this, held together with stock footage and smokes.

Lots of exploitative “great white hunterl” type bullshit.

The monster is boring and barely in it.

No fun.

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Day 46 - Isle Of The Dead (1945)

Karloff is a general stuck trying to keep a small group of people from leaving a plague-filled island until the all-clear, despite their dipshit arguments.

Atmosphere of despair.

Time for bed.

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Day 45 - Caveat (2020)

3 for 3 with this Damian McCarthy guy.

Another perfectly lit, well paced and superbly acted film.

I enjoy his common themes.

Looking forward to whatever he does next.

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Day 44 - Oddity (2024)

Another one from the Hokum guy.

This one’s good too!
(For many of the same reasons)

I like to follow the Prime Directive and not spoil plot on the well written ones, ‘cause i hate spoilers, but can go pages on my beloved Films Of Lower Brow.

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Day 43 - Hope (2026)

The scale of this thing.

I don’t wanna say too much, a half hour in i was already thinking this was an all-timer.

When cgi has to be implemented, it is not the best, but the design and everything surrounding sells it.

Can’t wait to watch it again.

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Day 42 - Hokum (2026)

So much better than it looked!

Usually a film this thick with atmosphere leans on it like a crutch, but this is an intriguing story breezily paced, all the acting is great (especially “Jerry”) and some Sacred Harp thrown in there for good measure.

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Day 41 - The Midnight Hour (1985)

Comfy, but very goofy 80’s tv movie filled with middle-aged teenagers, most notably LeVar Burton a full 8 years after playing Kunta Kinte.

There’s a song and dance number that will cringe you under the table.

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Day 40 - VHS: Mixtape (2026)

The rule of thumb on these is that every other one is good (more good stories than dumb) and last year’s was perhaps the best and conversely this one is perhaps the worst.

Pro: This one has GWAR
Con: This one has GWAR

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Day 40 Bonus - Beware: Children At Play (1989)

Filmed in my beloved Pine Barrens, this is a mostly boring bad-actor wasp-fest, but i am here to tell you, friends, that the last five minutes are perhaps THE GREATEST IN ALL BADFILM HORROR HISTORY!

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Day 39 Bonus - Insidious: Out Of The Further (2026)

Hey, this one’s pretty good!

Kinda.

I mean, it doesn’t stick the landing, but it was creatively brutal and it took a full 40 minutes before something fucking stupid happened.

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Day 39 - Insidious: The Red Door (2023)

This one had some good bits in it, like the concentration thing and props on using the Biff Rose number, but the sanctimonious attitude is so painful.

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Day 38 - Insidious: The Last Key (2018)

Look, i can appreciate this film being an allegory on stopping the cycle of domestic violence, but none of these films has any reference to basic police procedure.

Body dont get cold before they trampling all around a crime scene.

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Day 37 - Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)

Worst one so far, but now i just kinda wanna get through them to see if any of them are “the good one”.

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Day 36 Bonus - Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)

Takes the Poltergeist thing and straight up shoves in Aunt Martha from Sleepaway Camp.

I feel stupid for watching these.

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Day 36 - Insidious (2012)

I always get this confused with Sinister, which i always get confused with The Conjuring.

Takes a slice of Poltergeist and beats it into the ground.

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Day 35 - Hunter Hunter (2020)

Brutal Field & Stream Horror.

I often wonder what Henry The Turkey Hunter from Vernon, Florida would do in a situation like this.

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Day 34 Bonus - The Mole People

The Beaver’s dad gets stuck in a civilization below the earth.

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Day 34 - Infirmary (2026)

I been playing that new Silent Hill, so watching somebody else wander around with a flashlight, but shittier looking and no payoff seemed a literal waste of time.

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Day 33 - Manic (1934)

The kind of densely stupid filmmaking that Ed Wood gets mistakenly accused of.

Awful acting, story, editing, shot composition & none in a "fun" way.

At one point they show a guy squeeze out a cat's eyeball & eat it.

Fuck that.

The best part...

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Day 32 - The Wailing (2016)

I thought I'd seen this before, but maybe confused it with The Sadness.

This is great!

Slow pace, but smooth tone, so over two and a half hours went down pretty easy.

Great kid actor.