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Brendan Bragg 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🎗️ @brendanbragg.bsky.social · 1d

H’WEEN flick 37-THE SHINING: What can I say, ageless Kubrick masterpiece. Note perfect Nicholson and Duvall performances. A maestro at work crafting a gorgeous, creepy, unsettling movie with unforgettable images and scenes. Scared me as a kid, captivates me as an adult 10/10 #horror #theshining

Brendan Bragg 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🎗️ @brendanbragg.bsky.social · 1d

H’WEEN flick 36-FRIDAY THE 13th part IV: Possibly my favorite, thanks to Crispin Glover’s seminal dance scene. Excellent pacing, 80s slasher abundance of gore, excess, carnage, nudity and fashion. Young Corey Feldman and the double mint twins. A must for #Jasonvorhees fans 8/10 #horror

Brendan Bragg 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🎗️ @brendanbragg.bsky.social · 1d

H’WEEN flick 35-JEEPERS CREEPERS: Original, unique, likable leads, scary. Roadtrip movie from hell with good gore. Kinda like The Terminator meets Freddy Krueger. Not all the pieces fit perfectly but this is a solid horror flick 7/10 #horror #jeeperscreepers

Brendan Bragg 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🎗️ @brendanbragg.bsky.social · 4d

H’WEEN Flick 34-VAMPIRES: John Carpenter’s last gasp of badassery. Neo western horror, fantastic FX wizardry, innovative approach to vampire slaying, helluva lot of fun. James Woods hams it up great. Climax doesn’t quite land totally but we’re good. 🧛‍♀️ 7/10 #horror #vampires

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Brendan Bragg 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🎗️ @brendanbragg.bsky.social · 4d

H’WEEN flick 34-HOUSE OF WAX (1953): I could see why this scared folks originally, and in 3-D! Vincent Price is sublime, and early Charles Bronson! Very slow to get going, and plotting drags occasionally, but some sinister scenes and pretty wicked for its time. 6/10 #horror #houseofwax

Brendan Bragg 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🎗️ @brendanbragg.bsky.social · 6d

H’WEEN flick 33-30 DAYS OF NIGHT: The first 60 minutes of this movie is SPECTACULAR. Perfect concept, ominous, dread-inducing, gory, scary…early Carpenter-esque w/modern verve. 2nd half loses some steam and a little redundant but forgivable. Good Hartnett, remote chilly locale 8/10 #horror #30days

Brendan Bragg 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🎗️ @brendanbragg.bsky.social · 7d

H’WEEN flick 32-TALES OF HALLOWEEN: Ambitious low budget 9-part (?) anthology movie. Made with ❤️ for Halloween, creative albeit not particularly scary. Some horror luminaries & genre patrons dip in for some fun and impressive FX. Worth a one-time watch 6.5/10 #horror #talesofhalloween

Brendan Bragg 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🎗️ @brendanbragg.bsky.social · 7d

H’WEEN flick 31- TRICK ‘r TREAT: Truly fun anthology that adores Halloween. Elegant story structure that pays off setups that you don’t know are setups. Middle section is truly creepy and there’s a wicked sense of humor. Excellent casting & lowkey horror icon w/ Sam. 8.5/10 #horror #trickrtreat

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Brendan Bragg 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🎗️ @brendanbragg.bsky.social · 8d

H’WEEN flick 30-SINISTER: Spine tingly, tense, scary audacious in all the right ways, corker of an ending. Always steady Ethan Hawke makes for a sympathetic lead…good sound design and infuses originality into the confined haunted house subgenre. 9/10 #horror #sinister

Brendan Bragg 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🎗️ @brendanbragg.bsky.social · 8d

H’WEEN flick 29-THE MONSTER SQUAD: Delightfully fun romp that takes me back to childhood. Shane Black-scripted genre mashup with the iconic Universal monsters all being summoned to LA via Dracula. Only a gaggle of teen misfits can stop em! Goods 80s vibes too. 9/10 #horror #monstersquad

Brendan Bragg 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🎗️ @brendanbragg.bsky.social · 11d

H’WEEN flick 28-FRIDAY THE 13th III: Disappointing entry. Funny to watch them stage shots for 3D back in ‘82, and 1st appearance of Jason’s mask, but poorly-paced, uneven performances, the kills are fine with a couple standouts. Ok 80s vibes w/ jazzy disco score 5/10 #horror #jasonvoorhees

Brendan Bragg 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🎗️ @brendanbragg.bsky.social · 12d

H’WEEN Flick 27, RE-ANIMATOR: Unhinged, outrageous, unrated, madcap mishmash of carnage as an unscrupulous med student wants to resurrect the dead and cheat death. A little campy, moves well and solid makeup. Crazy Barbara Crampton nude/sex scene 5.5/10 #horror #reanimator

Brendan Bragg 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🎗️ @brendanbragg.bsky.social · 13d

H’WEEN Flick 26-THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933): my favorite 30’s monster movie. Unleashed Claude Raines performance, groundbreaking FX that hold up 100 years later, at times hilarious display of psychotic pathos, true step forward for the genre’s cinematic art form. 8.5/10 #horror #monster

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Brendan Bragg 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🎗️ @brendanbragg.bsky.social · 13d

H’WEEN flick 25-THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974): You feel every uncomfortable dew point and heat grade in this deranged and deservedly heralded early sweaty slasher masterwork from Tobe Hooper. Tense, original, hilarious, dark and delightful. Some good scares, not too bloody. 8/10 #horror

Brendan Bragg 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🎗️ @brendanbragg.bsky.social · 14d

H’WEEN flick 24-THE FOG (1980): A sublime, classy, ominous ghost story. John Carpenter is dealing, generational scream queens, eerie score, clever storyline, steady Tom Atkins…a few good jump scares to boot. Adrienne Barbeau=knockout 7.5/10 #horror #thefog #johncarpenter

Brendan Bragg 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🎗️ @brendanbragg.bsky.social · 14d

H’WEEN Flick 23 - SCREAM: the original. The classic. Reinvented and resurrected studio horror. Inspired casting, fresh writing, dripping with genre affection and masterful directing from Wes Craven…both hip yet retro. Twisty, fun, gory, hilarious, great jumps. 10/10 #horror #scream

Brendan Bragg 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🎗️ @brendanbragg.bsky.social · 18d

They could also report on Palestine taking hostages and committing October 7th.

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Brendan Bragg 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🎗️ @brendanbragg.bsky.social · 18d

H’WEEN flick 22-DISTURBING BEHAVIOR: Peak 90s delightful teen horror silliness. Misfits being lobotomized into dangerous over-performers via evil science doctor. Great addition to teen scream era. Pure nostalgia. Not scary, slick, strong Scott Rosenberg dialogue. 6.5/10 #horrror #disturbingbehavior

Brendan Bragg 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🎗️ @brendanbragg.bsky.social · 19d

H’WEEN flick 21- AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON: the original true classic horror/comedy? Masterful practical transformation scene, A+ London locations, agreeable cast and snappy British local color. John Landis in his prime 7 year run. Didn’t nail the ending, too rushed. 8/10 #horror #werewolf

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Brendan Bragg 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🎗️ @brendanbragg.bsky.social · 20d

*have to dock this a point since John Cusack has become a rabid antisemite and Hamas supporter.

Brendan Bragg 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🎗️ @brendanbragg.bsky.social · 20d

H’WEEN flick 20-“1408”: I was terrified at times when I saw this in theater originally. Stephen king short story. Masterful performance by Cusack*, Sam Jackson sublime, multi jump scares, crafty direction and pro FX. It’s essentially The Shining in 1 hotel room. OK ending 8.5/10 #horror #1408

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Brendan Bragg 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🎗️ @brendanbragg.bsky.social · 20d

H’WEEN Flick 19-THE FUNHOUSE (1981) Tobe Hooper-directed hoot about some teens who cause trouble at a traveling carnival and then trouble finds them. More fun and imaginative than expected w/ terrific actors, slick cinematography, admirable production design 7/10 #horror #thefunhouse

Brendan Bragg 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🎗️ @brendanbragg.bsky.social · 22d

H’WEEN flick 18-CHOPPING MALL (1986): 80s mall hysteria is intro’d to a cluster of little menacing security roller robots who kill teens after hours post lightning strike. Roger Corman pixie dust on it. Fun. Camp. Era-appropriate nudity, deaths, blood and screaming. 5/10 #horror #choppingmall

Brendan Bragg 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🎗️ @brendanbragg.bsky.social · 24d

H’WEEN season flick17: VALENTINE-Y2K era slasher taking on Hallmark holiday. Plays like a neutered mystery slasher, sputters and stalls into 2nd gear. Uninspired kills/gore, flat homogenized characters, couple OK comedy beats but I get why I hadn’t rewatched this. 3.5/10 #horrormovies

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Brendan Bragg 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🎗️ @brendanbragg.bsky.social · 25d

H’WEEN season flick 16-MANIAC COP: Robert Z’dar’s glorious chin, 80s horror ace Tom Atkins, ambiguous key plot point about a resurrected evil ghost cop, a little Bruce Campbell, NYC palm trees. 🌴 Nice horror relic but the blah action climax is a tonal mismatch 5/10 #horror #maniaccop