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22. Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) - A fun paranoid slasher mystery akin to games like werewolf or among us with rich girls and lee pace and pete davidson pointing knives and kettlebells at each other in a mansion while a storm rages. A lot of the pop culture already feels dated but that's fine.

Grape stomping lady pain sounds start playing

Filthy wet ladies looking worried and arguing is about 70% of the movie.

I had to check this with wikipedia before I could watch this because I hate him so much: yes, Pete Davidson dies.

A rare clean, peaceful ladies talking scene.

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26. V/H/S/2 (2013) - The second VHS and the third I've seen. I'd probably stick it between the first (worst) and Beyond (best) in terms of quality. I dug the cult segment, the wraparound and others were fine. A big sin of these is to let camera chaos stand in for horror and then finish on some gore.

The cult segment could have been an entire movie and I would have enjoyed it.

This one was a fun idea and I liked the dog but man oh man most of it was visual nonsense.

The wraparound, as these often do, barely made sense, but it was spooky enough to get the job done.

👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 3h

25. What Lies Beneath (2000) - Pottery Barn bathroom ghost version of Rear Window with a clearly huge budget, Michelle Pfeiffer, Harrison Ford, Zemeckis, and a ponderous mystery that reaches a wildly harrowing and satisfying climax. Zemeckis was with obsessed with mirror camera tricks in this one.

A ouija board in a bathroom? Of course! We love our little wicker trash basket and our towel table.

Harrison Ford the one actor we know for a fact could renovate a bathroom.

One of the most intense moments in the film is a woman taking a long bath.

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Kragar @kragar.bsky.social · 5h

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 5h

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Warning Signs :60 | Alzheimer's Awareness

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 5h

Thinking again about that commercial where the old lady can't remember what a sweet potato is called and says "Yes, grou-ndlings."

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 9h

I would say I liked it a little better than I expected. I do have to ding it for promising Conner O'Malley and then giving him a total of one dry line. I thought he was going to get Scatman Crothersed from the Shining at least.

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 1d

21. Return of the Living Dead III (1993) - The darker, more serious third part follows up the madcap part 2. Basically a romance between two troubled young people. The girl meets an untimely end and the guy exposes her to zombie chemicals to resurrect her. Fun and sometimes unpredictable results.

This one adds some self-mutilation to resist the urge to eat brains. Which works very temporarily.

Some great zombie prosthetics in this, as usual for the series.

And then there's the "exoskeleton" stuff which is more horrifying than just about anything in the series.

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 1d

20. Long Weekend (1978) - Primo Ozsploitation horror featuring a couple on the rocks taking a trip to rekindle the flame in the Bush. They find a remote beach and proceed to fuck up everything, throwing trash and mistreating animals and each other. Nature reacts violently. Ugly, grim, fun.

Menacing and shooting random things with a rifle is one of the main things the man does while camping. He's not hunting, just shooting to destroy and hurt.

The dugong makes several appearances. It's basically one of the main characters.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 2d

19. Dance or Die (1987) - Despite a horror tag, this one turned out to be more action thriller. The hero wants to dance and choreograph but he gets wrapped up in a cocaine and corruption scandal and must fight off assassins while trying to stage his blood-soaked dance show. Pretty fucking funny.

This is the hero's cocaine dealing roommate and he has incredible drips every time he is on screen.

1987 Las Vegas, or at least the strip, is pretty much a character in the movie.

There was way more dancing in this than I expected.

The director apparently discovered a shotgun that can shoot fake blood at people and uses it to knock off about 20 people in the movie.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 20h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 19h

24. Castle Freak (1993) - After over a decade of listening to @flophousepodcast.com I finally heeded Stuart Wellington's advice and watched the dick-ripping, box-gnawing Stuart Gordon classic Castle Freak. Is it as good as From Beyond or Re-Animator? No. But that is a high bar to clear. Good stuff.

Uhhhh you dropped something buddy. (It's his wiener)

Most of the movie the titular castle freak flaps around the castle wearing this nasty sheet.

Her blindness definitely does not improve her sense of hearing or sense of smell since the castle freak is frequently hollering at the top of his lungs and covered in blood and rotting and nobody hears or smells anything.

Bad drunk dad/husband Jeffrey Combs brings a prostitute back to his freaked castle, which is when things start really going wrong for him and his family.

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 19h

23. The Bat People (1974) - A bat specialist on his honeymoon takes his new wife into a cave and gets bit by a bat and turned into a vampire bat person. He begins murdering and gets pursued by a sheriff who is immediately suspicious of him. The first feature film for Stan Winston. Stupidly fun.

The bat person's craving for human blood causes a lot of trouble for nurses throughout the film.

I would say a full 10% of this movie is this guy screaming in a bed being bat sick.

He goes through several levels of transformation into bat person, this being probably the best.

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 22h

22. Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) - A fun paranoid slasher mystery akin to games like werewolf or among us with rich girls and lee pace and pete davidson pointing knives and kettlebells at each other in a mansion while a storm rages. A lot of the pop culture already feels dated but that's fine.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 1d

The farting mud men appear, fart a bunch, and then almost immediately get killed by getting slightly wet. Real "what was the plan here???" with those guys.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

When parakeets cosplay

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18. Under the Shadow (2016) - Set in Tehran in the 80s, a mother contends with the Islamic guidance patrol and sharia judges as well as Iraqi missiles and a ghostly entity haunting her missile damaged building. The creature in this was very cool and genuinely scary at a couple points.

Never lose track of your daughter's favorite doll.

Movie monsters that change shape and exhibit a variety of powers can be lame but this one worked with the omnipresent double oppressions of war and conservative religion in a very effective way.

A little girl screams as she looks up into a beam of light shining down through a hole in the ceiling.

Shideh's love of Jane Fonda workout videos is one of her recurring acts of rebellion.

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17. Spookies (1986) - Plays out like a bad game where a pasty vampire(?) guy with weird henchmen uses a chess board and a ouija board to move his monsters around to kill off a group of interlopers in his creepy mansion. This borders on nonsense, but it has some great and/or hilarious monsters.

The mastermind commanding his spookies to spook or whatever it is he is doing.

Our heroes, I guess. You will not care if any of these numbskulls die.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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16. The Burbs (1989) - Tom Hanks and Carrie Fisher lead a great cast in this suburban paranoia horror comedy with emphasis on comedy. Joe Dante mixes the wacky with the creepy again but it lacks the madcap energy of Gremlins and never quite pays off. Looks fantastic and is quite a bit of fun.

Tom Hanks with Theodore Gottlieb. Gottlieb is a really odd character, used to go on Letterman and do this intense monologue that he also repeats in Massage Parlor Murders verbatim.

The ladies get relegated somewhat as the guys are the ones doing all the snooping but they have a couple good scenes.

The gang deals with the garbage men. It's character actor heaven.

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15. Bring Her Back (2025) - After watching Talk to Me, this was my #1 draft pick for this Halloween season and it did not disappoint. Sally Hawkins and the child actors are incredible in this tale of loss, foster parents, and watching DIY youtubes. There are some real gruesome scenes in this.

Of course when you search for a how to video it was filmed on a potato.

Let's have some fun! Returning home for a good time!

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 1d

I can definitely see that ending scaring the shit out of a kid.

👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 1d

21. Return of the Living Dead III (1993) - The darker, more serious third part follows up the madcap part 2. Basically a romance between two troubled young people. The girl meets an untimely end and the guy exposes her to zombie chemicals to resurrect her. Fun and sometimes unpredictable results.

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