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Movie: The Coffee Table

Jesús and Maria love each other, endlessly, magnificently, even though they sometimes just don't notice. But hey, now that their little lump of love is born, everything's going to work out. Sure, Maria still has a bit of a controlling streak in handling the household, calling all the shots when it comes to the color of their apartment walls, the name of the baby, the food they eat, the TV shows they watch, the thickness of the toilet paper and their holiday destination. Jesús, to prove to her and himself he ain't some spineless trilobite but that he has a will of his own, gets to pick the coffee table. A hard-won victory that he's cherishing by picking out the most aggressively ugly little thing imaginable, the furniture equivalent of Liberace getting lost in Ikea. An unbreakable wonder, says the salesman. Overpriced, says Maria. It will bring boundless happiness to their lives, says the salesman. Their worst nightmare, says us.... [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 31, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: The Vourdalak

Lost in a hostile forest, a noble emissary of the King of France finds refuge in the home of a strange family. [more inside]
posted by haplesschild on Aug 31, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: Blink Twice

When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. As strange things start to happen, Frida questions her reality.
posted by TheophileEscargot on Aug 29, 2024 - 4 comments

Movie: Opera

A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself. --IMDb
posted by johnofjack on Aug 28, 2024 - 4 comments

Book: Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

Misha knows that chasing success in Hollywood can be hell. But finally, after years of trying to make it, his big moment is here: an Oscar nomination! And the executives at the studio for his long-running streaming series know just the thing to kick his career to the next level: kill off the gay characters, "for the algorithm," in the upcoming season finale. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Aug 28, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: Milk & Serial

A surprise birthday prank takes a turn for the worse when a popular social media duo must face the reality of the terrifying aftermath. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 27, 2024 - 4 comments

Movie: Twins of Evil

[TRAILER] 19th century witch hunter Gustav (Peter Cushing) leads a band of puritans through the region, burning young women suspected of witchcraft. When his identical twin nieces (Playboy Playmates Mary and Madeleine Collinson) come to visit from Venice, one of the twins takes an interest in Count Karnstein (Daniel Thomas), a local lord dabbling in Satanism... and worse. Hammer's third (and final) film in the Karnstein Trilogy, a series of lightly sexy vampire stories with lesbian themes. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 27, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Lust for a Vampire

[TRAILER] A temptress (Yutte Stensgaard) does Count Karnstein's (Mike Raven) biting at a finishing school in 19th-century Styria. The second in Hammer Films' Karnstein Trilogy, which uses the novel Carmilla as a launching point for three films about sexy lesbian vampires. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 27, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: The Vampire Lovers

[TRAILER] The general (Peter Cushing) and a baron hunt a vampire named Carmilla (Ingrid Pitt) who seduces and bites their daughters. The first in Hammer Films' Karnstein Trilogy, based on/inspired by Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 27, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Don't Torture a Duckling

When a southern Italian town is rocked by a string of child murders, the police and two urban outcasts search for the culprit amid scapegoating within the superstitious community. --IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Aug 26, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: Starve Acre

IMDB: An idyllic rural family life of a couple is thrown into turmoil when their son starts acting out of character. Very solid modern entry into the British folk horror film canon. [more inside]
posted by Shepherd on Aug 25, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: The Crow

In this modern re-imagining of the 1994 cult classic, "The Crow," soulmates Eric (Bill Skarsgård) and Shelly (FKA Twigs) are brutally murdered. Given a chance to save her, Eric must sacrifice himself and traverse the worlds of the living and the dead, seeking... [more inside]
posted by praemunire on Aug 23, 2024 - 7 comments

Movie: Necronomicon

IMDB: From the mind of HP Lovecraft comes the story of The Necronomicon, a book made from human flesh that can bring the dead back to life. Created by the evil magician Aleister Crowley while visiting the depths of Hell and depravity. Streaming free with ads on Tubi (in Canada, at least), this is one of the weirdest / worst things I've seen in a while. [more inside]
posted by Shepherd on Aug 22, 2024 - 10 comments

Movie: The Cat

[TRAILER] Okay, imagine a remake of the 1978 Disney movie The Cat From Outer Space, only it's from Hong Kong exploitation company Golden Harvest, it's directed by Lam Ngai Kai (Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky), and it's filled with ultraviolence, goopy body horror VFX, a monstrous alien that seems to be made of tongues, and a fight between the strongest dog in the world and an alien cat named The General. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 22, 2024 - 6 comments

Movie: Prevenge

Widow Ruth is seven months pregnant when, believing herself to be guided by her unborn baby, she embarks on a homicidal rampage, dispatching anyone who stands in her way. --IMDb
posted by johnofjack on Aug 20, 2024 - 6 comments

Movie: Thir13en Ghosts

When Cyrus Kriticos, a very rich collector of unique things, dies, he leaves his house, fortune, and his prized collection of ghosts. This remake of the 1960 13 Ghosts was one of a run of classic horror remakes from the very late '90s, early 2000s, including remakes of The Haunting and House on Haunted Hill. [more inside]
posted by Shepherd on Aug 20, 2024 - 10 comments

Movie: Q: The Winged Serpent

A small-time crook stumbles onto the nest of a winged serpent attacking New York City, and hopes to use his discovery to broker a deal with the police.
posted by johnofjack on Aug 18, 2024 - 7 comments

Movie: Alien: Romulus

While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
posted by Wrinkled Stumpskin on Aug 17, 2024 - 31 comments

Movie: Sheryl

Working for a beauty site, it's natural that Sheryl is obsessed with beauty. What is unnatural is the lengths she's willing to go to achieve it. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Aug 16, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Luz

[TRAILER] Luz, a young cabdriver, drags herself into the brightly lit entrance of a run-down police station. Meanwhile, an intense and peculiar young woman corners an on-call doctor and begins to tell him a story. The debut feature from Tilman Singer (Cuckoo). [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 12, 2024 - 8 comments

Movie: Cuckoo

A 17-year-old girl is forced to move with her family to a resort where things are not what they seem. [more inside]
posted by kokaku on Aug 9, 2024 - 15 comments

Movie: The Forbidden Door

[TRAILER] The life of a successful sculptor is turned upside down when he begins receiving mysterious messages from someone who asks for his help. A viscerally intense noir thriller/horror film from Indonesian auteur Joko Anwar. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 8, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: Impetigore

[TRAILER] A toll booth operator travels to her ancestral village in hopes of claiming an inheritance - until she discovers the unsettling truth about her past. From renowned Indonesian writer/director Joko Anwar. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 5, 2024 - 6 comments

Movie: The Masque of the Red Death

[Trailer] A sadistic devil-worshipping prince intends to wait out a plague in his castle with his friends. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Aug 4, 2024 - 4 comments

Movie: The Seeding

[TRAILER] A hiker lost in the desert takes refuge with a woman living alone, and soon discovers that she might not be there willingly. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 2, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Everyone Will Burn

[TRAILER] In a small village in Leon, Spain, María José prepares to end her life after failing to get over the death of her son years before. Everything changes when she receives a visit from Lucía, a strange little girl who might be connected to a local legend about stopping an impending apocalypse. With the enigmatic girl by her side, María José faces the corrupt community, triggering strange events and a series of horrific deaths among the local population. Original title: Y todos arderán. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 2, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Theater of Blood

A Shakespearean actor feels he's been robbed of a prestigious award and takes arms against his sea of critics.
posted by johnofjack on Jul 29, 2024 - 12 comments

DOT’s Pre-Halloween Guide to Streaming 2024

A list of horror highlights by streaming service! Each of these services has too many to really cover in total, so I am highlighting just a few favorites for each, largely bypassing the better known stuff (though obviously fellow true believers may have seen most of these even so.) [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jul 29, 2024 - 13 comments

Movie: Oddity

[TRAILER] When Dani is brutally murdered at the remote country house that she and her husband Ted are renovating, the culprit is identified as a patient from the local mental health institution where Ted is a doctor. A year later, Dani's blind twin sister Darcy, a collector of cursed items, pays an unexpected visit to Ted and his new girlfriend, Yana. A new film from the writer/director of Caveat. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jul 26, 2024 - 6 comments

Special Event: Rifftrax: OUIJA SHARK

MST Club presents... and yes, that's the title, Ouija Shark. The site tell us it's from the people who brought us (groan) Jurassic Shark. Riff first released on May 24, 2024.
posted by JHarris on Jul 25, 2024 - 6 comments

Movie: The Stepford Wives

Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents. -- IMDb
posted by johnofjack on Jul 13, 2024 - 4 comments

Movie: #ChadGetstheAxe

Four social media influencers live stream their trip to Devil's Manor, former home to a satanic cult. [more inside]
posted by Shepherd on Jul 8, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: Loop Track

Ian wants to get as far away from humanity as possible and heads into the New Zealand bush, but a four day journey turns into a fight for survival. [more inside]
posted by Shepherd on Jul 7, 2024 - 4 comments

Movie: Possum

[TRAILER] A disgraced children's puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured him his entire life. -- IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Jul 2, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Spirit of Fear

2023 horror flick in which a man wakes up confused in an empty family home with one arm bloody, then finds post-it notes scattered around saying things like "Don't stay in here too long", "Don't go outside", "Run?" and "Fight?" while water runs down the walls, something claws at a shower curtain and he has vague memories of a woman and daughter somewhere. The tension, confusion and horror build. Debut from director Alex Davidson clocks in at a quick 75 minutes. On Tubi with no ads.
posted by mediareport on Jun 30, 2024 - 6 comments

Movie: Saw: The Final Chapter

[TRAILER] As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw's brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave of terror. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jun 30, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Exhuma

[TRAILER] When a renowned shaman (Kim Go-Eun) and her protégé (Lee Do-hyun) are hired by a wealthy, enigmatic family, they begin investigating the cause of a disturbing supernatural illness that affects only the first-born children of each generation. With the help of a knowledgeable mortician (Yoo Hai-jin) and the country's most revered geomancer (Choi Min-sik), they soon trace the affliction's origin to a long-hidden family grave located on sacred ground. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jun 30, 2024 - 8 comments

Movie: Saw VI

[TRAILER] With Jigsaw still directing events from beyond the grave, a new heir to the killer's twisted legacy emerges. But as the FBI closes in, this new killer sets in motion a game that is designed to reveal Jigsaw's grand scheme. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jun 29, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Saw V

[TRAILER} Following the grisly demise of Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), Detective Mark Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) is commended as a hero, but Agent Strahm (Scott Patterson) is suspicious, and delves into Hoffman's past. Meanwhile, another group of people are put through a series of gruesome tests. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jun 28, 2024 - 4 comments

Movie: Saw IV

[TRAILER] During the autopsy of serial killer Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), a cassette tape is discovered in his stomach in which he warns that his gory games will continue. Sure enough, SWAT Lt. Daniel Rigg (Lyriq Bent) is forced to follow a blood-drenched trail of torture, dismemberment and death in order to find two missing colleagues. A pair of FBI profilers follow Riggs, suspecting he might be Jigsaw's accomplice, even as they unlock the puzzle of the killer's origins, seen in gruesome flashbacks. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jun 27, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Saw III

[TRAILER] Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detective scrambles to locate him, Doctor Lynn Denlon (Bahar Soomekh) and Jeff Reinhart (Angus Macfadyen) are unaware that they are about to become the latest pawns on his vicious chessboard. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jun 26, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Saw II

[TRAILER] On the hunt for the twisted vigilante and serial killer Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), Detective Eric Matthews (Donnie Wahlberg) and his team must apprehend the elusive murderer to rescue eight people trapped in an abandoned house, before they succumb to his torturous and murderous games. One twist to this task is that Matthews' own son, Daniel (Erik Knudsen), is among the eight people Jigsaw has chosen to test for their lack of morality. With nerve gas pumping through the house, every second counts. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jun 25, 2024 - 3 comments

Special Event: The Mads: The Manster

The Man does The Madster, uh, the Mads do The Manster in a riff from just a few days ago on June 11, 2024. An American journalist in Japan is given an injection by a mad scientist that causes him to develop an extra eye... that develops into an extra head... that eventually develops into an entirely separate person, and he's EEEEVIL. But Master Manster couldn't past muster even as a Munster mister.
posted by JHarris on Jun 20, 2024 - 0 comments

Movie: Lord of Misrule

[TRAILER] When the daughter of the town's new vicar goes missing during the harvest festival, a desperate search begins, uncovering the town's dark history and resurfacing tales of a mysterious, malevolent spirit that demands sacrifice. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jun 19, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: The Hills Have Eyes

[TRAILER] Based on Wes Craven's 1977 original, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jun 8, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: Under Paris

Sharks! Everyone knows they're scary, but did you know they could be terrifying mutants who live underneath the streets of Paris?? They can, and the reason why is clear: it's plastic. Plastic bottles. Just go with it! Do you know this can't happen?? This film is here to tell you it can! And you'd better believe it, ma chere!!
posted by kittens for breakfast on Jun 7, 2024 - 20 comments

Movie: Pandemonium

Two men find themselves in the road on the side of a mountain near a car crash. They slowly come to realize that they are the victims of the crash. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Jun 2, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: Raging Grace

An undocumented Filipina immigrant lands a job as a care-worker for a terminal old man, securing a better life for her and her daughter. But something is not right about the man's niece, Catherine. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on May 31, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: In a Violent Nature

[TRAILER] An ambient horror slasher that methodically depicts the enigmatic resurrection, rampage, and retribution of an undead monster in a remote wilderness, nearly entirely from his point of view. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on May 30, 2024 - 8 comments

Movie: Dracula / Horror of Dracula

[Trailer] When Jonathan Harker rouses the ire of Count Dracula for accepting a job at the vampire's castle under false pretenses, his friend Dr. Van Helsing pursues the predatory villain. -- IMDb. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on May 26, 2024 - 7 comments

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