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Are These The Worst Horror Films?

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Hello.  Back after a long absence of laying around.  So as not to strain myself too much, I am sharing a link for an article I found which talks about what the article considers the worst horror movies of all time.  I have to agree with a lot of them and then there are the many that I haven’t seen so I can’t really comment on those.

For one, I thought “The Darkness” was not that terrible.  I thought it had some good sequences which built up the tension of an unexpected demon settling in to a family’s home.  Slightly gave me the creeps.  It’s no “The Grudge” but then not every movie can make you shit your pants.

Go look at this:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/gallery/50-worst-horror-films-of-all-time/ss-BBHSTlH?ocid=spartanntp

The actual video featured here is a very cool compilation of some of the most terrifying horror films.  If that makes any sense.  I haven’t done this for awhile.

 

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Kinda Creepy

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OK.  Maybe the visual equivalent of paint drying at times but a genuinely creepy situation of some unknown creature baying in the woods.  The second half, with the rocks being thrown, features some sort of grunting primate perhaps?  I think I am glad that I didn’t get to see what was making all the racket.  Sanity is a terrible thing to waste.  Hehe.

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Music Of The Spheres – Alien Composed?

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I recommend this Top Ten List of Strange Space Noise recorded over the years by scientists and researchers.  Marvel at the mutterings of an actual Black Hole!  Hear the astonishing sonic wash of space telemetry (Brief Interruption Here.  Here is an explanation of Space Telemetry:  Data Transmission Space telemetry transmits information in the form of a radio signal. Sensors on the spacecraft collect analog data–a photograph of Mars for example–and send it back to Earth. Early space telemetry systems used Pulse Position Modulation (PPM) and Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) to transmit data.) in all its glory!  You get the idea.  There was an audio CD set released some years back that offered NASA’s recordings of similar Sounds From Space.  There were four CD’s in the set!  But it was pretty cool stuff.  You might be hard pressed to recreate some of the sounds with a synthesizer.  Wonder what ever happened to it?  Maybe the Deep Space creators silently invaded my space and took it away from my undeserving hands.

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Farewell, Tobe Hooper, 2017

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Iconic horror film director Tobe Hopper sadly passed away this year.  Looking at his work, you see a good handful of classic horror films!  Hopper’s masterpiece, “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”, personified the Hell of being victimized and threatened by a twisted family of cannibalistic freaks somewhere in Texas. There was the thoroughly enjoyable horror TV two-parter, “Salem’s Lot”, an atmospheric, nightmarish look at a town and its populace destroyed by a vampire plague.  “Poltergeist” presented the mounting menace of a ghostly presence invading a suburban home and the dislocation and fear that ensues for the family inhabiting the now haunted house.  I thought “Lifeforce” was a very entertaining pulp science fiction feature chronicling the awakening of a dormant alien species of vampire on our planet.  The outcome?  You guessed it.  Mass destruction, death, zombie hordes and London in flames.

An entertaining storyteller who let the punches fly, Tobe Hopper produced a very engaging body of work that you must seek out.

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Abandoned Stuff

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Make no mistake about it:  everything has a lifespan.  What was once utilized and depended on will one day outlive its usefulness and figuratively end up on the proverbial scrapheap.  The important thing is that it was all fun while it lasted!  Check out the link to a slideshow which shows old derelict forms of transportation rotting in nature.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/article/40-eerie-images-of-abandoned-transportation-from-around-the-world/ss-AApLbTy?ocid=spartanntp#image=40

Meanwhile, check out this video from the Explore With Us channel on YouTube as they continue their beautiful pursuit of exploring old mines, Area 51 and abandoned shacks which they scout out on Google Earth.  Good stuff!

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Parasites – In The Flesh

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Found another lovely article.  This one is about blood sucking nasties lurking in our lakes, seas and oceans.  The victim of this attack was able to secure samples of these parasites.  Our authorities haven’t figured out what the things are yet but I’m sure their findings will be most interesting.

See the article below:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/australian-teens-feet-bloodied-by-mystery-sea-creatures/ar-AApASFb?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp

To further get into the skin crawling mode, check out this glorious trailer for the whacked out science fiction/horror hybrid, “The Flesh Eaters” from 1964.  You will notice certain similarities….

 

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THE CAVE – 2005

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What happens when you go to explore a massive underground cave/water way and you get about three miles in and one mile down from the surface of the earth?  Naturally, you run into hulking, ravenous monstrosities that can see in the dark better than you and are intelligent enough to trap and hunt you.  And, much to your dismay, there is no dependable way out of this cave and the nightmarish situation you find yourself in.  (Sounds like work.  Just kidding.)  Very effective horror/thriller that stays engaging until about the last 10 minutes of the movie.  By that point, we become well aware of the true appearance of the monstrous underground dwellers.  Maybe not so scary after we get more familiar with the beasts.  Prior to that point, creepy!

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IN THE YEAR 2889 – OVER 2 MILLION VIEWS!

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I like this talky, little tale of a group of characters trying to hole up in a cabin and ride out a nuclear holocaust.  We see some stock footage at the start of this thing that compiles various angles of mushroom clouds.  A prophetic voice over accompanies the footage.  Great start!  We get more rehashed, archive films of mountains, trees and the outdoors to enable the finishing up of the audio narrative.  The folks who end up reluctantly spending time together are running out of space and time.  Radioactive fallout may soon be encroaching onto their turf and the surrounding countryside is inhabited by unfortunate, radiation poisoned mutations who are hungry!  Still, there are folks who would rather venture outside the compound to take their chances somewhere else.   That’s what creates drama, after all!  This is a rather plodding flick but it has a quaint, amateurish style that I find attractive.  2 million YouTube viewers CANNOT be wrong!

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ASHES TO ASHES – BOWIE – 1980

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Fantastic, other worldly, freaky music video, “Ashes to Ashes”, from the late, great, departed, David Bowie.  If you haven’t explored his music yet, do so now.  What a magnificent, innovative talent! He literally owned the 1970’s and continued in to the early 1980’s.  Bowie explored many personas and musical styles and penned some of the great classics of rock music.  I count this song as one of his strongest.  A bleak, melancholy reexamination of character Major Tom, the lonely, depressed astronaut stuck in his “tin can” in outer space wanting nothing more than to return to Earth, who was originally imagined in the tune, “Space Oddity”.  I think it is safe to say that Bowie’s music and contributions to popular culture were triumphant.  A truly, unique individual.

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THE SHINING – 1980 – TRAILER

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Stanley Kubrick’s visually stunning interpretation of Stephen King’s novel.  I guess the two follow different plot trajectories.  I never sat through the entire King tome.  A cursed family moves into a rambling hotel to act as its caretakers during the winter.  Seems the Overlook Hotel has some dark secrets of its own that start to manifest during the family’s stay.  Expect a LOT of unsettling, frightening moments.   The movie takes on the tone of a nightmare.  Events, circumstances keep building up and piling on the dread factor.  Famous Nicholson over the top performance.  Amazing use of Stedicam during filming to move things along nicely.

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THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD – 1958 – TRAILER

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The 7th Voyage of Sinbad has to be stop motion animator, Ray Harryhausen’s, crowning achievement.  Sinbad sets out on a fantastic odyssey to retrieve the ingredients to concoct a potion to release his love from a spell which has reduced her to the size of a doll.  Many pitfalls and danger are met along the way, of course.  The cyclops has become one of the icons of fantasy creatures unleashed on the masses, at least in my world.  A sweeping, sprawling cinematic treat, this flick is packed with monsters, mystery, and action.  Great creature models and the best stop motion animated work ever done by anybody, in any age!

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15 Creepy Unexplained Photos You Won’t Believe – That’s Entertainment

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Freak Cam

 

Here are some creepy examples of unexpected, ghostly patrons photobombing the living’s photo ops.  Plenty of examples provided here to get your hackles up.  Another frightening element to this video is the narrator’s robotic, sing song tone.  The entertainment value of this post just went up!

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DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK – TRAILER – 1973

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1970’s TV movies offered up a plethora of weird subject matter the net result being that it left deep psychological wounds on young, impressionable viewers which I am sure, myself included, they carry with them to this day.  I remember the exhilaration of braving some of this creepy TV material and then spending sleepless nights terrified by the experience.  This unpleasant little story included these hideous, shriveled up, doll sized demons you see here.  You see, there is a lady, actress Kim Darby, who spends quite a lot of time in a dark house filled with these beasts.  They only want her to join their infernal ranks.  Let the drama begin!