TV/Movies Megathread

[Josephus]

The Haunting (1963) is the best horror movie I've ever seen.    Really great cinematography and writing obviated the need for guys in rubber suits to create terror.

I haven't seen that one.

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll definitely try to hunt it down. 

I love horror movies that don't rely on jump scares and gore.

That's what I miss about Blockbuster and video stores. Trying to track down old movies these days is tough. Netflix is great if you want stuff released five weeks ago... but otherwise ...

[Sheilbh]

Nightmare on Elm Street. Weird how iconically scary this and Hellraiser were (meant to be) when I was a kid. Solid, with some lovely visual moments of horror. But actually not a patch on the other classic horrors I've watched recently.

[Duque de Bragança]

Nightmare on Elm Street. Weird how iconically scary this and Hellraiser were (meant to be) when I was a kid. Solid, with some lovely visual moments of horror. But actually not a patch on the other classic horrors I've watched recently.

Which other classics horrors? Hard to judge without the other films being compared.

Incidentally, I was watching the other night the Nightmare on Elm Street since I could not sleep.
Have not watched in a long while the Hellraiser movies.

[Sheilbh]

Friday the 13th, Halloween, Don't Look Now.

[Liep]

Midsommar.

Wow.

[Duque de Bragança]

Friday the 13th, Halloween, Don't Look Now.

Well, Friday the 13th, as a Halloween rip-off can't even compare to Nightmare on Elm Street. Sequels made Jason a boogeyman teenager idol but still way below Freddy Krueger. Jason can't talk for starters.
Halloween, now that's a seminal movie but it has aged more than I thought the last time I saw it in a Carpenter movie marathon. Unlike, say, the later Thing.
Don't look Now, I did not watch so I cannot comment.

[The Brain]

Midsommar.

Wow.

Wow how?

[Eddie Teach]

A good wow.

[Admiral Yi]

So I'm watching Trailer Park Boys.  Not as clever as I remember it

Takes backs.  Ep 3 is pretty funny.

Holy shit.  That's 13 year old Ellen Page.

[Eddie Teach]

The I-Land. It's like Lost, but only 7 episodes long and has an explanation.

[HVC]

Watching The Untold History of the United States on Netflix. Wow America you suck

[Tonitrus]

Watching The Untold History of the United States on Netflix. Wow America you suck

Well, Oliver Stone certainly thinks so.

[Syt]

[Habbaku]

Watching The Untold History of the United States on Netflix.

[Josquius]

The little Switzerland - a film about a wee village called Telleria, which is apparently a real place, located somewhere in northern Spain. Its officially part of castile but claims tenuous links to the basque country and wants to join the basque country for the tax breaks. For some reason the basques say no.
But. Surprise. They discover the tomb of William Tells son and a ancient scroll that says they're actually part of Switzerland so they should join Switzerland because they're so rich .
The Swiss just want to rip up the tomb and move it to Altdorf.
Nonetheless the villagers try to be Swiss by learning Swiss German, drinking only Swiss wine, etc... Why they try to learn Swiss German and not French or Italian is beyond me.
These plot points are fairly subsumed beneath... Stuff. Romance sub plots et al.  2 stars.