#halloween marathon 2022

[nitrateglow]

Halloween 2022 marathon: 9

The Phantom of the Opera (dir. Arthur Lubin, 1943)

I don’t even remember the last time I saw this one-- I’ll bet it was in high school, at the height of my Phantom obsession. At the time, I was a bit disappointed-- I prefer my Phantoms to be more gothic and menacing, and there are a lot of big, lavish musical numbers and comedic moments in this one. However, I’ve always loved Claude Rains and Susannah Foster as the Phantom and Christine.

On rewatch, I liked the movie a lot more. I still prefer more horror-based takes on the story, but this one has so much going for it. I still loved Rains and Foster-- in fact, I still say Foster is my favorite on-screen Christine. She channels the right mix of pluck and innocence, and her voice is gorgeous. Rains might not be as menacing as Lon Chaney or Robert Englund, but he is tragic, especially once he goes mad. The scene where he crawls into the sewer and washes his burned face with that nasty water broke my heart.

The direction is also very good. I was particularly impressed by the opening scene. There’s no dialogue at all, just an operatic number, but the director establishes all of the characters and their relationships with one another within the first five minutes. The chandelier sequence is also super suspenseful. Very impressive.

Two surprises for me on this viewing: 1) I forgot Franz Liszt was a character in this! Or maybe I just didn’t know who he was in high school... 2) I actually found Anatole and Raoul pretty funny this time around. Those two had great comedic chemistry.

My favorite part of this Phantom is ironically the one element that was cut from it-- the implied father/daughter relationship between Claudin and Christine. This was explicit in the original script, but the dirty-minded execs thought it came off as incestuous and left scenes explaining their familial bond on the cutting room floor. And I hate that! I think having the Phantom as a guilt-ridden father desperate to make his child happy while also craving her affection is a wonderful alternative to the usual unrequited love angle. You can still sense it there in the finished film if you know about it, but how I wish they’d kept all of it.

In fact, I wish newer versions of the story would pick up the father/daughter idea again. It’s too interesting to never use.

Overall, I enjoyed my revisit of this film. It’s beautifully produced and well-directed, and the acting is divine.

#the phantom of the opera #the phantom of the opera 1943 #thoughts #halloween marathon 2022

[jerichopalms]

#137: Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022, dir. by Halina Reijn)

#bodies bodies bodies #movies of 2022 #movie poster #halina reijn #scvpsychochallenge #meagan and alena's halloween horror marathon #you go girl pass that bechdel test #52 weeks of women #52 films by women #directed by women #women directors #female directors #sarah delappe #kristen roupenian #female screenwriters #women screenwriters

[azzric]

Azzric's 2022 Halloween Movie Marathon Day 31: Secret Window

#Azzric's 2022 Halloween Movie Marathon #Secret Window #johnny depp #stephen king #horror movies #halloween

[fairykukla]

Halloween Movie viewings, 2022

I started with Dracula. I actually watched Coppola's film in September, and have been receiving my Dracula Daily emails. I also started in on the Dracula TV series from 2013. Here are my thoughts for Dracula Week:

The Coppola film still holds up.

All the effects are in-camera and gorgeous.

Whole scenes are straight out of the book and a large amount of the dialogue is, as well.

Everyone is *so young* in it.

Oh dear God, is this why everyone since then goes galloping for the "Tragic romance" angle?

Dracula's Brides are still my favorite part.

Dracula, the series 2013-14, is the one we call "Sexy Dracula" in my house. So pretty! So fanfic worthy!

Jonathan Rhys gets my vote for New Tony Stark. (Looked him up on Wikipedia; alcoholic. Oh dear)

Weird, wild take on the whole story. Makes no bones about the fact that they're doing an AU.

COSTUME POOOOOHHHRRNN

This is also far and away my favorite take on Renfield.

Like, for real, watch The Renfield Show because they should have just went with that.

Renfield is better written and performed than Van Helsing.

And he's a huge, lovely black man in exquisitely tailored Victorian suits.

Studied law in ST. LOUIS, met Dracula in the wild west.

The balls on this guy.

Lucy is played by Morgana and I love her.

First scene she's wearing a Rose Petal dress: white with a red bodice and falling rose petals scattered down the white skirts.

She looks like she's bleeding out and it's fucking amazing.

Guys, it's gay.

No really, The Gay represent!

Mina is studying Medicine.

They've conflated her father with Seward, again. Why do they do this?

Never mind, there's a blonde woman who is a legit Vampire Slayer.

Who Dracula keeps distracting with his dick

The ending is... Weird. All the hallmarks of having it cut short.

I will write a better ending.

Reading Dracula Daily, it brings into sharp focus how no one ever gets Jonathan Harker right. Jesus, he needs to be a damn action star. (Coppola! You had KEANU REEVES and you insisted on a milquetoast performance!?!)

I want to see Jonathan with both The Shovel, and the Kukri knife. Goddamn it.

That was last week. Stay tuned.

#halloween marathon #2022 #spooky Movies #october 2022

[forfoxessake]

[94] My Best Friend’s Exorcism (2022)

Directed by Damon Thomas 

 The sort of fun you want to have on Halloween month. Perfectly mix of fun, crazy, gruesome, and nonsense.

I mean, it starts with an ouija board in a cabin in the woods, and then we get tape worms and a crazy jesus loving aerobic exorcist. 

#My Best Friend’s Exorcism #Damon Thomas #halloween #halloween marathon #100 movies challenge #movies seen in 2022 #movie review

[frecklesandpoverty]

31 Nights of Halloween Horror: day 27

My choice for the 27th of October was Terrifier 2

I rated this 7/10! I liked it more than I did the first movie, but I wasn’t sooooooo into the first one lol. This was fun though. The clown is creepy but silly mostly, until he’s doing some truly heinous things to people. I liked whatever the helllllllllll was going on with the little clown girl. She was creepy as fuck. Also they never really explained why the teen girl and her brother could see the little girl too, and all the stuff with their dad but whatever lol. The gore is ramped up to 10000000000 for this one. It was pretty fun, but maaaaaybe a little bit too long for my taste. Like you could have taken like 15 or 20 minutes off of this and been fine. It drug on a little bit is all. Ok I’m soooooooooo tired and probably about to go to bed so that’s it for this one lol. Good, fun, gory as fuck movie. Don’t watch if you don’t like clowns lol.

#31 Nights of Halloween Horror #31 Nights of Horror #31 Nights of Halloween #31 nights of halloween horror 2022 #31 days of horror #31 days of halloween horror #31 days of halloween #halloween 2022 #movies #movie #horror movies #horror movie #horror #halloween #october 2022 #movie marathon #horror movie marathon #horror marathon #terrifier 2 #terrifier #art the clown #scary clown #creepy clown #blood tw #clown tw #idk what else to tag lol #terrifier2 #terrifier sequel

[fandomohana]

Look at this stuff, isn't it neat? Wouldn't you think my collection's complete? False, my pumpkin pattern collection will never be complete. 🤣🤣🤣 I have carving books, and patterns from when I was a kid, vintage, baby! My oldest, as far as I can tell, is from 1992. 🎃 Mostly likely purchased for my older sister, as I was three at the time. 🤣🤣🤣 I try to buy a new one every year, I've failed the last two years, for obvious reasons...

#halloween #halloween 2022 #pumpkin carving #pumpkin carving marathon #christina talks #christina butchers little mermaid song #forgive me ariel #pumpkin patterns

[tsukina-1-9-9-8]

08:42 p.m.

My Halloween marathon so far... 🎃

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Hocus Pocus (1993) (maybe 2 too)

Halloween (1978)

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Addams Family (1993)

#halloween #spooly #spooky season #marathon #movie marathon #halloween marathon #2022 #october #halloween weekend #friday #friday night #halloween night #movie night #marathon night

[jukeboxofjellycat]

One week to Halloween, wow! 👻🎃

#halloween #h22 #noche de brujas #spooky season 2022 #2022 #personal #beg #my Tumblr #marathon of the Halloween #emoticons #emoticon #emoji #ghost #fantasma

[bob-williams]

Here is what I’ll be watching on Halloween 🎃

#movie #movies #movie marathon #horror #horror movies #horror movie marathon #all hallows eve #Halloween #halloween 2022 #spooky #spooky season

[nitrateglow]

Halloween 2022 marathon: 11-12

Onibaba (dir. Kaneto Shindo, 1964)

In war-torn fourteenth-century Japan, a pair of peasants-- a young woman and her mother-in-law-- stave off starvation by looting samurai corpses for armor and weapons to sell. A male neighbor named Hachi returns from the war, informing the duo that the older woman’s son perished in battle. The mother-in-law suspects Hachi might have killed her son, and her dislike of him grows to all-consuming hatred when he seduces her widowed daughter-in-law. Afraid of being left alone should the lovers elope, the older woman resorts to ever desperate measures to keep them apart.

Onibaba is a sneaky film. When it starts, it plays out like a simple drama between these three characters. I was enjoying it, but I wondered if the common horror movie label people put on it was justified. Then we get to the halfway point-- and things get CREEPY. I was on edge at that point and the final scene gave me chills.

I was reminded a bit of Hereditary in that the scariest thing in the movie is the sheer enmity exuded by the mortal human characters, rather than the supernatural elements. Even in the less “genre” early scenes, you have the sneaking suspicion that this story will end badly. The two women are desperate people, driven to borderline madness by their bad situation. Everyone's motives are understandable enough to where you get why they’re doing what they do while still recoiling from them. The older woman wants to survive and is bitter about how the war has cheated her of her child and her stable life. The young widow is lonely and stifling under her mother-in-law’s domination.

The cherry on top is the gorgeous cinematography, a stark black and white look that makes this setting seem all the harsher. It’s movies like this that make me wish black-and-white was still seen as a commercially viable option for mainstream movies. Black and white can add so much atmosphere to a movie-- I cannot imagine this story having the same impact in color.

Svengali (dir. Archie Mayo, 1931)

Sinister musical genius Svengali marvels at the potential of the beautiful young Trilby, a tone-deaf but promising artist’s model with a remarkably shaped mouth. She has no real interest in music and is preoccupied with her romance with a boring bland typical 30s horror romantic lead innocent artist Billie, but luckily for Svengali, he has hypnotic powers which render Trilby helpless to do anything but obey his will. She marries him and becomes opera sensation La Svengali, touring Europe to great acclaim. Svengali is rolling in money and prestige, but he comes to find he cannot command Trilby’s love and this leads to their mutual downfall.

I last saw this movie around 2011-2012-ish. I remember liking it, mainly for the expressionistic sets and John Barrymore’s multi-faceted performance as the titular villain. Barrymore insisted on having Svengali be funny and charming in his first scenes, so that when his more sinister side reveals itself, the audience has a far more complicated reaction. And it works!

Svengali himself has all kinds of dimensions as a character-- he’s a bit like Erik in The Phantom of the Opera (actually, this movie’s source novel was allegedly an inspiration when Gaston Leroux wrote Phantom) in that he’s both sinister and pitiable. He’s monstrous enough to send a former lover to her death when he becomes tired of her and to manipulate Trilby into becoming his personal singing puppet, but he draws the line at forcing Trilby to “love” him, keeping their marriage unconsummated despite his desire. Even when he could hypnotize her to give herself to him, he refuses it, showing he does have some decency in spite of everything.

I can’t comment on this film without mentioning Marian Marsh as Trilby. Marsh is so, so cute-- I have no other words to describe her. A lot of horror heroines from this period tend to be simple ingenue types, but Marsh’s Trilby is a standout. She’s charming, un-self-conscious, and sweet, and seems to have a joke for every occasion. She’s so likeable that it becomes hard to watch the way her identity is eroded by Svengali’s influence.

I’m not even sure you could really call this 100% horror, though the visuals and Svengali’s supernatural powers fit the genre. The spooky standout is a technically brilliant sequence in which Svengali mentally summons Trilby and the camera moves from a close-up of Svengali to outside his apartment, then over the rooftops and into Trilby’s bedroom. Considering the stereotype of the immobile camera of the early talkie period, this sequence is a stunner.

It’s a weird, haunting movie all around, a chilling gem of pre-code cinema. It’s in the public domain as far as I can tell, so it’s easy enough to find if you’re interested.

#onibaba #thoughts #halloween marathon 2022 #svengali

[jerichopalms]

*The Black Phone (2022, dir. by Scott Derrickson)

#the black phone #movies of 2022 #movie poster #scott derrickson #meagan and alena's halloween horror marathon

[azzric]

Azzric's 2022 Halloween Movie Marathon Day 2: Hocus Pocus 2

#Azzric's 2022 Halloween Movie Marathon #halloween #Hocus Pocus 2

[dushku]

HALLOWEEN MARATHON 2022 ↳ day 7 🎃 GINGER SNAPS (2000) | dir. john fawcett

#horroredit #filmedit #filmgifs #filmtv #userhorroredits #userbbelcher #horrorgifs #horrorsource #moviegifs #dailyflicks #dailyhorrorfilms #usersnat #ginger snaps #gingersnapsedit #john fawcett #halloween22 #*

[animusrox]

31 Days of Horror Marathon 2022 ↪ Day 13: Halloween Ends (2022) dir. David Gordon Green

#halloween ends #halloweenedit #horroredit #31horror22 #userhorroredits #filmedit #filmgifs #doyouevenfilm #fyeahmovies #moviegifs #cinemapix #dailyflicks #chewieblog #userbrittany #userksusha #mikaeled #kane52630 #gifs #movie

[forfoxessake]

[91] Stigmata (1999)

Directed by Rupert Wainwright 

 It's been years since I had last seen this, had only fond memories of it. Lucky for me it's one of those movies still holding up 20 years later, just as good as I remembered. That scene with Frankie writing on the wall and the Father taking pictures gives me chills every single time.

#Stigmata #100 movies challenge #movies seen in 2022 #movie review #Patricia Arquette #Gabriel Byrne #Jonathan Pryce #Nia Long #rewatch #halloween marathon