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Day 4: Unpopular opinion. What spooky movie do you love but the majority of people around think is trash?

Urban Legends, 1998.

I can admit the acting was pretty terrible. But I checked the backseat of all the cars I was in for at least a year or two after I watched the movie.
 
Day 4: Unpopular opinion. What spooky movie do you love but the majority of people around think is trash?

Killer Klowns from Outer Space was an absolute favorite of mine as a kid. Manos: The Hands of Fate isn't all that spooky to me, personally, but it is one of those "so bad it boomerangs back to good" horror movies. Campy in a way that only 50s-60s-70s horror can be.
 
Day 3: M.I.L.F. (Monster I'd Like to Fuck)
Who is the sexiest spooky character from a movie?


I'm really curious about everyone's tastes. πŸŽ¬πŸ§Ÿβ€β™€οΈπŸ’¦
Ok, so she's not the monster or even the villain, but Monica Bellucci in Les Pacte de Loups (or it's translated title, Brotherhood of the Wolf).

Holy Hell she fried 19 year old me's brain so hard.
 
Day 4: Unpopular opinion. What spooky movie do you love but the majority of people around think is trash?

In the pantheon of John Carpenter films, Vampires is not beloved. 42% on Rotten Tomatoes, and a CinemaScore of D+. Nobody loved it. Well, except me -- I fucking loved this movie from the first time I saw it in the theater to...last week, when I watched it yet again. A blood-soaked western, it is the story of a band of Vatican-backed vampire hunters in the Southwest United States. After a successful raid, and after a raucous party of booze and local hookers, the team is slaughtered except for the leader, his lieutenant, and a hooker who was bitten but hasn't turned yet. They find they were set up, and now they need not just revenge, but to save the world.

It is straight faced but a little goofy, very bloody, very very violent, and, as much as I love Buffy, there isn't a single teenager on either side of the stake, which is a nice change to modern vampire stories. But the best part is the casting. James Woods plays the team leader, Jack Crow. He had never done a horror film, so he wanted to give it a shot. Though he is notoriously hard to work with, he and Carpenter came up with a collaborative style. They would shoot it as written once, then as Woods wanted to play it once, and chose what fit best. They work together beautifully.

In addition to Woods, you have a solid cast, including Oscar winner Maximilian Schell, Thomas Ian Griffith, the always good Sheryl Lee, and even a Baldwin. Not Alex -- he was attached, but dropped out when the budget was cut from $60 million to $20 million. He passed it to his brother. Not the weaselly one with the weird Christian thing goin on, the bulky one. Daniel! Yeah that one. He isn't great, but he isn't horrible either. The supporting cast of the rest of the team is fun, even if they don't make it out of the first act.

It is a bloody, funny, violent western, and I don't know why people disliked it, but they suck. Heh.

 
Ok, so she's not the monster or even the villain, but Monica Bellucci in Les Pacte de Loups (or it's translated title, Brotherhood of the Wolf).

Holy Hell she fried 19 year old me's brain so hard.
She was a tarot-reading hooker-assassin-maybe-sorceress for the Vatican. Spooky enough.
 
Day 5: A villain from a spooky movie that you personally don't find that scary.

Even if the whole world found it scary, but you didn't. πŸŽ¬πŸ€‘πŸ˜‚
 
Day 4: Unpopular opinion. What spooky movie do you love but the majority of people around think is trash?

Since it wasn’t posted here and was what came to mind…Halloween III: Season of the Witch

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I liked the idea that this was meant to be a Halloween movie series. Each year a different story! But when it came out everyone was pissed that Michael wasn’t there. I’ve always wondered what other movies would’ve come from it if it didn’t just go back to focus on Michael Myers.
Love this pick. One of my all-time favorite horror movies. πŸŽƒπŸ–€
 
Day 5: A villain from a spooky movie that you personally don't find that scary.

The folks working the facility in "Cabin in the Woods." Just a bunch of bureaucrats doing their jobs to save the world from destruction. A handful of dumb teenagers seems a pretty reasonable price to pay.
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Day 5: A villain from a spooky movie that you personally don't find that scary.

The folks working the facility in "Cabin in the Woods." Just a bunch of bureaucrats doing their jobs to save the world from destruction. A handful of dumb teenagers seems a pretty reasonable price to pay.
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I love this movie so much. I don't even smoke pot and I want a giant bong that collapses down into a Starbucks coffee tumbler ...
 
Day 5: A villain from a spooky movie that you personally don't find that scary.

Even if the whole world found it scary, but you didn't. πŸŽ¬πŸ€‘πŸ˜‚
I simply can’t work up even the slightest concern over the Gordan’s Fisherman in I know What You Did Last Summer. Just not scary.

Also, it should be illegal for someone like Jennifer Boobs Hewitt to be in a horror movie and not appear topless. That is a crime!
 
Day 4: Unpopular opinion. What spooky movie do you love but the majority of people around think is trash?
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I don’t know if people think it’s trash as much as most don’t know about it. But this TV movie is pretty great and the Scarecrow is genuinely a spooky design, especially with Larry Drake’s big eyes behind it.
 
I'd also go for the woman in black from The Woman In Black (2012). The film is so abysmal at every level that you simply don't care about anything, including the woman in black. One's indifference is made worse by the fact that the 1989 television film of The Woman In Black is so good you can legitimately argue for it being the best film about the supernatural ever made.
 
Day 5: A villain from a spooky movie that you personally don't find that scary.

For me to find a movie scary, I have to be worried about the characters. And I don't tend to care about stupid characters. Competent characters, doing intelligent things, making smart decisions, being clever, but still failing to stop the villain is where I get scared. I could give examples of what I mean, even within the same series, but I shall forbear in respect for The One Rule.

So I have a lot I can list, but I am going top tier -- S tier even:

Jason Voorhees has never been scary at all.
 
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