October fun: 31 days of Horror, Blood, Guts and Gore! (and zombies, too....) - Page 127

I watched "The Bay" on VUDU last night. It is a biohazard/horror film done like a reality film but in this case directed by Barry Levinson. So it was a cut or two above that usual fare.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1713476/

Is there alot of shaky cam?

It's weird I hadn't heard of a new Levinson film....until I looked at this from IDBM:
Opening Weekend:
$19,926 (USA) (4 November 2012) (23 Screens)
Gross:
$30,474 (USA) (11 November 2012)

I love anything, movies, books, whatever, about viruses or biohazard type stuff, might be right up my alley. I will have to look into this.

A very well done virus movie is Carriers.

Thanks. I looked at it on Amazon. Whats good about Amazon is that they then suggest similar movies, so now i have a bunch of this type of movies to look into.

I really love anything to do with viruses, I have read all of Robert Preston's books, they are fantastic, about Ebola and such. Some fiction, some non-fiction.

Same here. The Stand kept me up many a night and not because it was 60,000 pages. I read a great old book once you might like regarding the aftermath of a virus. It's called Earth Abides by George R. Stewart.

Thanks, i will check into that Earth Abides.

To add to my post above, i said Robert Preston earlier, i meant Richard Preston books.

Been waiting on Season 2 of this. Hope they have one.

Anyone seen Enter Nowhere? Sort of reminded me of Triangle.

I heard it was cancelled.

Liked Triangle....added to queue.

Of course there is the conceit of people shooting with their smartphones for some of the footage. Another conceit is that the story is told by a news reporter after the fact with footage they shot. And then there is some story that is shot just like any other film with no "shaky cam". However you've got a seasoned director on this one not some film school newbie and it makes a difference as far as how the story is delivered. I'd say worth a watch but people have such preconceived notions anymore about what a horror film is supposed to be it is difficult to tell anything from reviews. Also I would bet that opening weekend was one shot or so at a festival which is true for most indie films. We still have some art houses around here and I don't see little films like this booked at them.

tis the season

A tip of ol' Santa's hat in your direction, sir. Wrong for soooo many reasons.

MERRY CHRISTMAS GUYS!!!!!!!!

Very solid flick. Watched it last night. Unfortunately, I dozed off a couple of times...not because it was boring, just because I had a long day. The 85% of the movie I did see was extremely well done. Highly recommended folks.

The trailer looks good, I have a copy sitting here but opted to watch Savages instead, looking forward to it though.

Checked out the bluray last night. Interesting and different movie. For a low budget, indie movie it is a visual treat. The Scandinavian vistas are truly awe inspiring and the score was very nice as well. Rated R but plays more like a pg and, tonally, reminded me of Super 8. Would have liked to see more of the "Santa" and more conflict in this but was probably budget impaired. This plays as more of a nice Christmas movie than a horror flic, but glad I watched it.

Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader though not horror is a fun watch. Roger Corman and John Landis have cameos.

I see that Redbox has a bunch more horror coming up. Slipped halloween release dates?

Since we are into the seemingly neverending X-mas season, it's appropriate.
I found it fun and, like you say, different.....and imaginative too.

http://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/bloody-disgusting-selets-retrospective/

Found this list of overlooked films, some made it onto our lists others will probably need to.

Lots of great fodder, that's for sure. For some reason, I'll want to see "Chop" first.

Livide. Very cool. Very well made. So well put together and filmed I almost didn't need the subtitles.

Thanks for posting that, i am gonnna have to look into some of those.

Syfy had a rare fairly good Saturday film last night. "The 12 Disasters of Christmas" which is a decent Canadian production with Ed Quinn ("Eureka"). It's a mix of Mayan prophecy with a nativity references thrown in (check out the names of the characters).
http://www.syfy.com/movies/12_disasters_of_christmas

Plays again on the 20th and 21st.

WOW! I wish I joined this forum a few months ago. I thought I was the only person who did this. I made my boyfriend watch 31 scary movies with me during the whole month of October. I can agree that it is definitely hard. We watched a few movies one day to catch up on days where we couldn't fit one in. This post just made my day. I love seeing other horror movie enthusiasts out there. Thanks

Great to have you here Katedoe. We do that every year in October, its tons of fun. Enjoy your time in this thread, you can post all year round.

Now go do something gruesome.

I suggest we all book this for next year. How cool would THAT be? Here's the site: http://www.shipoffear.com/

I think I like you guys better sans bathing suits

Actually that would be pretty kick ass! Talking the Mrs. into it.... another story