Orginal movie is probably the finest horror movie ever made IMHO. There is not much gore in it either but it still got banned in the UK for some odd reason. 2 and 3 were more slapstick and full of comic gore.

However just how many reboots and sequels of reboot do people need?

TCM Next Generation was an insult to fans and it's so random and no deaths.

Even the Netflix one they had be virtue signalling and wokey as a Black man took down the Confederate flag at a window. He was a prick of a charcter at the start of the movie.

Not one of the characters were likeable and it's no surprising test audiences hated it.

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Glen Powell is another actor who overacts.

I would love to a see a Blu Ray of the orginal movie with outtakes and deleted scenes insert in the movie.


I would love to see Ash from the Evil Dead go head to head with leatherface.

I wish they kept the chainsaw toss at the end of the final cut and maybe have a done a freeze frame. I know none of the actors liked doing the movie but they got to appreciate it became a cult classic.

Sequels become franchises and then it's just about cashing in on a famous title. Amityville as another example of how ludicrous it gets. Stick Amityville in the title or TCM or Halloween and hey presto you have yet another terrible movie. I agree about the original 1974 TCM. Saw it aged 16 and it terrified the life out of me. The Exorcist I saw at the same age and I was disappointed. The spinning heads and pea soup didn't work for me and I found it fascinating in parts but not scary. Though I'm not scared easily. Psychological horror I like. Speak No Evil is one I recently saw, not the American version, and I found it suitably uncomfortable viewing. The creeping fear of what might happen attracts me more than blood and gore and spinning heads.

I did like The Evil even the sequel which is just one without the chainsaw.

Hallowen 2 again was watchable, Halloween 3 which is pretty much a cash-in of the franchise but works well as a stand alone movie. The plot is an evil toy maker.




Amityville original is watchable but it's a slow burner and horribly dated, the countless sequels and TVs and Direct to DVD/Video titles are garbage, like the later Hellraiser movies.

A friend in Long Island knew Ronald Joseph DeFeo from school. All he said he was bit odd but there rumours circulating that he was knobbing his sister Dawn in school.

It was like an open sceret.

Dawn was somewhat popular at school but people but I think Dawn was trying make light of a bad situation. Ronald Joseph DeFeo was stoner like everyone else back then but he seemed to moved on to harder stuff quickly whilst most his class mates still loved pot and some LSD.

I don't think Ronald Joseph DeFeo knew what he was doing most of the time.

George Lutz was a grifter and was in to the occults, any knockings or creaking windows were probably nothing but to him spirits. None of the current owners of the house had issues apart from tourists.

The TCM is a slasher but it's less gory than other horrors that got passed the BBFC.There is more violence in Midnight Cowboy than TCM.


The Exorcist only got banned because pissed off a some Catholics and there were a handful of Catholics at the BBFC at the time. I thought the sequels were better.

I've never seen this film (prefer spooky horrors to gory), but its title always reminds me of this scene from The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Saw it once at a friend's movie, it one or 2 good jokes but the rest seemed forced IMHO, the movie seemed to drag on for me.