Joolz Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 really old but cool anyway and kind of relevant to today's political and economic landscape 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boojum Posted November 2, 2022 Author Share Posted November 2, 2022 Gave Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities a go (and MAN has he got fucking fat I fear for his health ). Really disappointing given the pedigree (and guilty of one of my pet peeves, changing the plot of the source material ), one to avoid, I'd watch Masters of Horror from a few years back instead, same idea but done much better. Just started watching The Midnight Club, which so far seems much better. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratdog Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 19 hours ago, Joolz said: really old i remember that the first time round, used to love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeypig Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 Devils Hour. IMO well worth a watch, pretty spooky at times. Really enjoyed it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callywally Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 All Of Us Are Dead (korean, zombies) Severence The Man in the High Castle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simple Jack Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself - Teenagers with magic powers is a well worn genre, but this is quite good. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boojum Posted November 6, 2022 Author Share Posted November 6, 2022 7 minutes ago, Simple Jack said: The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself - Teenagers with magic powers is a well worn genre, but this is quite good. Just started watching that. Kinda annoys me that although there are a lot of TV shows on streaming platforms that claim to be horror, when you watch the first episode of a lot of them it turns out they are actually part of this peculiar genre that never existed when I was in my mid-late teens : "Young adult.". But I'm probably just getting old Or it's zombies, man am I fucking bored with zombies Teenage vampires/werewolves or fucking zombies. Just fuck off I digress, started watching it and I mentioned the above because although it's probably in the "Young adult." genre, and although it kinda appears at first glance to be Harry Potter meets Romeo and Juliet, it's actually much better than that, good dialogue and characters, a well imagined background/setting and enough to it to keep me watching 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratdog Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 don't hug me, i'm scared it's like sesame street grew up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Badgeley Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 On 02/11/2022 at 6:31 PM, Boojum said: Gave Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities a go (and MAN has he got fucking fat I fear for his health ). Really disappointing given the pedigree (and guilty of one of my pet peeves, changing the plot of the source material ), one to avoid, I'd watch Masters of Horror from a few years back instead, same idea but done much better. Just started watching The Midnight Club, which so far seems much better. We've watched 4 at the moment. A bit gruesome but we have enjoyed them. I'll check out The Midnight Club on your recommendation. Got "Dead of Night" recorded to watch at the weekend. Michael Redgrave and the Dummy is the one I remember most. A 1945 classic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boojum Posted November 11, 2022 Author Share Posted November 11, 2022 (edited) 16 hours ago, Larry Badgeley said: We've watched 4 at the moment. A bit gruesome but we have enjoyed them. I'll check out The Midnight Club on your recommendation. Got "Dead of Night" recorded to watch at the weekend. Michael Redgrave and the Dummy is the one I remember most. A 1945 classic. Dead of Night is a classic I'd give The Midnight Club a miss, it started well but then went to shit If you're after a decent horror series on Netflix then I'd recommend Archive 81, I thought that was pretty good The Haunting of Hill House was good too (I don't usually like it when they mess with the source material and the series had very little to do with Shirley Jackson's masterful novella, but I thought it was good anyway, didn't think much of the follow-up series The Haunting of Bly Manor, which is another loose 'adaptation', this time of Henry James' superb The Turn of the Screw). Both books have been adapted more faithfully (and far better) in the black and white movies The Haunting (The 1966 one directed by Robert Wise, avoid the 1999 version, it's an abomination) and The Innocents (the 1961 one directed by Jack Clayton) and I highly recomment both Edited November 11, 2022 by Boojum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clumsy Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 Tulsa King Following his release from prison, mafia capo Dwight "The General" Manfredi is exiled to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he builds a new criminal empire with a group of unlikely characters. First episode out, thought it was quite good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boojum Posted November 18, 2022 Author Share Posted November 18, 2022 Has anyone watched Ozark ? Watched the first episode cos overall the series has had decent reviews, but the 2 main characters come across as so unpleasant that I just don't care what happens to them. Is it worth sticking with despite that ? (I kept watching Breaking Bad even though Walter was a cunt). 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clumsy Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Hi @Boojum, I thought is was ok, There are some decent characters in it, but those two I didn't get on with either. I liked Ruth (Julia Garner) and some of the others though. Watchable but not great. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill cooper Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 1 hour ago, Boojum said: Has anyone watched Ozark ? Watched the first episode cos overall the series has had decent reviews, but the 2 main characters come across as so unpleasant that I just don't care what happens to them. Is it worth sticking with despite that ? (I kept watching Breaking Bad even though Walter was a cunt). I gave up after the first series, wasn't keen on any of the main characters, especially the mother! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boojum Posted November 18, 2022 Author Share Posted November 18, 2022 Cheers @Clumsy and @bill cooper may give it another couple of episodes, just running out/have run out of stuff to watch on Netflix and still got some time left on the subscription trying to find anything to watch before it runs out, get my money's worth skinflint that I am 3 month free subscription to Apple TV next up I seriously doubt there's even a month's worth of anything worth watching on that, let alone 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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