10 WTF Horror/Thrillers!

1.  Black Swan (2010) - A ballerina's passion for her craft lets her dedication to dance take over her whole life.  Nina becomes the top choice of her company's artistic to head up his production of "Swan Lake,"  However, Lily, a new ballerina on the scene is competing with her.  Nina is the prime candidate for the role of the White Swan while Lily is perfect for the role of the Black Swan.  The two rivals become fast friends and during their screwed up friendship, Nina's dark side rears it's ugly head.  The twist ending pulls it all together, but you're so engrossed in the events in the film that you almost forget about it until light dawns on marble head.

2.  Dumpster Baby (2000) - A drug addict unexpectedly gives birth to a crack baby, who she subsequently dumps in the nearest alley and leaves for dead.  The baby, who lives, is rescued and passed along to a string of strange and interesting people.  WTF!  This Troma flick is definitely strange.

You can watch it for free on the YouTube official "Troma" channel by clicking here.  

3.  1408 (2007) - A world renowned author gained his notoriety by debunking the paranormal prior to checking into the Dolphin Hotel.  He is warned about the hotel by the establishment's manager that it's genuine, but he doesn't heed that warning and experiences the strangest paranormal occurrences one can imagine.  The viewer is never really sure what's going on, because reality becomes discernible at the hotel when he spends the night in a notoriously haunted room.  WTF was my reaction to this film the entire time I viewed it.

4.  Heart of Midnight (1988) - Carol, a young gal who is just emerging from a serious bout with adverse mental health comes to learn that her dead uncle has left her a shabby nightclub.  She decides to renovate the club.  However, she discovers some seriously dark secrets surrounding the club involving her uncle.  Subsequent to a series of unsettling events, Carol edges closer to mental instability.  However, she is comforted by a mysterious detective during her ordeal.  WTF! I don't know how many of you have actually seen this, but I stumbled upon it one day and was pretty confused until about halfway through the film.

You can watch Heart of Midnight on OVGuide for free by clicking here.    

5.  Gothika (2003) - A psychiatrist awakes one day as a patient in the asylum where she once worked and has no idea how she came to be committed there.  A strange conspiracy is uncovered involving those very close to the young, attractive doctor.  I was pretty confused until about three quarters into the film.  Little pieces of the puzzle are uncovered as the institutionalized psychiatrist begins to uncover them herself.

6.  In Dreams (1999) - Subsequent to a clairvoyant Claire's nightmare involving the murder of a little girl, her daughter, turns up lifeless in a lake.  Law enforcement decline when Claire offers to assist in the investigation.  She then begins therapy with Dr. Silverman, who assumes that Claire is suffering from Schizophrenia.  Claire's dreams grow in detail and become more and more vivid as she fears that she's developed a mind-link to serial killer, Vivian Thompson.  WTF!  This film is so weird and disturbing and the imagery is freaky.  Vivian is one of the scariest looking serial killers I've ever encountered in a movie.  Robert Downey Jr. is quite convincing.

You can check it out on Paramount's Vault on YouTube by clicking here.   

7.  Village of the Damned (1960) - An idyllic town, Midwich, mysteriously falls asleep for several hours without any obvious issues.  The event was strange, but appears to be harmless until all the town's females, who are of child-bearing age turn up pregnant.  The women's children are all born simultaneously, quickly growing into weird and creepy robot-like children with white, seemingly pigment-less hair and strange glowing eyes.  This is one of the weirdest concept films I've seen.  There is a 1995 remake of it, too, which is almost identical to the original horror, sci-fi, thriller.  There is definitely something wrong with those creepy kids!  WTF!

8.  The Kiss (1988) - Hilary and Felice Dunbar are two sisters, separated in childhood as Felice is sent to live with her aunt, who presents a cursed serpent talisman to Felice and subsequently attacks Felice by apparently kissing the girl, drawing blood.  The aunt's twisted corpse is found and Felice continues on her train journey with the talisman in her possession.

Fast forward 25 years to New York, where Hillary resides with her husband and teenage daughter, Amy.  Hilary is contacted by Felice, unexpectedly, who became an international model.  The sisters arrange a clandestine meeting.  However, Hilary never makes it, because she dies in a gory car accident.  Felice returns to New York on a modeling job and Jack, Hillary's husband, invites her to stay with he and Amy.  Now, this horror commences.  WTF, what is Aunt Felice?  Is she a cat?  Is she a demon?  Is she a devil worshiping weirdo cat?

9.  Winter Lily (2000) - A young man who is photographer visits a bed-and-breakfast during a New England winter.  The owner of the bed and breakfast has a daughter that never leaves her bedroom and is never seen, apparently due to some type of implied illness.  Her voice is never heard either.  However, the young man finds the daughter's diary and it becomes much more clear what the daughter's problem is.  It keeps you guessing and when you find out what's up with the daughter, light dawns on marblehead and you'll be creeped out to the core.  This movie is messed up, WTF!

It's available on Vudu if you have it.  Click here to watch!

10.  Jug Face (2013) - I thought this one was gonna be like Kate Jackson's "The Lottery" or 436, but it wasn't what I thought it was going to be.  This film is odd and messed up even though you can't see the real "monster".  The implication is enough.  Basically, a guy crafts a jug on a yearly basis and the face shown on the jug decides who will be the sacrifice to the pit monster thing.  There are some screwed up situations going on in the film that surround the characters, too, so that makes it even more, WTF!  The main character enjoys getting jiggy with her brother, for instance.

You can watch Jug Face for free on Popcornflix.  Just click here!

Necromance Movies - Loving the Dead

Ok, so we love dead things sometimes.  We love Dracula and vampires, zombies, werewolves, mummies, ghosts, and Frankenstein, who used to be dead, but now isn't.  I am going to run down my top five favorite movies about those who actually are in love with something that is dead or used to be dead and now isn't and is sort of undead or sorta alive, well, you catch my drift...

1.  Dracula - There have been probably more movies, books, comics, and adaptations of Bram Stoker's Dracula novel and the characters on which it is based than of any other horror character(s) besides perhaps zombies than we can count.  There is almost always some chick that is in love with Dracula or some other vampire that represents him or shares some of his characteristics.  Sometimes he has power over the person to influence them to fall in love with him and sometimes he doesn't, but either way, I know he's my favorite!  The two major films that I am totally in love with that are adapted from Bram Stoker's original novel, Dracula, are Dracula (1979), starring Frank Langella as Dracula and 1992's Bram Stoker's Dracula, starring Gary Olman as Dracula.  Christopher Lee was my favorite Dracula, but that's another can of worms.  I am just making mention today of my two favorite Dracula films.

You can watch Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) on Crackle here for free with nothing to download or sign up for.  The NBC Dracula series with hot ass Jonathan Rhys Meyers is available on Hulu, too if you are interested here.  You can watch 'em free and you don't need Hulu plus to watch, currently.

2.  Frankenstein - Frankenstein is a horror classic that has been adapted probably almost as many times as Dracula and has so many spins that can be taken on what it is based, its not even funny.  The Bride of Frankenstein is also a central theme in many of the films from the 1935 version of The Bride of Frankenstein to 1992's version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which also adds Frankenstein's reanimated bride, which he loses when the creature kills her and makes him recreate her as his own with Frankenstein's beloved best galpal's heart added to the reanimated she creature, which was once his bride, Elizabeth.  1992's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is my favorite Frankenstein film ever made to date! 

 

You can watch Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1992), which stars Robert DeNiro, Kenneth Branaugh, and Helena Bonham Carter for free on Crackle here.  I bet you have no idea how much I am grateful that the year 1992 happened in classic horror film and book adaptations, none at all!

3.  Boy Eats Girl (2005) - Let's see, when you mix two of my favorite things, Irishmen (my favorite flavor of man--that makes me want a hot dog real bad...correct my English and I slap you, that was a movie quote a-holes--where is your sense of humor!???  I digress???) and Zombies, you get one of my favorite zombie flicks I have seen to date, Boy Eats Girl, which is a horror comedy about a girl, Jessica and her friend-zone "special friend", Nathan, who attempts suicide when Jessica stands him up by accident on the night he is to declare his love for her.  He sees her getting a ride home in the rain from a particularly douchy boy he goes to school with that picks on him.  He thinks they are doing sexy-time stuff when really, she is just reaching down to get something as she gets out of his car and decides to walk home, because he's perving on her.  Nathan hangs himself and his mom performs a ritual and turns him into a zombie.  Henceforward, all zombie hell breaks loose in their little regular Irish town.  It used to be available to watch for free on Hulu and Veoh, but now its only available on Hulu Plus and Netflix (DVD only).  You can watch it on Redbox Instant by Verizon, though.

4. Haekel's Tale (Masters of Horror Season 1 Episode 12 ) & Dead Alive (1992) - Haekel's Tale was a short story written by Clive Barker, this one hour short film, which was featured on the popular series features two stories in one about magical necromancy and medical resurrection as well as some literal loving of the dead.  I guess you would call them zombies, but I don't know that they are even that lively and one sure doesn't eat brains.  He likes getting jiggy, though.  I can't really say much more without spoiling it, but I guess the ultimate expression of love for the dead would be procreating with a creature once loved in life and still loved in death that is no longer alive.

 

Dead Alive (Braindead) (1992) - of course was a popular cult film made in New Zealand, which surrounds the circumstances created when Lionel's overbearing mother was bitten by an infected zombie monkey thing at the zoo, while trying to ruin Lionel's date with Paquita, his new love interest.  There is some love of the dead between two dead subjects that procreate and make a cute little zombie baby.

You can watch Haekel's Tale on Hulu for free here.

5.  Aftermath (1994), Dead Girl (2008) & Kissed (1996) - are two equally sick films.  Aftermath is sick in the fact that its just disturbing, even though there are barely words spoken throughout the entire short.  Its only a half an hour long, but defiling a corpse in the most intimate of ways is pretty creepy, especially while you are autopsying it in an actual medical environment and it is your job.  Kissed is unnerving in the fact that the main character actually falls in love with the handsome, young, and dead men she works on at the funeral parlor, where she secured employment for the purpose of meeting dead guys to love.  Dead Girl is pretty messed up in the fact that the chick is sort of a zombie thing bound and tied up 24/7 in an asylum, unable to die.  I'm not really sure what she is, but she is still conscious, though undead, and "loved" against her will by force.  I guess Kissed is the lighter of the three and maybe a little nicer, but they are both pretty messed up!