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Because of the lack of H.P. Lovecraft adaptions I figured I'd have to see some of the short films made, and I started yesterday: Nyarlathotep (2001) - A very good and unusually faithful Lovecraft adaption that reallt hit the nail on its head. It's only 13 minutes long, but it does the job. Available on youtube. 8/10 The Music of Erich Zann (1980) - It's only 17 minutes long, but this atmospheric piece is one of the better Lovecraft-adaptions I've seen so far. It's not the most faithful adaption out there, but it doesn't leave the trail either. The atmosphere is incredible, the actors does really, really well and it's all over really awesome. Really, really awesome! 9/10 Available on youtube. The Music of Erich Zann (2010) - While not bad, this film is a bit lackluster. It clocks in at 27 minutes, is a B&W silent film with only young faces. Which is a problem for two reason: they're not talented enough as actors to drive the film forward by themself, they're not talented enough make-up artists, so the young man playing Erich Zann looks like shit. It's not bad, and I don't regret spending half an hour on this, but I wouldn't really recommend it. On the positive side it's got a bit of a campy feeling, though. I liked that. 6/10 Available on IMDB. Will watch more today.

Alcest - Kodama Hexenslaught - Demo 2016 Abigail - The Final Damnation Cradle of Filth - Dusk... and Her Embrace - The Original Sin Satan's Vomit - Back to the Beginning Ithaqua - The Black Mass Sabbath Pulse Moonsorrow - Jumalten aika Blood Ceremony - Lords of Misrule Ripper - Experiment of Existence Uada - Devoid of Light Occult Burial - Hideous Obscure Vektor - Terminal Redux Hail Spirit Noir - Mayhem in Blue Demon Bell - Steel Sorcery Nuctemeron - Knights of Hell I've probably forgotten a lot of great albums, but I'm pretty sure I'll keep listening to these release for many, many years from now on. Awesome stuff!

Yes, the Furia EP was very good. Might be the best they've done so far. I think the Cultes des Ghoules album might end up as the album of the year for me, at least based on the two tracks released. Two tracks, 30+ minutes of crazy good black metal. Still got four tracks to go, and I believe one of them is something like 35+ minutes long as the release is a 2xCD release and this is placed all alone on CD2. Gonna be a massive album!

Only a few releases remaining? Are you a total madman, my friend? I'm still looking forward to so god damn many releases. Here's a list of albums I know will be released bewfore the year is over: Cultes des Ghoules - Coven, or Evil Ways Instead of Love Obscure Evil - Void Fumes Quintessenz - To the Gallows Ash Borer - The Irrepassable Gate Mortualia- Wild, Wild Misery Vader - The Empire Downfall of Nur / Selvans Rudra - Enemy of Duality Saor - Guardians Furia - Księżyc milczy luty Blazon Stone - Ready for Boarding Black Hole Generator - A Requiem for Terra Antaeus Condemnation Hellripper - Complete and Total Fucking Mayhem Gotsu Totsu Kotsu - Where Warriors Once Dreamed a Dream Fetid Zombie - Epicedia Master of Cruelty - Archaic Visions of the Underworld Scorched - Echoes of Dismemberment Root - Kärgeräs - Return from Oblivion Sarkom - Anti-Cosmic Art FromHell - March on Gravitation Revel in Flesh - Emissary of All Plagues Ranger - Speed & Violence Arma - Rock n' Roll Murderers Isengard - Traditional Doom Cult Primitive - Negro Metal da Morte Venefixion - Armorican Deathrites Sacrificio - Guerra eterna Witchtower - Hammer of Witches So of these have leaked and some are up for streaming, but I have yet to hear 'em, and no one are officially out yet. So I have a lot to look forward to, that's for sure. Will come back with a top 10 later.

That's me whenever I go to a party. Not because I like Nuit Noire or anything, i just enjoy playing shitty music at parties. It's always fun.

I'm a bit late to the party, but Tales of Halloween is a nice Halloween-themed film. Anthology consisting of 10 shorter films, where no less than 9 are good. Which is quite sensational as anthology films with 5+ tends to be very, very uneven. But this worked well and is a future Halloween classic.

Saw two films yesterday: Things This film is quite often mentioned among the very worst horror films ever made, and it's hard to disagree with that. We're talking The Nail Gun Massacre- and Redneck Zombies-bad. In other words, the ultimate SO BAD IT'S GOOD-films. Apart from a couple of cheesy but good practical effects, this film is a huge turd entirely. But it's entertaining. It's dumb, stupid, slow, cheesy and awful. The direction, cinematography, acting, dialogue... it's all übershit, and it's all so great! What makes this film so god damned awesome is the mixture of awful dialogue, acting and beyond awful voice acting (it's dubbed alright!) This brilliant clip sums up the film. Watch it! Halloween I am talking about the original one, John Carpenter classic, and it's brilliant. Top 10 horror movies ever made. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, is pitch perfect.

I think Pet Sematary is really, really good and really, really underrated. Great atmosphere and a SUPERB soundtrack!

The Romanian found footage film Be My Cat: A Film for Anne looks really fucking awesome, and a lot of people claim it to be the best and most revolutionary found footage film since The Blair Witch Project, which does say quite a lot. Adrian Țofei directed, starred in and produced the film, and he seems to have done quite the job as all three, along the rest of the cast. Can't wait to see this flick!

Since this thread has been evoked back to life let me inform you about the films I've seen this weekend: Demons Demons 2: The Nightmare Returns Lamberto Bava would never go on to become as great as his father, Mario Bava, but he never had any problem impressing. While not his best films, but are highly entertaining euro-splatters full of cheese, poor acting and lovely special effects. Demons is better than Demons 2 which is more or less the same film with a different setting. Great soundtracks to with Claudio Simonetti, Pretty Maids, Billy Idol, Accept, Saxon, The Smiths, The Cult, Fields of the Nephilim, Dead Can Dance and more spread over the two films. First one is a bit more metal. Night of the Demons Night of the Demons 2 Cheesy, over the top and great horror films set at Halloween. So over the top, but perfectly executed with amazing special effects and lots of fun. The sequel is a bit campier and less serious in tone, but I dig it slightly more. It's more of a teen horror with silly jokes, great nudity and more humour, but it truly pays off. And who's unable to become bewitched by a beautiful girl dancing retardedly to old Morbid Angel? Holy water!

You won't find horror films with more atmosphere than those made back in the 20's through the 70's. There was no such thing as jumpscares back then, and it was all about atmosphere and suspense. Jumpscares didn't really come along before the late 70's/early 80's, even though there was only a small amount of films like Carrie and When a Stranger Calls that used/tried a form of this technique before the 80's. So checking out horror films from 70's and backwards won't hurt if you look for horror films without cheap jumpscares. You won't find a single film with better atmosphere than Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens. The atmosphere is so thick you can smear it out on a piece of bread like butter. Same goes for other 20's horror films like Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Häxan Orlacs Hände The Phantom of the Opera Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage Or from the 30's: Vampyr Frankenstein Bride of Frankenstein The Black Cat Dracula Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Old Dark House The Hound of the Baskervilles Just to mention a few. I could go on, but these are all films that are as atmospheric as possible. Especially the 20's horror films are beyond what we can atmospheric. It's incredible. Add The Call of Cthulhu (2005) to the 20's list too, as it plays along like a film of tat era. Excellent film! But if these type of films for some weird, unexcuseable reason ain't your thing, then try some newer films from the 2000's like The House of the Devil The Witch: A New-England Folktale Martyrs We Are Still Here A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Eden Lake Lake Mungo The Conspiracy The Blair Witch Project Bone Tomahawk (western-horror!!!) The Others These films have none or close to no jumpscares in them. It's about atmosphere, suspense and more atmosphere.

You need to watch Rosemary's Baby, because it is a phenomenal film. And while you're on it you need to watch Repulsion, The Tenant and Dance of the Vampires by the same director too. A few other must-sees: The Omen (1976) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) An American Werewolf in London (1981) The Howling (1981) It's very important that you keep watching the originals by the same. I can't think of a single horror film remake that's better than the original classic. Not a single one.

A few obvious ones, but if you're not too into horror movies you'd want to try 'em out: Good Halloween-themed films: Halloween (1978) Trick 'r Treat (2007) Night of the Demons (1988) Night of the Demons 2 (1994) Hocus Pocus (1993) In general I'd just recommend some great horror films: The Thing from Another World (1951) Dracula (1958) Kwaidan (1964) Night of the Living Dead (1968) The Exorcist (1973) Alien (1979) Friday the 13th (1980) The Evil Dead (1981) The Thing (1982) A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Ringu (1988) The Blair Witch Project (1999) The House of the Devil (2009) Frankenstein's Army (2013) The Thing from Another World (2013) Housebound (2014) It Follows (2014) We Are Still Here (2015) I guess I'll have to stop now. I decided to leave the pre-50's horror films out since you don't seem to be too much into films in general (sorry if this is wrong), which is a shame consiering some of te best horror films were made in the 20's and 30's. But I tried to limit myself a bit, even though it doesn't seem to have worked too well. Anyway, I've rated all these films either 9 or 10.

I think Girugamesh were great up until 13's Reborn and D'espairsRay up until Mirrors, but even though D'espairsRay has got more good releases than Girugamesh I'll go with the latter because 13's Reborn is miles ahead of anything D'despairs'Ray ever did, and a proper masterpiece. Such a fantastic album!

I don't really mind what they do as they don't seem to know how to fail, but I would love for them to do something in the line of the proper retro rock tracks they did a few years back. They did two retro covers, didn't they?

https://blackholegenerator.bandcamp.com/album/a-requiem-for-terra Holy shit, the wait is over. It's only taken them 10 years since their debut EP, the excellent Black Karma. Really looking forward to this. The track sounds superb! Black Karma was in the vein of mid-era Anaal Nathrakh (Domine Non Es Dignus, Eschaton), and just as good. Not as brutal and a bit more traditional sounding, but the vocals by the Vulture Industries' Bjørnar Nilsen is way better. More varied, more powerful. But this new track didn't sound much like Anaal Nathrakh at all, though. And I am fine with that.

I don't play (these) games for the storyline, so that's fine with me. As far as horror games goes I'm in it all for the fun gameplay and atmosphere, which is the only thing that matters. A good storyline, characters, visual style and voice acting is also appreciated of course, but not the main reason why I play (these) games at all. Or watch films for that matter. I forgot to add Siren: Blood Curse which I thought was good. Heavy on the atmosphere.

What happened to this thread? It's too dead, guys. Psuchedelic prog black metallers Hail Spirit Noir is out with a new album called Mayhem In Blue, and it's up for streaming on the band's bandcamp: https://hailspiritnoir.bandcamp.com/ Sounds as good, fresh, excellent and unique as their two other outputs. Once again they manage to give us something that sounds Hail Spirit Noir, but still is completely unique and different. I almost want to call this album a bit more carnival-esque than previous albums. A bit early to say, but I think this sounds better than the second album too, which was a great album too btw.

With me being a huge horror fan, currently playing Soma and others talking about horror games here, what are some good horror games? I'm not all that interested in action-horrors, but survival- and psychological horror games ala Silent Hill 1 & 2, Soma, Amnesia - The Dark Descent and so on. In other words, games that are 95% based on dark, eerie atsmophere, haunting surroundings and with great sound that'll creep you out. I have the Penumbra laying around and will start playing those after Soma. Looking forward to it.

I can understand that people want a band to do something different/add new elements to their music when they do the same thing over and over and they feel like they don't manage to keep the quality up. I'm like that myself too, but not in the case of Mono.

I don't have a problem with Mono doing more of the same to be honest, and I think the album is fantastic. In most ways they don't bring much new to the genre and you've heard Mono do things like this many times by now, but at the same time I feel like the album does differ from e.g Hymn to the Immortal Wind in that it's a lot darker and way more intense IMO, and therefore reminds me a lot more about their two first full-lenghts than anything after (with the exception of Rays of Darkness of course). But when you do it as well as Mono I see no need to change anything at all, and I am happy they have't changed too much.

Half-way into Luke Cage as this is so far exceeding all my expectations. I was really looking forward to the series and considering the quality of both Daredevil and Jessica Jones I did expect it to be good. But I consider hims the least interesting of The Defenders and was worried he wouldn't work to well being the star of the show. But Luke Cage is excellent! And I like how all these series are so god damned different from eachother in style, tone and feeling, yet maintaining a lot of the same feeling. Diggin' so far, and the best things about the series so far: -Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad's excellent score, and the choice of music (such as Wu Tang!!!) -The classic late-70's Blaxploitation-feeling they got going quite often. I'm a huge fan of Blaxploitation cinema, so this makes me happy-as-fuck. -Mahershala Ali's Cottonmouth, especially when he laugh. He's excellent through and through, and his brilliant laughter is just the icing on the cake. Just turn up the sound on the surround and enjoy his laughter, guys.

Greek Gods Zemial recently released a new EP and as usual it's fantastic. Unlike the progressive, space-rock-influenced black/thrash masterpiece that was Nykta, The Repairer of Reputations doesn't have any metal in it. But it does feature some of the spacey atmosphere of Nykta, and it surely sounds like Zemial. Cool release, if not exactly Zemial's best. https://zemial.bandcamp.com/ Greek epic black metallers Agatus (with Eskarth the Dark One and his brother Archon Vorskaath (Zemial) returns after 4 years of silence with their first full-lenght since 2002, and it's a great one. But the black metal is more or less all gone, and in are the epic heavy/power metal they started to play around with on their previous release, Gilgamesh. More often than not it sounds like classic greek black metal in the form of heavy/power metal. I'm diggin' this release. https://agatus.bandcamp.com/album/the-eternalist

The entire Graveceeper album is up for listening at their bandcamp now: https://gatecreeper.bandcamp.com/album/sonoran-depravation If you're the type of person that just can't get enough of early swedish death metal and worship the altar of bands such as Grave, Dismember, Entombed and so on then this is for you. It's more of the same, but it surely does the job done.

Currently playing Soma, a sci-fi survival horror game by Frictional Games, the company behind the Penumbra games and Amnesia: The Dark Descent. And basedon that info you should know what this game is all about. I'm only a couple of hours in, but so far it's really good. The atmosphere is as brilliant as it is creepy, and it's just pure horror. Super effective! Will continue as soon as the coffee is brewed.