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Intro/Outro: "Eighties Action" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The next 10 films of the challenge are as follows:

Australian Horror

Canadian Horror

Chinese Horror

Filipino Horror

Italian Horror

Uruguayan Horror

USA Horror

Thank you. and welcome back to Eldritch Girl.

So I have now reached 20 films and I'm going

to do the next 10 films that I've seen. I had

a really good run of films actually, I've really

enjoyed these. The first film I watched of this

next batch of 10, so I guess film 11, was Pleni

Lunio or Full Moon, 1993, directed and written

by Ricardo Islas. This is an Uruguayan indie werewolf

film and I gotta say South America is really

doing it for me in this challenge so far. The

teens in this film act their hearts out. You

can tell people enjoyed making it. You can tell

that they really like choreographing it. There's

some great fight scenes. They gave it everything

and the werewolf's lines go so hard. There's

a line. where it's like uh so trigger warning

for abortion mention um the werewolf says that

he fell in love with somebody and she was going

to have his child but he couldn't bear her bringing

this monster into the world so unfortunately

she did not survive the termination and then

he goes probably because i ate her womb i was

like what okay Not expecting that. That was great.

I also love that it was edited by the director

later on to avoid the werewolf costume ruining

the vibes. So I watched the revamped version

where he basically put in some like very cheap,

but kind of, you know, pretty reasonable CGI

so that the homemade werewolf costume they had

didn't like, you know, ruin the enjoyment of

the film. The premise of the film bloody crimes

shake a little village. A bunch of teenagers

discover the cause of these killings is a werewolf

that has arrived to stay. Things turn real wild

when the werewolf discovers them. I really loved

it. That was a highlight for me. I gave that

one four stars. The next one I watched was an

Australian film called The Pack. I gave that

one four stars as well. That one is The Pack.

2015 directed by Nick Robertson and written by

Evan Randall Green. This one's really fun. I

really enjoyed it. It's about a family and they

have a farm out in the middle of the outback

somewhere. And it's going to be foreclosed upon.

The teenage daughter is delighted. She just wants

to get back to the city. unfortunately there's

a pack of wild dogs on the loose destroying livestock

and also killing people and soon the house is

under siege by this pack of dogs and i love the

fact that they are really fluffy and they're

clearly well fed and just very good good dogs

and they look like they're having the time of

their lives just like you know bounding on top

of people as they fall over and i gave it an

extra star for the dogs because the dogs were

phenomenal but yeah it genuinely was quite tense

though I was quite tense I do get I can suspend

my disbelief for days and also I just do get

quite anxious when there's like you have to get

to the truck in a certain amount of time or like

you're taking too long I'm like oh my god hurry

up yeah no I enjoyed it it was just a lot of

fun actually so I gave that four stars Okay,

first North American film of the challenge was

from the USA. It's Never Let Go, 2024, directed

by Alexandre Aja and written by Ryan Grassby and

Kevin Loughlin. This one was great. This one

has Halle Berry in it. I've wanted to watch it

for a while, so I saved it for the challenge.

It's really interesting. It's an interesting

take on psychological horror and mental illness.

It's also mentioned very recently in a talk about

black motherhood and horror, which was hosted

on the Romancing the Gothic YouTube channel and

was just a really good talk. So yeah, I found

this one really good, really interesting. The

kids are definitely little stars in the making.

I think they are definitely to watch because

I thought they did so well. They basically like

they have to carry the whole film and the child

actors are honestly superb. So I would recommend

this. The premise is as an evil takes over the

world beyond their front doorstep, the only protection

for a mother and her twin sons is their house

and their family's protective bond. But obviously

it's like, is that what's going on? Do we know

what's going on? What's happening? Really, really

interesting stuff. And I gave that one four stars.

The next one was an absolute classic. Ecologia

del Delitto, A Bay of Blood is the English title,

directed by Mario Bava, 1971. This was written

by Filippo Ottoni, Mario Bava, Giuseppe Zacchiarello

and Gene Luotto. Again, I don't speak Italian.

I'm sorry if I ruined those names. This was really

fun. I really enjoyed this. This is a mystery.

It's a very cool story. I do love a mystery and

I love the whole shallow thing and I love the

proto slasher thing. I really enjoyed the twist

on the country house mystery. I really like that.

I liked the random teens that turned up to get

murdered I loved all the different characters

that came into play it's not really a character

driven one because you don't get to know the

characters really well enough to for it to be

like that but it is just it's an interesting

set of dynamics so I would recommend that one

and I do like Mario Bava anyway The premise is

an elderly heiress is killed by her husband who

wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is

an all -out murder spree as relatives and friends

attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field,

complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp

out in a dilapidated building on the estate.

It's a bad time to be a teenager in the 70s.

I really enjoyed it. Four stars from me. Then

I watched another American one. This is US American.

So again, North American. And another one I've

saved for the challenge. It was Ready or Not

To, Here I Come, 2026. Directed by the directing

duo Matt Bettinelli -Olpin and Tyler Gillett.

Or possibly Gillett. I'm not sure. I've never

heard that. Gillett? Gillette? I don't know.

Answers on a postcard. Yeah, so it's written

by Guy Bussick and R. Christopher Murphy. And

I watched this with friends. It was part of a

watch party. We had some live... you know some

of us were in the room and some of us were online

that was really really fun I think that I increased

my enjoyment of it a lot I really like the premise

of the first one I really like the second one

not much more to say Samara Weaving is brilliant

I really liked all of the characters I loved

Elijah Wood just doing his little amoral smug

demon lawyer thing I thought that was very cute

that's very fun loved sarah michelle geller very

sad that we didn't get a suggested lesbian wedding

because that would have been the obvious choice

but sadly not But, you know, they robbed us.

So anyway, yes, the premise is moments after

surviving an all -out attack from the Le Domas

family, Grace discovers she's reached the next

level of the nightmarish game, and this time

with her estranged sister Faith at her side.

Grace has one chance to survive, keep her sister

alive, and claim the high seat of the council

that controls the world. Four rival families

are hunting her for the throne, and whoever wins

rules it all. I especially like the Spanish guy

in this because I think so I sat with a friend

who speaks Spanish fluently and they were saying

that is basically like authentic Spanish swearing

and it wasn't subtitled in English. So I think

it was just like ad -libbed. Oh, that was a treat.

That was an extra star. I then watched another

North American film. This is from Canada. This

is Rituals 1977, directed by Peter Carter. It's

also the first film of the challenge where we

have a casually queer character. This is a guy

who mentions that he has an ex -boyfriend and

says that he hasn't really dated since this guy.

And then his friends make no, like, big deal

out of this at all. Nothing else is mentioned

about his sexuality. It's not part of the plot.

it's literally just part of the dialogue and

then you know shenanigans so it's a survival

horror it's again one of those proto slashers

like the early slashers um so you had this one

1977 you had um a texas chainsaw massacre which

was what like 74 something like that and then

you had um a bay of blood which is the early

one And like, yeah, I feel like I've watched

a seminal trio, you know, now. So tick, tick,

tick. Yeah. So this one is about five doctors

go camping in the remote woods of northern Ontario.

When their boots are stolen, they begin to suspect

they are being stalked. And indeed they are.

And it's a bit of a mystery, but don't go in

expecting loads of kills and stuff like it's

very much a character piece. It's just this whole

99 minutes of people talking and you get to know

these people really well. And then things happen

to them and then they're like, why are we being

hunted? You know, what's the what you want to

know what the answer is. But you're also just

really invested in who these people are. And

the writer is Ian Sutherland. And I quite like

that script, again, for just the casual queerness.

I gave this one three and a half stars. Then

we went back to Italy. I can't stay away this

challenge, apparently. La Notte dei Diavoli,

The Night of the Devils, directed by Giorgio

Ferroni. And this one was originally written

by Alexei Tolstoy, of course, because it's based

on his short story, The Family of the Vordelac.

The writers of this film are Eduardo Manzonas,

Romano Migliorini and Gianbattista Musetto.

So this is a kind of Spanish -Italian collaboration,

I guess. And they set it, interestingly, in modern

day, well, contemporary 1972. So it's contemporary

costumes. There's mention of cars. And this guy,

Nicola, is out in the rural sticks. somewhere

and it's kind of like you know he's driving along

he nearly gets into an accident he meets this

weird family and it's framed as he is a patient

at a psychiatric facility and he's having a flashback

of basically how he got there and then you get

his story and then you flash back you flash forward

i guess to the back to the contemporary times

like present day for him and then what happens

after that and it's it's a very interesting adaptation

of love order lack if you haven't seen the french

version of this uh which is called love order

lack um then i recommend you do they use a puppet

for the vampire which is phenomenal so you get

like weird freaky puppet sex at one point absolutely

wild shit um highly recommend that You can also

watch a really good version of it, which is about

13 minutes long, as part of the Red Iron Road

animation series. And I think it's episode one

of that series. Really recommend that version

as well. So this kind of is a good way for me

to round off that. So now I've seen three adaptations

of that short story. I've also listened to it

and read it multiple times. But yeah, it's just,

yeah, just really good. i enjoyed it it kept

me entertained the english dub i will say is

atrocious like really really bad and i i didn't

really realize how bad it was i thought i was

just like mishearing what they were saying and

then i realized like no the lines genuinely do

not make sense in english so i don't know what

dub it was that i was listening to but it was

awful because i was reading the french subtitles

and i was like wait a minute he didn't say that

And then I just went, no, I can't deal with this

anymore. So I went back to the original Italian.

And then I found English subtitles and sort of

watched that instead. That was much, much better.

But the version I had, I couldn't turn the English

dub off initially. So I had to fiddle about with

it. But yeah, so anyway, I really do not recommend

the English dubbing at all. Anyway, it was decent

enough. I think I'm kind of bored of the story

though. because i don't know maybe i was just

in a mood i gave that three stars i do think

it's a really good film but it wasn't like a

standout film for me this time my next standout

film still only four stars i haven't found one

that's like a five star oh my god this is amazing

yet um This one is called Midnight Inn. Unfortunately,

I do not speak Mandarin, so I'm not even going

to attempt to say what the original title in

Mandarin is because I can't read the characters.

So it's Midnight Inn. It's directed by Chen Jiaolong,

2024, and it's been written by Cui Zouzhao. So,

again, I'm really sorry if I've pronounced that

wrong. So, yeah. this is a really interesting

one it's got some really wild stuff in it i was

not sure what to expect but it's very much i

would say this is like chinese gothic very much

like the paper bride that i watched last year

It's got all of those things, you know, like

it's got the weird creepy mansion and like the,

which is the Midnight Inn in this case, standing

in as the haunted house kind of area. So that

is a place that operates around midnight, serves

as both a mortuary and a rest stop for travellers.

It reopens after 10 years and it draws in some

unexpected guests who each claim a strange connection

to a corpse that has been at the Midnight Inn

for, again, like many years. And then this gives

rise to a whole host of interwoven stories that

they each tell. So it's almost like an anthology

film with that framework. And they each have

a different part of the story. And then there's

a bit of a twist where somebody goes, actually,

you know, you see it from these different people's

perspectives, but some of them are lying. So

you see what you think the story is, and then

it kind of unravels around you. And you see different

ways of looking at that same story. Really enjoyed

that. It was a good piece of storytelling. Yeah,

I really liked the concept. I really liked the

dovetailing of those unreliable narrators. So

yeah, that really did it for me. Four stars for

The Midnight Inn. That was from Mainland China,

by the way. I watched another Chinese film, The

Weird Stories of Baiyun zhai, also known as The

Bai Yun Ghost House. So, sorry, this is 2025.

It's directed by Li Zhiwen. I think it's also

written by the director as well, but I couldn't

find that information to corroborate it. This

is about a coffin shop which was set up in the

Baiyun house, which is like a ghost house and

it's rumoured to be cursed and bring misfortune.

There are eerie deaths associated with the house.

There's a drowned man, a butcher kills his family.

And so Master Ma, who is an exorcist, comes to

investigate with his apprentice. And it's like...

It's really cool. I really enjoyed that one.

I like the premise. I really enjoyed the creepy

paper effigies, I guess. I do enjoy watching

like Taoist exorcisms as well because I don't

see that as much. And I'm really kind of oversaturated

in US evangelical ideas of Catholicism and what

Catholicism, what Catholic exorcisms look like,

as well as like... films from catholic countries

that represent kind of exorcisms and stuff so

i've seen such a lot of those so this is just

really fun to kind of compare cultures and like

look at different ways of doing things yeah overall

it was a pretty decent film enjoyed it three

and a half stars and finally film number 20 was

a filipino film this is called night shift 2020

directed by yam laranas i've seen a laranas film

before he also wrote it the one i saw before

was aurora which is a ship wreck really really

moving kind of meditation on death and grief

this one is also a meditation on grief and death

it's really not about jump scares it's not about

the body horror there is body horror But it's

more like this is what happens to your body after

you die. And it's not realistic in that kind

of like gory sense. But it's more like this very

sad, very tragic meditation. on yeah just what

happens in a mortuary and sort of the idea of

it's very philosophical and it's kind of like

the idea that everybody's death is like a small

apocalypse or a personal apocalypse. I thought

that was just a really interesting framing. So

the premise is a young woman is stuck in the

morgue on her first day working as an assistant

to a pathologist when the dead begin to manifest

signs of resurrection. And because this one is

set in the Philippines, this one is very Roman

Catholic background culturally. And so you get

a lot of genuine Roman Catholic anxieties. I

say genuine because I'm thinking specifically

of the Conjuring films, which are not at all

actually theologically Catholic. They are a US

evangelical cultural background. idea of what

catholicism is and that's not the same thing

at all and so i'm kind of tired of films like

that if i want to see a roman catholic exorcism

i want to see it made by roman catholics do you

know what i mean so like yeah um this one's really

interesting because it's also got those anxieties

of bodily resurrection transported into a more

situation And then it's also quite psychological.

It's also like got a lot of things, a big trigger

warning for suicide. And it's just very, yeah,

I did really like that one. I liked how slow

it was. It's definitely gothic, I would say,

like in that kind of, if we can expand the term,

that term and not kind of. yeah i don't know

like it felt very gothic to me very modern gothic

but very like it it's got all those tropes and

themes i think so yeah i would give that four

stars also just really enjoyed it and those are

my 20 films my last 10 of those 20 yeah I'm rattling

through them. I hope that I've given you some

ideas of what to watch. But those would be my

my highlighted recommendations. And there are

quite a few of them from this one. So, yeah,

just as a quick recap, my four star recommendations

were Night Shift, Midnight Inn, Ready or Not

To, Here I Come, A Bay of Blood, The Pack, Never

Let Go and Full Moon. So a whole range from the

70s to the 90s to the 2020s and from all around

the world. So yeah, happy watching and I'll see

you next time. Bye for now.

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