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Really enjoyed this movie. Plot twist at its best. DARK! Be prepared. Never saw that coming. Watch it!

Enjoyable. I like the Conjuring franchise. Ready for Part 4 🤩🙌

Loved your review. I like that you kept a positive attitude throughout. I loved the original, it's one of my favorite movies ever and I enjoy the other movies in this franchise as they all add to the same story and universe (II, III and The Beginning) and I actually enjoyed this one as a continuation of that story and universe. For me, I think the movie would have been benefitted greatly of being scarier and more profane if it was going to place itself as a true sequel to the original movie. But I am looking forward to seeing what they come up with for the alleged two more movies planned, especially now that Blumhouse/Universal have realized they need to think them out more before producing and releasing them.

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Looking forward to the new year and a new channel, long time subscriber here and i wish you nothing but the best of luck in everything that you do. Very much appreciate your videos and effort you put into making them, its not easy but like you mentioned if it’s something you already like doing it doesn’t feel like much work. Keep up the amazing job, I know you will do great things!

I had no idea you were also doing book reviews and suggestions. I'm an avid horror book reader so I'm hopping to your new combined channel with delight! See you there! :D

You are super human Kasha, I always wondered how you do it. I think this is a good idea and hope you find the balance you are looking for. Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! The title made me think you were going to be giving up CZcams for good, it had me sad. 😅😢

Yeah I get where your coming from I have two channels myself I have cut down my content in recent months on both channels for a lot of the same reason I enjoy it but it also started to feel like a chore and I don't want it to be at way I you said I want to do it for enjoyment good luck to you Happy New Year.

Happy New Year, Kasha! I am looking forward to all of your content on Horror Sickness.

Do what's best for you. Happy New Year.

yeah good choice. protect yourself. have had 2 burnouts in my life and am recovering from the last one right now, with therapy, after working a full time job plus either youtube or djing. so yeah good thing and subbed. happy new year.

Happy New Year! I do not even know how you were able to record and upload FOUR videos EVERY week. That is a crazy high amount! I think you can be really proud about that. One video a week can already be quite stressful, so I hope that your plan for 2024 will make you feel much better and still help you with your channel growth ♥

2023 was a good year for watching movies with a total of 211 movies watched, 184 horror, and 40 of them from 2023. On your list there are ten movies I have not watched yet. And I agree that 2023 was not the best year for horror movies. But usually, these are years where you get first or sophomore movies by very promising writers and directors. And from the amount of very good or great movies I got to watch, I feel very good about the future of the horror genre. My favorite horror movies from 2023 were: Totally Killer / The Blackening (2022/23) / There's Something Wrong with the Children / There's Something in the Barn / From Black / Til Death Do Us Part / Five Nights at Freddy's / No One Will Save You / Talk to Me (2022/23) / The Elderly (2022/23) / When Evil Lurks A few honorable mentions, movies that, I felt, went a bit under the radar, but promise a really good time and/or make you feel uncomfortable: Influencer (2022/23) / The Mill / Unseen / Mother, May I? / Night of the Hunted / Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor I also thought Emerald Fennell's Promising Young Woman was a stellar piece of writing and movie, and I'm eager to watch her 2023 movie. The writer/director I became a fan of in 2023 was Brea Grant, with several smart premises that are socially relevant and would make Rod Serling proud. A huge thank you for pointing me in the direction of many great movies again! 🙂

I wondered if you'd seen Skinamarkink? It was somewhat noted or controversial this year. I tried to watch it, but seemed to be going nowhere. I might try again to see if it hits. I enjoyed No One Will Save You, Cobweb, Evil Dead Rise, Infinity Pool, Knock At the Cabin The Boogeyman, Megan, and I still need to see many others. Thanks Kasha.

I watched 54 movies this year, all of those new ones to me, but only 36 released in 2023. Only 12 of the 54 were horror and only 7 of those released in 2023. 😅 In no rating order Godzilla Minus One There's Something in the Barn Totally Killer Renfield Evil Dead Rise Scream VI Knock at the Cabin (only one I didn't enjoy) My top ten movies of 2023 #1 - Godzilla Minus One Evil Dead Rise The Creator Oppenheimer Killers Of The Flower Moon No Hard Feelings Guardians Of The Galaxy 3 Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One Spider-Man Across The Spider-Verse The Boy And The Heron The Whale was released in Australia in 2023, but not everywhere else. It would have been tied for first and I would remove Mission Impossible. (edit) I'm only just noticing that Letterboxd has Talk To Me as released in 2022.... that throws my list off. 🙄 I'd remove No Hard Feelings and/or Mission Impossible, to make room for it. 🙃

great list ! I have seen most of these,but you gave me some new movies to check out.

after seeing the schlafwandler thing in the background i find myself trying to read the dvd titles and which ones are in german. cool video too. basically thank you for the movie suggestions.

I agree with Knock at the Cabin. I haven't finished Totally Killer or when Evil Lurks. I'll probably do that after I finish the LOTR extended editions (it's a slog).

I can't wait to see this. it sounds so great.

This is a list by someone who truly loves horror and its related genres. It's great to bring some attention to more undervalued movies. I've seen a handful of them before (3, 5, 14, 17, 20), several I've heard of, and nine are new to me. I don't get to watch as many films as you do, but if you asked me to come up with some honorary mentions, I'd suggest: A Dark Song (2016), The Tokoloshe (2018), Liverleaf (2018), Impetigore (2019), Underwater (2020), Lucky (2020), The Power (2021), Offseason (2021), You Won't Be Alone (2022), Soft & Quiet (2022), Moon Garden (2022), and From Black (2023). No films with an arctic or cold setting here, so let's add Werewolves Within (2021). This is maybe only the tip of the iceberg. 😁

Thanks for the video! It reminded me I wanted to see Brightburn, and I haven’t really dabbled into horror movies that came out after 2020 so there’s plenty to watch.

His initials... ERR :)

I saw it. I didn't care for it. You're right about the visuals. I got a little annoyed when they didn't pull off at the last stop. There were so many reasons to do so, but the writing put that into the story when it would be better to not have it in there at all. Plus, it was obvious that the crates were the isdue when they found the girl. Why not throw them overboard? I live the cast and setting. The crates could be hidden better, and the last stop could be removed to make it fully work.

If I don't see a horror movie the first week of release, I miss out on the early sessions, which is when I go to the cinemas. I missed that week of Thanksgiving to see Hunger Games instead, which I regretted, so now I have to wait until it's online. 😞 I watched Godzilla Minus One, instead of The Royal Hotel and Napoleon, but I didn't regret that decision, Godzilla was great.

I thought it was juicy. Yeah your usual slasher really but with a director like Eli Roth's name on it you are going to see it. Yeah that opening act reminded me of the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster 96 Liverpool fans killed.

Glad you gave this review. I found the movie to be so good that it's one of my favourites. It shows the real challenges of single parenthood, the confusion between possession and mental illness and so much more.

Skip it!! I watched it and fell sleep a couple times waiting for something Scary to happen.. it's just never did… I'm not sure what that movie was going for but it was one of the lamest horror movies I've seen this year...

Jesus Christ. It's like your not even pretending to be a woman

I just wanted to let you know Eli roth is a zionist.

I must have been the only person that liked Knock Knock. I had fun 😂 but he does more than just the gore he's branded with. I really liked his indie film The Stranger, and the first Hostel had an artistic approach to it... or maybe im just a trash fangirl, and enjoy torture porn 😂

He's fine as a director. I'm not a fan so much as a passive viewer. His movies have memorable moments but lack something with the characters themselves.

In October I tried to focus on catching up with some 2023 movies. I made a long list of 30 movies for guidance, which was the first mistake. Because anytime I watch a movie, it creates a certain mood, it explores issues I may want to explore more, it points me to directors I want to watch more from. There are so many things that have an effect on what kind of movie I want to watch next. -1-6- I started the month with All Fun and Games (2023). Two brothers find a cursed knife in this story of possession. Production values are nice, good for a one-time watch. + Til Death Do Us Part (2023) was the first highlight of the month, a movie in which everyone is a literal killer. When a bride bails on her wedding, she must fight off her ex-groom and seven angry killer groomsmen to survive the night. Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths (2012) may have been a reference here, with which Til Death Do Us Part shares many moments of black humor. Great movie if you’re looking for a fun time and highly rewatchable. The Exorcists (2023) with Doug Bradley was a dud. Low-budget, derivative, there are too many much better possession stories. Can’t recommend. + No One Will Save You (2023) is another great movie. Discussed on your channel in detail. There’s lots of suspense, the writing keeps you on your toes, and the film is highly rewatchable. In Huesera: The Bone Woman (2022) a woman becomes pregnant and is haunted by a demonic presence. It’s a movie that uses horror as a vehicle to discuss a woman’s doubts of becoming a mother. And like The Babadook (2014) it transcends the horror genre. It’s very good, very well told, a great exploration of the main character. Best is to let you be lured in by the mysterious title. My first rewatch was Below (2002), a drama with supernatural and mystery elements about a submarine crew during WWII. I don’t think the movie has aged that well. While well-played and with a compelling story, it feels slow-paced when compared to contemporary movies. If you like horror with a confined setting, give it a try. If you’re looking for a war film with horror elements, Deathwatch (2002) is the better movie. -7-11- + Next was From Black (2023). A recovering addict is grieving the loss of her son who went missing several years ago and is presumed dead. She learns of an occult ritual that may reunite her with her son. I followed it up with A Dark Song (2017), which deals with the same topic of a woman who agrees to an occult ritual to speak to her dead seven-year-old son. Both movies focus on the ritual and the hardships, cleaning and punishing exercises the women must grow through. The movies are different enough that it merits watching both. Both women rely on a male figure to help them with the ritual, which makes you wonder about their motives and adds additional suspense. Both movies were excellent. The Nun (2018) was only my second movie from the Conjuring Universe, and I watched it in preparation for The Nun II (2023). I had a very good time watching it. Great decision to cast Vera Farmiga’s daughter Taissa Farmiga as the lead. Before I Fall (2017), based on a YA novel by Lauren Oliver, is a time-loop movie about a teenager who relives the same day again and again, a day that ends with death. It also deals with the insecurities of being a teenager and bullying. All in all, it’s a solid B-movie. Then I picked a Dutch movie, Het Geheugenspel (2023), an adaptation of Nicci French’s THE MEMORY GAME (1997). It’s a thriller that introduces us to a well-situated and wealthy family clan and has betrayals and buried secrets. It’s basically a dime novel fantasy about keeping up appearances in society and how the well-situated also do evil deeds and get away with it until they do no longer get away with it. I was hoping for something with a mystery or perhaps supernatural twist, but unfortunately it was not meant to be. If you watched an episode of the German TV crime series Derrick, this plays to a similar audience. It’s tedious, pretentious, and feels fake. -12-17- + Totally Killer (2023) was a delight, a blend of a slasher and Back to the Future (1985). Highly recommended. In Unseen (2023), a nearly blind woman is kidnapped by her murderous ex, escapes from his shack in the woods only to find herself hunted by him, and accidentally video calls a gas station clerk she now relies on to become her eyes. It’s a great set-up, the gas clerk has her own problems that become worse through the course of the movie, and all of it makes it a fun and tense thriller. Maybe not a first-rate movie, but well-played by its two leads, entertaining, and recommended. + Then I watched There’s Something Wrong with the Children (2023) and Body at Brighton Rock (2017), both directed by Roxanne Benjamin. Benjamin co-produced the first two V/H/S anthology movies and went on to write and direct some truly scary segments for the anthology Southbound (2015) and the all-women anthology XX (2018). Body at Brighton Rock was her first feature film. It had a mild supernatural element and was almost family-friendly in comparison to her short films. A summer employee at a state park wants to prove herself to her colleagues, gets lost in the wilderness, and finds a dead body. It lacked suspense, but what I enjoyed was how the development the character goes through is grounded in realistic choices. Her sophomore movie plays in a different league. It has creepy kids and, in its first half, explores how a relationship with friends changes once they have kids. The characters act like real people and there’s a natural flow in the way they, one by one, begin to realize there’s something wrong with the children. This is definitely a writer/director to watch. Highly recommended. As I had recently seen Underwater (2020) with Kristen Stewart as a great lead, I watched her earlier movie, The Messengers (2007). Here, she plays the teenage daughter of a family that has just relocated to a new place, a sunflower farm where something terrible has happened years before. It has great production values, creates a good atmosphere, and is one of the better Pang Brothers movies. While the story is standard horror fare, I watched it with a focus on Kristen Stewart, and she is phenomenal in it. + “The Horror of Dolores Roach” was my next watch. It’s a mini-series in the tradition of Sweeney Todd. Gory fun and highly recommended.

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"E-lie" roth. Not "e-lee"

Knock Knock is a dark comedy (according to Roth) and Hostel 2 is so much better than 1. It is the epitome of female empowerment.

I generally like Roth. He seems to be happy working within the horror field, so I say stick with it. I like him much more that Rob Zombie. I've never seen Knock Knock. I'll check in to it.

I watched The Taking of Deborah Logan thanks to this video and I gotta agree with you, great film!

The devil’s candy is so fucking metal. I love that movie

awesome!

I'll check out a few of these. I tried to watch The Devil's Candy over Halloween, but didn't like the dad character in it, nor the teen, so I didn't finish it. It's hard at times to figure out what's underrated. I liked Cobweb, The Blackcoat's Daughter, Haunted, and The Boogeyman, but are they underrated? I also saw a few that were pretty good: Windchill on CZcams, Kenny and Company (on YT), Curse of Crom (on YT), Atroz (or Atrocious, sort of torture porn or extreme exploitation, Spanish/Mexican film), Peter Jackson's The Frighteners, and Pyewacket (on YT).

I'm way behind on my movies. This list will certainly help. Thanks Kasha!

These look like some wonderful recommendations. I've only watched four of them (1, 4, 9, 14) 🙈 and they all had something that sticks with you, that won't let go. Six more I've heard of but haven't gotten to - there were periods of time when I didn't watch any movies. And then there are ten more that are new to me, which includes the final five you've discussed. I'm still on the fence whether 2023 was a great year for horror movies. Is it because I watched the wrong movies? Which leads to the question, should I use the remaining weeks of the year to watch more 2023 movies, just hoping for the best? Or is it better to work on the backlist and choose some gems from past years? Anyway, thank you for pointing me to some underrated gems. Have you seen Night of the Hunted (2023) yet?

My favorite franchise is Terrifier. A few weeks ago, I got to meet David Howard Thorton, Lauren LaVera, and Damien Leone. It was a dream come true.

Hi Kasha, I would love to see a bid on your 'comfort horrors' cause Im just like you: when I cant sleep I put a horrormovie on....or as 'calming' background noise😂😂🙈 #psychopath😜

Appreciate the video! Think I’ll check this out

Kasha, I completely agree with you. This movie was so disappointing and so boring. The best part was when the babysitters' buddies went to vandalize the place and got attacked. But other than that... 😴 And they wrapped things up too quickly. Sounds like I need to check out Willy's Wonderland. Great review as always!

Im kinda surprised you didn’t mention the banana splits, another animatronic puppet movie that I believe came before the 2 mentioned here and that one was what FNAF should of been as far as the gore and story. Like that one was rated R and yeah maybe it had unknowns in it but ill take that over known actors if i know im getting carnage candy. anyways great review like always!