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Zyklon B Zombie posted:There was a guy in my theater who passed out during the ball cutting scene in Hard Candy. I think some people really don't take that sort of thing well. Me. I can handle shitloads of gore, whether its silly over-the-top of played for real, but anything groin related really really gets to me. I bought Antichrist about two months ago and I'm still too loving scared to watch it because I know about the kind of genital mutilation that happens. I miss out on a lot of probably really good films because of this.
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SyRauk posted:What with Lohman having random poo poo forced into her mouth throughout the whole movie. Gotta love Sam's continuing obsession with torturing the everloving poo poo out of his actors.
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Both My Soul to Take and Saw 3D look absolutely terrible. Saw looks bad in a totally average way: bad 3D effects, stupid story, lame climax shown clearly in the trailer. My Soul to Take looks like it has the same plot as Jason Goes to Hell.
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XIII posted:I'm catching the 10:15 showing of Piranha and I'm way too excited for it. Anyone else seeing it? Surely.... There is a thread for it. I saw it this morning, the movie is good but the 3D effects are bad and don't work at all which is a shame.
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Mr Wind Up Bird posted:Both My Soul to Take and Saw 3D look absolutely terrible. Saw looks bad in a totally average way: bad 3D effects, stupid story, lame climax shown clearly in the trailer. My Soul to Take looks like it has the same plot as Jason Goes to Hell. The trailer for My Soul To Take is ridiculously awful. It's like every single 90s teen horror cliché wrapped into one and what I can only presume is every plot twist or "shock" in the film clumsily revealed. I presume Craven is just depending on Scream 4 to try and make himself relevant again.
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My Soul To Take was filmed back in spring '08, which doesn't bode well. Meanwhile, there's a new Hellraiser coming, but it's clearly rushed, to a degree that suggests that they're only making it to avoid losing the rights (their remake of the original has been in development hell for a while). Doug Bradley passed on it.
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FoneBone posted:My Soul To Take was filmed back in spring '08, which doesn't bode well. Pretty sure I'd rather see a reboot than another lovely sequel without Doug Bradley in it. I kinda hate myself for saying that though. In other news, finally watched The Human Centipede. I was pretty underwhelmed by it. It seemed a little non-cohesive to me. Like they just filmed a bunch of scenes and then cut them together in what resembled a plot. The girls were monumentally stupid, even for a horror movie. I did like the asian dude though. And Laser played crazy pretty well, though I kinda prefer dark, sinister villians to carpet chewers. I am curious as to what they are going to do with the sequel, though-hopefully something a little more creative than just hey we added more people to the centipede, isn't that icky?. Edit: Also I got the giggles during the scene where they first wake up all sewn together in the living room and Laser is flailing about and showing them the mirror and they're all wailing (as best they can, anyway). I think maybe I'm broken? It seemed like they were going for a "difficult to watch" feel with that scene and all I could do was titter. spixxor fucked around with this message at 10:18 on Aug 22, 2010 |
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spixxor posted:Edit: Also I got the giggles during the scene where they first wake up all sewn together in the living room and Laser is flailing about and showing them the mirror and they're all wailing (as best they can, anyway). I think maybe I'm broken? It seemed like they were going for a "difficult to watch" feel with that scene and all I could do was titter. You're not broken, the movie was. I think everyone I know who saw the movie (myself included) felt the same way.
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I saw The Human Centipede last night for the second time. The difference this time was that I was in a theater full of people (a local theater does a midnight movie series and showed Human Centipede this weekend) as opposed to just me and a few friends at home. It was pretty great seeing some audience members laugh, some gasp, and some just flat out leave because they were about to throw up. But honestly, it wasn't as shocking as the first time. Partly because I'd seen it before, but also because between last night and the first time I saw it, I'd seen A Serbian Film. Everything else just seems light compared to that movie.
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I'm going to call my horror movie of the year because I can't really see any other movie having this much of an effect on me. I've been grossed out, creeped out, and also humoured by everything I have seen up to this movie. This one haunted me. I finished watching it an hour ago and it still feels like it is punching me in the stomach.  quote:Forensic psychiatrist Cara (Julianne Moore) has spent her career exposing false cases of multiple personality disorder. But when she encounters a patient whose various personalities are all those of murder victims, she'll have to dig deep to explain his condition. Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Frances Conroy and Nathan Corddry co-star in this supernatural thriller directed by Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein. Please do not look for a trailer. The above is all you need to get started. Any more and the effect will be ruined. I went into this thinking that the above was a really good premise for a psychological thriller and, well, I'm not going to elaborate on what happens but I'm going to sum up how it felt to watch this movie instead. It's interesting from the start. Moore is fantastic, as is the rest of the cast, and there was a sense of curiosity about what was going on and where it would lead. All this masked a feeling of unease though. It felt like there were cables tightening throughout the movie, pulling everything together, so instead of the usual roller-coaster it was more like being strung up and confined within as the cables kept getting tighter and tighter. This movie is more than the synopsis and the build up is .. intense. I'm sorry to have to use the word again, but I have never felt more haunted by a movie this year. And it's 1pm here at the moment. Netflix link. Goddamn edit: Yoy may need to purchase the DVD as I don't know when it will be released on Netflix or the like. Amazon link is here Local Group Bus fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Aug 23, 2010 |
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Local Group Bus posted:"The sheltering has begun"? That has got to be the worst tagline I've ever seen.
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Yeah it's pretty bad. But it makes sense in the context of the movie for what its worth. I'm also unhappy with the posters as they give too much away. This is a movie you really need to go into knowing very little about for it to get to you. This one isn't so much about about "Come on, show me the money shot scares!" as it is about how unsettled and on edge it places you.
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Mr.48 posted:"The sheltering has begun"? That has got to be the worst tagline I've ever seen. If it wasn't for this glowing review I would never have decided to check this movie out because that tagline is horrendous. It just screams terrible b-movie. I hope I won't be disappointed. (either it'll be good or a terrible b-movie i mean) But still, the sheltering has begun. Wow. If it makes sense in the movie that's one thing, but to put it on the poster with no context is something else.
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Technetium posted:If it wasn't for this glowing review I would never have decided to check this movie out because that tagline is horrendous. It just screams terrible b-movie. I hope I won't be disappointed. (either it'll be good or a terrible b-movie i mean) Coming soon, a horror too real to be imagined. Homeless Shelter "The sheltering has begun!"
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They take wealthy people and forever shelter them in THE HOMELESS SHELTER where no one will ever hear their cries. The sheltering has begun.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:...I'd seen A Serbian Film. Everything else just seems light compared to that movie. I would love to see this in a full theater of people. I have watched it a few times with several friends, at the NEWBORN PORN! scene an aquatint of mine had to leave for fear of vomiting. She absolutely hates the movie. Still. Theater full of people, and seeing the reactions? I would see it again for this.
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Looking forward to seeing A Serbian Film at FrightFest, especially as the film's director is going to be there. Let's hope for some outcry from the audience towards him (Just for trainwreck potential, you understand).
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Local Group Bus posted:I'm going to call my horror movie of the year because I can't really see any other movie having this much of an effect on me. Its a decent movie that could have been great if it had shed some of its fat. I watch a lot of horror and this had some of the most blatant, telegraphed jump-scares I've ever encountered. Enough to take you out of the film and make your eyes roll out of your head...
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STINKFACE posted:Its a decent movie that could have been great if it had shed some of its fat. I watch a lot of horror and this had some of the most blatant, telegraphed jump-scares I've ever encountered. Enough to take you out of the film and make your eyes roll out of your head... This a thousand times. I think this movie had a ton of potential and could have been a pretty solid, creepy mystery flick. Instead it fell to the temptation to throw in a loud stinger and flash a bunch of images at you in quiet moments just to make you jump rather than rely on it's own atmosphere to build tension. It got pretty frustrating after a while.
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Anyone know anything about In Memorium? I messaged the director a couple weeks ago on Myspace and she said there was possibly some news about a DVD release coming soon. of course I think she's been saying that since 2006 so I'm not holding my breath. Still, would be nice to actually watch that movie one day.
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Zyklon B Zombie posted:There was a guy in my theater who passed out during the ball cutting scene in Hard Candy. I think some people really don't take that sort of thing well. People like this are amazing to me. I wish I could have that sort of visceral reaction to a movie anymore. Basically nothing fazes me, ever. I AM DEAD INSIDE I did laugh like a motherfucker at those Last Exorcism ChatRoulette scenes though. Too funny.
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Local Group Bus posted:I'm going to call my horror movie of the year because I can't really see any other movie having this much of an effect on me. I watched this last night and while the first 30 minutes were absolutely riveting I felt it started to lose steam after that point. Julianne Moore and Johnathan Rhys gave great performances but they tried way too hard to explain everything and end up ruining the film’s atmosphere. I don't want to pick the movie apart but (WARNING, tons of spoilers): - Julianne's character has access to "Adam's" entire file but there is still no record of the Wes personality. I know her father could have kept some of this from her but what would have been the point? He potentially puts her in danger by doing so. - What was the point of the sound wave? It was completely superfluous and did nothing to move the story forward except give us a horrible CSI style computer scene. Just the visualization of the souls entering Adam's body would have been enough. - The film projections towards the end were atrocious and obviously added in post. I understand film schedules can make this a problem but they should have shown less of them if that was the case. - Slow motion breaking glass from three different angles. . . - Film score force feeding emotions to you and extraneous sound effects during every cell phone, computer scene Things that were awesome: - No use of the dead husband as one of Adam's souls - Very few easy scares - Great cinematography for the most part, similar to the American remake of The Ring. - Surprisingly fantastic acting for a film that didn't get much exposure Sorry for the wall of black. In the end I thought it was good but it could have been so much better. Definitely not the best thriller of 2010 but worth your time.
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Well, it looks like Eli Roth is finally making another movie again. http://www.screened.com/news/eli-roth-is-officially-making-thanksgiving/741/ I wonder if all the fake Grindhouse trailers will be made into movies eventually.
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If that's the case, I wanna see Edgar Wright's DON'T. I'd love a Tigon/Amicus/Hammer style spoof.
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Zyklon B Zombie posted:Well, it looks like Eli Roth is finally making another movie again. I confess to being a sucker for movies where the body bumbles around after being decapitated. I think this will make a fine, fine second feature for my annual holiday viewing of Thankskilling!
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Yikes, Looks like the I Spit On Your Grave remake had to be cut but 21 seconds to gain an 18 cert in the UK.
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Slasherfan posted:Yikes, Looks like the I Spit On Your Grave remake had to be cut but 21 seconds to gain an 18 cert in the UK. I just read the BBFC report and it sounds like it's all nudity in the rape sequences that's been cut. All the violence is still in there. That makes sense given the BBFC's policy - they want to have the rape scene(s) be an emotional and harrowing sequence, not an erotic one. Still though, 17 cuts at 21 seconds is almost unheard of in a major release these days.
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Woo hoo! Frightfest soon, any goons going can PM me. I'll probably post "Reviews" every night, I'm not the best reviewer as you'll probably be able to tell by now.
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I watched Shelter the other night and while it started off great I thought it really lost steam once the truth of the matter came out. I'm not even sure I understand how the killer came to be in the modern day. Was he dug up at some point? As has been said the jump scares and the image audio were fairly weak as well. Would have been a killer x-files episode though.
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foodfight posted:I watched Shelter the other night and while it started off great I thought it really lost steam once the truth of the matter came out. I'm not even sure I understand how the killer came to be in the modern day. Was he dug up at some point? My girlfriend brought up such an excellent point today that I didn't think about. How in the world did the killer still look like he did 90 years ago and not look like one of the bodies he apparently had to inhabit to start his modern day spree? This is probably the same thing you just spoilered, but it's been bothering me so much that I had to bring it up again in case there was something we missed that someone could clarify. This movie was like a less fun version of Fallen .
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Saw it earlier , and it was pretty good. Not gonna pop a giant wall of spoilers up there, and no I am not going to spoil anything either. You go see it the same way I did, with no idea what the hell is going on. I do have to say though.. Jonathan Rhys Meyers has got some serious acting skills. I hadn't seen him in anything except From Paris With Love(?) and while he was pretty good in it, Travolta stole the show. This movie though... god drat. He makes it awesome.
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Just watched Dead Tone on netflix, gently caress this movie was retarded. Directors/writers need to learn that just inserting plot twists for the sake of putting them in is stupid. A proper plot twist drops subtle clues throughout the movie that are picked up on repeated viewing. A bad plot twist requires the character to give a 10 min exposition in the end explaining what happened. For some reason movies lately insist on doing the bad way. As much as I hate to give M. Night Shyamalan credit, the Sixth Sense actually did a decent job of it.
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JammyLammy posted:Just watched Dead Tone on netflix, gently caress this movie was retarded. Directors/writers need to learn that just inserting plot twists for the sake of putting them in is stupid. I pretty much guessed the killers identity pretty early on in that the scene where he gave out about the police was a dead give away. I thought the movie was fun but retarted. Really, if you played a prank in your childhood that lead to your parents and a few other people being killed, you think you'd grow up still playing that game? Pros: Some decent death scenes and fun stalk sequences. Treating black people like real characters instead of one liner spewing machines. Cons: Opening looks dirt cheap, like it was made by someone else. Characters are so interchangable, I kept forgetting who was who, at some points the writer got lazy and characters would be found dead. The ending, yeah, it sucks.
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Topper Harley posted:My girlfriend brought up such an excellent point today that I didn't think about. How in the world did the killer still look like he did 90 years ago and not look like one of the bodies he apparently had to inhabit to start his modern day spree? This is probably the same thing you just spoilered, but it's been bothering me so much that I had to bring it up again in case there was something we missed that someone could clarify. After reading the IMDB page where someone brought up the same question it seems The old witch doctor lady turned the preacher into a living shelter for souls who have no faith as a revenge for vaccinating his own children against the flu that was ravaging the hollers. So I guess its literally the SHELTER killing people and taking their souls? And doesn't this make the old woman the biggest dick ever and the true villain of the movie?
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Just saw Shelter and I have to say it was one of the most enjoyable horrors I've seen for a long time. Whoever said it was a movie version of an X-Files episode was quite right. Great tone, great atmosphere and enough creepy WTFness to overcome it's quite significant flaws. It took a pretty well worn theme and made it approachable by not being remotely preachy. You could tell that whoever wrote it was going for schlocky thrills, rather than serious debate, and on that level it worked brilliantly. Every actor was completely going for it too, and they totally sold most of the key performances. I loved how her glasses became a symbol of her inner conflict between faith and religion The scene after the big reveal where she rests them on her head made me laugh out loud. DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU'VE NOT SEEN IT YET! edit: Thinking about it I really loved that The extremely unpleasant "Christian" message was completely subverted by having a bunch of mountain magicians create an invincible monster that killed atheists. If there had been anything righteous about it then it would have been repulsive but the schlocky, hysterical tone cast doubt on the sincerity of the message and made it, in retrospect, very sarcastic. This goes double considering that the main character, having solidified her faith throughout the movie, at the end, looks like she's ready to throw it all away to play mother to a satanic host if it means keeping her daughter. The other possibility is that it's not about Christianity at all, and that Granny represented some other folk god with actual power (ie. the opposite of the Christian God that failed the influenza victims, the daughters father etc.) Given the perceived immorality/cruely of the "real" God of the movie it could be about contemporary religious mores going up against something much older. Whatever, I enjoyed it. Spermanent Record fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Aug 26, 2010 |
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Zyklon B Zombie posted:Well, it looks like Eli Roth is finally making another movie again. What happened to that adaptation of Stephen King's Cell he was going to direct? Or am I mistaking him for somebody else?
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cloudchamber posted:What happened to that adaptation of Stephen King's Cell he was going to direct? Or am I mistaking him for somebody else? Last I remember Roth said that the studio behind it, I think the Weinsteins, wanted to make a more toned down film than Roth had envisioned so he pulled out, afterwards he said he was only going to make films based on original concepts. He's supposed to be working on Endangered Species, a big budget survival film, while doing Thanksgiving.
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