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Operating Rod posted:I'm always curious about how audiences must have handled Exorcist at release. My mother went to see it with her mom in Queens (NYC) and told me that streams of people left during the exorcism scenes.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:The nightvision scene in Cloverfield was one of the only good scenes in that piece of poo poo movie. Can't say that I remember it. I haven't seen it since it was in theaters. I didn't mind Cloverfield, but I was one of the only ones in my group of friends that didn't get motion sickness while watching it on the big screen.
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flashy_mcflash posted:I don't have whatever upgrade is required to search this thread but have you guys seen The Loved Ones? It's a pretty good, if not great, Australian horror with one of the best female villains since Kathy Bates in Misery. Don't sleep. I saw this a few months ago and liked it. It had its faults, but I loved the cinematography. The vibrant use of colour set it apart from other horror films for me.
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flashy_mcflash posted:I don't have whatever upgrade is required to search this thread but have you guys seen The Loved Ones? It's a pretty good, if not great, Australian horror with one of the best female villains since Kathy Bates in Misery. Don't sleep. I quite liked it: good original plot, good bit of gore, a pretty solid movie all round and some very memorable scenes. That goddamn Kasey Chambers song can eat a dick though, it used to just annoy me, now it scares me. Can't find it in this thread for searching but I watched Dead hooker in a trunk over the weekend and loved it. It's Canadian indie horror on a shoestring budget which is full of laughs, gore and fun. Over the top characters and violence and a very well done first movie. The sisters who wrote, directed and starred in it are currently working on a new movie with Katharine "Ginger Snaps" Isabelle. Dead hooker imdb Dead hooker trailer American Mary imdb American Mary teaser trailer
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The Cameo posted:You don't find the idea that everything that your rational mind and experience has told you is outlandish and crazy and stupid and nothing more than folklore and hearsay from uneducated people turning out to be 100% true isn't absolutely terrifying? I saw The Blair Witch Project the night it came out, thinking it was real. I was so terrified I started sobbing on the way home. :/
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jazz babies posted:I saw The Blair Witch Project the night it came out, thinking it was real. I'm jealous. I convinced a roommate that Paranormal Activity was real footage (we watched the version with the ending where she gets shot) before we watched it and he was absolutely terrified for the rest of the night. It was fantastic.
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So what Found footage movie would you guys recommend watching? I already saw the best one I guess  - Rec - Blair Witch Project - Grave Encounters (jk!) - Trollhunter I guess I should start by watching REC2 (Been really liking the Spanish movies lately) but what else would be worth it? Also is Paranormal Activity really considered as found footage movie? I've still yet to see that.
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Le0 posted:So what Found footage movie would you guys recommend watching? Funnily enough, REC isn't a found-footage film. It doesn't fully simulate a false document, just using the aesthetic trappings to enhance the story. This becomes more overt in REC 2, which is just flat-out ridiculous(-ly good). Quarantine remakes REC as an actual found-footage film, and despite people's protests I consider it the best film in the genre besides Blair Witch, with Cloverfield taking third place. It's actually an entirely different film - like I said, an entirely different genre. The Tunnel is also very solid, meshing the found-footage approach with the pseudo-documentary 'talking head' approach. it's not terribly original, basically an amalgam of everything good in these other films, but it works very well and is the first argument for Found-Footage being a full-fledged genre with recognizable archetypes beyond simply holding the camera. It's the found-footage equivalent of a well-made archetypal slasher. The Last Exorcist is, meanwhile, the first to deconstruct the genre. Even if they are inherently postmodern, self-referential films, Last Exorcist takes a closer look at how they work. SuperMechagodzilla fucked around with this message at 10:04 on Aug 10, 2011 |
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Insidious has got so much hate in this thread, but it really did its job as a horror movie for me, it was terrifying . I mean, I scare really easily, but I'll watch just about any horror movie because I like being scared  . I don't understand what was so bad about the astral projection plot thread. I thought it was fairly obvious, and so was the fact that his dad could project but even still, during the PA-esque scenes at night I was no less afraid than I was when I first watched Blair Witch, which stands as my most frightening cinema experience. When I left the cinema and thought about it, yes, there were some bad plot holes, and it's not a good movie, but I thought it was scary, and that's what I look for in horror.
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Turada posted:Insidious has got so much hate in this thread, but it really did its job as a horror movie for me, it was terrifying I am not sure if there is that much hate though. I thought it was a great movie, up until the last 30 minutes or so.
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Le0 posted:So what Found footage movie would you guys recommend watching? I liked Lake Mungo , its about a teenage girl who died, and now things are happening. I really can't say much more as it would ruin the story. I thought it was really well done, you could probably convice someone its real. I'm pretty fearless when it comes to horror movies, but this one creeped me out when I turned off the lights. Its not really a "found footage" movie, its more like a fake documentary, still good viewing.
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I watched Stakeland last night. I had actually sorta seen it a while back but I was so distracted by a conversation I missed most of it. I loved it- it was like The Road with vampires, as had been mentioned, but really drat sad and with some nasty lookin' creatures. And Mister is a badass.
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Can anyone recommend some good 'environmental horror' for me, where the setting is also the antagonist? Something like Frozen, but good. Open Water would be another example (I kinda liked Open Water).
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flashy_mcflash posted:Can anyone recommend some good 'environmental horror' for me, where the setting is also the antagonist? Something like Frozen, but good. Open Water would be another example (I kinda liked Open Water). The Last Winter Right At Your Door May not fit your defintion precisely but they're decent horror movies that rely on the setting/environment as an antagonist.
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First review for Final Destination 5 http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/reviewsnews.php?id=20442 Dread Central reviews Final Destination 5 http://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/final-destination-5-2011 Dread Central posted:However, Final Destination 5 has done something remarkable with the fifth installment of the highly popular series as writer Eric Heisserer and director Steven Quale decided to raise the bar for other horror sequels out there. Not only do they deliver the destruction and death we all long for in the Final Destination films, but they also manage to create an incredibly unique script that fabricates some new twists into the franchise's mythology and gives audiences a reason to care about the characters again. Slasherfan fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Aug 10, 2011 |
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justlikedunkirk posted:The Last Winter Oh, RAYD has been on my list for a while. That's the one about the contagion right? Any others would be great.
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Bloody Disgusting have a Final Destination 5 review up also. http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/review/4519 Bloody Disgusting posted:When a franchise enters its (rare) fifth incarnation, most studios will pound the calculator, check the numbers, and half-rear end out sequel after sequel until the opening weekend box office numbers fail to meet their expectations. The sole plan is to "milk" the fan out of as much money as they possibly can, which is what The Final Destination felt like back in '09. Simply put, it was garbage. It became a self-referencing, meta-machine bloated with cheesy kills as a device to move the movie from scene to scene. Slasherfan fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Aug 10, 2011 |
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flashy_mcflash posted:Oh, RAYD has been on my list for a while. That's the one about the contagion right? RAYD is about a dirty bomb detonating in LA and a man holed up in his house hoping his wife will come home. Even slower paced than movies like Carriers and Stakeland, but I seem to recall it was good, if not sad. Speaking of contagions, Contagion is coming out this fall and sounds awesome. Great cast, although I really dislike Gwyneth Paltrow. at least she dies in the trailer
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Whispering Machines posted:I watched Stakeland last night. I had actually sorta seen it a while back but I was so distracted by a conversation I missed most of it. I loved it- it was like The Road with vampires, as had been mentioned, but really drat sad and with some nasty lookin' creatures. And Mister is a badass. I'm glad you brought this back up. I watched it the same day it was mentioned, but by the time I got back here, the thread had moved on. My girlfriend and I really, really liked it! We watched The Road a few months back and both flat out hated it, so we both came into Stake Land hoping it would make up for The Road. And, boy, did it. I think the effects were really good for the budget, the acting was solid (overlooking a few hiccups), and it did a good job of selling the whole end of the world thing. My only "complaint" would have to be the main Brotherhood guy, Jebedia, suddenly reappearing as the end to get even with Mister. It just seemed like the writers were a little desperate for a "final conflict" of sorts.
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Slasherfan posted:First review for Final Destination 5
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But the second Final Destination was the best! It happens at times with films where the first one isn't too good. ie. Harry Potter. Also, I think You Only Live Twice is better than Dr. No. But yes, it's rare, especially with horror, where the 5th sequel is normally either DTV (Lep in the Hood) or incredibly goofy (Friday the 13th) or horrible (Halloween 5).
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How 'bout that World War Z news?:slashfilm posted:Reading the book, it’s pretty easy to assume that a movie adaptation wouldn’t be a to-the-letter adaptation. There really aren’t any characters to latch onto and it’s mostly vignettes. Paramount has now confirmed that assumption with their official plot description of the currently shooting movie starring Brad Pitt and directed by Marc Forster. World War Z, the movie, takes place as the zombie outbreak is happening with a U.N. employee racing to stop it. http://www.slashfilm.com/world-war-...m+%28%2FFilm%29 More disappointed than I thought I would be.
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SpeedofLife posted:How 'bout that World War Z news?: Hold on, I thought the leaked script got massive amounts of positive feedback? - edit http://www.quietearth.us/articles/2008/09/05/Post-apocalyptic-script-review-WORLD-WAR-Z http://www.aintitcool.com/node/36168
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XIII posted:I'm glad you brought this back up. I watched it the same day it was mentioned, but by the time I got back here, the thread had moved on. My girlfriend and I really, really liked it! We watched The Road a few months back and both flat out hated it, so we both came into Stake Land hoping it would make up for The Road. And, boy, did it. I think the effects were really good for the budget, the acting was solid (overlooking a few hiccups), and it did a good job of selling the whole end of the world thing. I wasn't a fan of Jebedia coming back but I liked how the scene suggested that the virus was actually evolving and making people smarter/faster instead of turning people into dumb wild beasts. The sequence afterward with the waitress was a counterweight to the bleak climax (especially her line about the vampires dying from hunger) but it definitely made the ending feel like they still had a long way to go before getting any kind of closure.
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Xenomrph posted:How often has it happened that the FIFTH movie in a series is on-par with the first one? Fast Five? Saw VI came close in some ways, but it's also not the 5th one in the series.
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Hedenius posted:Hellraiser.
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SpeedofLife posted:How 'bout that World War Z news?: I'm not. I found WWZ unreadable for the reason they described. It would have made a terrible movie if literally adapted.
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justlikedunkirk posted:I wasn't a fan of Jebedia coming back but I liked how the scene suggested that the virus was actually evolving and making people smarter/faster instead of turning people into dumb wild beasts. The sequence afterward with the waitress was a counterweight to the bleak climax (especially her line about the vampires dying from hunger) but it definitely made the ending feel like they still had a long way to go before getting any kind of closure. Strong point. I hadn't thought about the idea of the vampires evolving. I'd gladly watch a sequel.
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Scissorfighter posted:I'm not. I found WWZ unreadable for the reason they described. It would have made a terrible movie if literally adapted. I thought it worked as a book, but yeah, that kind of episodic structure just wouldn't work as a movie. Maybe a TV miniseries.
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Xenomrph posted:Which one was the 5th one? There were a couple of the direct-to-video Hellraiser ones I actually really liked, but I can't recall which the 5th one was. I really liked the one that was basically a Jacob's Ladder ripoff, where Pinhead has this big awesome monologue at the end. 5 was the one with the cop, 6 was with the guy off Oz. They were both basically the same movie, but 6 had the girl from 1 and 2 in it. 5 was a little more Jacob's Ladderish, but barely. Neither is better than 1 or 2, though.
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Darko posted:Neither is better than 1 or 2, though. I thought 5 was pretty drat close in terms of objective quality. As a movie, it was really loving good. As a Hellraiser movie... eh, not sure. Didn't really carry over a lot from the others.
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Darko posted:5 was the one with the cop, 6 was with the guy off Oz. They were both basically the same movie, but 6 had the girl from 1 and 2 in it. 5 was a little more Jacob's Ladderish, but barely. I didn't mind the one with Kari Wuhrer, either. Hellraiser is really surprising for being a series with a bunch of direct-to-video sequels that aren't complete garbage. I don't even like #2 that much, to be honest. #1 is great (although I prefer the novella).
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Slasherfan posted:When I saw Stakeland I thought it was The Road meets Zombieland with Vampires. Yeah, definitely got the Zombieland thing going on. I loved the actors in The Road (Pearce, Mortensen, Theron etc) but thought the movie was blah compared to the book, which I've read at least half a dozen times. The Road is just super depressing because even though the little boy gets picked up by a family after his father dies they're all completely hosed no matter what because there's no food, the air is polluted and nothing can grow in the forseeable future. At least with Zombieland and Stakeland there was a chance for survival. Speaking of Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian is being made into a movie. While the book was not horror, I seem to recall that there was some serious, Serbian Film- level hosed up stuff lots and lots of dead babies and rape and terribleness
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Who else is pumped as hell for Gutterballs 2? Gutterballs is required watching for 80s slasher fans and Trailer Park Boys fans. Just make sure you get the original version with the best of Canadian 70s rock and not the re-release with still pretty awesome 80s style synthesizer music
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Hector Delgado posted:I liked Lake Mungo , its about a teenage girl who died, and now things are happening. I really can't say much more as it would ruin the story. I thought it was really well done, you could probably convice someone its real. I'm pretty fearless when it comes to horror movies, but this one creeped me out when I turned off the lights. I really enjoyed this film. Though, I can see people not liking it if they don't like found footage type films a lot of "look in the background till you see the face/something move" and other things that typically people turned off of the genre dislike. But it is really clever in a lot of ways and for a found footage film there are very few jump scenes..expect for a very memorable one.. I have a strange fetish for these types of movie because they scare me intensely. I don't really know why, I have enjoyed far more "frightening" films but these are pretty much guaranteed to get me. I think I was scarred as a young teen at the Mexican Birthday scene in Signs. Seems silly now, but drat that poo poo had a profound effect on my life.
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RevBabyKiller posted:Who else is pumped as hell for Gutterballs 2? Gutterballs is required watching for 80s slasher fans and Trailer Park Boys fans. Just make sure you get the original version with the best of Canadian 70s rock and not the re-release with still pretty awesome 80s style synthesizer music Gutterballs belongs in the Gutter, utter crap.
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Slasherfan posted:Gutterballs belongs in the Gutter, utter crap. Wasn't Gutterballs the "dream sequence" movie-within-a-movie in The Big Lebowski? Where the Dude and Maude had the big Busby Berkeley style dance number where she was wearing the Valkyrie getup?
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Le0 posted:So what Found footage movie would you guys recommend watching? Oh yeah, just thought of one more Found footage/fake docu movie that I liked. It is called Megan is Missing. This is an odd one, its almost like 2 films combined. The first hour or so is about two teenage girls, best friends, who fart around on the internet and such. Its like a "chick flick" a bit, showing them at school, hanging out, girl stuff. Then one of the girls goes missing, and the other looks into it, making video logs and diaries. Then the last 25 minutes or so kick in, and oh boy does the mood of this film change. It goes from  to  pretty quick and doesn't let up. Its worth a view I believe.
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