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So I just came across an IMDB for David Cronenberg's son Brandon. His first feature film is out and called "Antiviral." Anyone know if it's any good? Edit: Just had time to find a trailer. Definitely Cronenberg's kid. MacheteZombie fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Feb 12, 2013 |
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From what I've read about it, yeah. Rue Morgue did a write-up about the film a few issues back that was pretty positive.
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Feb 12, 2013 19:17
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Harry Knowles was all gushy about it as well. http://www.aintitcool.com/node/58611
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Feb 12, 2013 21:04
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schwenz posted:Harry Knowles was all gushy about it as well. quote:The mental orgasm was so strong from this film, that my neural clit was too sensitive and needed cool down time. Hmmm... are you sure this is a Harry Knowles review?
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Feb 12, 2013 21:21
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Wilhelm Scream posted:Rue Morgue did a write-up about the film a few issues back that was pretty positive. To be fair, I believe that you can actually be banished from Toronto for disparaging a Cronenberg film (and I would imagine this counts) so they may not be the most neutral source. I once suggested that Rabid wasn't perfectly paced and I was banned from Pizza Pizza for a month for example.
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Feb 12, 2013 21:23
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foodfight posted:Hmmm... are you sure this is a Harry Knowles review? Harry Knowles wasn't bullied enough.
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Feb 12, 2013 21:39
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MacheteZombie posted:So I just came across an IMDB for David Cronenberg's son Brandon. His first feature film is out and called "Antiviral." Anyone know if it's any good? Saw it last year and it's pretty great. It's very much a slow burn and less Tetsuo than the trailer would make it seem but it does the celebrity/disease thing pretty well and Caleb Landry Jones is great at being skeezy.
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Feb 12, 2013 21:44
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Waterhaul posted:Saw it last year and it's pretty great. Sweet, your description is exactly what I wanted to hear about the film. Edit: Also, since I brought up Cronenberg, I watched Shivers for the first time last week. That was a great little movie, and I enjoyed it way more then I thought I would. MacheteZombie fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Feb 12, 2013 |
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Feb 12, 2013 22:14
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MacheteZombie posted:So I just came across an IMDB for David Cronenberg's son Brandon. His first feature film is out and called "Antiviral." Anyone know if it's any good? I am a big fan of Cronenberg classic (particularly his early stuff) and I also really dug Antiviral. It's very.. Cronenberg-y (body horror, go!) and yet quite modern in its look at celebrity.
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Feb 12, 2013 22:24
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So is anyone as excited about Dark Skies as I am? The trailers have me enthused about the possibility of an alien abduction film which is actually scary. Some of the images have been sticking in my mind like when then chick walks into the living room and the alien is standing in there. Also it is being produced by the PA and Insidious people and those are probably the only horror movies that have sent chills down my spine recently.
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Feb 13, 2013 01:36
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sursumdeorsum posted:So is anyone as excited about Dark Skies as I am? The trailers have me enthused about the possibility of an alien abduction film which is actually scary. Some of the images have been sticking in my mind like when then chick walks into the living room and the alien is standing in there. Also it is being produced by the PA and Insidious people and those are probably the only horror movies that have sent chills down my spine recently. I've seen several trailers for it, and it looks laughably bad. I am almost positive it'll be a massive box office bomb.
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Feb 13, 2013 01:41
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It's going to be an Insidious-style hit.
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Feb 13, 2013 01:46
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:It's going to be Insidious-style poo poo. Disclaimer: I really enjoyed insidious
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Feb 13, 2013 01:48
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I love Insidious. Dark Skies won't be hosed up and edgy like The Fourth Kind, it will be a goofy, PG-13 family horror movie.
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Feb 13, 2013 01:50
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Clean slate time: I don't even know what Dark Skies is.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Clean slate time: I don't even know what Dark Skies is. It's the exact opposite of Insidious. Whereas Insidious had really great visuals, scares and unique twists, Dark Skies is an alien abduction movie featuring aliens that give kids SCARY GHOST FACES WITH MISSING EYEBALLS! BOO! It also has birds committing suicide en masse.
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Feb 13, 2013 02:00
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Kerri Russell repeatedly walking into a sliding glass door ala a Dawn-of-the-Dead zombie looks pretty great, as does the dad standing in the yard looking up with his mouth open.
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Feb 13, 2013 02:24
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Is there going to be a sequel to Insidious? Preferably with the dude rampaging while possessed by the scary old lady while the paranormal investigator nerds seek him/her out for VENGEANCE! And they call in THE ROCK to consult.
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Feb 13, 2013 02:24
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Navy Seal Team Six is sent into the otherworld to kill Bin Laden's ghost before he can possess some other little kid and pull off 9/11 2. Patrick Wilson is their guide because he's been there before, but unbeknownst to them, he's still possessed by that old woman. Directed by Peter Berg.
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Feb 13, 2013 02:43
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Hope everyone has their copy of My Bloody Valentine and its' remake ready to go for the holiday. Buy beer too.
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priznat posted:Is there going to be a sequel to Insidious? Preferably with the dude rampaging while possessed by the scary old lady while the paranormal investigator nerds seek him/her out for VENGEANCE! Insidious: Chapter 2 is supposed to come out in August/September. Edit: And Wan has some film about a ghost-witch called The Conjuring that's supposed to be very good: it's getting insanely high scores from preview audiences (90s-100s, where most films get 70s or lower) and studios want to position it in June opposite blockbusters. timeandtide fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Feb 13, 2013 |
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Feb 13, 2013 04:08
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I love Insidious. Dark Skies won't be hosed up and edgy like The Fourth Kind, it will be a goofy, PG-13 family horror movie. I've been keeping it to myself, but I love the Fourth Kind
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All of you dudes praising Sleepaway Camp 2 are insane. That movie sucks poo poo. It's boring. Really boring. The kills are uninteresting, and Pamela Springsteen seems weighed down on Quaaludes throughout the entire thing. The transphobia isn't even used for shock value like the first one, it's just there. And for the last straw, it has flashbacks to things that happened earlier in the movie, and I hate that poo poo. This dumbass slasher barely stretches to an hour and half, I don't need it to jog my memory as to what happened thirty minutes ago. I remember, and it was lovely then, too. I like lovely slashers, as long as they're fun, but this one barely has any camp value. WatermelonGun fucked around with this message at 04:19 on Feb 13, 2013 |
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Feb 13, 2013 04:15
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I love Insidious. Dark Skies won't be hosed up and edgy like The Fourth Kind, it will be a goofy, PG-13 family horror movie. I actually really liked The Fourth Kind. There was lot of layering to it, and I can't help but think that the "fourth kind/fourth wall" aspect was purposefully chosen. It's interesting to have half the cast say "Hello, I am a well recognized actor/actress, and I am doing a dramatic reenactment. This part is fake, but the other part is true". The way it's constructed seems to be very well designed to build an extra layer of suspension of disbelief up, to the point that at the end of the movie a very good friend of mine, who is very rational, was so taken in she asked me "so do you think it really happened?" Which is a crazy reaction, all things considered. Good movie.
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Feb 13, 2013 05:20
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It took me a while but I love The Fourth Kind.
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The Fourth Kind truly frightened me. Twice. That doesn't happen a lot. Yeah, I like it.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:The Fourth Kind truly frightened me. Twice. That doesn't happen a lot. The scene with the UFO showing up over the house on the dashcam scared the poo poo out of me in the theater. And of course, the hypnosis scene at the end was creepy as hell, too.
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Feb 13, 2013 09:12
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Was The Fourth Kind the one with Milla Jovovich that was presented as real events in its promotional material? If so, I barely remember anything that happened in that movie.
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Feb 13, 2013 09:20
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Was The Fourth Kind the one with Milla Jovovich that was presented as real events in its promotional material? If so, I barely remember anything that happened in that movie. Yeah. Go to YouTube sometime and type in "The Fourth Kind" or "Dr. Abigail Tyler" and gaze in disbelief at the countless rubes who are convinced the movie contains legitimate footage. Nevermind that those people in the "real footage" are actors who have done other films/commercials/tv shows before. Conspiracy idiots on YouTube will truly believe anything.
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It's pretty funny that people will be absolutely convinced that fake footage to promote a movie is completely real, and then claim that everybody doing interviews about Sandy Hook is an actor for the government.
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I love how all the 2012 doomsday accounts on there have vanished into the woodwork over the last two months, right after they were bombarded with millions of comments laughing at them on the morning of December 22nd. But yeah, The Fourth Kind wasn't a great movie by any stretch of the imagination, but it was significantly better than a lot of the paint-by-numbers horror movies that were released that year.
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Cinnamon Bastard posted:The way it's constructed seems to be very well designed to build an extra layer of suspension of disbelief up, to the point that at the end of the movie a very good friend of mine, who is very rational, was so taken in she asked me "so do you think it really happened?" When it came out everyone was trashing it and I had written it off before really looking in to it. But I was waiting in line at a grocery store and I overheard people talking about it and they were treating it as a documentary. They weren't even questioning it, that poo poo was REAL. I hadn't heard that kind of poo poo since Blair Witch, and it intrigued me so I went to see it, and just completely fell in love with it. I love the way they use the countdown to hypnosis to build tension. It really worked for me. I probably don't have to spoiler this but The use of the owl is also so effective. I can't remember another horror movie that used this trick, but by having the victims remember the owl, (which you know isn't an owl) lets your imagination just run wild with what the aliens could look like. They're seeing this harmless bird but your mind is screaming at them "IT's NOT AN OWL. GET OUT OF THERE!" I still get chills when the one victim says "Oh God, it's in the Room!"
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WatermelonGun posted:All of you dudes praising Sleepaway Camp 2 are insane. That movie sucks poo poo. No accounting for taste I guess, I love that movie. It is entirely ridiculous and knows it, it references other films, and it is full of gratuitous 80s boobies. If being a fan of silliness and zealous amounts of boobs makes me insane, lock me up.
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InfiniteZero posted:No accounting for taste I guess, I love that movie. It is entirely ridiculous and knows it, it references other films, and it is full of gratuitous 80s boobies. If being a fan of silliness and zealous amounts of boobs makes me insane, lock me up. In full agreement with this. Sleepaway Camp 2 to me was the Cabin in the Woods of its time. You have the killer explicitly identify moral decays at the camp and committing over the top kills with over the top puns. The entire movie is a tongue in check love story to horror movies while poking fun at them at the same time. But, different strokes for different folks.
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Gonz posted:I love how all the 2012 doomsday accounts on there have vanished into the woodwork over the last two months, right after they were bombarded with millions of comments laughing at them on the morning of December 22nd. Weren't most of these people around for the non-event that was Y2K? People were predicting world chaos and not a drat thing happened. I turned 17 a few months before Y2K and remember the amount of paranoia in the media but especially amongst doom-and-gloom conspiracy types online. You'd think after Y2K was such a "disappointment" that these people would move on from "end of the world" scenarios. Are conspiracy theorists largely religious types? Many of them seem like either ultra conservative Christians or lefty New Age Wiccan types. I guess if you can blindly buy into religion, blindly buying into conspiracies that are clearly bullshit doesn't take a whole lot of effort.
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I finally finished VHS after putting it on the shelf for a week. I initially got through the first vignette and it just didn't resonate with me. Something about it just seemed very mean. When I got back to it, the second vignette didn't do anything to help. I find I just don't appreciate mean spirited horror and the first half of the movie feels like nothing but. The last couple stories I found more interesting. The third (?)story in the woods with the camera glitch that killed people was inventive. I liked that a bit more. I found the final story was a neat tie together for everything else but overall the movie left me a bit cold. Has anyone seen the sequel? I read it's a bit of a shift in tone to more apocalyptic than what was hinted at in the first film. I'll check it out if anyone can recommend it.
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Levantine posted:I finally finished VHS after putting it on the shelf for a week. I initially got through the first vignette and it just didn't resonate with me. Something about it just seemed very mean. When I got back to it, the second vignette didn't do anything to help. I find I just don't appreciate mean spirited horror and the first half of the movie feels like nothing but. The last couple stories I found more interesting. The third (?)story in the woods with the camera glitch that killed people was inventive. I liked that a bit more. I found the final story was a neat tie together for everything else but overall the movie left me a bit cold. I've never heard anyone describe a horror film as "mean" in a negative context before. I personally thought the third vignette was the weakest/most uninteresting of the lot. I haven't heard much about the sequel but now I have something to watch with some buddies this weekend.
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worthless insect posted:I've never heard anyone describe a horror film as "mean" in a negative context before. I personally thought the third vignette was the weakest/most uninteresting of the lot. I haven't heard much about the sequel but now I have something to watch with some buddies this weekend. I mean it's happened like a dozen times in the last 20 pages of this thread so. The ugliest, most nihilistic of horror films don't tend to go over well here because they're both joyless and haven't much to say. There's only a very small subset of viewers who want something that really revels in suffering.
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This probably makes me a bad person, but the first segment of VHS was one of my favorites partly because it was so enjoyable to watch a bunch of insufferable sleazebag dudebros get brutalized. There's a part where they're running into the bathroom falling over each other while emitting high pitched screams that I found hilarious. It's one of the first in a new subgenre I've heard called brosploitation, and this reviewer, for one, enjoys it both because and in spite of it's stereotypical depiction and mistreatment of bros. I also really liked that the setup for the found footage style in this segment was HD camera glasses, which are plausible and it makes more sense that someone would keep wearing them, as opposed to a handheld camera somehow managing to keep filming everything. RightClickSaveAs fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Feb 14, 2013 |
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I also don't like "mean" films of any kind that don't treat characters with at least a little respect, even if they get killed off in terrible ways. It's a tough thing to describe what qualifies, more of a "I know it when I see it" kind of thing. Often it is because the motivations of characters don't make sense and the movie is just putting them through the wringer with no hope of salvation. Trying to think of a mean spirited horror movie right now, drawing a blank. I'm guessing most torture porn movies would fit the bill (I have avoided them)
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