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flashy_mcflash posted:"But there's a darkness settling over Marty's life.The kids at school won't stop picking on him, his family life lacks any sort of structure, and his estranged older brother collects severed heads in his bedroom closet." One of these is not like the others.
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Mini-anthologies really need to become a thing. Trick 'r Treat is a god drat masterpiece. (So are Creepshow 1 and 2). Devil would have been a good movie if it was 15-20 minutes long. World War Z would have been amazeballs if it was an anthology like the book. -------- Unrelated, my Halloween series viewing has reached it's finale, and I've finally made it to Halloween Resurrection (I started with Rob Zombie 1 and 2, and Carpenter 1, all of which I'd seen before. The other seven are all new to me this year). I like how there are 5 okay/good movies, in the series (RZ1/2, original 1,2,H20) and the 5 shockingly bad ones are all painfully grating and stupid. And you can instantly tell if it's a bad one if it looks like a VHS recorded made-for-TV movie. Halloween 3 may have an excuse for looking like garbage, given that it was 1982 and made for pennies, but in 2002 with a big budget, Resurrection should definitely not have that cheap rear end TV look to it. I can't wait for Busta Rhymes to show up. This is going to be loving terrible. e: OMG so many corny sound effects. e2: if you're gonna do jump scares, don't play the sting music, then the actor reacts, THEN we see the jump scare thing. It's 1-2-3, not 2-3-1. The Anime Liker fucked around with this message at 09:14 on Oct 24, 2013 |
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Oct 24, 2013 08:40
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:World War Z would have been amazeballs if it was an anthology like the book. I guess if it was based on a completely different book.
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Oct 24, 2013 08:51
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Dissapointed Owl posted:I guess if it was based on a completely different book. Zing! I still haven't seen it, but I assume it was something like the South Park episode. I definitely only made it halfway through the book. On another note I saw Atrocious recommended earlier in the thread and noticed it was on Netflix. That got pretty intense, I loved it. Reminded me a bit of [rec], which was the only other fully found footage type movie I ever watched. The similarity being me wanting to turn it off for the first 20 minutes, then start getting interested and not really minding the shaky camera style. Then finally a crazy last bit that somehow manages to really get my adrenaline/fear gland pumping. Is that sort of par for the course? I tried watching Paranormal activity and turned it off after about a half hour and am now questioning that decision.
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Oct 24, 2013 09:49
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Paranormal Activity is a great movie if you wanna see a ouija board catch fire and a girl make a dumb face at a camera, padded out with 90 minutes of an annoying couple being boring. Audiences were thrilled when BroDouche McJagerbombs said "babe" a lot as his girlfriend brushed her teeth in real time. I honestly can't think of a movie worse than Paranormal Activity, and I've seen two Misty Mundae softcore porns and one of those Steve Odekirk thumb movies. The Anime Liker fucked around with this message at 10:00 on Oct 24, 2013 |
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Oct 24, 2013 09:57
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Nimrod's Son posted:Zing! I still haven't seen it, but I assume it was something like the South Park episode. I definitely only made it halfway through the book. Both are from Spain too! I loved Rec, though I also think found footage is nicer in your native language so you can really pay attention to everything and actually hear all that's said instead of reading a simplified version of it. V/H/S is an excellent found footage film; the anthology format allows it to do without much exposition, if you'd prefer something with a quicker pace. I watched the sequel pretty drunk but I liked it too, just not as much (judging by reviews, people preferred 2). It's a while since I've seen it, but I actually felt like Paranormal Activity moved faster than Atrocious, in terms of when things actually started to happen. (I liked both though)
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Oct 24, 2013 10:18
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EvilTobaccoExec posted:I don't remember the scene for certain but that must have been Child's Play 3 since it took place at a military academy and the final act had Chucky sabotaging the war games with live rounds. The heart attack thing was the third movie. Second one had Chucky killing the teacher with a bicycle pump, which is really right up there with the Leprechaun pogo stick in sheer "What the gently caress".
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Oct 24, 2013 10:33
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DeathChicken posted:The heart attack thing was the third movie. Second one had Chucky killing the teacher with a bicycle pump, which is really right up there with the Leprechaun pogo stick in sheer "What the gently caress". He didn't kill her with a bicycle pump, he killed her with a ruler.
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Oct 24, 2013 10:54
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Alright, now where did the bicycle pump come from? Because I'm pretty sure that was a thing.
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Oct 24, 2013 11:30
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DeathChicken posted:Alright, now where did the bicycle pump come from? Because I'm pretty sure that was a thing. He stabs her with it at first but kills her with a ruler.
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Oct 24, 2013 11:39
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Slasherfan posted:He stabs her with it at first but kills her with a ruler. That makes... more sense?
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Oct 24, 2013 12:17
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Dissapointed Owl posted:That makes... more sense? You can watch the scene on YouTube http://youtu.be/tNYW8hyN3G0
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Oct 24, 2013 12:39
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I wonder if I'm the only horror fan who can't (or doesn't want to?) find the humor in the Chucky movies.
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Oct 24, 2013 13:59
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weekly font posted:I wonder if I'm the only horror fan who can't (or doesn't want to?) find the humor in the Chucky movies. I'm with you. Actually, I get the humour, but I just don't find those movies all that fun. I can enjoy individual scenes on youtube or whatnot, but I've never had the urge to rewatch any of them (I've seen 1,2, and Bride). Also Chucky's run in WCW was downright embarrassing.
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Oct 24, 2013 14:11
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weekly font posted:I wonder if I'm the only horror fan who can't (or doesn't want to?) find the humor in the Chucky movies. Not even Bride? The first one wasn't really supposed to be that humorous, but the second and third were purposefully bright and cheerful in presentation, and the 4th is straight up horror-comedy. The 5th tries a lot of reference humor.
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Oct 24, 2013 14:12
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I enjoy the first and the finale of the second but I think those are the roses in a poo poo pile.
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Oct 24, 2013 14:13
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weekly font posted:I enjoy the first and the finale of the second but I think those are the roses in a poo poo pile. There are some really gruesome/awesome effects in that scene. Everyone really needs to watch that behind-the-scenes footage about filming the original - it's on YouTube but I'm on my phone at the moment. The best part is definitely watching the rehearsal footage with Catherine Hicks and Brad Dourif acting out various scenes.
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Oct 24, 2013 14:31
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Child's Play and Child's Play 2 terrified me as a kid, so its fun to watch them now because its the perfect mix of horror-comedy. The 9-year old inside me still kind of gets scared but at the same time the movies are hilarious. Best of both worlds. But I can see how they could be a miss for you if you didn't experience them at all as a kid.
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This is still pretty funny.
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The first three Child's Plays are decent fun-bad movies, but Bride Of Chucky kinda came out of nowhere by being a legitimately good movie.
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Oct 24, 2013 16:33
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Yeah I'll agree Bride was my favourite of the three. I'm just a little burned out on horror-comedy I guess.
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Oct 24, 2013 17:19
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:Mini-anthologies really need to become a thing. Trick 'r Treat is a god drat masterpiece. (So are Creepshow 1 and 2). They used to be a thing. If you haven't already, make sure you check out the Amicus anthologies like Asylum, Tales From The Crypt, Vault of Horror, and The House That Dripped Blood. THIS POST APPROVED BY PETER CUSHING:  Oh and because it wouldn't be right for me to NOT recommend Italian horror when at all possible, Mario Bava's Black Sabbath should be considered as well. Not technically an anthology proper, but some of the Masters of Horror episodes are great too. I thought Cigarette Burns was one of Carpenter's best films in a looooong time (helped along brilliantly by Udo Kier). Finally, don't forget that Romero and Argento made a short film double feature called Two Evil Eyes. It's alright, the Amicus anthologies proper are all way better.
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Oct 24, 2013 17:56
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Man, has anyone read Peggy Webling's manuscript for Frankenstein: An Adventure in the Macabre? It's the play that directly inspired the film, and in this essay it's refereed to as an exception to the simple monster-as-villain takes that a lot previous adaptations had. At the same time, the original script for the Frankenstein film before Whale came on was supposed to have the monster as just an unrepentant murderer with the abnormal brain thing originating in that script and sort of existing as a weird and unnecessary bit in the film we know. I'm curious from the essay's comments though if the original film script deviated from Webling's play, or if she wrote the monster as murderous as well. I can't for the life of me find a copy of the play even though this essay and other sources I've read make references to having read it.
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Oct 24, 2013 18:40
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Black Sabbath can't get enough recommendations. Still one of my favorite Bava films.
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Oct 24, 2013 19:54
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I've said this before, but the Paranormal Activity series gets a bad rap in this thread. Go watch them in theaters on opening night in a packed house, and I can't imagine how you could have a completely awful time, even if you are laughing at the film itself and the reactions in the audience. They all have at least a couple of interesting gimmicks / jump scares, and they all at least try to touch on some some themes of family. I rewatched 4 last night, and even though the spooky demon trappings were pretty lame in this one, the leading couple was pretty charming and as a whole its light years better than other films that pass as watchable in this sub-genre. On a completely unrelated note: as someone who hasn't seen it in about a decade, how does It hold up after all these years? I'm getting together with some friends tomorrow who (for whatever reason) want to watch a couple of King adaptations other than The Shining. DePalma's Carrie will be one of them, but I need a second.
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saulwright posted:On a completely unrelated note: as someone who hasn't seen it in about a decade, how does It hold up after all these years? I'm getting together with some friends tomorrow who (for whatever reason) want to watch a couple of King adaptations other than The Shining. DePalma's Carrie will be one of them, but I need a second. Not well. Tim Curry is good, but that's about it. I'd go with The Dead Zone, Misery or Creepshow. Or, for a dark horse pick, The Night Flier.
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Oct 24, 2013 19:59
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:Mini-anthologies really need to become a thing. Trick 'r Treat is a god drat masterpiece. (So are Creepshow 1 and 2). Trick`r Treat is mediocre 
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Oct 24, 2013 20:01
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:Not well. Tim Curry is good, but that's about it. Yea I agree about IT, if you're having friends over Creepshow is perfect. Creepshow 2 is actually especially good for King fans because it has two stories that are direct adaptations of his stuff.
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Alhazred posted:Trick`r Treat is mediocre Trick r Treat is kind of hard to judge if you enjoy anthology horror because if you want to watch something made in the past 15 years that's about it, plus its Halloween themed so it fits with the holiday perfectly. That said though I really don't agree that its mediocre. It benefits from multiple viewings since you understand everything that's happening from the beginning instead of constantly trying to put the pieces together in your head. The costumes are great, samhain and the undead kids from the school bus are really cool looking and also scary. Its got some pretty solid characters too, my favorite is the girl who the other kids try to play a trick on. Edit: Yea I did forget about the VHS movies. I'm not the biggest fan of those. Basebf555 fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Oct 24, 2013 |
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Go ultra dark horse and watch the crappy adaptation of "Sometimes They Come Back" with Tim Matheson, like I did last night. Are you anthology-wanting people forgetting about V/H/S and V/H/S 2?
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Basebf555 posted:Yea I agree about IT, if you're having friends over Creepshow is perfect. Creepshow 2 is actually especially good for King fans because it has two stories that are direct adaptations of his stuff. Creepshow 2 kind of stinks but I forgot how fuckin' gruesome The Hitchhiker is.
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Oct 24, 2013 20:16
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Cat's Eye is also all King stuff, if you want King stories. Can't remember the quality of each of those, although the Troll looks great.
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Oct 24, 2013 20:36
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Darko posted:Cat's Eye is also all King stuff, if you want King stories. Can't remember the quality of each of those, although the Troll looks great. Quitters Inc and The Ledge are quite good, the one with the troll blows.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Creepshow 2 kind of stinks but I forgot how fuckin' gruesome The Hitchhiker is. I always defend Creepshow 2, probably because of the six stories that make up the two movies The Raft is my favorite. I just recently read the short story though and I now wonder why they changed the guy actually convincing the girl to have sex with him right before she gets eaten. In the movie he starts copping a feel while she's still asleep. I also think its got the best ending of any of the Creepshow stories.
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Oct 24, 2013 21:19
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flashy_mcflash posted:Also Chucky's run in WCW was downright embarrassing. You say that like nothing else in WCW was embarrassing.  a slim spar posted:Silent House - Liked it a lot. I didn't even know there was another Olsen sister, but Elizabeth Olsen was really loving good in this, particularly because she didn't have the benefit of just immediately redoing the take if something went wrong. (For anyone who doesn't know the movie, it's a remake of an Uruguayan film and both of them are shot so as to seem like a single take, though they're actually composed of 12-15 minute takes.) I'd have to see the Uruguayan original to see if it's structured differently, but I felt this movie telegraphed its surprises WAY too early and far too bluntly. It was a cromulent piece of film, but by the time she's hiding under the table and the little girl hops off above her with the camera flashes, you already know exactly where it's going, and long before the protagonist does. That said, it's very well put together for how low budget it was. More indie horror needs to take advantage of offscreen sound as an effective tool for suspense.
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sticklefifer posted:I'd have to see the Uruguayan original to see if it's structured differently, but I felt this movie telegraphed its surprises WAY too early and far too bluntly. It was a cromulent piece of film, but by the time she's hiding under the table and the little girl hops off above her with the camera flashes, you already know exactly where it's going, and long before the protagonist does. I've only seen the original, but pretty much everything bad I've heard about the remake applies to it too.
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Oct 24, 2013 22:57
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Hey y'all, I'm considering picking up either the Grindhouse Double Feature or the Death Proof Extended Cut. I thought Planet Terror was ok, but my friends might be interested seeing the whole thing as originally presented. I am mostly buying it for Death Proof, but is the extended cut worth it? What do you guys recommend?
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Oct 24, 2013 23:45
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Quitters Inc and The Ledge are quite good, the one with the troll blows. Oh man, if I'd realized Cat's Eye had films of Quitters, Inc and The Ledge, I'd have seen it years ago. Those are two of my favorite King stories.
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Both are good, but personally I think the Death Proof Extended Cut is a way better movie than the Death Proof Grindhouse Cut.
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:Both are good, but personally I think the Death Proof Extended Cut is a way better movie than the Death Proof Grindhouse Cut. I pretty much agree with this. There's a few things that probably should have stayed cut, but there's at least one long scene that was put back in that adds way more to the movie than anything else takes away. Though the double feature has the bonus of having all the fake trailers put back in.
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