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Pope Corky the IX posted:I still love the scene where Barbara interrupts all the arguing by shooting the one zombie over and over again while yelling at them "Is he dead? You're all seeing this, is he dead?!" In my long-practiced spiel about how, in many ways, the 1990 NotLD is better than the original, Patricia Tallman's acting plays a decent sized role. The fact that Barbara is an actual character with an arc and agency instead of a comatose remanent of the cold open is pretty big deal. Even if it's the most obvious arc, it's well done.
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I’ve seen the awesome Blind Dead zombies but haven’t gotten around to checking out the movies, will do.Uncle Boogeyman posted:Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane is actually not bad. Sounds like my flavor of schlock. This is the kind of stuff I want to hear about, what a title. I think I have to watch Rave to the Grave for similar reasons.
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Aug 17, 2023 19:42
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Barbara is an obvious improvement for sure. I mean I've generally grown to appreciate the role she has in the original over time but its nice for Savini to go the opposite route to counter the problematic nature of making the female lead a catatonic and hysterical albatross. I'd also say Savini's is... more nihilistic? Cynical? Its meaner and harsher than the original. Which is weird to say because the first film isn't happy or anything. But the remake definitely has a lot more edge and dim view of humanity if that's your thing. It makes the original almost seem hopeful about people's ability to come together in a crisis.
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Savini's NOTLD scared the crap out of me as a kid. I was 6 when it came out so I'm thinking probably 8 or 9 when I first saw it on television. Hadn't seen a whole lot of Savini-style gore up to that point and the movie was just much more intense than what I was used to seeing at that age. I guess when I think about it, it was probably my first ever zombie movie because I didn't see the original until I was in high school.
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WeaponX posted:I’ve seen the awesome Blind Dead zombies but haven’t gotten around to checking out the movies, will do. Rave to the Grave is actually Return of the Living Dead 5, filmed at the same time with the same cast as 4/Necropolis (but different characters/stories). They're bad but not unwatchable schlock.
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And just to get it out of the way : Tony god drat Todd is in the remake. TONY TODD HIS NAME IS ALMOST DEATH IN GERMAN
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There are few ways for me to more quickly lose interest than to see "filmed back-to-back/simultaneously"
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Hey, they filmed X and Pearl back-to-back and Pearl outclassed X entirely. Need to see Savini's NOTLD. I love the original very much, and I know Savini's has Romero's approval but remakes still tend to make my teeth itch on principle.
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Xiahou Dun posted:And just to get it out of the way : Tony god drat Todd is in the remake. Tony Death, Tony.
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It’s basically the same movie but Barbara is a character and it has Tom Savini effects instead of chocolate sauce. You won’t be disappointed. It’s Xiahou-Certified Good.
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The first Blind Dead has such an unpleasant and out of nowhere rape scene that it really soured me on the rest of it.
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Origami Dali posted:The first Blind Dead has such an unpleasant and out of nowhere rape scene that it really soured me on the rest of it. I don't really remember that but i do remember there being just overall awful people being sleazy around each other and some of the girls actively getting away from some creeps, into the hands of the blind dead. That might've been any of the first three tho lol. It's been years since i've seen them but liked the settings and slowmotion horse riding a lot.
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God drat I love Bruno Nicolai's giallo scores. The harpsichord and vibraphone are so cozy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK22X7TYIBg
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Also i fast forward thru rape scenes so thats probably why i dont remember them very much, i dont need that poo poo in my life
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Xiahou Dun posted:In my long-practiced spiel about how, in many ways, the 1990 NotLD is better than the original, Patricia Tallman's acting plays a decent sized role. The fact that Barbara is an actual character with an arc and agency instead of a comatose remanent of the cold open is pretty big deal. Even if it's the most obvious arc, it's well done. I thought I was the only person brave enough to have this opinion
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Nice!
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Hey, in the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory movie, do the kids who disappear from the tour ever reappear or is it ever explained what happened to them?
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Zwabu posted:Hey, in the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory movie, do the kids who disappear from the tour ever reappear or is it ever explained what happened to them? Willy Wonka off-handedly mentions to Charlie that they're fine towards the end of the movie. He's very trustworthy don't worry about it.
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Zwabu posted:Hey, in the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory movie, do the kids who disappear from the tour ever reappear or is it ever explained what happened to them? He murdered those loving kids.
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Let's be real, they were done in by their own bad vibes. Blame the parents, I say.
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Hollismason posted:He murdered those loving kids. Oompaty-DEE!
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The book and Burton movie are much more explicit about them still being alive but we all know that Gene Wilder’s version is a Jigsaw level psychopath.
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Sympathy for the Devil is definitely a unhinged Nic Cage performance.
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Is von Trier's Antichrist any fun to watch with an audience? My local independent is showing it this weekend and thinking of making a double bill of it with Legally Blonde.
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Most LVT movies arent fun to watch period. It is drat good though
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Carpet posted:Is von Trier's Antichrist any fun to watch with an audience? My local independent is showing it this weekend and thinking of making a double bill of it with Legally Blonde. I was at the world premiere here in Toronto and people were not loving ready for it at all, it was hilarious, but probably not the experience you'll have.
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I remember that it already had a reputation as being rough when I saw it so there was a bunch of archetypal metalhead horror nerd people in attendance. Some of them seemed to dig it. Others walked out along with the old people who probably didn't know what they were getting into. I'm assuming they thought it would be less weird sex stuff more splatter gore. Not as many walkouts as Trash Humpers (2009, d.p. Harmony Korine). That one emptied out more and more with each minute.
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Antichrist for a crowd would prolly make an interesting mix of nervous laughter and absolute disgust. Prolly kinda fun.
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When I watched Antichrist there was a moment that caught me so off-guard I started going "NO NO NO NO NO" and got up and ran out of the bedroom to catch my breath. My wife got pissed off because she heard me and for a second she thought I just found out somebody died or something.
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What a great movie
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Getting ready for date night with my partner. I light some candles to set the mood and we locks eyes as I slowly put Lars Von Trier's Anti Christ into the blu ray.
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A friend of mine actually did have a first date taking a girl to see Nymphomaniac, but he's a film buff so he knew what he was getting into and considered it a great sign that she was down.
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I think I've told this story before, but I'm two for two in getting dudes to watch Dear Zachary on first dates, so.
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Crescent Wrench posted:When I watched Antichrist there was a moment that caught me so off-guard I started going "NO NO NO NO NO" and got up and ran out of the bedroom to catch my breath. My wife got pissed off because she heard me and for a second she thought I just found out somebody died or something. I got about 30 second in yelling “No! No! No!” and then shut it off and never looked back. gently caress that guy.
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:I think I've told this story before, but I'm two for two in getting dudes to watch Dear Zachary on first dates, so. I convinced my entire family to watch it on Christmas morning one year. My sister was scream crying in the bathroom and my mom told me to give back my present. It was evil but it really is an experience I couldn't pass up.
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Me and a friend played Antichrist at a high school party lmfao. We didnt get far but it did it's job in weirding eeking everyone out. less evil but still evil, I made my whole family watch The Mist. My brother was scream crying at the end lmao
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Deep Blue Sea was an ideal first date movie, Lost Highway was not.
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Lumbermouth posted:After M_Sinistrari did all the Amityville movies, I don't make any quality assumptions about what this thread is willing to watch. I freely admit that watching the clunkers does make the good films seem even better. Jedit posted:Interesting news: Scottish indie horror outfit Hex Studios is reviving Amicus with plans to release one movie a year under the banner. The first new Amicus movie since 1977 will be a portmanteau movie called In The Grip of Terror and is using story material from the original studio archives. Production begins next month. I vaguely remember other times in the past where there was going to be a revival of Hammer/Tigon/Amicus, but something always happens and it ends up not panning out. I wish Hex well in possibly pulling this off.
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M_Sinistrari posted:I vaguely remember other times in the past where there was going to be a revival of Hammer/Tigon/Amicus, but something always happens and it ends up not panning out. I wish Hex well in possibly pulling this off. They've at least done movies that were released and worked with people you've heard of. Kids Vs Monsters, dire as it apparently is, starred Malcolm McDowell, Keith David and Lance Henriksen and had monster effects by Gillis and Woodruff. Apparently they've done shorts with Joseph Gordon Levitt and Channing Tatum, although that reads as being a little bit name-droppy for a small indie house in Fife that shoots locally on a typical budget of £200-400k. Still, I'm quietly confident that they'll produce something. Whether or not it will be good is another matter.
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Crescent Wrench posted:When I watched Antichrist there was a moment that caught me so off-guard I started going "NO NO NO NO NO" and got up and ran out of the bedroom to catch my breath. My wife got pissed off because she heard me and for a second she thought I just found out somebody died or something. 1. the talking fox 2. genital mutilation 3. dafoe smashing that bird who would not shut the hell up
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