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Some more Found footage/POV stuff; Man Bites Dog - Film crew follows a sociopath and eventually gets wrapped up in his vile life. Actually a black comedy/Horror The Last Horror Movie - A serial killer uses THIS TAPE to talk about himself and find new victims Zero Hour - A kind of Columbine remake thing. Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America - Insanity in a film. not scary in the traditional sense but definitely disturbing, a documentary about an alien race that rises from the ground. In Memoriam - A guy with cancer decides to document his last days and captures ghosts on film. Ghostwatch - A BBC produced mockumentry following a little girl supposedly possessed by a ghost named Pipes. None of these are strictly your normal Found Footage/Horror stuff, but they'e all pretty good in their own way. A lot of people complain about there being loads of these movies and the gimmick being played out, but in reality there's hardly any good ones. There used to be a thread with basically every found footage/mockumentry style movie listed but I guess its archived now. I love these kinds of movies but you're basically right, you've seen the best there is to offer already. There's another one I can't remember, Its basically a documentary about a slasher villain, the camera crew follows him around trying to set up a slasher movie and its all quite funny. I'm sure one of the supergoons here will know what I'm talking about. It had the crew interviewing "ex-slashers" and the guy preparing and so on.
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Final Destination 5 is still getting positive reviews, a little pissed it's not out here for another 2 weeks, I've been avoiding tv spots and clips so as not to see how people die. Going to be hard avoiding them for another 2 weeks, also I heard there are some twists along the way.
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:Some more Found footage/POV stuff;
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Slasherfan posted:Final Destination 5 is still getting positive reviews, a little pissed it's not out here for another 2 weeks, I've been avoiding tv spots and clips so as not to see how people die. Going to be hard avoiding them for another 2 weeks, also I heard there are some twists along the way. Don't read Ebert's review in that case. I usually don't care about spoilers, but right above his panning review, his header image is a dead character in an as-yet-unseen death scene. He definitely has a point in his review (his thesis is basically "This is pretty bad, but people line up for 3D gore") but that's kinda dickish.
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Aug 11, 2011 14:51
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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. Lake Mungo is probably the most subtle and disturbing treatment of this kind of material.
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In lighter news, webcartoonist Kris Straub just posted his spoiler-filled* review of Final Destination 5 right here! *no actual spoilers Spoiler-filled Review posted:Death 1: Tomas drops dead at the concert after drinking from a water bottle containing a gun.
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I had completely forgotten about Man Bites Dog. Cannibal Holocaust is kind of a Found footage, It uses the Story within a story as the initial set up is them showing the video to execs. I can't remember it's been a while. I really liked this one which came out before The Blair Witch project and shares a very similar story. Also, look at the budget. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Broadcast_%28film%29 900 bucks The video is also in its entirety on Google videos, it's actually decent. Not Amazing, but pretty drat good. edit: Oh I'd like to remember the documentary about the slasher villain as well, that was really good. I can't remember the name though. Hollismason fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Aug 11, 2011 |
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Aug 11, 2011 19:08
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Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, I believe. It was really good, and smart.
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Aug 11, 2011 19:25
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Has Incident At Lake County been mentioned yet? Thats an ace one too.
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Aug 11, 2011 19:30
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Hockles posted:Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, I believe. Yeah I remember it was really good, I thought they were going to do a sequel but aparently not. My favorite thing about the movie is just how non chalant he is. Yep, I figure Ill be a masked serial killer.
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Aug 11, 2011 19:34
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I just watched Yellowbrickroad, it was rubbish. I love movies where the ending makes me ask questions based on information already provided and what I had seen, and allows me to form my own opinion. This movie gave me no loving information, and had an ending that didn't even let me form a solid opinion of what had happened because it made no loving sense. If anyone has a good grasp on this movie, please explain it because I feel really stupid right now.
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Aug 11, 2011 20:26
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:In Memoriam - A guy with cancer decides to document his last days and captures ghosts on film. I cannot find this on Imdb or Wikipedia
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Aug 11, 2011 23:06
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Hockles posted:Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, I believe. Sometimes I feel like a crazy person because I hate that movie. For a "deconstruction" of slasher movies or whatever it's incredibly superficial, and about 10 years too late. Oh wow, he has to keep up with his victims while appearing to be walking slowly, what a fresh observation in 2006. It's nowhere near as smart as it thinks it is.
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Aug 11, 2011 23:25
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http://www.inmemoriumthemovie.com/ Sorry, spelt it wrong in my original post. or they spelt it wrong in the movie. whatever.
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Aug 11, 2011 23:26
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Human Tornada posted:Sometimes I feel like a crazy person because I hate that movie. Yeah, it's basically poo poo.
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Aug 11, 2011 23:44
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:http://www.inmemoriumthemovie.com/ thanks but I'm still having trouble finding it  Its not for sale in any online retailer I can find.
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Vier posted:thanks but I'm still having trouble finding it Yeah, the distribution was caught up in a load of crap or something, I used to bug the director on Myspace ages ago and I ended up just watching it on that indie movie streaming site they link to on their page.
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:Yeah, the distribution was caught up in a load of crap or something, I used to bug the director on Myspace ages ago and I ended up just watching it on that indie movie streaming site they link to on their page. Yeah I just looked there but its not streaming right now I guess I will wait for it to come on netflix or something.
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Aug 12, 2011 00:18
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Yeah, it's basically poo poo. I wouldn't call it poo poo but , it did have some low points. I still really liked it.
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Aug 12, 2011 02:17
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Pontypool? "Whatever is said instead of being shown is lost upon the viewer" - Truffaut was right.
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Aug 12, 2011 02:39
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Yeah I hated Pontypool with a fiery passion ; on the other hand I liked the Poughkeepsie tapes, well I didn't enjoy the movie but it elicited a strong emotional response (revulsion, which I think was what they were going for ). This movie looks interesting: http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/film/2448 The Pack While driving through a northern rural wasteland, Charlotte picks up Max, a hitchhiker. They stop in a truck-stop restaurant run by a woman named Spack. When Max disappears in the bar, Charlotte decides to investigate and things take a turn for the worse. Charlotte finds herself in Spack's gruesome human farm, with other prisoners, semi-alive or dead, reared for their blood to feed Spack's "kids"- a pack of blood thirsty ghouls, who come out of the earth each night to be fed fresh human blood. French horror based around ghouls. Anyone seen it? Hollismason fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Aug 12, 2011 |
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Hockles posted:Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, I believe. Although this movie is really just Man Bites Dog + Scream but not quite as good as either one, I still enjoyed it a lot. I know there are a bunch of movies that have done the whole "self aware deconstruction of the genre" thing now, but by adding the fake documentary angle I thought this one stood out from the pack a bit.
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So, I'm probably way behind here (I don't have cable, so I tend to be outta the loop) but I just saw a commercial for Straw Dogs and I wanna see it. I'd say it's more of a thriller than a horror, but I thought I'd get some opinions on it. I guess I should watch the original first.....
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Human Tornada posted:Sometimes I feel like a crazy person because I hate that movie. I think the movie completely goes to poo poo in the 3rd act. The whole setup is actually kind of interesting, but then the documentary crew members start behaving exactly like dumb slasher film victims, which makes no sense considering they SAW THE SETUP. As soon as they switched from mocumentary POV to cinematic POV the movie became a cliche mess.
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Human Tornada posted:Oh wow, he has to keep up with his victims while appearing to be walking slowly, what a fresh observation in 2006. He makes a bet with the girl that he can beat her from point A to point B while walking, with her running at a full sprint. She agrees- meaning they film how he does it, and it's great. While she's ahead of him, he quickly and quietly outmatches her pace, and then, every time she looks back, he drops into a lumbering power-stalk, which trips her up. He quickly closes the gap, gets right up behind her, and makes a creepy groan, escalating the harassment until she trips. Iirc he walks up to her and says something to the effect of, "Normally, you'd be dead. But since this was practice you just owe me a beer." It moves really naturally, and accentuates, one, that Leslie was really, ridiculously, unbelievably good at this poo poo; and, two, that the adherence to genre cliches was was theatrical, not practical. I took the film less as a deconstruction, and more of a celebration of storied tradition. (Probably because I was 17 and slasher movies are what I had instead of culture.)
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Leslie Vernon is the exact definition of "mixed bag" to me. Saying "it sucks" seems to be extremely hyperbolic; there are a lot of lovingly crafted, somewhat witty or interesting little details in it that are easily appreciated, balanced with an equal amount of stupidity/cliche' stuff that's groan inducing.
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BisonDollah posted:Pontypool? "Whatever is said instead of being shown is lost upon the viewer" - Truffaut was right. Pontypool is a great flick. Don't ever, ever read the book though. It is one of the worst things I've ever read and there's a postscript from Burgess basically saying "I was young when I wrote this and it is terrible". There is some room for at least one or two sequels though. If Bruce McDonald feels like retooling the story again, I'd be down for that. There is some truly horrific, potentially awesome stuff in the book but it's written so, so poorly.
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Aug 12, 2011 14:39
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Harry Potter Director David Yates to adapt The Stand I love that book and I thought the last few Harry Potter movies were awesome, so I'm excited for this. And presumably since it's not 1992 there won't be any mullets involved.
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flashy_mcflash posted:Pontypool is a great flick. I can't find any real discussion going on about it in CD, can you tell me why you thought it was great? I was really bored with it, even when the revelation about how the virus spreads was being revealed I appreciated it for it's originality but just pined for something interesting to happen on the screen. It's funny you mention the book because I started thinking part of the problem was that film was the wrong medium for the story, I didn't realise it was based on a book - I think the story would work very well as a Radio Play.
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BisonDollah posted:I can't find any real discussion going on about it in CD, can you tell me why you thought it was great? I was really bored with it, even when the revelation about how the virus spreads was being revealed I appreciated it for it's originality but just pined for something interesting to happen on the screen. It's funny you mention the book because I started thinking part of the problem was that film was the wrong medium for the story, I didn't realise it was based on a book - I think the story would work very well as a Radio Play. I'd agree it'd work well as a radio play but I love it here too. Interesting things happen throughout and there is a fun, totally surreal aspect to it with the doctor and those singers. There are a few scenes that stand out, like the producer's face on the glass of the booth, and I was interested throughout. Not sure why you thought it was boring unless you were expecting a bombastic scene with the army and stuff. I thought it showed incredible restraint on Macdonald's part NOT to show those things. Also, a horror movie that takes place in Northern Ontario is always going to get a pop from me.
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flashy_mcflash posted:I'd agree it'd work well as a radio play but I love it here too. Interesting things happen throughout and there is a fun, totally surreal aspect to it with the doctor and those singers. There are a few scenes that stand out, like the producer's face on the glass of the booth, and I was interested throughout. Not sure why you thought it was boring unless you were expecting a bombastic scene with the army and stuff. I thought it showed incredible restraint on Macdonald's part NOT to show those things. My problem lies with not trusting the sources of the story, nor the experts opinion, nor the events in the way the director chose to reveal them. Going back to my quote from Francois Truffaut - I was lost when the characters were telling me what happens instead of the director showing me. I just didn't buy the story - perhaps the director is looking for that in people who are cynical of the media and it's a job done for him but I didn't like sitting there for an hour and a half watching a movie unfold which I had no way of getting into. It didn't get under my skin like I've noticed a few people say, I wish I liked it because it has some smart ideas but in the end it's maybe a little too pretentious and not interesting enough for me. To each his own though.
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I thought a lot of Pontypool's strengths were because of its decision to tell instead of show. Maybe it's just me but I've always loved the idea of a movie where you have characters finding out that something cataclysmic/apocalyptic is going on around them but they're too separated from the action to see anything for themselves. When the movie just relied on the characters getting their information from radio/phone calls/military broadcasts/whatever else it was terrific. Of course Pontypool kind of poo poo the bed once the doctor comes in. It did have a really good thing going for the first half or so, it's too bad that everything kind of slowly went downhill. This reminds me though, Yellowbrickroad had a similar problem. Lots of promise at first but once the body count starts to go up things got bad real fast. Unlike Pontypool though this movie more or less took a freefall dive into a pile of dog poo poo.
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justlikedunkirk posted:This reminds me though, Yellowbrickroad had a similar problem. Lots of promise at first but once the body count starts to go up things got bad real fast. Unlike Pontypool though this movie more or less took a freefall dive into a pile of dog poo poo. I saw this the other day because it came up earlier in the thread and it was pretty much a waste of time. Interesting premise, terrible, first-year-film-school-project type execution, appalling ending that makes absolutely no sense. The acting across the board was dire as well, you'd think he'd be able to find at least one decent actor.
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Is anyone else kinda looking forward to the Fright Night remake? Colin Farrell pretty charismatic and it might be fun to watch him brutalize McLovin. I'm not expecting a Let Me In level vampire movie but as long as it's not absolutely awful I'll probably still enjoy it a little bit.
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Whispering Machines posted:Harry Potter Director David Yates to adapt The Stand The opening of the ABC miniseries had a fantastic idea. I'd love to see Yates' take on the same concept. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQXqZ8JJktw The book had a great first third. Not sure about the payoff.
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Mr Wind Up Bird posted:Is anyone else kinda looking forward to the Fright Night remake? Colin Farrell pretty charismatic and it might be fun to watch him brutalize McLovin. I'm not expecting a Let Me In level vampire movie but as long as it's not absolutely awful I'll probably still enjoy it a little bit. I'm looking forward to it. Fright Night is one of my favorite 80s flicks and I'm usually soured by remakes, but I'm definitely excited to see this one. Of course, that probably means it will suck.
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Hollis posted:Yeah I remember it was really good, I thought they were going to do a sequel but aparently not. My favorite thing about the movie is just how non chalant he is. Yep, I figure Ill be a masked serial killer. They are currently trying themselves in crowd funding (mostly on Facebook) by selling DVD's and small roles in the movie. It'll be called 'Before the Mask' and deconstructs (you guessed right) prequels. I liked the first one. As most people here said, it's not as clever as it would like to be but it's pretty solid I think.
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Whispering Machines posted:Harry Potter Director David Yates to adapt The Stand I-- I'm trying to think of a more tactful way to put this, but... ...they have to change the loving ending, right?
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