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Dial A For Awesome posted:Saw The Pact today. It's a pretty effective haunted house movie. I'm a sucker for spooky stuff and the film delivered a suitably creepy experience (in the fact the stranger next to me in the cinema jumped at one point and elbowed me in the arm). The last two minutes minutes did annoy me though: why show the killer's eye staring through the peephole? He's been killed and it's an utterly needless cliche to somehow have him still around for no good reason. I saw it coming. You know that the killer is going to live in any horror movie where the protagonist doesn't "double-tap". Still really stupid, though. The girl I was watching with jumped like hell at the bit where the murder victim is on the ceiling. It was pretty creepy throughout but the lame, predictable ending really annoyed me.
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Chernobyl Diaries was so bad. I, like most of the posters who talked about it before, really liked the atmospheric parts at the beginning. But then it all went to poo poo. Yuri should have been around way longer, he was the only interesting character. The jump scare with the baby-thing? What the gently caress was that? And the time they were in the cafeteria looking for Chris and something gets thrown at them, and it turns out there's a guy just sort of standing behind the lunch counter, not really moving, like he's waiting to serve them? The unbelievably stupid ending was obvious as soon as they were found by the scientists, and really should have been redone with something else. gently caress that movie.
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The real tragedy was that the credits music was not the Soviet National Anthem.
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User-Friendly posted:Chernobyl Diaries was so bad. I don't often call movies pointless, but it was utterly pointless in every way. Even Area 407 was better.
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Jun 13, 2012 02:33
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It's a found-footage Jurassic Park - of course I'm going to watch it! I should already own it. This film was made for me!
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Jun 13, 2012 02:39
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When I went to see it, I assumed someone had beaten Oren Peli to the punch with a found footage Area 51 movie, which is the movie made specifically for me. In an odd way I wasn't disappointed.
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Jun 13, 2012 02:46
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Holy poo poo, if you replace the plane with a train that's like a treatment I wrote in High School. drat it.
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Jun 13, 2012 04:14
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So...is that movie supposed to be not good?
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Jun 13, 2012 06:28
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mikeycp posted:So...is that movie supposed to be not good? Quality is in the eye of the MechaGodzilla.
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Jun 13, 2012 13:37
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Why did I just watch Area 407. I mean, I can't say I hated it because that would mean I feel strongly about it, one way or the other. Also, that ending is pretty  Also Also, this tiny chain link fence is sure to keep out the dinosaurs! 
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Dude on IMDB posted:hi, i have been waiting for this film now for 2 years and finally watched it today, its not in cinema's until 21st may but if you are a found footage fan like me then you will like this movie, airplane crashes and the survivors find themselves within the boader of a government testing area and pursued with deadly predators. two of the survivors have camcorders and recorded the journey from start to end, talking of end it does end with a twist which i will not spoil for you but before that my ratings were a 6 out of 10 until i seen the ending which my rating went up to 8 out of 10. well i supposed i have to move on now to the next found footage movie. enjoy the film as much as i did. Yeah, I think I'll be checking this one out tonight.
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Piping in to give some love to one of my favorite horror movies, Evil Dead 2 - if you're planning on watching it anytime in the near future, I've got a drink and drinking game for it as well: Hewlett posted:This week on:
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Why did I just watch Area 407. Could you give us a synopsis of the film, please?
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PriorMarcus posted:Could you give us a synopsis of the film, please? A community theatre troupe improvises their way through a government test range.
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^^^ Yes, basically.PriorMarcus posted:Could you give us a synopsis of the film, please? Little girl and her... sister? I think? Anyway, another young girl who is her guardian, are on a flight from New York to Los Angeles. The plane crashes and the two girls and a handful of other passengers survive. They start hearing strange noises and screaming coming from the bushes/wooded area. When they go check they find another passenger. They go back to the crashed plane and the stewardess gets dragged into the wreckage by something. Another woman, who turns out to be a air marshall, opens fire. But they find the stewardess dead. They start to run when they hear noises nearby and see a large tail. They flee, a couple get picked off and they wind up in a deserted house. They stay there and see, hilariously (seriously, if I could make gifs I would gif it), a velociraptor looking dino float by the window. They stay inside and talk bullshit. (The entire movie is adlibbed by the way) They hear a car approach but when they make contact there's another noise and the car drive's off. They run after it into the dark and get split up. They meet up on a road and wind up, again, in an abandoned building which they halfheartidly 'board up' (ie place a featherlight cabinet in front of the door (Fat guy to other guy: "Help me move this cabinet" before kicking the tiny cabinet where we can clearly see it weighs nothing) They find an old radio which they use and they talk to what sounds like the military. The military dispatcher says they should immediately return to the plane and fire a flare. The group decides to go back. They find eggs, one character vomits blood and another takes a leak. The leaktaker gets dragged into the bushes and the rest of the group run. It's just the little girl, her guardian, the marshall and a dude who keeps vomiting blood. They find a car and start driving, but when they hear noises they stop and the blood vomiting dude is all like 'I'll distract them! I'm done for!'. The marshall, however decides it would be a good idea to jump out of the car and run after him. The little girl's guardian jumps in the driver's seat and starts driving but accidentally hits the marshall. The blood vomiting guy jumps back in and they drive to the wreckage. At the wreckage the guy manages to fire a flare before being eaten and the girls drive away. They crash the car and it's almost light outside so they start walking. They find a 6 foot high fence with a hole in it which they climb through and they find a "Warning Military Facility" placard on the ground. They see a car and the man inside tells them to get in. Happy ending right? He shoots the guardian in the head, inside his car, and guns the little girl (who's of course still running with the camera at her face) down. The man picks up the camera saying, "let's see what you got on here." Then he looks up and BOOM CGI Dinosaur all up in his face. Roll credits Dissapointed Owl fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Jun 14, 2012 |
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In the new trend of adjectives-as-horror-titles, here's the trailer for Sinister! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkwrkYE_plE I think this trailer needed more screeching music/sound cues what about you?
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justlikedunkirk posted:In the new trend of adjectives-as-horror-titles, here's the trailer for Sinister! Looks like it's the film adaptation of the search for Slenderman. That trailer also reminds me, it seems like Vincent D'Onofrio has been spending the past decade doing method preparation for his upcoming role as the rapidly-expanding universe.
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Hewlett posted:Looks like it's the film adaptation of the search for Slenderman. That trailer also reminds me, it seems like Vincent D'Onofrio has been spending the past decade doing method preparation for his upcoming role as the rapidly-expanding universe. He was preparing for a role as Orson Welles but his method-acting became too powerful and Welles took over his mind. It actually worked out ok for his career since Orson Welles was an actor too. Look for D'Onofrio to star in one of Michael Bay's transformers movies in about fifteen years.
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Decided to watch Hellraiser III for the first time in 20 years, good lord this has not aged well. Terry Farrel was pretty nice to look at though.
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Jack Gladney posted:He was preparing for a role as Orson Welles but his method-acting became too powerful and Welles took over his mind. It actually worked out ok for his career since Orson Welles was an actor too. Look for D'Onofrio to star in one of Michael Bay's transformers movies in about fifteen years. 
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justlikedunkirk posted:In the new trend of adjectives-as-horror-titles, here's the trailer for Sinister! I got all excited thinking it was a new trailer from that Christian movie about the box of Woods Porn that haunts a family, instead I just get to see Vincent D'Onofrio climb the evolutionary ladder into some sort of human-whale hybrid.
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suboptimal posted:I got all excited thinking it was a new trailer from that Christian movie about the box of Woods Porn that haunts a family, instead I just get to see Vincent D'Onofrio climb the evolutionary ladder into some sort of human-whale hybrid. He's so fat he literally cannot leave his chair, which is why he had to Skype in his role.
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Sleep Tight is delicious. Please watch it. The performances are simply fantastic and the main character is like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction and Travis Bickle were thrown into a blender. Don't look up what it is about, don't get too much information on it. Just watch it by whatever means possible.
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Rhyno posted:Decided to watch Hellraiser III for the first time in 20 years, good lord this has not aged well. Terry Farrel was pretty nice to look at though. She's literally the only good part of that awful awful movie. Everything about that movie is bad even for a Hellraiser film. Takes forever to get going, terrible acting from that playboy/bar owner/dumbshit, horrible cenobites and dumb as nails supporting cast. This reminds me I havent seen a good horror movie in months.  edit: I suppose I should watch those Cronenberg films I havent seen yet, that would change that statement Technetium fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Jun 16, 2012 |
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Judakel posted:Sleep Tight is delicious. Please watch it. The performances are simply fantastic and the main character is like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction and Travis Bickle were thrown into a blender. Don't look up what it is about, don't get too much information on it. Just watch it by whatever means possible. Jesus christ. Yeah, this guy knows whats up.
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Wasn't there supposed to be a new Amityville Horror movie coming out this year? I Seem to recall it was supposed to come out in January and then vanished, it was supposed to be found footage or something. It wasn't that Asylum crap that came out. Also I seem to recall they filmed a sequel to The Haunting in Connecticut called The Haunting in Georga (Instead of a My Bloody Valentine sequel >:-(), that seems to have vanished also.
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Judakel posted:Sleep Tight is delicious. Please watch it. The performances are simply fantastic and the main character is like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction and Travis Bickle were thrown into a blender. Don't look up what it is about, don't get too much information on it. Just watch it by whatever means possible. Just watched it. There are a lot of things to like about it but third act issues prevented me from giving it the rave review I had intended to up to that point. It's an extremely elegant black comedy with some great moments and an engaging villain.
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frozenpeas posted:Just watched it. There are a lot of things to like about it but third act issues prevented me from giving it the rave review I had intended to up to that point. I'd love to find some more films in a similar vein - the closest I can think of are The Resident (rubbish) and Alone With Her (really good).
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Spoilers for Sleep Tight (2012) The movie played out mostly as a black comedy, focusing on the way César dealt with the witless tenants patronizing him as their pet servant "friend". They tried to hide the real nature of the transaction behind smiles and gifts of potato pie but, unfortunately for them, it wasn't reciprocated. César wasn't "happy". His social status is mirrored by the two cleaners that he sets up. They are considered to be "less" by the bourgeois they are paid to please, leading to the scene where the police immediately believe the rich guy's excuse "I couldn't have done it!" and instantly blame the cleaner's son. Why couldn't the cleaner's son say "I couldn't have done it!" too? It's a comedy because these characters are deserving of their fate in some way; obviously not in real life, but in the socio-political context set up in the film. The hook, for me was that by entering the apartments as he pleased, César was balancing the books, so to speak. He was made unhappy by his work, so he takes back his happiness in the form of pain. The film has a mischievous tone and score, which helps to set him up as something of a sociopathic Robin Hood. For example, the first image of him waking up next to his "girlfriend" isn't meant to shock so much as it is to intrigue. It's a parody of a domestic, leaving-for-work moment, the nature of which only becomes clear when he takes a shower in a different apartment, THEN goes to work. We are asking questions not about the girl, but about César who we piece together through his monologues and dealings with the tenants . César is pretty much the protagonist of the movie. We side with him, we feel tension when HE is close to being caught and the camera eyes up Clara far more than he appears to. César's relationship with Clara appears to be fairly asexual at first. We see him as a bumbler, unable to deal with females at all, to the extent that he is humiliated and extorted by a teenage girl - even his mother doesn't want to listen to him. You must, of course, wonder what he is doing with Clara at night, but I felt the movie portrayed him as someone who was sad, lonely and frustrated, rather than rapey. You might not agree, but think about what COULD have been shown in place of what was shown. He could have poisoned the dog to death, rather than just giving it a piece of pie. He could have had a Psycho remake-style masturbation scene to show that he was actually a sexual deviant. Instead, we have repeated shots of him trying to kill himself whist talking about how he is trying to hold back whatever storm is inside him. The movie leads us to believe that this is his way of trying to control it - that in some sick way, he isn't all bad. The tonal change is handled very well, He's about to leap to his death and, in a final moment of comedy, the car pulls up and stops him...and then... And then it turns out he's a rapist... And he's impregnated her... And killed her boyfriend... And he's written her a letter, ruining her life and the life of her child forever. The final shot of the film is him finally happy. Is he about to kill himself or go off and be the psychopath he always had the potential to be? Who cares? there's no catharsis, the victims never turn the tables on him (the second act manipulates you so that you're you begging his victims to wake up and turn the tables on him, to make it THEIR film rather than HIS film, and then they get so close and never do. It turns out that he was the protagonist after all - the movie ends, he wins, everything sucks. Great, I just watched a rapist be rapey for 2 hours. It's just the same cheap gotcha ending we get in all bad horror. I don't mind dark endings, or even nihilistic endings, but the change in tone from dark comedy to something that revelled in and celebrated awfulness really soured me on the movie. Edit: Thinking about it more, I'm wondering if it isn't actually a satire of the idea of the bourgeois idea of revolution itself - asking the middle class occupy kids "Do you really want to go all the way with the ideas you're tossing around?" The other people in the house are all played broadly and are obvious targets for satire but Clara, is played with real humanity (and the old lady in her final scene). Perhaps the movie is designed to make think about the people behind the targets. Sure, you can revolt and kill the crotchety old man, but do you want to kill this nice girl too? Hmm, maybe I did like it more than I thought hehe. Spermanent Record fucked around with this message at 09:43 on Jun 17, 2012 |
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It's an interesting analysis but I basically disagree with every point. I didn't really pick up on the vibes the same way as you did I guess.
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:It's an interesting analysis but I basically disagree with every point. I didn't really pick up on the vibes the same way as you did I guess. How much is there to disagree with? I thought that was pretty much just a synopsis.
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Well, I disagree with it being a dark comedy. I can see how you could read it like that sure but that's not how it felt for me. So that basically undoes most of the analysis. I disagree with being on the nutjobs side so there's the rest of it gone too. That said it's still a totally legit reading of the film. I just don't really see it the same way.
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Speaking of Vincent D'Onofrio, he directed a film called Don't Go in The Woods that's available on netflix. It's a b-horror musical that's about a band that goes into the woods to get some seclusion and write some songs. The music is good, but on the whole it's a pretty bad film. The end is cliche as hell, but it seems interesting enough, especially considering the main character. There's some good stuff about obsession, mental illness, and personal demons that are actually quite well framed by the musical nature of this film. This sounds like an interesting idea, but the movie itself is pretty crap. I really wish it had explored its themes more, or used the musical element to differentiate itself a little more as the lyrics were quite poignant at times. What a weird loving movie. http://youtu.be/8y8n4ToQ0k0
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:Well, I disagree with it being a dark comedy. I can see how you could read it like that sure but that's not how it felt for me. So that basically undoes most of the analysis. I disagree with being on the nutjobs side so there's the rest of it gone too. That's fair enough. I don't know if I would call it a dark comedy myself, but I think by virtue of making César the protagonist you can't help but feel tension on his behalf, whether or not you identify or sympathise with him.
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I love the fact he gets away with it and I love the fact she doesn't even realize to what extent she is a victim until it is all over and done with.
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I watched Devil Inside because my girlfriend is drawn to bad horror and found footage films. It was horrible as most people said with one of the worst ending in history. Still, after sitting through all the Paranormal Activity films, it was nice to see a character's reaction to having clear supernatual events of footage be "Hey, let's get this stuff to some higher authority ASAP since this is world shattering."
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I don't think The Devil Inside had a particularly bad ending, it's just the rest of it was also bad.
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Judakel posted:Sleep Tight is delicious. Please watch it. The performances are simply fantastic and the main character is like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction and Travis Bickle were thrown into a blender. Don't look up what it is about, don't get too much information on it. Just watch it by whatever means possible. I wasn't interested in this until I saw that the lead was the same guy that played Malamadre in Cell 211 It'll be interesting to see a guy that portrayed the meanest motherfucker on the cell block as a unassuming stalker. EDIT: Cell 211 isn't horror but is a very gritty prison movie with some refreshing twists away from the usual cliches. Mouser.. fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Jun 18, 2012 |
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