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1) Roh (Indonesia, 1989)  A pretty much shot for shot remake of Hellraiser, which means it's pretty damned good! Indonesia put out some really solid horrorfilms in the 80s, mostly involving witches and female demons. Definitely start checking some out if you want something new to the palette.   AROUND THE WORLD 1/4Lamanda fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Sep 29, 2023 |
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Anyone want to join me in HARDCORE MODE where you can only complete one (1) or part of one (1/*) challenge per movie?
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2) 666 : Beware the End Is at Hand (Nigeria, 2007) A cautionary tale about the dangers of rejecting the word of God, produced by Kenneth Okonkwo (Pastor). Obviously low budget and shot on one camera, but the editing was pretty clever at times, especially during dialog scenes which gave the illusion of several cameras. The acting was generally pretty decent, the special effects cheap, but used sparingly and quite effectively. As for the story, Satan and his demons are luring people off the streets and dragging them to hell. They use various techniques, standout being luring sinners into gay sex. The actor playing Satan was pretty cool, channeling a mix of Yaphet Kotto and Brian Blessed kind of vibe. There is some violence, but not very much, a stabbing and a car crash. Every 10 minutes or so, the pacing grinds to a halt when we get 5 minute sermons about the end times and the dangers of sinful living, but they do add a certain je ne sais quoi to the whole experience. The movie ends with a pretty cool special effects laden hadouken battle between a pastor and a 8 year old demon boy. Holy Ghost, FIRE! It got at least 3 sequels and definitely worth watching if you haven't seen any Nollywood horror movies. AROUND THE WORLD 2/4
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3) Body Melt (Australia, 1993) A really pathetic attempt at a horror comedy in the style of Frank Henenlotter. The plot synopsis is tried and true; a new drug has side-effects, mayhem ensues. Problem is, the filmmakers didn't know what to do with it. Instead we get "humorous" scenes with inbred bogans, the joke being they're inbred bogans. There's elderly people in tracksuits, they are exercising you see. A kid on roller-skates says "gently caress". The camera work is kinda inventive at times, adding some much needed excitement to scenes. There's two or three scenes with the titular body melting, they're not all that bad. Do a google image search and you've seen all the ten seconds the movie has to offer. AROUND THE WORLD 3/4NEW-TO-YOU 1/6
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4) At midnight I'll take your soul (Brazil, 1964) Filmmaker José Mojica Marins introduces us to what will become his alter ego, Coffin Joe, a role he would assume for 45 years. The film itself mixes elements of gothic horror, such as spiders, burials, candles, skulls etc with sort of heavy handed but still charming musings about organized religion, life, death and blood. Coffin Joe himself is an undertaker, dressed all in black with a top hat and a cape. He goes around town acting weird to passers by and occasionally beats up people and even killing them. Marins gives a pretty magnetic performance, but the rest of the cast is quite forgettable. All in all, a decent at times sleazy shocker, more interesting for it's cultural significance. AROUND THE WORLD 4/4 Complete
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5) The Brotherhood (2001) David DeCoteau has been a director for hire at Full Moon Pictures for 4 decades but with The Brotherhood he launched his own production company, Rapid Heart Pictures. They are mostly known for their "homoerotic horror movies" with series like The Brotherhood and 1313 and there's something counterintuitively interesting I find with his movies. Firstly, the horror isn't scary nor particulalry dangerous, it's there to lure you in, like a siren's song. Secondly, there's seldomly or never any homoerotic story themes in them. The gay themes comes instead from how the movies are directed and shot. The stories are really just frameworks for having long drawn out scenes with attractive college-aged men stripping down to their boxers and doing chores or taking showers in their swimming trunks. The interesting thing to note about these scenes is that there's essentially no gaze in them. It's may be flat shot of a guy taking a shower, eventually shampooing his hair and rinsing it off. No close-ups of butts, crotches or pecs or leaning sensually against the wall, just a 5 minute scene of what a shower looks like. With The Brotherhood, DeCoteau apparently tried to make a real movie with a lot of focus on character development. The story is pretty simple, a college fraternity of essentially vampires, there's a slight twist to them to make them not traditional ones, wants to the draw the new guy on campus into their group, because "He's beautiful, he's innocent, he's perfect". It's not as trashy as a lot of his later films, there's a certain sensuality to one scene and a bit of slow-burn buildup, but otherwise quite forgettable. Maybe watch it if you haven't seen any of his other gay themed movies, just to get a feel what they are about, but I'd rather recommend Leeches! if you want to watch one. I'll reward this one an extra Sopkiw, just because it spawned so many other movies. HORROR IS FOR EVERYONE 1/3NEW-TO-YOU 2/6
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6) A Night to Dismember (1983) Legendary nudie and sexploitation producer/director Doris Wishman's attempt to cash in on the slasher craze is an interesting one. Production started in 1979, but legend has it that a third of the footage was lost in a fire, other sources says the photographer simply lost the footage. Wishman shot some additional footage, added some stock footage and finally got the movie released in 1983. The result is one of the most entertaining slashers there is, but maybe not for the reason she intended... The plot is simple enough; a woman is returns home after she's released from an asylum and soon thereafter brutal murders start happening. That's where any semblance of a real movie ends. What we get is a 10 minute disjointed ramble of a narration of the backstory set to footage of some bloody murders, people walking around and looking distressed, occasionally timed to the narration. The same narrator will continue to explain the plot throughout the movie, sometimes in past tense, sometimes in present. He also doubles as the internal monologue of a gumshoe, occasionally dubs Russian style and even explains the motivation of the characters. The gore effects are outrageously bad and the editing so baffling that despite the narrator, it's impossible to follow along with the plot or characters. However, therein lies the movies strength! You just will not know if the next musical cue will be soft jazz, elevator music or creepy violins. Sometimes maybe both. Who will live and who will die? Who the gently caress were these people again? A must watch for any true connoisseur of kino. HORROR IS FOR EVERYONE 2/3
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7) Blacula (1972) Samuel Arkoff seem to have caught wind to the success of Shaft and Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and decide to probe the market with something he knew, horror. It starts out decently enough: Prince Mamuwalde from "the jungle" has come to Transylvania in the 1700-hudreds to discuss ending the slave trade with Dracula. The count takes offence and curses Mamuwalde to undeath, to become... Blacula! After some turns, he wakes up in 1970s Los Angeles and what follows is bog-standard vampire stuff, except that he's black. You get some reincarnated lost love, doctors and policemen baffled over bitemarks and of course nightclub scenes with lots of live music. To no-ones surprise, the sound-track consists of funk. Occasionally there's some attempts at humor, but it just isn't funny, nor is it scary. The only highlight is William Marshall's perofrmance as Blacula, he adds a sense of loss and dignity to the role. HORROR IS FOR EVERYONE 3/3NEW-TO-YOU 3/6
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Hollismason posted:5. Nightmare Sisters The three most important women in film
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8) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) For the history lesson challenge I decided to watch five different takes on the same story just to make things more interesting for myself. Dr. Henry Jekyll barely has time for his fiancée due to the time spent researching and running a free clinic. Her father, irritated that Jekyll just is too good and proper, invites him out for a night of debauchery. Tempted by a minx of a dancer, Jekyll resists his base impulses and suppresses his emotions in favor of reserving his passion for science. He decides to develop a potion that would allow him to separate his passionate nature from his own analytical, but soon realize, it's good to be bad. This is definitely John Barrymore's show. He gives a phenomenal performance conveying his mixed emotions, from denying or focusing his passion as Dr. Jekyll, to a growth in a Mr. Hyde who dominates his surroundings through fear and manipulation and eventually sheer psychopathy. The rest of the cast is perfectly fine, their characters one-dimensional with exactly one trait; the fiancée, the decadent nobleman, the God-fearing professor etc.. and serves as catalysts for change, in both Jekyll and Hyde. The intertitles are used well, presenting major characters, plot elements and major dialogue, but are absent in tense scenes, letting the actors shine in conveying story and meaning. Definitely worth a watch HISTORY LESSON 1/5NEW-TO-YOU 4/6
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9) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) The story is still the same as the 1920 version, so I'll just point out the main difference. Here Henry Jekyll is the passionate one, full of life and madly in love with his fiancée. The people around him are the conservative stuck-up ones, that criticize Jekyll for not acting like a proper gentleman. His reasoning for splitting his personality is to fit in with polite society, not to be able to live out his emotions. A total reversal of character and motivation from the 1920 one. This being a pre-code film, and consequently an early talkie, both has its merits and flaws. It features some obvious sexual innuendo and near nudity, Jekyll's transformations into Hyde are genuinely disturbing and it doesn't shy away from some pretty gruesome violence. Some of the actors seem a bit uncomfortable with acting in front of a camera, rather than on a stage; talking to the back of the audience, looking at the director , not really knowing what the camera movement will be etc. Fredrich March, who plays Jekyll/Hyde is outright bad in some parts as Jekyll, he does make up for it with physical performance as Hyde though. The main draw for me is probably the camerawork, here are some really effective one-take transitions between first and third person view. Hyde's make-up is somewhat sketchy, he basically just looks like an ape. The transformation special effects are pretty good, though they get old by the third time. Jekyll's laboratory is pretty damned cool though. It's looks straight like from a future Hammer Frankenstein movie, lots of bubbling flasks, beakers and test-tubes, there's even a skeleton hanging on the wall. HISTORY LESSON 2/5NEW-TO-YOU 4/6
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) Did you think remakes was some kind of modern studio gimmick to milk money off a known property? Nope! This one is a remake of the 1931 version, using star power to draw you in. The result, a damned fine romantic drama. I would compare this one to the 2018 remake of 1977:s Suspiria. You take the same script and mold it to the times, creating a new story in the process. By this time the Hays code was in full effect, so much of the shenanigans Jekyll/Hyde was able to get away with in 1931 no longer could be used in film. The morality of debauchery in the 1920:s version and the religious commentary in the 1930:s one has given way to a more neutral stance on the science of good and evil. Where Jekyll's drive in 1920 was to allow his emotional life to flourish, in 1930 to suppress it to fit in, in this version his motivation is a purely scientific one. To separate evil from good, in order to heal people. Spencer Tracy plays Dr. Jekyll perfectly, romantic in human emotions yet healthily sceptical of the ethics and religious signification of research into the nature of good and evil. Ingrid Bergman plays the victim of Hyde's savage behaviour, but a lot more attention is given to her relationship with Dr. Jekyll than in the previous version. Tracy plays Mr. Hyde as a prankster, someone you would ignore and hope they would go away. His aggressiveness is rather subtle, and creeps up on you. The special effects and makeup has bees scaled down, in favor of letting the cast shine in their performance. Beautifully shot with some rather raunchy expressionistic imagery during Jekyll/Hyde transformation scenes. At 110 minutes, it's 22 minutes too long for the perfect running time a horror movie, but as a violent romantic drama, it's perfect. HISTORY LESSON 3/5
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No one will save you (2023) Home invasion movie with barely any words spoken. That's about the only remotely interesting thing about it. And ironically, for me it was to the film's detriment, since I had to listen to the main actress' constant grunts, sighs and loud exhales. One Sopkiw for at least trying to do something original. Might have worked better as a 20 minute demo reel for a director. NEW-TO-YOU 5/6
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2006) The usually reliable Tony Todd really should be ashamed of his performance as Jekyll/Hyde in this adaptation. Directed by John Carl Buechler, who did the special effects in several Full Moon movies, and this one has the look and feel of an early nineties Full Moon production. There's some violence and murder, mostly offscreen, but some pretty nice squibs here and there. The cast is generally horrible, but some good performances from Vernon "Bennet" Wells and Peter Jason. Mr Dollman himself Tim Thomerson also has a small part, which may be the only reason you would watch this one. HISTORY LESSON 4/5NEW-TO-YOU 6/6
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Edge of sanity (1989) Anthony Perkins (Psycho III) stars as Dr Jekyll/Mr. Hyde/Jack the Ripper in this take on the classic tale. Directed by Gérard Kikoïne, who is better known as an editor for the legendary Jess Franco, and for his high quality French pornographic films of the late seventies. This one is a bit different because Jekyll isn't testing some new formula on himself, rather it's him accidentally smoking crack (well kinda) that turns him into Mr. Hyde. As Jack (The ripper) Hyde he goes on a drug fueled spree murdering prostitutes. It's got a bit of late era gialli vibes, with his psychosexual hang-ups are the result of him being punished by his father as a child, when he caught his father having sex with a prostitute. The soft focus give the whole film a very dreamlike quality, accentuated by the anachronistic wardrobe, Victorian clothing mixes with clothes straight out of a New wave or synth-pop music video. Tons of nudity, but not all that heavy on gore, it's more focused on the general perverseness of Hyde. Perkins is really great when he's in the Hyde role, but the film slows down and becomes rather uninteresting when he's back to Dr. Jekyll. HISTORY LESSON 5/5
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Lovecraft shorts Featuring three shorts by Ryo Shinagawa and one by a guy that goes by TheLoneAnimator. Shinagawa uses clay puppets, miniatures and some basic effects like smoke, lightning and liquids. The lighting is generally excellent, highlighting the drama and adding some really nice deep shadows. The clay models add a certain otherness to all characters, which suit the stories well. TheLoneAnimator uses a mix of live action, green screen and stop-motion models. I think his use of lighting is pretty poor, blasting bright yellow light over everything only highlights where the live effects end and the cgi begins. 1) The Picture in the House  A pretty simple mood piece about a man seeking shelter from the rain in a remote cabin. The old man living there seems to have an obsession with a certain picture of a human sacrifice in a rare old book. He also seems to be even older than he looks and have some disquieting cravings... 2) The Dunwich Horror  A central story in what later would be called the "Cthulhu Mythos". Old wizard Whateley's daughter Lavinia gives birth to the grotesque Wilbur, who seems to mature at an alarming rate. Wilbur's research into blasphemous matters at the Miscatonic University eventually lead Dr. Armitage and colleagues into a confrontation with Wilbur's twin brother, who looks even more like his father... 3) The Festival  A Christmas story where a man travels to Kingsport where his ancestors commanded their sons to perform the now forbidden Festival once every century. Beneath the crypts of a church, they engage in a ceremony older than man and fated to survive him. Something amorphous in the shadows playing the flute joins in the Yule-rite... 4) Dagon  A mariner finds himself stranded on a risen seafloor surrounded by decaying sea-creatures. An expedition sees him stumbling upon a monolith inscribed with hieroglyphics of fish, molluscs and the like. There are also crude sculptures of something much more man-like... The animations by Shinagawa are some of the best Lovecraft adaptations in my opinion, TheLoneAnimator's is ok I guess, he's got some better stuff on his youtube channel. / BITE-SIZED HORROR
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Against the dark (2009) Keith David stars Lt. Waters in this action turkey set against a world-wide vampire infection. I say vampire but it's really unclear from the get-go if these are meant to be vampires, rage-virus infused zombies or some kind of mutants. It's all used interchangeably. Lt. Waters has to make the tough decision to have the army bomb Sector 7, where the vampires have taken refuge for the night, but there's still uninfected civilians stuck in a hospital in the area. A team of Hunters, badasses in black leather, purposeful walking, swords and swooshing camera sound effects are also in the area. A smack in the middle of Seagal's bronze age film, it's hilariously ineptly written, edited and directed. There's enough bloodshed and an actually good fight scene to keep you somewhat engaged though. And I think this is the only time I've seen a plumbers crack in a movie, where the intent wasn't comedic or sexy. ”THAT GUY” CHALLENGE FEATURING KEITH DAVID
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House of Frankenstein (1944) Dr. Niemann (Boris Karloff) escapes prison along with his hunchback assistance Daniel (J. Carrol Naish). They plan to get their hands on Dr. Frankensteins research papers in order to create a new body for Daniel. In their travels, they accidentally revive Dracula (John Carradine) and thaw the Wolfman (Lon Chaney jr.). There's a love triangle between Daniel, the Wolfman and a gypsy girl also. Frankenstein's monster shows up for a while. Man this was a disappointment. I wasn't really sure what I expected but this was basically a series of vignettes where the monsters recreated a scene from a previous better movie. Dracula gets to enthrall a lady and sneak into her room by transforming into a bat, the Wolfman gets to transform, Frankenstein gets to carry someone while chased by people with torches. The production however is as good as other Universal monster movies of the time. The lighting, costumes and settings are all excellent, Karloff, Chaney and Naish all light up the scenes they are in, Carradine is really weak as Dracula though. Watch it if you are a Universal monster movie completionist, otherwise skip it. FREDDY VS. JASON 20TH ANNIVERSERY CHALLENGE
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Demons 2 (1986) Now this would probably be my second favorite demon possession movie, right up there after Demons. The plot is basically the same, people stranded in a building while demons are running rampage around them. This time it's set in a high rise rather than a movie theater. It's maybe not as violent as the first one, but it makes up for it with the in my opinion greater make-up effects. Argento's fingerprints are also more noticeable here, especially in the interior design. It hasn't really got that heavy metal energy of the first one, but it definitely makes up for it in other areas. For example, we've got: the actor playing the pimp is back, this time playing an equally intense and charismatic gym instructor! Demon kids and babies! A Clark Kent doppelganger with ripped sleeves! Punks driving around looking for trouble while listening to Fields of the Nephilim! Oiled bodybuilders and babes in leotards! A cute Asia Argento! N:th wall breaking movie on TV! Demon chase sequence set to Dead can Dance! And so much more!    THE EXORCIST 50TH ANNIVERSERY CHALLENGE
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City of the Living Dead (1980) Definitely not Fulci's best movie, but it might just be my favorite. The plot is rather simple: The suicide of a priest leads to the gates of hell being opened and our heroes needs to close it before all saints day. There's some spiritism and curses, psychoanalysis, mysteries seemingly and some giallo-like dialogue. This is all window dressing though, the film is wholly about mood, not story. All characters are one-dimensional, but the main actors get the most out of them. The photography is great, crisp when it needs to be, sickly and misty when the mood calls for it. Fabio Frizzi delivers a great prog-synth score, that moves from dark atmospheric, to the familiar (for fans of Italian horror) inappropriate upbeat tunes. The sound design is and musical stings are some of my favorites. It certainly delivers on gore and maggots, just don't ask the movie "why" or "how", it doesn't matter.    CineD HORROR THREAD POLL CHALLENGE
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The Dead Next Door (1989) Sam Raimi apparently financed this directorial debut of auteur J. R. Bookwater. Shot on super-8, but it still looks kinda cinematic if you watch it on dvd and squint. Plot is pretty simple, an elite "Zombie Squad" working for the government is sent to Akron in order to stop the growing zombie outbreak. It's somewhat boring, because you've seen all the major plot beats in better movies, especially in Day of the Dead. It's got a religious cult working for zombie rights though, so that was pretty fresh. The zombie makeup and the gore effects were pretty great though, watch it for them.  
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Jolo posted:I haven't seen the original Dawn of the Dead in years, which version should I watch? Looks like there's a theatrical with the Goblin soundtrack, and extended version without Goblin, a European Cut put together by Dario Argento, and a fan cut called Extended Mall Hours (which might be hard to find so probably not this one). Always bet on Goblin
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Dark Floors – The Lordi Motion Picture (2008) Due to Lordi's legendary 2006 Eurovision win, this film was inevitable. Take Silent Hill in a hospital and have the monsters be the bandmembers of Lordi. That's it, that's all the ideas this movie has. We got a autistic kid in a wheelchair and her hunky dad, a nurse, a bum, a security guard and lastly an rear end in a top hat guy. The demons are after the girl. Imagine it and you've already seen it. BIRTH OF HORROR Filmed a short trip from where I live
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Shocking Dark (1989) "It's practically DNA. No it's more like an enzyme that's similar to DNA completely redesigned by a computer. A masterpiece of genetic engineering. Cybernetics applied to molecular biology. It's like a floppy disk. You insert it into the right computer and it literally brings it's program to life." In a post catastrophe of some kind Venice underground, a team of badass marines called the Megaforce, a lady scientist, a representant of Totally not Evil corporation and a survivor kid must battle their way through terrible monsters. There also might or might not be the threat of a time traveling cyborg. The dynamic duo Bruno Mattei/Claudio Fragasso (Rats - nights of terror, Troll 2, Robowar, Zombi 3 and so many more all-time classics) brings us yet another shameless rip-off. Here's a fun drinking game idea for the weekend: Take a drink anytime there's a character, scene or line of dialogue ripped straight out of Aliens. You are in for a bloody good time, but remember to keep the drinks small.    HORROR ADJACENT Horror/Sci-fi
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:My controversial horror opinion is that Day of the Dead is my favorite Romero movie. This is the correct opinion
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Robo Vampire (1988) "-Since Tom's dead I want to make use of his body to create an android-like robot Mr.Glen. I would appreciate you approving my application. -Are you assured success? -Mm hmm. -All right, your application is approved." quote:Narcotics agent Tom Wilde is given a second chance at life after being shot and killed, in a futuristic experiment, agent Wilde is returned to life as an Android Robot. He is sent on very dangerous mission into the depths of the golden Triangle to rescue Sophie a beautiful undercover agent who has been captured by the evil drug warlord Mr. Young and his inhuman creation the Vampire Beast. in a climactic final battle, Tom must use all his robotic powers to defeat the savage drug lord and his monstrous blood-sucking creation. So I didn't know this was going to be a Godfrey Ho (The Richard Harrison ninja films) movie so I wasn't really sure what I expected from the cover. But now it makes perfect sense, it's the tried and true method of taking a Thai movie, overdub it and film some more scenes to tie it together. There's surprisingly much Godfrey footage in this one, about half of the movie I'd say. It's kinda clear that the actors didn't know what movie they were supposed to be in, but to be fair, I don't think Godfrey knew either; he made 40 movies this year. It's definitely more of a drug trade action movie, but there's a whole lot of hopping vampire and flying ghost action as well, so it should qualify as a horror. Thoroughly enjoyable.    BACK OF THE VIDEO STORE CHALLENGE
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Hack-O-Lantern (1988) Back of the VHS posted:
Entertaining satanic panic/slasher movie with some pretty nice gore effects, tons of nudity and a bad rear end hair metal song. There's also a weird creepy grandpa who sounds a bit like Tim Curry as Gabriel Knight. Check it out!    NWS NWSTHE SAMHAIN CHALLENGE
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Jaws 3-D (1983) Just trying to remember a movie I haven't seen since I was a kid turned out to be a challenge in itself. Settled on this one, since I know I saw it in the mid 80s and only remembered that the guy from Manimal was in it and that a mangled corpse floats by a window. I have naturally seen clips and photos of the legendary 3-d effects since, but I can't recall that I've watched the whole movie since. Turns out that it really isn't worth re-watching, the first hour is boring, one or two decent scenes. The last half hour is basically a disaster movie set piece, it's actually not all that bad. Even as a 10-year-old I thought the optical effects were bad, and yes, they are really bad and mostly totally unnecessary. The mechanical shark looks pretty good though and Mr Manimal's death scene was pretty brutal. CHILDHOOD TRAUMA
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M_Sinistrari posted:
Pretty much an unofficial sequel to Re-Animator and From Beyond, sharing director, producer, editor, cinematographer, make-up artist and more!
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:I had no idea, absolutely going to watch that tomorrow. I wasn't really serious about the sequel part  , all Empire/Full Moon movies share basically the same crew. Still a great movie.
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The Food of the Gods (1976) Why settle for giant or swarms of animals when you can have both? Produced by the bad boy of b-movies Samuel Z. Arkoff and directed by Bert Gordon, this one could have been a somewhat interesting 70s take on 50s giant animal movies. Instead of scientists, military and a professor's daughter we get football players, a shady businessman and lots and lots of flannel. the atomic panic has given way to a more generic environmental message, where nature takes revenge. The threat here is a wonder food that causes the animals on an island to grow to an unusual size and become aggressive. We get some giant chickens, wasps, caterpillars and the pièce de résistance, rats. It's a shame they didn't stick to just the rats, because the special effects of the rat attacks are really good, and quite violent and bloody. The chickens and wasps, not so much. It gets a tad boring after a while when the rats are not on screen, but I still think this is one of the better animal attack b-movies, way better than it's reputation.    WHEN ANIMALS OF UNUSUAL SIZE ATTACK!
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Horror Express (1972) Probably my favorite Lee/Cushing movie, wherein a frozen humanoid start terrorizing the passengers on the Trans-Siberian Railway. It's rather similar in tone to later era Hammer films, but the third act goes to in a somewhat unexpected direction.   PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK…..IN SPACE!!!Due to work, I had to edit the NEW-TO-YOU meta challenges into my earlier watches, even if I had hoped to do them stand alone, and can't hit 31.Thanks Basebf555 for making the thread, it was fun! Lamanda fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Oct 31, 2023 |
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