Horror

Started by TenseAndSober, April 22, 2003, 05:01:56 PM

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This is one from my childhood. My sister was a giant fan of really shitty/cheesy horror movies and I just got the boxset with all three movies. its not scary anymore, but just for the nostalgic value as well as some decent make-up effects its a lot of fun.
"The myth by no means finds its adequate objectification in the spoken word. The structure of the scenes and the visible imagery reveal a deeper wisdom than the poet himself is able to put into words and concepts" – Friedrich Nietzsche

modage

you know i've never seen that film but my girlfriend also grew up with it.  there was a period in middle school where some friends and i would rent every ridiculous looking horror movie we could find, stumbling on awesomely awful gems like Blood Diner, so i'm not sure how we missed that.  our Blockbuster probably just didnt carry it.
Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.

RegularKarate





Return of the Living Dead

I saw this when I was MUCH younger, but just watched it again last night.  I don't think Mod likes this one, but despite everything telling me I should hate this, I really liked it.  It's Campily Delicious.

It's origin is a funny story, of course.. if you're not aware John Russo wrote the Night of the Living Dead screenplay with Romero and afterward, they both agreed they could each continue with sequels seperately... Romero would go on to make one of the best zombie movies ever made and Russo wrote a serious sequel with the very sequelly title "Return of the Living Dead".... Meanwhile , Dan O'Bannon, who wrote Alien, is looking for a movie to actually direct... he agrees to work with Russo and says "you know what, I don't want to step on what Romero's doing.. let's make this a COMEDY".

The end product is worth it to me... it's got a scene where a girl takes ALL her clothes off and starts dancing a strip tease on top of a gravestone for no reason and her clothes pretty much stay off the rest of the movie, including when she's a zombie herself.
There's some decent gore and effects in this.. they're really low budget and it shows, but it's the kind of low budget effects that make you smile. 
The zombies in this not only run, but talk (whether they have lips or not) coherantly (at one point, after a slew of zombies eat the brains out of a bunch of police officers, one of the zombies gets on the police cb and says "Send more cops").
Of course, it has a very nice and bleak ending.


I enjoyed it so much I plan on renting the next one, even though I've heard it's terrible and the DVD has a new soundtrack (I hate when they do that shit).

JG

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haha i remember this one.  this is a classic.  so many great lines. 

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Quote from: RegularKarate on October 06, 2006, 01:55:27 PM



Return of the Living Dead


I love this movie so much. This guy used to scare the crap out of me when i was a kid:

"The myth by no means finds its adequate objectification in the spoken word. The structure of the scenes and the visible imagery reveal a deeper wisdom than the poet himself is able to put into words and concepts" – Friedrich Nietzsche

RegularKarate

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Ghost Story

Unfortunately, my original post was deleted.

This was another movie that I remembered being scary when I was a kid and just watched it again to be bored this time around.
It's too bad because the story is pretty good (I've heard the book is good, but I don't typically like Peter Straub) and the technique of shooting the movie like a classic horror movie with a cliched old-time horror score makes it so you're actually surprised to see some pretty gruesome scenes.

Overall, pretty boring though.. it takes almost half the movie for them to "reveal" what has been obvious the whole time.


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RegularKarate





Cursed

I have no idea how I got talked into watching this movie.  There's no reason to actually review it... it's a really pathetic attempt at making a werewolf version of scream.

Netflix puts it best:

Enjoyed By Members Who Enjoyed

The Haunting   
Boogeyman   
The Ring Two   
Van Helsing   
Catwoman   

modage





very odd film.  starts out great and i thought i was really going to be in for something fun and awesome.  but sort of turns into showtime porn with zombies.  maybe thats not so bad, and i know this film has a pretty good reputation but it didnt come together for me.  i do give it credit for its unique tone, mixing black comedy and obsessive vertigo romance in with zombies and casual gore, but it never quite became as good as it should've been.  also, i'm surprised it was only made 10 years ago because it LOOKS like it could've been made 20.  it's like an italian production where even the credits are in italian but the actors speak english?  it's weird. 

Quote from: RegularKarate on October 06, 2006, 01:55:27 PM
I don't think Mod likes this one, but despite everything telling me I should hate this, I really liked it.
that is a facinating backstory for Return of the Living Dead.  i had heard parts of it, but the details make it even better.  i saw it a few years ago and wasnt a huge fan but it was ridiculous fun.  never seen Ghost Story, but will check it out eventually (despite your mixed review).  and Cursed i also have not seen, though i may someday even knowing it will surely be a cinematic abortion.  (poor Wes).  and i have not seen either version of Pulse though kristen bell might tempt me to sit through the remake at some point.  i'm just so disinterested in that brand of asian horror at this point, the originals the remakes, i've had enough. 
Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.

Ghostboy

I watched Cemetary Man when it was finally released a few months ago, having wanted to see it for years. It's really odd, and around the third act it sort of lost me -  I think that might be because I wasn't expecting it to take a turn into such bizarre territory, but regardless, it gets rather episodic and repetitive towards the end, to the point that all the gore and violence and black humor lose their effect. But it's beautifully made, in that old fashioned Italian style, and certainly worth watching. When it's good, it's great...and the last scene, which is very Donnie Darko-ish, convinced me I'd missed somethign and made me want to rewatch the whole thing.

modage

yeah, exactly.  i fell asleep last night watching it and today rewound the last 20 minutes like 3 times trying to see where i lost the thread.
Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.

RegularKarate

I saw it when it first came out on VHS and remember loving the shit out of it (watched it three times in the same week), but it's been so long that I guess I need to see it again.

RegularKarate





Return of the Living Dead 2

I enjoyed the first so much that I ran out and rented this one (hearing from a friend that it was good, despite what I've read).
It's very much a sequel.  It's too blantantly comedic and the "jokes" are really obvious and unfunny and they're delivered in an early Facts of Life bad child acting kind of way.

There are some funny scenes and some okay gore, but the camp isn't as pure and the gore isn't as low-budget fun.

Oh, and the score change was pretty obvious to me.  I could tell something was off even though I don't specifically remember the original music and while I was watching the credits, I noticed songs that were never in the movie... what a cheap move.


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Don't even bother with Part III
"The myth by no means finds its adequate objectification in the spoken word. The structure of the scenes and the visible imagery reveal a deeper wisdom than the poet himself is able to put into words and concepts" – Friedrich Nietzsche

I Don't Believe in Beatles

I bought a copy of Cemetery Man at Goodwill today.  Here's hoping to loving the shit out of it like RK.

"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later." --Stanley Kubrick

RegularKarate





The Seventh Sign

If Rosemary's Baby and The Omen were brother and sister and then had a child, it would be The Seventh Sign and it would have down syndrome.  Also according to the ideas in this movie, it would be the will of God for it to pour gasoline all over it's parents and set them on fire.

I really need to stop watching movies I saw as a kid because they never pay out.

This movie is just absolutely terrible and doesn't even know what it's doing half the time.  Characters defy their apparent eternal goals just to deliver information about the weak plot of the movie and Jesus doesn't seem to know much about why his dad, God sent him back.... he's so clueless that at the end, he tells a Jewish man to write down what happened and spread the word... why would he do that?  he doesn't believe you've even been here once, let alone twice!

oh, and it's boring