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Post by The Curmudgeon on Apr 16, 2007 21:05:34 GMT 2
What he said.
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Post by Skymac2 on Apr 16, 2007 21:06:17 GMT 2
Well then perhaps I should have said, "what were the best of the worst of the last 12 months."
If you've not seen Wolf Creek, it is a genuine Horror movie. It's not a gore fest. It's a horrific tale, while graphic, of some very bad stuff that happens to some relatively normal people.
And the second is The Descent (released in the US this year and in the UK last year). I've only seen the UK version, and I hear that the US version's ending is a bit (more) lame. But it was chilling.
Both were 4 out of 5 star Horror movies in my humble opinion. See my full reviews under my profile at Amazon.
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Post by trashcanman on Apr 16, 2007 21:06:50 GMT 2
Yeah, skymac2, "The Descent" was brilliant. I got the UK edition last year and had a fit at my workplace when a co-worker who saw it in the theater upon it's recent unheralded US release told me how they changed the ending. I don't think I'm spoiling it for anyone who hasn't seen the film when I say that in the US version, she doesn't wake up and the film ends upbeat. Retarded, so freakin' retarded. I'm also a huge fan of "Nightwatch" which is probably more fantasy than horror, but I'll stretch it a bit to make it fit the horror mold for the sake of this topic. "Hostel" and "Wolf Creek" were both solid flicks if you don't mind watching people being horribly mutilated and-or tortured. As far as the bad franchises go, I love the first two "Return of the Living Dead" films, good, cheesy fun. You've got to love the films that first brought us zombies who lament for "BRRRAAAIIINNNNS!"; but after the first two films, they forgot the humor that made those two good and you can take or leave 'em. The first "Leprechaun" film was hilarious, but anything after that and the joke has worn thin. I had to rent "Leprechaun in the Hood" out of sheer curiosity. An idea that retarded must be great fun, right? My bad. If I could have a brain wipe done, among the first things to go would be that scene at the end of that movie where Warwick Davis is skipping around that bar, rapping, while the girls chant "Lep in the hood out to do no good" over and over again. To think they made a second one of THOSE is mind-boggling. Oh, yeah, and welcome to the fortress which is getting less and less solitary.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Apr 16, 2007 21:07:38 GMT 2
Man, I can't believe they've changed the ending to Descent. Sigh - words fail me at the stupidity of movie-execs these days.
I thought both Hostel and Descent were excellent, so maybe I was being a bit unfair with my "no decent horror" comments. Hostel was pretty brutal, all in all with some excellent, tense moments.
I LOVED Return Of The Living Dead III, not least for the smoking hot redhead in it (talk about wanting to slip into necrophilia). That was one of my first essential DVD purchases. They've made another two films in that series which I still haven't seen - anyone got any info on them?
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Post by trashcanman on Apr 16, 2007 21:08:19 GMT 2
Yeah, I've seen the last 2 ROTLD films. They aren't the worst things I've ever watched, but I wouldn't go out of my way to see them, either. The 4th is titled "ROTLD: Necropolis" and the 5th is "ROTLD: Rave to the Grave". That last one isn't on DVD yet, but they were both Sci-Fi channel originals and therefore, the very B-est of B movies. The 3rd film wasn't a bad movie, really, but the whole teen angst thing isn't really my trip. I loved the humor of the first two and especially the goofy soundtrack of the first film. The third entry was just kinda depressing for me, being a big crybaby and all.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Apr 16, 2007 21:08:43 GMT 2
I think the Halloween franchise is pretty under-rated. The first is a classic, of course, but the sequel is still pretty good and I like the whole mythology of the series (I loved the ending where his six year old niece stabs her mother in the same clown suit as Michael wore).
H20 was a nice big budget slasher movie, but I like to pretend Resurrection didn't happen. Busta Rhymes v Michael Myers? No thanks.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Oct 31, 2007 20:47:58 GMT 2
Halloween inspired BUMP.
A chance to revist some older "horror" themed threads, in honour of arguably the coolest time of year.
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Post by trashcanman on Oct 31, 2007 23:40:06 GMT 2
I shan't resist. I finally bought "Halloween" on DVD yesterday since it was packaged with the 2-disc documentary "Halloween: 25 Years of Terror" for the price of 1 DVD. Ii was also part of buy-one-get-one-free offer so I picked up the collector's edition of "The Wicker Man" (NOT the remake) at no charge. Then I saw "The Night Flier" for damn near nothing in the "used" section and adding these flicks to my previous week's haul of "Ju-on" (scariest ghost story ever!) and "Carrie" from the same store, and "Hostel" (the new "director's cut" edition) from Amazon this is my best Halloween ever DVD-wise! I've bought "Phantasm" since last this thread was active and, well, I can't say I've ever seen anything like it. Onward to the sequels. Happy Halloween everybody.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Nov 2, 2007 19:55:34 GMT 2
Hey, that is an excellent haul at any time of the year, Trashy - at Halloween it's even sweeter. The Wicker Man is a superb film, and one I have no wish to see the remake of.
What's the Halloween documentary like? Worth picking up?
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Post by trashcanman on Nov 7, 2007 9:56:14 GMT 2
It's essentially two discs of supplementary features spanning the entire series so far. The doc itself was pretty good, but I wouldn't recommend buying it by itself unless you're a "Halloween" completist.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Nov 11, 2007 15:45:27 GMT 2
I recently watched the "other" Halloween movies, (you know, the ones written out of continuity by H20) and they're not actually that bad. I like the fact it keeps a faint sense of a story arc (the little niece that goes nuts) and the use of the now adult Billy. I think its touches like that which can help a franchise, especially compared to the utterly hateful dross of Halloween: Resurrection.
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