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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jan 13, 2009 12:26:31 GMT 2
Well, since we're all talking about remakes.. Warning: If you like watching a movie with no real idea of what's going to happen, DON'T watch this trailer, as it pretty much tells you 90% of the fucking plot. www.apple.com/trailers/universal/thelasthouseontheleft/large_t1.htmlI thought the original pretty much sucked (comedy cops in a rape revenge movie? Really?) and, to be honest, this looks alright but nothing I would go mad for. Or even to the cinema for. But hey, horror is a big part of the Fortress, so it deserves a mention at least. Will you watch it? |
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Post by pauless on Jan 13, 2009 15:34:22 GMT 2
You don't need to be Nostradamus or even Old Mac to predict this one's gonna be a disaster.
I'm not sure about the 'original' though Cur - isn't that itself a remake of Bergman's 'the Virgin Spring'? An infinitely better movie, though I would argue Craven's sleaze-riot has some merit.
A modern Hollywood, PC'd up version of one the most notorious exploitation movies in Christendom - I think not.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jan 13, 2009 19:16:04 GMT 2
Huh - I didn't know it was a remake either.
Man, are movies in danger of eating themselves now or what?
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Post by trashcanman on Jan 14, 2009 2:28:09 GMT 2
Do you even have to ask if I'm going to see this? I'm not even sitting through the trailer. I may go to the theater on opening day just to slap every person I see walking out of that movie. "I Spit on your Grave" kills 'em all. I need no other rape revenge flick. It's the most brutal, disturbing, and satisfying and it shan't be topped.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jan 14, 2009 3:09:31 GMT 2
Funny, I've never seen I Spit on Your Grave. I just (wrongly?) put it alongside all the other crass, exploitive and not very frightening gore-fests we Brits charmingly refer to as Video Nasties. Worth seeing, then?
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Post by trashcanman on Jan 14, 2009 7:37:19 GMT 2
It's spectacularly cringe-inducing. But it is meant to be. It's got the rape sequence to end all rape sequences. Just when you think it's over, it starts all over again. But it makes the rampage over the second half damned satisfying. If watching some of the most vile acts done to an innocent woman in all of cinema doesn't bother you then it's a good film. Better than LHOTL for sure, but even harder to watch in some aspects. The only way to know is to see it for yourself.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jan 14, 2009 16:09:06 GMT 2
Hmmmm. I may well check that out, but I'm not sure if there's an uncut version available in the UK. That may need some research. To anyone else interested, here's the (lengthy) trailer.. uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TbWGigOfmGUSide note: is that the same guy who does the voiceover that did the Texas Chainsaw intro? And here's something to cheer you all up, too; "CineTel Films has acquired rights to remake I Spit on Your Grave and has a planned 2009 worldwide theatrical release. The movie will be produced by CineTel prexy-CEO Paul Hertzberg and Lisa Hansen, with Jeff Klein, Alan Ostroff, Gary Needle and Zarchi as exec producers." Come on now, are you at all surprised? |
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Post by pauless on Jan 14, 2009 18:20:37 GMT 2
According to the BBFC web-site the UK version of 'ISOYG' has over 7 minutes cut out, and I'm sure I read somewhere it was pre-cut before submission - so it needs fucking right off.
As our schlock conniseur rightly says, the original (and I'm pretty sure that fuckers not a remake - although there was an unconnected film in the 50's with the same title) is a grim experience. Not scary, not particularly gory and you could argue the toss til the cows come home as to its exploitation quota - but it's 100% must see.
Despite it's original (and far more apt) title 'Day of the Woman', it isn't a chick-flick and any attempt to utilise it as a date movie will result in you never getting a date again.
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Post by trashcanman on Jan 14, 2009 22:25:42 GMT 2
I am a little surprised they are remaking it and if you've seen it, you know why. This will likely be NOTHING like the original and therefore functionally useless. The irony is that studio execs are graphically raping these movies and I'm about to kill 'em all in horrifying ways. And yes, at least one of them is retarded. There's got to be somebody out there working on a "Cannibal Holocaust" remake as we speak. I may see that one for comedic value alone.
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