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Post by Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action on Mar 18, 2009 0:02:35 GMT -5
He, promoting your entry already I see.
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 18, 2009 0:09:41 GMT -5
I voted for Orlok. Who doesn't love stinky vampires?
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Post by animalboy on Mar 18, 2009 0:11:40 GMT -5
He, promoting your entry already I see. Not really(Seeing as how i have how many entries in this thing?)I wouldn't know which one to push. I just forgot how hot Kristy Swanson was. ;D
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Mar 18, 2009 0:14:28 GMT -5
Count Orlok scares me.
So, give me Ms Vorhees.
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Post by Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action on Mar 18, 2009 0:19:06 GMT -5
I voted for Orlok. Who doesn't love stinky vampires? That's about my train of logic.
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Post by animalboy on Mar 18, 2009 0:21:41 GMT -5
Stinky lycans>Stinky vampires
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Post by Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action on Mar 18, 2009 0:38:08 GMT -5
Heh. I vote Nosferatu. I mean, look at him. Poor Pammy wouldn't stand a chance....plus, it would set up one HELL of a grudge match between Orlok and her boy. Something tells me that hockey mask wearing S.O.B. won't be happy with Orlok tearing his mommy's head off....... Count O versus the J.V. would be an awesome site to behold.
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Post by MiLo Duck on Mar 18, 2009 1:04:18 GMT -5
Count Orlok.
That good ol' blood sucking baddy kicked of the craze for so much in cinema, plus would take down horror's number one crazy mom in a snap!
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Post by animalboy on Mar 18, 2009 4:16:50 GMT -5
I'm starting to worry that people will only judge matches on a who would win a fight basis. If that's the case then we're in trouble!
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Post by Zombie Pig on Mar 18, 2009 4:22:47 GMT -5
I voted for Jason's mom.
If Orlok wins I hope Jason takes his head.
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Post by DSR on Mar 18, 2009 6:47:36 GMT -5
Orlok. Hello. And PAMELA VOORHEES, BABY!! Cheesy slasher cinema FTW!! Well, actually, I should expand on that. Speaking seriously (and not just as a slasher fan), I believe that the original Friday the 13th was FAR more influential than Nosferatu. Gothic horror villains had been done to death even at that point in film history. F13 took slasher movies to the stratosphere, a trend that continues even today. *ahem* Even if you choose not to count the proto-slasher movies of the 20s and 30s (like, The Cat And the Canary or A Study in Scarlet), even if you choose not to count the Italian gialli, or the huge waves of influence of Hitchcock's Psycho...HALLOWEEN took slasher movies to the stratosphere (or rather, to mainstream audiences)...Friday the 13th just kept them there. Hell, Friday the 13th Part 2 was more influential than the first one, as it caused many production companies to think of horror movie FRANCHISES as a viable option (something they hadn't done for years). It wasn't until after F13 Part 2 that we got Halloween Part 2, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, and even Psycho II.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Mar 18, 2009 6:51:32 GMT -5
I honestly don't know how well known the Lee Dracula is outside of horror fans. While I know the Nosferatu image has been out there thanks to all sorts of cameos in TV shows and other media. Oh he's huge, you think Christopher Lee you think Dracula if you were born pre LOTR era. (After LOTR hes more known as Sarumon or Dooku these days) Still many, many (why am I turning into Lassard?) people remember Lee as Dracula and Peter Cushing as Van Helsing. I voted Pamela Voorhees purely because you don't get too many serial slasher killer mothers.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2009 6:54:37 GMT -5
Mama Throw YOU From the Train
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Post by hollywood on Mar 18, 2009 7:54:35 GMT -5
Pam gets my vote. For pretty much the same reasons TR listed, even though I think Halloween deserves more credit for "launching slashers" into the stratosphere. Hell, Halloween pretty much INVENTED the modern slasher film. Although, Friday the 13th does get the credit for creative and inventive ways the killer offs his/her victims.
Orlock was essentially just a reworking of Dracula since the studios couldn't get the rights to him. He's pretty much just a goblin in place of the one true original vampire. Pam was at least KIND OF original.
Plus...I f***ing hate vampires. Especially ones not named Dracula.
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Mar 18, 2009 7:57:31 GMT -5
In soviet Russia... Mama Throw YOU From the Train
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Mar 18, 2009 9:17:49 GMT -5
*ahem* Even if you choose not to count the proto-slasher movies of the 20s and 30s (like, The Cat And the Canary or A Study in Scarlet), even if you choose not to count the Italian gialli, or the huge waves of influence of Hitchcock's Psycho...HALLOWEEN took slasher movies to the stratosphere (or rather, to mainstream audiences)...Friday the 13th just kept them there. Hell, Friday the 13th Part 2 was more influential than the first one, as it caused many production companies to think of horror movie FRANCHISES as a viable option (something they hadn't done for years). It wasn't until after F13 Part 2 that we got Halloween Part 2, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, and even Psycho II. I'll stand by my statement. It's not like I said that Friday the 13th INVENTED the slasher film or anything, because I said nothing of the sort. I don't think that the movie's large scale, immediate success can be ignored. It was the first film to ever be given a wide release (as opposed to Halloween, which was released regionally) with no proven director or bankable stars, and based on nothing more than its title, ad campaign, and buzz, was an instant smash. It also popularized a number of things that today are cliches and were repeated endlessly in the few years immediately following its release: attractive, nubile cast, remote forest or camp location, increasingly gory murders - and, of course, the moral that if you have sex, you will die, very painfully. ;D I get what you're saying, DSR - I just feel you misinterpreted what I said.
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Post by Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action on Mar 18, 2009 9:18:17 GMT -5
I honestly don't know how well known the Lee Dracula is outside of horror fans. While I know the Nosferatu image has been out there thanks to all sorts of cameos in TV shows and other media. Oh he's huge, you think Christopher Lee you think Dracula if you were born pre LOTR era. (After LOTR hes more known as Sarumon or Dooku these days) Still many, many (why am I turning into Lassard?) people remember Lee as Dracula and Peter Cushing as Van Helsing. I voted Pamela Voorhees purely because you don't get too many serial slasher killer mothers. That's over there though Joker, I was refering more to American pop culture. But yeah I didn't think about that.
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Post by Rorschach on Mar 18, 2009 13:06:28 GMT -5
I voted for Jason's mom. If Orlok wins I hope Jason takes his head. This is the match I'm hoping for, too....hence we need Orlok to go over to set it up.
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Post by animalboy on Mar 18, 2009 13:38:25 GMT -5
Oh he's huge, you think Christopher Lee you think Dracula if you were born pre LOTR era. (After LOTR hes more known as Sarumon or Dooku these days) Still many, many (why am I turning into Lassard?) people remember Lee as Dracula and Peter Cushing as Van Helsing. I voted Pamela Voorhees purely because you don't get too many serial slasher killer mothers. That's over there though Joker, I was refering more to American pop culture. But yeah I didn't think about that. He's actually the first Dracula i think of when i think of movie Draculas.But for me Lee will always be Scaramanga.
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Post by DSR on Mar 18, 2009 14:38:52 GMT -5
*ahem* Even if you choose not to count the proto-slasher movies of the 20s and 30s (like, The Cat And the Canary or A Study in Scarlet), even if you choose not to count the Italian gialli, or the huge waves of influence of Hitchcock's Psycho...HALLOWEEN took slasher movies to the stratosphere (or rather, to mainstream audiences)...Friday the 13th just kept them there. Hell, Friday the 13th Part 2 was more influential than the first one, as it caused many production companies to think of horror movie FRANCHISES as a viable option (something they hadn't done for years). It wasn't until after F13 Part 2 that we got Halloween Part 2, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, and even Psycho II. I'll stand by my statement. It's not like I said that Friday the 13th INVENTED the slasher film or anything, because I said nothing of the sort. I don't think that the movie's large scale, immediate success can be ignored. It was the first film to ever be given a wide release (as opposed to Halloween, which was released regionally) with no proven director or bankable stars, and based on nothing more than its title, ad campaign, and buzz, was an instant smash. It also popularized a number of things that today are cliches and were repeated endlessly in the few years immediately following its release: attractive, nubile cast, remote forest or camp location, increasingly gory murders - and, of course, the moral that if you have sex, you will die, very painfully. ;D I get what you're saying, DSR - I just feel you misinterpreted what I said. And I didn't really mean to come off like I didn't think Friday the 13th was just a cheap jack ripoff of things that came before it. I know full well the influence the film had, as it and its sequels were among the first horror films I'd ever seen. And in addition to the immediate success, Friday the 13th has certainly had a lasting impression on audiences (obviously). But, by the same token, German filmmakers such as F.W. Murnau pretty much knew exactly how to terrify audiences while here in America, we hadn't really established any concrete genre conventions.
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