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Post by YellowJacketY2J on Dec 3, 2009 3:42:53 GMT -5
What are your thoughts on Silent Night Deadly Night? I'm watching it now, and digging it. I loved Silent Night, Deadly Night. I haven't seen any of the sequels (though I plan on doing so this holiday season). And ryno, ThanksKilling does feel a lot like a Troma movie. Since you mentioned it, I'm really shocked to know that it isn't.
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Post by DSR on Dec 3, 2009 4:00:03 GMT -5
Folks, it is with great sadness that I must report that Spanish cinematic legend and Horror Hall of Famer PAUL NASCHY has died from pancreatic cancer, on December 1. He was 75 years old.
RIP Jacinto Molina. You will be missed. Thankfully, your memory will live on thanks to your great achievements in film.
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Post by YellowJacketY2J on Dec 3, 2009 5:00:34 GMT -5
Folks, it is with great sadness that I must report that Spanish cinematic legend and Horror Hall of Famer PAUL NASCHY has died from pancreatic cancer, on December 1. He was 75 years old. RIP Jacinto Molina. You will be missed. Thankfully, your memory will live on thanks to your great achievements in film. R.I.P.
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Dec 3, 2009 13:29:18 GMT -5
Folks, it is with great sadness that I must report that Spanish cinematic legend and Horror Hall of Famer PAUL NASCHY has died from pancreatic cancer, on December 1. He was 75 years old. RIP Jacinto Molina. You will be missed. Thankfully, your memory will live on thanks to your great achievements in film. Damn. Hombre Lobo and Mr. Awesome himself has passed on to the great beyond. R.I.P, Mr. Paul. I've only seen a couple of his films, but in doing the research for the induction, I learned a great deal about the man's work. One of the true friends of the horror genre is gone.
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Post by Rorschach on Dec 4, 2009 20:09:49 GMT -5
Folks, it is with great sadness that I must report that Spanish cinematic legend and Horror Hall of Famer PAUL NASCHY has died from pancreatic cancer, on December 1. He was 75 years old. RIP Jacinto Molina. You will be missed. Thankfully, your memory will live on thanks to your great achievements in film. Damn. Hombre Lobo and Mr. Awesome himself has passed on to the great beyond. R.I.P, Mr. Paul. I've only seen a couple of his films, but in doing the research for the induction, I learned a great deal about the man's work. One of the true friends of the horror genre is gone. Damn...I'm late on this one but RIP, Mr. Naschy. No one, and I say this with every bit of seriousness, will ever be able to fill your shoes. I wanted to bump this thread back to page one with a quick review of a movie I came across in my local Blockbuster called NATURE'S GRAVE. It stars the usually dependable Jim Caviezel, whose mug is absolutely plastered all over the cover. Take a look yourself: NATURE'S GRAVE (2008) STARRING: Jim Caviezel, Claudia Karvan, and a bunch of poor, doomed animals that meet their demise at the hands of an uncaring yuppie couple. DIRECTED BY: Jamie Blanks HUGE, isn't it? I was wondering if this was an actual movie poster, or Caviezel's mug shot masquerading as DVD cover art. Turns out a video of Caviezel's breaking the law would have been a better film. If that sounds harsh, then consider this: All you need to know about this movie can be summed up by saying that it is an 88 minute exercise in tedium in which we, the viewers, are subject to a man and his wife having a VERY nasty verbal fight. The kind of fight that kills marriages RAID dead. She brings up his philandering, he brings up her f*****g anything with a pulse that ISN'T him. *YAWN* In an effort to save the doomed marriage (though if they hate each other that much, why the marriage should be saved is a mystery) they take a trip to a supposedly secluded beach, where they are supposed to meet up with another couple. More arguing and bitching and sniping happens (and Jim Caviezel runs over a wallaby/baby kangaroo with their SUV in a gory shot) and long story short, the unhappy and hateful couple end up lost on a stretch of beach that practically DEFINES foreboding. Ants are pouring out of every little hole in the ground, snakes are dangling from tree branches like leaves, and spiders scurry everywhere. YAY! Let's camp here, sweetie! Now, this movie could have worked had ONE of the two partners been a decent human being. But they're both written as such ass-hats (he's the king of the douchebags, and she's the mother of all shrewish bitches) that we're forcefully manipulated by the script to ROOT for mother nature to off these detestable humans and spare us another ten minutes of him trying to sleaze his way into her pants, and her bitching about how miserable she is at the beach because there's nothing to do. *SIGH* So King Douche and Queen Harpy pitch camp on the beach and decide that they're gonna stick it out for a few days...but not without STILL more bitching and fighting. This movie is really not a strong endorsement for marriage. Anyway, she's pissed off that he brought a spear gun, and he's pissed at her because she's nagging him about the goddamn gun, and I'm pissed that this movie is doing nothing but showing these hateable idiots arguing. For f***s sake...let's have a tree branch shear someone in two or something! DAMMIT! *Le SIGH, part deux* So he decides to set the gun down and go surfing instead, at which point I think the movie gods must have heard me because the gun goes off "on it's own" and narrowly missed the throat of Queen Harpy, who bitches about THAT while Jim Caviezel strips down and heads off to the beach. Oh yeah, they also "accidentally" brought their dog along, because, I guess that the scriptwriters thought they needed ONE sympathetic main character that we could care about, though how one drives two hundred f*****g miles with a medium sized dog in the car and fails to notice the panting, barking, and excitement of said animal, or it's need for things like a place to piss every so often and food and water, is beyond me. Unless that dog has the stealth skills of Solid Snake, that is. Moving on. Cricket the Dog (that's her real name, by the way) joins Jim on the beach, and soon after, Queen Harpy follows, upset that there's no one left at camp for her to bitch at. Before she leaves, she sprays the ants/spiders with some no doubt Environmentally unfriendly bug spray, because they finally got into the food and pissed her off. So she heads to the beach just in time to see a dark, ominous shape stalking Caviezel in the water...and my interest in this film suddenly peaks. SHARK TIME!!! But no...Queen Harpy freaks out and makes Caviezel "get out of the water....NOW!" only for it to be revealed that it wasn't a shark at all. *BIG sigh* Long story short, this couple eventually slaughters a baby bird for no reason, and Caviezel ends up going back down to the beach with his rifle that he brought along "just for fun" (yeah, I'm thinking he had other things on his mind with that one) and shooting the HELL out of that dark, ominous shape in the water...which turns out to be a sea cow. God damn this movie. {Spoiler}In the end, the beach, and I guess Nature herself, ends up driving the couple insane, and during yet another long drive to nowhere in the SUV it is revealed that Caviezel's infidelity was due to the Queen Harpy aborting their baby because she wanted a divorce and didn't want a kid in the middle of it all. Wow. So now this movie is has both an anti-abortion message AND an environmentalist agenda to shove down our throats. Awesome. Suffice to say the ONLY real excitement comes from the last minute of the movie, and the fate of Caviezel's character, which is so far over the top I thought they spliced a Troma movie into this one just as a reward for me sitting all the way through to the end. I was standing an applauding the gory gross out as much as I was the fact that this movie's credits were rolling. * and that's for Caveziel's fate alone. AVOID THIS LIKE THE PLAGUE!
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Post by Rorschach on Dec 5, 2009 4:07:37 GMT -5
And now for something to wash that nasty taste out of my mouth...another "man vs. nature" flick, but this time, an all time favorite of mine! PIRANHA (1978) Directed by: Joe Dante Starring: Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies Now THIS is more like it...a tongue in cheek send up of killer animal movies (JAWS in particular) that still packs a good, gory punch while giving us characters who are fully aware of how ridiculous their situation is. Dante's PIRANHA was never going to win an Oscar, but that was never the point of it. It's a fun romp throughout, and it never loses it's sense of humor, yet it also maintains an air of dread whenever the voracious little fish show up onscreen. PIRANHA starts out as two unsuspecting backpackers go for an ill advised moonlight dip in an old abandoned Army test site swimming pool. Or what they think is a swimming pool. Turns out it's full of genetically altered piranha, and these two kids are soon toast, much like Chrissy was in JAWS. Not long after this goes down, we meet Maggie (Menzies, in a very cute, very understated performance) who is a missing persons locator hired by the parents of the missing hikers to track them down. When we first see Maggie, she's playing the JAWS arcade game, the second of MANY nods to that movie that, to me, never get old because they're never FORCED. It's just cute stuff that happens in the background, or just happens to remind you, as the first two deaths do, of JAWS. Dante knew what he was doing, and it works well here. But I digress. Maggie tracks the missing couple to a mountainside location not far from the old Army site, where she meets Paul (Dillman, who also plays his role in a very campy way, and perfectly pulls off a parody of Charlton Heston, though I don't honestly think that was his intention) who lives in a cabin just off a trail on the mountain. Maggie questions Paul,who professes to know nothing about the backpackers, though he does allude to the Army site possibly being their destination, due to it's secluded location. Maggie keeps badgering Paul and before long, above all his protestations, she convinces him to take her to the Army site. Once there, the two investigate the pool site, which Paul notes contains salty water. They make their way inside the facility itself, and discover a plethora of mad science creations, including a stop-motion lizard thing that seems to stalk them from the shadows. Paul is creeped right the hell out, and wants for all the world to just leave and go home, but Maggie makes the fateful decision that the only way they can be sure the two kids aren't dead at the bottom of the pool is to drain the damn thing. As Paul flips the drainage switch, a crazy man with white hair charges them and tries to stop them, but to no avail. They manage to knock him out and the damage is done: A hundred or more ravenous, man eating piranhas have been released to the nearby river system via the pond's drainage system! Now, it's up to Paul and Maggie to stop the dreaded fish and save the local town that just so happens to be opening a new resort on the very lake the piranha are headed for! Yes, folks, PIRANHA is a very silly movie, but it's a very silly movie with it's heart in the right place, and done with a skill and tact by Joe Dante that is rarely seen in B-movies like this. It's a lot of fun, sometimes genuinely creepy and scary, and has a great cast of characters giving it their all and having a helluva lot of fun doing it. ***** easily. Check it out if you haven't already. ;D
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Post by erisi236 on Dec 5, 2009 4:34:36 GMT -5
So I was watching CHUD the other day, and you know it's funny as you watch it you can't help but think that it's an unfinished movie. It goes along and then it just kind of ends with no real resolution at all, I think they even forgot about the Chuds. They must have come to the same conclusion as they did at one time try to fix that by putting a Chud attack that was once in the middle of the movie at the end for the VHS version, but it screwed up the film so much they put it back as is in the DVD form, so we're left with an unfinished movie. One interesting thing in this is that they went for a "less is more" approach for the creatures, probably because they look a little wack, but still, it is a bit more effective in an "Alien" kind of way. As much as people hate remakes, I really think CHUD would be an good candidate, it could really benefit from modern FX and a fresh script, it would lose the 80s grit that's all over the original, but I'm sure the pros would outweigh the cons on this one.
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Post by YellowJacketY2J on Dec 5, 2009 7:53:45 GMT -5
So I was watching CHUD the other day, and you know it's funny as you watch it you can't help but think that it's an unfinished movie. It goes along and then it just kind of ends with no real resolution at all, I think they even forgot about the Chuds. They must have come to the same conclusion as they did at one time try to fix that by putting a Chud attack that was once in the middle of the movie at the end for the VHS version, but it screwed up the film so much they put it back as is in the DVD form, so we're left with an unfinished movie. One interesting thing in this is that they went for a "less is more" approach for the creatures, probably because they look a little wack, but still, it is a bit more effective in an "Alien" kind of way. As much as people hate remakes, I really think CHUD would be an good candidate, it could really benefit from modern FX and a fresh script, it would lose the 80s grit that's all over the original, but I'm sure the pros would outweigh the cons on this one. I heard rumors that Rob Zombie was interested in remaking C.H.U.D. If he did have any interest, he dropped it for The Blob instead.
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Post by YellowJacketY2J on Dec 5, 2009 11:49:37 GMT -5
Wrestlecrap Exclusive ReviewIt's time to start off my Christmas Horror Advent! To start me off is the low-budget Christmas slasher, Santa Claws (get it?)! Raven Quinn (Debbie Rochon, who is the only likable cast member in this movie) is an actress/model for Scream Queen, a horror-themed Playboy, where they do magizines and movies. She's set to star in their newest movie, Scream Queen Christmas (which doesn't seem to even have a plot). Meanwhile, her and her husband, Eric (John Mowod), are having maritable problems, and it gets worse as he's off in Florida doing a photo-shoot with another Scream Queen model (he's a photographer for the company). Her next-door neighbor, Wayne (Grant Cramer), is there to be her shoulder to cry on. This pleases Wayne, since he has a stalkeresque crush on her. Oh, and when he was 10, he found his widowed mother sleeping with a man in a Santa Claus outfit, and shot and killed them both (the movie never explains if he got caught and arrested). He helps watch her kids and talk with her about her problems. To further help her out, he secretly kills her fellow cast-members who will not only get in the way of her success, but in the way of him as well (such as the producer she had a meeting with, which Wayne misheard as a date). He kills them with a claw (who would've guessed), while dressed in a Santa Claus outfit (though he doesn't don the suit until the 45 minute mark, as he opts to wear a ski mask for the first few kills). The film is a bore. The direction is all over the place, as are the scenes. The acting's terrible, with the exception of Debbie Rochon (though Grant Kramer does put in an admirable effort). The kills are lame and badly choreographed (Wayne lunges at his victim, followed by the two rolling around on the floor). The running time is mercifully short, clocking in at 75 minutes. This does hurt the film, as John A. Russo rushes the ending (he sure as hell took his sweet time building up to the ending). Even with a short running time, Santa Claws drags. There are multiple scenes where sexy women film their scenes for Scream Queen Christmas, as they strip down to their birthday suits. I could see some arguing that this should be a plus. My response is "If I wanted to watch women strip, I'd either go to a strip club or watch a porno". These scenes eat up time and add nothing to the film. This was a terrible way to start off my Christmas Horror Advent. Final Rating: 20%
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Dec 5, 2009 12:39:16 GMT -5
So many reviews to chime in on.
Well, as for Nature's Grave, Rorschach...*sigh*, Jim Caviezal. There's probably not a whole lot I can say on this subject without getting warned/banned, but suffice to say, the man is an amazing actor and it's a crime what has happened to his career. For lesser known Caviezal films, though it's not horror, check out I Am David, which is quite excellent.
Piranha and C.H.U.D. are both semi-favorites of mine...but keep Rob Zombie the hell away from C.H.U.D.. Dante in general always seems to craft small gems - good, scary horror flicks that have a few interesting quirks thrown into the formula.
Lastly, YTJ...Debbie Rochon (*slobber*). That's all I've got to say for that one.
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Post by DSR on Dec 6, 2009 1:51:27 GMT -5
Lastly, YTJ...Debbie Rochon (*slobber*). That's all I've got to say for that one. Co-signed! ;D Yeah, sorry, I have nothing important to add.
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Dec 6, 2009 10:02:09 GMT -5
Lastly, YTJ...Debbie Rochon (*slobber*). That's all I've got to say for that one. Co-signed! ;D Yeah, sorry, I have nothing important to add. She even has a sexy voice. Fangoria Radio is proof, although I'm almost always too tired to listen to the entire show. As I've mentioned MANY times (to the point that you're probably all sick of hearing about it), I work the overnight shift but stay up all day on Friday to go to a couple movies, and am DEAD tired when Friday night rolls around. I actually fall asleep with Dee Snider, Tony Timpone and Rochon jabbering in the background pretty much every week. ;D
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Post by YellowJacketY2J on Dec 6, 2009 11:56:49 GMT -5
Co-signed! ;D Yeah, sorry, I have nothing important to add. She even has a sexy voice. Fangoria Radio is proof, although I'm almost always too tired to listen to the entire show. As I've mentioned MANY times (to the point that you're probably all sick of hearing about it), I work the overnight shift but stay up all day on Friday to go to a couple movies, and am DEAD tired when Friday night rolls around. I actually fall asleep with Dee Snider, Tony Timpone and Rochon jabbering in the background pretty much every week. ;D I too work the overnight shift. I have nothing else to add. I just wanted to let you know you're not alone.
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Post by Rorschach on Dec 6, 2009 15:22:42 GMT -5
So many reviews to chime in on. Well, as for Nature's Grave, Rorschach...*sigh*, Jim Caviezal. There's probably not a whole lot I can say on this subject without getting warned/banned, but suffice to say, the man is an amazing actor and it's a crime what has happened to his career. For lesser known Caviezal films, though it's not horror, check out I Am David, which is quite excellent. Piranha and C.H.U.D. are both semi-favorites of mine...but keep Rob Zombie the hell away from C.H.U.D.. Dante in general always seems to craft small gems - good, scary horror flicks that have a few interesting quirks thrown into the formula. Lastly, YTJ...Debbie Rochon (*slobber*). That's all I've got to say for that one. Yeah, Caviezel is one of my favorite actors, and I need to make clear that the problem in NATURE'S GRAVE is not his acting....it's the atrocious script that he and his co-star are saddled with. I mean, it's like whoever wrote it forgot to give EITHER of the human leads any sort of sympathetic bent or angle to their characters. They're both equally hateable, and if that was the point, I have to question why on Earth you make this movie in the first place? Films USUALLY don't work with two ANTagonists. Usually in a case that like that, one of them will have to turn face by virtue of being the less hateable one. The lesser of two evils, if you will. Not here though. Here, they both stay equally aggravating right up to their bitter end. No redemption for anyone. No one to feel a slight bit sorry for. Just two miserable married people dragging the viewer down with them. Oh, and to stay on topic.... ;D
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Dec 6, 2009 15:35:10 GMT -5
Oh, and to stay on topic.... ;D Shit, I didn't even know there was a Mulva 1. Wasn't Mulva one of the guessed "names that sound like a part of the female anatomy" on a Seinfeld episode? ;D
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Post by Rorschach on Dec 6, 2009 15:43:55 GMT -5
I just love the plot description on the back of that! He gave her sugar shock and stole her Halloween candy...how priceless is THAT?
Hell, how come EPIC DISASTER "WE'RE UNCREATIVE DICKS WHO SUCK" MOVIE XXVII gets theatrical play, but something THIS awesome doesn't? Debbie Rochon chasing a guy in an ape suit with a samurai sword, all while finding time to be gratuitously naked? Sign me up!
Oh and BTW....nice Army of Kayakos in your sig. As if ONE wasn't bad enought to deal with! ;D
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Dec 6, 2009 15:47:30 GMT -5
I just love the plot description on the back of that! He gave her sugar shock and stole her Halloween candy...how priceless is THAT? Hell, how come EPIC DISASTER "WE'RE UNCREATIVE DICKS WHO SUCK" MOVIE XXVII gets theatrical play, but something THIS awesome doesn't? Debbie Rochon chasing a guy in an ape suit with a samurai sword, all while finding time to be gratuitously naked? Sign me up! Oh and BTW....nice Army of Kayakos in your sig. As if ONE wasn't bad enought to deal with! ;D That's from my favorite scene of Ju-On: The Curse 2, where the younger brother of Kyoko (the psychic from the end of Curse 1) is surrounded and killed by approximately 50 Kayakos. Awesome stuff.
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Post by erisi236 on Dec 6, 2009 15:52:05 GMT -5
I just love the plot description on the back of that! He gave her sugar shock and stole her Halloween candy...how priceless is THAT? Hell, how come EPIC DISASTER "WE'RE UNCREATIVE DICKS WHO SUCK" MOVIE XXVII gets theatrical play, but something THIS awesome doesn't? Debbie Rochon chasing a guy in an ape suit with a samurai sword, all while finding time to be gratuitously naked? Sign me up! Oh and BTW....nice Army of Kayakos in your sig. As if ONE wasn't bad enought to deal with! ;D That's from my favorite scene of Ju-On: The Curse 2, where the younger brother of Kyoko (the psychic from the end of Curse 1) is surrounded and killed by approximately 50 Kayakos. Awesome stuff. Sadly that's about the best scene in Curse 2, other then maybe the stuff that's recycled from Curse 1.
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Dec 6, 2009 17:38:54 GMT -5
Sadly that's about the best scene in Curse 2, other then maybe the stuff that's recycled from Curse 1. You once theorized that Ju-On: Curse 2 basically exists because the original film ran long, and they just re-packaged the deleted scenes plus the last half-hour of the finished first film into a "sequel." I'd say that's very accurate. I still enjoy the film, but even a lot of the "new" scenes in Curse 2 are pretty dull, and probably deserved to be on the cutting room floor. Still doesn't take away from the badassery of the Kayako army, however.
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Post by theryno665 on Dec 6, 2009 18:51:41 GMT -5
So I went to Wal-Mart today and picked up The Descent since it was only $5. Considering it was ranked pretty high in that Horrorhound "Best of the Decade" list I posted a little while back, I figured I'd give it a shot and if I hated it, I'd only be out $5.
I've decided to save my horror movies that I got from Black Friday (Hey, now wouldn't THAT make an awesome slasher flick? "Slashing prices...and throats! Rated R.") until around Christmas time. Turns out that due to changing schedules with my family's various Christmas celebrations, I may be spending Christmas Day all alone. So I may be having a Christmas Day Horror Movie Marathon just for the hell of it. As it stands, I have The Descent, Midnight Meat Train, Behind The Mask and Hellraiser to watch. But I don't know if I can watch 4 movies in a row. I'll probably wanna start doing random stuff after 2.
Anyways, something else that caught my eye in the Wal-Mart bargain bin was a 4-disc Ringu set. I decided not to get it because I think I might've actually seen the original Ringu a while back and wasn't all that impressed. But it's kinda hard to pass up 4 movies for $5, though I only saw one copy and for all I know, some random customer could've grabbed it off the shelf and left it in there instead. Didn't do a price check. Though I may consider going back and grabbing it if it comes with a good enough recommendation from youse guys.
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