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Post by pegasuswarrior on Oct 26, 2010 21:28:04 GMT -5
Oh, and Halloween III: Season of The Witch is on AMC right now. I'm watching the eff out of it right now. (I had it on pause while I took a call, so DVR is letting me catch up.) Yeah, I love Halloween. And I'm having a blast with this terrible terrible train wreck of a movie.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2010 21:43:56 GMT -5
Tom Atkins is a god. But we already know that.
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Post by andrew8798 on Oct 26, 2010 23:45:53 GMT -5
Update on the Childs Play Remake
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2010 2:11:20 GMT -5
For those of you with a PSN account, you can rent the absolute classic A Nightmare on Elm Street for FREE from 8 PM EST to 6 AM on Saturday.
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Post by Chainsaw on Oct 27, 2010 22:28:58 GMT -5
Watch... Watch...
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Post by BearDogg-X on Oct 27, 2010 22:33:17 GMT -5
4 more days to Halloween, Halloween, Halloween 4 more days to Halloween, Silver Shamrock
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Post by pegasuswarrior on Oct 27, 2010 22:38:52 GMT -5
4 more days to Halloween, Halloween, Halloween 4 more days to Halloween, Silver Shamrock I sent that exact message to someone earlier tonight. Nice.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2010 1:05:16 GMT -5
The third channel, it's still on. Please, take off the third channel. The third channel, it's still running. Stop it, please, for God's sake, please stop it. There's no more time! Please stop it. Stop it now. Turn it off! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! STOP IT!
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Post by mysterydriver on Oct 28, 2010 1:05:59 GMT -5
Watched Dead Silence (after recording it) on AMC. The movie about a vengeful ghost and her ventriloquist dolls causing havoc.
I won't give a full review (because I'm tired), but it's an okay horror film that seems really obsessed with its twist ending, if that makes any sense. I'd suggest giving it a view if it's on Free TV and you can't find anything else.
I personally think dolls can be creepy but this didn't freak me out at all.
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Post by "Twisted and Tormented" Ash on Oct 28, 2010 1:09:08 GMT -5
Oh, and Halloween III: Season of The Witch is on AMC right now. I'm watching the eff out of it right now. (I had it on pause while I took a call, so DVR is letting me catch up.) Yeah, I love Halloween. And I'm having a blast with this terrible terrible train wreck of a movie. As much as this movie been crapped on I watched it the other night and I got to say it's not that bad of a movie.
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Post by DSR on Oct 28, 2010 1:40:06 GMT -5
As much as I enjoy HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH, I thought I'd add a little variety to the proceedings in this thread. Here's some reviews:
WEB OF THE SPIDER (1972) - Italian filmmaker Antonio Margheriti remakes his own CASTLE OF BLOOD (1964).
Alan Foster, an American journalist, tracks down Edgar Allan Poe (Klaus Kinski!) hanging out in London. Foster's been clamoring for an interview with the great author for a long time now, and when he finally gets it, the topic of conversation leans towards whether or not the afterlife truly exists. A third party, Lord Blackwood, decides to make a wager with Foster, that if the journalist can spend the night in Blackwood's old abandoned castle, he'll not only make 10 pounds, he'll also find the answer to the question of life after death once and for all.
After meandering about the castle for a while, Foster finally meets a lovely redhead, Lord Blackwood's sister Elizabeth. They engage in pleasant conversation, they meet another woman, the raven-haired Julia, who harbors some mysterious animosity towards Elizabeth (and the feeling is mutual), and finally, Alan and Elizabeth give in to their burning desires for one another. Julia goes out and finds another man, who winds up killing Elizabeth. Alan chases after the man and shoots him, but when he falls to the floor, this man vanishes into thin air! And when he returns to the bedroom, Alan finds that Elizabeth has disappeared, too!
As the night wears on, Alan will encounter more people appearing and disappearing without warning, and so he must determine whether they be apparitions or flesh-and-blood. Further, when the ghostly inhabitants of Castle Blackwood determine that they need Foster's fresh blood in order to keep wandering the Earth, Foster's gotta find a way to make it out of the castle alive!
Like a lot of Italian directors, Margheriti isn't exactly concerned with complete narrative cohesion. Though instead of a gory shocker, the man gives us instead a film dominated by a gloomy, gothic atmosphere. The film itself is rather lethargic in the early going, but it does pick up steam as it goes. At least until the "twist" ending that I won't spoil for you, but I did laugh at its ridiculousness.
3 stars out of 5. It'll keep your attention if you're awake, and its reasonably well-crafted (plus Klaus Kinski turns in a fun performance as Poe), but if you're drowsy going into the movie, I'd expect this picture's early going will put you right to bed.
QUEEN OF BLOOD (1966) - Sci-Fi/Horror film from American International Pictures, stars Basil Rathbone in one of his last roles, a so-young-he's-almost-unrecognizable Dennis Hopper, and John Saxon looking the same as he always does (I swear he's been 35 years old forever!).
Our film takes place in the far off future...of 1990. Earth's brave astronauts have travelled to the Moon and Mars in search of life, but haven't found any. Finally, we receive a distress call from some planet farther off, stating that that planet will send some of its inhabitants to us.
They don't make it. Instead, the alien spaceship crashes on Mars. So a small crew (Hopper, John Saxon's girlfriend whose name I don't remember, and some other guy) go to Mars (with Basil Rathbone in charge of the proceedings back on Earth) and find the alien ship with no inhabitants living. For some reason, another ship is sent out to land on Phobos, one of Mars's moons. John Saxon is on this ship, along with one other astronaut. And it is on Phobos that an alien being is found alive.
Eventually we come to the point where Saxon is on Mars with Hopper and the other two, the living alien (a green-skinned mute woman) is awake, and they will make their way back to Earth (another ship will come back for the guy Saxon left on Phobos).
Unfortunately, that green lady kills Dennis Hopper and drinks his blood (the scene plays out rather like a seduction)! The astronauts can't kill this alien woman, as she's the only proof of life beyond Earth. The astronauts resolve to feed the alien plasma they have stored on their ship. But when that runs out, all this small crew can do is hope they make it before the alien's appetite gets the best of them.
I really wanted to like this movie. We've got perhaps the most legendary portrayer of Sherlock Holmes on film, and two cult favorite actors in roles before they were stars. We've also got the premise of an alien woman seducing and drinking human blood, on a spaceship where there's no escape. How do you mess this up?
You mess it up by spending way too much time on the contrived methodology by which our astronauts get to Mars (using footage cribbed from 2 Russian films, by the way), spouting scientific mumbo-jumbo along the way. The film's already half over before the TITLE CHARACTER shows up. And even then, her bloodlust isn't treated nearly as seriously as it should be.
2 stars out of 5. Far less fun than I was expecting.
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Oct 28, 2010 10:10:21 GMT -5
As much as I enjoy HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH, I thought I'd add a little variety to the proceedings in this thread. Here's some reviews: WEB OF THE SPIDER (1972) - Italian filmmaker Antonio Margheriti remakes his own CASTLE OF BLOOD (1964). Alan Foster, an American journalist, tracks down Edgar Allan Poe (Klaus Kinski!) hanging out in London. Foster's been clamoring for an interview with the great author for a long time now, and when he finally gets it, the topic of conversation leans towards whether or not the afterlife truly exists. A third party, Lord Blackwood, decides to make a wager with Foster, that if the journalist can spend the night in Blackwood's old abandoned castle, he'll not only make 10 pounds, he'll also find the answer to the question of life after death once and for all. After meandering about the castle for a while, Foster finally meets a lovely redhead, Lord Blackwood's sister Elizabeth. They engage in pleasant conversation, they meet another woman, the raven-haired Julia, who harbors some mysterious animosity towards Elizabeth (and the feeling is mutual), and finally, Alan and Elizabeth give in to their burning desires for one another. Julia goes out and finds another man, who winds up killing Elizabeth. Alan chases after the man and shoots him, but when he falls to the floor, this man vanishes into thin air! And when he returns to the bedroom, Alan finds that Elizabeth has disappeared, too! As the night wears on, Alan will encounter more people appearing and disappearing without warning, and so he must determine whether they be apparitions or flesh-and-blood. Further, when the ghostly inhabitants of Castle Blackwood determine that they need Foster's fresh blood in order to keep wandering the Earth, Foster's gotta find a way to make it out of the castle alive! Like a lot of Italian directors, Margheriti isn't exactly concerned with complete narrative cohesion. Though instead of a gory shocker, the man gives us instead a film dominated by a gloomy, gothic atmosphere. The film itself is rather lethargic in the early going, but it does pick up steam as it goes. At least until the "twist" ending that I won't spoil for you, but I did laugh at its ridiculousness. 3 stars out of 5. It'll keep your attention if you're awake, and its reasonably well-crafted (plus Klaus Kinski turns in a fun performance as Poe), but if you're drowsy going into the movie, I'd expect this picture's early going will put you right to bed. QUEEN OF BLOOD (1966) - Sci-Fi/Horror film from American International Pictures, stars Basil Rathbone in one of his last roles, a so-young-he's-almost-unrecognizable Dennis Hopper, and John Saxon looking the same as he always does (I swear he's been 35 years old forever!). Our film takes place in the far off future...of 1990. Earth's brave astronauts have travelled to the Moon and Mars in search of life, but haven't found any. Finally, we receive a distress call from some planet farther off, stating that that planet will send some of its inhabitants to us. They don't make it. Instead, the alien spaceship crashes on Mars. So a small crew (Hopper, John Saxon's girlfriend whose name I don't remember, and some other guy) go to Mars (with Basil Rathbone in charge of the proceedings back on Earth) and find the alien ship with no inhabitants living. For some reason, another ship is sent out to land on Phobos, one of Mars's moons. John Saxon is on this ship, along with one other astronaut. And it is on Phobos that an alien being is found alive. Eventually we come to the point where Saxon is on Mars with Hopper and the other two, the living alien (a green-skinned mute woman) is awake, and they will make their way back to Earth (another ship will come back for the guy Saxon left on Phobos). Unfortunately, that green lady kills Dennis Hopper and drinks his blood (the scene plays out rather like a seduction)! The astronauts can't kill this alien woman, as she's the only proof of life beyond Earth. The astronauts resolve to feed the alien plasma they have stored on their ship. But when that runs out, all this small crew can do is hope they make it before the alien's appetite gets the best of them. I really wanted to like this movie. We've got perhaps the most legendary portrayer of Sherlock Holmes on film, and two cult favorite actors in roles before they were stars. We've also got the premise of an alien woman seducing and drinking human blood, on a spaceship where there's no escape. How do you mess this up? You mess it up by spending way too much time on the contrived methodology by which our astronauts get to Mars (using footage cribbed from 2 Russian films, by the way), spouting scientific mumbo-jumbo along the way. The film's already half over before the TITLE CHARACTER shows up. And even then, her bloodlust isn't treated nearly as seriously as it should be. 2 stars out of 5. Far less fun than I was expecting. Reading about Web of the Spider really made me think of Mario Bava's Lisa and the Devil, which is considered one of Bava's masterpieces but left me completely, utterly cold. It too spends the vast majority of its running time building up this impenetrable wall of impenetrableness where everything may or may not be a dream/real. Nice job on that review. Glad I'm not the only one who's thought that about John Saxon, too.
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Post by andrew8798 on Oct 28, 2010 22:36:23 GMT -5
Saw 7 comes out tomorrow we shall see if it is the last one like they say it will be. I don't believe it I could see another Saw coming out next year
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Oct 29, 2010 2:21:43 GMT -5
Saw 7 comes out tomorrow we shall see if it is the last one like they say it will be. I don't believe it I could see another Saw coming out next year I guess next year will be when we see Jigsaw IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
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Post by andrew8798 on Oct 29, 2010 2:25:27 GMT -5
Saw 7 comes out tomorrow we shall see if it is the last one like they say it will be. I don't believe it I could see another Saw coming out next year I guess next year will be when we see Jigsaw IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! We shall see. I still want a boxset of the series. Only one I got is the first one on DVD
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2010 2:29:57 GMT -5
Saw 7 comes out tomorrow we shall see if it is the last one like they say it will be. I don't believe it I could see another Saw coming out next year I guess next year will be when we see Jigsaw IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! I would actually pay to see that.
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Post by andrew8798 on Oct 29, 2010 2:31:00 GMT -5
Jigsaw back from the dead lol
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Post by Chainsaw on Oct 29, 2010 5:16:27 GMT -5
Saw 7 comes out tomorrow we shall see if it is the last one like they say it will be. I don't believe it I could see another Saw coming out next year I guess next year will be when we see Jigsaw IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! That's the only logical step. Jigsaw's head in a jar rigs a new spaceship with traps, only the twist is...that ship is the EVENT HORIZON!!! Oooooooooooooooooooooo...oh, did I mention there are also Aliens? Because there totally is.
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Oct 29, 2010 9:53:37 GMT -5
That's the only logical step. Jigsaw's head in a jar rigs a new spaceship with traps, only the twist is...that ship is the EVENT HORIZON!!! Oooooooooooooooooooooo...oh, did I mention there are also Aliens? Because there totally is. ...presented by Vince Russo. Well, the final Halloween season IHR induction has been posted. One of my favorite movies ever - Halloween II!! And no, we're not talking about TSTSNBN, so one of our unofficial thread rules has not been broken - we're talking original, 1981 hospital-set brutality complete with scaldings, hypodermic needles and strange etchings on grade-school chalkboards. Check it out. ihrregistry.blogspot.com/2010/10/ihr-induction-halloween-ii-1981-rick.html
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2010 12:00:41 GMT -5
Phew, thank god!
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