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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Oct 16, 2015 17:11:08 GMT -5
Sea Snails attacking people that's silly How about some ... ZombeaversZombies you got to love the slowly undead, wandering about and eating people. Now how can we make it more interesting? I know let's combine them with beavers! You know the puppy sized aquatic woodland critters that build dams, cut down trees and have large tails. Yes this is a film about Zombified-beavers attacking 3 girls and 3 guys in a house up in the woodland area near a lake (no not Crystal). After a truck driven by two idiots hit a deer, a can of chemicals ends up in a lake infecting the beavers. The three girls go out to cabin to get away from the men in there lives, men crash said plan. Meanwhile they also meet a hunter, an old neighbourly couple and they brought there dog with them. Cue drinking, sex and young couple drama in the cabin and bikini sunbathing swimming on the lake before the undead beaver population decides flesh tastes better than wood. Tonights supper: Beaver surprise!I was sceptical about this film but it's actually a lot of fun. The acting and dialogue is perfectly tolerable, the zombified beavers are actual special effects and not CGI so look believable and the final 30 minutes are completely nuts with a great curveball or two. So yeah this is a fun movie naturally filled with a fair few beaver puns. Highlights for me included the dog beaver switcheroo, the final third of the movie and Cortney Palm who plays Zoe going topless. Where is that best breast in horror thread? as she is defiantly a contender. Overall this film is a fun evil critter horror movie and is well worth watching. 3 out of 5 pumpkins.
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Post by DSR on Oct 17, 2015 12:59:18 GMT -5
HELLRAISER: HELLWORLD (2003) - The eighth installment in the long-running franchise, and the final time for Doug Bradley as Pinhead. This is also from the era of HELLRAISER movies being a pre-existing shitty script with Cenobites thrown in.
Four friends attend the funeral of a fifth member of their group, a boy named Adam. Details are hard to come by, but the group mentions that Adam's death was the climax of his obsession with a video game titled Hellworld. The group members feel a sense of guilt over this, as they all saw the path his obsession was taking, but did nothing to help him.
Despite this, two years later, the surviving members of this group still play Hellworld every now and then. And Hellworld rewards each of these youths with invitations to a party at a mansion dubbed Leviathan House. Three of these friends are completely onboard with this party: Mike (a pre-MAN OF STEEL Henry Cavill), Derek (Khary Payton, most famous as the voice of Cyborg on the Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go! animated series), and Allison (Anna Tolputt, who's been in bit parts of other stuff). The fourth person, Chelsea (Katheryn Winnick, star of The History Channel's Vikings) is hesitant, but agrees to go after much hounding from her less-cautious friends. Also attending this party will be Jake (Christopher Jacot, who voiced Johnny Storm on the Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes animated series), a former member of the group who disassociated with them after Adam's death.
You'd think a party that sends its invitations through an online video game would be attended almost exclusively by chubby, socially awkward cosplayers (don't get angry, I include myself in that group), but instead our fun-seekers find all sorts of beautiful people who, like them, are interested in drinking booze, listening to crappy techno music, and GETTING LAID(tm)! Before the debauchery can truly begin, though, our main characters are dragged away from the festivities by the party's enigmatic Host (Lance Henriksen!), who encourages them to have fun amid his collection of theme park haunted house props but also warns them that Hellworld might be more than just a video game. It won't be long before, one by one, the group finds out just how right the Host is...
You'll note that my actual synopsis of the film features no reference to Pinhead himself. The big guy certainly shows up, but his appearances are few and far between. I don't mind that in theory, as the original HELLRAISER was far more concerned with Cotton family drama than with the actual Cenobites. The difference, though, is that HELLRAISER had an interesting story and some dynamite special effects, and Pinhead's presence is a source of dread. HELLWORLD, meanwhile, is a feature length Disturbed music video with corny dialogue and amateurish gore effects. And Pinhead, aside from his ability to talk, is played like any dollar store DVD slasher villain. Madman Marz could've been the subject of the video game and the effect would've been about the same. Speaking of that video game, the very little we see of it looks like a lousy Newgrounds flash-animated horror game. I couldn't convince myself that thing had an actual fanbase.
Having said all that, I did find myself enjoying the flick a little. Part of it is that I do still enjoy comic books and comic book media, so seeing Superman and Cyborg team-up in the noble pursuit of banging chicks was a treat. Another part is a bit of early 2000s nostalgia, where a dumb horror flick could still feature gratuitous nudity, there's a tiny bit of post-SCREAM meta comedy, and while I mentioned the music is crappy, it's kinda fun-crappy, if that makes sense. Plus, we still get Lance Henriksen being hammy, and Katheryn Winnick is very cute.
I've mentioned in the past, I think HELLRAISER 1, 2, and 5 are the only genuinely good films in the series. By the time I get to film #8, my expectations have already been considerably lowered. If you come to this expecting a horror masterpiece you'll be sorely disappointed. It's perfectly fine to get drunk and make fun of it with your friends, though. 2.5 stars out of 5.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Oct 18, 2015 19:57:03 GMT -5
Fine so Zombie beavers may not have been the best form of terror, so how about a slasher with a skull mask? ... Laid to Rest (2009)Jason, Freddy and Michael Myers must be getting lonely at the slasher high table as since these three there hasn't been any new slasher villain to compete. Sure there's Hellraiser, TCM and the Saw movies but those guys are demons, cannibals or elaborate trap makers not slasher villains. So here comes Chromeskull in Laid to Rest to try and increase our slasher villain colletive. How does he fair? Well this film is certainly effective at what it is trying to do. The main characters are a collection of fairly well rounded victims (Tuckerbeing the highlight. The Girl not so much), the deaths are very gory (highlights include a Shotgun, tire inflater spray and industrial strength glue) and the end result of the film works. Lena Headey is in this but it's a minor role, which is probably for the best. As for Chromeskull himself he looks menacing with his shiny skull mask and fancy knives, his methods of killing people are certainly imaginative at times and the added trait of recording all his nasty acts gives him an interesting gimmick especially when he uses playback to lure people to there doom. The problem with Chromeskull is I still feel like I know nothing about him and I don't mean in a mystery is intriguing element. I mean that all I know is Chromeskull is a serial killer in mask who kills people and records it, he has no Loomis, no campfire tale, no police coverup or any no background on him whatsoever. Which although fine as a solo movie means I care very little about him after the film ended. Laid to Rest left me with nothing to ponder about Chromeskull, even though briefly at one point I thought his interaction with the funeral director had potential to go somewhere, it didn't. Maybe I'm being harsh but he needs more substance to make him stand out behind his shiny mask. You don't have to put on the red light, Roxanne. Mr Chromeskull is ready.Overall Laid to Rest is a decent enough Slasher film with some exceptionally good gory kills for this kind of movie, the victim count is high and the premise is certainly interesting. I just didn't leave with any interest in what might be next for Mr. Chromeskull, which is a pity. 2.5 out of 5 pumpkins.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2015 20:16:44 GMT -5
Nice to see Chrome Skull get some love liked the original but loved the sequel as the first feels like dipping toes into water and the sequel is full confidence.
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Post by DSR on Oct 19, 2015 23:47:41 GMT -5
So, for the past few days I've been watching a bunch of Dracula movies. Not even all from the same franchise, I watched the anime DRACULA: SOVEREIGN OF THE DAMNED the other day (I reviewed it many many moons ago), and just yesterday I watched BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1992). I'm not going to go into a full review, but man, did I not care for that flick. It was well-made, sure, and Gary Oldman is always fantastic, but the idea of presenting Dracula as a genuine romantic figure just screams bullshit to me. He holds Mina Harker's fiancee prisoner while he moves to England and presents himself as a young handsome dude, and he courts Mina while at night he turns into a wolf/ape thing and rapes and drains the blood of Mina's best friend...BUT HE REALLY LOVES MINA, SO IT'S OKAY! How in the Hell do you portray that as a love story with a straight face? Ugh.
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Oct 20, 2015 9:05:34 GMT -5
I tend to agree on Bram Stoker's Dracula, DSR. I used to really love that flick back in the day, but as the years have gone on and characters/motivation have gotten to be and bigger and bigger deal with me I too have noticed just how inconsistent the movie is with how it portrays Dracula. And Joker, on the nights that my lovely internet company doesn't decide that I don't deserve service past 7:00 p.m., I've seen Zombeavers on my Netflix queue calling me like some sort of demented pied piper. I've resisted it so far, and one of these days, I will check it out if for no other reason than perverse curiosity. Thirdly, it's awesome to see this thread relatively hopping. Shameless begging - let's keep this going past October 31st. FINALLY...it's time for a new blog that (hopefully) should be a real crowd pleaser. Throughout 2015, I've reviewed R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series and the "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" anthologies. Both of those particular items were ubiquitous with my childhood in the early-to-mid '90s. Obviously, they were with many others as well, since one of these now has a movie with Jack Black. But when it comes to the bygone era of actual horror stuff aimed at the youth market, there is nothing that I remember quite so fondly from my youth as Are You Afraid of the Dark?. Ah, Are You Afraid of the Dark?. Airing originally on Canadian television and getting the licensed simulcast treatment on Nickelodeon, this was a kids' anthology horror show that was everywhere during its peak years. If you weren't watching this on Saturday nights, you might as well have been buying offshoot Skidz pants from K-Mart, because you were out of it man. Every Monday, there was a group of 4-5 kids in my grade who would gather by the big stack of board games in the back of the room to hash over each new episode. And when I say hash over, I mean hash over. Like, it rivaled anything Robin Williams did in Dead Poets Society. We'd read into these things just as much as we read into pro wrestling, and folks, for my collection of grade school bros...that's a lot. The experience of watching an episode of this show on Saturday night really was something else. For starters, it had a framing device to die for. Taking a cue from The Twilight Zone, what we had here was a "story within a story," as a group of kids - all from different schools, oftentimes with different groups of friends - would gather in the woods every Friday night to tell scary stories to each other. As a kid, this was one of those ideas that seemed so inherently cool that it hurt not to have your own bunch of friends to do this with. And man, how awesome were these kids' parents? Meeting up in the middle of a goddamn forest...at midnight...unsupervised...try this shit today and you'd be turned in to child services. It's also for this reason that I think we could DESPERATELY go for an Are You Afraid of the Dark redux. Put this concept on TV today, kids would still think it was cool. Especially if you gave the kids distinctive personalities like they did here. While the stories on the show were the main draw, weirdly enough, me and my group of friends found ourselves talking about the kids a lot more. First and foremost was the badass name of the club - The Midnight Society. The rule was simple. Each member could bring in a new member, who would be pulled in to the meeting place (while blindfolded, holy f***) and do their best to scare the crap out of everyone else. If they did, they were in. This was the setup for the first episode of the series, as resident nice guy David brings his friend Frank to a meeting. A bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks, Frank has an ace up his sleeve in the form of the Dr. Vink character, a mad scientist-y type guy who would show up in all of Frank's stories from that point forward. One of the real treats of the series was in noticing how the character traits of the members of the various Society members carried over into their stories. The founder of the group was Gary, and it's likely this guy that people who watched the show during its initial run remember the most. Kind of a bookish nerdy guy, Gary has a big interest in magic and sorcery. As such, most of his stories revolve around magic and a phony-baloney magic shop owner named Sardo. I absolutely LOVED whenever Sardo showed up in these episodes, if for no other reason than his catchphrase was fun to say (that's Sar-DO - No Mister, accent on the DO). There was David and Kristen, the resident members with a romantic interest from the early seasons, the latter of which was a prissy princess who liked to tell dark versions of fairy tales. There was Betty Ann, a sweet girl-next-door type whose innocent exterior hid a dark side, and thus liked to play up the macabre and morbid as much as possible in her yarns. In the later seasons, we got Tucker, Gary's little brother and all-around bastard kid who told a lot of stories about families facing danger and coming together. And then there was Kiki, a spunky tomboy and moralist who liked stories that dealt with kids dealing with their own choices while dispensing some African-American flavor. One story introduction followed by dust being tossed into a fire later, and we were ready to be enthralled. Random bit from Lick Ness Monster's childhood: When I was in fourth grade, I wrote my own Are You Afraid of the Dark? story where I (yes, I - Jon Lickness) got a stab at getting into the Midnight Society. The story I whipped out was about one of those abandoned houses that seemingly every small town has where all of the kids are afraid to enter or approach. One of the early bits had a kid going into said house and being horrified that the walls started to bleed before darkness shot out of the shadows and enveloped him. Yeah, I was one f***ed up kid. Of course, everyone in the Society loved "The Tale of the Bleeding Mansion." Especially Betty Ann, who was so impressed with my storytelling prowess and general coolness that she wanted to date me. Ladies and gentlemen, my first ever attempt at self-serving fan fiction. With that lovely bit of waxing out of the way, let's go through some of the notable tropes, characters and episodes of the series. First and foremost have got to be the recurring characters Dr. Vink and Sardo. Vink showed up three times as a villain in an awesome trilogy of episodes where the doctor would bring his trademark inventions to hapless kids and summarily unleash them. The best of these is undoubtedly the season three finale "The Tale of the Dangerous Soup," where Vink has managed to find a way to extract the liquid form of fear from his hapless victims utilizing an ancient gargoyle statue, putting the fear into stew concoctions and selling them at his restaurant. The episode stars a young Neve Campbell as a restaurant employee, and it's got some truly nightmarish bits involving the various characters' fears being played out. Freaky-deaky Sardo was in four episodes, and this guy was a different beast - not an out-and-out villain, he was really much more of a clown, selling cursed artifacts or powerful magical tools to the hapless kids in his stories while being totally oblivious to the carnage. These two long-running characters eventually met up in the team-up story "The Tale of Cutter's Treasure," where Dr. Vink makes a babyface turn in an excellent two-parter starring Charles S. Dutton as an evil pirate hoping for one last showdown with a worthy adversary. Unlike Goosebumps, Are You Afraid of the Dark? didn't shy away from moral lessons. This starts in the second episode, the immortal Betty Ann yarn "The Tale of the Laughing in the Dark." Kids in my age bracket remember Zeebo the Clown and the main character's dickish reaction to stealing Zeebo's nose. The third act, with the kid getting his just desserts, was pretty freaky stuff for a ten-year-old to process. Another good example was Kiki's Season 3 story "The Tale of Apartment 214," where a teenage girl has just moved into a new apartment building and becomes friends with an old woman who lives in an adjacent apartment. After breaking a promise, she finds out the old woman's true identity and learns a big-time lesson in the process. But relax people, there's a happy ending. And then there's "The Tale of the Crimson Clown," where Gary uses a story to teach his younger brother about being a good kid with something that I can safely say was the most horrific thing I'd seen on any medium at the time I first saw it. Folks...the bratty kid in this story gets such a long, drawn-out, creepy punishment that it really must be seen to be believed. And they showed this stuff to CHILDREN. No wonder we're all so messed up. The episode list really does read like a timeline of my childhood from those years - there are a legit 20 episodes that I would give ***+ if I was grading them on my movie scale, and amazingly enough, they still hold up well through adult eyes. "The Tale of the Super Specs" - Sardo's first story, where Gary proves to the Midnight Society that he hasn't lost his touch by giving us the first (da-dum) BAD ENDING in the series. "The Tale of the Dark Music" - Maybe the single most scary episode of the series, where a friendly paper boy discovers that the door in his basement is a gateway to hell every time that music plays. "The Tale of the Frozen Ghost" - Three words: Melissa Joan Hart. Two more words: I'M COLD. Brrrrrr. "The Tale of the Watcher's Woods" - A young Jewel Staite guest stars in this episode about a trio of witches who have eternally held up in the woods near a summer camp, and an ancient entity that lords over the wilderness. "The Tale of the Dollmaker" - Google this episode title and just look at the image that comes up. This story about a dollhouse that transforms people into living dolls is something else. "The Tale of the Quiet Librarian" - Proving once again that silence is always creepier than LOUD NOISES, this is a story for every kid who has ever feared their old, crotchery library wench. "The Tale of the Fire Ghost" - Many of the Are You Afraid of the Dark? ghost stories were particularly strong, and this one is no different. Don't look into the fire, people. "The Tale of the Dead Man's Float" - This one came out near the end of the show's run, and what a way to go out. An undead zombie that drags unsuspecting kids to a watery grave? Count me in. It goes on and on. Without a doubt, Are You Afraid of the Dark? qualifies as one of the finest quality kids' shows of all time. Its quality is such that I still peruse Youtube playlists or, on the nights when Frontier Internet feels like saying "No Mas" at 7:00 p.m., digging out my season DVDs. This was a show for children that actually respected its audience, a common occurence at the time it aired but something that is at an unbelievable premium these days. If they scared the crap out of the kids, the people behind this show didn't worry about it. They knew that being scared is cathartic, a release of tension that can't be matched by any other type of story. And if they could make you want to be the cool kids telling the stories in the process of give you a nice little moral lesson, that was just an added bonus. It's a show from a bygone era that is very sadly bygone, and one that is treasured for a reason. I guess what I'm saying is that Joe Bob wants you to check it out, people.
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Post by Fauxnaki on Oct 20, 2015 10:30:13 GMT -5
Fine so Zombie beavers may not have been the best form of terror, so how about a slasher with a skull mask? ... Laid to Rest (2009)Jason, Freddy and Michael Myers must be getting lonely at the slasher high table as since these three there hasn't been any new slasher villain to compete. Sure there's Hellraiser, TCM and the Saw movies but those guys are demons, cannibals or elaborate trap makers not slasher villains. So here comes Chromeskull in Laid to Rest to try and increase our slasher villain colletive. How does he fair? Well this film is certainly effective at what it is trying to do. The main characters are a collection of fairly well rounded victims (Tuckerbeing the highlight. The Girl not so much), the deaths are very gory (highlights include a Shotgun, tire inflater spray and industrial strength glue) and the end result of the film works. Lena Headey is in this but it's a minor role, which is probably for the best. As for Chromeskull himself he looks menacing with his shiny skull mask and fancy knives, his methods of killing people are certainly imaginative at times and the added trait of recording all his nasty acts gives him an interesting gimmick especially when he uses playback to lure people to there doom. The problem with Chromeskull is I still feel like I know nothing about him and I don't mean in a mystery is intriguing element. I mean that all I know is Chromeskull is a serial killer in mask who kills people and records it, he has no Loomis, no campfire tale, no police coverup or any no background on him whatsoever. Which although fine as a solo movie means I care very little about him after the film ended. Laid to Rest left me with nothing to ponder about Chromeskull, even though briefly at one point I thought his interaction with the funeral director had potential to go somewhere, it didn't. Maybe I'm being harsh but he needs more substance to make him stand out behind his shiny mask. You don't have to put on the red light, Roxanne. Mr Chromeskull is ready.Overall Laid to Rest is a decent enough Slasher film with some exceptionally good gory kills for this kind of movie, the victim count is high and the premise is certainly interesting. I just didn't leave with any interest in what might be next for Mr. Chromeskull, which is a pity. 2.5 out of 5 pumpkins. i swear i've seen that mask at my local 99p/£1 store
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Post by Sephiroth on Oct 20, 2015 21:39:38 GMT -5
Because with a title like that, you've got to be looking at quality, right? But believe it or not, The G String horror actually pleasantly surprised me upon viewing. Between the title and that cover image, plus the brief description of a horror film set in a haunted strip club, I was fully expecting pure shlock horror comedy. What I got instead was a surprisingly original and creative horror movie that was actually far better in many ways than its cheesy title would imply. The key thing that appealed to me about this movie was its sheer originality-not something you would expect from a movie about a haunted strip club. But this strip club is in fact the Market Street Cinema in San Fransisco, located in a legit 100 year old building that was former a movie theater, converted today into a strip club and bar. But the club portion actually takes up only a minority of the building's space, leaving significant portions of it empty. With long abandoned rooms, echoing corridors, and decaying decor from a previous age, its little wonder then that the modern day location has generated a real life reputation for ghostly goings on, enough so to have actually been featured on a few ghost hunting shows. The film's plot concerns an ambitious filmmaker who starts out planning to shoot a horror movie in this real life location, but upon witnessing enough strange events he decides to go an alternate route and produce a documentary. As he interviews the club's patrons and staff he starts to uncover information about some of the ghostly residents of this building, including the vengeful ghost of a stripper who was murdered by sadistic clientele. As he delves deeper into the tortured history of the building, his associates begin to grow stressed, and real life people in the modern day slowly begin to tap the restless spirits of the past... And this is what I honestly found to be the film's biggest flaw. The director seemingly couldn't decide which direction he wanted to go, slipping from straight up storytelling to mockumentary style structure at will. It becomes confusing as you to sort out which parts are meant to be which. As a found footage style movie, ala the Blair Witch Project, I think this film would have really hit its stride and been far more effective, though I admire the filmmakers effort to create something unique by crossing the two styles. The makeup effects were actually quite well done, including the "zombie stripper" seen on the promotional photo above, although there were a few special effects that were so lazily amateurish that you almost can't believe you are seeing it alongside some of the rest. Overall, I give it three out of five stars. Not a flick I think you absolutely have to see. But it is Halloween time, and if you've got a couple hours to spare, give The G String Horror a go. Just be prepared to never look at a woman on a brass pole the same way again!
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Oct 20, 2015 22:25:28 GMT -5
I've seen...roughly 30 minutes of The G String Horror. A friend of mine was playing it in the background when a few of us were over not too long ago. It looked...interesting.
Been watching Tremors movies all night long on AMC FearFest. This is another one of those things that is making me feel very old, because the nostalgia is seeping through my pores. The third movie is on now, and while it definitely isn't as strong, it's making me curious to check out the series that was on SyFy shortly afterward since I never watched it when it was actually on.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Oct 22, 2015 19:20:00 GMT -5
A guy in a metal skull mask? What is this amateur hour? Time for some real pain & pleasure. Hellraiser 2: HellboundAh the Hellraiser series a selection of films I really should have watched but only saw the first one about two years ago. Yes Pinhead is not really a horror icon I grew up with and as such I hold no real nostalgia for him and his cenobite crew. Having said that the first film is a solid horror film so I was ready for more with the sequel. Which is exactly what you get with Hellraiser 2, more Frank & Julie, more Christy, Pinhead and a whole lot more gore. If it's not Julie's rebirth overdoing the crimson then Dr. Channard is certainly not holding back. Speaking of Dr. Channard what a great villain who was both slimy and loathsome as a human and gets even worse when he becomes a demon cenobite. The new Pan film takes a very dark turn on visiting Wendy.As a film I liked it with it's flashback style at the beginning reminding me of how Evil Dead 2 started. The story is decent, the exploration of the Cenobite world is very imaginitive and overall it's a fairly disturbing horror film. I liked it kept the story of Frank, Julie and Christy going whilst also having a separate tale involving Channard and Tiffany. Having said that it's very similar to the first film and the fight at the end between Channard and the other cenobites is fairly lacklustre. Still a good a horror film worth checking out for those few who haven't seen it. 3 out of 5 Pumpkins.
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Oct 22, 2015 23:08:12 GMT -5
I freakin' love Hellraiser II. Chanard is still the best Cenobite of all time.
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Post by DSR on Oct 23, 2015 0:15:02 GMT -5
I freakin' love Hellraiser II. Chanard is still the best Cenobite of all time. Eh, he's not the one with CDs embedded in his head, that's for sure.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Oct 23, 2015 7:57:52 GMT -5
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Post by pegasuswarrior on Oct 23, 2015 18:46:53 GMT -5
Agree. Interesting list, just echoing that.
Really really happy It Follows made the list.
Post-January, The Witch will surge onto lists like this.
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Post by AwamoriRock on Oct 23, 2015 20:08:54 GMT -5
Agree. Interesting list, just echoing that. Really really happy It Follows made the list. Post-January, The Witch will surge onto lists like this. I really need to find a way to see The Witch. Would really love to in time for Halloween but looks like it ain't happening (live in Japan).
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Oct 23, 2015 20:10:57 GMT -5
Hellraiser sure had a lot of ... RubberWhere do I start with this? I shall try to explain via the plot although you may still have no idea what this film is really like. In the desert wilderness a group of spectators watch a Rubber Tire come to life, learn how to roll, crush things and then develop psychic powers like the guys from Scanners. Thus a tale of tire rampage, 4th wall breaking happens for no reason. Seriously this film is not what I expected from that cover you can see above. Sure there is a tire and it does go around killing people but the way the film tells the story is very odd and absurd. Questions like why are there a group of spectators? Is the sheriff actually a cop or an actor? Why were those people poisoned? What is going on? Will come to you during and after watching this movie. The Tire trying its best Michael Myers Halloween impersonation.Is it any good? I really couldn't say if it is good, bad or different because it is just so weird. At one point you think you have understood where this is going with the tire watching a young lady take a shower in a motel, then in the next scene the tire itself is taking a shower in its own room in the motel. From there it cuts back to the spectators who are describing the film I'm watching themselves. It's all rather meta. I'd argue it might not even be a horror film and could easily fall into some sort of art film genre with it's odd film techniques and just general non-mainstream approach. 2.5 out of 5 pumpkins ... or it might be just a curiosity.
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Post by pegasuswarrior on Oct 23, 2015 20:23:43 GMT -5
Agree. Interesting list, just echoing that. Really really happy It Follows made the list. Post-January, The Witch will surge onto lists like this. I really need to find a way to see The Witch. Would really love to in time for Halloween but looks like it ain't happening (live in Japan). Yeah. I happened to catch the premiere. I think it's not going to release until 2016. ----------------------------------------------------------- Hellraiser sure had a lot of ... RubberIs it any good? I really couldn't say if it is good, bad or different because it is just so weird. At one point you think you have understood where this is going with the tire watching a young lady take a shower in a motel, then in the next scene the tire itself is taking a shower in its own room in the motel. From there it cuts back to the spectators who are describing the film I'm watching themselves. It's all rather meta. I'd argue it might not even be a horror film and could easily fall into some sort of art film genre with it's odd film techniques and just general non-mainstream approach. 2.5 out of 5 pumpkins ... or it might be just a curiosity. I understand your difficulty in rating it. It's honestly a film made to defy a ratings system. It's a bit of a stretch, but the whole film itself is kind of a take on the voyeurism/criticism of others. Saw it when it first came out at a midnight screening. A great movie-going experience. But it wasn't really a movie I would say was "amazing" or "bad." It is very unique. It earns a high appreciation rating from me. Is it good?Who knows? Haha. I want to see his film Reality. I still haven't caught it.
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Post by DSR on Oct 24, 2015 1:10:21 GMT -5
REVENGE FROM PLANET APE (1971) - A little-seen poorly thought out attempt to cash-in on the success of the original PLANET OF THE APES franchise, this flick played some drive-ins in the 70s, and still occasionally plays in places like the Alamo Drafthouse.
A helpful narrator informs us that 3,000 years ago, a civilization of highly intelligent apes struggled with man for control of the Earth. The apes lost that fight, having their entire history wiped out, and their eyes burned out with a hot poker. The leader of the apes, with his dying words, vowed to come back from the dead at a later time and seek revenge for mankind's cruelty.
Cut to the present day (1971), where a young couple run into an old friend. The man of the couple, Roger (Cesar Burner), invites said old friend, Betty (Lone Turner), on a train trip. Roger's girlfriend, Virginia (Maria Elena Arpon), sees the writing on the wall for her relationship, and hops off the train, despite warnings from the conductor that there's not another town for miles.
Virginia eventually stumbles upon the ruins of a long-abandoned village and chooses to drop her sleeping bag and spend the night there. She'll get no sleep on this night, though, as soon she is attacked by a band of horseback-riding, tattered robe wearing, seemingly Gregorian-chanting, slow moving, decrepit, skeletal...apes?
The following day, Roger and Betty become worried as they haven't heard anything about what happened to Virginia the night before. They rent two horses from the hotel they are staying in and travel to that abandoned village, actually a monastery called Berzano. Berzano, as legend would have it, was the monastery of the Templars, a religious sect who dabbled in black magic. That detail doesn't seem important in a film about apes, now does it?
Roger and Betty eventually meet up with the police, who inform them of Virginia's gruesome passing. While evidence seems to suggest animals bit Virginia until she bled to death, our protagonists seem to believe the young lady was tortured by somebody. So they continue to investigate legends of Berzano and the Templars because...huh?
I tried. REVENGE FROM PLANET APE was, originally, Spanish horror legend Amando de Ossorio's well-regarded TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD. Some unknown drive-in owner decided to chop out a few scenes depicting the Templars when they were alive, record a confusing opening narration, and unleash the film on an unwitting public as part of the famed Charlton Heston/Roddy McDowall sci-fi franchise.
The result doesn't particularly make sense, but if you've read my reviews, you know by now making sense isn't necessarily a high priority for me if you still manage to entertain. I'll admit the film is leisurely paced, but when the Temp-APES show up, they're pretty damn creepy looking. And, while the body count is low, the potential victims are easy on the eyes and, more importantly, have personality. That love triangle I mentioned earlier wasn't just about the two women wanting Roger, as Virginia and Betty are hinted at having been intimate with one another at some point in the past. Who doesn't like a brief exploration of sexual hangups in the midst of their horror movie?
I imagine de Ossorio's original vision, TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD, is better (I haven't seen it). This recutting is kinda silly, but still fairly enjoyable. 3 stars out of 5.
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Post by pegasuswarrior on Oct 25, 2015 20:05:44 GMT -5
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