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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Apr 24, 2009 16:52:12 GMT -5
Just pre-ordered the new deluxe editions for Friday the 13th parts 4-6, in addition to the unrated version of the remake. Chances are good that the recent string of deluxe editions will be the last time I purchase the Friday the 13th films on DVD, as I figure I'll just buy the Blu-ray box set when I eventually make the upgrade to that format.
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Post by andrew8798 on Apr 24, 2009 18:50:30 GMT -5
A Better Version of the Halloween 2 trailer
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Apr 25, 2009 0:16:23 GMT -5
Earlier today I picked up a little picture called "Robo Vampire," which is a cheapjack ripoff of Robocop taking on, well, a vampire. It looks incredibly terrible (and the dvd cover is so blatant in ripping off Robocop, I'm surprised nobody got sued), so here's hoping its a hilarious mess of a movie.
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Post by andrew8798 on Apr 25, 2009 0:22:57 GMT -5
Quick notes: -I really like Black Christmas. In addition to being a precursor to Halloween and the 80s slasher explosion, I like that they manage to tell a slasher story that actually involves the police, and doesn't make them keystone kop-ish (like later slasher movies seem to do often). Plus, Black Christmas has a bitchin' cast, with Margot Kidder, John Saxon (who never gets enough props, as far as I'm concerned), and Olivia Hussey (whom I love...*swooooooon*). -Piranha 3D sounds kinda fun, so far. We'll see how it turns out. -I kinda want to buy some more DVDs, but I still gotta see how much my dental bill's gonna cost (I told y'all about that, right?). Plus, I really don't have room for more DVDs at the moment...and I gotta sell off a whole crap-load of VHS tapes that I've got layin' around. -Last night I watched "Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II", which isn't really a horror movie, but it was pretty fun, even if a little cutesy. Ah hell, here's a brief synopsis: The Japanese gov't. is building a big robot Godzilla in the hopes of defeating the regular one. Meanwhile, some scientists find a large dinosaur egg and take it to mainland Japan to study it. The egg hatches, and a Baby Godzilla is revealed. Baby Godzilla somehow sends a distress signal out, causing Godzilla and Rodan to come get him (apparently Rodan is Baby G's half-brother...who knew?). Its up to G-Force (the gov't. team behind Mechagodzilla) to try and put a stop to the big G and Rodan. This movie was from 1993, so its part of the second Godzilla series (Toho rebooted with Godzilla 1985, saying everything after the original Godzilla never happened, basically). I liked the somewhat serious take on the material, rather than the "kiddy fare" attitude of the 70s Godzilla movies. And the human cast was likeable. 3.2 stars out of 5. Used to be a big fan of the Godzilla Movies as a kid it's too bad there will never be a boxset of the movies over here. Right now watching the 1959 version of The Mummy haven't seen the movie in years
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Post by Rorschach on Apr 26, 2009 16:29:10 GMT -5
Earlier today I picked up a little picture called "Robo Vampire," which is a cheapjack ripoff of Robocop taking on, well, a vampire. It looks incredibly terrible (and the dvd cover is so blatant in ripping off Robocop, I'm surprised nobody got sued), so here's hoping its a hilarious mess of a movie. Speaking of ripoffs....wonder what the Asylum is going to come up with to rip off the upcoming PIRAHNA remake? How they have YET to be issued a "cease and desist" order is beyond me, especially with their TERMINATORS movie!
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Apr 26, 2009 17:00:41 GMT -5
There is one thing that's been said on here that I completely agree with.
"Remember when horror movies had characters you could cheer for?"
When was the last likeable final girl?
Was it Neve Campbell in the Scream movies? because thats the last one I can think of.
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Post by Rorschach on Apr 26, 2009 17:09:56 GMT -5
There is one thing that's been said on here that I completely agree with. "Remember when horror movies had characters you could cheer for?" When was the last likeable final girl? Was it Neve Campbell in the Scream movies? because thats the last one I can think of. She was probably one of the last ones in a MAJOR studio release that I can think of right now. Shauna McDonald in THE DESCENT was pretty likable. OTIS, THE SIGNAL, MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN, and the FEAST series have also had their share of likable "last girls". It just seems like the big studios have forgotten what it means to make your "victim" more likeable than their stalker.
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Apr 26, 2009 17:19:19 GMT -5
I liked Naomi Watts's character in "The Ring." I didn't like her son, but then I hate creepy kids in horror movies anyway.
And I liked Camilla Belle in the remake of "When A Stranger Calls." The movie sucks ass, but I have a crush on Camilla Belle.
That might not be what you meant. *shrug*
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Apr 26, 2009 18:42:32 GMT -5
Quick question for you all - how are the Blind Dead films? I've heard a lot about them and their cult following, but I've never actually seen them. Are they worth my time?
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Apr 27, 2009 1:08:09 GMT -5
Quick question for you all - how are the Blind Dead films? I've heard a lot about them and their cult following, but I've never actually seen them. Are they worth my time? Well, several years ago I rented a film called "Night of the Sea Gulls" not knowing anything about the Blind Dead series (and how NOTSG was the third or fourth part of the series). Anyway, I found the film a bit plodding and confusing, though again I wasn't familiar with the series. I may have to look into this series. I know I'm not very helpful here, but it's all I got. *shrug*
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Post by Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action on Apr 27, 2009 1:17:27 GMT -5
Does anyone know the planned Blu-Ray releases of the Friday the 13th series?
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Post by Chainsaw on Apr 27, 2009 1:17:29 GMT -5
I picked up Laid To Rest today. Can't wait to see it!
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Post by Ken Ivory on Apr 27, 2009 6:08:14 GMT -5
Another classic I've only seen for the first time recently.... The Rocky Horror Picture Show .....Saturday night to be exact. I think I've avoided this one for so long as I'm not a big fan of musicals, well mainstream ones at least. However over the years I've grown to like off-key musicals such as South Park: Bigger. Longer and Uncut and felt Rocky Horror would fit into this category. I'm glad I did finally get to watch it as this was the first movie in a long time to truly suck me in (no double entendre intended) to the story. The music was great, very catchy, clever and comical in places. Plus there's a great (if not random) appearance by Meat Loaf! What surprised me most was Tim Curry! I knew he was in this but by God, he looked good in Rocky Horror (I'm not afraid to say it)! I would go so far to say that Frank N Furter is his best performance (that I've seen anyway). The scenes where he sneaks into both Brad and Janet's bedrooms (with the same lines) is hilarious! Highly recommended. My rating: 5 Batista's
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Post by Welfare Willis on Apr 27, 2009 9:14:45 GMT -5
Does anyone know the planned Blu-Ray releases of the Friday the 13th series? I think it's rumors right now, but from what I heard the box set is coming by the end of this year. Of course plans change...I'm still waiting on that Kill Bill combined cut to make the DVD/Blu-Ray shelves.
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Apr 27, 2009 9:38:36 GMT -5
Does anyone know the planned Blu-Ray releases of the Friday the 13th series? I think it's rumors right now, but from what I heard the box set is coming by the end of this year. Of course plans change...I'm still waiting on that Kill Bill combined cut to make the DVD/Blu-Ray shelves. Parts 2 and 3 hit Blu-ray on June 16th (along with the deluxe DVD editions of 4-6). Beyond that, it's unknown at this point.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Apr 27, 2009 11:14:49 GMT -5
Quick question for you all - how are the Blind Dead films? I've heard a lot about them and their cult following, but I've never actually seen them. Are they worth my time? I thought the first film was good. Certainly it has it's own take on the zombie mythos. Yet I found the other films more lacking. Cool looking box set though.
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Apr 28, 2009 0:53:33 GMT -5
Alright folks, its been awhile, and I thought I'd throw a quick review your way. This time out it's Dentist 2: Brace Yourself! I'll try to keep things vague, since TR (I think?) recently bought this movie's predecessor, The Dentist, and I don't want to ruin anything from that movie here. So here goes...
Dr. Alan Feinstone finds himself in a new town, with a new name and a new girlfriend, but the same old quest to stop decay...both dental, and moral.
As the newly dubbed "Dr. Lawrence Caine" cleans the teeth of his new neighbors, some of them seek to shed light on this mysterious stranger's dirty past. Caine/Feinstone does little to assuage their suspicions, at times barely keeping his psychosis hidden (and at other times, not keeping it hidden at all). Making matters worse is someone from this dentist's past looking to hunt him down and gain a measure of revenge for what he did to...this person.
Director Bryan Yuzna (who also directed Bride of Re-Animator, reviewed earlier in this thread) gives us a nice blend of suspense and dark humor, and Corbin Bernsen matches this by bringing both a sinister menace to the character and a rich, tasty slice of ham. Its a credit to both the director and the lead actor that the audience is able to laugh at the film's proceedings, but still the filmmakers are able to pull back from the comedic aspects and make us care about the characters and still feel tension when things get more serious (well, to a certain extent...at no point does this film really go all the way towards the serious end of things).
I will give a little something away here: The Dentist is a story about a man going crazy, and Dentist 2 is about a man being crazy. As such, it seems fairly obvious that this would be the funnier of the two movies (as far as I remember...it's been awhile since I've seen the first one).
The rest of the cast gives good, if amateurish, performances (save for an all-too-brief cameo by Clint Howard...I love that guy!). And the special effects certainly show their low-budget at times, but they work well anyway. The film may have been a little more cringe-inducing for me on a personal level, since I just had a wisdom tooth removed a little over a week ago, and I'm still reeling from it.
At any rate, I give the film 3.7 stars out of 5. Check it out, it's pretty fun.
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Post by Chainsaw on Apr 28, 2009 1:15:27 GMT -5
Hey, horror fans. Just wanted to throw this out atcha. Uncle Creepy of Dread Central, in what could be a fever-and-chicken-soup induced delirium ( ), is going to see if he can get 1,000,000 horror fans to add him on Twitter, a la Ashton Kutcher. Nothing at stake, just for shits and giggles, but let's let people know that horror fans are still here. twitter.com/UncleCreepyDO IT FOR GREAT JUSTICE!!
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Post by Ken Ivory on Apr 28, 2009 3:28:39 GMT -5
Watched the H2 trailer last night. I'm worried now, considering what happened last time they tried to explain Michael's "motivation"....
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Apr 28, 2009 17:38:46 GMT -5
Much like George Costanza, every time I think I've left the WC board...it pulls me back in. Yeah, DSR, I did just recently buy The Dentist...it arrived a few days ago, and I rewatched it for the first time in at least ten years. It's still a movie that's effectively a zillion times better than you'd expect; it gets a solid *** - *** 1/2 from me. I'm sure I've mentioned it before, but I'm a huge X-Files mark. Watching it now takes me back to the days of yore (circa 1996-98) of being a heavy-duty junior high school nerd, and all the things that entailed. And I don't regret my nerdy, gawky days at all - they taught me to appreciate the stupid little things in life, most notably my favorite movies and shows. Saturday nights on TNT were the zenith of my week - Joe Bob Briggs was, is, and will always remain the man. The X-Files was my favorite show at the time (and the capper to the best night of television EVER - The Simpsons and King of the Hill in their prime, followed by this) and, in true nerd fanboy fashion, I taped it every week. The show was already well into its run by the time I caught onto it; I started watching on a weekly basis during the show's fourth season. And let me tell you something (brother), there was no show on Earth more maddening to be a fan of than The X-Files, particularly when it came to its amazingly convoluted, confusing-as-all-hell-just-for-the-sake-of-being-confusing "mytharc" storyline involving alien black oil, colonization, bees, and about fifteen other loose ends and chess pieces that Chris Carter SAYS were all planned out in advance a la George Lucas' " Star Wars Bible" but late in the run smacked of "being made up on the fly"...but I digress. There was also no show on television that seemed more insistent on giving the audience what they did NOT want, kind of like Vince McMahon over the past six years or so...but I digress again. While the first season of The X-Files was not its best (if I had to pick one, I'd have to give it to the third season, which features a triumvarate of Darin Morgan-scripted episodes that must be seen to be believed), it is definitely the one that I have seen the most. Lately, I've been popping these discs like mad. They have the most replay value out of any season of the show, and new viewers to the show should nonetheless start with #1 - it's not intimidating or confusing. The setup of the show is simple enough. Two FBI agents are assigned to the X-Files - a division of the Bureau dedicated to investigating unexplained phenomena. One is Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson, who is phenomenal throughout the series), a medical doctor skeptical of all things supernatural who is actually given the assignment to debunk it; the other is a staunch believer in all things paranormal, an Oxford-educated psychologist named Fox Mulder (David Duchovny, who sleepwalks through some episodes, but when he applies himself, he's great). The central dichotomy of the show is the interaction between the two characters, and few things on television were more entertaining than the Mulder-Scully argument. "Mulder, are you suggesting..." - Scully's introductory statement to more than a few rational explanations for Mulder's out there theories - became a semi-catchphrase at the time. But we're really not here today to look at the series as a whole; this is a horror thread, after all. The first season of The X-Files is a worthy buy for horror fans. While later seasons of the show dealt more with some great, grand conspiracy involving a shadowy government organization attempting to negotiate with aliens who wished to colonize the planet (yes, really), every episode of The X-Files' first season, while maintaining the basic framework of a paranormal criminal case that Mulder and Scully investigate from two different biases, is essentially a stand-alone horror story. At that, the first season of the show is excellent. Indeed, watching the first season of the show, it's amazing just how well-formed the show's formula was from the beginning; when I first bought all the seasons of the show on DVD, I thought that I hadn't seen much of the first season. I was shocked that I had seen all but six episodes of the season after burning through them; very few episodes have that "new series" smell (stale characters, bad dialogue, out-of-character acting, etc.). Now for some of the highlights - the season's best episode is "Beyond the Sea," the first real Scully-centric episode of the series involving the death of her father. Brad Dourif, in a blow-the-roof-off performance, plays Luther Lee Boggs, a death row inmate who claims to be able to communicate with the dead. Meanwhile, a vicious serial killer who kidnaps young couples and kills them after a period of captivity has just nabbed his latest would-be victims, and Boggs claims to know where the man is as a result of his psychic ability. To raise the stakes, he also claims to be able to talk to Scully's father...while Boggs is an absolutely detestable man, Dourif brings to the role an unbelievable charisma and truly conveys the desperation and downright sliminess of the character. "Beyond the Sea" remains one of the five or six best episodes of the series. For pure horror, there's episodes dealing with some of the more fantastical aspects of the paranormal; "Shadows" was The X-Files dealing with the subject of ghosts for the first time. The story itself is more Poultergeist than The Haunting, but there's still some very eerie stuff; "Ghost in the Machine" is a cautionary tale of artificial intelligence run amok, as a corporate computer system taught to protect its own existence begins offing all those whose actions could lead to its demise; "The Jersey Devil" is, surprisingly, a very logical explanation of just WHAT all the sightings of that mythical creature in New Jersey could have been all those years; "Shapes" is a startingly original werewolf tale - instead of going the traditional "silver bullet and iron rod" route, the explanation offered for the phenomena on The X-Files has roots in Native American folklore (and is an episode, by the way, whose advertisements scared the ever-living crap out of me as a kid); and "Gender Bender" examines the power of pheromones, and just WHAT they would do if a human were able to master their properties to the fullest. It also contains a downright Russo-esque swerve at the end. Unlike later seasons of The X-Files, the first season didn't stray too much from a pretty cut-and-dried formula - weird excretory matter starts going down, people start dying, Mulder and Scully are called in and offer their theories as to just what is going down, people start dying at a faster rate, climax, roll credits. But what's very entertaining about the first season of this landmark series is just how SCARY a lot of the episodes are; all of the episodes listed above contain genuine creep-you-out moments. Also, for someone like me who has a phobia of grasshoppers and is afraid of insects in general, the "Darkness Falls" episode REALLY gets under your skin. Overall, the first season of this show is a worthy pick-up for all horror fans; they're creepy tales, examinations of urban legends and contemporary phenomenon, contain outstanding acting by the two leads, and possess production values far greater than many of the direct-to-video or direct-to-Scifi feature films that populate the market. *** 1/2
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