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Post by theryno665 on Feb 12, 2010 19:48:20 GMT -5
I don't know, having Roger Corman involved makes it better than about 90% of SyFy movies...which is saying something. Having recently re-watched Corman's "Fantastic Four" movie from the 90s...maybe? Hell, I liked that better than the mainstream Fantastic Four movie (which I didn't outright hate), but I refuse to see Rise of the Silver Surfer.
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Feb 12, 2010 22:50:46 GMT -5
Well, I just got back from The Wolfman, and since I'm way too tired to type out a long review, I'll just make this brief and say that this movie was quite good. A nice, clean keep it simple stupid plot (which I quite enjoy in movies now - not having fifteen twists is quite revolutionary these days), some great acting by Del Toro, Hopkins, and Blunt, likable characters pretty much all around made this a real treat. It's also very nice seeing a horror film centered around mature adults, in and of itself a rarity in this time of vaguely hatable 20-somethings (credit is due to Rorschach for that phrase). Of course, it only has a 30% on Rotten Tomatoes, but what the hell do those stuffy dudes know? I'll highly recommend this one.
I also have to add that I had no preconceived notions to compare this film to, since - wait for it - I've never seen the original Wolfman.
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Post by Jiren on Feb 12, 2010 22:57:15 GMT -5
Having recently re-watched Corman's "Fantastic Four" movie from the 90s...maybe? Hell, I liked that better than the mainstream Fantastic Four movie Ditto
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Post by Rorschach on Feb 13, 2010 4:03:34 GMT -5
Hell, I liked that better than the mainstream Fantastic Four movie Ditto Me three....and TR...gonna try and hit up WOLF MAN this weekend. Maybe the critics are off the mark...who knows? All I know is, I trust your judgement, and if you say it was a great time, chances are it damn straight was. ;D
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Post by mysterydriver on Feb 13, 2010 4:14:46 GMT -5
I also have to add that I had no preconceived notions to compare this film to, since - wait for it - I've never seen the original Wolfman. Oh, TR...you make Balls Mahoney sad. That said, I liked your quick, to-the-point review of the movie. I plan on seeing it eventually (hopefully grabbing a few people along the way). I'm aiming for this weekend, but I can never be sure.
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Post by YellowJacketY2J on Feb 13, 2010 8:09:51 GMT -5
I too plan on seeing The Wolfman. My friend wants to see it well, so we'll hopefully see it this Monday (the day we usually hang out).
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2010 14:30:57 GMT -5
So I watched a pretty fun, but mostly under the radar direct-to-DVD horror flick last night. Wouldn't call it a horror, as much as it is a zombie comedy. It was called Dead and Breakfast, from 2004. A bunch of friends are on their way to a friend's wedding when they get lost in a redneck town called Lovelock, where they end up staying at a weird bed and breakfast. Everybody calls it spooky because of a man called Mr. Wise (played by David F'N Carradine; his granddaughter Ever plays one of the leads). Mr. Wise apparently owns this box that he keeps a spirit in, the one of his dead son. Well, guess what...one of the idiots opens the box accidentally, releasing the spirit and possessing him, turning him into a pseudo-zombie. Chaos reigns. I do like the idea of a "pseudo-zombie". These aren't the type of zombies that just go "Brains!" and walk around slowly. They're more-so possessed than anything else. They can still talk, they're smart, etc. Of course, doesn't work that well when the town is a bunch of raging rednecks. I also love the idea of the "box". See, how to possess somebody is simple; take a piece of hair, blood, bone, etc. and BOOM! Instant zombie. Long story short, they find out a drifter they met eariler is aware of what's going on and he tries to pitch in, with the help of the town's sheriff (Jeffrey Dean Morgan....REALLY!), it's time to kill us some zombies. Like I said, this isn't so much of a horror flick. It's more of a zomedy. I'll go one step further and say that the director of this movie was channeling some old-school Peter Jackson because that's what this movie seems to be going for. The first death in this movie is a chef (another weird cameo...Diedrich Bader) being seen with a machete in his neck, blood all over the place, as one of the main leads sees this behind him and slips all over the blood in trying to get to the other side of the room, away from him. Another gag in the movie is from time to time, they cut to a musical interlude, done by former G4 flunkie Zach Selwyn (who's in the movie as...a redneck musician) who sings to us what has happened throughout the movie. Believe me, it gets weird when he turns into one of them. And just like a movie compared to Dead Alive, the blood/gore could be one of the most plentiful i've seen in awhile. This movie is pretty insane when you look at all of the kills/deaths/whatnot. If you need your gore fix quota...you'll get it here. I was honestly surprised with this movie. Sure, the plot was a little hackeneyed, but that didn't stop me from enjoying this movie, and if you guys can find it, I highly recommend you check it out. 4 homemade shotguns out of 5. Yeah, they make homemade shotguns out of pipes and nails in this. Awesome.
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Feb 13, 2010 15:22:56 GMT -5
So I watched a pretty fun, but mostly under the radar direct-to-DVD horror flick last night. Wouldn't call it a horror, as much as it is a zombie comedy. It was called Dead and Breakfast, from 2004. A bunch of friends are on their way to a friend's wedding when they get lost in a redneck town called Lovelock, where they end up staying at a weird bed and breakfast. Everybody calls it spooky because of a man called Mr. Wise (played by David F'N Carradine; his granddaughter Ever plays one of the leads). Mr. Wise apparently owns this box that he keeps a spirit in, the one of his dead son. Well, guess what...one of the idiots opens the box accidentally, releasing the spirit and possessing him, turning him into a pseudo-zombie. Chaos reigns. I do like the idea of a "pseudo-zombie". These aren't the type of zombies that just go "Brains!" and walk around slowly. They're more-so possessed than anything else. They can still talk, they're smart, etc. Of course, doesn't work that well when the town is a bunch of raging rednecks. I also love the idea of the "box". See, how to possess somebody is simple; take a piece of hair, blood, bone, etc. and BOOM! Instant zombie. Long story short, they find out a drifter they met eariler is aware of what's going on and he tries to pitch in, with the help of the town's sheriff (Jeffrey Dean Morgan....REALLY!), it's time to kill us some zombies. Like I said, this isn't so much of a horror flick. It's more of a zomedy. I'll go one step further and say that the director of this movie was channeling some old-school Peter Jackson because that's what this movie seems to be going for. The first death in this movie is a chef (another weird cameo...Diedrich Bader) being seen with a machete in his neck, blood all over the place, as one of the main leads sees this behind him and slips all over the blood in trying to get to the other side of the room, away from him. Another gag in the movie is from time to time, they cut to a musical interlude, done by former G4 flunkie Zach Selwyn (who's in the movie as...a redneck musician) who sings to us what has happened throughout the movie. Believe me, it gets weird when he turns into one of them. And just like a movie compared to Dead Alive, the blood/gore could be one of the most plentiful i've seen in awhile. This movie is pretty insane when you look at all of the kills/deaths/whatnot. If you need your gore fix quota...you'll get it here. I was honestly surprised with this movie. Sure, the plot was a little hackeneyed, but that didn't stop me from enjoying this movie, and if you guys can find it, I highly recommend you check it out. 4 homemade shotguns out of 5. Yeah, they make homemade shotguns out of pipes and nails in this. Awesome. That's awesome. I remember seeing that movie on video shelves back in the day, but for some reason never picked it up. Since I'm not a big zombie cinema fan, I tend to like those "zomedies" WAY more than the super serial zombie flicks, so I'll give that one a shot.
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Post by Jiren on Feb 13, 2010 19:31:40 GMT -5
I saw "The Wolfman" today and I really enjoyed it.
Simple & To the point, Just what I was hoping for.
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Feb 14, 2010 5:18:38 GMT -5
Anyone know of any websites and blogs that reviews horror novels?
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Post by DSR on Feb 14, 2010 6:04:15 GMT -5
Having recently re-watched Corman's "Fantastic Four" movie from the 90s...maybe? Hell, I liked that better than the mainstream Fantastic Four movie (which I didn't outright hate), but I refuse to see Rise of the Silver Surfer. I like both the Corman FF and the first "official" FF movie about the same. Thing is, Corman's FF wasn't made to be released, it was just made so Corman's company wouldn't lose the rights to make a REAL movie in a few years. The fact that an official movie like the Alba crap-fest is pretty much on par with Corman's blooper reel, though, is pathetic. As for The Wolf Man, I hope to see it soon. A buddy of mine wants to go see it, too, so hopefully we'll gather together to give it a look. I love the original film, and I'm something of a Benicio Del Toro fan. TR, your review makes me hopeful for at least a good time, if not an all-out masterpiece. And I bought DEAD & BREAKFAST when it came out on DVD. I thought it was okay, but nothing too special. I did dig Zach Selwyn's role, in particular when his straight-up country performance gradually becomes more hip hop inspired. And I am fond of the random actor cameos. But the rest of the movie didn't really do much for me. *shrug*
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Feb 14, 2010 18:28:02 GMT -5
Anyone know of any websites and blogs that reviews horror novels? The only one that I know of is Blogger Beware, the (excellent) blog dedicated to R.L. Stine's wonderfully horrid Goosebumps franchise that ruled the Earth in the mid-'90s (of course, since I was 11-13 years old during the peak of the series' popularity, that's not to say that I didn't own a good two dozen or so of the books ). Just type in "Blogger Beware" in a search engine and prepare to be entertained for countless hours. One last bit on The Wolfman - I stayed awake during the whole thing which, as I've said before, is a big barometer of whether or not a movie is good for yours truly considering that I see movies running on no sleep for the better part of 18 hours.
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Post by andrew8798 on Feb 14, 2010 18:29:53 GMT -5
Saw Wolfman last night I thought it was pretty good
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Post by Rorschach on Feb 14, 2010 18:49:10 GMT -5
Funny thing about THE WOLFMAN....the average joe consensus is that it's a pretty good movie. The critics, however, are being MUCH less merciful, and in some cases, outright blasting it to bits for not INSTANTLY living up to oh, about 60 years of hype and loving nostalgia for the original.
YEESH. Just the fact that it's even WATCHABLE, considering the number of hands the film went through is enough for me, in this case, and hearing that people whose opinion I value liked or even LOVED it....that's icing on the cake.
As for sites that review horror novels, Humanoid....Dread Central does them every so often. You might give that a try.
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Post by tap on Feb 14, 2010 20:49:13 GMT -5
Just watched Inside. Why do a lot of recent European horror films "look" so much better, in terms of cinematography, than their American counterparts?
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Post by DSR on Feb 14, 2010 22:00:02 GMT -5
The only one that I know of is Blogger Beware, the (excellent) blog dedicated to R.L. Stine's wonderfully horrid Goosebumps franchise that ruled the Earth in the mid-'90s (of course, since I was 11-13 years old during the peak of the series' popularity, that's not to say that I didn't own a good two dozen or so of the books ). I recently discovered a band called Dr. Acula, and most of their songs are named after Goosebumps books. The band sounds awful as f***, but I liked that they named their songs after Goosebumps books, so I had to give them a listen. Just thought I'd share.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Feb 15, 2010 9:33:49 GMT -5
Just watched Inside. Why do a lot of recent European horror films "look" so much better, in terms of cinematography, than their American counterparts? That's a fair question. Certainly it'd be nice to have a european viewpoint into the matter, but I'll try to answer. I think in America the slasher film has been tied to general public's concept of "horror". Fans of the genre know that term can encompass everything from the surprisingly musical Wicker man (the original, of course) to comedy like Return of the Livng Dead. I don't think europeans have the same basic idea when they hear the term horror. Also I think europeans since they're not necessarily tied to the hollywood system can go further, either artistically or gore wise, than American films can go. Unfortunately, we are far pass that 70's-80's era where a film could go unrated and still be seen in a lot of movie theaters. Speaking of the Hollywood system, let me try to cover a piece of that as well. No doubt the majority of films coming out of hollywood right now are sequels, remakes, or rip-offs. It's become formula the last couple years to take a long running franchise and attach a musical video director to "reimage" it. Not to say that some of these directors don't have talent, but I believe for some it's just another step in their career as opposed to some artistic effort. So for many horror fans we have to often look outside the hollywood system to independant films or films from other countries for the true gems. What's nice about horror from other countries is you get different perspectives on the genre from the spaghetti horror of Italy to the more methodical ghost stories of Japan. At least that's my viewpoint on the matter, sorry for being so long-winded about it.
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Feb 15, 2010 9:47:58 GMT -5
Looks like it's time to either pay the $2.95 a month or save your gifsoup gifs to photobucket, Fulci.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Feb 15, 2010 9:58:41 GMT -5
Looks like it's time to either pay the $2.95 a month or save your gifsoup gifs to photobucket, Fulci. Dude, I paid them for this month! I have a subscription with them. For some unknown reason I got a day before I was back to the basic account and this bullcrap. So I emailed the address it had on the receipt and haven't heard anything back yet. So I'll just move them to photobucket and say $@#$ you, gifsoup. Edit: I removed the gifs from my profile. No free advertising for gifsoup.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2010 10:14:55 GMT -5
Looks like it's time to either pay the $2.95 a month or save your gifsoup gifs to photobucket, Fulci. Or better yet, start using TinyPic.
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