Nr1Humanoid
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Mar 1, 2010 20:52:32 GMT -5
Now that would be a motive for a t-shirt.
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Post by Bullhead on Mar 1, 2010 21:15:29 GMT -5
I just got this poster in the mail today - the F13 mark in me just couldn't resist... Now that, as The Miz would say, is AWWWWESOOOOME!!!
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Mar 2, 2010 0:20:27 GMT -5
40 GHOST SHIP BLOOD BATH AT THE BALL The "slice and slide" death has come into vogue in recent years. 13 Ghosts, Cube, Resident Evil and Underworld are just some of the films in which a character is bisected or diced, but (in true Tom and Jerry style) they remain intact for a few seconds before literally falling apart. The opening of Ghost Ship, though, goes sickeningly further. A whole dancefloor of seafaring partygoers are chopped in half by a taut wire that slices horizontally across the whole deck. All exept a little girl over whose head the wire passes. Instead she watches as all those about her slowly disentregate into a bloody mound of mauled limbs and torsos. Shame the rest of the film is so dull. That's a very underrated scene (and movie). I remember renting Ghost Ship and being fully convinced that we were in for a Rifftrax-style experience, and then they hit us with THAT scene right from the get-go. Awesome stuff. As for all the Resident Evil stuff, I watched the first movie in the franchise and stopped there. Much like Rorschach, I find the game to be an immersive, scary experience, and that first movie was neither. Turning Milla into a total Mary Sue in the sequels just convinces me further that I made the right choice not even bothering with the rest.
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Post by DSR on Mar 2, 2010 0:40:29 GMT -5
40 GHOST SHIP BLOOD BATH AT THE BALL The "slice and slide" death has come into vogue in recent years. 13 Ghosts, Cube, Resident Evil and Underworld are just some of the films in which a character is bisected or diced, but (in true Tom and Jerry style) they remain intact for a few seconds before literally falling apart. The opening of Ghost Ship, though, goes sickeningly further. A whole dancefloor of seafaring partygoers are chopped in half by a taut wire that slices horizontally across the whole deck. All exept a little girl over whose head the wire passes. Instead she watches as all those about her slowly disentregate into a bloody mound of mauled limbs and torsos. Shame the rest of the film is so dull. That's a very underrated scene (and movie). I remember renting Ghost Ship and being fully convinced that we were in for a Rifftrax-style experience, and then they hit us with THAT scene right from the get-go. Awesome stuff. I saw GHOST SHIP when it was new to DVD, and that opening scene was about the only thing I remember from the movie.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Mar 2, 2010 10:09:58 GMT -5
That's a very underrated scene (and movie). I remember renting Ghost Ship and being fully convinced that we were in for a Rifftrax-style experience, and then they hit us with THAT scene right from the get-go. Awesome stuff. I saw GHOST SHIP when it was new to DVD, and that opening scene was about the only thing I remember from the movie. Funny, I forgot about that scene until just now and only remembering the lady in the red dress and the movie sucking.
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Mar 2, 2010 16:20:21 GMT -5
35 FREAKS ONE OF US Banned for over 30 years, Tod Browning's classic Freaks still has an undimmed power to shock and charm. In a classic inverse, the villain in Freaks is the only supposedly "normal" person in the cast. Trapeze artist Cleopatra has been trying to murder her dwarf husband, Hans, thinking he has a hidden fortune. After failing to kill him, the gang of pinheads, dwarves and assorted freaks decide to get their own back on this black-hearted "norm". The film ends with the freaks crawling their way through rain and mud to get to her and in the final revenge Cleopatra is shown deformed and clucking like a chicken.
34 THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA THE UNMASKING OF THE PHANTOM After abducting Christine, the girl he loves, the mysterious masked Phantom has taken her back to his lair. As he expresses his joy by playing his pipe organ, Christine's curiosity about his appearance gets the better of her. She pulls off the Phantom's mask, revealing a hideous skull like face beneath. It was a real shock for the audience; Lon Chaney had a clause in his contract that insured that no glimpse of his makeup was to be seen before the film's release. The scene disturbs so much because the Phantom is as repulsed by his own face as we are; he is desperate for love, and the revelation of his true appearance tears down his romantic dreams. We are horrified for him, as well as horrified at him.
33 PHANTASM THE SILVER SPHERE In Don Coscarelli's surreal 1979 horror flick, something odd is going on in the local mausoleum, Little Mike investigates, but gets caught. Then a silver sphere glides into view. It extrudes knives, flies right into the guy who apprehended Mike, and drills into his forehead, sending an arc of blood spurting into the air. The idea came to the director in a dream. "I was in my teens, and what I can remember had mainly to do with my fleeing down endlessly long corridors, pursued by a chrome sphere intent on penetrating my skull with a needle. There was a futuristic 'sphere dispenser' out of which the orbs would emerge and begin chase. As I remember, the spheres never caught up with me."
32 THE FLY MAGGOT BABY NIGHTMARE Journalist Ronnie (Geena Davis) is having one hell of a bad week. Not only is her boffin boyfriend turning into a half-insect, half-human monster after accidentally splicing his DNA with that of a housefly, but she's pregnant by him. In this gruesome nightmare sequence, Ronnie's ex rushes her to the hospital as the contractions start. In the delivery room, the doctor (a cameo by director David Cronenberg) gasps in horror as he pulls out a giant wiggling maggot. Yowsa!
31 THE OTHERS "I AM YOUR DAUGHTER" Grace (Nicole Kidman) walks in on her daughter Anne, sitting in her communion dress, playing happily with a puppet. But as she gets closer, she stares in horror as she realise that it's not her Anne at all, but a wizened old crone. The old woman pauses, stares at her , and asks - in the little girl's voice - "What's the matter?" "What have you done with myu daughter?" screams Grace. "Are you mad? I am your daughter!" comes the chilling reply.
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Mar 3, 2010 10:39:09 GMT -5
32 THE FLY MAGGOT BABY NIGHTMARE Journalist Ronnie (Geena Davis) is having one hell of a bad week. Not only is her boffin boyfriend turning into a half-insect, half-human monster after accidentally splicing his DNA with that of a housefly, but she's pregnant by him. In this gruesome nightmare sequence, Ronnie's ex rushes her to the hospital as the contractions start. In the delivery room, the doctor (a cameo by director David Cronenberg) gasps in horror as he pulls out a giant wiggling maggot. Yowsa! Good God, that scene is f***ed up. The first time I saw that, I remember seriously being shocked by just how far Croenenberg was willing to go with this movie for the sake of really digging the knife into your skull. One of the many things in the movie that really sticks with you. All I know is that if the finale of Suspiria isn't here somewhere this list is WRONG!
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Post by Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action on Mar 3, 2010 14:28:00 GMT -5
Eh, I was actually very much underwhelmed by the finale of Suspiria when I watched it a few months ago. I just felt it was WAY to easy to defeat that woman and WAY to easy to escape that place.
It was like *stab*. "Oh she's dead? That's it? Cool I guess. Well I better be careful of all the guards. Oh wait, they died to when I stabbed her? Well I better get out of here." *walks out*
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Post by Rorschach on Mar 4, 2010 16:38:03 GMT -5
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Post by Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action on Mar 4, 2010 21:35:50 GMT -5
Looking back on my post about Suspiria, I can see it's easy for someone to read and think I'm trying to trash it. I don't think bad about the movie at all. I actually like the movie as a whole. What happened to me though was that I had extremely lofty expectations for it just due to hype for a long time (people I know, reviews, TV shows talking about it, people here, etc). So it was kind of one of those situations where not much could have lived up to what I was expecting. Therefore, I came a way a bit underwhelmed by the finale, but I enjoyed the movie as a whole.
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Post by Rorschach on Mar 4, 2010 21:56:10 GMT -5
Looking back on my post about Suspiria, I can see it's easy for someone to read and think I'm trying to trash it. I don't think bad about the movie at all. I actually like the movie as a whole. What happened to me though was that I had extremely lofty expectations for it just due to hype for a long time (people I know, reviews, TV shows talking about it, people here, etc). So it was kind of one of those situations where not much could have lived up to what I was expecting. Therefore, I came a way a bit underwhelmed by the finale, but I enjoyed the movie as a whole. No problems, DP. I can see where you're coming from, even if I don't entirely agree. I mean, if you've had this thing built up to you as such an awesome film, and you're expecting some sort of epic end to the entire thing....you're gonna be let down. Which actually reminds me of a happy horror movie experience I had with a friend of mine the other day. I had let him borrow Lucio Fulci's ZOMBIE, because he was bummed out about the lack of really good SERIOUS zombie movies anymore, and he didn't know what else was out there besides wanna be campy stuff that HAS to inject humor into it. I told him that Fulci's movie was a product of it's time, and as such, it probably wouldn't scare him much, and that the FX were cheesy and low budget....basically I made sure his expectations were pretty low going in to it. A couple of hours later, I get three texts from him, all raving about how AWESOME the film was, and how wrong I was about it being cheesy or a "bad" movie. The guy LOVES it and wants to buy the movie off of me, he enjoyed it so much. He even copped to a couple of moments making him jump out of his seat, which is really rare for him. He also really dug the "zombie vs. shark" battle, for what it was worth. I think it all amounts to reasonable expectations going into these things, myself. For my part, tonight I'm going to watch March's "B-Movie of the month" from my calendar: TEENAGE ZOMBIES. Should be a campy, fun time!
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Post by Ken Ivory on Mar 5, 2010 4:06:59 GMT -5
Pre-ordered Saw VI on Blu Ray yesterday ;D Can't wait to see the games in HD!
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Mar 5, 2010 12:28:23 GMT -5
Firstly, there's a new review up on my blog. Namely, the first time I've ever reviewed Jason X. It's a bit on the shortside, but still worth a look-see. Secondly, ready to be bored? Get ready for some TR Asian Horror Theater: Memento Mori (South Korea, 1999) - The mini-discussion on Lost and Delirious prompted me to give this one another look. Interestingly enough (at least to me), I saw this flick a few years ago not even knowing that it was part of the VERY loosely-connected Whispering Corridors series of South Korean films, but my opinion on it is unchanged. Namely, I love this movie. As I briefly mentioned to DSR, this movie is similar to Lost and Delirious in that it involves a lesbian couple at an all-girls' school and the effect it has on the surrounding mini-society. Only, this film is way better, with none of that flick's melodrama and artificiality (think the scene where Mischa Barton learns, with touching subtlety, to say "I hate my father!"), and a VERY horror-tastic final trimester. Well-acted, well-directed, and now that I know it's part of the unofficial "series," this is the best in the "ghost school trilogy" (that is now made up of five films). **** out of ****. Voice (South, 2005) - Of course, I had to go and check out the only other ghost school film that I didn't yet own. I've become a big fan of this series - the movies are cerebral, well-acted, and tell VERY complex, involving stories, and this is no exception. While not quite as effective as the series at its best, this one is a nice little creepy mindf*** all the same. The story this time involves a young singer killed by a malevolent, invisible force in the opening chapters, and returning from the dead to solve the mystery of her death along with her former best friend. The real fun of this film comes in the unraveling of its plot, which takes a lot of unexpected twists and turns toward a pretty frustrating conclusion. This one drags a bit more than the other movies in the series, and its use of flashbacks can be confusing (it's hard, at least to me, to follow subtitles along with nonlinear timelines), but overall a very solid effort. *** out of ****. Some ending words on the Whispering Corridors/Ghost School series: I know that I've reviewed them out of sequence, and not in close conjunction or even in the same THREAD, but these are the films that make up the series (in order) - Whispering Corridors, Memento Mori, Wishing Stairs and Voice (a fifth, Blood Pledge, isn't available in the U.S. yet). I've got to say that this series is definitely worth checking out - they're very unique from other J-horror films that some users like to harp on as being the same. Yes, there are ghosts, but they don't look like Kayako/Sadako/any other of the countless "long-black-haired" clones you're used to, and for the vast majority of these films the focus is not on the horror of the spectral, but the horror of society. All of these films take place in all-girls' schools, and are seen as critiques of the very harsh, repressive conditions at these South Korean establishments. Almost without fail, the authority figures at these schools are seen as dislikable, unwholesome, philandering (as in, the male teachers like to get it on with their students), and even physically brutal. The girls are, for the most part, conniving, spiteful, jealous beings, but this isn't Rob Zombie territory...there's always a likable character here or there to balance out the parade of despair. More than anything, these movies are cerebral to the max. They're not for those with short attention spans, but if you're looking for movies that keep you guessing while also doing a great job engrossing you in very untypical high school stories, look no further. Looking back on my post about Suspiria, I can see it's easy for someone to read and think I'm trying to trash it. I don't think bad about the movie at all. I actually like the movie as a whole. What happened to me though was that I had extremely lofty expectations for it just due to hype for a long time (people I know, reviews, TV shows talking about it, people here, etc). So it was kind of one of those situations where not much could have lived up to what I was expecting. Therefore, I came a way a bit underwhelmed by the finale, but I enjoyed the movie as a whole. I can definitely understand where expectations play a part with something like that. Truth be told, I knew next to nothing about Dario Argento or Suspiria before I watched it, and watched it alone at 2:00 in the morning with my headphones on during that first viewing. Quite the creepy little experience, especially when you take into account this movie's very eerie score. I get what you're saying, DP. I have the same issue with The Exorcist due to the reasons you cite...I didn't see it for the first time until 2005, after hearing the hype for most of my adult life, and walked away underwhelmed.
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Post by erisi236 on Mar 5, 2010 14:52:11 GMT -5
I'll always remember Zombi 2 as the movie that taught me a new (correct?) way to say "conquistador". I really do love that movie tho, which is odd cause nothing really happens for a huge part of it, and then suddenly, bam, it's balls to wall for the last act. Usually movies tend to pick off people slowly one by one, but Zombi 2 just saves all of that for right at the end, it's quite thrilling. I also love the radio announcement right at the end. Zombies are at the door.. they're coming in... AHHHHHHHHH. Hilarious.
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Post by Rorschach on Mar 5, 2010 20:02:28 GMT -5
I'll always remember Zombi 2 as the movie that taught me a new (correct?) way to say "conquistador". I really do love that movie tho, which is odd cause nothing really happens for a huge part of it, and then suddenly, bam, it's balls to wall for the last act. Usually movies tend to pick off people slowly one by one, but Zombi 2 just saves all of that for right at the end, it's quite thrilling. I also love the radio announcement right at the end. Zombies are at the door.. they're coming in... AHHHHHHHHH. Hilarious. I don't care who you are, that "splinter in the eye" scene is absolutely NASTY. Fake as all hell, but just so damn horrible to watch.
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Post by Rorschach on Mar 6, 2010 4:51:41 GMT -5
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Mar 6, 2010 7:16:24 GMT -5
Damn. Here's hoping we get some sort of quick release here in the States. Personally, I think that flick sounds fairly awesome. On that note, when are last year's Ju-On flicks going to get a U.S. DVD release? The series definitely has its fans - this thread proves that.
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Mar 6, 2010 16:03:23 GMT -5
30 JUON UNDER THE DUVET The smart thing about Japanese chiller Juon is that it does its best to undermine the idea of your bed as a comforting place of sanctuary. The latest victim of a curse which transfers from person to person like a virus, Hitori is being stalked by a spectral presence. When she gets back to the safety of her apartment, she thinks she is safe - but she's wrong. As she watches TV , the cheerful face of the TV presenter distorts into a hideous, demonic visage. As a terrified Hitori hides in her bed we see the duvet slowly rising up...Hitori glances down to see a ghostly blue-faced woman, who pulls her under the duvet and away into nothingness.
29 SALEM'S LOT FLYING VAMPIRE KID It's a moment which caused a whole generation of kids to sleep with the curtains closed, well into their adults lives. Danny Glick is just drifting off to sleep , while mist swirles outside his window. Slowly, oh so slooooowly, the outline of his missing brother Ralph appears in the mist, floating towards him. Ralph grins evilly like the devil bloodsucker that he's become and his eyes shine unaturally as he hovers around, scratching at the glass. Danny eventually climbs out of bed, as if hypnotised, and opens the latch on the window. He did not want to do that.
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28 POLTERGEIST DON'T PICK, IT'LL ONLY GET WORSE A paranormal investigator takes time out from casing the Freeling family's ghost riddled house. Fancying a snack, he gets more than he bargained for when a juicy steak starts crawling across the kitchen worktop, then, before his eyes, turns into a swarm of maggots. Dropping the tasty chicken drumstick he'd been nibbling, our man dashes to the bathroom. Looking in the mirror, he picks at a blemish on his face, then peels away his face, tugging whole chunks off until his screaming skull is exposed. It's an unnervingly graphic moment in a mainstream frightflick, which makes it all the more jolting. The hands doing the skin-wrenching belonged to the film's producer, one Steven Spielberg. Weirdo.
27 HALLOWEEN MICHAEL MYERS PLAYS SPOOK Never have sex in a Halloween film. But PJ Soles Linda does, the silly cow. After a night of post-pubescent passion, her boyfriend goes down to get something to drink and is impaled by the visiting Michael Myers. Myers then enter the budoir, with a sheet over his face and glasses on top, looking like some myopic ghost. Ha, ha, she thinks its her boyfriend pratting about. It's not. Ha, ha. Die, bitch, die.
26 THE OMEN THE NANNY HANGS HERSELF By this time, we've already found out that little Damian can, erm, make things happen. He makes fierce dogs run away in fear, scares giraffes in safari parks and, in this case, his nanny hangs herself in the most public way possible at his fifth birthday party. Maybe it's the fact that because we're in daylight, we're lulled into a false sense of security that it still remains so shocking. And we never do find out exactly why she did it. Maybe she'd just been watching Andromeda.
25 GHOSTWATCH A GLIMPSE OF MR PIPES In 1992 the BBC drama Ghostwatch was presented as a Crimewatch-style reality TV show, broadcast "live" from a haunted house, and featuring familiar faces such as Sarah Greene, Mike Smith and Michael Parkinson. Many terrified viewers were unaware that it was a fiction, and the program joined the ranks of great hoaxes, alongside Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast. Ghostwatch's almost subliminal glimpses of "Mr. Pipes" are terrifying. In its cleverest trick, a ghostly shape is visible in the background, but no-one in the studio reacts. Later, when they start "receiving calls from viewers", they replay the footage...but there's nothing there.
24 AUDITION WHAT'S IN THE BAG Lonely widower Aoyama falls in love with a mysterious young woman called Asami. After doing some investigating into her past, and making some slightly troubling discoveries, he decides to give her a call. Asami is waiting by the phone, kneeling, in the dark, in a furniture-less room. In the background, in shadow, is a large brown cloth bag. When the phone starts ringing, the mysterious bag suddenly sits up and starts screaming. As we later find out, Asami mutilated her lovers so they can never leave her.
23 CAT PEOPLE THE SWIMMING POOL Jacques Tourneur's 1942 classic is a masterpiece of chiaroscuro (the use of strong contrast of light and shadow) cinematography. As a child, Serbian fashion designer Irena was told stories of "cat people" - women who turns into panthers when aroused - and believes she might be one herself. Since she's to fearful to consumate her marriage, her husband turns to his co-worker, Alice, for consolation. As Alice swims alone in a darkened hotel pool, she's terrorised by an unseen presence, which we can only assume is Irena in her panther form. Tourneur subtly terrifies using only sound effects of cat-like growls, and the pulsating shadow thrown onto the walls by the rippling water.
22 MISERY HOBBLING Even the keenest Red Dwarf fans have noting on Annie Wilkes. With her favorite author, Paul Sheldon, held captive, she becomes fearful he might try to escape. What to do? Ah, of course, put a block of wood between his feet and crush his ankles with a sledgehammer. Aghh!!!!!!. This became the abiding memory of Misery, yet in Stephen King's original novel, Annie cuts Sheldon's feet off. Screenwriter William Goldman said it was this one scene that made him want to adapt the book. Director Rob Reiner thought it was too strong and instead changed it to hobbling. Goldman was outraged until he saw the film with an audience and promptly changed his mind.
21 THREADS THE BOMB DROPS IN SHEFFIELD Now we've almost become blase about the nuclear deterrent, but back in the Cold War years the dark shadow of nuclear annihilation hung over our childhoods. So anyone of a certain age, Threads, the BBC's 1984 drama about the outbreak of nuclear war, and the subsequent unravelling of society, is one of the most horrifying television programmes of all time. In its most memorable sequence a mushroom cloud blossoms over Sheffield city centre. The camera focuses on the shocked reaction of one woman who - quite understandably - pees herself in sheer terror
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Mar 6, 2010 16:06:22 GMT -5
30 JUON UNDER THE DUVET The smart thing about Japanese chiller Juon is that it does its best to undermine the idea of your bed as a comforting place of sanctuary. The latest victim of a curse which transfers from person to person like a virus, Hitori is being stalked by a spectral presence. When she gets back to the safety of her apartment, she thinks she is safe - but she's wrong. As she watches TV , the cheerful face of the TV presenter distorts into a hideous, demonic visage. As a terrified Hitori hides in her bed we see the duvet slowly rising up...Hitori glances down to see a ghostly blue-faced woman, who pulls her under the duvet and away into nothingness. It's good to see Ju-On make a list like this, since it usually jobs to FAR inferior films when it comes to all-time lists (and best of decade lists, even). That is, without a doubt, my favorite character-chapter in the Japanese series - it's 10 minutes of nonstop tension, stalking, and draws the bow so tight that when Kayako FINALLY makes the kill strike we're on the edge of our seats, and legitimately feel for poor Hitomi, who has endured so much torment already.
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Post by erisi236 on Mar 6, 2010 21:25:40 GMT -5
Mildly random but since they're both on SyFy at the moment... Something really annoys me about Hostel 2 and the way they treat Paxton the guy from the first film, it just felt like such a waste of the awesome revenge angle from the end of the first one. Couldn't they just not mention him or something and leave the memories alone? The strange thing is though I didn't feel annoyed at all when the same basic thing happened to Alice in Friday part 2, does that make any sense?
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