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Post by theryno665 on Jun 9, 2010 20:31:51 GMT -5
That is indeed a good little scene. Personally, my favorite scene in the entire series is in the original film; the protagonist takes Tomie's body out into the woods to bury her, only to turn around and see the headless body walking toward her, all while the creepiest music known to man plays on the soundtrack. BRRRRRRRRRRRR. That IS a good scene! You know another great scene from the series is when Tomie's severed head is in the tank in the hospital, and the director's daughter is watching time lapsed footage of the head on video....and we see Tomie's spinal column jut out suddenly and start to sprout writhing, squiggling NERVES.....YUCK. Great stuff there though...especially when Tomie's eyes blink and look around. This has fast become my new favorite horror series, I'll tell you that. Between Takashi Miike, Shimizu, and now the Tomie series....I am fast becoming a convert to the "J-Horror" genre (as if I wasn't already). ;D It only makes me sad that more people in my area WON'T give these movies a chance. Of ALL the Asian movies I bought from Hollywood Video, only Suicide Club had any sort of "previously played" look to it. The others ALL looked like they were brand new, and had never been touched. As Deadpool can probably attest, that MUST mean that they hadn't been rented out very much, as the more popular movies I've purchased from places like that have ALL been either heavily smudged, scuffed, or thumbprinted, or scratched to hell and back (though still playable). Though it's disappointing that more people don't give movies like this a chance, at least you were able to get an un-smudged un-scratched copy of something. I know what you mean though, I picked up Takashi Miike's Dead Or Alive at a Movie Gallery closing and even for being a 10+ year copy of the movie, it was still in relatively good condition. Same goes for Miike's City of Lost Souls, though that's a bit newer. I'm kinda bummed that I found another Movie Gallery closing down but didn't really get any good horror out of it. The only horror movie I was thinking of getting was Ax'Em, which I'd have only gotten because it's so damn horrible (as Something Awful and more recently The Cinema Snob can attest to). The only thing remotely horror-related I picked up was Outpost, which apparently has Ray Stevenson (Punisher: War Zone) as a soldier fighting zombies. But it was in the action section so I hope it's just a bunch of zombies getting blown up. That and Timecrimes but I'm not sure if that's considered horror either.
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Post by Chainsaw on Jun 9, 2010 20:44:39 GMT -5
That IS a good scene! You know another great scene from the series is when Tomie's severed head is in the tank in the hospital, and the director's daughter is watching time lapsed footage of the head on video....and we see Tomie's spinal column jut out suddenly and start to sprout writhing, squiggling NERVES.....YUCK. Great stuff there though...especially when Tomie's eyes blink and look around. This has fast become my new favorite horror series, I'll tell you that. Between Takashi Miike, Shimizu, and now the Tomie series....I am fast becoming a convert to the "J-Horror" genre (as if I wasn't already). ;D It only makes me sad that more people in my area WON'T give these movies a chance. Of ALL the Asian movies I bought from Hollywood Video, only Suicide Club had any sort of "previously played" look to it. The others ALL looked like they were brand new, and had never been touched. As Deadpool can probably attest, that MUST mean that they hadn't been rented out very much, as the more popular movies I've purchased from places like that have ALL been either heavily smudged, scuffed, or thumbprinted, or scratched to hell and back (though still playable). Though it's disappointing that more people don't give movies like this a chance, at least you were able to get an un-smudged un-scratched copy of something. I know what you mean though, I picked up Takashi Miike's Dead Or Alive at a Movie Gallery closing and even for being a 10+ year copy of the movie, it was still in relatively good condition. Same goes for Miike's City of Lost Souls, though that's a bit newer. I'm kinda bummed that I found another Movie Gallery closing down but didn't really get any good horror out of it. The only horror movie I was thinking of getting was Ax'Em, which I'd have only gotten because it's so damn horrible (as Something Awful and more recently The Cinema Snob can attest to). The only thing remotely horror-related I picked up was Outpost, which apparently has Ray Stevenson (Punisher: War Zone) as a soldier fighting zombies. But it was in the action section so I hope it's just a bunch of zombies getting blown up. That and Timecrimes but I'm not sure if that's considered horror either. Timecrimes I need to see sometime. Outpost is good stuff, it's a bit more supernatural than most zombie movies, but nice and creepy.
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Post by Rorschach on Jun 10, 2010 16:23:48 GMT -5
If you liked Outpost, give R-Point a shot some time. It's along those same lines, only set in Vietnam, and with an Asian crew of soldiers. Review time again! BLACK WATER (2007) Directed by: David Nerlich and Andrew Traucki Starring: Diana Glenn, Maeve Dermody, and Andy Rodoreda. You know, going into this film having quite the extensive "animal attack" horror collection which includes "reptiles on the rampage" films like Alligator and [/i]Rogue[/i], I thought I had seen almost everything that could be done with this genre. Turns out I was wrong....there was still one more angle that could be played out with this story, and Black Water does just that by taking that story and instead of making the problem bigger, or the threat more massive, they make it smaller and more intimate, yet STILL just as lethal as ever. Our story, such as it is follows a young couple named Grace (Glenn) and Adam (Rodoreda) and their friend Lee on a holiday in the outback. They're all on their way home after spending time at Grace's parents place and they decide to make one last stop off along the way so that Adam can indulge himself in a sight-seeing/fishing trip. Part of the reason Grace is so willing to let Adam do this is because she thinks the little boat excursion will be the perfect place to break the news to Adam that she's pregnant....which makes the events which transpire next all the more tragic. See, the normal tour guide isn't there at the moment, but his "second in command" Jim offers to take the group to an even BETTER spot than the normal one, a place where Adam can catch some REALLY big fish. Skeptical, but not wanting to scotch the fishing trip entirely, the group agrees to this and they set off in the rickety little metal boat, headed for an isolated patch of Mangroves a fair distance away from anyone, or anything. To make a long story short, this little "three hour tour" doesn't end with Gilligan and the Skipper living on a deserted island with two hot chicks and a nutty professor...this one ends with the guide dead in the water, the boat capsized and the three survivors stuck in the branches of a Mangrove tree at the mercy of a marauding salt-water crocodile of considerable size (though nowhere NEAR the size of the monster in Rogue). And that's where Black Water excels...it takes all the tension of the scenario of Rogue and strips away all the outlandishness and all the outrageous over-kill of that movie, and makes this a more human, more intimate story. Everything that happens in this movie is supposed to be based on a true story, and for the bulk of the film, as a viewer you can buy that. However, and this is going to go into spoiler territory here so be warned, but: {Spoiler}This only works as long as you keep things believable, and that's where Black Water totally comes off the rails in the last twenty minutes. First off, you have the Anaconda Effect wherein the titular monster has a human protagonist dead to rights, and yet refuses to kill him/her. Then you have the added idiocy and drama of how the heroine dispatches said crocodile, which she does by grabbing a convieniently placed gun, letting this huge goddamn animal bite her arm, and when it has her arm all the way down its throat, she pulls the trigger, blowing it's brains out in gory red splatter. BULLS***. This ending might work if a person had no idea how crocodiles kill their prey, or how these animals are physically put together, but if you DO know any of those things, it makes what is supposed to be a tense and suspenseful ending just.....laughable. All in all....for the most part, Black Water is an intense and enjoyable movie, but that ending really, REALLY killed the film for me. I'll say that it's **1/2 out of five, and it would have been three or four if not for that totally logic defying, "Hollywood" ending. Hell, turn it off before that point, and pretend that no one survived and you have an EXCELLENT film. ;D ;D
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Post by theryno665 on Jun 10, 2010 19:54:15 GMT -5
Though it's disappointing that more people don't give movies like this a chance, at least you were able to get an un-smudged un-scratched copy of something. I know what you mean though, I picked up Takashi Miike's Dead Or Alive at a Movie Gallery closing and even for being a 10+ year copy of the movie, it was still in relatively good condition. Same goes for Miike's City of Lost Souls, though that's a bit newer. I'm kinda bummed that I found another Movie Gallery closing down but didn't really get any good horror out of it. The only horror movie I was thinking of getting was Ax'Em, which I'd have only gotten because it's so damn horrible (as Something Awful and more recently The Cinema Snob can attest to). The only thing remotely horror-related I picked up was Outpost, which apparently has Ray Stevenson (Punisher: War Zone) as a soldier fighting zombies. But it was in the action section so I hope it's just a bunch of zombies getting blown up. That and Timecrimes but I'm not sure if that's considered horror either. Timecrimes I need to see sometime. Outpost is good stuff, it's a bit more supernatural than most zombie movies, but nice and creepy. I watched Outpost last night and it was pretty good...even though I fell asleep for some of it. Not that it was boring, I've just been falling asleep early lately. Anyway, I didn't really think it was all that creepy (except for near the beginning where a good chunk of the movie was lit solely by flashlights). The concept was cool but I would've liked to know more about the monsters. What I got from it was that they're not necessarily zombies but ghosts that can become corporeal or incorporeal when convenient, am I close? But yeah, I liked it but it's not like "OMG SEE THIS NOW!" If you get a chance, check it out.
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Jun 11, 2010 10:21:13 GMT -5
If you liked Outpost, give R-Point a shot some time. It's along those same lines, only set in Vietnam, and with an Asian crew of soldiers. Review time again! BLACK WATER (2007) Directed by: David Nerlich and Andrew Traucki Starring: Diana Glenn, Maeve Dermody, and Andy Rodoreda. You know, going into this film having quite the extensive "animal attack" horror collection which includes "reptiles on the rampage" films like Alligator and [/i]Rogue[/i], I thought I had seen almost everything that could be done with this genre. Turns out I was wrong....there was still one more angle that could be played out with this story, and Black Water does just that by taking that story and instead of making the problem bigger, or the threat more massive, they make it smaller and more intimate, yet STILL just as lethal as ever. Our story, such as it is follows a young couple named Grace (Glenn) and Adam (Rodoreda) and their friend Lee on a holiday in the outback. They're all on their way home after spending time at Grace's parents place and they decide to make one last stop off along the way so that Adam can indulge himself in a sight-seeing/fishing trip. Part of the reason Grace is so willing to let Adam do this is because she thinks the little boat excursion will be the perfect place to break the news to Adam that she's pregnant....which makes the events which transpire next all the more tragic. See, the normal tour guide isn't there at the moment, but his "second in command" Jim offers to take the group to an even BETTER spot than the normal one, a place where Adam can catch some REALLY big fish. Skeptical, but not wanting to scotch the fishing trip entirely, the group agrees to this and they set off in the rickety little metal boat, headed for an isolated patch of Mangroves a fair distance away from anyone, or anything. To make a long story short, this little "three hour tour" doesn't end with Gilligan and the Skipper living on a deserted island with two hot chicks and a nutty professor...this one ends with the guide dead in the water, the boat capsized and the three survivors stuck in the branches of a Mangrove tree at the mercy of a marauding salt-water crocodile of considerable size (though nowhere NEAR the size of the monster in Rogue). And that's where Black Water excels...it takes all the tension of the scenario of Rogue and strips away all the outlandishness and all the outrageous over-kill of that movie, and makes this a more human, more intimate story. Everything that happens in this movie is supposed to be based on a true story, and for the bulk of the film, as a viewer you can buy that. However, and this is going to go into spoiler territory here so be warned, but: {Spoiler}This only works as long as you keep things believable, and that's where Black Water totally comes off the rails in the last twenty minutes. First off, you have the Anaconda Effect wherein the titular monster has a human protagonist dead to rights, and yet refuses to kill him/her. Then you have the added idiocy and drama of how the heroine dispatches said crocodile, which she does by grabbing a convieniently placed gun, letting this huge goddamn animal bite her arm, and when it has her arm all the way down its throat, she pulls the trigger, blowing it's brains out in gory red splatter. BULLS***. This ending might work if a person had no idea how crocodiles kill their prey, or how these animals are physically put together, but if you DO know any of those things, it makes what is supposed to be a tense and suspenseful ending just.....laughable. All in all....for the most part, Black Water is an intense and enjoyable movie, but that ending really, REALLY killed the film for me. I'll say that it's **1/2 out of five, and it would have been three or four if not for that totally logic defying, "Hollywood" ending. Hell, turn it off before that point, and pretend that no one survived and you have an EXCELLENT film. ;D ;D[/quote] I need more aquatic horror films. STILL don't own a copy of Piranha, despite ho-humming around it for years. Well, lookee here, all the talk of Tomie Kawakami convinced me to induct it into the IHR - and I decided to give the nod to the first movie in the series. I still find Tomie: Re-birth to be a technically better movie, but this is where it all started. Linked in my sig, as usual.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2010 13:20:18 GMT -5
So, with me having to kill time this morning and the simple fact that if I didn't watch it soon, it would've had to have been deleted from the DVR for the reason that I have to record Smallville for my brother on HDnet, guess what? Finally watched Evil Dead 2.
Well...well, there was only one word to say about the movie.
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Post by darthalexander on Jun 11, 2010 16:06:36 GMT -5
So, with me having to kill time this morning and the simple fact that if I didn't watch it soon, it would've had to have been deleted from the DVR for the reason that I have to record Smallville for my brother on HDnet, guess what? Finally watched Evil Dead 2. Well...well, there was only one word to say about the movie. ;D I'd give you flak for taking so long to see Evil Dead 2 but seeing as though I have still yet to see "The Thing", I'm one to talk. The first time I saw ED2 I was speechless. Easily in my top 5 of horror films. Absolutely perfect.
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Jun 11, 2010 23:32:17 GMT -5
I prefer THE EVIL DEAD over EVIL DEAD 2 or ARMY OF DARKNESS. But, to each his own.
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Post by Banjo Is Broken on Jun 11, 2010 23:44:08 GMT -5
I just watched "The Descent: Part II" the other night and overall, I'd say I enjoyed it. Not as good as the first one but I still liked it. It pretty much redid the concept of part one and just added a couple new things about the monsters to it. Not a perfect movie, as there were a few things that sort of bothered me, but like I said before, overall a good second dose of cave-dwelling humanoid creatures. It was also fairly violent I thought. I had to check the DVD case to make sure that it wasn't an unrated version. Not that I would mind that either.
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Jun 14, 2010 8:46:54 GMT -5
Well, this thread seems to be dying...
Just thought I'd pop in and recommend that everyone pop over into their local Walmart and peruse the DVD section, at least if they're doing something similar to mine. What with the hostile takeover of Blu-Ray and all, my local Wally World is doing some serious liquidation of their inventory, and has a BUNCH of titles on sale for $5 a piece. Just yesterday I picked up Pet Sematary, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter Deluxe Edition, and...oh yeah...Piranha!!! Walked home minus only $16.11 for three movies, and VERY happy. DVD sinking into obscurity is my gain!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2010 11:03:23 GMT -5
Don't let this thread die on us...at least not in this stupid PG-13 type way. If it's going to die, it needs a silver ball attached to it's head or something. Anyways, my brother also went $5 DVD splurging the other day at Wally World (which seems to be the norm here as well, TR. May have to check ours out myself). Sad thing is, the only horror DVD he got out of the bunch (4 DVD's, and 1 double pack) was Wrong Turn 2: Dead End, which is one of the better direct-to-DVD horror movies out there. Especially when it's a movie done with love and care from a director who knows his stuff. Joe Lynch sounds like a bad-ass dude to hang out with, at least looking at his Twitter and such. Not to say my brother didn't pick up some awesome movies, because he also got Terminator 2, a movie that was removed from our collection eons ago (my older brother moved out, took all his DVD's with him...T2 was one of them).
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Post by Paul on Jun 14, 2010 11:11:47 GMT -5
Any love for the Critters movies? I even like the two cheesy direct to video ones (3 and 4).
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Jun 14, 2010 11:20:49 GMT -5
Any love for the Critters movies? I even like the two cheesy direct to video ones (3 and 4). One of those REALLY up-and-down series. 1 and 2 I like a lot; 3 is VERY slow and boring (and also the big screen debut of Leonardo DiCaprio, for Christ's sake), and 4...well, it's got Brad Dourif, so that's a plus, but that's about the only one I can find. Don't let this thread die on us...at least not in this stupid PG-13 type way. If it's going to die, it needs a silver ball attached to it's head or something. Eh, I was actually kind of kidding with my comment, Friskey. As someone who has been around for all nine of these things, I've learned that these threads will NEVER die. They've been pushed down to PAGE EIGHT of Off-Topic before, but much like the Phoenix, they always rise again.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2010 11:28:38 GMT -5
Well, my comment wasn't as serious either. C'mon, I just referenced Phantasm for cripes's sake. And as the Critters series goes...eh, never really seen them. Feel like they've never been worth my time. They just seem hokey to me. To quote Raphael from the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as he's walking out of the first one... "Where do they come up with this stuff?";D
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Post by Rorschach on Jun 14, 2010 11:39:00 GMT -5
Speaking of "horror movie sections" in big chain stores....I was shocked, appalled and saddened when I went into my local Best Buy the other day and saw that their ENTIRE "Horror/SciFi" section had been condensed into....get THIS.....one FOURTH of a f*****g row.
One FOURTH! That is enough to seriously OUTRAGE me. I mean, how come s****y comedies and horrible stand up specials get THREE GODDAMN ROWS to themselves, but TWO WHOLE GENRES get a corner of a row on the very end to SHARE??!?!
I've been contemplating calling that store to complain about this, but you know what? F*** em. Their loss is either Amazon or Ebay or one of those type of site's gain.
Has anyone else noticed this at their Best Buy stores?
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Post by Chainsaw on Jun 14, 2010 11:55:52 GMT -5
Speaking of "horror movie sections" in big chain stores....I was shocked, appalled and saddened when I went into my local Best Buy the other day and saw that their ENTIRE "Horror/SciFi" section had been condensed into....get THIS.....one FOURTH of a f*****g row. One FOURTH! That is enough to seriously OUTRAGE me. I mean, how come s****y comedies and horrible stand up specials get THREE GODDAMN ROWS to themselves, but TWO WHOLE GENRES get a corner of a row on the very end to SHARE??!?! I've been contemplating calling that store to complain about this, but you know what? F*** em. Their loss is either Amazon or Ebay or one of those type of site's gain. Has anyone else noticed this at their Best Buy stores? I've noticed it, too. I think the issue is, a lot of the stores are getting overtaken with TV show DVDs, which obviously take up more space, and Blu-Ray, which doesn't catagorize anything, since it's still a new format. They've thrown the SciFi/Horror/Special Interest DVD's to a side corner of the store. It sucks, but I suspect there isn't a lot that can be done about it, unless they *shudder* decide to designate Twilight a horror movie and expand the shelves so that can spread it's cancer even further. And SPEAKING OF spreading cancer...the new horseshit of the day is that the producer of the fail train that is the Martyrs remake (who also just happens to be a producer of Twilight, so he knows a thing or two about cults, at least) says that professional woodpile Kristen Steward is being heavily considered to star in the remake. Just... *punches hobo*
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2010 12:01:55 GMT -5
Speaking of "horror movie sections" in big chain stores....I was shocked, appalled and saddened when I went into my local Best Buy the other day and saw that their ENTIRE "Horror/SciFi" section had been condensed into....get THIS.....one FOURTH of a f*****g row. One FOURTH! That is enough to seriously OUTRAGE me. I mean, how come s****y comedies and horrible stand up specials get THREE GODDAMN ROWS to themselves, but TWO WHOLE GENRES get a corner of a row on the very end to SHARE??!?! I've been contemplating calling that store to complain about this, but you know what? F*** em. Their loss is either Amazon or Ebay or one of those type of site's gain. Has anyone else noticed this at their Best Buy stores? I've noticed it, too. I think the issue is, a lot of the stores are getting overtaken with TV show DVDs, which obviously take up more space, and Blu-Ray, which doesn't catagorize anything, since it's still a new format. They've thrown the SciFi/Horror/Special Interest DVD's to a side corner of the store. It sucks, but I suspect there isn't a lot that can be done about it, unless they *shudder* decide to designate Twilight a horror movie and expand the shelves so that can spread it's cancer even further. And SPEAKING OF spreading cancer...the new horses*** of the day is that the producer of the fail train that is the Martyrs remake (who also just happens to be a producer of Twilight, so he knows a thing or two about cults, at least) says that professional woodpile Kristen Steward is being heavily considered to star in the remake. Just... *punches hobo*
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Post by Rorschach on Jun 14, 2010 12:27:08 GMT -5
Well, hell...maybe they'll at LEAST give her the role of the girl who {Spoiler}eats a gunshot and dies, and not the girl who ends up captured, tortured, and skinned alive. Though maybe perverse entertainment MAY be gathered if they DO cast Kristen as the latter.
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Post by mysterydriver on Jun 14, 2010 12:42:24 GMT -5
I watched Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes the SyFy funded sequel. It ignores the 2nd PH (thus helping my "It's the Halloween III of Pumpkinheads!" defense) and tries to connect directly into the original movie by bringing back a character as well as Lance Henriksen. That said, the CGI is abominable and the story really starts to fall apart at the end when they give up on some characters and just get the killing. I hear the Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud is worse, but I'll give it a look eventually. ~~~~ Rewatched Deep Blue Sea on TNT. Still a fun little shark movie despite its goofs. Oh, and I'll bracket this despite the age of the movie: {Spoiler} It's still nice seeing the scenery chew on Samuel L Jackson for once.
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Post by Chainsaw on Jun 14, 2010 12:42:54 GMT -5
Well, hell...maybe they'll at LEAST give her the role of the girl who {Spoiler}eats a gunshot and dies, and not the girl who ends up captured, tortured, and skinned alive. Though maybe perverse entertainment MAY be gathered if they DO cast Kristen as the latter. I wouldn't expect half that shit to happen in this one. They're already tossing the term "American audience" into the conversation, so we can expect a lot of changes to the script. Whatever, this American remake garbage just bores me now.
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