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Post by Glitch on Nov 17, 2011 23:04:58 GMT -5
The title wins the internet.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2011 3:45:00 GMT -5
The title wins the internet. ;D
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Post by DSR on Nov 18, 2011 6:44:30 GMT -5
The title wins the internet. You're welcome.
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Post by mysterydriver on Nov 18, 2011 9:12:06 GMT -5
Watched Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane the other night. It's a cliche, down right silly Zombie film, but it had a few surprisingly funny moments and a running joke that still makes me chuckle a little. They had a couple decent characters (Such as a knock-off Tiger Woods who uses his golf club against the Zombies and a prisoner played by Kevin J. O'Conner, better known to me as Beni from The Mummy) and I could forgive the movie's faults for an exchange for some silly action. Running Joke Spoiler: {Spoiler}A businessman has trouble with his seat belt, so when the zombies start mauling, he can't escape and gets bit...then Zombie Businessman can't get out of the seat belt either. So it just growls and grabs at everyone who runs by, missing everyone. The anguished growls made me chuckle.
Near the end of the film, a hole gets blasted in the side of the plane, right by his seat, so all these other zombies are flying by and he's grabbing for them and missing until finally his seat rips from the plane...and flies directly into a fighter pilot's plane. It's a completely horrible effect, but the change of the growl from anguish to "Hey! I get to do something!" made my night. I might actually recommend it if you're doing a zombie marathon and want something to pad between the classics that will: A) Remind you why the classics are classics B) Make you chuckle C) Make you wonder what the big deal about firing a gun on a plane is since everyone in this film does it with no problem whatsoever.
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Nov 18, 2011 9:42:28 GMT -5
The hits just keep on coming for the FAN Horror Thread...now 15 and counting!! Before we get started, I'd just like to throw out a quick word of thanks to everyone in this series of threads through the years (and we're rapidly approaching year #3 of our existence, people). These things continue to exist because of all of you, and while we may drop to that dreaded Page 3 every now and then, like every immortal slasher movie villain, we always get up for more. Secondly, I'd like to say how much I thoroughly enjoy writing the reviews, blogs, and these here Hall of Fame inductions for the FAN's Horror faithful, and thanks for reading. Masturbation over. Time for the NEW INDUCTIONS!! Previous inductees: Alfred Hitchcock Clive Barker Sam Neill Stephen King Tony Todd Thomas Harris Takako Fuji Dario Argento Goblin (the band) Robert Englund Takashi Miike Lucio Fulci Joe Bob Briggs Brad Dourif John Carpenter Paul Naschy Fred Gwynne Tobin Bell Charles "Chas" Balun Dick Miller Dan O'Bannon Roger Corman William Castle Hideo Nakata Frank Darabont Joe Dante Christopher Lee Lloyd Kaufman Charles Band Tom Atkins Lance Henriksen Linnea Quigley Vincent Price Clint Howard Doug Bradley John Carradine INDUCTION #37 "I think to be the devil you have to be an angel. Only an angel can play the devil because the devil was a fallen angel." UDO KIER The "Unappreciated Character Actor Wing" of the FAN's Horror Hall of Fame is one of its proudest subsections. Paul Naschy, John Carradine, Lance Henriksen, the immortal Dick "Mr. Fudderman" Miller...the list goes on and on of notorious "that guy" actors who you know you've seen countless times but whose name you can't place. Well, Udo Kier - a classically trained German actor who has been seen in countless horror films throughout the years - fits into this category, and definitely qualifies as sufficiently awesome enough in many of those works to gain induction into the Horror HOF. Udo was born in Cologne, Germany during the height of World War II in 1944. After moving to Britain in 1962 to learn English, he began studying acting and quickly landed roles in a succession of highly gory, highly controversial shockers that continue to be talked about to this day. First up was 1970's Mark of the Devil, followed by the twin sicko creature features from the mind of Andy Warhol and director Paul Morrissey, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein and Andy Warhol's Dracula. For an indication of just how notorious these films were at the time, the former had a scene where Kier had to hold unrefrigerated animal organs up to his face. Yikes. Now that's dedication. 1977 would see the now cult-hero Kier in an acclaimed supporting performance in Dario Argento's masterpiece Suspiria, portraying his now-trademark "refined yet creepy guy" role to perfection. He did not slow down his horror persuasions throughout the '80s, with The Blood of Dr. Jekyll (1981), The Island of the Bloody Plantation (1983) and Epidemic (1987) being standouts. Epidemic would be his first film shot in his long collaboration/relationship with director Lars von Trier, who has gone on to use Kier in almost all of his films since then. In the 1990s, Kier gained mainstream American success in the Keanu Reeves film My Own Private Idaho and as (what else?) snooty, creepy guy Ronald Camp in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. As a result, he garnered fame in the latter part of the decade as one of the go-to guys for vampire cinema, playing bloodsuckers in Blade, Modern Vampires, and the 2000 Oscar nominee Shadow of the Vampire. Over the course of his 30-year career, Udo has worked with a parade of amazing directors, including not only Argento, Morrissey and von Trier, but Charles Matton, Gus Van Sant, and Walerian Borowcyzk. Given that resume, it should stand to reason that Kier has been in some amazing films - and that is most definitely the case, made all the more special since he is an admitted huge fan of the horror genre and loves playing creepy, deviant characters. Since the ability to play shifty people who nonetheless have an undeniable charm does not dissolve with age, expect to see Kier getting regular airplay in your DVD/Blu-Ray players for years to come.
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Nov 18, 2011 9:45:29 GMT -5
INDUCTION #38 "That's the last goddamn hitchhiker I ever pick up." TOBE HOOPER There are few individuals who can quite literally say that they've seen every corner of the horror industry. Tobe Hooper is just one of those guys, going from the absolute lowest of the low-budget to the heights of Hollywood success. Of course, he has spent much of his career in between, but for his famous contributions to horror film, Hooper is deserving of recognition by any criteria. He spent much of the 1960s as a college professor and documentary cameraman, racking up quite a sizable resume as the director of more than 60 documentary films by the end of the decade (a technique that would serve him well later on). At the end of the '60s, he finally put together enough mone to make his first fictional film - 1969's Eggshells, a strange film about a group of hippies encountering a benevolent supernatural force. Buoyed by the critical success of this film, he was encouraged to create the movie that would make him a horror icon. In 1974, Hooper and a small cast of mostly college students descended upon the burning-hot Texas countryside to make a film that Hooper now says he was inspired to write while in a hardware store. The inspiration definitely paid off - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is still one of the all-time classics of the genre. Despite containing no graphic violence or sex, the movie has a very dirty, nasty, unclean quality that seems to leap off the screen, and the movie is still seen as a benchmark for horror. After the huge (and unexpected) success of Chain Saw, Hooper set about directing a series of feature films in Hollywood, with Eaten Alive and an adaptation of Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot rounding out his '70s production. 1981 saw the release of The Funhouse, an undeniably fun and quirky semi-slasher with an unforgettable villain and a truly sicko story. In 1982, the mother load dropped, as Steven Spielberg himself came calling and offered Hooper the chance to direct a movie about an alien being. He would turn this down, but then offer Hooper another screenplay about a suburban family encountering vengeful spirits - which, of course, would turn out to be Poltergeist, a big budget ghost story that is still part of the pop culture lexicon to this day. After Poltergeist (and the subsequent controversy about whether or not he actually directed the film), Hooper signed a three-picture contract with Cannon films and quickly set about fulfilling it. 1985's Lifeforce is a minor classic about humanoid creatures from outer space, while 1986 saw the release of his own interpretation of the sci-fi classic Invaders From Mars in addition the black comedy-tinged Texas Chain Saw Massacre 2. Of these three, only the latter film would make its budget back. Throughout thet '90s and into the mid '00s, Hooper kept busy with plenty of projects, ranging from the straight-to-video Night Terrors to the dreadful Crocodile to the surprisingly excellent remake of the 1978 film The Toolbox Murders. He has a strong imprint on the horror anthology series Masters of Horror, directing the episodes "Dance of the Dead" and "The Damned Thing." A force in the genre for more than 40 years, Tobe Hooper has carved out a place for himself alongside other great luminaries in horror film-making and as the creator of one of the most notorious exploitation films ever made. Since the Texas Chain Saw movies will likely be around forever, his effect will be felt as long as people fear just what exactly lurks in the very, very, very backwoods sections of the countryside.
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Nov 18, 2011 9:46:21 GMT -5
INDUCTION #39 "Don't do that. I smell like the inside of a ladies' room." "And how would you know what a ladies' room smells like?" JAMIE LEE CURTIS One of the tried-and-true traditions of modern slasher films is the Final Girl - a virtuous, strong-willed female who serves as the antagonist's primary foil and engages in a third act sparring contest with the maniacal killer. There have been some great ones over the years, with Heather Langenkamp's Nancy in the Nightmare on Elm Street series and Adrienne King and Amy Steel in the Friday the 13th films. But, for my money, the single best Final Girl of all time and someone truly deserving of the honor of being a "Scream Queen" is the one and the only Jamie Lee Curtis. It's common knowledge that Curtis comes from an acting family as the daughter of actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. During her formative years in the 1970s, Curtis initially rebelled and wanted to break away from the family tradition, majoring in social work while in college. However, her destiny came calling as Curtis dropped out after one semester to pursue acting full time. Almost immediately, she hit it big when John Carpenter decided to cast the upstart actress as relatable-but-strong baby sitter Laurie Strode in Halloween, a film almost universally recognized as one of the greatest horror films ever made. Throughout Halloween and its 1981 sequel Halloween II, Curtis is the strong rock that holds the action together. We are firmly on her side from beginning to end, which makes her battle of wits against the blank, evil villain Michael Myers all the more thrilling. With Halloween becoming a huge international hit and (at the time of its release) the most successful independent movie ever made, Curtis set about making the movies that would earn her the honor of being one of horror's all-time great heroines. She would again team with Carpenter on the 1980 film The Fog along with fellow HOF inductee Tom Atkins in a film that opened to mixed reviews but strong box office, solidifying both Curtis and Carpenter as forces to be reckoned with in the horror genre. Twice more in 1980 Curtis would portray horror movie Final Girls in the low-budget Canadien slasher Prom Night and the cult classic Terror Train, movies in which she served a similar function as her Laurie Strode character. Both of these films were also modest box office successes, with Prom Night remaining the more memorable film to this day for its "mystery" killer angle as well as the influence it had on future films such as 2001's Valentine. For much of the next 15 years, Curtis became a huge and bankable Hollywood commodity in movies such as A Fish Called Wanda, Trading Places and True Lies...but that's not why you're reading this. Returning to her roots, Curtis returned to Haddonfield, Illinois in 1998 with Halloween: H20, a film that picks up on the thread of her character 20 years after the events of the first two Halloween films. While flawed, H20 ranks as one of the better Halloween sequels, with Curtis once again making a splendid foil for the white-masked maniac. Four years later, the utterly forgettable Halloween: Resurrection was released once again featuring Curtis as Strode, and while the movie was mediocre (and that's putting it VERY nicely), the classical scream queen was once again more than game for her brief role. An-award winning actress with the ability to make you laugh or stir you dramatically, Jamie Lee Curtis has a deserved place in Hollywood history as one of its all-time most charismatic and likable leading ladies. To us horror fans, she is one our greatest treasures - the quintessential Final Girl whose work during one of horror's golden ages will shine on forever wherever baby sitters are afraid to be left alone for an evening.
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Post by andrew8798 on Nov 18, 2011 18:51:08 GMT -5
Diablo Cody Talks EVIL DEAD
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2011 22:46:04 GMT -5
*headdesk* On a happier note, love the new inductions TR. 3 people well-deserved on your list.
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Post by mysterydriver on Nov 19, 2011 0:38:41 GMT -5
*Reads Interview*
She essentially said "I totally didn't do what I do in everything else I do. No wacky dialogue, I promise!"
Then why did they hire you? Why not hire someone who does what you did, but does it commonly so they know how to do it in a more proper fashion? Isn't this like taking a music video director, giving them a film, and telling them to do reshoots (Improve on the product given)?
"I don't want to mess with his vision..."
So why were you hired if you were afraid/cautious about changing anything? So you were hired to tighten dialogue? Which you did by avoiding the typical style that got you known?
Okay, enough random questions that could probably be answered easily by her, but too bad cause it's a random post on a message board so it gets to be snarky instead . Huzzah.
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Nov 19, 2011 1:31:08 GMT -5
Well, I watched "Bloodrayne: The Third Reich" and as expected, it's pretty crappy. Unfortunately it's not really crappy in a hilarious way. It's just crappy in an I should have shut this off five minutes into the movie and watched something else kind of way, so there wasn't any kind of enjoyment to gain at all really. Even in an ironic way. So it takes place during WW2 where the game takes place, but it doesn't follow the actual game plot much. If it did, it may have been worth a watch, but the movie plot was just boring and no fun. They want to turn Hitler into a vampire blah blah blah, but nothing ever comes of this and most of the movie is just crappy fight sequences with incompetent Nazi soldiers. No fun evil half monster/Nazi hybrids or evil demon creatures and what not. There are some Nazi vampires, but they're so unremarkable and forgettable. The movie itself, thankfully, is only about 80 minutes long. Fifteen of those minutes are probably credit sequences. There was clearly hardly anything to this movie, so they added some credits and for some reason a lesbian sex scene involving Rayne and some prostitute. Seeing the girl who played Rayne naked would have been nicer, but really, for some reason and I'm sort confused as to why, I didn't really find the girl very attractive. Maybe the s***tiness of the actual plot sucked all of my manchild horniness out and I just felt nothing. The only thing about that is, there was another girl in the film who ending up becoming a vampire, who I found like disgustingly hot. Turns out she's some singer in Europe who hasn't ever acted in any other movies, but she did the whole seductive vampress thing pretty well. Or maybe I just thought it good just because of how hot she was. For some reason, Clint Howard is a central character. Now I mean no disrespect to Mr. Howard for his long colorful career, but his acting was so incredibly corny and bad in this. The amount of time they spend on his character was definitely too much time. A cameo, yeah that would have been fine, but you know you're movie lack star power when Clint Howard is one the main characters. Again, no disrespect to Clint, but let's face it, that guy getting strapped to this turd just made it sink even faster. Though on the other hand, he was probably the most memorable character in the whole boring movie, so that's something. I'm guessing he knew what piecer this movie was going to be and just said to hell with it and hammed it up. But I guess the main thing is that this movie is so unremarkable and boring. Totally uninteresting. Seriously, you know the movie is boring when you start falling asleep during the sex scenes.(Yes this happened) Even people who just want to see lots of violence will be disappointed because while there is some violence, it, like the rest of the movie, is poorly done and just unremarkable(I know I use the word a lot, but honestly, it's the best word I can use to describe this movie). Apparently, there is an unrated version of this, but I really doubt it adds anything to the movie. But yeah, even if say Chiller or SyFy are playing this movie, I don't recommend it just because you'll gain absolutely nothing from it, with exception of seeing how old Clint Howard has gotten and also to see how hot this singer chick is. I guess iffin' I had to give this a smiley rating, I'd give it a Not angry sort of bad, just sad and on the verge of crying bad.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Nov 19, 2011 3:03:15 GMT -5
Night School (1980) Directed by Kenneth "Ken" Hughes Where does a horror geek go when he felt he has seen the best the genre has given us? After all the Nightmares, Friday the 13th's, and Halloween's where does the nerd begin to dig deeper. For me, it was the help of countless sites and forums, books, and chat rooms. One day exploring the excellent Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film: 1978-1986 I found the next holy grail in my horror hunt, Night School. From the darkness of the Warner Archive, Night School is now available to the viewing public. The film wastes no time dropping us into the action as a mysterious leather clad, motorcycle helmet wearing individual individual is killing and scalping women around Boston. Is it the adulterous professor, the creepy guy, or something more sinister? While the big reveal isn't that shocking it is refreshing {Spoiler}the killer is a woman. What separates the film from so many of its' ilk is the pedigree of the director and lead actress. Ken Hughes, best known for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ends his career with this film as British bird Rachel Ward begins hers. Also an interesting note is the screenplay is written by a female, Ruth Avergon, and the only other time I'm aware of that happening with a slasher film is the female written and directed Slumber Party Massacre. So TitA how is the DVD? I would say the DVD itself is a B+. The main positive is the film is remastered and available in 16x9. The transfer is clearly an upgrade, but don't be expecting anything spectacular. The transfer isn't criterion, but it isn't mill creek 50 movies packs either. The only other feature on the dvd is a trailer. Sad this film didn't get more considering it's quality, but the fact it's even out with a nice cover should give it some bonus points. Check it out.
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Post by DSR on Nov 19, 2011 7:51:11 GMT -5
Not much to say at the moment. Great inductions, TR. Great reviews, Banjo and TiTA. Thumbs up, everybody! ;D
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Post by YellowJacketY2J on Nov 19, 2011 8:23:06 GMT -5
Great inductions, TR! Loving the title of this thread!
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Nov 19, 2011 14:42:02 GMT -5
Appreciate the kind words on the inductions, guys.
And while I'm FAR from the world's biggest Evil Dead fan, this current movie has fail written all over it.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Nov 19, 2011 14:47:21 GMT -5
Currently watching the new BD of Zombie.
Holy hell the new transfer is amazing. I could see the pubes on the topless girl. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2011 14:51:10 GMT -5
Currently watching the new BD of Zombie. Holy hell the new transfer is amazing. I could see the pubes on the topless girl. ;D You can see all of the separate splinters as the piece of wood goes through that guy's eye in slow motion. *cringes and shudders*
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Nov 19, 2011 18:57:55 GMT -5
Not much to say at the moment. Great inductions, TR. Great reviews, Banjo and TiTA. Thumbs up, everybody! ;D You lie, my review was not great. That's why I don't write reviews very often, because I suck at them. How dare you?!
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Nov 19, 2011 19:09:24 GMT -5
Ok, nobody pay Banjo a compliment ever again.
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