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Post by Young Game on Sept 11, 2011 10:39:12 GMT -5
Note: I will never look at that Porkins/Indiana Jones Top Men actor quite the same way as he plays a very nasty/sleazy voyeur neighbour in this film. Porkins? As in "Cover me Porkins!"? He's in this movie?
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Sept 11, 2011 12:45:35 GMT -5
Note: I will never look at that Porkins/Indiana Jones Top Men actor quite the same way as he plays a very nasty/sleazy voyeur neighbour in this film. Porkins? As in "Cover me Porkins!"? He's in this movie? Yep, as in "I've got a problem here" Porkins actor.
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Sept 11, 2011 14:40:44 GMT -5
I watched The Dark Half the other day. It's the film directed by George A. Romero and based on a Stephen King novel. As far as King adaptations go, it's pretty good. Timothy Hutton is a college professor who moonlights as a sleazy author named George Stark. When someone attempts to blackmail him, he simply announces his second identity. Shortly, a man calling himself George Stark stalks the author and his family. Is he actually Stark or the author himself? It's not fantastic, but Romero directs some chilling scenes, builds great tension and Hutton is fantastic. I didn't like the fact that Stark was treated as a generic slasher who makes witty remarks, as it drags the film down. Even so, the film is good, with one scene early on that's creepy (you'll know of it when you see it). Final Rating: B Didn't care for that movie at all, or the novel that it's based on for that matter. It starts off intriguing, but roughly halfway through (when Stark gets more involved) it turns into a huge clusterf*** that doesn't quite know what kind of movie it's trying to be. IMO, the ending is also cobbled as all hell. That's just my $.02. Even worse, they seemingly showed this flick every other week on AMC Fear Friday back in the day.
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Post by Michael Coello on Sept 11, 2011 18:17:26 GMT -5
Looking at I-Mockery, which was mostly abandoned recently, has gone back in order to do their usual build to Halloween. Besides some recaps of horror movie moments and some various stuff found for make up and stuff, they had photos from Monsterpalooza, and this one I found interesting to post. This is the alternate design for Freddy they had planned before they went with the one from the remake.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Sept 11, 2011 18:42:55 GMT -5
Why has he got bullet holes? Or is that demon fire?
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Post by Michael Coello on Sept 11, 2011 19:23:13 GMT -5
Pretty sure it's fire. Fits the whole motif of the suit.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2011 19:24:46 GMT -5
Not a fan of the red eyes. Everything else looks okay.
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Post by YellowJacketY2J on Sept 12, 2011 19:38:11 GMT -5
It's not a terrible design, but not exactly my liking. A tad better than the final one they went with.
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Post by mysterydriver on Sept 12, 2011 22:47:40 GMT -5
Hey guys, I watched Children of the Corn: Genesis and guess what?
I HATED IT!
Shocking, I know. It's a first draft script with a second rate budget and a third rate director and all that adds up to just all around poorness.
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Post by DSR on Sept 12, 2011 23:56:53 GMT -5
Hey guys, I watched Children of the Corn: Genesis and guess what? I HATED IT! Shocking, I know. It's a first draft script with a second rate budget and a third rate director and all that adds up to just all around poorness. Which is pretty much what I'm expecting from HELLRAISER: REVELATIONS (which is also a Dimension Films "placeholder" movie for the franchise). It won't be pretty, but I'm still gonna sit through the damn thing.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2011 2:46:58 GMT -5
You guys are in our thoughts.
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Post by Rorschach on Sept 13, 2011 3:22:32 GMT -5
I subjected myself to AfterDark Cinemas' PROWL recently, and hell, this movie really doesn't even deserve HALF a review. It's got everything you've (regrettably) come to expect from a film bearing the AfterDark logo: half assed acting, a script with WAAAAY too many inexcusable plot holes, and a finale that not only is utterly unsatisfying, but made even my girlfriend, who is WAY more lenient on things than I am go "What the HELL, man?" In short: Don't waste your time. This is in contrast to another film I saw recently called GROWTH, which takes (MANY) pages from the script of a much better film ( In this case the Nathan Fillion film Slither ) and throws a few of it's own curveballs in and manages to be a pretty decent film, right up until the final two minutes, which manage to f*** up everything that happened in the prior 88 minutes in the STUPIDEST way possible, and make you pissed off that you wasted 90 minutes of your time on a movie that's going to end on such an insultingly DUMB note. {Spoiler}In this movie, the film's titular parasites or growths as their called, have but one weakness: salt water. Seeing as to how the film is set on an ISLAND in the middle of the OCEAN....how the blue f*** ANY of this even gets off the ground in the first place due to ocean breezes and the inherent salt they carry is anyone's guess...but I digress on that. No, the real stupidity comes when our Fighting Heroine, our brave last girl, rescues the island's last surviving infant, and after realizing that she herself is infected with the parasites, she carefully hides the antidote for the parasite plague in the back of a wooden doll the baby was carrying (the one place NO GODDAMN SANE PERSON WOULD EVER LOOK IN A BAJILLION YEARS) and after kissing the baby goodbye, she jumps into the salty ocean RIIIIIIGHT as the Coast Guard hails her on their radio, and she dissolves to nothing, leaving the baby, a hidden antidote, and the fate of mankind, adrift for the Coast Guard to find. Gee, thanks lady. F*** you too. Some hero you were. In fact, f*** that movie, just for that needlessly STUPID and spiteful ending. I hate s*** like that. I'm now watching the anime High School of the Dead on Netflix streaming. It doth kick much ass, and there is PLENTY of fan-service, if you like that kind of thing. If you're into anime and bouncing boobs and zombies.....give it a watch!
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Post by ihuntthereforiam on Sept 13, 2011 13:36:58 GMT -5
Is it wrong that I love The Hitcher remake just as much as the orignal? The Firday the 13th remake wasn't half bad either.
I need to see the new nightmare on elm street though.
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Post by Michael Coello on Sept 13, 2011 14:24:29 GMT -5
Reading the ending spoiler, Rorschach, it sounds way too much like the ending of the "I Am Legend" remake with Will Smith. Same glaring issue then as it was here.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2011 14:56:53 GMT -5
Just found this on Bloody-Disgusting. This is pretty awesome. Wish theaters were still like this.
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Post by DSR on Sept 13, 2011 17:02:57 GMT -5
Reading the ending spoiler, Rorschach, it sounds way too much like the ending of the "I Am Legend" remake with Will Smith. Same glaring issue then as it was here. If I remember correctly, the Fresh Prince at least handed his "cure" to a person directly, rather than hide it in something. So there's that.
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Post by YellowJacketY2J on Sept 13, 2011 17:34:20 GMT -5
Hey guys, I watched Children of the Corn: Genesis and guess what? I HATED IT! Shocking, I know. It's a first draft script with a second rate budget and a third rate director and all that adds up to just all around poorness. I couldn't even finish it. That's a rarity for me.
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Sept 13, 2011 19:12:53 GMT -5
Just found this on Bloody-Disgusting. This is pretty awesome. Wish theaters were still like this. Wow, that really is awesome. It was like watching that scene again for the first time.
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Post by mysterydriver on Sept 13, 2011 19:58:18 GMT -5
Hey guys, I watched Children of the Corn: Genesis and guess what? I HATED IT! Shocking, I know. It's a first draft script with a second rate budget and a third rate director and all that adds up to just all around poorness. I couldn't even finish it. That's a rarity for me. Well let me fill you in... {Spoiler} The main couple manage to get a call to the cops. The cops send one guy. He's magically flung into the air and doesn't reappear again until the mid-credits stinger has him finally crash to the ground.
So, they're stuck in the house because the Child in the Shack (which isn't quite the requirement for Children of the Corn) won't let them leave.
The next morning, a delivery man appears with supplies and Billy Drago/"Preacher" asks him to give the duo a ride. They then walk outside with absolutely no problems whatsoever. However, the Main Man has a vision of dying of heat exhaustion in the back of the delivery truck so they decide to steal the cop car instead.
They drive away but the kid was given a toy car set that includes a tractor trailer transporting sport cars. He flips the cars off the trailer and...shockingly enough...it starts to happen in real life, causing the Main Couple to crash.
The guy dies, the delivery man appears and takes the girl back to Drago. She falls in line with other suddenly appearing women. The driver remarks about how Drago gets girls that are "prettier" each time. She goes to the shack, hugs, and hums for the little kid. The end. Did that make any sense? I doubt it. Even if you watched any (or in my case All) of the movie.
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Post by YellowJacketY2J on Sept 13, 2011 20:03:48 GMT -5
I couldn't even finish it. That's a rarity for me. Well let me fill you in... {Spoiler} The main couple manage to get a call to the cops. The cops send one guy. He's magically flung into the air and doesn't reappear again until the mid-credits stinger has him finally crash to the ground.
So, they're stuck in the house because the Child in the Shack (which isn't quite the requirement for Children of the Corn) won't let them leave.
The next morning, a delivery man appears with supplies and Billy Drago/"Preacher" asks him to give the duo a ride. They then walk outside with absolutely no problems whatsoever. However, the Main Man has a vision of dying of heat exhaustion in the back of the delivery truck so they decide to steal the cop car instead.
They drive away but the kid was given a toy car set that includes a tractor trailer transporting sport cars. He flips the cars off the trailer and...shockingly enough...it starts to happen in real life, causing the Main Couple to crash.
The guy dies, the delivery man appears and takes the girl back to Drago. She falls in line with other suddenly appearing women. The driver remarks about how Drago gets girls that are "prettier" each time. She goes to the shack, hugs, and hums for the little kid. The end. Did that make any sense? I doubt it. Even if you watched any (or in my case All) of the movie. I'm glad I turned the movie off. That sounds ridiculously stupid!
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