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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2011 12:06:34 GMT -5
I had a lot of fun with Hatchet and Hatchet II. Fun popcorn horror to waste some time. I'm down for Hatchet III, if and when they make it. Yeah, I enjoyed Hatchet for what it was. It wasn't meant to be some life-changing horror experience. It was just made as a fun slasher movie. Haven't seen the second one yet, but that will change soon enough (believes it premieres on Cinemax either this week or next week).
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Post by DSR on Sept 22, 2011 13:10:25 GMT -5
THE HYPNOTIST (1999) - One of many Japanese horror flicks released stateside in the early '00s. This one comes to us from Toho (the people famous for unleashing Godzilla onto the silver screen) by way of ADV Films (a company primarily known for releasing anime DVDs). A doctor gives a lecture on the power of hypnotism for psychiatric purposes. Meanwhile, several people commit suicide in graphic and surreal ways: a track star runs herself to death, a man chokes himself to death with his tie on his wedding day, and an elderly man jumps through a plate glass window. All of these people make reference to a "green monkey" shortly before ending their lives. A middle-aged police detective, Mr. Sakurai, pairs up with the psychoanalyst doctor from the lecture, Saga, to try to piece together the puzzle of what's causing this epidemic of strange suicides. All signs seem to point to one Mr. Jissoji, a TV hypnotist with a sleazy habit of taking advantage of the young women he puts under hypnotic trances. While Sakurai and Saga investigate Mr. Jissoji, the young Dr. Saga finds himself captivated by Jissoji's latest victim, a woman named Yuka. As the police investigate Jissoji and Yuka's past, we discover the young lady suffers from dissociative identity disorder (multiple personalities). And it isn't long before we find out one of the personalities living within Yuka is far from a doe-eyed innocent... The film starts out pretty strong, with the rash of bizarre suicides. Some of the effects for these scenes are a bit dodgy, but the overall effect is quite gruesome and attention-grabbing. From there, though, the picture becomes a rather un-exciting police procedural, like a "Law & Order: Japan" where no one has the charisma of a Christopher Meloni (for example). It isn't all boring, though. In addition to the sporadic bizarre suicide scenes that continue to pop up after the initial wave, there's also a very good performance by Miho Kanno (of the first TOMIE film) as Yuka. Playing someone with multiple personalities means shifting between a number of different characters within one film, and the girl pulls it off very well. Goro Inagaki does well as the love-sick young Dr. Saga, and Ken Utsui is solid as the middle-aged Detective Sakurai. The only real gripes I have with the film are the aforementioned blandness of the police procedural and: {Spoiler}a twist ending that switches the film from a bizarre but somewhat plausible murder mystery into a supernatural flick where the monster is a girl with long black hair hanging down in her face. 3 stars out of 5. Decent, but unremarkable.
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Sept 23, 2011 22:06:35 GMT -5
THE HYPNOTIST (1999) - One of many Japanese horror flicks released stateside in the early '00s. This one comes to us from Toho (the people famous for unleashing Godzilla onto the silver screen) by way of ADV Films (a company primarily known for releasing anime DVDs). A doctor gives a lecture on the power of hypnotism for psychiatric purposes. Meanwhile, several people commit suicide in graphic and surreal ways: a track star runs herself to death, a man chokes himself to death with his tie on his wedding day, and an elderly man jumps through a plate glass window. All of these people make reference to a "green monkey" shortly before ending their lives. A middle-aged police detective, Mr. Sakurai, pairs up with the psychoanalyst doctor from the lecture, Saga, to try to piece together the puzzle of what's causing this epidemic of strange suicides. All signs seem to point to one Mr. Jissoji, a TV hypnotist with a sleazy habit of taking advantage of the young women he puts under hypnotic trances. While Sakurai and Saga investigate Mr. Jissoji, the young Dr. Saga finds himself captivated by Jissoji's latest victim, a woman named Yuka. As the police investigate Jissoji and Yuka's past, we discover the young lady suffers from dissociative identity disorder (multiple personalities). And it isn't long before we find out one of the personalities living within Yuka is far from a doe-eyed innocent... The film starts out pretty strong, with the rash of bizarre suicides. Some of the effects for these scenes are a bit dodgy, but the overall effect is quite gruesome and attention-grabbing. From there, though, the picture becomes a rather un-exciting police procedural, like a "Law & Order: Japan" where no one has the charisma of a Christopher Meloni (for example). It isn't all boring, though. In addition to the sporadic bizarre suicide scenes that continue to pop up after the initial wave, there's also a very good performance by Miho Kanno (of the first TOMIE film) as Yuka. Playing someone with multiple personalities means shifting between a number of different characters within one film, and the girl pulls it off very well. Goro Inagaki does well as the love-sick young Dr. Saga, and Ken Utsui is solid as the middle-aged Detective Sakurai. The only real gripes I have with the film are the aforementioned blandness of the police procedural and: {Spoiler}a twist ending that switches the film from a bizarre but somewhat plausible murder mystery into a supernatural flick where the monster is a girl with long black hair hanging down in her face. 3 stars out of 5. Decent, but unremarkable. I've seen that movie listed on the many occasions that I've browsed the J-horror pages on Amazon, but for some reason never gotten around to watching it. I'll have to pick it up - in general, I dig movies with that kind of description. Sounds like an interesting mix between Shion Sono's Suicide Circle and Ju-On.
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Post by andrew8798 on Sept 23, 2011 22:54:32 GMT -5
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Post by mysterydriver on Sept 23, 2011 23:16:52 GMT -5
Saw "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" tonight.
Mediocre at best. A couple of good moments. I wouldn't recommend it for anyone looking for a scare.
Of course, I'm like a month late on that, so...yeah.
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Post by YellowJacketY2J on Sept 24, 2011 13:28:09 GMT -5
Guess what I rented? I'll watch it tomorrow and give my thoughts.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2011 13:41:00 GMT -5
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Post by Michael Coello on Sept 24, 2011 21:01:33 GMT -5
I saw "The Wolfman" is coming up soon on Action CineMax, and I figured I'd give it a watch, see how it is.
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Post by YellowJacketY2J on Sept 25, 2011 9:48:15 GMT -5
I saw "The Wolfman" is coming up soon on Action CineMax, and I figured I'd give it a watch, see how it is. The remake? If so, it's pretty good. Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2- A few inventive kills can only help this mediocre sequel so much. Chromeskull is back, but takes a backseat (of sorts) to Preston (Brian Austin Green, who is dreadful here), who leads an organization of sorts and revitalizes Chromy. Spann (Danielle Harris) also helps out, but doesn't do much of note and is easily forgettable. Despite helping Chromy, Preston spends most of the time whining and brooding. They target Jess (Mimi Michaels) and survivor of the first film, Tommy (Thomas Dekker), while Agent Sells (Johnathan Schaech) leads a mundane and boring police investigation. The film drags due to sluggish pacing and the more that's revealed about Chromeskull (how he basically runs an underground operation) ruins the mystique and joy the first one had. It's not a horrible slasher, but it's a forgettable one. I found myself drifting in and out, only popping up once the action begins. Some may do this in most slashers, but I find myself enjoying the buildup just as much as the payoff. Here, it's all payoff. Even then, it's not entirely gratifying. Final Rating: C
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Post by andrew8798 on Sept 25, 2011 16:14:40 GMT -5
With October near us here is what TCM is showing
Turner Classic Movies 10/02 11:00 AM ET = The Time Machine 10/03 9:00 PM ET = Frankenstein 10/03 10:15 PM ET = Freaks 10/04 12:30 AM ET = Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 10/04 2:15 AM ET = Mark of the Vampire 10/04 3:30 AM ET = The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 10/04 4:45 AM ET = Nosferatu w/Max Schreck 10/04 6:15 AM ET = The Phantom of the Opera 10/05 8:00 PM ET = The Thing From Another World 10/05 9:45 PM ET = It! The Terror From Beyond Space 10/05 11:00 PM ET = The Curse of Frankenstein 10/08 2:00 AM ET = She Freak 10/08 9:30 AM ET = House of Wax 10/10 8:00 PM ET = The Wolf Man 10/10 9:15 PM ET = The Uninvited 10/10 11:00 PM ET = Dead of Night 10/11 1:00 AM ET = I Walked With A Zombie 10/11 2:15 AM ET = Cat People 10/11 3:45 AM ET = The Curse of the Cat People 10/11 5:00 AM ET = The Devil Bat 10/11 6:15 AM ET = Dead Men Walk 10/15 3:45 AM ET = Heavy Metal 10/17 8:00 PM ET = Horror of Dracula 10/17 9:30 PM ET = House on Haunted Hill 10/17 11:00 PM ET = The Tingler 10/18 2:15 AM ET = Curse of the Demon 10/18 5:00 AM ET = A Bucket of Blood 10/22 2:00 AM ET = The Gamma People 10/22 3:30 AM ET = The Wild Wild Planet 10/22 9:30 AM ET = The Ghoul 10/22 1:45 PM ET = 20 Million Miles to Earth 10/22 3:15 PM ET = Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers 10/23 1:00 AM ET = Cry of the Werewolf 10/24 8:00 PM ET = Carnival of Souls 10/24 10:30 PM ET = Dementia 13 10/25 12:00 AM ET = Strait-Jacket 10/25 1:45 AM ET = Pit And The Pendelum 10/25 3:15 AM ET = The Masque of the Red Death 10/25 5:00 AM ET = The Devil's Bride 10/26 5:45 PM ET = The Bad Seed 10/28 10:00 PM ET = The Black Room 10/28 11:15 PM ET = The Other 10/29 2:15 AM ET = Motel Hell 10/29 9:30 AM ET = Doctor X 10/29 1:45 PM ET = Godzilla King of the Monsters! 10/29 11:00 PM ET = The Body Snatcher 10/30 12:30 AM ET = Isle of The Dead 10/30 2:00 AM ET = Bedlam 10/30 3:30 AM ET = The Seventh Victim 10/30 5:00 AM ET = The Ghost Ship 10/30 7:30 AM ET = White Zombie 10/30 8:45 AM ET = The Devil Doll 10/30 4:00 PM ET = Them! 10/30 6:00 PM ET = Forbidden Planet 10/31 7:15 AM ET = The Reptile 10/31 8:45 AM ET = The Gorgon 10/31 10:15 AM ET = Dracula Prince of Darkness 10/31 12:00 PM ET = Dracula Has Risen From The Grave 10/31 1:45 PM ET = The Curse of Frankenstein 10/31 3:15 PM ET = Frankenstein Created Woman 10/31 5:00 PM ET = The Mummy 10/31 6:30 PM ET = The Curse of The Mummy's Tomb 10/31 8:00 PM ET = Village of The Damned 10/31 9:30 PM ET = Night of the Living Dead 11/01 12:15 AM ET = The Innocents 11/01 2:00 AM ET = The Haunting 11/01 4:00 AM ET = Repulsion
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2011 21:18:03 GMT -5
Jeff Daniel Phillips is the latest to join Rob Zombie's The Lords of Salem. For those of you unaware of who he is, he was in Zombie's TSTSNBN. But most of you may know him as the f***ing caveman in the Geico commercials. He'll be playing "HERMAN "Whitey" SALVADOR one third of THE BIG H TEAM at WIQZ - SALEM ROCKS RADIO." (it's caps, because I copied that from Zombie's FB page)
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Post by Michael Coello on Sept 25, 2011 21:24:09 GMT -5
Alright, not gonna go into a full review, but I watched the Wolfman movie (the new one with Del Toro and Hopkins) and I did like it.
My main problem was just being too dark (not in content, just no color on anyone. Even the blood was darker than usual) and the switch from CG to practical was a bit too jarring sometimes, plus the violence with the Wolfman seemed too cartoonish at times. Plus, I couldn't get over the first part, with the guy getting gutted and slashed in the face and pretty much no selling it.
Still, I liked the acting, it was atmospheric enough, and the ending was pretty good.
Thumbs up, I guess.
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Post by DSR on Sept 25, 2011 23:47:47 GMT -5
A lot of the stuff on TCM this year I've already seen (and some I've even reviewed in prior Horror Threads), but a few things I'm looking forward to. THEM! and THE OTHER stand out immediately. I'll also be re-watching a bunch of my horror DVDs throughout the month. All in all, it should be a fun 31 days for me. ;D
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Post by mysterydriver on Sept 26, 2011 0:11:25 GMT -5
Watched the last hour of "Hachet II" and it was...uh...slasher-ific, I suppose. Over-the-top for the sake of over-the-top and an ending that shows that epilogues aren't always necessary.
*Shrug* It happened, I saw it, and nothing of real value occurred (Except maybe the big fight scene with the bald guy with the beard and V. Crowley).
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Post by mysterydriver on Sept 27, 2011 1:11:29 GMT -5
Are you ready for another "Found Footage" film?
No?
Well too bad cause here's Tape 407!
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Also, I'm waiting for a "Found Footage" film that has the plot of a "Found Footage" film gone wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2011 1:27:06 GMT -5
I LOVE the hatchet movies it's like an allstar gathering or horror icons.
And plus tony todd has the greatest name ever..Reverend Zombie - ohhhh my dead brothas testify!! (no he doesn't actually say that but i would have marked if he did)
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Sept 27, 2011 3:04:07 GMT -5
Now if only the English TCM channel was half as good. In fact do I even have TCM ?
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Post by andrew8798 on Sept 27, 2011 18:50:22 GMT -5
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Post by Michael Coello on Sept 27, 2011 20:50:43 GMT -5
......Why would we wanna know that?!?!
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Post by DSR on Sept 28, 2011 21:11:12 GMT -5
Just got this in an email from Something Weird Video:
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