Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on May 24, 2021 0:28:10 GMT -5
Did a movie marathon tonight.
Wrong Turn 2-Know I have seen this before but been a few years. Really well done sequel. Good gore and Rollins is damn great in it.
Wrong Turn 3-Stupid plot,decent kills and gore. Stupid as hell twist at the end.
Wrong Turn 4-A prequel. Decent kills and gore.
Trophy Heads-Full Moon made crazy fan ,who lives in his mom's basement,goes around recreating the death scenes of various Scream Queens. So ya get Brinke Stevens,Linnea QUigley,Michelle Bauer,Jaquliene Lovell and others. Cheesy gore but it moves fast and is packed with inside jokes for long time horror fans.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on May 24, 2021 9:02:55 GMT -5
Did a movie marathon tonight. Wrong Turn 2-Know I have seen this before but been a few years. Really well done sequel. Good gore and Rollins is damn great in it. Wrong Turn 3-Stupid plot,decent kills and gore. Stupid as hell twist at the end. Wrong Turn 4-A prequel. Decent kills and gore. Trophy Heads-Full Moon made crazy fan ,who lives in his mom's basement,goes around recreating the death scenes of various Scream Queens. So ya get Brinke Stevens,Linnea QUigley,Michelle Bauer,Jaquliene Lovell and others. Cheesy gore but it moves fast and is packed with inside jokes for long time horror fans. I have the original Wrong Turn trilogy on Blu-ray but have yet to crack that bad boy open. Maybe, if I get in the mood for it, but I’d prefer to have 4,5, and 6 too to binge them over a long weekend or something. I’d imagine Trophy Heads is kind of crappy, but has a good concept behind it. That’s kind of Charles Band’s jam. According to one of his interviews he even mentioned back in the day they’d design a cool looking poster first then build a movie to tie it to from there. It’s almost surprising he was able to get all those scream queens but I guess a check is a check. Brinke Stevens has worked with him consistently for decades and never had a falling out with him unlike some other collaborators. I watched Birth Rite from the early 2000s from Full Moon a while back. Brinke plays the mom in that. She does almost literally nothing.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on May 24, 2021 21:33:07 GMT -5
Finally watching Seed of Chucky and I just . . .
I can't imagine anyone actually going to a movie theater to watch this. It's not that it's awful; it's in turns amusing and obnoxious. But a darkened theater packed with grown adults gazing at it on a big silver screen? Cursed. Forbidden. 404 File Not Found.
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adamclark52
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Post by adamclark52 on May 26, 2021 5:20:53 GMT -5
Blood Lake* *Tubi* This hunk of trash couldn’t hold my attention for more than 20 minutes. I like S.O.V. movies but the mic’ing on this one was just terrible and I couldn’t hear anything, which made the majority of the first hour of this movie just being talking and kids doing things even worse. Then it would get really dark whenever there was violence so I couldn’t even get any good kills out of it.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on May 26, 2021 7:34:15 GMT -5
What are all the horror franchises that started in the 1970s/1980s and had at least four films before the 1990s began?
There can’t be that many, right? Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street are the obvious heavy hitters. Even Texas Chainsaw Massacre doesn’t technically qualify since the third one didn’t come out until 1990 and the fourth didn’t come out until 1994.
The reason I ask is because I love 1980s movies and though I love more recent stuff sometimes I just love going on a 1980s kick.
I was surprised The Howling is a franchise that qualifies. The fifth one came out way back in 1989! Then they had even more!
Also, Prom Night just misses the cut. III and IV came out in 1990 and 1991 respectively. Sleepaway Camp also comes close with the third coming out in 1989 but no fourth installment until much later.
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Post by adamclark52 on May 27, 2021 6:33:17 GMT -5
137. Don’t Look in the Basement* *Tubi* This was an okay amalgamation of One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and the Hills Have Eyes. The audio was pretty bad so it was hard to make a lot of it out but there really wasn’t much that needed to be made out. All the actors did a great job. Had it been gorier it would have been a real good one.
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Post by adamclark52 on May 27, 2021 6:34:18 GMT -5
What are all the horror franchises that started in the 1970s/1980s and had at least four films before the 1990s began? There can’t be that many, right? Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street are the obvious heavy hitters. Even Texas Chainsaw Massacre doesn’t technically qualify since the third one didn’t come out until 1990 and the fourth didn’t come out until 1994. The reason I ask is because I love 1980s movies and though I love more recent stuff sometimes I just love going on a 1980s kick. I was surprised The Howling is a franchise that qualifies. The fifth one came out way back in 1989! Then they had even more! Also, Prom Night just misses the cut. III and IV came out in 1990 and 1991 respectively. Sleepaway Camp also comes close with the third coming out in 1989 but no fourth installment until much later. I spent a minute scratching my head on that one but I couldn’t come up with anything.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2021 13:51:03 GMT -5
A Nightmare On Elm Street 3 was interesting movie w/ all the patients and Nancy coming back as psychology intern.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on May 27, 2021 16:24:13 GMT -5
A Nightmare On Elm Street 3 was interesting movie w/ all the patients and Nancy coming back as psychology intern. It's easily the best one, for the puppetry scene alone.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on May 27, 2021 17:59:06 GMT -5
To partly answer my own question about horror franchises that started in the 1970s/80s with four installments or more before 1990 I got...
Amityville Horror According to IMDB Amityville Horror: The Evil Escapes was the fourth official installment. It came out in 1989. It was a TV Movie, but still a movie.
Jaws Only if you define horror very loosely. IMDB defines the first as an adventure/thriller and I’d say it fits that much better than horror. Anyway the fourth came out in 1987.
There were some more near misses too like...
Silent Night, Deadly Night The fourth installment came out in 1990.
The Omen The fourth installment came out in 1991.
The Curse Barely a franchise at all since all the movies are unrelated. The third one didn’t come until 1991 though. Oddly enough what was at times advertised as the fourth one was shot in 1988 BEFORE the third one. However, it was made when Empire Pictures was going out of business so the footage just sat in a vault for a few years.
Psycho The first one was made way back in 1960 which disqualifies it. Otherwise it arguably would fit the criteria. II, III and the original Bates Motel TV Movie came out in the 1980s. The official fourth installment just misses the mark by coming out in 1990.
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adamclark52
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Post by adamclark52 on May 27, 2021 19:07:21 GMT -5
Jaws 4 was certainly terrifying
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Post by DSR on May 27, 2021 19:08:27 GMT -5
Jaws 4 was certainly terrifying What about JAWS 5: CRUEL JAWS?
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on May 27, 2021 20:42:12 GMT -5
Cabal - Amazon
Man... don't watch this movie. It starts off interestingly enough. Basically a mix between Cobra, The Most Dangerous Game and a bit of Friday. Good Gore effects and a retro look that hits right. And then about halfway in it turns into a transphobic QAnon dog whistle and it's all down hill from there. Oh and the acting makes Neil Breen look like Orson Welles. The movie has a good score and the killer's mask looks amazing. There's lots of boobs too if that matters, but the movie never recovers from going full Alex Jones. Can't recommend it.
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Post by adamclark52 on May 28, 2021 6:19:28 GMT -5
138. The Toxic Avenger Part II* *blu ray* This nowhere near as fun as the original but wasn’t all that bad really. The funniest part was all the extras (especially in the scenes in Japan) laughing their heads off in the background. The violence was pretty funny and the Japanese girls dubbing was f***ing hilarious! But the big problem was some scenes dragged on too long. Like the intro fight scene was about five times longer than it should have been. But I liked it.
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Post by adamclark52 on May 29, 2021 0:17:24 GMT -5
Baby Blood* *DVD* This was a really cool Italian (kinda) body horror movie with some good gore and a really compelling plot in the vein of Delemorte Delemorte and Brain Damage. But the *ahem* big draw are Emmanuelle Escourroua boobs. She’s racktacular. And the movie doesn’t even hid it. They’re a key driving force behind this movie. If she’s not topless she’s wearing an unbuttoned shirt and men are pining over her. It’s to bad about the teeth but I had no problems looking passed those. A lot of the same voices from the Church were used and I really liked that too. But I won’t sugarcoat it: bewbs. I don’t even know how I found this but I’m glad I did. Bewbs.
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Post by adamclark52 on May 29, 2021 1:36:04 GMT -5
3 on a Meathook* *DVD* Some movies don’t need an 4K ultra HD 1080p restoration. Some movies need to be seen in their crummy shit glory. With those random lines passing through the pictures. With that muffled audio. With the yellows turned to “11” and you almost want to adjust your 93” cuckboy TV but you may as well not because it won’t help. This is one of those movies. End of review. Eat a dick.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on May 30, 2021 19:15:10 GMT -5
My review of Saw IV (2007)
Plot: Despite his death in the previous installment, the Jigsaw killer is still playing his games, this time on a police lieutenant deadset on bringing him to justice. Meanwhile, the possibility of another Jigsaw apprentice looms.
By the fourth entry, the Saw franchise got its formula down to a science — add in a few new traps, throw in a few twists, pile on the blood and guts, and—voila!—a new movie is ready just in time for an October release. Except for one big development, obviously: the Jigsaw killer was definitively killed in the third movie. Not dead in the way Freddy or Jason usually are at the end of their movies. Like, dead dead. How in the hell could the franchise possibly continue? Well, Saw IV is the first attempt at answering that question and the results are mixed.
Even with our main baddie dead and done, and his first apprentice Amanda killed off as well, the movie introduces a new apprentice into the mix and it’s revealed to be —spoiler, spoiler — Detective Mark Hoffman. The idea of a cop turned serial killer isn’t a bad one, but Hoffman himself just isn’t all that interesting to me. Personality wise, he’s a complete cypher. He seems more like a vessel for the writers to deploy sadistic traps and keep the movies running without having to worry about adding complexity to his character. Of course, Hoffman isn’t revealed to be the new apprentice until the end, which leaves us with a banal story of Jigsaw posthumously toying with a cop for no real reason other than to show off his little traps from beyond the gave. His motivation to target Officer Daniel Rigg is his most superfluous to date—Rigg is “obsessed” with him, that’s why. Pretty sure he just wants to stop you from killing people, but go off, Regina George.
Unique to the Saw series is its serialized storytelling and timeline jumping akin to a JJ Abrams TV drama. For a franchise that churned out a movie every October for seven years, I actually appreciate its commitment to world-building when it could’ve just given us an annual highlight reel of torture devices. The downside is that we spend an awful amount of time on flashbacks. Here, we’re shown how John Kramer became Jigsaw and his relationship with his wife Jill Tuck, who would become a key figure in the next few movies. Not unnecessary storytelling by any means, but it feels like padding to the threadbare main story. It seems downright exhausting to be Jigsaw, by the way. Think of all the meticulous planning that goes into devising effective traps, chasing new victims, teaching apprentices to do your bidding, and ensuring all of that runs smoothly long after you’ve passed away. Yikes, don’t envy it a bit.
As for the traps, this one has a few genuinely gruesome ones. An unusual contraption where a victim’s hair is pulled until her scalp is partially torn is legit disturbing. It’s like if you’ve ever imagined your hair getting stuck in the blades of a fan, but ten times worse. Donnie Wahlberg graces us with his presence here once again, this time to have his head crushed by two large blocks of ice in a truly amazing sequence. This stuff is the bread and butter of the franchise, and it’s well-equipped by the fourth entry to effectively to meet the annual gore quotient. It even throws in an excessive yet realistic autopsy scene at the beginning of the film, like the good neighbor who puts a little extra in your trick or treat bag every Halloween.
Saw IV is a transitional step forward and, chances are, if you made it this far into the story you’re likely to stick around and see where it goes. For the rest of you, prepare to get your fill of bloodletting; it's the heaps of backstory that may be too much to stomach.
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Post by DSR on May 30, 2021 22:56:52 GMT -5
50 States Horror Project: North Carolina
WOLFMAN (1979) is a production from Earl Owensby Studios in Shelby, NC. The film was the first feature for writer/director Worth Keeter, who would work with the low-budget studio throughout the 80s before becoming a regular director of Power Rangers TV episodes in the 90s and early 2000s.
Earl Owensby himself stars as Colin Glasgow, a middle-aged world traveler. In 1910, Glasgow returns to his family's manor house, as his father has just passed away. Colin sets about reacquainting himself with his cousins, attending his father's funeral, settling his father's affairs, and meeting up with an old flame to revive their old romance.
Unfortunately for Colin, his family harbors a deadly secret: the cousins and the preacher that presided over his father's funeral are Satanists! They used black magic to turn the elder Glasgow man into a werewolf to do their bidding, they killed the man when he became too old to serve them, and while Colin sleeps, they call on the power of Satan to pass the curse of lycanthropy onto Colin!
Colin realizes there's something peculiar about his family, but it'll be a looooooong time before he realizes just what they have in store for him. Once he does figure it out, he's got to find a way to ensure the safety of his once and future love! Not only that, but he's got to save his own fur from the local sheriff and the posse he's rounded up. There's been rumors around these parts for a while about wolf attacks, Colin just never suspected HE'D be the wolf responsible for them!
WOLFMAN has something of a novel idea, combining a throwback to Universal Studios' Lon Chaney Jr. classic with the sort of Satanic conspiracy plot that was popular in the 70s (see films like THE OMEN or THE DEVIL'S RAIN, for example). Sadly, the film takes its sweet-ass time getting the actual plot moving forward. It's roughly an hour before ol' Earl has his first transformation! I like a good slowburn horror movie, but WOLFMAN is overly talky, has flat direction (a pair of neat dream sequences aside), and Earl Owensby is a plank of wood, acting-wise. Colin Glasgow is written as a worldly and charming man, but Owensby always sounds like he's reading his dialogue for the first time. The evil preacher and Colin's cousins are given brief glimpses of eccentricity but they're largely shoved off to the side so the star can show no chemistry with his love interest (Kristina Reynolds, who actually IS believable in her role despite the handicap of having Owensby to play off of).
In doing some research for this write-up, I found Earl Owensby Studios itself to be pretty neat, making low-budget flicks that turned a profit, putting comedians Chris Elliott and Paula Poundstone in a feature film before they became famous, and providing James Cameron with the studio space to make THE ABYSS. Kudos to Owensby for his success, but WOLFMAN remains a lethargic dud.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jun 1, 2021 9:31:42 GMT -5
Anyone got any suggestions for cheap DVD or Blu-Ray of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre? I don’t care about the bonus features or anything as long as it is a good quality print of the original movie in the original aspect ratio and not a bootleg. I found a copy on eBay for less than 10 dollars, but going by the stills included in the listing alone I think it’s a bootleg.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jun 2, 2021 3:38:26 GMT -5
Anyone got any suggestions for cheap DVD or Blu-Ray of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre? I don’t care about the bonus features or anything as long as it is a good quality print of the original movie in the original aspect ratio and not a bootleg. I found a copy on eBay for less than 10 dollars, but going by the stills included in the listing alone I think it’s a bootleg. The dark sky dvd in the steelbook like case should be easy to find cheap.
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