Ultimo Gallos
Grimlock
Dreams SUCK!Nightmares live FOREVER!
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 1, 2021 10:56:03 GMT -5
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4real
Wade Wilson
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Post by 4real on Oct 1, 2021 16:08:37 GMT -5
Day 1:
The Brood (1979)
A documentary predicting the Formation of The Brood in WWF in 1998…nope not really. This came out 19 years before they were a thing. Directed by David Cronenberg (The Fly, Videodrome) this is a Canadian horror film I’d never heard of but thought was pretty decent. It’s a bit difficult to explain the plot but il try. Oliver Reed is a psychologist who is trying to help a mentally ill woman whilst murders occur carried out by deformed looking children. The husband of this woman is trying to claim full custody of his daughter but the murders generally occur around her and she is eventually kidnapped.
I enjoyed it but it’s rather slow and the blood used is horribly fake (It’s the late 70’s so I’ll give it a pass). You can also tell it’s directed by Cronenberg if you’ve seen The Fly &/or Videodrome.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Oct 1, 2021 17:21:48 GMT -5
Happy October! It's the first day of my focus on slashers and I'm starting with one that perhaps you've already seen before:
Friday the 13th (1980)
Plot: Counselors at Camp Crystal Lake are murdered one by one by an unseen killer. You know the drill.
For a highly influential film spawning one of the most prolific franchises and a whole slew of imitators, Friday the 13th is also one of the most critically reviled pieces of work to be regarded as a “horror classic.” I mean, seriously, the amount of vitriol spewed in its direction almost borders on the absurd. The negative reviews at the time of its release were particularly unhinged. Gene Siskel went so far to spoil the ending, doxx Betsy Palmer, and refer to Sean Cunningham as “one of the most despicable creatures to infest the movie business.” I don’t think he ever apologized.
Fair enough, the warts of Friday the 13th are readily on display. It feels so slight for something that gave rise to 11 sequels/reboots, a TV show, video games, merchandise, and more. It famously apes Halloween’s style, but its POV shots and tension-building aren’t nearly as effective. It botches its whodunnit storyline, dispatching one potential red herring after another until you’re left forgetting there’s a mystery at all. The killer is revealed to be a character who didn’t appear in the previous 85 minutes of runtime and serves as a vessel for a bunch of last-minute backstory we’re expected to just accept. Though it’s by no means the first or worst perpetrator, it leans on quite a few terrible genre cliches which it helped popularize and inspire future horror movies to exploit on a more obnoxious and grotesque level.
But you know what? Despite its faults, it’s still a pretty damn fun movie. If the F13 movies aren’t exactly what many would consider genuinely frightening, this one comes the closest to it. The film at least understands the terror behind its concept—to be stuck in a remote area, with little to no resources, as an unknown entity lurks in the darkness. By the time the group of counselors is whittled down to just Alice, Crystal Lake is a blackened hellscape soundtracked only by spring peepers and crackling tree branches. Alice is left running through seemingly endless woods, the killer always popping up no matter where she hides. It’s easily the most claustrophobic a Friday the 13th movie has ever felt. There’s still plenty of the expected jump scares and the finale boasts arguably the most famous jump scare of them all. I’d wax more about it but, come on, you know which one I’m talking about.
In addition to its soundtrack and impressive gore, the camp value is off the charts. Betsy Palmer single-handedly chews the scenery to bits in her tragically all-too-short appearance. I’m surprised more drag queens haven’t tried to emulate her, to be honest. The big fight between her and Alice paved the way for Drag Race maxi challenges, I think. Speaking of Alice, I’ve always thought Adrienne King’s performance here is a bit under-appreciated. It’s clearly Laurie Strode lite in many ways, but King is likable as the chill camp counselor who could probably make a mean gimp bracelet. In general, this group of counselors is much more grounded than those in future installments. They cook. They swim. They play strip Monopoly. Compared to the more over-the-top victims of later entries, it just kinda feels like they just threw these kids out there to improvise and have fun.
Yes, Friday the 13th is far from the best or most original horror movie out there, but that’s missing the point. If Halloween wrote up the formula for a lavish steak dinner, Friday the 13th wrote up the one for a sloppy, greasy cheeseburger—perhaps not nearly as fancy, but easier to make while on some level still satiating your appetite. And given every slasher movie going forward would be indebted to it in some fashion, it's a formula that's much easier to replicate over and over again.
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Paul
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Post by Paul on Oct 1, 2021 20:29:00 GMT -5
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Ultimo Gallos
Grimlock
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 1, 2021 22:41:57 GMT -5
Hostel III-Netflix
Wow this was bad. Like Asylum level bad. Like that Puppet Master film that was a clipshow bad. Hell this makes the first 2 Hostels look like 5 star classics.
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Ultimo Gallos
Grimlock
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 1, 2021 23:59:20 GMT -5
After the crap that was Hostel III I got told "OK I'm picking the next movie. I want something scary and funny."
She choose Leprechaun in Da Hood.....
Which is my second favorite of this franchise.
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Post by DSR on Oct 2, 2021 1:00:22 GMT -5
THE CHILL FACTOR (1989) concerns three 20-something couples on a snowmobiling vacation. One of their party collides with a tree, suffering near-fatal injuries. The rest of the group carefully transport him to the only shelter available: a long-abandoned church camp. The injured man's wounds are tended to and another man goes off back to town for help. With tensions high among the rest of the group, they decide to unwind with a game; what they find is a ouija board (uh oh!). Sure enough, they unleash a demonic being that starts picking them off one by one!
THE CHILL FACTOR, also known as DEMON POSSESSED, is adequately made. Nothing is egregiously bad about it. It's just completely run-of-the-mill. There's a few fun ideas here and there: a nice icicle-to-the-eyeball kill, the score gives us a minor key rendition of "Three Blind Mice" towards the end, and a couple of the characters have a more-than-just-implied incestuous relationship (gross!). But otherwise the picture is too slow-moving and too straightforward in its approach to the material to be truly interesting. Give me some surrealism, please!
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 2, 2021 1:36:12 GMT -5
TITLE-Visitors of the Night SOURCE-Echo Bridge DVD Back at the start of the year I was in the downtown area and needed to pass 30 minutes waiting on someone. There is a nearby pawn shop I hit up sometimes for DVDs/Blu Rays. The owner knows I buy in bulk so usually cuts me a good deal. I was looking through the shelves,saw the above cover and threw the dvd into the buy pile. How could I pass up a film with not only Candace Cameron but also Markie Post? The plot,well it is your normal made for TV alien abduction plot. Candace throws a party one night while grounded. She is taking the trash out and blacks out. When she gets back to her house it is early the next morning and she has lost track of time. Before this happens though we see Markie Post having odd dreams with a young girl and lots of lights. The cast of either 80s/early 90s tv stars or Canadian talent is what makes this stand out. First up is Markie Post. Markie is a single mom trying to raise her bratty as f*** teenage daughter. This film was made a few years after Markie's big role on Night Court had happened. I think maybe this was around the time she was doing Hearts on Fire with John Ritter. Ms Post is pretty good as the lead in this. But she also isn't given a hard role to do. Candace Cameron,now Candace Cameron Bure, appears to have done this film not long after Full House had it's final season. She shows way more range than she did on Full House. But could be replaced by any actress from the era and the film wouldn't suffer much. Canadian actor Stephen McHattie doesn't have a huge role,he is Candace's father. But he is good in what little he is given.I'm guessing most people will know McHattie from his role as the original Night Owl in Watchmen. Melyssa Ade does great as Candace's best friend. I kept thinking I knew Ade from something. Then looked her up once the film was over. She was in Jason X. Another film with a big amount of Canadian actors/actresses. When I grabbed this dvd I figured it would be some cheesy film that I watch once and then forget about. The night I put it on my plan was see maybe 30 minutes then doze off. But ended up watching the entire film that night. And before today have watched it 2 more times. The DVD is OOP and I doubt this is hitting Blu Ray anytime soon,if it ever does. But the DVD isn't hard to find cheap. And the entire film is up on Youtube. So if you are in to alien abduction films give this a watch. Visitors of the Night gets a B-.
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Post by prettynami on Oct 2, 2021 9:13:20 GMT -5
Wooo! Best time of the year! Started out last night with:
1. WITCHES' BREW (1980 TV Movie) - Apparently a horror comedy. A small coven of apprentice witches have been utilizing the tutelage of a mentor to further the careers of their husbands (to varying degrees of success). One of them, played by the ever hot Teri Garr, has achieved the most success but her un-supportive husband doesn't like her "hobby" and tells her to stop - in the process of doing that it reveals the magic does work, creates an opening for terrible shenanigans involving the other witches to attempt to take advantage of her new vulnerability, spawns satan from a giant egg, and reveals the real motives of the head witch!!!!
Yes, you heard me! Satan spawns from an egg at one point! The movie starts out, and for the almost the whole first half feels like, as a rom-com. We even get a groovy disco opening and closing theme! A theme so ridiculous you can almost not help but love it. Anyways, the rom-com parts aren't amazing... Nothing much happens and the pacing is weird like they really stretching the movie (huge empty spaces in the audio with nothing going on is a persistent problem). When the movie starts to transition, after Teri Garr starts to undo her spells and her "friends" all turn on her, its initially so light hearted that the viewer is probably left wondering "Where does the horror take place?" and then suddenly, as if out of nowhere, death threats, Satan, and soul transference becomes a thing. This movie truly feels like two pasted together! However, if one thing persists it's the same musical score throughout... Which as the tone of the movie changes is quite odd!
The other witches decide to use something called Lucifer Egg to turn around their luck and attack Teri Garr's husband at the same time (one of them wants the chairmanship he is looking to get at a university). Well, this eventually involves almost killing him and they just shrug about it. It also reveals that the egg actually contains a STOP MOTION FLYING SATAN WITH LASER EYES! Pew pew pew! Even that isn't enough to get them to stop, in for a penny in for a dollar I suppose. Eventually it is revealed that the head witch has been grooming Teri Garr to switch souls with her so she can have a new hot young body! This works and Teri Garr is left as an enfeebled old woman while the old lady prances around in a nighty. Eventually one of the witches gets a change of heart and uses Teri Garr's previously unbelieving husband to fight back, saving the day after some neon lighting green blue flame immolation!
THE GOOD: Crazy opening theme. The acting surprisingly not that bad? The two special effects sequences actually look amazing (or that could be because they are so out of place they look amazing in a relative sense). The 2nd half is actually a fun little jaunt.
THE BAD: The comedy bits during the light-hearted first half of the movie just aren't good enough. The best they do is when Teri Garr rubs her husband down with cat piss and then later he recognizes the smell in the sauna. The musical score is terrible. The reactions of the everyone when things start going bad is like they are uncaring aliens - so everyone comes off like motivation-less automatons who do everything on a whim. Teri Garr ends up taking a back seat to her husband in fixing every problem despite the fact she is supposed to be the amazing witch!
VERDICT: You gotta make it through the first half to get real enjoyment out of this one. The second half is actually sort of fun! I give it a 2.5 out of 5.
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Post by prettynami on Oct 2, 2021 12:37:10 GMT -5
Just finished:
2. THE HILLS HAVE EYES (1977) - I had somehow never seen this before. I'd seen one of the remakes, and many of the movies that take the plot... But never this. Anyways, it's about a family that is going to investigate a silver mine they own (what?) while on a family vacation (why!) that just happens to be deep in a military testing area that includes bombings, radiation, and a family of mutants (nooo!).
I was surprised by how little mystery there is about the mutants - the movie introduces their grandpa the gas station man right away at the beginning of the movie and he jumps right into warning the family not to go up in dem hills! The family is probably one of the most annoying collection of people to ever walk the face of this earth - and the visual of them coming out of their trailer like its a clown car was hilarious. They just bicker and argue and they are for the most part so dumb its no wonder they get "lost" and cripple their own car. I was also surprised by how little gore was in this, specially considering the cannibal family genre in general. Most of the horror came from suspense, as people wandered around at night with noises. I also expected the mutants to be just brutes (and they were) but they also used radios and tactics and everything! That was surprising!
THE GOOD: I like how the tables turned at the end of the movie and the family becomes the sorta calculating mad dog killers. I loved their elaborate traps near the end. The two principle mutants (the guy from PLANT OF THE DINOSAURS and the guy from WEIRD SCIENCE) were really good - their taunting and actions were really creepy. Sorta hilarious that I swear more mutants died than victims. And it was also funny how the one good mutant sister character helps the family off her brothers and what not and then is shrieking like that wasn't going to be the outcome all along. Nice use of sound during the quieter parts of the movie. And the VENGEFUL DOG OF DEATH was great. I loved the hilariously abrupt ending that just fades into THE END (I just love when that happens, makes me laugh every time). The old man grandpa character was also great.
THE BAD: The shrieking. My gawd the shrieking. And the yelling. I think my ears are bleeding. 90 percent of the movie is women shrieking and men yelling. The family are terrible human beings - only mustacheo man is of any use. I also couldn't understand with all that yelling and shrieking how no one knew something bad was happening 20 feet away. You feel terrible rooting for them and their SUPER DOG because they tell as story earlier in the movie about how their dog just goes around killing everything and they laugh about it. The make-up on the face of the leader mutant was... Not good - didn't match his skin tone at all and was sort of distracting. I wish the movie had kept more of the atmosphere you get in the beginning.
VERDICT: I would give it a 3 out of 5. It was enjoyable if you wear sound dampening headphones - But the only compelling character is like the first to die.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Oct 2, 2021 14:21:49 GMT -5
I listened to the first part of The Last Podcast on the Left series on Mike Warnke who they name an accidental architect of the Satanic Panic, on my afternoon walk today. I highly recommend this one. I’m kind of surprised another podcast I listen to, Swindled which covers white collar crime has not covered Warnke already. When I got back from my walk I was greeted by today’s horror haul: I decided to stock up on horror and scratch my SOV itch a little bit. I have some more coming in the mail, but am excited for this batch. Here are some thoughts on each. Dead Silence: I prefer SOV that was made way back in the 1980s/early 1990s. This one from 1989 was kind of a blind buy. It fits the criteria I was looking for, but I don’t know much else about it. It was cheap! It also currently only has 20 votes on IMDB. Sheets of Gore: Todd Sheets is an early contributor to the SOV horror genre, making shorts way back in 1985. And he’s still making movies today! This compiles some early shorts. There is a more comprehensive set of his shorts that sells on the SRS Cinema website, but that goes for $50. This one cost me less than $10. Day of the Reaper: I was surprised by how much fun I had watching Tim Ritter’s Killing Spree a while back. By contrast this one was made when he was only 15 and is supposed to be horrible. I can’t wait! Lethal Nightmare: This one isn’t actually SOV, but a super 8 remake of an earlier SOV movie called Hallucinations (which I have coming in the mail). Both were directed by the Polonia brothers, Mark and John. Garden Tool Massacre: The debut film from David Hinds. This is a more recent SOV effort than I tend to like. Well as recent as 1997 anyway. Still, I’m a mark for any _____ Massacre movies. For anyone interested in older SOV horror I also found this list: m.imdb.com/list/ls063948708/
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Post by DSR on Oct 2, 2021 14:34:47 GMT -5
A couple of months back, I picked up a book titled "Bleeding Skull: A 1990s Trash-Horror Odyssey". It's a collection of reviews from the folks at Bleedingskull.com, and they specialize in that SOV or similarly no-budget horror of the time. Sheets, Ritter, and the Polonia brothers show up prominently throughout the book. The book cost about 30 bucks, and they made one before that was, of course, a 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey, but I don't think that one's available on the cheap. At any rate, if you're looking for bargain basement horror flicks, Bleedingskull.com might provide some inspiration for your hunt if you feel like saving the money for actual flicks.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Oct 2, 2021 15:44:47 GMT -5
A couple of months back, I picked up a book titled "Bleeding Skull: A 1990s Trash-Horror Odyssey". It's a collection of reviews from the folks at Bleedingskull.com, and they specialize in that SOV or similarly no-budget horror of the time. Sheets, Ritter, and the Polonia brothers show up prominently throughout the book. The book cost about 30 bucks, and they made one before that was, of course, a 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey, but I don't think that one's available on the cheap. At any rate, if you're looking for bargain basement horror flicks, Bleedingskull.com might provide some inspiration for your hunt if you feel like saving the money for actual flicks. Sweet, the 1980’s one is actually available as a digital download at the book store on my iPhone. Oddly enough the 1990’s one isn’t on there. I might have to check out that 1980’s one as I almost stick exclusively to reading books on my iPhone these days. Otherwise when I’m reading during downtime at work every few minutes someone asks me, “What are you reading?” And replying, “Bleeding Skulls review of Violent Shit” is going to make sense to a very small number of people.
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Post by DSR on Oct 2, 2021 15:48:13 GMT -5
A couple of months back, I picked up a book titled "Bleeding Skull: A 1990s Trash-Horror Odyssey". It's a collection of reviews from the folks at Bleedingskull.com, and they specialize in that SOV or similarly no-budget horror of the time. Sheets, Ritter, and the Polonia brothers show up prominently throughout the book. The book cost about 30 bucks, and they made one before that was, of course, a 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey, but I don't think that one's available on the cheap. At any rate, if you're looking for bargain basement horror flicks, Bleedingskull.com might provide some inspiration for your hunt if you feel like saving the money for actual flicks. Sweet, the 1980’s one is actually available as a digital download at the book store on my iPhone. Oddly enough the 1990’s one isn’t on there. I might have to check out that 1980’s one as I almost stick exclusively to reading books on my iPhone these days. Otherwise when I’m reading during downtime at work every few minutes someone asks me, “What are you reading?” And replying, “Bleeding Skulls review of Violent Shit” is going to make sense to a very small number of people. I got a lot of that kinda stuff when I would read Stephen Bissette's massive book about David Cronenberg's THE BROOD on my lunch breaks at my old job, so I get it. I don't know, I still prefer to pick up a physical book rather than read something on my phone, though.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Oct 2, 2021 22:53:26 GMT -5
Take Me Naked (1966) This isn’t your grandfather’s horror film. Unless your grandfather was a filthy, filthy pervert. Before skin flicks became more mainstream in the late 1960s and 1970s when they were marketed toward couples, they had these things called roughies. They were black and white softcore skin flicks, some of which could probably pass with a PG rating these days. Despite the tame nature by today’s standards roughies were just like they sounded like, portraying rough sex and playing up the depravity of it all. The target audience was called the raincoat crowd and you can probably figure out why. With that preamble you’re probably wondering why you’re reading about that genre in a horror movie review. Well, for some reason IMDB defines this as a horror movie and damnit that’s good enough for me. This was one of a handful of non-X rated movies directed jointly by Michael and Roberta Findlay. The movie is about a peeping tom played by Kevin Sullivan (fortunately not the Dungeon of Doom’s Kevin Sullivan) whose object of desire is a woman who lives in an apartment across the way played by Roberta Findlay (pulling double duty). There really isn’t much plot to this movie. The peeping tom spies on the woman as she undresses, showers, has a softcore girl on girl scene, etc. This leads up to the peeping tom feeling compelled to go over, with fatal results. Another horror-based scene of the movie comes when a homosexual scene is teased, and let’s just say folks were a lot less forward thinking back then. The majority of the movie is routine Findlay/Something Weird stuff. Hairy folks sweating over each other without clothes or barely any as bad poetry is recited to give the illusion of artistic merit. Despite all this the long out of print Something Weird double feature it’s on is worth tracking down if you have to see it. At one point it was streaming on Amazon Prime albeit with a lot of the nudity removed. I guess that cut must have lasted about 20 minutes. The Findlays would go onto create better films. The double feature DVD includes truncated versions of two of them, Mnasidika and Janie. Janie looks badass! Evidently that movie has even less of a plot than this one. It centers on the titular character who is out of her mind. In the truncated version she talks her friend into hitchhiking with a creepy guy, tricks her into sleeping with him, then runs them both over mid-coitus! But the crown jewel of this DVD is easily the second feature, A Thousand Pleasures. But that’s another review, for another time.
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Post by DSR on Oct 3, 2021 3:00:09 GMT -5
LOVE OBJECT (2003) is, to date, the only film written and directed by Robert Parigi, who's spent many years producing TV shows, from Tales from the Crypt to Marvel's Agents of SHIELD. LOVE OBJECT stars Desmond Harrington (GHOST SHIP) as Kenneth, an instruction manual writer. He's a gifted technical writer, but he's socially awkward...and then some. His boss (Rip Torn, MEN IN BLACK) gives him a big new project...a project so big he needs an assistant to help out. Her name is Lisa (Melissa Sagemiller, SORORITY BOYS).
Kenneth becomes infatuated with Lisa, but because of his awkwardness, coupled with the fear of a potential sexual harassment lawsuit causes Kenneth to buy himself a lifelike sex doll, personally designed to look as close to Lisa as possible. Kenneth's first time "making love" with the sex doll, named "Nikki", leaves him unsatisfied, but he realizes that it's better when he imbues the doll with some personality. So Kenneth takes bits and pieces of what he learns about Lisa and transposes her personality onto Nikki. And it works out fairly well for him, allowing him to focus on his work when he needs to and grow some confidence in himself.
Turns out Lisa reciprocated Kenneth's affections and the two of them become a couple. Unfortunately for Kenneth, Nikki has a dark side: she's obsessive and domineering. But wait, she's just a sex doll, right? Kenneth can't convince himself of that, though...
LOVE OBJECT starts out like a quirky comedy with a bit of a dark side (the obvious comparison would be LARS AND THE REAL GIRL, though LOVE OBJECT came first). That dark side becomes more pronounced as the film goes on. There's still laughs here and there, but it's cringe comedy mixed with horror. I found it highly effective. Harrington gives an incredible performance. There are many scenes where his acting partner is a doll, but he's fully believable in his torment, even as the other half of the conversation isn't heard by the audience. I think all of the main actors in the film do a good job with this material (including my man Udo Kier in a small but memorable role as Kenneth's landlord).
The only demerit I'll give this film is that, while a lot of the time people in horror films take too long to put pieces together and solve the mystery, characters in this film seem to figure out what's happening with only the tiniest amount of evidence. And, without giving it away, the story wraps itself up a little too neatly in the end. But it's still a really well-done little picture. I never see or hear anyone talk about it, and it feels like LOVE OBJECT deserves a cult following!
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Oct 3, 2021 3:07:51 GMT -5
Like everyone else in this thread, I'm doing a scary movie marathon this month, but I actually started a couple weeks ago because there are some circumstances later this week that will make it difficult for me to watch any movies and I didn't want to rush my movie watching later on in the month, so I just got started ahead of time. In any case, here is what Ive watched so far.
Demon Knight (1995) The Last Exorcism II (2013) Nightwatch (1997) The Hole In the Ground (2019) Grizzly II: Revenge (2020, really 1983) Come Play (2020) The Fly (1958) Frankenstein (2004) The Unnamable (1988) Dead Birds (2004) Prom Night (2008) Scarecrows (1988) The Thing (2011)
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Post by 4real on Oct 3, 2021 6:59:59 GMT -5
Day 2:
28 Days Later (2002)
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen this film which is regarded rightly as one of the best horrors of this century.
Directed by Danny Boyle of Trainspotting fame (who would go on to win best director a few years after this for Slumdog Millionaire) this film revolves around an infection spread by the release of captive chimps.
28 days Later and a naked Cillian Murphy (who would go on to great success in Batman Begins as well at Peaky Blinders, also don’t sleep on the excellent Wes Craven directed Red Eye) wakes up in a hospital bed and walks around a deserted London as the scale of the infection becomes clear. He is followed by zombies but these aren’t your usual Zombies they can run! He managed to befriend a few survivors but things go awry when they stubble on an army camp which was putting out radio broadcasts to survivors run by Christopher Eccleston (the former Doctor Who)
Watching this back it’s funny to see just how low budget this film is (made for about £8 million and a lot is filmed on hand held cameras) but a lot of 2000’s movies haven’t aged well. The plot though and the performances are top notch as is the action. It’s a horrid look at times at life after a big pandemic (relevant in these times of course but thankfully not to the extent of this film) but with a splash of hope in our heroes. It’s not particularly as scary as I remember as it doesn’t really rely on jump scares but as a stand-alone film it’s excellent.
I haven’t seen the sequel but I might give it a watch later in the month.
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Post by pinja on Oct 3, 2021 9:14:00 GMT -5
Already behind, although I never intended to watch a certain number of movies. My first time ever: "Waxwork" (1988). Got a cheap BluRay the other weak, heard some things about it, but never figured why I haven't seen it before, because it seems to be a movie I should have seen. Late '80s, campy, very, VERY illustrous cast - why haven't it been shown on free tv again and again during the '90s? Tell you why: Because it was indexed until 2003 or 2010. I don't know why, didn't find the reasoning, but I suppose it's because of Nazi imagery combined with some good gore and lowbrow humor. That's a big no-no for the "Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons". Anyway, "Waxwork" is proof enough that it has little to do with nostalgia why I do like so many movies of it's era. It was a really fun watch, despite awfully incoherent dialogue in some scenes. Maybe issues with the dub? The special effects were goofy greatness and none of the wax figures actually being wax figures got a chuckle out of me. Michu Meszaros' Hans is so memorable. I had to look him up to see how much mask work they did on him - none at all. What a presence. Here's a little headscratcher: The German version isn't called "Waxwork", but "Reise zurück in der Zeit", roughly "Travel Back in Time". Now the original version of the sequel is called "Waxwork II: Lost in Time", but the German version is called "Spaceshift". What? Ok. I love those weird confusing and conflicting name changes. Horror and martial arts movies are riddled with it. For the rest of October I plan to watch less movies and read more novelizations of movies. I'm particularly interested in "Bram Stoker's Dracula", which is promoted as the novelization of the movie based on the novel. That's got to be something really, really bad.
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Post by prettynami on Oct 3, 2021 10:22:38 GMT -5
Take Me Naked (1966) This isn’t your grandfather’s horror film. Unless your grandfather was a filthy, filthy pervert. BAHAHAHAHAHAH. Holy cow, what a title!!!!!! You guys find the best stuff.
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