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Post by TheSowIsMine on Oct 4, 2019 9:49:55 GMT
The good one. Not the bloated, pretentious, incoherent remake. As for my thoughts on it... Ha! Figured as much! I thought the remake was great.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2019 10:59:00 GMT
Dont see how Hellraiser is held to as high regards as Friday the 13th, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm St etc.
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Post by Anonymous Andy on Oct 4, 2019 11:00:26 GMT
Yeah...this isn't a movie to watch in 2019 lol Hellraiser makes me uncomfortable in a lot of ways and that's pretty much the appeal. Definitely not a film for everyone.
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Post by Marv on Oct 4, 2019 11:14:18 GMT
Yeah...this isn't a movie to watch in 2019 lol Hellraiser makes me uncomfortable in a lot of ways and that's pretty much the appeal. Definitely not a film for everyone. Yea. It’s definitely not for the faint of heart in a lot of ways. I always found the philosophy of the cenobites very interesting tho. Drawing pleasure from pain and whatnot.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Oct 4, 2019 11:45:34 GMT
I didn't start off with much enthusiasm this year, maybe once it gets rolling. I'd like to clear out my to-do list of horror movies this year, but some of them seem really bad. 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 I did that back in 2016. Focused on movies that I just had to get out of the way. It meant that I ended up seeing a number of movies I'd probably never have bothered with otherwise. Some were worth it, but quite a few were most certainly not. My advice is not to force yourself to watch movies you believe will be really bad as it'll just drain you and further kill all remaining enthusiasm. So far so good. I seem to be developing the Halloween spirit, finally. I will try to watch as few possible stinkers as I can.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Oct 4, 2019 11:47:59 GMT
I didn't start off with much enthusiasm this year, maybe once it gets rolling. I'd like to clear out my to-do list of horror movies this year, but some of them seem really bad. 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 That's why I find it best to start with either old favorites or movies I've been itching to watch for a while. Yeah, I need to dig down into my collection and find some old goodies to boost my horror morale.
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Post by morrisondylanfan on Oct 4, 2019 12:06:32 GMT
Thanks for hosting Limbo! FTV:1: Beautiful Teacher in Torture Hell (1985)7 FTV:2: Garden of the Dead (1972) 4 Hey morrisondylanfan. I recommend posting your challenge progress on the Progress thread so it won’t get lost in the shuffle of the discussion thread. 🙂 Thanks Limbo,that's what I get for having tabs open on both threads! I've put it on the correct one now.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2019 14:30:00 GMT
Watched "The Dungeon of Harrow" (1962) last night. Overly talky and dull, but still sometimes fun on a "so bad it's good" level. The acting is simply atrocious, especially from leading man Russ Harvey. William McNulty is a hoot as the campy bad guy.
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Post by MooseNugget on Oct 4, 2019 17:27:25 GMT
The City of the Dead (1960) (First time viewing) Terror Level: None TCM is airing horror films every Thursday and I wanted to check out at least one of those films. It was a treat seeing Christopher Lee play a warlock in this film. The plot is a lot like psycho though with witchcraft. There's suspense here and there with interesting visuals. Not scary though. The movie is alight. Not something I'm going to remember. It's just over an hour. 5/10. Le notti del terrore (1981) (First time viewing) Terror Level: Medium My friend wanted to watch this with me and it's so damn bizarre. First off I want to say while the zombies don't look the most realistic off the bat all the masks look so cool. Not only that but this is the only movie I can think of where the zombies has worms in them. Why does nobody else do that? It looks so gross and gruesome! Sometimes the worms are dangling over our victims as the zombies strangle them. Michael is the weirdest damn character. Obviously he's an adult playing a child. I thought that was really creepy. I guess it made it less creepy when he tried to bang his mom? Yeah that happens! There's plenty of cool deaths from zombies decapitating someone with a scythe to the mother bashing a zombie's head in on a bathtub. There's so little exposition that it's hard to really care about anyone in this movie. I just liked Michael for being so creepy and mama for being do badass. A for effort but 5/10 for execution. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)Terror Level: Low My pal never seen this so I decided to watch it. I love this movie. Ernest Thesiger as Doctor Pretorius really stole the show! He's so sinister and such an egomaniac! And for whatever reason I'm always creeped out by his homunculi. In the first movie the child befriends The Monster. In this one it's a blind man. It shows us that if we didn't know The Monster was one we could be friends with him. But he feared for his looks. This isn't a movie anyone should sleep on. It's just as strong as the original if not surpassing it! 9/10.[/b]
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Oct 4, 2019 20:47:16 GMT
Saw Ready Or Not at the dollar theater. It was a lot of fun. Great ending. That same theater will also be showing the original Evil Dead, TCSM, NOES, and Halloween for $5 each. I've already seen the latter four in the theater, but that's a good deal. Especially for TCSM, which is a million times more effective on the big screen.Amen, to that. I take it this time around you won’t be missing the opening intro. Ha, you remember me complaining about that? Yeah, my ass is gonna be glued to my seat like Sally five minutes early.
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Oct 5, 2019 2:16:20 GMT
I did that back in 2016. Focused on movies that I just had to get out of the way. It meant that I ended up seeing a number of movies I'd probably never have bothered with otherwise. Some were worth it, but quite a few were most certainly not. My advice is not to force yourself to watch movies you believe will be really bad as it'll just drain you and further kill all remaining enthusiasm. Hee, that's pretty much what I'm doing this year, clearing the decks with films I own but never bothered to watch given their reputation. Mostly they are parts of box sets, for example I have already watched Omen 3: The Final Conflict and Critters 4!. The former is a passable trilogy closure, the latter is pants! I own a fair few movies like that. Stuff I bought years ago that I'm indifferent to nowadays and may never bother to watch. Coincidentally, Omen 3 is actually one of them (though my Omen box set is itself a relatively recent purchase).
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Oct 5, 2019 2:19:27 GMT
Yeah...this isn't a movie to watch in 2019 lol Hellraiser makes me uncomfortable in a lot of ways and that's pretty much the appeal. Definitely not a film for everyone. Have only read the novella upon which the movie is based. Scariest book I've ever read. Found it be to be truly disturbing.
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Post by rogerthat on Oct 5, 2019 2:38:59 GMT
So I feel naive/out of the loop/ like a schmuck... I finally watched Hatchet after all these years and I thought it was a straight Horror movie. I didn't expect the bad comedy.
I give kudos to the gore/kills and cameos, but how on earth did I not know this was a horror comedy until watching it?
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Post by MooseNugget on Oct 5, 2019 20:10:30 GMT
Seddok, l'erede di Satana (1960) (First time viewing) Terror Level: None Kings of Horror have a bunch of movies they've uploaded for free on YouTube so I'll be checking several of those out. And this movie should be free to view. It's just so boring. And I don't understand why the scientist became the monster instead of the girl who received the treatment. I think Eyes Without A Face came out the same year which is way better and more horrific. 3/10. Midsommar (2019) (First time viewing) Terror Level: Low Mars Bars recommended that I check this out. This reminded me a lot of The Wicker Man. I've never seen Hereditary but I guess it's a lot like that too. This movie is two and a half hours but never gets dull. It's not scary to me but that's probably because I seen movies like this. It's in the very least weird. And it's cool to have a very light horror film instead of a dark one. That was very different. I'd recommend this to anyone. 9/10.
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Post by James on Oct 5, 2019 20:14:36 GMT
Dont see how Hellraiser is held to as high regards as Friday the 13th, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm St etc. It isn’t really. The other 3 you mentioned are far more popular and loved, and Hellraiser went straight to video. Unless you mean how many movies it got then yeah it’s pretty crazy.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2019 20:45:07 GMT
Dont see how Hellraiser is held to as high regards as Friday the 13th, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm St etc. It isn’t really. The other 3 you mentioned are far more popular and loved, and Hellraiser went straight to video. Unless you mean how many movies it got then yeah it’s pretty crazy. I was talking in the sense that Pinhead is viewed as a horror icon to the likes of Freddy, Jason, Michael etc. I was assuming that people viewed his movies in the same way as well. Didn't know it was a direct to video film. They're still churning out Hellraiser films too. Think the last one was just a few years ago. After watching the first one I don't see any reason to watch the rest.
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Post by James on Oct 5, 2019 20:52:04 GMT
It isn’t really. The other 3 you mentioned are far more popular and loved, and Hellraiser went straight to video. Unless you mean how many movies it got then yeah it’s pretty crazy. I was talking in the sense that Pinhead is viewed as a horror icon to the likes of Freddy, Jason, Michael etc. I was assuming that people viewed his movies in the same way as well. Didn't know it was a direct to video film. They're still churning out Hellraiser films too. Think the last one was just a few years ago. After watching the first one I don't see any reason to watch the rest. Because Pinhead is a well received character. He is what makes the movies worth seeing alone. They went direct to video since the 5th one. I do like half of the series though, 1-5 are my favourites. What was it about the original you didn’t like?
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Post by rogerthat on Oct 5, 2019 23:50:24 GMT
If you want to see one of the most unintentional horror comedies watch A.M.I. on Netflix.
Story is of a girl with brain injuries who starts using this siri like thing on her phone to murder people. The movie is so bad but I couldn't help laughing at how serious it took the subject matter.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2019 1:03:47 GMT
I was talking in the sense that Pinhead is viewed as a horror icon to the likes of Freddy, Jason, Michael etc. I was assuming that people viewed his movies in the same way as well. Didn't know it was a direct to video film. They're still churning out Hellraiser films too. Think the last one was just a few years ago. After watching the first one I don't see any reason to watch the rest. Because Pinhead is a well received character. He is what makes the movies worth seeing alone. They went direct to video since the 5th one. I do like half of the series though, 1-5 are my favourites. What was it about the original you didn’t like? It's hard to put into words. I'm not a guy that pretends to be a film critic or anything so I'm not looking at things like score or direction. I'm just an average joe movie watcher. That said, this type of horror film just wasn't my cup of tea. I found parts of it to just be gross. Not to the extent of a film like Hostel that takes shit like that to a whole other level via cutting out an eye and such. I wasn't interested in the story at all and I wasn't scared by it. Just kind of grossed out by it. Some movies I enjoy despite nothing for a story like Friday the 13ths and some of the Halloween's because they're kind of to me anyways, turn your brain off and enjoy. Hellraiser wasn't like that for me. For the record, most of the horror films I'm into are of the haunted houses/spiritual ghosts/possession types of films.
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Post by James on Oct 6, 2019 1:19:38 GMT
Because Pinhead is a well received character. He is what makes the movies worth seeing alone. They went direct to video since the 5th one. I do like half of the series though, 1-5 are my favourites. What was it about the original you didn’t like? It's hard to put into words. I'm not a guy that pretends to be a film critic or anything so I'm not looking at things like score or direction. I'm just an average joe movie watcher. That said, this type of horror film just wasn't my cup of tea. I found parts of it to just be gross. Not to the extent of a film like Hostel that takes shit like that to a whole other level via cutting out an eye and such. I wasn't interested in the story at all and I wasn't scared by it. Just kind of grossed out by it. Some movies I enjoy despite nothing for a story like Friday the 13ths and some of the Halloween's because they're kind of to me anyways, turn your brain off and enjoy. Hellraiser wasn't like that for me. I’m a horror fan and not scared of most horror films, so it isn’t much of a concern for a film to be scary to me. I was very interested in what was going on in the story and the characters are pretty well done by horror movie standards. The effects are also top-notch. I just thought it was a well-crafted film, but that’s just me. I respect your opinion. I like those too if they’re done well and don’t feel repetitive. The difference between them and slashers is that I can have more fun with a slasher no matter what, but a paranormal movie requires some quality since most of them are quite serious.
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