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Post by novastar6 on Sept 29, 2021 23:12:14 GMT
I remember when the ads for that were on TV, it looked like THE scariest movie ever made. Finally got around to seeing it, not a BAD horror movie, but it just doesn't make sense, which you know, sometimes you can overlook that, I could, it definitely has re-watch potential, I'm sensing HEAVY inspiration from Se7en here.
What's funny is when they show the rating warning, one thing is 'grizzly/grisly images of violence', something to that effect, sure they're disturbing but it's more the quick paced semi-seizure inducing editing they put it together with, slow it down and watch through them, again, yeah, disturbing, but kids stuff compared to movies today.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Sept 30, 2021 0:49:00 GMT
I haven't seen it in a while, but I remember thinking it was indeed a bad horror movie. Nothing really made sense and otherwise good actors didn't seem to even wanna be there. It's highly stylized, but also deeply stupid... as far as I recall, at least.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Sept 30, 2021 1:21:11 GMT
2/10 It was well advertised but its really a dull and forgetable film.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Sept 30, 2021 1:43:07 GMT
It's as if they came up with this after watching a triple bill of Strangeland, Ringu, and Pulse.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Sept 30, 2021 1:51:45 GMT
It's as if they came up with this after watching a triple bill of Strangeland, Ringu, and Pulse. Strangeland is so terrible it's almost funny. I just remember this being kinda dull and bland.
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Post by novastar6 on Sept 30, 2021 4:13:39 GMT
It's as if they came up with this after watching a triple bill of Strangeland, Ringu, and Pulse.
It's funny though, William Malone, House on Haunted Hill, definitely a lot of similarities there too, and in that movie they also faintly touched on the idea of ghosts being able to travel through wires, circuits, electricity, to communicate with the outside world, get into computers, etc.
But on the subject of Pulse, I bought the American remake at the same place I bought this movie, watched it before watching this one, 4 years apart, LOT of similarities there.
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Post by forca84 on Oct 11, 2021 19:45:30 GMT
I like it... I really like Natasha McElhone and Stephen Dorf together. And even tho it's derivative of "Ringu" and "Kairo" etc. It's still an entertaining B movie. It has beautiful eerie cinematography.
In fact I've had it on dvd for ages. Been thinking of watching it again.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Oct 11, 2021 22:49:55 GMT
I was just looking at Roger Ebert's review for this movie, which is actually just about the most positive of any critic, and his opening lines feel about in line with my memory of seeing the movie:
"Strange, how good "feardotcom" is, and how bad. The screenplay is a mess, and yet the visuals are so creative this is one of the rare bad films you might actually want to see. The plot is a bewildering jumble of half-baked ideas, from which we gather just enough of a glimmer about the story to understand how it is shot through with contradictions and paradoxes."
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