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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jan 24, 2022 22:47:30 GMT
4/10
This one is watchable, but I was hoping it would be better. The effects are good but nothing too memorable overall.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jan 24, 2022 22:50:50 GMT
4/10I have the same feelings for Behind You like I do Antlers. Its fine but nothing special. Just like a regular horror film.
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Post by mgmarshall on Jan 25, 2022 9:24:28 GMT
Black FridaySolid enough little George Romero/ Evil Dead throwback that actually has the good fortune of landing Bruce Campbell and Michael Jai White in its ensemble cast. As zombie movies go, it's a tad generic, but it has its high points. There are some very decent memorable practical makeup designs. Devon Sawa, the movie's actual lead, is appropriately badass, but with a distinct air of middle aged loser that lends the role some genuine heart. In a similar vein, Bruce Campbell imbues his supporting role alternately with douchiness and pathos. Michael Jai White is, as usual, intense, believably tough, and immensely likeable, but he's killed off (with an off-camera scream, Predator-style) way too early.
It's pretty fun, but if you've seen any other zombie flick, you've pretty much seen this one.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jan 25, 2022 23:40:09 GMT
1/10 THIS MOVIE SUCKS!
I mean wow! This is one of, if not the worst film of '21. Its a supernatural slasher religious film. Thats right I said religious film. Its about a house set reality show where the cast and crew gets killed by a entity that makes stock sound noises. Its a total mess to say the least but I hated the religious message that treats any non religious person as a immoral idiot. But at the same time the main girl is completely unlikeable. Possibly the worst female protagonist ever. Plus the film is 115 minutes and does not need to be. Also I get a kick that when the two girls look up history of the 1600s there are photoshopped pictures. Snoop Dog is here and Im sure they filmed with him for a day, maybe two at the most. Hes in 5 brief scenes. I hated this film.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jan 25, 2022 23:44:48 GMT
3/10From the director of Saw 2 (my favorite Saw film) comes this pretty poor bad convent film. Pregnant girls get abused at a convent. Thats about it. I noticed the "I like You" girl from VHS is there. Its pretty generic but I see worse.
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Post by novastar6 on Jan 26, 2022 0:40:45 GMT
They Reach (2020). A Dollar Tree find. For once nice to see a movie where when it's over, it's actually OVER. Could've put a little more effort into making it seem like the 1970s though.
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Post by mgmarshall on Jan 26, 2022 1:19:23 GMT
1/10 THIS MOVIE SUCKS!
I mean wow! This is one of, if not the worst film of '21. Its a supernatural slasher religious film. Thats right I said religious film. Its about a house set reality show where the cast and crew gets killed by a entity that makes stock sound noises. Its a total mess to say the least but I hated the religious message that treats any non religious person as a immoral idiot. But at the same time the main girl is completely unlikeable. Possibly the worst female protagonist ever. Plus the film is 115 minutes and does not need to be. Also I get a kick that when the two girls look up history of the 1600s there are photoshopped pictures. Snoop Dog is here and Im sure they filmed with him for a day, maybe two at the most. Hes in 5 brief scenes. I hated this film. Stephen Baldwin should've been your tipoff...
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jan 26, 2022 2:42:22 GMT
1/10 THIS MOVIE SUCKS!
I mean wow! This is one of, if not the worst film of '21. Its a supernatural slasher religious film. Thats right I said religious film. Its about a house set reality show where the cast and crew gets killed by a entity that makes stock sound noises. Its a total mess to say the least but I hated the religious message that treats any non religious person as a immoral idiot. But at the same time the main girl is completely unlikeable. Possibly the worst female protagonist ever. Plus the film is 115 minutes and does not need to be. Also I get a kick that when the two girls look up history of the 1600s there are photoshopped pictures. Snoop Dog is here and Im sure they filmed with him for a day, maybe two at the most. Hes in 5 brief scenes. I hated this film. Stephen Baldwin should've been your tipoff... Yeah. Hes my least favorite Baldwin now.
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Post by mszanadu on Jan 26, 2022 4:57:07 GMT
For me yesterday a couple of classic sequels
which I never tire of either - creepy fun .
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Jan 26, 2022 13:49:00 GMT
For me yesterday a couple of classic sequels
which I never tire of either - creepy fun .
Great to see you back on the horror boards, mszanadu. I wish I could share your same enthusiasm form the Amityville sequels, at least part 2 and 3. However, I guess having seen part 3 (two or three times) and ended up re-purchasing it twice as well, sadly it just never quite did it for me, even thought it came with quite a solid cast. Part 2, I have not seen, since winter of 2013 (or so I believe), might look it up, some time to just check if I have missed out on a better or more enjoyable movie, than which I remembered it as. Last night I saw Head of the Family (1996) by Charles Band. I am not quite sure what to make of it. Goofy, yes, but never quite got around to enjoy it as much as one had hoped for. 5/10
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Jan 26, 2022 13:54:24 GMT
Black FridaySolid enough little George Romero/ Evil Dead throwback that actually has the good fortune of landing Bruce Campbell and Michael Jai White in its ensemble cast. As zombie movies go, it's a tad generic, but it has its high points. There are some very decent memorable practical makeup designs. Devon Sawa, the movie's actual lead, is appropriately badass, but with a distinct air of middle aged loser that lends the role some genuine heart. In a similar vein, Bruce Campbell imbues his supporting role alternately with douchiness and pathos. Michael Jai White is, as usual, intense, believably tough, and immensely likeable, but he's killed off (with an off-camera scream, Predator-style) way too early.
It's pretty fun, but if you've seen any other zombie flick, you've pretty much seen this one. Had almost forgotten about this one. However, nice to see it get some positive review for a change, as it seemed to get more negative feedback, at least a while back. Might try to look it up someday soon, as I have not seen or really wanted to watch much new horror related films, but yeah, this comes with quite an interesting cast, so hopefully it might turn out to be one of the good surprises.
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Post by teleadm on Jan 26, 2022 19:20:55 GMT
Race with the Devil 1975 directed by Jack Starrett. Two couples (Peter Fonda with Lara Parker and Warren Oates with Loretta Swit) has planned a nice R.V. road trip from Texas to Aspen, Colorado vacationing. Stopping overnight far off the beaten track the two men go for a stroll and witnesses something that looks like a bonfire, looking closer with binoculars they see a human sacrifice ritual where a girl is killed, maybe a cult of some sort. They're suddenly spotted by the cult, and have to flee for their lives, to the local police station. The police waves it off blaming hippies, but our heroes isn't satisfied with that answer and does a little asking around by themselves. This stirs up trouble as the cult members have eyes and ears seemingly everywhere, and they have to race out of the county in their R.V. or whats left of it, as they reach the next county after a long car chase. If one takes it for what it is, it was actually rather exiting, and had a creepy feeling over it as cult members seems to pop up everywhere and are apparently very well organized and spread out. Some reviewer called it a perfect Drive-In movie of the 70's. A mix of thriller, horror and car chase movies that somehow worked, at least with me.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jan 26, 2022 19:54:52 GMT
Race with the Devil 1975 directed by Jack Starrett. Two couples (Peter Fonda with Lara Parker and Warren Oates with Loretta Swit) has planned a nice R.V. road trip from Texas to Aspen, Colorado vacationing. Stopping overnight far off the beaten track the two men go for a stroll and witnesses something that looks like a bonfire, looking closer with binoculars they see a human sacrifice ritual where a girl is killed, maybe a cult of some sort. They're suddenly spotted by the cult, and have to flee for their lives, to the local police station. The police waves it off blaming hippies, but our heroes isn't satisfied with that answer and does a little asking around by themselves. This stirs up trouble as the cult members have eyes and ears seemingly everywhere, and they have to race out of the county in their R.V. or whats left of it, as they reach the next county after a long car chase. If one takes it for what it is, it was actually rather exiting, and had a creepy feeling over it as cult members seems to pop up everywhere and are apparently very well organized and spread out. Some reviewer called it a perfect Drive-In movie of the 70's. A mix of thriller, horror and car chase movies that somehow worked, at least with me. Glad you liked this 70s horror classic, I'm a big fan of it too. And yes, it really instills a creepy sense of paranoia.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 26, 2022 20:45:24 GMT
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jan 28, 2022 0:46:21 GMT
3/10Well its not good but I seen worse...this week.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jan 28, 2022 0:47:37 GMT
3/10
Very low budget zombie film is not too good but again I seen worse.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jan 28, 2022 0:50:40 GMT
2/10
I really hate to be so negative with my new viewings lately. I guess its my fault for trying a film called 5G Zombies. Its a bunch of shorts shot on cell phones involving the 5G zombie apocalypse. 1.4 on IMDB.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jan 28, 2022 0:53:14 GMT
4/10An odd mix of series horror and comedy horror. In other words a real mixed bag. Kinda forgettable home invasion flick. Not too bad though.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 28, 2022 3:48:53 GMT
This is really quite something, lemme tell ya. What that something is is not a movie, it’s closer to the manifold joys of spending the day in the DMV, but it’s something. It’s called Devil’s Island, it was released in 2021 on Prime, it was directed by people named Sean King and Taylor King. I usually hate plot synopses, but the best way for me to review it is by plot synopsis. So here goes. A girl inherits an island. She goes to the island. Then she bounces a ping-pong ball. Then she listens to music. Then she dances. Then she leaves the island. Then she goes to the grocery store. Then she buys chips and veggies. Then she meets up with someone about boat repairs. Then she returns to the island. Then she chops the vegetables she bought. Then she has a drink on the porch. Then she goes to bed. Then she hears a noise at night. Then she goes out to investigate. Then she finds nothing. Then she goes back to bed. Then she wakes up the next morning, acting like nothing happened. Then she eats breakfast. Devil’s Island! Then she takes a shower. Then she looks for cell phone reception. Devil’s Island! Then she finds a gift box. Then she goes to buy more groceries. Then she meets some young guy. Then she meets the sheriff. Then she swims. Then the young guy disappears. Then she talks to the sheriff again and wonders if the sheriff killed the young guy. Then she meets some mute lady who writes that she’s in danger and then disappears. Then she sets up mousetraps all over the island. (What, you find this repetitive and tedious? Who are you to complain, you who haven’t seen Devil’s Island?!) Then the guy who disappeared reappears and tries to kill her, for some reason unexplained to the viewer. Then she shoots him. Then it’s the next morning and the sheriff comes and tells our heroine that she’ll probably leave the island now. Then she says the island is hers. Then she buys groceries again. Then she eats breakfast again. Then the “movie” ends. Devil’s Island! By the way, this was the poster: And, yes, that poster doesn’t have anything to do with the movie—er, “movie.” Devil’s Island!
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Jan 28, 2022 11:45:54 GMT
Leprechaun (1993) by Mark Jones "I Want Me Gold, NOOOOOOOOW!!!!" A couple of days or so, too late but I quite enjoyed most of this horror/comedy which incredibly enough had 5 or 6 sequels following and in one of them, I think the little green bastard is even flying out to space in search of other miserable people he can torture and kill. Anyway, I had not seen it since 2012 and was kind of curious if it had held up as "good" as I kind of hoped for, specially after seeing the poor but somewhat still enjoyable Leprchechaun in da Hood movies not that long ago. The film have a feel to it which reminds me of some of the Critters movies, silly and goofy but decent enough as late night entertainment. Of course, it do help very much having a fine as they come 23-24 year old Jennifer Aniston in the lead and once again she portrays the spoilt rotten L.A. valley teenage girl part very well, and was only a year or so away of breaking it big with the role of Rachel Green in Friends. Here however I found it quite "hard" to believe how she almost instantly fell head over heel for some random bloke, still it is really not much to nitpick about, it is a very light hearted movie and story. The rest of the cast is an annoying kid and his mumbling "sidekick", the dad figure somehow disappears shortly after arriving and I never sensed that there was much of a great chemistry between the main gang, so there was not many to cheer for, in fact the main star and the reason to why this film works so well is down to Warwick Davis in the hilarious part as the irish "Weee" little fella who only wants his gold coins back, the Leprechaun and almost every line he utters is actually not that far off being comedy "gold". While not a great film, I was still entertained and my interest of seeing a few of the other in the series just grew a little, so hopefully I might get to do so in the near future. It is not far off films such as Ghoulies, Troll 1 and 2 and I also had fond memories of another Mark Jones horror comedy which also starred another nasty little wee fella with the name of Rumpelstiltskin that came out a few years later, but have not seen it for some time and maybe I will do something about it sooner or later as I remember it to be quite a ride. 5,5/10 Well, I knew I had seen it not that long ago, but yeah, my feelings is not much changed, and I still somehow hoped it would burst up to a 6/10, but maybe a bit too "silly" and goofy at times, where I thought it could have or should have gone a bit darker, also noticed that my DVD (scandinavia 2012 version), felt a bit badly edited, in some parts. Sudden "jumps", like something was just left off, but no plans of re-watching my region 1 copy, just to find out if I missed a few seconds, here and there. Anyway, Jennifer looked damn good in those short, shorts, and Warwick Davis nailed the part from the very first go, as the Leprechaun, and while maybe not as wisecracking as in the later films, he still manages to bring the goods and make a rather mediocre film, turn almost into a good bad movie. All in all, no changes in how I rated it, this time either. A fun watch, if you are in the right mood for that kind of entertainment, but I still stand by that the 3rd film, is the one I think of as the best or most enjoyable in the original film franchise.
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