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Post by soggy on Sept 24, 2024 2:55:53 GMT
This is more mystery than horror despite what the poster may make one think (though elements of horror, such as women having their faces removed, certainly remain). The film follows Poe's Dupin character solving another mystery post-Rue Morgue. I found it a surprisingly entertaining take which fortunately changes quite a bit from the original due to it being a fairly dull story (this is coming from someone who majored in English and loves Poe... trust me, a faithful adaptation would only interest English scholars and insomniacs). The highlight of the film for me was easily Lloyd Corrigan as Inspector Gobelin who manages to actually play a legit funny comic relief character who doesn't feel completely out of place. 7/10
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Post by theravenking on Sept 25, 2024 8:54:48 GMT
Long Weekend (1978; Colin Eggleston)-“What you been doing to the tree?” - “Chopping it down.” -“Why?” - “Why not?”I had seen the remake with Jim Caviezel, and as it turns out it’s almost a carbon copy of the original. A couple goes camping in the Australian wilderness and has to experience, that mother nature can be a bit of a bitch. Since I already found the remake rather dull, there wasn’t much to get excited about in this original take on the story either. The acting is convincing, but the characters are not only unlikeable but also uninteresting. It is never explained why the husband, a city-dweller, first shown in the opening driving a nice convertible, would be so determined to spend his holiday in the wild. Is he trying to compensate for something? Or is it just what people tend to do: looking for something seemingly innocent they can destroy. There are no scares to speak of up until the end, and there should’ve been a stronger emphasis on atmosphere and subtle psychological horror. I might’ve liked it better had the protagonists been some naïve new age types expecting to bond with nature, just to find out that nature has no interest in bonding with them, instead wanting to destroy them. This would’ve given the thing some nice sense of dramatic irony. But as it is, it’s entirely devoid of humour and just not very entertaining to watch. 5/10
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Sept 25, 2024 15:32:50 GMT
"Summer of Fear" 1978
"Wes Craven's New Nightmare" 1994
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Sept 27, 2024 5:04:18 GMT
Scream 5 (aka Scream) - 5/10 By far my least favorite of the series. I didnt like how Dewey, Gale and Sydney had much less screen time. I didnt really care or like about the new characters that much. I dont hate it but I was very much disappointed by it.
Scream 6 - 8/10 OK this is much better. A scarier, bloodier and much more fun film. Plus I liked the surviving characters from part 5 much more this time around.
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Post by forca85 on Sept 27, 2024 22:56:58 GMT
The "Carrie" movies. And "The Rage: Carrie 2". That 1998 movie... No way they'd let the Bullies use weapons against Carrie now. Along with the School Sports sex scandal plot made it feel ahead of it's time.
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Post by soggy on Sept 28, 2024 2:05:42 GMT
A Record of Sweet Murder (Kôji Shiraishi, 2014) “Let’s go watch a movie together. A movie with a happy ending.” In Korea, a man calls up his former childhood friend who is now a reporter and tells her he wants to talk to her and for her to bring a Japanese cameraman. He’ll explain later. Now this may sound like an odd request, but it’s odder given the reporter knows he broke out of a mental institute. He’s not insane though, of course not! He’s only murdered 25 people and needs the camera/reporter to show that when he kills his next victims, God will grant a miracle, bringing back another childhood friend of theirs to life! He only needs two more victims... but don’t worry, it’s not his old friend and the camera man, God has sent them to a specific location where they will witness the “power of love” and there the last two sacrifices will be complete. This is a phenomenal found footage movie that manages to be brutal, heartbreaking, confounding and more than a touch of genius. It’s edited very well to make it look all like one continues shot (keen viewers may notice some of the cuts, but I’m sure I couldn’t find them all). It’s the sort of movie I wish I would have known about longer, as I sure as hell would have put this on movie night rotation with friends just to watch reactions. Highly recommended to all Asian horror fans. 9/10
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Post by Captain Spencer on Sept 28, 2024 4:51:24 GMT
Squirm (1976)Various species of worms attack a small Georgia town after they are forced above ground by power lines knocked down during a severe thunder storm. A fitting entry in the "nature versus man" subgenre of horror during the 70s. Often slow at times, but the payoff is worth it. With his directorial debut, Jeff Lieberman makes the most out of a very limited budget. The combination of using real worms with rubber ones comes of as mostly convincing, although a large amount of the fake worms sometimes looks like a huge pile of red spaghetti. But for the most part it works, and there some truly icky shock scenes. I especially like the occasional close-up of the worms displaying fang-like teeth and doing that unsettling screaming. 7/10
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Sept 28, 2024 17:21:03 GMT
The Price We Pay (2022) looks like your average action thriller, just look at the poster. Once it gets rolling, it morphs into a bonafide horror movie.
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Post by Reynard on Sept 29, 2024 0:26:21 GMT
A Record of Sweet Murder (Kôji Shiraishi, 2014) “Let’s go watch a movie together. A movie with a happy ending.” In Korea, a man calls up his former childhood friend who is now a reporter and tells her he wants to talk to her and for her to bring a Japanese cameraman. He’ll explain later. Now this may sound like an odd request, but it’s odder given the reporter knows he broke out of a mental institute. He’s not insane though, of course not! He’s only murdered 25 people and needs the camera/reporter to show that when he kills his next victims, God will grant a miracle, bringing back another childhood friend of theirs to life! He only needs two more victims... but don’t worry, it’s not his old friend and the camera man, God has sent them to a specific location where they will witness the “power of love” and there the last two sacrifices will be complete. This is a phenomenal found footage movie that manages to be brutal, heartbreaking, confounding and more than a touch of genius. It’s edited very well to make it look all like one continues shot (keen viewers may notice some of the cuts, but I’m sure I couldn’t find them all). It’s the sort of movie I wish I would have known about longer, as I sure as hell would have put this on movie night rotation with friends just to watch reactions. Highly recommended to all Asian horror fans. 9/10 Have you seen more from Shiraishi? This guy has directed a ton of stuff, much of it found footage, but nearly all of them are hard to get as legit releases, or have never been released with English subs at all. His three found footage horrors that I've seen (Noroi, Cult, Occult) would all be in my found footage top 10, or maybe in top 5 even.
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