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Post by moviebuffbrad on Aug 30, 2017 13:06:27 GMT
I watched Willow Creek because I couldn't believe Bobcat Goldthwait made a found footage horror movie. Even though it was almost a complete remake of Blair Witch Project, I enjoyed it. The drawn out tent sequence is really well done.
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Post by mszanadu on Sept 5, 2017 15:25:27 GMT
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Post by schizkebab on Sept 6, 2017 12:35:57 GMT
I think I have that same DVD. I'm not sure if I've even watched the 2nd film yet, but the first one is pretty neat. It's sort of a two-fold film... it starts off as a creepy thriller and then turns into a bit of a cat & mouse chase. I need to go back and rewatch sometime.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2017 15:01:39 GMT
"It Came from Beneath the Sea" (1955)
Pretty good sci-fi thriller that delivers a decent amount of action. Kenneth Tobey is once again a solid genre hero, but the real star is Ray Harryhausen, whose effects are impressive as usual. The film wastes a little too much time with its romantic triangle subplot, but that enormous radioactive octopus is a formidable antagonist. (Unfortunately, the limited budget forced Harryhausen to give the octopus six tentacles instead of eight. But the filmmakers do an okay job of hiding this fact.)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2017 15:03:09 GMT
Some people don't care for the elongated middle section of When a Stranger Calls (when we follow the day to day life of the killer and see how pathetic he really is), but I've never had a problem with it.
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Post by mszanadu on Sept 6, 2017 17:43:48 GMT
Some people don't care for the elongated middle section of When a Stranger Calls (when we follow the day to day life of the killer and see how pathetic he really is), but I've never had a problem with it.
I totally agree with you here heysweden and a very spot-on description of this here too BTW . I also thought it gave this intriguing film a unique extra insight to this storyline as well ( which was originally made from a short story as is ? ) . IMPO - The made for cable sequel is also just as good and unique as this first intriguing film too ( it's a partial stand alone but definitely still works ) . Thanks so much heysweden for your reply .
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Post by mszanadu on Sept 6, 2017 17:56:17 GMT
I think I have that same DVD. I'm not sure if I've even watched the 2nd film yet, but the first one is pretty neat. It's sort of a two-fold film... it starts off as a creepy thriller and then turns into a bit of a cat & mouse chase. I need to go back and rewatch sometime. I so agree schizkebab . If you really liked the first film as much as I did you will definitely like it's sequel and I do highly recommend it too . IMPO - That's why I watched both back to back it just seems to make the overall main storyline so perfectly complete as well . I know I will be watching both of these again this October also . Thanks so much schizkebab for your reply .
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Sept 7, 2017 15:54:15 GMT
Trespass (2011) Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman stars here as a rich couple who gets their privacy invaded by a bunch of evil trespassers. Directed by Joel Schumacher, this film was to be a complete mess. Loud, annoying and with a very dumb plot/story/characters and I felt nothing at all for any of the main characters, as they were not likeable in any way, and this kind of film has been done so many times over before, nothing new to see here, move on. It remind me of a similar film from (I think) the late 80s or early 90s, where Anthony Hopkins is a rich older guy, married to a younger wife (Mimi Rogers, or someone who looked like her), suddenly Mickey Rourke and a bunch of redneck burglars stop on by, and well, it was not a good movie, but very similar to this badly acted and directed hostage/thriller. I wonder if Schumacher made this piece of turd only to try and make people forget that he was the guy behind Batman & Robin (1997), which of course is not even close of being one of the "worst movies of all time". If you are looking for bad, real bad, then Schumacher has made far worse films than his Batman duo, and that surely deserve that kind of treatment his last Bat flick got.
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Post by XcalatΓ« on Sept 7, 2017 16:20:00 GMT
It (2017) much much better than i expected, really good film overall.
the kid actors did a great job specially Jaeden Lieberher as Bill and Sophia Lillis as Beverly, Bill SkarsgΓ₯rd was creepy AF as Pennywise but I feel like he could have a couple more lines/scenes.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Sept 9, 2017 8:47:11 GMT
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) As a kid I used to love these old german fairy tales, and specially the ones that included these terrifying and scary looking pictures and where the ones with the witch was gruesome to look at, and where the kids was not sweet/cute looking but the completely opposite. Anyway, the combination of horror, action and comedy/adventure is nothing new, but when it is done the proper/right way, it can be fantastic entertainment, however when it does not work, it would often end up turning a once "promising" project into a very, very bad final result, and sadly Hansel & Gretel is another one of those terrible "accidents" where someone thought it was a "brilliant" idea to update an old and beloved folklore along with a ridiculous plot, paperthin characters and then drown the viewer with one unfunny and lousy delivered scene/joke after another, always filled with a vulgar/cheap and sloppy use of gore and blood, crappy CGI effects and wasting the talents of Famke Janssen and Peter Stormare.
The heroic duo that is supposedly Hansel and Gretel are played by Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton, who is horribly miscast here, as they have zero personality and are two of douchiest and most unlikeable heroes that I have seen in a movie, for a long time. Renner seems to just have one facial expression throughout the entire film, and which is more or less the look of amazement/surprise: "Wow, I am a movie star, how the hell did that happen?" and while Gemma is fine, (no question about that), still she offers the same personality that of a brickwall as Gretel and I ended up rooting for the bad guys to win, even before the film really had started off, after the crappy introduction. Famke Janssen is stunning as usual, but here she is let down by a bunch of lousy special effetcs/makeup and has very little to work with and never comes off as any scary/menacing as the main villain, and as I mentioned earlier, she is sadly wasted here. The same thing can be said about Stormare, who plays yet again a "villainous" more goofy/silly bad guy, but poses absolute no threat as we get to watch little Gretel beat the shit out of him, several times over. And when he finally gets to be bad, it is all over.
The film seem to be heavily influenced by Van Helsing (2004) and The Brothers Grimm (2005), both visually, and story wise (which is not something to be proud of) as they were also very bad movies as I remember. Anyway, the only good thing I can say about it, was that the film was over before it really started but if it had lasted for another 10-15 minutes of time, I would have to give it a even worse rating, and so I end up with a:
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Post by mszanadu on Sept 11, 2017 16:37:58 GMT
I finally got to watch this movie last night on the STARZ Channel . Also this film was even better and more crazy than I expected with this intriguing storyline as well . Shut In (2016 film)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2017 17:17:56 GMT
"Dragonslayer" (1981)
I'm including it since it does contain elements of horror and thriller, although officially it would be classified as fantasy. A dark, intense, and highly enjoyable feature from the years when Disney (in cooperation with Paramount, here) was producing mature genre fare. Great location shooting, a majestic score by Alex North, a very fine cast of mostly British actors, and one of the most formidable dragons committed to film make it fun. Obviously, it will be too grim and graphic for the youngest of viewers.
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Post by forca84 on Sept 12, 2017 0:15:28 GMT
"The Void"
In the vein of H.P. Lovecraft and Carpenter's "Prince of darkness". Citizens are stuck in a Hospital. They are besieged by mysterious cloaked figures. Fairly gory and suspenseful. Pretty good for a Crowdfunder project.
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Post by mszanadu on Sept 12, 2017 1:14:52 GMT
"The Void" In the vein of H.P. Lovecraft and Carpenter's "Prince of darkness". Citizens are stuck in a Hospital. They are besieged by mysterious cloaked figures. Fairly gory and suspenseful. Pretty good for a Crowdfunder project. Is this the movie you watched recently forca84 ? The Void (2016 film) If so this really looks like a good one here . Thanks forca84 for this movie recommendation .
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Sept 13, 2017 10:45:27 GMT
Slither (2006) I had seen this one a few years back, but forgot about the title. Anway, I remember it as a positive surprise and one which seemed like a very good tribute to many of the 80s sci-fi/horror/teen flicks, such as The Blob (1988), The Deadly Spawn (1983), Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988), Night of the Creeps (1986) and that came with fantastic special effects which seemed very inspired by John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) and Stuart Gordon's From Beyond (1986), but also with a dose of David Cronenberg's 70s and 80s body-horror titles. Slither is not just a fun nostalgic/tribute horror-sci movie, but a really well done/acted film, with likeable characters, great locations and one of the coolest looking monsters/creatures (played fantastic by Michael Rooker) that I have seen for a very long time. Nathan Fillion does a solid job as a bit naive small town sheriff who along with a group of survivors must find a way to outsmart a seemingly unstoppable killing machine. James Gunn once again delivers a heavily nostalgic 80s piece and I hope he will come back to the horror genre sometime in the near future. I liked the Troma references thrown in by Gunn as we get to see a pregnant mom and her little kid enjoying a bit of The Toxic Avenger on TV, the other one is where Lloyd Kaufman shows up at the police station. Michael Rooker steals the show here and it is great that James Gunn keep using him in his movies, and that he has gotten parts in both of the Guardians of Galaxy films. Slither is good/fun sci-fi horror and one that lies somwhere around 6,5/10 and 7/10, and it turned out that I did not need to change my old IMDb rating, which is a:
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2017 21:26:18 GMT
Slither (2006)I had seen this one a few years back, but forgot about the title. Anway, I remember it as a positive surprise and one which seemed like a very good tribute to many of the 80s sci-fi/horror/teen flicks, such as The Blob (1988), The Deadly Spawn (1983), Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988), Night of the Creeps (1986) and that came with fantastic special effects which seemed very inspired by John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) and Stuart Gordon's From Beyond (1986), but also with a dose of David Cronenberg's 70s and 80s body-horror titles. Slither is not just a fun nostalgic/tribute horror-sci movie, but a really well done/acted film, with likeable characters, great locations and one of the coolest looking monsters/creatures (played fantastic by Michael Rooker) that I have seen for a very long time. Nathan Fillion does a solid job as a bit naive small town sheriff who along with a group of survivors must find a way to outsmart a seemingly unstoppable killing machine. James Gunn once again delivers a heavily nostalgic 80s piece and I hope he will come back to the horror genre sometime in the near future. I liked the Troma references thrown in by Gunn as we get to see a pregnant mom and her little kid enjoying a bit of The Toxic Avenger on TV, the other one is where Lloyd Kaufman shows up at the police station. Michael Rooker steals the show here and it is great that James Gunn keep using him in his movies, and that he has gotten parts in both of the Guardians of Galaxy films. Slither is good/fun sci-fi horror and one that lies somwhere around 6,5/10 and 7/10, and it turned out that I did not need to change my old IMDb rating, which is a: 7/10
That's a fun one. I got the Scream Factory release myself.
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Post by mszanadu on Sept 19, 2017 1:09:09 GMT
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Sept 19, 2017 9:19:44 GMT
I only have seen the 2003 remake of Willard, but thought it was decent and at times good, the original however I have not seen. Sounds like you're about to embark upon a great horror movie night, mszanadu I wish my TV-channels would for once in a while end up showing more older horror movies, instead of those only made after 2000 and onwards and then the endless supply of reruns of reruns of reruns of CSI spin-offs that goes on all the time.
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Post by Lebowskidoo π¦ on Sept 19, 2017 10:31:34 GMT
I guess I've been hoarding all the real horror movies for October, it's been awhile actually. I did see Night Train last week, it kinda ends up like a horror movie, and I saw Pan's Labyrinth finally, neither one is really "horror." Does Death Note or Little Evil count? I had a Netflix day recently. According to my Letterboxd diary, the last real horror movies I saw were in late August, saw The Bye Bye Man and rewatched Jaws 3D on a Saturday and rewatched all of Stephen King's It (the TV movie) on a Sunday.
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Post by mszanadu on Sept 19, 2017 17:37:39 GMT
I only have seen the 2003 remake of Willard, but thought it was decent and at times good, the original however I have not seen. Sounds like you're about to embark upon a great horror movie night, mszanadu I wish my TV-channels would for once in a while end up showing more older horror movies, instead of those only made after 2000 and onwards and then the endless supply of reruns of reruns of reruns of CSI spin-offs that goes on all the time. I agree stefancrosscoe the film Willard (2003) with lead actor Crispin Glover is really good and it has a much darker vibe than the original 1971 version . IMPO - However I would not pass up watching the original either like the remake the storyline and character development is solid as well . It was my very first time checking out the original and as a well done classic goes I was impressed with it . As for the other late night double horror feature - late last night the " Friday 13th Part 2 " film I have seen recently and it's always welcomed by me to watch again ( also have this one on DVD ) . The second feature " The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 " . I actually have not seen this one since the early 1990's on a video rental and not remembering much about it either . Of course watching this one again last night after all these years it felt like a brand new to me film . It was quite different from the first Texas Chain Saw Massacre from 1974 it took place 10 years later , the main character was a radio DJ , but the recurring family cast was back and crazier than ever . Also the family no longer lived in the creepy old little house but in an old abandoned amusement park ( I guess they needed more space ? ) . IMPO - As sequels go for me I usually welcome & encourage them because I can always appreciate " the whole continuing storyline thing " . So I do recommend if you get a chance to on a rental etc. - definitely check this one out ( it is crazy and gory - but if you're like me and appreciate a good & unique storyline - I say go for it ! ) . Thanks so much stefancrosscoe for your reply .
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