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Post by soggy on Oct 20, 2023 23:45:54 GMT
Just watched Burke & Hare, directed by John Landis. Amazing cast (Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Tim Curry, etc) but holy fuck was it dull. This sums up my thoughts on it. I was so excited when it first came out based on the cast... majorly disappointing. |
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Oct 21, 2023 0:22:08 GMT
65 films watched so far. Having fun but damn Im getting a lot of awful ones this year. I need to revisit some favorites to balence it out. Best 5 so far: 5. The Exorcist (1973) 4. 31 (2016) 3. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) 2. The Devils Rejects (2005) 1. House of 1000 Corpses (2003) Worst 5 so far: 5. Lucker (1986) 4. Blood Claws (2016) 3. Project October (2012) 2. Psycho Ranger (2010) 1. Paranormal Sex Tape (2016) That movie title alone has me interested. Very little happens sadly. Just some walking around and lying on a bed. |
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Post by moviemouth on Oct 21, 2023 3:37:04 GMT
Becky (2020)
She does not have a sociable personality. Becky is a teenage girl who lost her mother the previous year and sees her father murdered in front of her by a Neo Nazi (Kevin James, playing against type) and takes it upon herself to kill him and his crew of white supremacists. The movie is sort of like a more horror-esque Die Hard with a teenage girl in the John McClane role. The 2023 sequel The Wrath of Becky is even better, which I watched first not knowing it was a sequel. At this point she should be referred to as Becky, the slaughterer of white supremacists. Neither movie is great by any stretch of the imagination, but both are entertaining for what they are. Becky herself is the reason to watch these movies. For me she is already a B-movie icon. 
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Post by forca85 on Oct 21, 2023 4:20:08 GMT
RV: An American Haunting
RV: Beg
RV: 30 days of night: Dark Days.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Oct 21, 2023 6:36:33 GMT
Some killer practical effects in Nightbreed and then a disappointing shift to CGI in Lord of Illusions. Liked both overall, though. With that, completed Clive Barker.
No pun intended, but Brad Dourif was on fire in Spontaneous Combustion. One of his best. Got two more Tobe Hooper movies before I finish his filmography. Two also for George A Romero, five for Dario Argento, and one for John Landis (just in the horror category). Haven't made any progress with Wes Craven, though.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Oct 21, 2023 6:39:25 GMT
Becky (2020)
She does not have a sociable personality. Becky is teenage girl who lost her mother the previous year and sees her father murdered in front of her by a Neo Nazi (Kevin James, playing against type) and takes it upon herself to kill him and his crew of white supremacists. The movie is sort of like a more horror-esque Die Hard with a teenage girl in the John McClane role. The 2023 sequel The Wrath of Becky is even better, which I watched first not knowing it was a sequel. At this point she should be referred to as Becky, the slaughterer of white supremacists. Neither movie is great by any stretch of the imagination, but both are entertaining for what they are. Becky herself is the reason to watch these movies. For me she is already a B-movie icon. I remember it was pretty memed and compared negatively to Adam Sandler doing a dramatic role in Uncut Gems, but I've always been curious about watching Kevin James in the role of a serious bad guy. |
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Post by jcush on Oct 21, 2023 6:43:47 GMT
Some killer practical effects in Nightbreed and then a disappointing shift to CGI in Lord of Illusions. Liked both overall, though. With that, completed Clive Barker. No pun intended, but Brad Dourif was on fire in Spontaneous Combustion. One of his best. Got two more Tobe Hooper movies before I finish his filmography. Two also for George A Romero, five for Dario Argento, and one for John Landis (just in the horror category). Haven't made any progress with Wes Craven, though. I watched Nightbreed a few years ago and Lord of Illusions just a couple weeks ago. I thought both were pretty good overall. It's definitely due for a rewatch, but as of now, Clive Barker's most popular movie if my least favorite of the 3. |
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Post by jcush on Oct 21, 2023 6:46:45 GMT
Becky (2020)
She does not have a sociable personality. Becky is teenage girl who lost her mother the previous year and sees her father murdered in front of her by a Neo Nazi (Kevin James, playing against type) and takes it upon herself to kill him and his crew of white supremacists. The movie is sort of like a more horror-esque Die Hard with a teenage girl in the John McClane role. The 2023 sequel The Wrath of Becky is even better, which I watched first not knowing it was a sequel. At this point she should be referred to as Becky, the slaughterer of white supremacists. Neither movie is great by any stretch of the imagination, but both are entertaining for what they are. Becky herself is the reason to watch these movies. For me she is already a B-movie icon. I remember it was pretty memed and compared negatively to Adam Sandler doing a dramatic role in Uncut Gems, but I've always been curious about watching Kevin James in the role of a serious bad guy. I watched Becky and Wrath of Becky last week. I thought Kevin James was pretty effective actually. I didn't even realize it was him at first. The Stifmeister plays the main villain in the second one and he was good too. |
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Post by moviemouth on Oct 21, 2023 7:08:15 GMT
Becky (2020)
She does not have a sociable personality. Becky is teenage girl who lost her mother the previous year and sees her father murdered in front of her by a Neo Nazi (Kevin James, playing against type) and takes it upon herself to kill him and his crew of white supremacists. The movie is sort of like a more horror-esque Die Hard with a teenage girl in the John McClane role. The 2023 sequel The Wrath of Becky is even better, which I watched first not knowing it was a sequel. At this point she should be referred to as Becky, the slaughterer of white supremacists. Neither movie is great by any stretch of the imagination, but both are entertaining for what they are. Becky herself is the reason to watch these movies. For me she is already a B-movie icon. I remember it was pretty memed and compared negatively to Adam Sandler doing a dramatic role in Uncut Gems, but I've always been curious about watching Kevin James in the role of a serious bad guy. I didn't even know Becky (2020) existed until a month ago. Kevin James is decent in the movie, so I don't really know why he was being compared negatively to Sandler in Uncut Gems. Maybe because he has a reputation for being a complete asshole in real life. Seann William Scott is the main villain in the sequel and he is quite a bit better than Kevin James in the first movie. |
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Post by moviemouth on Oct 21, 2023 7:35:15 GMT
Saw X (2023)The second best of the franchise, but I still have major issues with it. The story is a bit more interesting than most of the other Saw movies and making John Kramer the main character was cool to see, but it is still quite redundant. All the same twisted self-righteousness of John Kramer, the same moral questions and of course you still are required to sit through a bunch of grotesque torture to the point where it personally made me sick, bored and have thoughts of moral nihilism. Which I suppose is some kind of achievement if that is what the director was going for during those scenes, but I doubt it. Also, maybe it has been too long since I have seen the other movies, but the stuff the people are able to do here without passing out is even more ridiculous than the stuff that happens throughout the rest of the franchise.
After all that it does have one of the best final 20 minutes of the franchise though which left me with a lot of different emotions and thoughts and caused me to think about my own behavior in a way none of the other movies in the franchise managed to do. The very ending almost made me question the ethics of the writers of this movie to the point where I wonder if they are full on supporters of some of the backwards moral ideas in the Bible, having John, Amanda and a little boy walk out into a Heavenly sunset together. At the same time I almost admire that the movie went there. If you are a fan of at least half of the other movies in the franchise (which I am not) you will probably love Saw X. I have mixed feelings about the movie, but it is certainly memorable.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Oct 21, 2023 11:19:24 GMT
I remember it was pretty memed and compared negatively to Adam Sandler doing a dramatic role in Uncut Gems, but I've always been curious about watching Kevin James in the role of a serious bad guy. I watched Becky and Wrath of Becky last week. I thought Kevin James was pretty effective actually. I didn't even realize it was him at first. The Stifmeister plays the main villain in the second one and he was good too.  I'm sold on these flicks. |
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Post by masterofallgoons on Oct 21, 2023 13:08:46 GMT
I remember it was pretty memed and compared negatively to Adam Sandler doing a dramatic role in Uncut Gems, but I've always been curious about watching Kevin James in the role of a serious bad guy. I watched Becky and Wrath of Becky last week. I thought Kevin James was pretty effective actually. I didn't even realize it was him at first. The Stifmeister plays the main villain in the second one and he was good too. I thought Becky was fine and nothing more, and I hear this one is pretty much just the same thing. Worth letting it stream while I don't pay close attention to it one day. |
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Post by soggy on Oct 21, 2023 14:53:22 GMT
 The Deadly Camp (Bowie Lau, 1999) I know what this movie wants to be. It wants to be a Hong Kong Texas Chainsaw Massacre. What it is though is a truly horrible slasher movie that’s only notable aspect is being made in Hong Kong rather than America. Poorly edited, poorly shot, no suspense, terrible decisions and just all around a bad movie, and not even in a fun way. Fun note: it was so bad I actually almost fell asleep during it. In fact at one point, I rewound the movie because I thought I did because the scene made no sense and I thought I must have have fallen asleep for a few seconds and missed something. Nope, it was just such a poorly edited scene that the reactions didn't make sense. 1/10 And sadly with this terrible film, I've completed the challenge. 31 first time views. Will I continue? Of course! Hopefully my next watched will be better though.  |
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Post by theravenking on Oct 21, 2023 15:05:02 GMT
 Mute Witness (1994; Anthony Waller) I've been meaning to watch Mute Witness for what seems like an eternity. Now that I have, I can't help feeling a bit disappointed. There are some strong elements here, but also some stuff that doesn't work that well. The decision to turn the movie from a contained chase thriller in the first half into a spy comedy for the latter part was certainly a weird one. Like so many first-time directors Anthony Waller's debut feature lacks discipline, wanting to be too many things at once. Well, at least it's never boring, and while it didn't quite deliver the blood-curdling horror I expected, I feel that this is a film that might improve on repeat viewings. 6.5/10 |
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Post by theravenking on Oct 21, 2023 15:35:32 GMT
Lady in White (1988; Frank LaLoggia) So, I watched this too, (it was among a number of DVDs I had bought earlier this year), and let's just say I disagree with Variety's review who called it a superb supernatural horror film. Pauline Kael seems to have been charmed by it too. Well, I wasn't. Call me an old curmudgeon, but I found the whole thing rather annoying and lame. Lukas Haas' performance was also a bit one-dimensional. I know, not everybody can be Jean-Pierre Léaud or Christian Bale, but his turn lacked the type of (emotional) intelligence that would characterise a decent young thespian. The director tries to cram so many genres into his film: family drama, ghost story, comedy, sordid abuse tragedy, - even themes like racism and the source of literary inspiration are brought up, - that it ends up being an uneven hodgepodge of disparate parts. The somewhat similar Paper House had at least a more concise plot and better handmade effects, while this one relies too much on dated CGI. A weird curio which did very little for me. 4/10 |
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Post by Shane Falco on Oct 21, 2023 20:02:32 GMT
That movie title alone has me interested. Very little happens sadly. Just some walking around and lying on a bed. Boo. Was hoping for some Macgruber style sex with a ghost stuff. |
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Post by soggy on Oct 21, 2023 20:20:14 GMT
 Supernatural (Victor Halperin, 1933) This movie is so much fun. In this seemingly forgotten pre-code classic, a woman gets possessed by the ghost of a murderess to kill the ex-boyfriend of said murderess who turned her in. The boy friend is a fake spiritualist who is trying to get to the woman for her fortune using her dead brother (sound a bit convoluted yet? You have no idea!) and turns out he’s also a murderer! My favorite scene is when the woman invites him to her old apartment (well, old apartment when she was alive), and when the man asks how she knew about this particular place, she says "Oh, a friend of mine lived here" and then pulls a sheet down from a standing frame to reveal that former murderess kept a massive, lavish, and indulgent full-size painting of herself in her studio apartment. It’s such a delightfully 30s horror reveal and I’m so there for it. I actually significantly prefer this to the director’s much better known horror film White Zombie by far. 8/10 |
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Post by Captain Spencer on Oct 21, 2023 20:35:25 GMT
Lady in White (1988; Frank LaLoggia) So, I watched this too, (it was among a number of DVDs I had bought earlier this year), and let's just say I disagree with Variety's review who called it a superb supernatural horror film. Pauline Kael seems to have been charmed by it too. Well, I wasn't. Call me an old curmudgeon, but I found the whole thing rather annoying and lame. Lukas Haas' performance was also a bit one-dimensional. I know, not everybody can be Jean-Pierre Léaud or Christian Bale, but his turn lacked the type of (emotional) intelligence that would characterise a decent young thespian. The director tries to cram so many genres into his film: family drama, ghost story, comedy, sordid abuse tragedy, - even themes like racism and the source of literary inspiration are brought up, - that it ends up being an uneven hodgepodge of disparate parts. The somewhat similar Paper House had at least a more concise plot and better handmade effects, while this one relies too much on dated CGI. A weird curio which did very little for me. 4/10 I thought Paperhouse was a far better movie than this mumbo jumbo. |
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Post by soggy on Oct 21, 2023 22:03:08 GMT
Erotic Nightmare (Wai-Man Cheng, 1999)
Hong Kong Cat III film about a man who buys erotic dreams from a salesman while his wife is ill. The dreams turn deadly in real life as he ends up killing people while in them. It’s stupid Cat III fun if you like these sorts of things, which frankly I find them hilarious. That said, I certainly would not suggest it for everyone. 6/10
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Oct 21, 2023 23:21:33 GMT
Very little happens sadly. Just some walking around and lying on a bed. Boo. Was hoping for some Macgruber style sex with a ghost stuff. None of that Im afraid. Missed opportunity. |
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