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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 6, 2023 17:01:47 GMT
 Ouija (Stiles White, 2014) Wow... this movie truly is terrifying. Terrifying in that it embodies everything I feel is wrong with major studios horror anymore. It’s literally a checklist of everything I hate. Does it equate scares with only being jump scares and loud noises? Yes. Are the characters so bland that you can’t like them but also don’t feel strongly enough to hate them either? Yep. Does it use CGI for every “scary” moment? Of course it does! Let’s add that it’s also flat out boring. This is seriously a movie that I just watched and I know a week from now I won’t be able to tell you much about it because there’s just nothing of note in it. This is everything I don’t want in a horror movie. 1/10 There needs to be a horror equivalent of the Dogme 95 film movement. That would be interesting--where they try to replicate retro style in a horror film. One of the problems with big budget horror film (except the Shining doesn't have it) is that you always feel you are in a studio with a lot of crew around.
The 1999 House on Haunted Hill really gave that impression. You never feel like it is a real house. And I think the "inkblot ghost" at the end could have been really creepy if it was done practically instead of using standard After Effects cgi.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Oct 6, 2023 18:19:18 GMT
I went to an arts festival in a local park the other day and the local community theater is performing Toxic Avenger: The Musical! this month. I guess it's stranger to have made a Saturday morning cartoon, but that's pretty weird too. Apparently it ran for a while off-Broadway around the same time that Evil Dead The Musical was a minor success off-broadway. Guess I'm not surprised by that either. Not gonna lie, it does sound like something interesting to witness and I'm not even a broadway guy. I have a love/hate relationship with Broadway, but when disparate interests of mine come together I kinda have to at least try to embrace it (if I cam get tickets and make the time I have to go see this new Broadway production of Sweeney Todd). I've spoken about my fondness of the Evil Dead Musical before and I imagine this has got to be similar, in tone at lesst. And while the nearby community theater version is probably not the best way to see it, I may try to go back just for the curiosity. But I did see that a semi-professionally filmed version is available, in full, on youtube. |
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Oct 6, 2023 21:27:00 GMT
Little Evil…quite entertaining. The comedy style reminded me a lot of Tucker and Dale va Evil. It’s essentially a dark comedic parody of The Omen. It’s got laughs, gore, a pale little boy who was born of a cultish ritual and has a sock puppet that sounds an awful lot like Satan. Pretty much has everything. I liked the stepdad club, especially the lesbian, she was great. Also Evangeline Lilly as the mom was hot. Netflix movie. Apparently I watched this for one of the OHCs and have zero recollection of having seen it. Same thing with Four Flies on a Grey Velvet, which I was literally about to boot up befiore seeing I already saw it. |
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Oct 6, 2023 21:34:52 GMT
I'm so glad I watched The Swarm. One of the funniest fucking movies I've ever seen. The ghost bee hallucinations, the way they keep referring to the bees as "Africans", screen legend Olivia Havilland's embarrassing final performance. It's amazing. "Bees! Bees! Millions of bees!" I understand why you would find it funny, but I just thought it was really dumb. I don't recall actually laughing out loud at anything about it, but I maybe I am just not remembering. It has been a while since I watched it. You seem to have found it ironically entertaining, whereas I was just bored (and embarrassed for the actors) for the most part. Yeah, I watched it with my brother and it was a laugh riot. I can definitely understand feeling embarassed for Olivia, what a performance to go out on. Watching another My Cocaine movie, Oliver Stone's The Hand. Was not expecting it to turn into a Final Destination movie in the first 10 minutes. Jesus Christ. |
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Post by moviemouth on Oct 6, 2023 21:37:59 GMT
I understand why you would find it funny, but I just thought it was really dumb. I don't recall actually laughing out loud at anything about it, but I maybe I am just not remembering. It has been a while since I watched it. You seem to have found it ironically entertaining, whereas I was just bored (and embarrassed for the actors) for the most part. Yeah, I watched it with my brother and it was a laugh riot. I can definitely understand feeling embarassed for Olivia, what a performance to go out on. Watching another My Cocaine movie, Oliver Stone's The Hand. Was not expecting it to turn into a Final Destination movie in the first 10 minutes. Jesus Christ.I don't care for the ending. Maybe I needed to be watching The Swarm with another person. |
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Post by Captain Spencer on Oct 6, 2023 22:14:16 GMT
The Boogeyman (2023)
A stranger barges into a therapist's office and insists he talks about the murders of his children, implying they were killed by a monster of some kind. After the man is found dead, the therapist's daughters begin to be terrorized by a malevolent creature.
The thought of a feature-length adaptation of a bizarre Stephen King short story was rather exciting, and there was certainly a lot of hype surrounding it when first released. The Boogeyman does start off well, but, alas, it degenerates into a generic millennial horror movie with the usual amount of flashy jump scares and a not-so-scary CGI monster. The undercooked story doesn't help either.
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Post by moviemouth on Oct 6, 2023 22:18:00 GMT
I could list many words that can describe this movie. Trash, subversive, amateur, lazy, disgusting, boring and even pretentious. As much as I disliked Pink Flamingos it was at least amusing and even darkly comedic during certain scenes. Multiple Maniacs is certainly more tame, but far less effective in every way imo. This one is definitely meant to be darkly comedic as well, but fails completely. I can understand why this movie has a cult following, but it is one of the worst movies I have ever seen.  |
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Post by forca85 on Oct 7, 2023 0:54:33 GMT
The Boogeyman (2023)A stranger barges into a therapist's office and insists he talks about the murders of his children, implying they were killed by a monster of some kind. After the man is found dead, the therapist's daughters begin to be terrorized by a malevolent creature. The thought of a feature-length adaptation of a bizarre Stephen King short story was rather exciting, and there was certainly a lot of hype surrounding it when first released. The Boogeyman does start off well, but, alas, it degenerates into a generic millennial horror movie with the usual amount of flashy jump scares and a not-so-scary CGI monster. The undercooked story doesn't help either. 4/10 As soon as I saw the trailer I figured it wouldn't really resemble the short story. The premise is a 45 minute episode. Tops. Does it at least end the same as the story? |
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Post by forca85 on Oct 7, 2023 0:55:29 GMT
RV: All Hallow's Eve
RV: All Hallow's Eve 2
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Post by Captain Spencer on Oct 7, 2023 1:04:26 GMT
Bog (1979)
Dynamite fishing disturbs the slumber of a fish monster. The creature feeds on human female blood to survive.
I usually don't ask that clichéd question of "Why was this movie ever made?" But in this case I'll make an exception; why was this piece of crap made? Total grade Z, no-budget garbage that is poor is every department. Even the film stock was of the lowest quality. The monster costume was hilariously bad. Poor Aldo Ray must have been desperate for a quick paycheck.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Oct 7, 2023 1:11:41 GMT
The Boogeyman (2023)A stranger barges into a therapist's office and insists he talks about the murders of his children, implying they were killed by a monster of some kind. After the man is found dead, the therapist's daughters begin to be terrorized by a malevolent creature. The thought of a feature-length adaptation of a bizarre Stephen King short story was rather exciting, and there was certainly a lot of hype surrounding it when first released. The Boogeyman does start off well, but, alas, it degenerates into a generic millennial horror movie with the usual amount of flashy jump scares and a not-so-scary CGI monster. The undercooked story doesn't help either. 4/10 As soon as I saw the trailer I figured it wouldn't really resemble the short story. The premise is a 45 minute episode. Tops. Does it at least end the same as the story? Yeah it doesn't resemble King's story much, nor does it have the same ending. By the way, there have been two other previous adaptations of the story, both of them short films. Haven't seen them yet, but I wonder if they're more close to the source material. |
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Post by forca85 on Oct 7, 2023 1:34:29 GMT
As soon as I saw the trailer I figured it wouldn't really resemble the short story. The premise is a 45 minute episode. Tops. Does it at least end the same as the story? Yeah it doesn't resemble King's story much, nor does it have the same ending. By the way, there have been two other previous adaptations of the story, both of them short films. Haven't seen them yet, but I wonder if they're more close to the source material. Most likely Dollar Baby films. So quite possibly. |
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Oct 7, 2023 5:15:00 GMT
Yeah, I watched it with my brother and it was a laugh riot. I can definitely understand feeling embarassed for Olivia, what a performance to go out on. Watching another My Cocaine movie, Oliver Stone's The Hand. Was not expecting it to turn into a Final Destination movie in the first 10 minutes. Jesus Christ.I don't care for the ending. Maybe I needed to be watching The Swarm with another person. I'm not sure how much our senses of humor coalign so I don't know if that would help or not. As far as The Hand goes, that's surprising since you seem generally more okay with that kind of twist than I am. Here I felt it at least made sense, rather than a cheap gotcha to blindside the audience. The very ending kinda reminded me of the end of Joker. |
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Post by moviemouth on Oct 7, 2023 5:23:47 GMT
I don't care for the ending. Maybe I needed to be watching The Swarm with another person. I'm not sure how much our senses of humor coalign so I don't know if that would help or not. As far as The Hand goes, that's surprising since you seem generally more okay with that kind of twist than I am. Here I felt it at least made sense, rather than a cheap gotcha to blindside the audience. The very ending kinda reminded me of the end of Joker. I don't actually remember the twist, I just recall the ending not being to my liking. Maybe I was sick of those types of twists the day I watched it.  |
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Post by moviemouth on Oct 7, 2023 5:33:13 GMT
I don't care for the ending. Maybe I needed to be watching The Swarm with another person. I'm not sure how much our senses of humor coalign so I don't know if that would help or not. As far as The Hand goes, that's surprising since you seem generally more okay with that kind of twist than I am. Here I felt it at least made sense, rather than a cheap gotcha to blindside the audience. The very ending kinda reminded me of the end of Joker. The best way I can explain my love of twists is that it is as if my mind resets after every twist, so every twist feels like I am watching a twist for the first time. That is the feeling of watching them for me. My mind is entirely in the moment. But I have to be enjoying the movie prior to the twist. With something like High Tension I wasn't enjoying the movie even before the twist and in that case the twist just made the experience worse. |
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Oct 7, 2023 5:54:28 GMT
I'm not sure how much our senses of humor coalign so I don't know if that would help or not. As far as The Hand goes, that's surprising since you seem generally more okay with that kind of twist than I am. Here I felt it at least made sense, rather than a cheap gotcha to blindside the audience. The very ending kinda reminded me of the end of Joker. The best way I can explain my love of twists is that it is as if my mind resets after every twist, so every twist feels like I am watching a twist for the first time. That is the feeling of watching them for me. My mind is entirely in the moment. But I have to be enjoying the movie prior to the twist. With something like High Tension I wasn't enjoying the movie even before the twist and in that case the twist just made the experience worse. I've had movies I liked until the twist (Identity), as well as ones I wasnt completely sold by until they had one I liked (Saw 1). In the case of Haute Tension, I wasn't feeling that movie either, but the twist made me angry. If it doesn't add up logically I feel cheated, as per that film or, for a different kind of twist, A Perfect Getaway. |
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Post by moviemouth on Oct 7, 2023 5:59:31 GMT
The best way I can explain my love of twists is that it is as if my mind resets after every twist, so every twist feels like I am watching a twist for the first time. That is the feeling of watching them for me. My mind is entirely in the moment. But I have to be enjoying the movie prior to the twist. With something like High Tension I wasn't enjoying the movie even before the twist and in that case the twist just made the experience worse. I've had movies I liked until the twist (Identity), as well as ones I wasnt completely sold by until they had one I liked (Saw 1). In the case of Haute Tension, I wasn't feeling that movie either, but the twist made me angry. If it doesn't add up logically I feel cheated, as per that film or, for a different kind of twist, A Perfect Getaway. When it comes to whether something adds up logically in the case of movies it can go either way for me. It depends very much on if the acting and the directing sells it. It also very much depends on the genre. A realistic drama has to make sense to me in order for it to work, but with horror or especially comic book movies not so much. The reason being they are already outlandish in the first place. I mean we could nitpick action movies all day with stuff like physics. |
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Post by lostinlimbo on Oct 7, 2023 7:22:29 GMT
 Silent Madness is a very mediocre slasher, but the selling point at the time of release… was the 3D gimmick. Since I don’t own a 3D player/or TV. I watched the red/blue anaglyph version. And I was surprised just how good it looked. Vinegar Syndrome did a stellar job. The last time, I tried watching an anaglyph version (Jaws 3D) it didn’t have the same effect. Though it does have me curious to check out Friday the 13th Part III in 3D, as I’ve been sitting on that version for quite awhile.  |
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Oct 7, 2023 7:42:24 GMT
Silent Madness is a very mediocre slasher, but the selling point at the time of release… was the 3D gimmick. Since I don’t own a 3D player/or TV. I watched the red/blue anaglyph version. And I was surprised just how good it looked. Vinegar Syndrome did a stellar job. The last time, I tried watching an anaglyph version (Jaws 3D) it didn’t have the same effect. Though it does have me curious to check out Friday the 13th Part III in 3D, as I’ve been sitting on that version for quite awhile. The 3D version of Friday that came with that recent blu ray boxset looks amazing. |
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Post by lostinlimbo on Oct 7, 2023 7:55:05 GMT
Sydney Lussick seems to be appearing on my screen this month.  Alligator (1980)  The Unseen (1980)  Silent Madness (1984)  Carrie (1976) |
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