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This is like... the exact polar opposite of an "upcoming" horror movie since it was released in 1986 but I just want to say I just saw April Fool's Day on Netflix for the first time after hearing for so long that it was infamous for some reason and I gotta say I enjoyed it. It was a pleasant surprise seeing Biff from Back to the Future in this as well as Amy Steel from Friday the 13 Parth 2 (man she was a scream queen, wasn't she?) and I liked the characters here a lot more than most 80s slasher flicks. Oh, and of course I gotta mention at the end all I could say was "No loving way. No loving way would they go there!" They went there.
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lizardman posted:This is like... the exact polar opposite of an "upcoming" horror movie since it was released in 1986 but I just want to say I just saw April Fool's Day on Netflix for the first time after hearing for so long that it was infamous for some reason and I gotta say I enjoyed it. In a similar vein, The Ward was actually pretty good. Obviously not really classic Carpenter but it at least kept my interested. Though I could tell something was amiss when the entire crazy ward was full of attractive women. But yea, I felt very similar ending themes between both The Ward and April Fool's Day.
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Jan 23, 2012 06:27
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http://www.aintitcool.com/node/52888 A really positive review is up at AICN for V/H/S, a new found footage horror anthology. Sounds like its right up my alley and they got some decent directors to contribute. Also on AICN is an article about a Last Exorcism sequel.
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Jan 23, 2012 17:16
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Mouser.. posted:The movie is faux intellectual and the story looks like it was written out of a mad libs book. The director constantly prompts in every interview that you need to go back and piece it all together, but he just jumbled that poo poo out of a Wicker Man inspiration. Seems more like he wrote stream of consciousness style, realized that nothing tied together and said gently caress it, I'll just say its too deep for the average man to comprehend and that they didn't watch close enough. In what way is it "faux-intellectual"? What would qualify a movie as intellectual, and how would it be different from this one? I honestly don't understand this line of argument - "It tried to be deep and intellectual and stuff, but it really wasn't." Why wasn't it? How did it "try" to be deep, and how did it fail? And how exactly are you so sure of the director's motives? I didn't think it was all that hard to follow, and the part you spoilered was pretty much exactly how I took it.
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Jan 23, 2012 18:04
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Are any of the "Masters of Horror" one hour pieces on Netflix any good? I just saw "Pick Me Up" which I quite enjoyed, largely because I really like Michael Moriarty and liked watching him ham it up. Can any one recommend any of the others, or tell which to stay away from?
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Jan 23, 2012 18:43
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Zwabu posted:Are any of the "Masters of Horror" one hour pieces on Netflix any good? I just saw "Pick Me Up" which I quite enjoyed, largely because I really like Michael Moriarty and liked watching him ham it up. Can any one recommend any of the others, or tell which to stay away from? Cigarette Burns is good. The Poe one is okay. The Lovecraft one is so so so bad. Incident on a Mountain Pasa, Jennifer and Imprint are all good too.
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Jan 23, 2012 18:53
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Zwabu posted:Are any of the "Masters of Horror" one hour pieces on Netflix any good? I just saw "Pick Me Up" which I quite enjoyed, largely because I really like Michael Moriarty and liked watching him ham it up. Can any one recommend any of the others, or tell which to stay away from? Stay away from most of them. "Cigarette Burns" had a cool vibe to it. I liked "Deer Woman," but it wasn't particular scary. "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" was pretty good. "Sounds Like" and "Pelts" were alright, as was "The Washingtonians." For the most part, the series was a let-down.
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Jan 23, 2012 18:56
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Zwabu posted:Are any of the "Masters of Horror" one hour pieces on Netflix any good? I just saw "Pick Me Up" which I quite enjoyed, largely because I really like Michael Moriarty and liked watching him ham it up. Can any one recommend any of the others, or tell which to stay away from? I personally loved most of the episodes and it's one of the few TV Series I own on DVD, since I re-watch many of them every so often. However "anthology" horror is often unreasonably appealing to me, so beware my recommendations. My absolute favorites of the series are: Jenifer, Dreams in the Witch House, Deer Woman, Sick Girl, The V Word, Valerie on the Stairs, and Haeckel's Tale. A lot of people disagree with me, but I don't think there is a truly "bad" one in the bunch. It's one of my all-time favorite series. e: haha yep, disagreement right above me. No worries. If you liked "Pick Me Up", you'll probably like most of the first season.
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Sick Girl is the best of the MOH, in my opinion. Cigarette Burns, The Black Cat (if you like Stuart Gordon's stuff) and Imprint are also solid. Pro-Life and Pelts are very corny but still entertaining; We All Scream For Ice Cream and The Washingtonians are god-awful and perfect for drunk viewing. If you get your hands on Fear Itself, it's tamer in terms of content but some of them are worth watching. I liked Skin & Bones, Eater, Community, and In Sickness & In Health.
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Zwabu posted:Are any of the "Masters of Horror" one hour pieces on Netflix any good? I just saw "Pick Me Up" which I quite enjoyed, largely because I really like Michael Moriarty and liked watching him ham it up. Can any one recommend any of the others, or tell which to stay away from? Most range from okay to great, the ones I'd recommend staying far away from are Tobe Hooper's Dance of the Dead and Mick Garrison's Chocolate and Valerie on the Stairs. None of the rest come close to being as bad as those three.
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demozthenes posted:Sick Girl is the best of the MOH, in my opinion. Cigarette Burns, The Black Cat (if you like Stuart Gordon's stuff) and Imprint are also solid. Agreed with this guy. Also Deer Woman is loving hilarious (in a good way, not in a so-bad-it's-good way). Watch Dario Argento's if you really wanna witness how far he's fallen as a director.
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Not mentioned, but I'm a huge fan of 'The Screwfly Solution', and the short story is definitely worth a read as well. 'Dream Cruise' was also pleasantly creepy in a Japanese horror kind of way.
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Craig Spradlin posted:In what way is it "faux-intellectual"? What would qualify a movie as intellectual, and how would it be different from this one? Perhaps I've been offset by the states that I read in a recent interview he did. Here's some samples: Ben Wheatley posted:I don’t answer everything, and I don’t offer up everything. There are layers and layers of different meanings in the film, and some of it is very personal meaning that would be difficult for anyone to read in any way. That’s not a failure of the film not being clear enough—it’s just very personal meaning for me. Or meaning for Amy, and there are other little bits that are just jokes for us. So there’s a private interpretation of the film which I don’t really talk about it, but it’s there. You can piece it together. It just reads too much like he's so self-satisfied in the way that he crafted the film and that you are much smarter than me because you followed all of that right away. Maybe you are, and personally I hate convoluted "deep" plots as much as you might hate stories that write it out A-Z. There's just no need to consider your audience slightly stupid because they don't want to analyze the movie over and over. So I'm sure there's plenty of room for praise out there from people who will "force themselves to understand it" but not me. Mouser.. fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Jan 23, 2012 |
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Jan 23, 2012 23:13
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:Watch Dario Argento's if you really wanna witness how far he's fallen as a director. Awww, come on. Sure it was no "Suspiria", but for a one hour little deal with a creepy loving creature and tons of gore it was alright!
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Jan 23, 2012 23:54
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Defleshed posted:Awww, come on. Sure it was no "Suspiria", but for a one hour little deal with a creepy loving creature and tons of gore it was alright! If we're talking about Jenifer, it's really loving terrible, and I'm a bit of a late-period Argento apologist (I liked The Card Player for gently caress's sakes). I actually just remembered that he did another one, Pelts, which I didn't see.
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:If we're talking about Jenifer, it's really loving terrible, and I'm a bit of a late-period Argento apologist (I liked The Card Player for gently caress's sakes). I actually just remembered that he did another one, Pelts, which I didn't see. I suppose we can just disagree. Although I liked both the Card Player AND Mother of Tears.
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Mother of Tears was aight. I am kinda glad I'm not the only one that liked The Card Player. I can't even necessarily defend it as "good," and it's nowhere near old-Argento territory, but I enjoyed it.
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So I just watched Kill List and so...yeah, that happened. Reading up on the general consensus for interpreting the film, and it pretty much makes sense when viewed from that perspective. The director was actually pretty overt about it in hindsight. Thank God for subtitles, though, because those were some British Brits all right.
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qbert posted:Thank God for subtitles, though, because those were some British Brits all right. Go watch Nil By Mouth.
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:If we're talking about Jenifer, it's really loving terrible, and I'm a bit of a late-period Argento apologist (I liked The Card Player for gently caress's sakes). I actually just remembered that he did another one, Pelts, which I didn't see. Pelts is okay, but it doesn't really have any kind of Argento touch to it if that makes sense. It's very gory in a way his signature movies are not.
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Jennifer is okay but I didn't know it was Argento and that actually makes me like it a bit less.
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weekly font posted:Jennifer is okay but I didn't know it was Argento and that actually makes me like it a bit less. I recommend tracking down the Bruce Jones/Bernie Wrightson comic it's based on, it's very good.
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leokitty posted:I recommend tracking down the Bruce Jones/Bernie Wrightson comic it's based on, it's very good. I was gonna say just watch Harpya, but anything involving Berni Wrightson is a-okay by me.
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The best thing about Jennifer was that it made my wife spend a week declaring "I'm Jennifer!" And chasing our dogs around the house. We had her committed shortly after. 
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I loved Deer Woman. The bit where the cop imagines all the different scenarios was epically brilliant. It was helped somewhat in my mind by the fact that I live in Oklahoma and am a Native American; I know people who actually believe in the Deer Woman - I know one dude who says he saw her once. So, it was great to get an hour of pretty great television about something that feels that close to me. Pro-Life was not really very good, but Ron Perlman was the whole reason I watched it and the whole reason I was glad I did. He gives a surprising performance; he keeps it pretty wound down for most of the running time, which is awesome; most people would have just played that character waaaayyyy over the top, but Perlman gets it. Even in schlock like that, sometimes you just underplay it and underplay it and you're smarter than the material. I suddenly realize this could almost sum up Perlman's entire career. I love that guy. I seem to recall finding almost all of the other Masters of Horror that I've seen pretty disappointing. That one with Michael Moriarty as a truck-driving serial killer was fun, if only for seeing Ben Stone from Law & Order go loving mental. Moriarty elevates that one, but not a whole lot. It's so cliched and stupid that he can't do much with it.
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Michael Moriarty pretty much elevates anything he's in, the man should be getting way more work than he does.
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Has anyone else seen The Innkeepers? What an awesome ghost story. Really creepy and goes with a "less is more" mentality that works so well. Its kind of a slow burn but its made the better for it.
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E the Shaggy posted:Has anyone else seen The Innkeepers? Yep, I liked it a lot. It's basically House of the Devil meets The Grudge. I also watched The Ward last night and it was...competent I guess. Definitely seemed like a mid 80's horror movie, which makes sense I suppose given the director.
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Rogue1-and-a-half posted:I loved Deer Woman. The bit where the cop imagines all the different scenarios was epically brilliant. It was helped somewhat in my mind by the fact that I live in Oklahoma and am a Native American; I know people who actually believe in the Deer Woman - I know one dude who says he saw her once. So, it was great to get an hour of pretty great television about something that feels that close to me. The best part about Deer Woman was that it was directed by John Landis and he was able to sneak an American Werewolf in London reference in one of the scenes.
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Wilhelm Scream posted:Michael Moriarty pretty much elevates anything he's in, the man should be getting way more work than he does. This is so very, very true. I also feel that Brian Benben was delightful in Deer Woman. Talk about an actor who takes crap roles... (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099817/)
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I thought Brian Benben was very funny in Deer Woman. Very much the average schlub. I loved the scene where he stabbed the guy with the punchline in the next scene: "Either of you guys know anything about this guy who claims he was stabbed by a cop?" I cracked up over that one.
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The black dude in that episode is one of the worst actors I've ever seen.
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VampireRobot posted:The black dude in that episode is one of the worst actors I've ever seen. Yeah, but I did like the part where he's drunk and gets a calls from his buddy. He starts bragging about the hot chick in the room with him when the realization hits and he just sobers up in an instant. "I hosed up." Also, the actual Deer Woman also doesn't have a single line of dialog. But, I'm pretty sure she wasn't hired for her acting ability.
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Are all of MoH on Netflix instant? I've watched a handful and was entertained, but none are on any of my recommendation lists that aren't already in my queue (I've seen probably 5 and have another 3 or 4 in queue. Judging by the conversation so far, seems like I'm missing a LOT) Also, April Fool's Day was cute. The ending kinda threw me off, but I'm glad they stuck with it.
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I finally got around to seeing Grace. That... sure was a horror movie. I don't think I've ever been that disturbed or disgusted by a film, but I'm not complaining. I liked the use of light and visual callbacks to make seemingly innocent scenes more grotesque and threatening, and although the third act kind of crossed the line between horror and horror comedy at times it does surprisingly well by its premise. The concept seems like it could really easily fall into a "woman's body as object of horror" trap, and it certainly crosses that territory, but I think there's enough psychological horror mixed with the physical stuff to justify it. Overall I'm impressed, and I'd recommend it. Tuxedo Catfish fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Jan 30, 2012 |
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I watched Grave Encounters on Netflix instant the other night. It actually starts off pretty good as we follow a bunch of ghost hunters filming a tv show in an insane asylum. Eventually though it just becomes a series of "scare" set pieces as the ghost hunters wander aimlessly through the halls. Once the movie got to the INSANE SCARES portion of the movie I stopped taking it seriously. Its basically a poor man's Session 9.
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foodfight posted:I watched Grave Encounters on Netflix instant the other night. It actually starts off pretty good as we follow a bunch of ghost hunters filming a tv show in an insane asylum. Eventually though it just becomes a series of "scare" set pieces as the ghost hunters wander aimlessly through the halls. Once the movie got to the INSANE SCARES portion of the movie I stopped taking it seriously. Pretty much exactly how I saw it. Also I expected them to go back to the prologue guy to tie up some loose ends in creepy ways, but nope. Sadly it's probably the closest we'll ever get to a House of Leaves movie.
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weekly font posted:Pretty much exactly how I saw it. Also I expected them to go back to the prologue guy to tie up some loose ends in creepy ways, but nope. Sadly it's probably the closest we'll ever get to a House of Leaves movie. That is disappointing. Also the ending of Grave Encounters is completely ridiculous if you think about it.
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Finally got around to watching Paranormal Activity 3 last night. It might have been my favorite of the group. Definitely liked it more than 2.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:I finally got around to seeing Grace. Awesome. I've been meaning to get around to this one for quite a while now.
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