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 #136) Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire (2012) Like the very first picture on IMDb after the poster shows who gets arrested at the end, so thanks for that, mystery uploader. The gang goes on vacation, and for their destination, Velma picks a town that's throwing a vampire festival, complete with musical theatre. The performers have spiced up their lyrics with incantations from a book of magic, though, which resurrects a 'real vampire,' and things fly off from there. This is a musical, with the gang's voice actors singing their own parts, which I found neat, especially with Frank Welker getting to show off his golden vocal cords. Between that and some of the animation choices, this looks and feels more like a Disney DTV than the series' Hanna-Barbera roots. It's also one of the rare times that the gang comes up against the local police, which seems like something that should happen more often. The opening sequence is low-key compared to those of the last few movies, and features a fourth-wall-breaking Cajun who plays a (very) minor part in the actual story. Pretty fun overall, though your taste/tolerance for DTV musicals will certainly adjust your enjoyment. rating: 7/10"I'm sure you'll find an evil vampire king of your own one day."
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35. Scream (1996) This was the film that got me into horror when I was only 11. It’s still such a great film that holds up. It came at a time when the horror genre was in an infamous dark period and breathed new life into the genre. It’s just such a perfect mix of horror, fun, story and tension. Oh, and the pacing just works so drat well and what makes it timeless even if it gets too 90s at times. This is a magnificent movie to watch at or closer to Halloween. I know we had a big debate earlier in this thread but, drat, the stabbings in this movie are so visceral without needing to go all torture-porny. Some of them actually make me cringe which really did help sell the whole postmodern, self-aware, “yeah, if this actually happened…” aesthetic that helped rejuvinate horror. /5 SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #6: Sometimes They Come Back Watch a horror sequel you haven't seen.36. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)  Hot drat do I regret not watching this one sooner. The second TCM film is known for adding more black humor into the series (something Hooper wanted in the original and felt it was overshadowed) and wow, it all works. It’s still morbid and disgusting with characters like Chop Top and Leatherface being not just madcap insane but disturbing to witness. The film starts with a wonderful sense of dread like something terrible is about to happen and its beneath the surface. Then, the final act happens in the lair of the cannibals with Dennis Hopper dual-wielding chainsaws in a duel with Leatherface. I love this film. It’s just such an amazing mix of exploitation, humor, fun, blood/gore and just a sense of “don’t give a poo poo” but in such an endearing way. It also actually humanizes Leatherface which surprised me. Good stuff, please check it out if you haven’t and if you have: time for a rewatch. /5Total: 1. One Cut of the Dead (2017), 2. Chopping Mall (1986), 3. All the Creatures Were Stirring (2018), 4. Creepshow 2 (1987), 5. Black Christmas (1974), 6. Dracula (1931), 7. Frankenstein (1931), 8. The Monster Squad (1987), 9. All Hallow’s Eve (2013), 10. The Addams Family (1991), 11. Grizzly (1976), 12. The Mummy (1932), 13. See No Evil (2006), 14. The Invisible Man (1933), 15. Why Horror? (2014), 16. Bad Moon (1996), 17. Head Count (2018), 18. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), 19. House of 1000 Corpses, 20. The Wolfman (1941), 21. Body Bags (1993). 22. Us (2019), 23. The Craft (1996), 24. Thankskilling (2008), 25. Beetlejuice (1988), 26. Psycho (1960), 27. Gacy (2003), 28. Malevolent (2018), 29, Day of the Animals (1977), 30. Overlord (2018), 31. Train to Busan (2016), 32. Brightburn (2019), 33. Mayhem (2017), 34. 3 From Hell (2019), 35. Scream (1996), 36. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) Super Samhain Challenges: Justin Godscock fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Oct 24, 2019 |
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SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #8: Happy Holidays! Watch a horror film that you haven't seen that takes place on a holiday that isn't Halloween, All Hallow's Eve, Samhain, (edit) Dia De Los Muertos, etc.I don't know how long it would have taken me to finally get around to this movie without this challenge, but holy poo poo. This was the perfect confluence of a gaping hole in my horror knowledge and an opportunity to fill it. I watched... #30: Black Christmas (1974)  I've heard this movie referenced before, and knew people considered it a classic, but I never had any context for it. I always thought it was a cheesy horror-meets-Christmas piece of schlock. That is not the case. Not at all. This movie is amazing, and it completely changes my conception of the history of slashers. I always considered Michael Myers to be the granddaddy of slasher villains, but I was wrong. "Black Christmas" came out well before "Halloween" and does so many things that would later become tropes of the genre, and it did them first. Before we had Michael, we had Billy. The opening shot of "Halloween" where the camera takes Michael's perspective? Yeah, this did it first. Set during Christmas break at a college sorority house, a mysterious man sneaks into the attic during a party and basically just... lives up there for a few days while occasionally creeping down to murder women and hide their bodies in the attic with him. He also makes a bunch of phone calls to the sorority sisters downstairs that are legitimately creepy. Like, holy poo poo, this guy is seriously psychotic. That also makes it, I think, the first major motion picture to depict the urban legend "the call is coming from inside the house," and it does it so loving well that the hairs on the back of my neck stood up at certain points. And I haven't talked about who is in this thing! Margot Kidder (not the main star, but a really fun boozy sorority sister), Olivia Hussey (Juliet in the iconic "Romeo and Juliet" of 1969) and John Saxon (Lt. Thompson in the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series), and they are all excellent. What really surprised me was how serious this movie is, and how much weight it carried by building the tension and fear and delivering on it at every opportunity. I had always thought this was an older movie with a tone of something more along the lines of "Santa's Slay," and it's the exact opposite. This is a very dramatic murder mystery that goes all-in on trying to make you feel uncomfortable, as if you're in the house with these girls who are unaware of the danger that is literally hiding right above their head. The ending is great, and slightly ambiguous we the viewer know the killer wasn't Peter (who is a complete rear end in a top hat by the way) and that "Billy" is still alive and apparently still in the house? And the first dead girl's body has been sitting next to a window for days, and nobody noticed it? Nor the did police search the obvious hiding place of the loving attic after poo poo went down? I mean, that's not realistic at all but honestly I don't care. It's a tiny logical winkle in an otherwise fantastic piece of horror. Oh, it also features a very interesting subplot involving abortion, which I'm sure at the time was even more taboo than it is today. But the movie isn't about abortion at all, it's just a side thing that gets brought up in detail between two of the main characters, and it fuels the whodunnit aspects of the story in a way that somehow isn't political. It's just good storytelling. drat this movie is good. Hard recommend, if you haven't seen it and read this thread (and like slasher movies) you need to watch this one, it's essential and in hindsight I'm shocked it took me this long to get around to it. e: And I just realized that "Scream" probably named the character Billy because of this movie. drat. 5/5 Watched: Midsommar; One Cut of the Dead; Apostle; Wolf Creek; Lake Mungo; Viy (Challenge #1); Demon Knight; Witchfinder General; Razorback; Joker; A Quiet Place; Spider Baby, or the Maddest Story Ever Told (Challenge #2); Hereditary; The First Purge (Challenge #3); Killer Condom; Road Games; Next of Kin; Zombie aka Zombi 2; Suspiria (1977) (Challenge #4); Phantom of the Paradise; In Her Skin; Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon; Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead; Troll Hunter aka Trollhunter (Challenge #5); The Tunnel; Profondo Rossa aka Deep Red; Body Melt; Suspiria (2018) (Challenge #6); Sadako vs. Kayako (Challenge #7); Black Christmas (Challenge #8) Total: 30 T3hRen3gade fucked around with this message at 08:25 on Oct 23, 2019 |
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Franchescanado posted:Krampus...this is the only one that I've seen from that list that would technically qualify Thanks, I guess I'll watch that one for the monster mash chall......... Franchescanado posted:SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #8: Happy Holidays! Franchescanado posted:I said earlier that Krampus counts, but that was really stretching it, and kinda misses the intention of the challenge, which is to watch a movie with (at least) two very different monsters in it. Like a Sharktopus vs Pteraccuda. I'll find something else for the Monster mash and use Krampus for the holiday one. Reading that Godzilla counts suddenly gives me a ton of options.
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SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #7: Monster Mash-up #21 Freddy vs. Jason (2003)  This was the first thing to spring to mind when trying to think of a movie featuring two different monsters. I guess I should also preface this review by saying that I'm not really a massive fan of either franchise. I've only seen two of the Nightmare films and the original Friday the 13th. I didn't really like most of this, but I do also feel like I would've probably gotten some more out of it if I'd seen more of the other movies. What I did really like was the actual final fight between the two, and how it was essentially horror Loony Toons. Maybe other movies in the franchise paved the way for that, but regardless I thought it was well done and I had fun watching that last half hour of the movie. Unfortunately, I didn't really like the rest of it. I think the idea itself was really solid; the concept of Freddy needing Jason's help to get back his strength is a fun way of bringing the two together. That said, the humor didn't really land for me, I didn't really care about the characters, the kills largely didn't stand out to me, and there was a decent amount of distracting technical stuff throughout like the numerous fake slo-mo shots and some not great CGI. I could see some people liking this a lot more than me, but I personally would have a hard time recommending it beyond just telling someone to go watch the last half an hour. Watched (21/31): #1 Gozu (2003), #2 Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told (1967), #3 Viy (1967), #4 Mondo Cane (1962), #5 Dark Water (2002), #6 Blood and Black Lace (1964), #7 Daughters of Darkness (1971), #8 Sliders of Ghost Town: Origins (2016), #9 One Cut of the Dead (2017), #10 Possum (2018), #11 EGG. (2005), #12 Adventures of Electric Rod Boy (1987), #13 House of 1000 Corpses (2003), #14 Ganja and Hess (1973), #15 Q (1982), #16 Hungry Stones (1960), #17 The Ruins (2008), #18 The Lighthouse (2019), #19 Pulgasari (1985), #20 Halloween (2018), #21 Freddy vs. Jason (2003) Challenges (7/8):
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 - (49). Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) Watched on DVD, available on Hoopla, Fubo, and the Showtime Amazon channel but not Showtime main. So all those films never happened. No druid cult, no psychic nieces, no Paul Rudd. Its been 20 years since the night Michael Myers attacked Laurie Strode and she’s living in California under an assumed name with her (kind of dickish) 17-year-old kid, PTSD, and a lot of pretty justified issues. Michael’s been missing since that night but he’s always been kind of sentimental and he got resourceful in the last 2 decades so he tracks Laurie down to the boarding school she runs and does his thing. And its 1998 so naturally the movie is written by Kevin Williamson. This one annoyed me when it came out. It came late enough that it wasn’t one of the films I grew up with rewatching and it came in this ’90s Williamson swing post Scream where they were all kind of the same slasher movie with a different casts of Hollywood’s young and beautiful. Josh Hartnett, Michelle Williams, Jodi Lyn O’Keefe, Adam Hann-Byrd? The kid from Jumanji? They all talk and act the same way all teenagers did in TV and film at this time because of Williamson. The story’s just a pretty by the numbers hack and slash starring Micheal and Laurie. H20 doesn’t feel like a Halloween movie. No Haddonfield, no autumn feeling, no Carpenter score, no Loomis. The big thing is obviously bringing Laurie back and… hey, I love Jamie Lee Curtis but Loomis was always Michael’s foil, not Laurie. And we don’t know Laurie. She was a scared kid when we did for one night and its been 20 years. Carpenter was supposed to direct but he bailed over pay and contract demands that he felt he was owed for the way the franchise had gone. The whole thing also does something weird and lovely. Jamie Lee Curtis wanted this to be the end and for Micheal to die so they went and brought Williamson in to do secret rewrites, sent Curtis home thinking the film was done, and then filmed an alternate ending where Micheal survives. Curtis nearly walked over this pretty lovely insult. The whole thing just sounds like nearly as big a mess as the last film, but while Curse of Michael Myers was a battle between the production crew vs the Weinstein studio this time around it was that same production crew vs Curtis and Carpenter. Whether it had a direct impact on the movie or just leaves a bad taste in my mouth, H20 ends up feeling more like a cash in sequel than a bookend closure. I mean, Creed plays over the end credits. They cut off the Halloween theme to play “What’s This Life For.” I hate 1998. Ok, putting aside all my grumpy old man stuff Curtis is great. She plays this deeply damaged woman in a way you would absolutely expect her to be after everything she went through. The moment when she comes face to face with Micheal after 20 years and her nightmares come true is kind of an amazing 5 seconds. Laurie immediately goes back into her 17-year-old survivor mode (“What do we do now?”/“Try to live.”) and right as she has the chance to get away she decided to say “gently caress it” and go deal with her boogeyman. The script is really kind of lazy about it but Curtis does a great job and the movie shifts from the hack and slash formula into a 1-on-1 battle more reminiscent of the original’s conclusion and a fitting place to see Laurie finally end up. She’s not a scared kid. She’s not unceremoniously killed off in a car accident between films. She’s not running and hiding. She’s fighting back. And she doesn’t gently caress around. There’s also a nice scene in the middle of the film where she confesses who she is to her boyfriend and does a real good job kind of explaining Micheal to us without being too lecturey about it. Boyfriend asks the simple question of why she’d be worried about Micheal after all these years and Laurie states the simple terrifying truth of Micheal that no one knows why he killed his sister in the first place, why he waited 15 years and then came back for his other sister, so who knows when or why he’d decide to act again? Unfortunately that’s undercut a bit by her immediately realizing what Micheal’s motivation actually is, which doesn’t necessarily make any sense. if Micheal knew Laurie had a 17 year old kid and was in this to kill him why did he have to go rob Loomis’ old place to find Laurie’s file? It strikes me as a sloppy over explanation. I’m definitely being kind of “Not My Halloween” but… I dunno. I don’t think it’s that. I liked Zombie’s version well enough and I’m doing this all to see the ’18 version. I just don’t like these Williamson slashers and never have. Putting my favorite monster in one doesn’t change that. And the production stuff just leaves a bad taste.  38 (50). The Wolf Man (1941) Watched on DVD, available on Starz. Larry Talbot returns home in Wales to make amends with his father in the wake of his brother’s death, but rescues a woman from a wolf attack one evening and ends up with a bite that mysteriously disappears and the body of a man. Larry struggles with the question of if he’s losing his mind or if he’s become a murderous monster he can’t control. Yet another of Universal’s great monsters makes his debut and that helped introduce Lon Chaney, Jr to a starring role as a horror icon following in his father’s humongous footsteps. While I wouldn’t quite put this on the top tier of Universal movies its comfortably on the positive end of things. He’s definitely the most tragic and sympathetic of all the monsters. There’s elements of The Mummy and Frankenstein that are sympathetic but they’re still bad dudes. Larry is however not only a pretty nice guy but a complete victim of this monster inside him. I really enjoyed Chaney and while he might not be the legend his father is he has a very charming quality to him and brings a likability and sadness to Larry even before the curse takes hold. He’s a very different character than in any of the other Universal movies. He’s not suave. He’s not menacing. He’s not a leading man. He’s just this dude. The first “every man” I can remember seeing in any of these films. Even if, you know, he’s the heir to a big rear end estate. But it’s just Wales. The makeup is what it is. We’ve all seen it and the transformation scenes are what they could do at the time. I liked it, really. It was simple but very animalistic and Chaney feels like a completely different character when he’s the Wolf than when he’s Larry. Claude Rains and Bela Lugosi also appear, although Lugosi in only a very small role. That’s really kind of sad. Reading up about these films its become a pattern of Lugosi really getting type cast and having his career limited by Dracula. Its pretty depressing to think he played this one iconic role that he’ll alway be remembered by but that it kind of doomed him to smaller roles and more forgettable roles and 10 years later he’d just have almost a cameo role in such a major movie. I know he’s got some other stuff coming as Ygor but still. Rains has a much bigger and more important role on the other hand and while he’s playing about as far away of a character from The Invisible Man he’s a pretty big part of the film. He does a great job with the role as Larry’s father who seemed both truly wanting to make amends with his son and take his share of responsibility for whatever their problems were but also a little reluctant and unsure about this son he doesn’t know and who is immediately wrapped up in some sketchy poo poo and acting peculiar. I also really liked Evelyn Ankers and thought she had good chemistry with Chaney, so I’m pleased to read she’s one of the few Universal leading ladies who seemed to stick around and do multiple films. A whole lot to like about this classic that lived up to the hype. And it gets me down to just 1 last of the big Universal monsters on my grid.  September Pre-Game Tally - New (Total) 1. NOS4A2 (2019); - (2). Splice (2009); - (3). Drive Angry (2011); 2 (4). The Twilight Zone (2019); - (5). Event Horizon (1997); - (6). BrainDead (2016); 3 (7). The Dark Tower (2017); 4 (8). The Collector (2009); 5 (9). The Bad Batch (2016); - (10). Rose Red (2002); - (11). Salem’s Lot (1979) October Tally - New (Total) 1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920); 2. Nightmare Cinema (2018); 3. Dead of Night (1945); The Queen of Spades (1949); 5. Tragedy Girls (2017); 6. House of Wax (1953); SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #1: The Best Month: 7. The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016); 8. In the Tall Grass (2019); 9. The Night of the Hunter (1955); 10. The Thing (1951); - (11). The Thing (1982); 11 (12). The Thing (2011); - (13). Halloween (1978); 12 (14). Dracula (1931); SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #2: Dead & Buried: 13 (15). Q (1982); 14 (16). The Black Cat (1934); 15 (17). The Unknown (1927); - (18). Halloween II (1981); 16 (19). The Seventh Victim (1943); 17 (20). The Beast With Five Fingers (1946); 18 (21). The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923); 19 (22). The Curse of the Cat People (1944); - (23). George A. Romero's Land of the Dead (2005); SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #3: Horror Noire: 20 (24). Ganja & Hess (1973); 21 (25). Drácula (1931); 22 (26). Universal Horror (1998); - (27). Happy Death Day (2017); 23 (28). The Phantom of the Opera (1925); - (29). Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982); SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #4: Inktober: 24 (30). Velvet Buzzsaw (2018); - (31). Frankenstein (1931); 25 (32). The Mummy (1932); 26 (33). The Raven (1935); - (34). 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#25. Jennifer's Body I always figured this was just a shallow T&A movie cashing in on Megan Fox' Transformers popularity, so I never bothered with it. It came up a while back in the main thread and people seemed to like it, so I thought I'd give it a try. Very glad I did, as this was way better than expected. The humor is a bit muted, which probably saves it from becoming groanworthy, the horror avoids most gore, but the story works really well. Toxic friendship is a big theme here, giving a by-the-numbers story some strong characters and keeping you invested. Very enjoyable, glad I picked this one.
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 Jaws, 1975 I'm just gonna keep going back the classics a few more nights, like Jaws. The movie that started the big blockbuster thing and launched Steven Spielberg carrier as a big name director. It spawned countless attempts at other creature features through the 70s and is to blame for tons of lazy shark attack movies many years later. I feel a bit bad seeing a real animal used as a monster. I get that it makes it more realistic and the horror is something that could potentially happen, but there's no doubt Jaws gave sharks a undeserved bad name. That being said, this movie is loving amazing. The first half of the movie have takes place on a small island that lives off the summer tourism, so we got the mayor trying to downplay the danger of shark attacks to save the town's economy. The second half is the boat trip to hunt down the shark. The second half is the best, with Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss out there with a way bigger and more dangerous shark than they were prepared for. At that point, it feels almost like a great adventure rather than a creature feature. It's hard for me to put words on how great Jaws is. The shark is great and the horror scenes effective, but it's the characters and their interaction that really makes this great. Robert Shaw was drunk for real when he did that iconic scene when telling about surviving that torpedo attack during WW2 and watching his crew eaten by sharks. There's so many great scenes and the over all story is great. Truly a classic.
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SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #9: Hackers Thanks to SMP for designing this torture device   Watch a horror movie you haven't seen about CYBERSPACE/computers/haunted technology/etc.or Watch a horror movie you haven't seen adaptated from a video game
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Franchescanado posted:SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #9: Hackers For people looking for something, there are two Mangler sequels for yet another, "They made how many of those?!" based on Stephen King short stories from Night Shift. I just want to see if I can talk someone into watching the Mangler sequels... Franchescanado posted:or There's a few Japanese horror movies that have been adapted from video games like Otogiriso (also released as St. John's Wort) that wouldn't be identifiable as video game adaptations since the games they're based on are super obscure outside of Japan.
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Oh poo poo, there's a Fatal Frame movie. Also, I checked, Parasite Eve won't count. both the movie and the game are based on a book and the movie came first 
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Oh good, a reason to finally watch Lawnmower Man.
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 29 Hannibal (2001) [Italy, DC, North Carolina, Virginia] Ten years after Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lector is back. This was pretty good even though it is a bit bloated and relies a little too much on the shock factor. I have definitely seen edits of the finale appear in photoshop threads before but somehow didn’t realize they came from this movie until it happened and it didn’t make it any less gruesome. I’m counting for Virginia for my states-challenge, since that’s where the finale takes place.  30 Dark August (1976) [Vermont] Two years after a man accidentally kills a child crossing the road, the grandfather of the child puts a curse on him and robed figures start to appear. This is a very subdued movie, but what it lacks in frights and spectacle it makes up for with good character work and surprisingly nice cinematography which kept me engaged. Shot entirely on location in a small town in the Vermont mountains, it feels very authentic and there are plenty of nice landscape shots. Sadly, the ending was a big disappointment and ending on a dog death left a very sour taste in my mouth.  31 The Seventh Curse (1986) Super Samhain Challenge #5 Tourist Trap From a movie with good characters and little action, to a movie with the exact opposite. I’ve heard many people talk about the insanity of Hong Kong Horror, but still I wasn’t prepared for this. Shoot outs! Explosions! Kung Fu! Wizards! Skeletons! Boobs! Children being crushed to death! Whatever that flying-worm thing was supposed to be! It just provides a relentless barrage of action with virtually no downtime to catch your breath. The plot and characters are waver-thin but who cares when you get a man Kung Fu fighting a skeleton. Beautiful insanity. And that makes it 31. Actually, I’m running a little behind on my reviews and I’m up to 35 watched now. I also reached my goal of watching movies set in 23 states (at 28 now). Since there are still quite a few days to go, and I already have a list which movies set in all of the remaining states, I’m going to push on and see how close to 50 I can get.
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24. Halloween 1978 | dir. John Carpenter rewatch Easily one of the most rewatched movies of my lifetime. Nothing really new to glean from this watch, except that I managed to get a friend who had never seen it before to watch it for the first time.  Highly Recommended 25. The Skin I Live In 2011 | dir. Pedro Almodovar | Edgar Wright's 100 Favorite Horror Films #95  I have been doing a deep dive into Pedro Almodovar's filmography this year. It's been one of the most rewarding film journeys into a director's work that I've experienced in years. This, his "first horror" film, was the first film I had heard of by him, having seen the trailer for it in 2009 or '10. I've held of on watching it specifically for this challenge. Almodovar's "first horror" is an incredible misnomer. I would argue that his film Matador, which was heavily inspired by giallos, is more of a proper horror movie than this. A fun through-line with his films has been a gleeful love of horror films. As mentioned, Matador directly references giallo films and feels like a love letter to Argento films in many ways and Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (which has many themes in common with The Skin I Live In, such as an exploration of Stockholm syndrome...in the guise of a demented rom-com) has the characters making a supernatural slasher with a black-gloved villain. I have no issues with calling this horror, but it fits the "psychological thriller" criteria for me. Besides some science fiction with some of the medical procedures, this is (relatively) grounded for Almodovar. The themes with this film (as with most Almodovar films) are challenging, especially with how gender is explored. I don't really agree with people that argue the film is transphobic, because Almodovar has been exploring gender fluidity, sexuality, and identity for his entire career, and he always has an empathy for those characters, even the people that act as the villains. The concept of someone so obsessed with revenge that they steal your identity, your body, your gender, your sexuality, is not one I'd push on the trans community as a whole, when the character we're talking about makes the victim look like his deceased wife, and begins to fall in love with her. It's an interesting look at how revenge is an ever-changing beast, and like a snowball, gains momentum and weight until it's destruction is incredible. There's a lot to explore with this film. I loved it. It's horrific, it's fascinating, it's haunting, and it's beautiful. Much like all of Almodovar's films, which I would highly recommend people to watch if they like this. Can't give enough credit to the cinematography, the acting (literally everyone in this film is amazing), the music, the costumes, the set designs...It's just an incredibly well-made film. Highly Recommended with some caveats! Sexual assaults and their repercussions are a major theme and plot point. Movies Watched: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom | Annihilation | Evil Bong 2 | Overlord | Dead of Night | The Ruins | Under Wraps | Attack The Block | Don't Go In The Woods | Body Snatchers | Island of Lost Souls | Village of the Damned (1960) | Wrinkles the Clown | The Dead Zone | The Fog | One Cut of the Dead | Ma | The Devil Rides Out | Halloweentown | 3 From Hell | The Neon Slime Mixtape | Frenzy | Bride of Frankenstein | Halloween | The Skin I Live In Rewatches: 6 Total: 25 Edgar Wright's 100 Favorite Horror: 6/20 Super Samhain Challenge: 1 Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 14:10 on Oct 23, 2019 |
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SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #8: Happy Holidays! I've had this on DVD for years (on a double feature with My Bloody Valentine) and had totally forgotten about it until I looked up movies that would qualify for this challenge, so this seems like a good time to finally getting around to watching it.  29. April Fool's Day (1986) (DVD) A group of college students are invited to spend the weekend at the summer home of their mutual friend Muffy. It's a huge mansion on an island and Muffy has set up April Fool's Day pranks all over the place. Unfortunately the mood is soured when on the ferry ride over a terrible accident maims one of the ferrymen, and the only boat on the island is taken to rush him to the hospital. They try to enjoy themselves anyway, and mostly succeed - until one by one they start to go missing. With no way to leave, they must fight for their lives until help arrives. This is a fairly standard '80s slasher that's executed pretty well but is ultimately kind of toothless. Familiar faces among the cast include Amy Steel (Ginny from Friday the 13th Part 2) and Thomas F. Wilson (Biff from the Back to the Future films). It has a couple of memorable moments and I appreciate how most of the gags in the first two acts come back into play later in the film, but I thought the ending was pretty dumb Not much else to say about this - overall I enjoyed it and if you like '80s slashers you could do much worse, but I probably wouldn't go out of my way to see it either. 3/5 Total: 29 Watched: Dead of Night | Child's Play (2019) | Escape Room | Hell Night | The Wind | Evil Dead (2013) | Cure (Challenge #1) | Tigers Are Not Afraid | The Craft | Tower of London | In Fabric | Popcorn | Cube | Uninvited | Galaxy of Terror (Challenge #2) | Brightburn | Body Bags | The Tingler | The Wax Mask | Cube 2: Hypercube | Dark Water (2002) | The Ruins (Challenge #4) | Viy | The Haunting | Bones (Challenge #3) | A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) (Challenge #6) | November (Challenge #5) | The Monster Squad (Challenge #7) | April Fool's Day (Challenge #8) Samhain Challenges: Basebf555 posted:Oh good, a reason to finally watch Lawnmower Man. oh man, I was thinking of watching Unfriended but that might be a better pick
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3. Brightburn (2019) (Netflix DVD)   "...I just know I'm something else. Something superior." - Brandon Breyer As others have said, this movie is basically "What if Superman, but evil?" The story starts out familiar, with a couple finding a crashed space ship with a baby inside. They decide to raise the child as their own, and things seem normal until he reaches adolescence and begins discovering his latent powers. I thought Jackson Dunn did a decent job playing a young sociopath and wish him success going forward. Overall this movie was entertaining and decent enough, and had a couple gnarly scenes (the uncle's death and Caitlyn's mom pulling the piece of glass out of her eye). Glancing at the Wikipedia article it looks like there may be a sequel at some point with, of course, more super powered beings coming out of the woodwork. I suppose that could be interesting but I'm of the opinion not every story needs an expanded universe. 4. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) (Shudder)    "You're talking about him as if he were a human being. That part of him died years ago." - Dr. Loomis I haven't seen many of the Halloween movies (1-3 and the Rob Zombie ones) as I was not a big fan of the first, but since this and Halloween 5 are on Shudder I felt I should give them a watch to fill in some gaps. In this movie Michael Myers has somehow survived the events of the end of Halloween II and has been in a coma for ten years. He comes out of his coma and of course heads back to Haddonfield to kill. Unfortunately Laurie Strode has died off screen in a car accident, and so now Michael is after her daughter Jamie. Halloween 4 is okay, most of my favorite scenes involve Donald Pleasance as Dr. Loomis. I guess I just don't find the character of Michael Myers that interesting, and so these movies are just not very compelling to me. 2/5
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31)The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970 A mysterious figure with black gloves is knifing people and there's a twist ending. This is the first undisputed giallo I've seen and it's got everything I've been led to expect, all done with wonderful style by Dario Argento. The only other Argento film I've seen is Suspiria and I can definitely see similarities in some of the shots and especially in the bold use of colour. I think of the 70s as being a very brown decade generally. It's a solid thriller. CHALLENGE COMPLETED: 31/31 films I haven't seen before. Not bad for my first time.  1) Brain Damage 1988; 2) Onibaba 1964; 3) Slugs 1988; 4) The Tingler 1959; 5) Pieces 1982; 6) Canibal Ferox 1981; 7) Eyes without a Face 1960; 8) Train to Busan 2016; 9) Creepshow 2 1987; 10) Anaconda 1997; 11) Samhain#1 Son of Frankenstein 1939; 12) Happy Death Day 2017; 13) Species 1995; 14) Insidious 2010; 15) Chopping Mall 1986; 16) One Cut of the Dead 2017; 17) Samhain#2 House of 1000 Corpses 2003; 18) Samhain#3 Horror Noire 2019; 19) Shivers 1975; 20) Lair of the White Worm 1988; 21) Black Sunday 1960; 22) Monster House 2006; 23) Inseminoid 1981; 24) It Comes at Night 2017; 25) Samhain#4 The Fog 1980; 26) Jason X 2001; 27) Samhain#5 Troll Hunter 2010; 28) Samhain#6 Phantasm 3 1994; 29) Phantasm 4 1998; 30) Phantasm 5 2016; 31)The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970 Still 8 days left as well, so will hopefully be able to do the remaining challenges (by the way, thanks for updating those daily now, Franchescanado)
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Question on the latest Challenge. Would It Came from the Desert count as a movie adapted from a video game?
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Oct 23, 2019 15:03
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:
Universal did a real hatchet job on the film prior to release, cutting a lot of scenes with the Monster because he had dialogue. Apparently, preview audiences didn't appreciate the Hungarian accent, even though it's consistent with the end of Ghost of Frankenstein. But that's why there's a lot of continuity issues.
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Oct 23, 2019 15:06
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Opera is still my favorite non-supernatural Argento film.
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Oct 23, 2019 15:10
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M_Sinistrari posted:Question on the latest Challenge. Would It Came from the Desert count as a movie adapted from a video game? Yeah, for sure. What made you question it’s viability?
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Oct 23, 2019 15:11
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Franchescanado posted:Yeah, for sure. What made you question it’s viability? One of the summaries I found said it was inspired by so I figured I'd ask first.
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Oct 23, 2019 15:13
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32. The Phantom Of The Opera (1925) - Owned #8 This was awesome, and may be my favorite version. The vibrant monochromatic coloration of each scene, leading to the dramatic coloring of the Phantom himself as the Red Devil and the heat room is fantastic. The acting is good, the sets are great - fancy opera house, expressionist dungeons, it all looks good. I watched the Kino bluray, which looks much better than any of the versions I found on Amazon. 33. Piranha (1978) - Rewatch #10  Cheesy, goofy fun. Still an entertaining romp. I’m not sure if packs of piranha in the wild sound like a bunch of angry turkeys, but I assume so? I didn’t remember the “mutant” aspect of the lab, with it’s weird creatures that all get abandoned for quick cut fish and a bunch of piranha-shaped silhouettes, and wish we had seen weirder fish. IIRC, the sequel’s got my back on that one, though. Movies So Far - 33: Rewatches: 10 - Deep Red, One Cut Of The Dead, The Endless, Train To Busan, TCM 2, Zombi 2, Halloween 3, The Witch, Jason X, Piranha New To Me: 15 - Dolls, Borderlands, Child’s Play (2019), Memory: Origins Of Alien, Who Can Kill A Child?, The Seventh Curse, Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde, Hell House LLC 2, The Red Queen Kills Seven Times, Bones, Hobo With A Shotgun, Without Name, The Doll, The Hitch-Hiker Finally Watching Owned Movies: 8 - Werewolf Of London, She-Wolf Of London, Isle Of The Snake People, Creature From The Black Lagoon, Revenge Of The Creature, Paranormal Activity, Eyes Without A Face, Phantom Of The Opera
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SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #5: Tourist Trap – Brazil! 24. This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse 1967  This is my first encounter with Coffin Joe, and I don't think I'll seek out the rest of the trilogy. Joe is exonerated for whatever crimes he committed in the first film, but he gets right back to the shenanigans, kidnapping local hotties and testing them to find one to be his perfect bride and grant him immortality through a child. His technicolor hell-dream is pretty cool, but Joe spends the entire film espousing his terrible views and mostly being rewarded for it until his inevitable defeat. At least he gets defeated? /5SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #4: Inktober The movie just oozes artistry, but the main mystery revolves around a missing painting, and a wall drawing that I want on a drat t-shirt. There’s this, I guess, but I kind of want the tree and background and everything. Find me a better shirt! 25. Deep Red  I've found giallo to be pretty hit and miss, but I have yet to be disappointed by Argento's main trilogy. I still have to watch Opera, at some point. Goblin soundtrack best horror soundtrack. Beautiful sets and cinematography. Coherent plot. The mystery maybe goes on for a little too long but it's a pretty enjoyable and creepy ride. /5I don't think I'm going to count this for the challenge because I watched it before the challenge existed and that doesn't feel right. 26. Lawnmower Man  VR for Algernon? Pierce Brosnan is a scientist working on brain development through VR. After his chimp subject escapes and is killed, he takes a work sabbatical and decides his next subject should be Jobe, the mentally handicapped man who mows his lawn. Jobe's best friend is Peter, the kid who lives next door to Pierce with his mom and abusive dad. Jobe develops exponentially fast, and then uses his newfound abilities for evil, due to corporate meddling. Or good? He kills a bunch of people who have wronged him. Then he uploads himself to the internet. It was entertainingly goofy in a real 90's way. The effects have not aged well at all, but that kind of adds to the charm. /5
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Let me tell you how bummed I am that while I'll probably watch Sweet Home as one of the last parts of my personal challenge, it has a game that never came to the states and is largely credited as the first run or inspiration for the Resident Evil games, but the game was apparently released later the same year and adapted from the film and not the other way around 
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Oct 23, 2019 15:44
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17. I am not a Serial Killer On paper, this one is right up my alley. The story focuses on a serial-killer obsessed outcast kid in town who is suspected when people in town start dying in terrible ways. Christopher Lloyd is a nearby neighbor that the kid does chores for occasionally. I can't pinpoint it exactly, but something about this movie just falls flat for me. The guy playing the main character is good, Christopher Lloyd does a good job as always, but overall the full picture just didn't really grab my interest. The movie feels like it's missing something, but I'm having a hard time articulating what that is. It's very possible I'll enjoy this one more on a rewatch later on. 2/5 18. Monster Squad I love the sense of playfulness in this movie. In general, I'm always game for a movie about kids banding together to overcome some kind of supernatural foe without parental assistance. There's plenty of good humor throughout, the pacing is great, overall it's mostly a really fun time. The homophobic slurs and the general sexism definitely sticks out, but other than that, I would recommend this one to most. 4/5 19. A Horrible Way to Die After enjoying You're Next so much on a rewatch, I decided to seek out more of Wingard and Barrett's films. This film was pretty excellent. A woman's ex-boyfriend was one of the most prolific and infamous serial killers in the United States. She is trying to put her life back together while he is also trying to accomplish something... The film feels really bleak and cold and reminds me a little bit of Fincher's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." There's a good back and forth showing events from their past together juxtaposed with her starting a new relationship in the present day. My main beef with the film is that it is all filmed with handheld cameras and sometimes the wobbly camera is so exaggerated that instead of focusing on the story, I'm taken out of it to boggle at the choice to move the camera so much at certain points. Aside from that, I wholly recommend this one. It's tense, well acted, and really good. 4/5 20 Rosemary's Baby First of all, Polanski is a disgusting creep. Second, This movie is incredibly good and layered with ominous foreshadowing. I had never seen this before and actually didn't know much about it going in to the movie. I think I had mixed this one up with "The Omen." The tension ratchets up as the movie progresses and Mia is excellent at playing frail and subservient until finally becoming frantic and furious. She completely sells the mental and physical anguish of discovering that everyone close to her were manipulating and using her for their own purposes. The climax of this movie is a hell of a thing. It's unbelievably tense and I had no idea how things would play out. It's a great film. 5/5 -- Polanski gets a 0/5 for being a garbage sewer monster
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Oct 23, 2019 15:51
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Hey Fran, if I were to watch the fan edit of Silent Hill that’s floating around, would that count as a new movie? I saw the original years and years ago, but the fan edit removes an entire character and changes the ending, among other things, and I’ve always been curious about it.
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Oct 23, 2019 16:18
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Anonymous Robot posted:Hey Fran, if I were to watch the fan edit of Silent Hill that’s floating around, would that count as a new movie? I saw the original years and years ago, but the fan edit removes an entire character and changes the ending, among other things, and I’ve always been curious about it. Yeah, it can count. It'd be a little unfair if I said no, after allowing Halloween 6 Producer's Cut. Is the run-time at least still feature-length?
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Oct 23, 2019 16:21
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Because I've always been morbidly curious and it's relevant to today's challenge, is there any value whatsoever to be gleaned from Uwe Boll's filmography, just from the sheer trainwreck factor, or is it too unwatchable even for that?
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Trash Boat posted:Because I've always been morbidly curious and it's relevant to today's challenge, is there any value whatsoever to be gleaned from Uwe Boll's filmography, just from the sheer trainwreck factor, or is it too unwatchable even for that? I've only seen House of the Dead, and it's fascinating with how bad it is. Just a lot of bizarre choices.
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Franchescanado posted:SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #8: Happy Holidays!  100) Home for the Holidays - 1972 - Prime I'd thought I'd seen this at some point since the poster/coverbox looked so familiar. Turns out I haven't since this is the first time I've seen Sally Field so young in something. Originally a TV movie of the week, this is exactly what you'd expect for the early 70s. Dying man has his four daughters come home around Christmas to tell them he believes he's been poisoned by his current wife who was accused of murdering her first husband. While the daughters are trying to find proof of their stepmother trying to kill him, someone in a yellow raincoat with a pitchfork's killing people off. Overall, it's okay for a TV something from the 70s. At times it feels like it's swinging more towards soap opera drama than a horror film. While I wouldn't go out of my way to see this again, it's something I could have on for background noise.  100) Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives - 1986 - DVD With the negative reaction to the last film, the concept of Tommy becoming the new 'Jason' was dropped. Instead he ends up re-institutionalized after the events of the last film and now looks to ensure Jason is truly dead. Of course, things go wrong and Jason is resurrected as a super zombie. The actor who played Tommy last film did not reprise the role as he'd quit acting at the time and entered seminary. I really liked this one since it not only had humor, music from Alice Cooper, it also expanded aspects of the franchise's 'world'. Crystal Lake changes its name to Forest Green to distance itself from the Camp Blood murders. Jason's been relegated to a local urban legend. For the first time, we have children at the camp, and Tommy's presumed to be having a relapse with all this Jason's Back talk. My favorite story connected with the movie is from an interview with the director. After shooting, he took home Jason's tombstone and put it in his backyard. When the meter reader came around, he freaked when he saw the tombstone. Overall, a fine entry to the franchise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qU0lLBzJ1w  101) Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood - 1988 - DVD This one's an interesting entry in the franchise. Compared to the other films, it's fairly tame and practically bloodless. It turns out that due to the long building backlash by the various concerns groups, the MPAA was brutal in its demanding edits. The film was chopped down further when released on home video. Some of the deleted footage was included in the Paramount box set and later in the '09 deluxe DVD release as extras. The possibility of a fully restored version is impossible since some of the deleted footage was destroyed in the early '90s. It was originally planned for this entry to be Freddy vs Jason but the studios couldn't come to an agreement. The film introduces paranormal powers beyond Jason's reanimation with Tina's telekinesis. It's kinda sad the franchise did nothing with the concept after this film. Storywise it's pretty formulaic. If you're a completionist, it's worth sitting through otherwise you can skip over this and not miss anything critical.
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Oh poo poo isn't there a Postal movie? edit-- Would Monster Squad fit for the monster mash challenge? I mean, they're all... vaguely humanoid monsters, but very obviously monsters nonetheless. Am I overthinking this?
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can't talk about Uwe Boll without remembering the time he beat up Lowtax in a boxing match https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1ajzcGsLaA COOL CORN posted:Oh poo poo isn't there a Postal movie? no reason the monsters can't be humanoid, otherwise none of the Universal crossover films would count either
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 #29. The Wolf Man (1941) (Starz) "Aw shucks" palooka Larry Talbot arrives home in the Welsh countryside from America, only to fall in love with a pretty girl... and get attacked by a werewolf. Now Larry turns into a bulbous, hairy monster at night and roams around the countryside, killing people. Can he break this curse, or will he end up eating his lady love? Was looking for something short and relatively non-involving last night. This one seemed to fit the bill, being that it's prone to long stretches of not much happening and bouts of repetition. (I really don't need to hear either of those long, drawn out poems ever again, since each is said approximately 364 times throughout.) I can understand the point of having Lon Chaney Jr. stick out like a sore thumb against the rest of the English cast, but eh. At least Claude Rains was on hand to liven things up. I'm not a terribly huge fan of the Wolf Man makeup design, and all of the descendants of this film were smart to drop a lot of the miscellaneous werewolf myth cruft that this film had, like wolf's bane and pentagrams and the like. The best moment was still the Wolf Man getting his foot caught in the one bear trap in the whole wide forest(?) and flopping around like a fish on a line; that cracked me up. The rest of it I can take or leave.  /5Watched so far: The Curse of Frankenstein, Villains, Horror of Dracula, You're Next, House on Haunted Hill (1959), Halloween 4, Army of Darkness, A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), The Fly (1986), Joker, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Beyond the Gates, The First Purge, Rodan, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Halloween II (1981), The Addams Family (2019), The Mummy (1932), Jason X, It Stains the Sands Red, The Invisible Man (1933), Zombieland, Terrified, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, Chopping Mall, Halloween 6, Thirteen Ghosts (2001), The Wolf Man (1941)
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COOL CORN posted:Oh poo poo isn't there a Postal movie? I think we've all been overthinking the rules this year but it's kinda fun to do that. We are super serious about our horror viewing. Anyway Monster Squad has to qualify, it's like the platonic ideal of that challenge so I can't imagine how it wouldn't.
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Egbert Souse posted:Universal did a real hatchet job on the film prior to release, cutting a lot of scenes with the Monster because he had dialogue. Apparently, preview audiences didn't appreciate the Hungarian accent, even though it's consistent with the end of Ghost of Frankenstein. But that's why there's a lot of continuity issues. Yeah I had assumed the end of Ghost of Frankenstein was why Bela Lugosi was playing the monster, but they seemed to just retcon that whole movie.
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I've come to really respect Lon Chaney Jr.'s work but I still find it kinda ridiculous that he was like the go-to monster guy for Universal to the point that he played Frankenstein's monster, Dracula, Wolfman AND the Mummy.
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Franchescanado posted:SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #9: Hackers  #137) Oneechanbara: The Movie (2008), a.k.a., Chanbara Beauty: The Movie, a.k.a., Zombie Killer - Sexy As Hell, a.k.a., Onechanbara - Zombie Bikini Squad Tubi. Adapted from the budget-line game series. A katana-wielding, cowboy-hat-wearing woman woman slices up zombies in a post-apocalyptic "20XX" Japanese setting. Not nearly as bloody as I was hoping; there's lots of digital sprays, and some digital splashing on the camera, but no blood on the actresses. That's mainly weird because there's a power-up mode in the games for when you get enough zombie blood covering your character. And wow, there's some bad voice-acting in this dub. I was impressed at how much the sidekick guy looked like a videogame character, though. Stale drama and cookie-cutter emotional arcs drag things down, but the fight choreography is decent, as is the make-up on the zombies. I'll also give the film credit for achieving a consistent style with its lighting, even though that style is dim and dingy (at least it makes the outdoors daylight showdown scene pop that much more). Plot-wise, there's no surprises, as the characters essentially tell you what's going to happen when they sit down to explain their motivations to each other about twenty minutes in. There's also not nearly as much sexploitation or T&A as the alternate titles and costuming might suggest. The main character just happens to wear a bikini all the time, for reasons that are never addressed (or if they were, I was too busy retrieving balls of yarn from my cat to notice). If they'd gone all-out with capitalizing on the silliness of the premise, this could have been something on par with Lady Ninja Kaede 2, but that's not the case. As it is, this will probably fade from my memory in short order. rating: 5/10"What my research really needs is corpses from my hometown."
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