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 Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:26 pm
Hairy Priest What's better, Romero's Dawn of the Dead, or the recent remake? I've only seen the remake... I thought it was okay. Some of the zombies were rather... athletic. Not at all like the walking stiffs they are in Romero's movies. I've also seen both Resident Evil movies. Somehow I think the director missed the point... instead of making a horror movie, he made an action movie with zombies. It was all rather silly, really. No question: Romero wins in my book. Eh...the re-make was...okay....I guess. Besides the zombies being Olympic Gold runners, the characters were boring with their drama, and the gore was medicore. Now that I think about it, I suppose I didn't like this film much. exclaim I hate (no wait, loathe) when Hollywood takes a good game to make a crap movie. In fact, Hollywood takes good original ideas to make crap movies...so I'm not too surprised. scream
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Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:31 pm
Roobarb I like Evil Dead 2. It makes me laugh. Hail to the King, Baby. wink
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Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:38 pm
Hairy Priest Roobarb I like Evil Dead 2. It makes me laugh. I have all three movies on DVD (Evil Dead 1 & 2, Army of Darkness). Ash rocks! The continuity between the 3 movies is a complete and utter mess. In fact, one either has to assume that the 1st movie was ignored by ED2, or Ash is one sick b*****d for taking his new girlfriend to the same haunted house... I have all 3 movies spliced into one long movie. We called it: "Never Run Out of Sugar, Baby!" wink And, yeah, I have them seperate as well. The continuity is because of money. Sam Rami didn't have the green to make the first one properly. The second one was funded. And the difference: obvious. exclaim 3nodding wink
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Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:05 am
Oh, I also saw another movie called "Dagon". Which is named after a Lovecraft short story, though it's more like "Shadow Over Innsmouth" than the story it's actually named after. It was watchable, but not really all that good. Only one truly disturbing scene, and it just seems tacked on to increase the gore factor.
Plus they set it in Spain for no apparent reason. Like "The Two Doctors".
On a tangential note, I'm reading the Marvel Zombies HC comic at the moment. Yeah... superhero zombies going around eating people. Weird.
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Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 1:13 am
Hairy Priest Oh, I also saw another movie called "Dagon". Which is named after a Lovecraft short story, though it's more like "Shadow Over Innsmouth" than the story it's actually named after. It was watchable, but not really all that good. Only one truly disturbing scene, and it just seems tacked on to increase the gore factor. Plus they set it in Spain for no apparent reason. Like "The Two Doctors". On a tangential note, I'm reading the Marvel Zombies HC comic at the moment. Yeah... superhero zombies going around eating people. Weird. Yeah, Lovecraft stories tend to be much better than the sloppy films. I mean, I like Re-Animator and all, but as a Lovecraft film? No. As a humorous film? Hell yeah! Zombies eating anyone is a good thing. domokun
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Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 1:23 am
Yesterday, when playing Dead Rising, one of my allies got eaten.
Those "Survivor Killed by Zombies" cutscenes are awesome
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:12 am
Stresshog Yesterday, when playing Dead Rising, one of my allies got eaten. Those "Survivor Killed by Zombies" cutscenes are awesomeHell Yeah! I SO want to play this!
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:09 am
I like classic horror best - the old Universal Studios films are still great fun to watch.
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:26 am
Wind-Whisper I like classic horror best - the old Universal Studios films are still great fun to watch. I'm all about the Classics, Wind Whisper. My favorite actress is the 1920's silent film star Theda Bara. She is AMAZING in "A Fool There Was." And I LOVE Hammer Horror: Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, what more could you ask for? (add in Vincent Price and it seals the deal) wink Universal is great as well. Bela Lugosi set the "vampire" standard. I'm also quite a fan of "London After Midnight." domokun domokun domokun
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:44 pm
Oh, I'm kinda like the stereotypical horror movie fan boy, except for the stereotypical horror film fan part.
I'm quite a fan of the genre, when it's done properly, and dislike the mainstream critic's attitude towards films that are classics in their own right, like Nightmare on Elm Street. Halloween, Psycho, and for some reason Last House on the Left get all the love from the mainstream, while great films like the Original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, House of 1000 Corpses, and the Devil's Rejects don't get the love they deserve.
Granted, I am more of a fan of the classics. Night of the Living Dead. The Crazies. Dawn of the Dead. Hell, Romero's always good (I met the man... He's ******** awesome). Roger Corman's a favorite director of mine.
Some of my top horror films:
SLiTHER (it was amazing beyond all belief)
Romero's Dead films (except Day, which sucked monkey p***s)
The Haunting (1962)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original... ******** most atmospheric thing I've ever seen)
Mad Love (really unsettling Todd Browning film)
Least Favorite Classics:
Rosemary's Baby (Some satanists want me to have the devil's baby! Do you have a perscription for that)
The Exorcist (Some powerful devil. He makes you puke, levitate and masturbate. It's more like Satan's retarded nephew)
Last House on the Left (A thriller that's half The Virgin Spring, Half Home Alone)
Most horror movies, no matter how seriously they take themselves, lack suspense. And I don't like it when they take themselves too seriously. Which is why I liked SLiTHER. It managed to show that you can have a sense of humor, but still make it scary as hell.
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 12:51 am
Newski Oh, I'm kinda like the stereotypical horror movie fan boy, except for the stereotypical horror film fan part. I'm quite a fan of the genre, when it's done properly, and dislike the mainstream critic's attitude towards films that are classics in their own right, like Nightmare on Elm Street. Halloween, Psycho, and for some reason Last House on the Left get all the love from the mainstream, while great films like the Original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, House of 1000 Corpses, and the Devil's Rejects don't get the love they deserve. Granted, I am more of a fan of the classics. Night of the Living Dead. The Crazies. Dawn of the Dead. Hell, Romero's always good (I met the man... He's ******** awesome). Roger Corman's a favorite director of mine. Some of my top horror films: SLiTHER (it was amazing beyond all belief) Romero's Dead films (except Day, which sucked monkey p***s) The Haunting (1962) Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original... ******** most atmospheric thing I've ever seen) Mad Love (really unsettling Todd Browning film) Least Favorite Classics: Rosemary's Baby (Some satanists want me to have the devil's baby! Do you have a perscription for that) The Exorcist (Some powerful devil. He makes you puke, levitate and masturbate. It's more like Satan's retarded nephew) Last House on the Left (A thriller that's half The Virgin Spring, Half Home Alone) Most horror movies, no matter how seriously they take themselves, lack suspense. And I don't like it when they take themselves too seriously. Which is why I liked SLiTHER. It managed to show that you can have a sense of humor, but still make it scary as hell. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original of course) is my FAVORITE scary film. Slither, on the other hand....is pretty awful. I loathe most current horror, it is crap. Pure, 100%, dull, over-done crap. That movie falls into this...along with Darkness Falls, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Hostel, and Jeepers Creepers. (many more fit in here.) And remakes make me ill. scream The Exorcist, IMO, is a good movie....not a good SCARY movie. It really wasn't frightening, unless of course it is happening to you. The same could be said about the others you have listed: Last House on the Left is scary (in thought) because that could happen to someone. No ghosts, no ghouls, no undead....just the terror that is known as humanity. As for Rosemary's Baby....I like this movie for the fact that she ACCEPTS it. Not often when evil wins, but when it does it's a beautiful thing. twisted How can you even say that Day of the Dead was the worst? It had the BEST zombie eating humans scenes ever. I think Dawn of the Dead was more blah blah blah not enough gore. I felt like that film lasted 300 years. scream
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 7:17 am
Day of the Dead lacked the insight that the previous films had. Night of the Living Dead was George Romero's dissatifaction at the way the "revolution" of the sixties was going. He was, like many others, an anti war liberal activist (not a hippie, though) and he made a movie that represented the apathy to the problems of the world (which is why its the black guy who starts calling the shots. Think of the Clash Song "White Riot"). Also, the revolution is seen as useless.
Dawn of the Dead was a satirical take on our consumer culture.
Land of the Dead was an allegory for Post 9-11 America, where the people are put under strict security, and these are the people who claim they are the freeest on Earth. Meanwhile, it addresses poverty issues, and how to rise up it sometimes takes stepping over other people, and why that is necessarily a bad thing.
I'm not over analyzing..... I got this from the man himself. His interviews, his commentaries, and meeting him (he's a nice guy, and he's like 6 ft 6 and talks like Stan Lee).
Day of the Dead was reallly nothing.
SLiTHER is a brilliant ode to the 1980's campy horror films like "Basket Case" and other "Body Horror" films. It's better then most modern horror, but that's not hard to do, but I saw it (the same weekend I met Romero) with the Director and cast and Crew. I liked the stuff James Gunn wrote for Troma, and though the remake of Dawn of the Dead wasn't that good, I thought it suffered from A. Being a Remake and B. Bad Direction and the screenplay was something that couldn't have been good in the remake. I thought the Scooby Doo films were perfect adaptions of the cartoons, just not good movies.
I expected a "Big Budget Troma Film" out of SLiTHER. Funny, goofy, crappy gore and sex. Boy was I wrong. I didn't think James Gunn was capable of anything but comedy. I mean, I pointe dout why I am biased, but goddamn. It's still one fo the best reviewed movies of the year. It was more creative then these "torture" films like Hostel and Saw or those teen crapfests.
SLiTHER actually had me at the edge of my seat. I can't think of a movie that has done that besides SLiTHER and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 12:38 am
Newski Day of the Dead lacked the insight that the previous films had. Night of the Living Dead was George Romero's dissatifaction at the way the "revolution" of the sixties was going. He was, like many others, an anti war liberal activist (not a hippie, though) and he made a movie that represented the apathy to the problems of the world (which is why its the black guy who starts calling the shots. Think of the Clash Song "White Riot"). Also, the revolution is seen as useless. Dawn of the Dead was a satirical take on our consumer culture. Land of the Dead was an allegory for Post 9-11 America, where the people are put under strict security, and these are the people who claim they are the freeest on Earth. Meanwhile, it addresses poverty issues, and how to rise up it sometimes takes stepping over other people, and why that is necessarily a bad thing. I'm not over analyzing..... I got this from the man himself. His interviews, his commentaries, and meeting him (he's a nice guy, and he's like 6 ft 6 and talks like Stan Lee). Day of the Dead was reallly nothing. SLiTHER is a brilliant ode to the 1980's campy horror films like "Basket Case" and other "Body Horror" films. It's better then most modern horror, but that's not hard to do, but I saw it (the same weekend I met Romero) with the Director and cast and Crew. I liked the stuff James Gunn wrote for Troma, and though the remake of Dawn of the Dead wasn't that good, I thought it suffered from A. Being a Remake and B. Bad Direction and the screenplay was something that couldn't have been good in the remake. I thought the Scooby Doo films were perfect adaptions of the cartoons, just not good movies. I expected a "Big Budget Troma Film" out of SLiTHER. Funny, goofy, crappy gore and sex. Boy was I wrong. I didn't think James Gunn was capable of anything but comedy. I mean, I pointe dout why I am biased, but goddamn. It's still one fo the best reviewed movies of the year. It was more creative then these "torture" films like Hostel and Saw or those teen crapfests. SLiTHER actually had me at the edge of my seat. I can't think of a movie that has done that besides SLiTHER and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I have met Romero as well. We talked in great detail about Day of the Dead. He makes a political point in all of the Dead films. And not only that, he makes a point to comment on Humanity, how we would handle this, how we can advance....and I'm happy to say that he does the same for the undead. What a man! I cannot link "edge of my seat" to Slither, TCM yes... I will just agree to disagree on your viewpoint. wink
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 10:49 am
Nothing wrong with Disagreement. At least your not trying to explain to me why Cry Wolf is a good movie.
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 9:25 pm
Newski Nothing wrong with Disagreement. At least your not trying to explain to me why Cry Wolf is a good movie. That is hilarious! lol When you break out your Indie film, Newski, I'll go see it. wink Did you see "Children of Men"....? I loved it. VERY political. exclaim
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