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Post by Akasha on Feb 3, 2009 14:30:07 GMT -5
What was the last horror movie you watched?
The special edition of My Bloody Valentine. Great deleted scenes. I think they could have added them in better than what they did. You can tell where they are. The film gets brighter. They could have taken some time to adjust that.
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Post by moleman on Feb 17, 2009 23:00:54 GMT -5
Someone lent me a copy of "Dance Of the Dead". Does this qualify as horror? Undead at a prom. A little humor. I sat through it. Not bad.
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Post by Akasha on Feb 17, 2009 23:10:58 GMT -5
Someone lent me a copy of "Dance Of the Dead". Does this qualify as horror? Undead at a prom. A little humor. I sat through it. Not bad. I watched that. It's not bad.
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Post by Miss Dee on Feb 17, 2009 23:27:54 GMT -5
Someone lent me a copy of "Dance Of the Dead". Does this qualify as horror? Undead at a prom. A little humor. I sat through it. Not bad. One of the WZD cities sent me this. I need to watch it. So far have heard good things.
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Post by Iron Rich on Feb 18, 2009 10:31:41 GMT -5
The Orphanage. I usually avoid subtitles but had heard good things about this movie so I watched it. I thought it was very good. The story was very interesting and not predictable. Visually it was stunning at times.
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Post by tenebrae99 on Feb 19, 2009 10:23:47 GMT -5
The Midnight Meat Train. Really liked this one, especialy considering it's a tough story to adapt (it's only 15 pages or so long; not a lot there to get a movie out of). Surprisingly solid acting across the board, especially Vinnie Jones as Mahogany, who conveys a lot without speaking one word until the end.
I have two minor gripes, though. One has to do with faithfulness to the original. A key speech is given to another character (who apparently has superhuman strength or something). I don't normally mind something like this, but in the case, it bugged me a little. It reduces the original speaker -- and sorry for the vague, I'm trying to be as spoiler-free as possible -- to a mindless threat as opposed to the very intelligent and creepy being it is in the story.
My other comes in a bit earlier in the movie: involving the girlfriend and a mutual friend of the couple. One, it feels like padding. Two, it tilts the movie into Standard Horror Cliche areas that the first hour neatly avoids (check out when the photographer first follows Mahogany off the subway; for some reason, that's my favorite moment). It's not bad, but it almost threatens to...ugh, I'm gonna say it, I can't resist...derail the movie.
Overall, though, great movie that should have gotten much better treatment release-wise than it did. Check it out!
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Post by Iron Rich on Feb 19, 2009 10:56:38 GMT -5
The Midnight Meat Train. Really liked this one, especialy considering it's a tough story to adapt (it's only 15 pages or so long; not a lot there to get a movie out of). Surprisingly solid acting across the board, especially Vinnie Jones as Mahogany, who conveys a lot without speaking one word until the end. I have two minor gripes, though. One has to do with faithfulness to the original. A key speech is given to another character (who apparently has superhuman strength or something). I don't normally mind something like this, but in the case, it bugged me a little. It reduces the original speaker -- and sorry for the vague, I'm trying to be as spoiler-free as possible -- to a mindless threat as opposed to the very intelligent and creepy being it is in the story. My other comes in a bit earlier in the movie: involving the girlfriend and a mutual friend of the couple. One, it feels like padding. Two, it tilts the movie into Standard Horror Cliche areas that the first hour neatly avoids (check out when the photographer first follows Mahogany off the subway; for some reason, that's my favorite moment). It's not bad, but it almost threatens to...ugh, I'm gonna say it, I can't resist...derail the movie. Overall, though, great movie that should have gotten much better treatment release-wise than it did. Check it out! I agree that the movie should have had better treatment. This was one of the better movies I've seen in the last few years.
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Post by tenebrae99 on Feb 19, 2009 23:11:19 GMT -5
I agree that the movie should have had better treatment. This was one of the better movies I've seen in the last few years. Agreed. I'm starting to wonder if direct-to-video/DVD might be where it's at. The last few I've seen -- Eden Lake, Jack Brooks, Hatchet -- have been light years better than most mainstream horror movies.
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Post by Iron Rich on Feb 20, 2009 0:08:51 GMT -5
I agree that the movie should have had better treatment. This was one of the better movies I've seen in the last few years. Agreed. I'm starting to wonder if direct-to-video/DVD might be where it's at. The last few I've seen -- Eden Lake, Jack Brooks, Hatchet -- have been light years better than most mainstream horror movies. I feel the same way about all of those films. As long as the studios feel as though horror movies need to appeal to the teen set then direct to DVD will probably be the best choice for good horror.
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Post by bradster on Feb 22, 2009 1:23:42 GMT -5
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 3D (2006) it's obvious they only made this movie to do it in 3D. they didn't care much about the rest of it. the first ten minutes aren't that bad but then it just all becomes nonsense. the zombies really weren't half bad though. as far as the 3D goes on dvd, i'm not big on the red & blue glasses. i might have enjoyed it a little better at the movies with the RealD glasses they use in the theater. you gotta watch this with the attitude that it's just for fun with zombies in 3D or you'll be very upset. the only good thing about these NOTLD remakes, Barbara keeps getting cuter... and Judy wasn't too bad in this one either.
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Post by bradster on Feb 25, 2009 15:48:51 GMT -5
The Midnight Meat Train. Really liked this one, especialy considering it's a tough story to adapt (it's only 15 pages or so long; not a lot there to get a movie out of). Surprisingly solid acting across the board, especially Vinnie Jones as Mahogany, who conveys a lot without speaking one word until the end. Overall, though, great movie that should have gotten much better treatment release-wise than it did. Check it out! This was an awesome movie. i liked it a lot. never seen the orginal or even heard of it elsewhere so it was all new to me. loved the ending too... i was hoping for it to end as it did but doubted it would...so i just sat back and enjoyed it and wasn't disappointed. one of the better movies i've seen in awhile.
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Post by bradster on Mar 11, 2009 10:53:20 GMT -5
QUARANTINE (2008)
Eh. the story for this is actually a good one. but everything else is so obvious and predictable it's annoying. plus it's done with that camera/first person prospective which i'm growing tired of. if it was filmed differently i may have liked it a little more.
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Post by Miss Dee on Mar 15, 2009 15:34:07 GMT -5
Dance of the Dead - 8 out of 10 www.imdb.com/title/tt0926063/On the night of the big High-School Prom, the dead rise to eat the living, and the only people who can stop them are the losers who couldn't get dates to the dance. I liked that this was a somewhat funny zombie flick in the manner of Sean of the Dead. It had lots of blood and gore but there was a lot of tongue in cheek (yes - pun intended - check out the bathroom stall scene towards the end). The garage band holding the zombies at bay was kind of a funny idea. I was sort of distracted working on some emails while watching so I need to check this out again uninterrupted. But I liked what I saw.
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Post by Akasha on Mar 16, 2009 13:11:50 GMT -5
Black Sheep
Not bad at all. Kinda funny. I liked the gore. The sheep cracked me up. The deleted scenes were not so good. Don't bother watching them.
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Post by Iron Rich on Mar 16, 2009 13:56:47 GMT -5
I thought Black Sheep was decent. I liked all of the methane emissions.
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