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Grandma's House

When their father dies, Lynn and her younger brother David have to move in with their grandparents. Their mother died already when they were young, so they were told. One morning a dead man is found near their new home. A friend tells David, that it's not the first. Shortly after he sees his grandparents carry a body into the garage - are they the murderers? David calls the sheriff...

Home Sweet Home

An escaped mental patient steals a station wagon and makes his way to the Bradleys' Thanksgiving celebration, where he plans to make them a little less thankful... (I'd recommend this movie to people I don't like.)

Pledge Night

As a silly frat boy prank, Young Sid is boiled in a tub of acid. Years later he returns to wreak havoc on the new generation of brothers in his old fraternity. (Watch this at your own risk.)

I like Grandma's house, I actually had it on the TV yesterday when I was working on my computer.

Home Sweet Home is awful, not even in a good way awful.

I haven't seen Pledge Night since it came out on video, I don't remember it, but I know I've seen it.

Agree. Don't bother with Pledge Night. Unless you're going for death by a bad movie.

I'll stay away

It's one of those late 80's slasher movies that I always get confused with Rush Week, which I also haven't seen in years.

And speaking of college themed slashers, another movie I had on while working on my computer was The Initiation, I have it on a double feature DVD with Mountaintop Motel Massacre. I like The Initiation- it also deals with pledges, and hell week.

Hell Night is also good, pledges must spend the night in a creepy mansion. Great location, great background story. Very likable characters. And Linda Blair is nice to look at.

I actually like the idea of initiations gone wrong at these types of movies, but Pledge Night was a real let-down. I'll look into those movies you've suggested. :)

A more recent one I like, by recent I mean early 2000's is The Hazing- it's like a cross between Hell Night and Night Of The Demons.

Me too, I've always liked that theme in horror. I haven't seen it but there's one from '08 called Frat House Massacre.


Also Night Of The Creeps, and Vamp- both films have the lead characters trying to pledge a fraternity which results in them ending up in dire consequences.

And for sororities- Killer Party, The House On Sorority Row, Black Christmas, Silent Madness, The Initiation of Sarah '78, Nightmare Sisters, Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama.

Just finished watching:

Humongous (1982)



A cabin cruiser carrying four teenagers on a party runs aground in a heavy fog. When the four friends disembark they find themselves on an island of terror and death.

I consider Humongous one of the underrated slashers of the 80's. My only complaint is some of the scenes being too dark.

The final girl was the replacement Nancy Drew on The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries.

The killer was played by Garry Robbins who played one of the 3 brothers in Wrong Turn.

Yes, I thought it was only because of the copy I got.

the cop in "psych" juliet, she played as nancy drew in the 90's...

That's why she looked familiar! .....I mean, I don't watch Nancy Drew.

Hopefully it's something they could fix IF it ever gets an official DVD release.

The Walking Dead editor discusses his work on the Pilot episode -- which took home the 2011 ACE Eddie award for Best Edited One-Hour Series for Commercial Television -- and explains how to make exploding zombie heads emotional.

Q: Congratulations on winning the ACE Eddie award.

A: Thank you! I get an award for going to work to play with zombies, so...

Q: What in your mind makes the Pilot an award-winner?

A: I think there's a confidence in the filmmaking that assumes our audience is going to be intelligent. This episode -- as well as the overall series in general -- really stands out from what most other programs have. I think people were really shocked that it was zombies told in an intelligent way. That sequence with Morgan that starts when he and Rick part ways, and the inter-cutting of Rick going to kill "Bicycle Girl" and Morgan trying to kill his wife -- you're not expecting emotion when you're watching a zombie show. You're expecting a bunch of heads to explode. You do get that, but you're not expecting to actually care about the characters along the way. Also something that I think is so fantastic is not have to spoon-feed things, especially with the sound design and the music. Less is more, whereas other things are just big and bombastic and crazy.

Q: Does that less-is-more philosophy factor into the picture editing as well?

A: Sure. When you have wonderful production design and wonderful and beautiful cinematography, you don't have to cut-cut-cut-cut-cut to keep the story interesting. Rick riding into Atlanta, that's told through a series of only 3 or 4 shots before he gets to the tank. And then the zombies come out...

Q: What sort of editing tricks do you use to heighten the tension and horror?

A: That's the fun in editing: choosing when to show people what they get to see and hiding things from them, misdirecting them by making them think this is what the scary thing is going to be, and then no no no, it's not that, it's actually going to be this. Like, Rick is coming down the hallway in the hospital and it's slow and you don't really know what's coming. It's tense. You hear the tink-tink-tink of the fluorescent lights. Then he comes around and runs into the barricaded doors with the zombies inside and he gets frightened and runs right into a room that's filled with nothing but darkness. And it's just building up to that -- it's so fun pacing that to build the tension so that the audience knows that something is coming and then they see the zombie hands, and then cut-cut-cut, crash, silence, man stuck in a stairwell.

Q: Frank Darabont was very vocal about shooting the series on 16mm film stock to give it a grainy quality. How does that affect the editing.

A: 16mm is beautiful -- it's awesome, especially with the story we're telling and the way [cinematographers] David Tattersall and David Boyd are shooting it. That said, in the cutting room, our dailies look awful [Laughs]. We transfer specifically to benefit the final product, so it doesn't really matter what it looks like in the cutting room. So when you go to color it, you have to remind yourself, "It's gonna look OK, it's gonna look OK." Then you go to the colorist and you look at it and you're like, "Oh my God, it isn't just saturated black and white. It actually is beautiful!"

Q: For comic fans saturated black and white probably sounds perfect. Did you take queues from the comic while editing?

A: We were constantly looking at the comic book. Well, maybe not constantly, but we certainly made sure to know where we were coming from. I did in fact look at the comic book a couple times while doing the Pilot, but in the end it's about telling the best story with what you have. But Robert Kirkman was there and Frank is so in tune with the tone and the story that I think all that kind of naturally infuses into the dailies and storytelling.

Q: Thus far you've worked with Frank on The Shield, The Mist and The Walking Dead. Do you feel like one of his signature crew members yet?

A: There's this group of people that work with Frank over and over again, and I've been fortunate enough to go and play with him three times. There's just this whole big group of people that work with him all the time. I think that's a testament to him, his loyalty to people, but also people wanting to come back to work with him over and over again. And I will be back for Season 2. For more zombies. [Laughs]

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It makes me think of the scene in Doghouse where the zombie lady is dipping severed fingers into the cake frosting.

Still the best ending theme to a horror film-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6kmD5upbcE&feature=related

It'll be a killer party.

Highly recommended!

Just finished watching:



Night Warning (1983)



Since the death of his parents fourteen years ago, Billy Lynch has been raised by his over-protective aunt Cheryl. But once he turns seventeen, he is soon set on planning his life...without her. He's planing on going on to college and is dating local girl Julie. None of which sits well for his aunt, who's lost everyone else in her life and now with her nephew ready to leave, ensures she starts on a campaign to keep him with her...forever.But as her plans misfire she becomes swept up in a cycle of psychosis and frenzied violence all being blamed on Billy by everyone else...including a homophobic detective, who's anti-gay prejudice is steadily reaching its zenith...leading to an unforeseeable outcome.

I highly enjoyed Night Warning. What a great underrated performance from Susan Tyrell(and what a great voice she has)