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Topic: Oh The Horror! (Discuss anything horror related) - part 2
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Wed 03/09/11 06:06 AM




Guess the horror film




The Pit. :)


:smile:


What? No Ding!?


Whoops!...Ding! Ding! Ding!

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Wed 03/09/11 06:07 AM


Guess the horror film




The Pit. :)


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

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Wed 03/09/11 06:09 AM
I have an easy question. Who are your favorite Horror movie(including sub-genres) heroes and why?

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Wed 03/09/11 11:48 AM

I have an easy question. Who are your favorite Horror movie(including sub-genres) heroes and why?


I like-

Ash(Bruce Campbell) from The Evil Dead Trilogy

Ripley(Sigourney Weaver) from the Alien series

Peter Vincent(Roddy McDowall) from the Fright Night movies

Reggie(Reggie Bannister) Phantasm films

Peter(Ken Foree) Dawn Of The Dead '78

Dr. Loomis(Donald Pleasance) Halloween films

Shaun(Simon Pegg) Shaun Of The Dead

Tallahassee(Woody Harrelson) Zombieland

Bruce Campbell(Bruce Campbell) My Name is Bruce

Elvis(Bruce Campbell) and JFK(Ossie Davis) Bubba Ho Tep

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Wed 03/09/11 02:33 PM
Guess the horror film


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Thu 03/10/11 08:56 AM
Just finished watching:

The Abandoned



(IMDb) A film producer who was adopted as a baby and sent to America, returns to her native Russia and the family farm. Once there, strange things begin to happen including the disappearance of her guide, the manifestation of ghosts and the appearance of another man who has been drawn to the farm for the same reasons.

The set pieces here work to the films advantage, as it takes place on a creepy farm in Russia under nighttime scenes, and cloudy dark skies, which are all enhanced to their fullest potential by the movie's dark and sinister tone. The film's look is drowned in blue and gray hues, giving it a washed-out, dreamlike look that fits with the story perfectly. Since, most of the time, everyone in here aren't entirely sure what is real and is what is not most of the time, the dream state palette that employs works towards upping the scare factor a few percentage points. There's a real glossy looking yet gritty, deliciously gloomy atmosphere, with deliberate yet riveting camera movements, a slow and infectious build up and ideal horror-loving settings, with a creepy house, an ominous lake, and a menacing wooden area, with a great style at hand to make it all happen. The setting is eerie, but, interestingly, not terribly dark. This one has a really great feel that takes the main style and tone really work into their own great points, hammered home by it's own set of really beautiful shots and making it seem like there was a real push to make it feel creepy and original, and short of the Gothic classics of earlier, the film has a great atmosphere that comes in a really effective package. The film does have a very high scare factor, mostly perpetuated by the plot. This is mainly done through the means of the ghosts. This is played up with the terrifying idea of their own twin, looking like death on two legs, constantly appearing out of nowhere and stalking them, which is a fantastic idea that generates so many creepy scenes.

On the other hand, there isn't a whole lot of flaws to it, but there is a pretty big one. The fact that this one seems to slow down at the end instead of just ending normally is something to get over. It goes instead of just ending to through up a series of events that keep the film going on even longer than it really should, as this one's set of false endings do get tiresome after a while because it has to deal with the continuous amount of twists injected into it in order to make the film keep going. There's never a sense that it will end soon, and it makes for some really exhaustive times with it. The film's other big flaw is it's really liberal pacing. This one has a really slow part towards the middle part, as all the back-stories are laid out and given time to get going, which in essence doesn't really offer up of anything as there's nothing going on. It's all dialog-driven, and that is a real detriment as there's not a whole lot of excitement to be driven from those types of scenes. As well, it chooses the one point in the film where it gets interesting to give the background information, and all at once, is something to get over, due to the real slow-down it gives to the plot, which had been fine until then. Otherwise, this one here isn't that bad.

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Thu 03/10/11 09:15 AM


I have an easy question. Who are your favorite Horror movie(including sub-genres) heroes and why?


I like-

Ash(Bruce Campbell) from The Evil Dead Trilogy

Ripley(Sigourney Weaver) from the Alien series

Peter Vincent(Roddy McDowall) from the Fright Night movies

Reggie(Reggie Bannister) Phantasm films

Peter(Ken Foree) Dawn Of The Dead '78

Dr. Loomis(Donald Pleasance) Halloween films

Shaun(Simon Pegg) Shaun Of The Dead

Tallahassee(Woody Harrelson) Zombieland

Bruce Campbell(Bruce Campbell) My Name is Bruce

Elvis(Bruce Campbell) and JFK(Ossie Davis) Bubba Ho Tep



Since we have a similar list, I'll just add these:

Agnes Bruckner as Heather Fasulo in The Woods. I actually just watched this movie yesterday and found her character to my liking. Feisty and "talented", she was the only girl who refused to accept her doomed fate, fought back and won.

Lori Cardille as Sarah in Day of the Dead. In the era where almost all the women in zombie movies were either screaming in a corner or helpless, she was brazen enough to stand in the face of a demented military group and zombies!

Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling. Though Silence of the Lambs was more in the Crime/Thriller genre, she has been one of my character favorites. Intelligent and tough, like Sigourney Weaver as Ripley without the aliens.


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Thu 03/10/11 10:28 AM



I have an easy question. Who are your favorite Horror movie(including sub-genres) heroes and why?


I like-

Ash(Bruce Campbell) from The Evil Dead Trilogy

Ripley(Sigourney Weaver) from the Alien series

Peter Vincent(Roddy McDowall) from the Fright Night movies

Reggie(Reggie Bannister) Phantasm films

Peter(Ken Foree) Dawn Of The Dead '78

Dr. Loomis(Donald Pleasance) Halloween films

Shaun(Simon Pegg) Shaun Of The Dead

Tallahassee(Woody Harrelson) Zombieland

Bruce Campbell(Bruce Campbell) My Name is Bruce

Elvis(Bruce Campbell) and JFK(Ossie Davis) Bubba Ho Tep



Since we have a similar list, I'll just add these:

Agnes Bruckner as Heather Fasulo in The Woods. I actually just watched this movie yesterday and found her character to my liking. Feisty and "talented", she was the only girl who refused to accept her doomed fate, fought back and won.

Lori Cardille as Sarah in Day of the Dead. In the era where almost all the women in zombie movies were either screaming in a corner or helpless, she was brazen enough to stand in the face of a demented military group and zombies!

Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling. Though Silence of the Lambs was more in the Crime/Thriller genre, she has been one of my character favorites. Intelligent and tough, like Sigourney Weaver as Ripley without the aliens.




Those are all good too.

Lori Cardille especially, which reminds me of one I forgot- Barbara(Patricia Tallman) from the Night Of The Living Dead remake '90.

Another hero I liked, though he definitely didn't start out as a hero was Bert(Lawrence Tierney) from Midnight '82- he started out as a creepy drunk stepfather, but when his step daughter runs away because of him, and ends up getting abducted by a Satan-worshiping family, he goes on the search for her.

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Thu 03/10/11 10:56 AM
Grindhouse Releasing's DVD release of Pieces has a cool feature, you can select an audio option that let's you watch the movie as if you were seeing it at a crowded movie theater(it was recorded at Vine Theater Hollywood) so you can hear the audience throughout the movie.

Bit of trivia- Grindhouse Releasing is owned by Sly Stallone's son Sage.

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Thu 03/10/11 12:06 PM

Grindhouse Releasing's DVD release of Pieces has a cool feature, you can select an audio option that let's you watch the movie as if you were seeing it at a crowded movie theater(it was recorded at Vine Theater Hollywood) so you can hear the audience throughout the movie.

Bit of trivia- Grindhouse Releasing is owned by Sly Stallone's son Sage.


You can have that option of having an audience by watching a bootleg clear copy. laugh

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Thu 03/10/11 12:09 PM
Edited by red_lace on Thu 03/10/11 12:13 PM
Just finished watching:

Wicked Little Things



In 1913, in Carlton Mine, Addytown, Pennsylvania, the cruel owner of a mine uses poor children in the exploration and after an explosion, a group of children is buried alive. On the present days, Karen Tunny has just lost her husband after a long period of terminal disease when the family savings have been spent in the treatment. Without any money, she moves with her daughters Sarah and Emma to an old house in the mountains that belonged to her husband. Karen is advised by her neighbors to stay at home in the night, and Sarah hears that there are zombies in the area. When Emma becomes friend of Mary, he mother believes she is an imaginary friend. However, when Sarah's friends are attacked and eaten alive by zombie children and Emma vanishes, Karen and Sarah chase her nearby the mine.

The Gravedancers




After the funeral of a old friend who died in a car accident, former school friends Harris, Kira, and Sid break into the local cemetery after dark, and after Sid reads a mysterious incantation he finds on one of the nearby tombstones, they dance on the graves. Soon, the three of them find themselves haunted by three different ghosts whose graves they desecrated. Harris and his wife Allison find themselves haunted by a deranged female pianist/ax murdered. Sid gets haunted by a child pyromaniac. And Kira haunted by a sadistic rapist. All of them turn to a paranormal investigator named Vincent Cochet and his assistant Frances to try to help them break the curse they imposed on themselves before the next full moon when they will be killed by the ghosts wrath.

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Thu 03/10/11 12:12 PM


Grindhouse Releasing's DVD release of Pieces has a cool feature, you can select an audio option that let's you watch the movie as if you were seeing it at a crowded movie theater(it was recorded at Vine Theater Hollywood) so you can hear the audience throughout the movie.

Bit of trivia- Grindhouse Releasing is owned by Sly Stallone's son Sage.


You can have that option of having an audience by watching a bootleg clear copy. laugh


Yes, but with this DVD you also get the choice of the original Spanish language with English subtitles, or the English dubbed version. Plus a cool interview with Paul L Smith. Not to mention the fact that this is the best transfer that has ever been released.

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Thu 03/10/11 12:15 PM

Yes, but with this DVD you also get the choice of the original Spanish language with English subtitles, or the English dubbed version. Plus a cool interview with Paul L Smith. Not to mention the fact that this is the best transfer that has ever been released.


You do know I was just teasing you. :tongue:


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Thu 03/10/11 12:25 PM


Yes, but with this DVD you also get the choice of the original Spanish language with English subtitles, or the English dubbed version. Plus a cool interview with Paul L Smith. Not to mention the fact that this is the best transfer that has ever been released.


You do know I was just teasing you. :tongue:




I got caught up in the moment:tongue:

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Thu 03/10/11 12:37 PM


I got caught up in the moment:tongue:


The English subtitles always do that to you. :tongue:

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Thu 03/10/11 06:59 PM
CASE 39

Ok. (SPOLIER ALERT). You believe that your kid is demon possessed. You have seen proof of it. And so you want to kill the kid, figuring that...well...biatch needs to die. So, instead of opting for...I dunno...a shotgun bullet to the head of the kid, you opt for the next best thing. Drug the kid while she sleeps, grab hold of her, and then walk her down the stairs and toss her....into the oven. Yup. You are gonna cook your kid. You even went to the trouble to dig a grave in the basement of your house. You have gone through all this trouble when all you really needed was.....a freaking shotgun!

Don't worry. I know I spoiled this moment of the film for you, but the demon kid lives. I mean, it happens early in the movie so you know the kid has to live. Then again, had the parents been successful, then maybe the soul of the demon could have taken over a streetwalker, or maybe even the oven itself. Yeah. A possessed oven! I like it. That might sound silly, but when you watch this movie, you will think a possessed oven idea is awesome.

Basically, this movie rips off The Ring, accept the girl isn't dead. Renee Zelwegger plays the Naomi Watts role, only Renee doesn't have a kid of a life....until demon chick comes along. Anyways, if you saw The Ring, then you can pretty much sum up how this movie will go, and who will or won't die. Yeah. It's that predictable.


I still say possessed oven was the way to go.

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Thu 03/10/11 09:07 PM
Since someone already put up spoilers, I might as well get this off my chest.

Case 39 left a lot of questions and didn't seem like a horror movie for me. The concept was frightening, but the movie was not.

I was especially baffled that the little girl, Lilith, who shares a name with Frasier Crane's ex-wife, in turn named after a Hebrew storm demon associated with death, darkness and vengeance demands she be treated and given things a normal little girl would want like ice cream and dresses. Granted going to group therapy is not a run-o'-the-mill kinda stuff, but still nothing like what I would expect from a kid with an evil soul or demon inside of her. I would have thought she'd request something weird like killing or torturing people.

Another is when she was locked in her room by Renee, then appears outside the house complete with a different outfit. Does that mean she has powers to transport herself? Then why not use the same to escape when she was about to get baked or when they were drowning? And what kind of ending was that? It's just pure drivel. Meh.

The evil child plot of this movie was entirely unoriginal and downright predictable. If it's true that they spent $27 million on this film, I'd wonder where they used it.


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Fri 03/11/11 04:41 AM
Penny Dreadful



The title says it all. This is probably the worst movie character I have ever come across with. Granted that she has a phobia, but she has been crying, throwing up, crying, screaming, crying, whimpering and crying since the beginning of the story when nothing was even happening. I don't blame the villain for wanting to kill her. Halfway through the movie, I wanted to strangle her myself. Totally idiotic, useless, helpless and clumsy, the killer didn't need to hurt this lead character since she manages to make all the wrong decisions and hurt herself--more than once.

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Fri 03/11/11 05:12 AM

CASE 39

Ok. (SPOLIER ALERT). You believe that your kid is demon possessed. You have seen proof of it. And so you want to kill the kid, figuring that...well...biatch needs to die. So, instead of opting for...I dunno...a shotgun bullet to the head of the kid, you opt for the next best thing. Drug the kid while she sleeps, grab hold of her, and then walk her down the stairs and toss her....into the oven. Yup. You are gonna cook your kid. You even went to the trouble to dig a grave in the basement of your house. You have gone through all this trouble when all you really needed was.....a freaking shotgun!

Don't worry. I know I spoiled this moment of the film for you, but the demon kid lives. I mean, it happens early in the movie so you know the kid has to live. Then again, had the parents been successful, then maybe the soul of the demon could have taken over a streetwalker, or maybe even the oven itself. Yeah. A possessed oven! I like it. That might sound silly, but when you watch this movie, you will think a possessed oven idea is awesome.

Basically, this movie rips off The Ring, accept the girl isn't dead. Renee Zelwegger plays the Naomi Watts role, only Renee doesn't have a kid of a life....until demon chick comes along. Anyways, if you saw The Ring, then you can pretty much sum up how this movie will go, and who will or won't die. Yeah. It's that predictable.


I still say possessed oven was the way to go.



Well don't forget The Ring isn't original since it's a remake of a far superior Japanese film. And the idea of having an evil child didn't start with Ringu(The Ring) but goes back to films like the original The Omen, and farther back to films like The Bad Seed.

For being a mainstream Hollywood horror flick I enjoyed Case 39...my only complaint about the whole film was Vancouver BC looks nothing like Portland, OR(which I'm assuming the films was supposed to take place since there were OR plates and sky scrapers)

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Fri 03/11/11 05:18 AM





Another is when she was locked in her room by Renee, then appears outside the house complete with a different outfit. Does that mean she has powers to transport herself? Then why not use the same to escape when she was about to get baked or when they were drowning? And what kind of ending was that? It's just pure drivel. Meh.



Because she wanted Renee to be the one to rescue her, she had Renee picked out the moment she met her, and what better way to show Renee's character how "evil" her parents are by having to be rescued from an oven they put her in.


The evil child plot of this movie was entirely unoriginal and downright predictable. If it's true that they spent $27 million on this film, I'd wonder where they used it.




What mainstream Hollywood horror film is original? And If I was only looking for horror films that were original I would only like about 10 horror films. Horror(like all genres) borrows and lifts constantly from other films.

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