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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Oct 29, 2008 9:40:24 GMT -5
THE BLOB (1988)
My thoughts in the Movie Genre of the Month thread.
RUN LOLA RUN (1998)
After she receives a frantic phone call from her boyfriend, a German girl has 20 minutes to find 100,000 Deutschmarks and run it across town to him or he'll be killed by his gangster boss. Fast paced, stylized and inventive. Enjoyed it.
7.5/10
THE HAPPENING (2008)
M. Night Shyamalan's thriller about an unexplained phenomenon that seems to suddenly overtake people, ultimately resulting in suicide. A really good setup and the scenes of suicide, people jumping off a building, shooting themselves, one man even walks into a lion's den at the zoo, are pretty shocking, but those are easily the best parts of this movie which has too many plotholes and, I have to disagree with LDG, some pretty piss-poor performances. Zooey Deschanel acts like an emotionless deer in headlights and Mark Wahlberg reads every line like he's speaking to a 3 year old. Even John Leguizamo looks bored.
Not Shyamalan's worse, that would be LADY IN THE WATER, but it's a far cry from the greatness of THE SIXTH SENSE and UNBREAKABLE.
Come on, M. Night! Get it together! I'm rooting for ya!
5.5/10
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Post by slayrrr666 on Oct 29, 2008 10:11:27 GMT -5
Poltergeist 3-See thoughts in Movie Genre thread.
The Evil Dead-See thoughts in Movie Genre thread.
Christina's House-Absolutely lame and quite terrible slasher/stalker film that succeeds at doing neither very well. The slasher scenes are some of the weakest kills of all (the best one is a vigorous bashing of the head against the floor, knocking them out) while the stalker scenes are lamely done and don't have any pull to them. This one sucks.
1/10
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Post by slayrrr666 on Oct 30, 2008 11:47:50 GMT -5
The Spring-Totally lame non-horror about a town that never ages. Not exactly anything that delivers a bunch of scares, nor the opportunity to. The revealation about what's causing it is a little spooky, but even still, the execution of it is lame. A huge disappointment.
1.5/10
In Her Mother's Footsteps-Again, another non-horror that is more frustrating as it started off so promising about a haunted house forcing horrific visions onto it's new tenet. Eventually, they give way into a romance angle that completely ignores the haunting for well over half the movie, nearly all of it until it remembers this and resumes again the final moments. Again, great idea, lame execution.
2/10
The Black Room-Boris Karloff as evil twins should've been awesome, instead we have again no horror in a film marketed as one. Long stretches of scenes where people ramble on and on about some ill-defined curse in faux-European accents is once again not that scary and we get hardly anything remotely resembling horror.
2/10
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Oct 30, 2008 12:56:25 GMT -5
THE HOWLING (1981)
My thoughts in the Movie Genre of the Month thread.
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Oct 31, 2008 10:16:34 GMT -5
THE DESCENT (2005) (Original Director's Cut)
Hadn't seen this one before and was pretty impressed. Takes a little while to get going, other than the opening accident, but once the real danger is revealed, it's pretty much non-stop action and horror.
Also enjoyed the fact that it didn't feature the horror cliché of having the typical group of teens as the stars, (The nerd, the jock, the quiet girl who rises to the occasion, etc.) but a small group of grown women.
Great creature makeup effects and some good scares.
8.5/10
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Nov 1, 2008 10:00:57 GMT -5
POLTERGEIST (1982)
My thoughts in the Movie Genre of the Month thread.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Nov 1, 2008 10:49:40 GMT -5
Halloween 4-See thoughts in Movie Genre thread.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Nov 2, 2008 11:03:48 GMT -5
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre-See thoughts in Movie Genre thread.
The Wicker Man-See thoughts in Movie Genre thread.
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Nov 2, 2008 12:03:11 GMT -5
CAT PEOPLE (1942)
13 GHOSTS (1960)
D.O.A. (1950)
My thoughts in the Movie Genre of the Month thread.
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Nov 3, 2008 9:30:50 GMT -5
THE STEPFORD WIVES (1975)
LA JETEE (1962)
My thoughts in the Movie Genre of the Month thread.
ALTERED STATES (1980)
William Hurt, in his first film, stars as a scientist researching the effects of sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic drugs. His experiments lead to actual physical changes and an evolutionary regression.
Trippy, mind fuck of a movie with crazy visuals and effects that paved the way for transformation scenes like in THE HOWLING and AMERICAN WEREWOLF....
7/10
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Post by slayrrr666 on Nov 4, 2008 11:09:48 GMT -5
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Nov 4, 2008 16:58:55 GMT -5
THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (1979)
OCEAN'S ELEVEN (1960)
My thoughts in the Movie Genre of the Month thread.
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Post by frankenjohn on Nov 5, 2008 23:26:02 GMT -5
Slayrr, glad to see you enjoyed 30 days of night. really good vampire movie.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall- After a summer of amusing, yet slightly dissapointing comedies, I finally came around to seeing this gem of a movie. The characters are awesome, and their portrayals are handled exquisitely too. Jason Segel and Russell Brand especially are great, and Jonah Hill adds a lot of comedy in a supporting effort. Had a really fun storyline, a good story arc to go with it, and two gut laughs a minute. One of the best comedies since "Wedding Crashers" and "The 40 Year-Old Virgin." A.
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Nov 6, 2008 9:48:56 GMT -5
TRANSAMERICA (2005)
Road trip comedy/drama about a pre-op transsexual (Felicity Huffman) who finds out he has a teenage son, one week before he is to have his final surgery to completely change him into a woman. Huffman, of "DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES" gives such a great performance, a woman playing a man trying to pass as a woman, that a couple of times I forgot it was her.
7/10
YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN (2008)
Adam Sandler plays a superhero-like Israeli agent who fakes his own death so he can escape to America and live out his real dream of being a hair stylist.
Funny concept and there are several laugh out loud moments, but it's too long and it seemed that for every funny moment there was a joke or scene that fell flat.
6.5/10
FREAKY FRIDAY (1976)
My thoughts in the Movie Genre of the Month thread.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Nov 6, 2008 11:05:53 GMT -5
Terror Firmer-For the very first time in my long, honest tradition of watching horror films, I felt the need to shut it off. I just couldn't understand how something this crappy and terrible could ever get made. I never made it past the half-hour mark, it was just that bad. Seeing as how it was also my first taste of a Troma film, I feel justified in saying that my apprehension of avoidance from them was well-justified and it will take a miracle for me to want to watch another one from them again. Beyond absolute shit.
-100/10
Gone in Sixty Seconds-See thoughts in Movie Genre thread.
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