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TV's Frink said:
I hate when people don't give a frame of reference for the ball rating system.
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I just saw BBC's Ghostwatch. *whistle* Scary stuff.
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I imagine it was scarier on the night if you didn't bother to read the television listings.
If you liked that you should check out the similar but different themed Alternative 3 (some people still think that's real).
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Machete Kills
Everything you would expect. Guns,girls,blood,decaptations,explosions,mayhem....
Fecking mental. I loved it!
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Bingowings said:
I imagine it was scarier on the night if you didn't bother to read the television listings.
If you liked that you should check out the similar but different themed Alternative 3 (some people still think that's real).
Totally agree on that, imagine in 1992 flipping through the channels and seeing what was basically "War of the Worlds - 1938" all over again.
I am obviously a skeptical now, at 25, don't believe in any of that, no supernatural, no metaphysics... And I do think the whole thing is pretty scary, well done, even if the acting is a little unconvincing at times... but in 1992 I was 4! I would've crapped my pants!
But then, again, I wasn't born in the UK, nor do I live in an english speaking country, and my parents would've had me in bed way before that.
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'Captain Phillips'
"Oooh, this opening is interesting... aah, at last some tension... I've had quite enough tension now... oy, always with the tension... sigh, its really starting too dra... zzzzzzzzzzzz... huh, what, where am I?... wow Tom Hanks is a great actor in the last 60 seconds."
5/10
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DuracellEnergizer said:
Night of the Demon (1957)
Great movie. The only downside were the close-up shots of the demon - it almost turns an otherwise perfectly sublime film into some goofy kaiju film. It's a minor flaw, though, and not enough to bring the rest of the movie down.
8/10
I also just saw this for the first time.
And despite being a major proponent of less is more, and a huge fan of Tourneur's Cat People which essentially created the principle of suggested horrors...the film may actually work better with the shots because the amount of tensioned suspense is beyond palpable. Additionally you don't quite know for certain whether or not the Demon itself is imagined, just as the final shot leaves a question mark in the viewer's mind.
A staggeringly original picture that ranks amongst the best horror films I've ever seen.
Rarely do I say this but Night of the Demon gets my full 4 alcoholic has-been American former matinee idols out of 4 balls.
Cat People (1942)
One of the best horror films ever. More of a poetic triumph than a straight narrative, which is where the film's strength comes from. Paved the way for all the Val Lewton classics to follow.
4 balls out of 4 complete dumb schmucks who immediately marry a girl who is obviously mentally disturbed.
Curse of the Cat People
Designed as a sequel, this film goes way off the deep end and is really another story entirely with some of the same supporting cast. If you let the story go on its own and try not to question some things, it works as a childhood allegorical fantasy--something that is never really done in media in such a fashion. I'm still perplexed to be honest because it's not exactly a picture to recommend, nor is it a true sequel, nor is it great...but ultimately has a certain timeless beauty that cannot be denied.
3.5 balls out of 4 complete dumb schmucks who immediately marry a girl who is obviously mentally disturbed, later remarry and become a beyond godawful parent who should by no means be in a parental role.
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Spoiler alert!
Isn't Oliver Reed (the character not the actor) in the Cat People films the worst example of a human male going?
A terrible husband who wants to get his wife locked up so he can marry his sexually available work colleague. Blaming his wife because she is too scared to have sex with him (even though she told him about this long before getting married and he still did all the chasing).
In the second film he repeatedly punishes a small child for demonstrating signs of imagination and creativity and locks her up when she seems to be getting too close to his own dirty secrets and saving her poor twisted neighbours from themselves.
Not bad for someone who looks like Buster Crabbe.
You must check out the sidequel to the Cat People films, The Seventh Victim (1943) (if you haven't seen it already).
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captainsolo said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
Night of the Demon (1957)
Great movie. The only downside were the close-up shots of the demon - it almost turns an otherwise perfectly sublime film into some goofy kaiju film. It's a minor flaw, though, and not enough to bring the rest of the movie down.
8/10
I also just saw this for the first time.
And despite being a major proponent of less is more, and a huge fan of Tourneur's Cat People which essentially created the principle of suggested horrors...the film may actually work better with the shots because the amount of tensioned suspense is beyond palpable. Additionally you don't quite know for certain whether or not the Demon itself is imagined, just as the final shot leaves a question mark in the viewer's mind.
I do like the far away shots of the creature. I think that's as far as the filmmakers should have gone with the demon, though.
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The Conjuring. Very, very pleasantly suprised. Usually Wan films are mindless gore horror. This was far from. A- from me.
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The World's End.
Great story, great soundtrack and great drunken fight scenes.
Now feel like watching Shaun of the Dead again.
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12 Years a Slave (2013) 10/10 - Nothing short of a cinematic masterpiece. There are no more words to describe. It needs to be seen.
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Dune (2000) - 6.5/10
Blade Runner (1982) - 8/10
The Phantom of the Opera (1925) - 9/10
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Pacific Rim: Still cartoony, silly, cliched fun, even on the small screen. Yeah, it's predictable and the characters are simplistic, but that's part of the charm of it. It feels like a traditional blockbuster done right. 4 out of 5 Independence Day similarities.
Dirty Harry: My favorite Clint Eastwood film, and one of my favorite films in general. Maybe it starts out a little too slow, but besides that, I adore it. Clint gives an awesome performance and Andrew Robinson is also very effective as the Scorpio killer. And Lalo Schifrin's score is like candy to the ears. The sequels are good too, except for The Enforcer. That's pretty much the definition of lame. 4.5 out of only 5 bullets.
The Fog (1980): Strange to think that Carpenter achieved so much more with so much less when he made Halloween. The Fog is just really boring. It's not scary, it's not entertaining, and worst of all: it's not engaging. The climax is pretty neat, but besides that, it's mostly fast-forwardy stuff. 2 out of 5 lighthouses.
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Mondess122 said:
The Fog (1980): Strange to think that Carpenter achieved so much more with so much less when he made Halloween. The Fog is just really boring. It's not scary, it's not entertaining, and worst of all: it's not engaging. The climax is pretty neat, but besides that, it's mostly fast-forwardy stuff. 2 out of 5 lighthouses.
I had the reverse reaction, myself - I found Halloween rather dull.
At any rate, it's still a better film than the godawful remake with pseudo-Superboy.
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I found it very scarey, at times it repeats the scares of Halloween but has multiple Michaels.
The sound design is amazing.
The bit with the eyeless sailor corpse it one of my all time favourite frights.
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DuracellEnergizer said:
I had the reverse reaction, myself - I found Halloween rather dull.
I really couldn't care less about the characters in The Fog, which is the biggest reason why I was so bored by it. Halloween had a great performance by Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis was really likeable in that. The Fog on the other hand had way too many characters in my opinion, and none of them were all that interesting or likeable. Even the bland characters had a point in Halloween (to get killed, basically). In The Fog, it's "Hey, it's Janet Leigh! Hey, it's Jamie Lee Curtis!" but then they barely do anything.
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Janet Leigh doesn't do much other than channel Murray Hamilton in Jaws.
But Jamie Lee has quality screen time (both her comedy hitchhiker and the disturbing sequence I mentioned earlier) and it's really Adrienne Barbeau's film.
Her performance is utterly gripping and propels the film along, building tension and providing some of the best leprosy infected drowned sailor zombie action to be found in any major motion picture.
Honestly you kids...
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Eh, I thought Barbeau was okay. I don't like her as an actress, but her scenes were the most interesting (although that doesn't mean much).
I'll say this about The Fog though: it's not nearly as bad as Carpenter's The Ward. A poor man's Shutter Island that ends with a bad joke.
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If we are talking awful Carpenter films, Cigarette Burns (2005) is one of the worst films I've ever seen.
It's almost entertainingly awful and I was encourage to see this film as a return to form.
It has one genuine 'laugh out loud it's so bad' moment.
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Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983) - 7/10
Superman: Billion Dollar Limited (1942) - 7/10
The Haunted House (1929) - 9/10
The Tell-Tale Heart (1953) - 9/10
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) - 9/10
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)
This was a good movie - until the priest was killed; from there it went downhill, culminating in one of the worst bullshit excuses for an ending I have ever had the misfortune of seeing.
6/10 (if it wasn't for the atmosphere and creepy imagery that showed up prior to the bullshit, my rating would be far, far lower)
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I haven't seen a film in maybe 4 or 5 months now. Is that unhealthy?
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Unhealthy? No. Unusual? Yes!
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Moth3r said:
The World's End.
Great story, great soundtrack and great drunken fight scenes.
Now feel like watching Shaun of the Dead again.
And....
Great town
Great pubs
Great location
(did I mention it was filmed in my town...no?? well it was filmed in my town)
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Ghost Story (1981) - 7/10
Barbarella (1968) - 7/10
The Howling (1981) - 6/10
Children of Dune (2003) - 7.5/10
Superman: Electric Earthquake (1942) - 7/10
Superman: The Underground World (1943) - 7/10
Superman: Eleventh Hour (1942) - 7/10
Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land (1931) - 9/10
The Skeleton Dance (1929) - 9/10
Wot a Night (1931) - 7/10
The 'Teddy' Bears (1907) - 7/10
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906) - 8/10
Freiheit (1966) - 7/10
Curse of the Blair Witch (1999) - 6/10
The Birds (1963) - 8/10
Pop 'im Pop! (1950) - 7/10
Tweet Dreams (1959) - 6/10
Bunker Hill Bunny (1950) - 6.5/10
A Broken Leghorn (1959) - 8/10
Broom-Stick Bunny (1956) - 7.5/10
Bugs and Thugs (1954) - 8/10
Little Shop of Horrors (director's cut) (1986) - 8/10
Desserts (1999) - 8/10
Ce n'était qu'un rêve (2004) - 7.5/10
Michael Jackson's Ghosts (1997) - 7/10
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) - 7/10
Wicked Pleasures (2002) - 4/10