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Post by darkwingdork on Nov 1, 2013 10:22:01 GMT -5
I watched Halloween and Halloween II last night for obvious reasons. And I have to say, 35 years later, the original is still pretty darn good. John Carpenter's music score and direction are intense as hell, and Dean Cundey's cinematography real gives Haddonfield an unnatural, surreal atmosphere. Kind of like a Phantasm movie. Jamie Lee Curtis is great as the timid teenager in her first film, and of course Donald Pleasance steals the show as Dr. Loomis. The night HE came home...The lack of Cundey in subsequent films really hurt the franchise. As for Halloween II, I'm in the camp that likes that film and considers it a worthwhile followup to the original. Yes, you see Michael way too much, the kills are a lot more gratuitous and Rick Rosenthal isn't as strong a director as John Carpenter, but I feel the film still captures the scary atmosphere of the original (thanks again to Cundey) and the hospital setting is creepy. Watch 'em back to back for 3 hours of terror and suspense.
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Post by Letch Crayak on Dec 6, 2013 17:36:36 GMT -5
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Post by darkwingdork on Feb 21, 2014 13:42:02 GMT -5
I just created a TV Tropes page for this, so I might as well hawk it here, too. The story of one man's revenge, with a monster truck. A piece of Canadian filth so obvious in its exploitation that it doesn't even bother to hide the phallic drill on the front of the vehicle. Do you like evil rednecks getting run over with monster trucks? This movie is for you! Run b*tch, run!It's the story of a trucker seeking to kill Ned Beatty and his evil sons with a truck of destruction, all for our sick amusement. Hooray for Canadian tax shelters, otherwise we'd have been denied this fine piece of cinema. The movie where Ned Beatty makes YOU squeal like a pig.
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Post by Letch Crayak on Feb 28, 2014 14:41:25 GMT -5
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Post by Letch Crayak on Mar 2, 2014 7:45:43 GMT -5
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Post by formaldehyde on Apr 8, 2014 13:58:47 GMT -5
Just watched Frankenstein's Army last night, an independent found-footage film where a bunch of Soviets discover horrible mutant "zombots" created by the mad scientist Dr. Frankenstein. It was pretty silly, but the monsters were incredible.
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Post by darkwingdork on Jun 3, 2014 7:48:57 GMT -5
Anybody ever see the movie "Mikey"? From the 90s? It's a pretty messed up movie. I saw it on HBO, back before they became the "respectable" network they are today.
Brian, Bonsall, little kid from "Family Ties" is a psycho killer. It's pretty disturbing, kind of like Macaulay Culkin in "The Good Son" but more B-movieish. I can't recommend watching it, but you may be tempted to watch it out of morbid curiosity as in "My god, why was this movie made?" Also, Ferris Bueller's dad dies.
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Post by Letch Crayak on Jun 3, 2014 14:46:10 GMT -5
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Post by Letch Crayak on Aug 30, 2014 14:39:39 GMT -5
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Post by darkwingdork on Aug 31, 2014 8:02:50 GMT -5
Tim Ritter is attempting a fifth Truth or Dare? film through IndieGoGo. As a fan, I thought I'd thought link to the fundraiser here. Hope that's awwwright: Hey, with as much as I try to plug my Patreon page (see what I did there?) who am I to question crowdsourcing? You're doing God's work, sir.
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Post by Letch Crayak on Sept 1, 2014 13:46:22 GMT -5
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Post by Letch Crayak on Oct 13, 2014 19:54:16 GMT -5
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Post by darkwingdork on Oct 21, 2014 12:02:52 GMT -5
Just watched "The Town that Dreaded Sundown," and interesting bit of 1970s regional filmmaking. A horror movie from 1976 that straddles the slasher movie period between early work like "Black Christmas" and "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and later films "Halloween" and "Friday the 13th". Strange bit of 1970s exploitation trash based on the true story of the Phantom Killer, a mysterious serial killer that terrorized Texarkana in post-World War II East Texas. Like a lot of regional horror filmmaking from that era, there's an uncomfortable balance between terror and comedy, with an inept deputy played by director Charles B. Pierce showing up to be an idiot from time to time. The attack scenes have a nice, sinister tone to them, I can understand while this movie was a cult film for all these years. Not a forgotten masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination, it has the typical low-budget "point and shoot" film quality, plus a few super-70s quick zoom-ins during a terror scenes. But still, an entertaining, if disturbing, horror film that helped create a mini-genre during an important transitive period.
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Post by Letch Crayak on Oct 23, 2014 8:44:28 GMT -5
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Post by Letch Crayak on Oct 26, 2014 2:37:39 GMT -5
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