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« Reply #2550 on Sept 28, 2012, 5:08pm » | |
Also fairly recent, The Last Exorcism was pretty effective.
Stir of Echoes, with Kevin Bacon. Little more cerebral, but some cool visuals. Also did I mention Kevin Bacon?
The Company of Wolves -- It's a Red Riding Hood thing. Has Angela Lansbury. More fantastic practical effects.
Near Dark -- Badass vampire shit with Bill Paxton.
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« Reply #2551 on Sept 28, 2012, 5:20pm » | |
Sept 28, 2012, 4:10pm, NadineHurley wrote:| Behind the Mask was so great |
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We have totally eaten breakfast in the restaurant she works in, it is over on Hawthorne.
Sept 28, 2012, 4:49pm, Horned Gramma wrote:
Forgot about that! Weird one.
Sept 28, 2012, 5:01pm, Horned Gramma wrote:
- Rubber: Recent, very low budget, about a sentient tire that has the ability to make people's heads explode. Very strange.
- May: I feel like you have to have seen this one. I hadn't until last year; watched it on recommendation from the Friendly Deester. Having Anna Farris in it would have been enough to sell me, but it was actually very creepy, bloody and funny.
- The early films of Peter Jackson. Also pretty obvious, perhaps, but Bad Taste and ESPECIALLY Dead Alive are among my favorite horror films.
Also watch Slither and Teeth, if you haven't. Honestly I feel like there's a 99% chance you'll have seen anything I can think of, but I'm tryin'. |
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May is so weird. Also Rubber. But you should watch them. Slither! That movie is awesome.
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« Reply #2552 on Sept 28, 2012, 5:20pm » | |
Fido -- suburban, white picket fence-type family keeps a zombie as a pet.
Any of the three films Clive Barker directed -- I mentioned Hellraiser (undeniable fucking classic); Nightbreed is an amazing film as well, if a little dated. I have heard, and I believe, that the director's cut is much better, but it is only just recently seeing the light of day. Still worth watching. Lord of Illusions is pretty good, too, but it suffers from some pretty terrible casting decisions (Scott Bakula). If you're looking for something that will really make you squirm in your seat, watch Hellraiser II: Hellbound. Don't bother with the franchise beyond that, unless you're a fanboy like me.
- Jeepers Creepers, and to only a slightly lesser extent, Jeepers Creepers 2. The first one is about as bleak as horror films get. In fact, I think I'll revisit those myself. Love that shit.
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« Reply #2553 on Sept 28, 2012, 5:24pm » | |
I second HG's recommendations of Rubber and May. Both fantastic horror genre movies in their own right. Although I think Rubber really benefits from watching it with a large group (ie in the theatre). I sas it as one of the midnight screenings at last year's VIFF and the crowd was just eating it up.
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« Reply #2554 on Sept 28, 2012, 5:25pm » | |
Sept 28, 2012, 5:24pm, kymess_jr wrote:| I second HG's recommendations of Rubber and May. Both fantastic horror genre movies in their own right. Although I think Rubber really benefits from watching it with a large group (ie in the theatre). I sas it as one of the midnight screenings at last year's VIFF and the crowd was just eating it up. |
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That sounds fun. HG and I found it on Netflix and watched it, perplexed, in our living room. But I really enjoyed it.
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Apr 13, 2013, 1:08am, weenie wrote:But seriously...those flowers are seriously beautiful and i will curb stomp you if fuck them up.
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« Reply #2555 on Sept 28, 2012, 5:26pm » | |
Sept 28, 2012, 5:20pm, Horned Gramma wrote:Fido -- suburban, white picket fence-type family keeps a zombie as a pet.
Any of the three films Clive Barker directed -- I mentioned Hellraiser (undeniable fucking classic); Nightbreed is an amazing film as well, if a little dated. I have heard, and I believe, that the director's cut is much better, but it is only just recently seeing the light of day. Still worth watching. Lord of Illusions is pretty good, too, but it suffers from some pretty terrible casting decisions (Scott Bakula). If you're looking for something that will really make you squirm in your seat, watch Hellraiser II: Hellbound. Don't bother with the franchise beyond that, unless you're a fanboy like me.
- Jeepers Creepers, and to only a slightly lesser extent, Jeepers Creepers 2. The first one is about as bleak as horror films get. In fact, I think I'll revisit those myself. Love that shit.
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I second these. I will agree with the terrible Bakula casting, but I have a pretty specific image of the character he plays in my head as he recurs in more than one Barker story.
Jeepers Creepers is a classic and super fucked up.
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Apr 13, 2013, 1:08am, weenie wrote:But seriously...those flowers are seriously beautiful and i will curb stomp you if fuck them up.
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« Reply #2556 on Sept 28, 2012, 5:26pm » | |
Ooh, I loved Fido! (And I usually can't handle even a little bit of zombies.) The mix of fifties suburbia and gore was so lovely!
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« Reply #2557 on Sept 28, 2012, 5:26pm » | |
Aww damn I didnt see the rest of HG's recs- Fido, Near Dark and Stir of Echoes are also all great! Though I'd say Fido, like Rubber, veers more towards the comedy side of horror.
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« Reply #2558 on Sept 28, 2012, 5:49pm » | |
Definitely true.
Honestly, as much as I enjoyed it, I expected more from Rubber. It's all, like, META META META META THIS IS SO META THAT IT MAKES META SEEM META. Still, it's unlike any other film I've ever seen.
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« Reply #2559 on Sept 28, 2012, 5:49pm » | |
Ok to answer Drew's question from another thread- I'm at the film festival. On day 2 now. I saw three movies yesterday and I just walked out of number three of six planned for today.
This morning I saw two wonderful films that I highly recommend should you get the chance to see them. The first was Wrinkles, an animated feature from Spain (I think?) about the friendship formed between two seniors when they move into an old folks home. Having lived with my Bub and watched her go through dementia, I found it funny, touching and true to form. And not too schmaltzy.
The second one was very schmaltzy at times - and you best believe I cried anyway - but the performances were top notch so I'm looking past it. It was called Any Day Now, starring Alan Cumming and Bill Hader as a gay couple in the seventies who try to adopt a teenage boy with downs syndrome. It'll get a real release for sure and I wouldn't be surprised if Cumming gets some awards season recognition.
And then there was third film, The Comedy, which has the distinction of being the third movie I've ever walked out on. What a complete piece of hipster bullshit that was. I got the feeling it's supposed to be this generations version of Kids, except the problem is hipsters are boring, self-entitled douches that just spend their time riding bikes, spitting PBR on each other, saying things like slave vaginer and cum chugging and talk about hobo dicks and Hitler's good ideas as if it's supposed to be funny and/or shocking but unfortunately is neither, and sometimes they also play stickball with James Murphy. That was probably what duped me into seeing it, James Murphy listed in the cast. Anyway, the kids we followed in Kids had way more value as human beings than these twenty something hipster twats do. I just wish I didn't waste 45 minutes trying to decide if my gut instinct from the first scene was right.
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« Reply #2560 on Sept 28, 2012, 5:50pm » | |
And damn I just typed all that on my phone. My thumbs are tired 
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« Reply #2561 on Sept 28, 2012, 5:57pm » | |
I fucking love Alan Cumming. He has been great in everything I have ever seen him in. He was great in The Birthday Party, even though it sucked. He was rad in Spy Kids. He was fucking perfect as The Great Gazoo in The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas. It'll be twenty years at least, but someday he'll get an apology Oscar for something that he probably doesn't really deserve it for because that is how the Academy works.
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« Reply #2562 on Sept 28, 2012, 6:02pm » | |
Is The Birthday Party that one where they all take E and then yell and Dr. Garbanzoht for (what felt like) 6 hours? Whatever that movie was, it blew.
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« Reply #2563 on Sept 28, 2012, 6:04pm » | |
That's the one. Total bullshit.
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« Reply #2564 on Sept 28, 2012, 6:09pm » | |
I liked the birthday party. Quite a bit.
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