ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I am now pretty keen to see these two films. Previously put off by the likes of Mr Zombie. His shite output has blurred my image of what a modern low budget horror movie is. . .
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I am now pretty keen to see these two films. Previously put off by the likes of Mr Zombie. His shite output has blurred my image of what a modern low budget horror movie is. . .
Reno
The In Kraut
ska invita posted the review as "strong case for a clever well-made film". I'm not imagining anything, I gave you my take on the film and I responded to your statements based on a review of a film which you haven't watched. I'm not that interested in those youtube reviews because Halloween Ends doesn't warrant much more of my time and I'd rather spend my time watching films than youtube reviews of films.
Reno
The In Kraut
As a celebrity Zombie had a far easier way into the film industry and than most, but he has always remained a horror movie fan who doesn't understand how good horror movies work. Sure, there are horror fans who just want to see a "cool" monster/killer butcher people in gruesome ways but that doesn't make for an effective horror film in my book. Zombie never shows any interest in the characters who are the protagonists, the victims and the survivor/s. They have no personality with no purpose other than for the meat grinder. Instead he idolises his redneck killers, Zombie seems like the kind of guy who grew up thinking Charles Manson was cool.
If I'm not engaged with the protagonists and am hoping they'll make it, the film has no human engagement, no suspense or tension and it isn't scary to me. That's why I think Terrifier 2 is less mean spirited than anything Zombie has made, despite being far more gruesome. It has likeable characters who I was rooting for, while in Zombie's movies you are supposed to root for the psychos.
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
Waiting for Terrifier 2 to be delivered on Blu-Ray. I guess a digital copy would have been cheaper and quicker, but my Internet's been fucked all week, and I WILL be watching this on Monday
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Well I was wrong X2 anyway. I watched the plinket review (same people) which seemed to suggest though it was flawed there were some decent ideas that could have made a decent film.
I listened to the the actual review this afternoon while deep cleaning a guitar, and it seems they did actually like it. I had no idea there were so many films.
I think I have the first one on DVD somewhere as part of a press issue of a carpenter box set. . . but never got around to watching it.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I remember being actually a bit angry about the house of 1000 corpses when it came out. . . pretty much for the reasons you give. He thinks just loving horror movies is enough, but doesn't understand what was good about the story or how to actually direct a film (or anything about the filmaking process for that matter). . . . I think I was mostly angry that I had to sit through the film to review it.
But yes. Terrifier. . . I'm going to have to check it out.
Reno
The In Kraut
Pearl, the prequel to X, which explores the origin story of its killer. I enjoyed this a lot and may like this even better than X. While the first movie is a rural slasher in the tradition of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, this is a psychological horror film along the lines of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane or Repulsion about a woman going from slightly nuts to homicidally insane. Set in 1918 Texas during the flu pandemic, it has the heightened style of a 50s Technicolor movie made about the past. Mia Goth is great fun in the lead and she co-wrote the screenplay with Ti West. Mostly in supporting roles till now and always a striking presence, reminiscent of Shelly Duvall, hopefully Goth will be getting more lead roles from now. A third film in what is a planned trilogy MaXXXine, is in production.
Martin Scorsese gave this high praise: Martin Scorsese: A24’s ‘Pearl’ Is So ‘Deeply Disturbing’ That I Had Trouble Falling Asleep Afterward
Martin Scorsese gave this high praise: Martin Scorsese: A24’s ‘Pearl’ Is So ‘Deeply Disturbing’ That I Had Trouble Falling Asleep Afterward
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Reno
The In Kraut
Piggy, Spanish horror film which got some praise (I guess for its theme, the body shaming of girls), but which despite a good premise isn't executed well enough. It's about an overweight teenage girl Sara, in a Spanish small town, who gets bullied by the other kids for her weight. When a serial killer starts butchering his way though the population and abducts the three girls who are her main tormentors, Sara has to decide whether to go for help or for revenge.
Characterisation is very thin, we never really get to know our main character apart from that she stress-eats and suffers from all the taunts. It doesn't help that the lead actress isn't very good and 20 years older than the character she plays, though I can see why they couldn't cast an actual teenager. None of the other characters register beyond the one function each has in the plot and while I don't mind the use of the boxy academy ratio, here it makes no sense. Unlike other recent uses of the format (You Won't Be Alone, The Light House) the film isn't visually distinguished enough for this to seem anything other than slightly pretentious.
Characterisation is very thin, we never really get to know our main character apart from that she stress-eats and suffers from all the taunts. It doesn't help that the lead actress isn't very good and 20 years older than the character she plays, though I can see why they couldn't cast an actual teenager. None of the other characters register beyond the one function each has in the plot and while I don't mind the use of the boxy academy ratio, here it makes no sense. Unlike other recent uses of the format (You Won't Be Alone, The Light House) the film isn't visually distinguished enough for this to seem anything other than slightly pretentious.
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DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
I've just checked - out of 43* mentions of the excellent low-key British horror film Paperhouse on this forum, you, May Kasahara, myself and the much-missed Upsidedownwalrus were responsible for a whopping 33**
Bernard Rose should have had us on retainer 
* Now 44
** Make that 34
WhyLikeThis
Something, something, something
Reno
The In Kraut
It is !
bmd
Island in the stream.
I have only just got into the Horror genre. I've never shied away from them, more that I just don't bother until I've nothing else to watch. I recently watched Hereditary and thought it did what a horror film is supposed to do, like The Exorcist. I was reading a review of a film that I didn't really think was horror and it said that there were elements of horror in it, which made me think. It was a war film. War is packed with horrors, so I guess that's correct. Like the Bear Jew scene in Inglorious Basterds.
T & P
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Been looking forward to it. I am guessing you watched through unorthodox channels? Or is it available to stream or rent already?
I did...it's in the pictures though so might be streaming. It would be a good big screen film though I reckon.
Reno
The In Kraut
I also just watched that. Great fun, I enjoyed the unexpected turns it takes.
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
I want to watch The Sadness but I'm not sure I dare 
Reno
The In Kraut
Pearl is very different, it's another sub-genre of horror and I thought it was better than X. The two things I didn't like about X were the obviously old age make-up and I thought that it was silly that they shot the porn film without lighting in very dark lighting conditions. They weren't supposed to be that inexperienced, were they ?
Reno
The In Kraut
That is one of his few films which aren't shit, though its most horrific moment involves shit.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and Ghostbusters: Afterlife are recent horror film which are kid friendly. If your kid watches older movies then how about Poltergeist or Tremors ? I'm a huge fan of the underrated Aussie killer croc movie Rogue from 2006, there is nothing too traumatising in it and I like Super 8 a lot which basically was the blueprint for Stranger Things. The Irish horror comedy Grabbers should be better known and I don't think there is anything too unsuitable in it apart from a severed head and bad language.
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Reno
The In Kraut
There also is this thread, though I think there are quite a few unsuitable recommendations:
www.urban75.net
Horror Movies for kids.
I let my boy aged 8 years old watch Evil Dead 3 last week. He loved it, it's now one of his favourite films. OK, I know it's a 15 but it really doesn't deserve that rating.Theres one swear word in it and some scary faces.:eek: Any more reccomendations for horror films for kids? Nothing...
www.urban75.net
I think my favourite bit in the visit, both our favourite bit, was
that stomach lurch moment when you realise everything is terribly wrong, I LOVE that feeling in films, and we both got it at exactly the same time. I guess it has to be unexpected though.
When the kid is on the phone to his parents and they're like "those aren't your grandparents"
