The Horror Thread - Part 4

[Thundarr]

To say that I'm not a fan of Michael Bay or Platinum Dune remakes in general would be an understatement. However, I actually enjoyed the TCM remake and thought that it was a decent flick. Is it as good as the original, no (mostly do to the fact that it lacked the sheer balls-out insanity of the original). However, it's decently shot, decently paced, decently acted (Jessica Biel and R. Lee Ermey are particularly good), I found it genuinely creepy/unnerving most of the time, the protagonists were all likeable despite being kind of *****e (but they weren't raging unlikeable a-holes like a lot of slasher movie protagonists tend to be, so I felt bad when they died), and even the gore was used mostly effectively.

TCM: The Beginning, on the other hand, was just garbage. It was mean, ugly, hateful, and gratuitous with no context/substance behind it. It wasn't scary, it was just sick and vile, and those are NOT the same thing. R Lee Ermey was the one bright spot in that blight upon cinema.

I just watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning earlier tonight. I didn't dislike it as much as you. The main characters were a bunch of cardboard cutouts, not particularly interesting. And being a prequel, it lacked a lot of the suspense that a film like this should have (kinda obvious how it's all gonna end).

That being said, the Hewits were great as the antagonists. That was pretty much exactly how they should be portrayed, if perhaps a little more subtle in the beginning. Of course, that was the problem with making the movie a prequel. They needed to show how and why they were he way they were. In the first film they just were the way they were, and what made the film scary is not realizing that everyone in town is a part of he Hewit clan. You can't do that in a prequel format. But with Sheriff Hoyt dead and Leatherface with his arm cut off, they couldn't make it a sequel so they made a prequel instead.

Not a great movie by any means, but certainly more watchable than Texas Chainsaw 3D.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Wow, so I've so I've seen some lazy attempts at filmmaking in the horror genre, but I think we are about to see the biggest yet.

http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3318006/cabin-fever-remake-gets-cast-shoots-week/

Cabin Fever, a 12 year old film, is being remade. Eli Roth producing is it. But, the filmmakers are shooting it with the exact same script as the original. No reported changes or anything. Roth himself is saying he considers it like "re=staging a play".

Lets not forget, the second Cabin Fever DTV sequel just hit two month ago.

 

[Joe Von Zombie]

Horror cinema is dead.

 

[Heretic]

I'm convinced that the Cabin Fever: Patient Zero movie that just came out exists because of one scene. It's a funny/cool scene and all...but the movie surrounding it is just SO bad...

As far as a remake goes...it isn't needed. Heck, Patient Zero was billed as a prequel (even though it mentioned earlier outbreaks in small, easily controlled areas) and I think the next movie was going to continue the prequel concept. If you want to keep the franchise going...I don't know...make a good movie???

 

[Thundarr]

Day 20

Jason X

Jaws

 

[NDX]

Wow, so I've so I've seen some lazy attempts at filmmaking in the horror genre, but I think we are about to see the biggest yet.

http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3318006/cabin-fever-remake-gets-cast-shoots-week/

Cabin Fever, a 12 year old film, is being remade. Eli Roth producing is it. But, the filmmakers are shooting it with the exact same script as the original. No reported changes or anything. Roth himself is saying he considers it like "re=staging a play".

Lets not forget, the second Cabin Fever DTV sequel just hit two month ago.

I quit.

 

[Kane52630]

Eh...the original Cabin Fever wasn't all that good to begin with.

 

[Kane52630]

31 Days of Horror Marathon
Day 1: The Night Flier - 8.5/10
Day 2: John Carpenter's Body Bags - 6/10
Day 3: Annabelle - 4/10
Day 4: Resolution - 7/10
Day 5: Suspiria - 8/10
Day 6: Frankenstein's Army - 6/10
Day 7: Ju-on - 8/10
Day 8: The Dead 2: India - 8/10
Day 9: Witchfinder General - 5/10
Day 10: Hellbound: Hellraiser II - 7/10
Day 11: Christine - 8.5/10
Day 12: Dead Silence - 9.5/10 [Rewatch]
Day 13: Gremlins - 8.5/10
Day 14: Nightbreed - 8.5/10
Day 15: The Howling - 7.5/10
Day 16: The Nightmare Before Christmas - 10/10 [Rewatch]
Day 17: Black Sunday - 7/10
Day 18: Jinn - 7.5/10
Day 19: White Zombie - 8/10
Day 20: Birth of the Living Dead - 9/10​

 

[chamber-music]

Reviews of Horror films I watched recently

Life After Beth - I guess you could call this movie a Indie RomZomCom like Shaun Of The Dead but nowhere near as good.

The film wasn't scary enough to be a good Horror film or funny enough to be a good comedy. Solid cast included Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, John C. Reilly and Anna Kendrick. I was surprised to see Paul Reiser from Aliens as I have not seen him in anything for years.

extraterrestrial - The film is very predictable. The filmmakers Used too many familiar tropes and cliches from sci-fi horror movies. Not enough originality to stand out. The acting by the supposed college kids who all look over 30 was terrible.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Eh...the original Cabin Fever wasn't all that good to begin with.

Oh I hated the original Cabin Fever, Kane. I thought the effects were the only stand out part. I just thought this was an imcredibly lazy sounding series of events and needed to be posted.

 

[Matt Mortem]

The original Cabin Fever bored the pants out of me, and all it's gross out gore attempts just didn't work IMO. Why the **** it needs a remake is beyond me. Also, I do not see what's so great about Eli Roth.

 

[Hellion]

The original Cabin Fever bored the pants out of me, and all it's gross out gore attempts just didn't work IMO. Why the **** it needs a remake is beyond me. Also, I do not see what's so great about Eli Roth.

I tend to think his films have interesting premises and concepts behind them...which then turn into another generic or run-of-the-mill splatter fest.


I don't see the appeal either, but a few friends seem to love him for an association to Tarantino.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

"We belong dead!"

 

[bullets]

Cabin Fever .....really?! Why not re release the film and call it Fever Cabin.

 

[Boom]

My Halloween playlist:

A Nightmare on Elm Street
Alien
An American Werewolf in London
Cabin in the Woods
Dracula
Halloween
Frankenstein
Friday the 13th
Nosferatu
Poltergeist
Psycho
Rosemary's Baby
The Evil Dead
The Exorcist
The Fly
The Shining
The Thing
The Wolf Man
Trick or Treat

 

[Joe Von Zombie]

Watched Knights of Badassdom, awesomely bad movie

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Cabin Fever .....really?! Why not re release the film and call it Fever Cabin.

Because not everyone is reading that article, so $$$$$$$.

 

[NDX]

The list so far:

0.5: John Carpenter's The Thing
1. Carnival of Souls '62
2. Thir13en Ghosts '01
3. Cabin in the Woods
4. Cannibal Campout
5. Video Violence
6. Zombieland
7. Puppet Master
8. Puppet Master II
9. Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge
10. Scream
11. Saw
12. Saw II
13. Night of the Creeps
14. The Addams Family
15. Addams Family Values
16. Re-Animator
17. Bride of Re-Animator
18. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1962)

Always stuck in catchup mode. But at least I'm doing so with a classic, The Fly from '58. Going to follow it up tomorrow with Return of the Fly and then Cronenberg's The Fly.

If anyone is in the NY area Friday, Legends on 33rd is having a Wasted Cinema showcasing Troll 2 (which I no longer regretfully missed 2 years ago) and Plan 9 From Outer Space. That night, as well as Saturday, the Sunshine Cinema is playing Cannibal Holocaust at midnight both nights. I don't know why I'm doing it to myself, but I will be watching that on Saturday after work.

 

[Heretic]

Watching Bigfoot Wars (2014), a brand new movie that two of its stars (C Thomas Howell and Elyse Bigler) have publicly disowned. It's apparently VERY loosely based on a book series.

This should be just awful..

Spoiler

And it is!

Okay...so there's a bunch of Bigfoots (Bigfeet?) and they are doing something I won't spoil...so obviously the local sheriff and a hillbilly bigfoot hunter (C Thomas Howell, who jumped into his role head first and apparently thought he was in a movie that mattered) have to put a stop to them!

The sheriff spends half the film giving these overly dark and somber voice-overs. I'm not even sure what he was talking about...but he seemed to be trying (and failing) to channel Matthew McConaughey from True Detective. His inner monologues even interrupt the flow of conversations, being sloppily cut in between (and over top of) sentences.

Elyse Bigler, who I mentioned above, is ADORABLE...can't act...but is cute as a button! Bigler was also in Varsity Blood earlier this year...which is a terrible movie that I had a blast watching. Bigfoot Wars isn't nearly as fun to watch as Varsity Blood, but is an equally terrible film.

I've changed my mind...this movie is hilarious.

Early on, a group of friends are attacked...and as a few of them drive off into the night trying to escape, their friend who was right next to them is killed in broad daylight.

One guy steps on a landmine, which just causes him to take a slight tumble. The next time we see him, he's in pieces.

It's stuff like this that would be genius if it were done intentionally (like in Black Dynamite).

Judd Nelson is also in this, playing a rude, drug addled doctor.

Everything about this movie is awful...I mean AWFUL...the script...the editing...the sound levels...it's just a trainwreck.

God...I hate myself for actually kind of enjoying myself during parts of this.

 

[Naked Shia]

MAn, I wanna see this movie now. What did you guys think of deadly descent, speaking of bigfoot?

 

[Loki882]

http://www.horror-movies.ca/horror_2603.html

They're FINALLY making a sequel to one of my favorite Werewolf films. It's about damn time.

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

Nosferatu

I bought a Nosferatu model kit last week. Usually, I don't give a rat's ass about model kits...but it's Count Orlok!t:

The only problem is that I have to paint it. It will probably look like someone's crazy grandmother trying to be sexy, with makeup all over.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

http://www.horror-movies.ca/horror_2603.html

They're FINALLY making a sequel to one of my favorite Werewolf films. It's about damn time.

I feel like this has been kicked around a while now though. Like, legit this was supposed to be in production 5 or 6 years ago, and it never came about.

 

[Hellion]

Well...at least I can say I finally saw the A Nightmare on Elm Street reboot. I think where they go wrong with the reboots is removing any "cheese"...and taking the material in a "serious" direction. There were a few beautifully done scenes...but it was largely drab.

 

[Thundarr]

Well...at least I can say I finally saw the A Nightmare on Elm Street reboot. I think where they go wrong with the reboots is removing any "cheese"...and taking the material in a "serious" direction. There were a few beautifully done scenes...but it was largely drab.

Seriously? That's where I think they went RIGHT with the remakes. Where they went wrong (at least for ANOES) was when they changed Freddy's back story to where he was no longer a child killer, and introducing the subplot that "maybe he was wrongfully accused". That and making the kids all either dull or annoying, that didn't help much either.