The Horror Thread - Part 5

[Enriquespy]

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That's all

(WARNING! lady in underoos)

 

[Thundarr]

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That's all

(WARNING! lady in underoos)

Good God, that made Eight Legged Freaks look almost watchable. . . . Almost.

 

[Enriquespy]

The first scare with the spider in the drawer was good tho.

 

[Thundarr]

The first scare with the spider in the drawer was good tho.

Not really. I've seen more convincing fake spiders being sold at Spirit Halloween.

 

[Enriquespy]

I was always afraid of those foam spiders, I had frequent nigthmares about them.

 

[Heretic]

Just watched Pod (2015) about a paranoid ex-soldier with some pretty wild beliefs whose siblings pay him a visit. It reminded me a lot of Bug, a much, MUCH better movie.

I love Lauren Ashley Carter. She's a good actress and always picks kind of outside the box Horror movies (The Woman, Jugface, this movie)...but the movies tend to end up highly flawed. I always want to liked her movies more than I actually like them.

Anyway...

The first 15 minutes or so are a waste. It sets up Carter's character as unstable...in a movie where she is a participant in an intervention for an unstable person. Bad choice.

Also, I feel like the opening scene was a mistake that took away some drama. There are a few flashbacks in the film and I would have preferred it if the flashback scenes were the beginning of the film, just showing us that this dude if off his rocker...and then move forward from there.

It's not that original, but still a cool idea for a film...that is pretty much botched.

 

[BH/HHH]

Master of Horror Wes Craven has passed away, very sad news. R.IP Wes thanks girl the Nightmares

 

[Thundarr]

I'm planning on watching A Nightmare On Elm Street again this week in tribute.

RIP Mister Craven. I tip my fedora to you, sir.

 

[StarLord]

A huge loss for the horror community. Still can't believe it. R.I.P. Wes Craven.

 

[NotSoLongAgo]

Wes'll live on through his creations and inspiration

 

[Peyton Westlake]

I think the best way to honor Mr. Craven is to erase that abomination of a film in 2010 from our conscious minds and reboot it the way it deserves.
Maybe going a lil crazy and having a Wes Craven shared universe of characters that include : Freddy ,Ghost Killer from Scream , Shocker, The people under the stairs & the Hills have eyes. What do you think?

 

[The Joker]

Did Craven ever say what he thought of the reboot? I know Englund has.

 

[Lead Cenobite]

 

[Thundarr]

Did Craven ever say what he thought of the reboot? I know Englund has.

I don't know about Wes Craven. What was Englund's opinion of the remake?

 

[The Joker]

I don't know about Wes Craven. What was Englund's opinion of the remake?

Did you like the Nightmare On Elm Street reboot? What did you think of Haley’s take on Freddy?

Englund: I thought the movie was a little cold. We weren’t really given time to see the kids when they were normal, before they were frantic and haunted by Freddy. That made it harder to connect with them, harder to care what happened to them. Haley made Freddy his own. I think the change to a more “realist” burn make-up with melted features took a lot of the strength away from the character. The strong nose and chin in the make-up I wore gives Freddy presence and power. And I played Freddy as if he liked being evil, he liked his work. Jackie went a different way.

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/165827-robert-englund-an-exclusive-interview/

 

[Mike_D202]

I don't think Wes Craven was too fond of the remake, it was pretty evident with "Scream 4" by some of the one-liners.

 

[Majik1387]

Wes Craven really did not like the remake. There was a Twitter response to a Fangoria tweet somewhere.

 

[Thundarr]

Wes Craven really did not like the remake. There was a Twitter response to a Fangoria tweet somewhere.

I'll Google that and see if I can find that somewhere.

 

[Thundarr]

Wes Craven really did not like the remake. There was a Twitter response to a Fangoria tweet somewhere.

I just looked it up.

FANGORIA: What is your least favorite Nightmare On Elm Street movie?

Wes Craven: The Remake.

 

[Peyton Westlake]

I just looked it up.

FANGORIA: What is your least favorite Nightmare On Elm Street movie?

Wes Craven: The Remake.

LOL. Classic! Here is to hoping they honor Wes in a better way.

 

[Thundarr]

LOL. Classic! Here is to hoping they honor Wes in a better way.

Agreed! I don't know who should write the new remake, but I vote Robert Englund as the director. At least we'll know he'll treat the character and the movie with the respect they deserve.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Saw the Rob Zombie Halloween 're-make' for the first time last night and wasn't all that bad (don't kill me), okay, not as strong or as iconic as the original but thought it did well in some ways.

Gave 'meaning' to why Michael behaves the way he does, in Carpenter's he is unrelenting, with little reason or emotion to why he kills, in the remake, every one of his victims shows a pre-death moment of spite / hatred / action towards Micheal before being killed.

Some might say this makes him a less 'chilling' character, diluted some how.

I found it in the 2007 version to give grounding and depth to why a child would end up like he did when surrounded with so much loathing, contempt and unhappiness in his life.

I did find the violence a little OTT, unsubtle and visually showed too much, Carpenter showed and let us imagine.

Not as strong as the classic original obviously, but way better than I'd read about or been convinced by others it was not a good film. I thought it had merit. 6/10

 

[Enriquespy]

The first one was allrigth, killed the mistery of the character a bit. In the sequel, the intro hospital sequence is a pretty good Halloween movie on it's own, the rest of the film, however...

 

[Mandon Knight]

The first one was allrigth, killed the mistery of the character a bit. In the sequel, the intro hospital sequence is a pretty good Halloween movie on it's own, the rest of the film, however...

Watching II now, the 2009 version, and yes I liked the opening in keeping with the '81 sequel and also the new sequel's way of making Loomis a monster in his own right, the character completly betraying Michael in his care and and seeing $$$ in his meeting of Michael, very different to the original version of Loomis.

Everyone is carrying guilt in the modern sequel and how it releases itself is the core of the film.

 

[Heretic]

Just watched Contracted: Phase 2 (2015), the sequel to 2013's body horror film. Oddly, the writer/director of the first film has absolutely nothing to do with the sequel. Apparently the studio wanted to go in a different direction, and pretty much no one likes the choices they made.

The first film was entertaining, if uneven and loaded with lame supporting characters. I actually convinced myself that the film was actually commentary on the shallow, self absorbed people of Los Angeles...and this sequel backs that up with a comedy scene that feels really out of place in comparison to the rest of the film.

The first film had 2 big strengths: 1. The gross-out body horror. 2. Lead actress Najarra Townsend, who was a great stroke of casting. I'm not sure why she isn't a bigger deal in Horror, but she put a lot into her role and I'd like to see her in more genre films.

The sequel takes place IMMEDIATELY after the first one ended...so if you haven't seen the first one, don't read below.

Spoiler

One of the male characters from the first film is now infected, and we follow him as he slowly succumbs to the illness. As established in the first film, it takes 3 days to work its way through the human body. Well...as this film shows, that time frame only exists for lead characters. Supporting characters rush through the transformation in half the time or less.

In the first film, we don't even see the face of the guy behind the illness. In the sequel, we see him way too much...and oh boy...his reasoning/story is not good. In fact, I have ZERO interest in following that plot any further.

The ONLY reason to watch this is the gross-out scenes, which are amped up from the first film. Yes, many of them are very similar to scenes in the first film, but they do accomplish the goal of being gross. It's just a shame that the movie seems to only exist for these scenes.