I think I liked this one better than CG (especially Q for some reason). There were some good shorts, some crap ones, and a lot that floated around the middle and flirted with one side of the the other but didn't quite make it. I think the biggest issue with this anthology was the amount of directors involved, the shorts just didn't have enough time to tell a good story in most cases. Other than the shorts she mentioned I have to say that I enjoyed Cycle and while I didn't care for Apocalypse when I saw it I look back on it fondly. I also dug the fact that Angela Bettis directed a short... just because.

I wasn't disappointed because I expected a horrible mish mash of low budget film student shorts (I didn't know much about this one going in) but I didn't love it by any means.

On a side note, I like Ti West's stuff but he needs to stay away from anthologies, his segments don't seem to turn out very well. I like his films but so far, not in love with the shorts...

Watching The Nightmare Before Christmas and I'm not ashamed to say that I'm singing all of the songs lol.

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Nope, I haven't watched it yet. I did a quick skim through a couple parts a while back just to see what to expect, and it looked ultra low budget. My watchlist is so long, it's hard to make the cut! I'm still intrigued though.

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Mr Freedom (1969)
Odd political satire that could only be a product of the 60's. Surprisingly mean spirited and bleak. Strangely the message is still applicable today.

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The Conjuring (2013)
Solid haunted host horror - plenty of jump scares take a little away and the actual entity wasn't that frightening. On the plus side, the acting was great and the characters were people you could care about. Reminded me a lot of the original Amityville Horror in places.

Absolutely briiliant film, I never tire of watching it. You might then, also like Corpse Bride which followed Nightmare, and even James and the Giant Peach which was Tim Burton's first animated film.

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Despite having genre heavies like Fishburne & Paxton, the film disappoints. The storyline is riddled with plotholes, some so big they make your eye roll. The lead actor disappoints with his absolutely expressionless face (at times I thought he might have been Christian Slater's long-lost brother or something), and there's a lot of slow buildup to things which required faster pace. Paxton looks tired and washed out, and Fishburne is simply there to pick up his cheque I bet, while not filling the screen with his Morpheus-imitation.

The plot can be summed up in one line - colonists in a post-apocalyptic future fight off a bunch of feral men (or mutants). That's it. No explanations are given, so forget all your "how"s, "why"s, "where"s, etc.

Not recommended. Go watch Ghosts of Mars and The Day After Tomorrow, and you will know most of this movie's mess when you mix the "possessed" cannibals of the former with the setting of the latter.

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Fright Night - 5/10 good kids horror film beside the nudity


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Children of the Corn (2009 syfy remake) - 3/10 kinda boring and really lacking.


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cirque du vampire's assistant - 7/10 Fun kid's movie that you can watch with the little ones.

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Silent Hill - 8/10 I love this movie, I love the twisted theme and "monsters." It really has an dark and eerie theme to it.

Filth (2013)

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This film certainly captures the feeling of Irvine novel even if it does deviant a bit. I didn't think James McAvoy was good casting either but really does pull it off.

^ I'm in two minds about watching that ... Filth is one of my favourite Welsh novels but it has a dark and depressing overall feel that I just can't imagine coming across in a film such as this one.

Especially after seeing the picture on that poster, and reading the tributes ... "hilarious" and "riotous" are not words I'd have chosen to describe the book, it sounds more like Tom Sharpe than Irvine Welsh.

I imagine it would deviate quite a bit as well, there are parts of the story that just wouldn't be acceptable in mainstream cinema.

^The humor is very dark.

It's been a while since I read the book but there were changes - there was no tapeworm and they also reduced the effect of the 'twist' at the end.

My most recent horror movie watch was Wither:

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Loved it. Basically a Swedish version of Evil Dead, and it doesn't quite reach the heights of either the original Evil Dead or the remake, but it was a really nice surprise.

I recently watched Texas chainsaw on Netflix...despite what I had already heard about the film I enjoyed it somewhat, that fairground scene had HUGE potential though but was wasted. Apparently there is a sequel in the works to it but because of it's slight change in direction I am not sure how it will be handled ??

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Obscure little 70s low-brow effort which will appeal only to hardcore 70s horror fans. A film unit is making a movie in a house where seven murders have occurred earlier. One of the crew finds a (supposedly) real book on witchcraft and raising the dead and thinks it's great to use recitals from it's pages in the film. Sure enough, the chants make a corpse rise from the nearby family cemetery who comes in to kill them all off one by one.

Absolutely nothing happens for the first 65 minutes out of it's 88-minute running time, except some cheap fake scares which make your eyes roll. And then everything else is rushed in the final 20 minutes, including a mind-boggling twist in the climax, which is so bad it will make your brains roll out of your ears.

John Carradine plays a caretaker (conveniently) named Price, 50s sci-fi hottie Faith Domergue grabs a lead role, but both are utterly wasted. (SPOILER ALERT) Carradine must be thanking his stars that he was the first one killed off.

The film lacks good production values (in one scene you can clearly see the sound mic extended on the bottom left of the screen), and the acting is atrocious. The absolutely slow pacing of the first half combined with nothing happening makes things unbearable. The one big plus of the film is the background score, which at times is oddly jarring, but tries to fill the atmosphere for the most part.

Not recommended to the casual 70s horror fan, nor to the Halloween fans. If you want a mediocre time-waster to dunk a few beers in with, this one is for you, specially if you want to doze off midway through. Rob Zombie must be thankful that the inspiration behind the name of his film is actually a forgotten, horrendous nightmare.

In the end, one mystery still remained unsolved - who the hell actually killed the cat?!

* ½


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"You are gonna need a bigger chopper!"

Piece of shit. But an entertaining piece of shit nonetheless. It's SyFy, it's superbad CGI, it's got a completely washed-out Tara Reid trying her best to look awful, and it has one-liners which will make you cringe. But forget all that and just enjoy the film for what it is - a cheap piece of riotous entertainment. You can laugh your socks off and thank me later. Just don't pay for watching it.

Oh, and the next time you are attacked by a shark on dry land, try whacking it off with a stool. Believe it or not, it actually works!

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Netflix again, watched a film called Evil aliens...heh put aside the rubbish acting and cheap computer effects and you have a bloody and somewhat funny movie:o

Zombie Hunter, with Danny Trejo in it, which is why I was interested. Not too bad, but nowhere near the best zombie movie, at all. A lot of character exploration, which wasn't screwed up too much, some cool action scenes. But really, not enough zombies. Also, thick, pink blood and weird two colored screens giving me a seizure whenever something happens. Movie seems to to give Texas Chainsaw an eye wink though. Takes a cue from Zombieland, as well. An interesting style, but it doesn't hold up.

Sushi Girl

I liked it, probably because I really enjoyed Mark Hamill's performance but Tony Todd was pretty good too. The story was alright, a lot of borrowing from Tarantino but not so much that it was a direct rip-off. For a watch-it-now flick that I've never heard of I was pleasantly surprised. Oh, and Mark Hamill...

This morning I watched the first part of BSB's 2012 production of Treasure Island ... it's somewhat "re-imagined", e.g. Trelawney has become a back-stabbing bastard for some reason or other, but it's a great watch so far, absorbing atmosphere and good fun.

A great cast too ... Eddie Izzard as Silver, Philip Glenister as Smollett, Rupert Penry-Smith as Trelawney, and various other faces I can't put a name to off hand.

Looking forward to part 2.

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Excellent film with some in-depth characterisation of the two male lead characters (pretty much the only 2 characters of the entire film), their sensibilities, their vulnerabilities, their confrontation and ultimately their acceptance of each other, as they go through the most turbulent time of their long-lost friendship when their car breaks down and they are stranded in the middle of nowhere.

Excellent story and script, and two very believable characters. Recommended to everyone who like dark, powerful, gritty, psychological nail-biters.

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My cousins recommended this Brit thriller-bordering-on-horror highly so I had to watch it. I thought the premise was a bit silly, and the reason for the whole setup went a bit overboard. Like some of the characters repeatedly say "It was just a prank", and that prank wasn't a big crime in itself. Seemed like the wronged character had too much of an obsession over the female in question, or was in mortal dread of his revenge-seeking enlisted brother, for being the wuss of the family. There's no third explanation of what he did to himself, except the eye-rolling twist which is highlighted below.

As usual, a bunch of annoying characters get together at one place where they have to answer for a prank gone wrong (shades of I Know What You Did Last Summer). The twist at the end is pretentious and bordering on absolute rubbish - why would a character with a solid crush on a female turn out to be gay? Why seek revenge in the name of family honor? Why is the trained soldier, who is out on cold-blooded, teeth-grinding, calculated revenge, really sloppy when handling ordinary half-minded teenagers? In the end, the bitchy female turns the tables and gets away scot-free for her actions?

Just too many plot-holes and hard-to-swallow facts which make this film not too entertaining either. Add to that, some of the most shoddy acting you will ever get to see, except for the guy who plays the soldier-brother. The second actress is pretty hot and provides some good eye-candy, and that's it. There's some decent amount of gore and blood, and a few impressive shots, but ultimately it isn't enough to save the film.

Guess it is tailor-made for today's generation kids who want a few quick adrenaline rushes to go with their Pepsis and popcorn. Ultimately it's an old wine served in a stale bottle. Best avoided.

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2 road films in one day.

The makers from Down Under have impressed with their efforts in recent times, but this is one very decent Ozzie idea executed terribly.

The central premise of the road train and it's workings are intriguing, and the visuals flashing before the 4 central characters add a lot of surreality to the proceedings (including the 3 wolves with red eyes, signifying Cerebrus), but instead of a gripping, semi-decent story, we are treated to a hackneyed plot about teenagers camped in the middle of nowhere in the Australian wilderness, a completely unnecessary and graphic sex scene to open the movie, and character development which is non-existent. The only semblance of development happens with the lead male character, but even he takes some really unbelievable turns for the worst and ultimately he, along with the movie, goes downhill. The lead actress does her best, but it's too little and too late.

Things unexplained can be given slight nudges of explanation (remember The Car from the 70s), but here we have nothing to go on. The film takes itself too seriously and that's it's biggest downfall. Maybe a more campy approach could have salvaged it. Either that or a more serious, sinister approach could have enlivened the proceedings. Watch it only if you get a kick out of road movies and love yourself some gorgeous cinematographical shots of the Australian outback.

In short, Duel has just met The Mangler. If you have seen those two, skip this.

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^ Nicely summed up, it didn't do much for me either.

Today, Treasure Island 2012 part 2. Bleeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

So nicely made, such a great cast, but jeez why can't people just leave a good story alone??

Rammbock: Berlin Undead

Had a day of drama yesterday.


"My best enemy" 7/10

Danish flick about school bullying. Surprisingly violent considering the young age of the characters.
If only the acting had been better.


"The way way back" 7-8/10

Sweet coming-of-age flick with a terrific performance from Sam Rockwell who completely stole the show in all the scenes he was in. The movie even managed to have me in tears at the end.


"The perks of being a wallflower" 8/10

Also a very charming coming-of-age flick with some delightful lead characters. Looooved Ezra Miller. He was as lovable in this movie as he was frightening in "We need to talk about Kevin". This one also had me in tears a few times. Maybe im just a big softy??



"Silver linings playbook" 7/10

Fairly entertaining, but didn't do a lot for me. I'm pretty sure i didn't cry..

YES. She is awesome. I really geeked out about the fact that she had a short in the anthology.

Couldn't agree with you more here.


Glad to see that I'm not the only one who saw this and enjoyed it. I think it really flew under the radar. I read the book AGES ago and I was reticent to watch the movie because of how much the book resonated among my friends... But I thought the adaptation was great, Emma Watson was utterly charming, and Ezra Miller was so fantastic. It was great to see him in this context where he's really cute and likable vs. We Need to Talk About Kevin where he was utterly and effectively creepy - I want to see more of him.

The Nightmare Before Christmas, I can go one for days about how much I love and adore this movie but I'll keep it short. This movie is just fun to watch and all the songs are wonderful, even my least favorite songs I know all the words to and will sing just as loudly as my favorites. This movie is a Halloween and Christmas staple in my family and this has to be one of the best movies to watch with a big group. Super glad I got to watch it tonight and cuddle up with my fiance on the couch :) Aww he's the Jack to my Sally....ok that was sappy and gross, I apologize.

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"Green Street Hooligans" 7/10

A movie that makes you dislike brits and elijah wood. Highly entertaining nevertheless.



"Gardens of the Night" 5/10

A grusome story about child trafficing. I felt nothing..

I blame the director and the mediocre acting abilities. The two lead characters felt hollow and so did their relationship. And the most interesting part, for me, was never explained. Totally ridiculous.


"Reform School Girl" (1994) 2/10

Piece of crap.

Curse of Chucky. Was hyped to see this, because as a kid I loved the first three. Hated the last two, and this one's different, kind of a mixed bag. Don't know much what to think.

PLEASE BEWARE OF SPOILERS BELOW

Good;
*Nice creepy feel.
*Chucky's hilarious one liners.
*Commendable effort to visual detail, takes cues from what made slasher movies awesome in the 80's and 90's.
*Lesbians.
*Fun and interesting plot progression.
*Brad Dourif as the voice of Chucky.

Bad;
*Not enough deaths, and what deaths there are aren't really impressive.
*They felt the need to rewrite Charles Lee Ray's entire backstory. Seriously, guys?
*Chucky doesn't bleed when he's injured, and there is no ending climax where he gets gloriously killed.

Personal verdict; well it's not a total mess, but nowhere near as fun as the old ones. But I really can't believe they didn't kill Chucky at the end. Making a slasher movie really isn't complicated, damn it. Crazy ending climax is necessary. Also, the whole thing happens in a house. Meh. I appreciated it a bit more than the last two, and...somehow...it was fun to watch. But I wouldn't watch it again.

Black Sabbath
Dust Devil
Maniac (the Elijah Wood version)

Headhunters. Watched on Netflix after finishing the book the other day. Good film but they changed some bits around which was a bit annoying but, well, I wondered how the film makers would have handled the FULL outhouse / toilet scene ha,ha.

To the poster who said about Green street I understand what you mean but we aint all bad lol.

To the poster who mentioned Frodo Baggins does Maniac what did you think of it ? I quite enjoyed it and I loved the original, isn't the musice he puts on at one point the song out of Silence of the lambs, you know Buffalo Bill's dance scene ?

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After Earth was filmed in M. Night's studio down the street from my office.

@V

Hallow's Eve was awesome. Lol. As a horror movie I wasn't impressed, but Rudy cracked me up.

''Guy said he wanted to smoke my ass man, what the hell is that?''

''You can't smoke weed without Rudy, without Rudy THERE IS NO WEED.''

LOL

Niki Daruma (1988) aka Tumbling Dolls, aka Psycho; The Snuff Reels.

One reviewer says of it ... "If you want to see something that will have you asking “What the hell is wrong with me, why am I watching this??” then “Niku Daruma” is for you."

Plenty of twisted gore certainly, once you're through the somewhat tedious beginning. But as with a lot of Asian horror I found the effects too unconvincing for it to be especially horrifying.

Like a scene from August Underground really, but without the suspension of disbelief or the unpleasant aftertaste.

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Pervert (2005)

Shameless Russ Meyer homage in which country boy James returns from college to the friendly homestead. A previous visit to a witch doctor (to make him more attractive to females) has left James with a penis that can detach itself from his body and go killing people.

Great fun if you like big boobs and lots of silly humour - also possibly one of the best "monster reveals" in the history of horror :-D

Looks like a Danielle Harris horror night. I think I'll check these two out.

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I was expecting this to be good, then it became too Seed of Chucky-ish for me.

Just watched Word War Z a couple of days ago. It was much better than I thought it would be. My wife read the book and said the movie is quite a bit different from the source material, but she enjoyed the movie as well. The one thing that struck me as odd was Pitt's lack of emotion in dealing with his charater's wife and family. Then again, maybe that was Pitt's way of conveying his character shifting gears into a "taking care of business" mode. The zombies ability to run fast was utilized greatly in well-crafted action sequences. The few close-up shots didn't really pay off for me. The zombie make-up effects were just okay. I didn't find them as compelling or great as anything I've seen in The Walking Dead.

Hahahahahahahaahahahaha

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The Afflicted (2010)

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>>: C-

No One Lives (2012)

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The copy I downloaded lately was French language with bad sub. Found it pretty gory & entertaining to watch but got totally confused with some parts, particularly with the ending...?? If anyone seen this film already then please help me out with this following questions...
**SPOILER ALERT**What's actually the relation between the captive/kidnapped girl (Emma Ward) & the 'driver'? Are they both killers? What he actually wanted from her or why the 'driver' tried to hold her captive in the back of the trunk? then, what's about that tracking device?**SPOILER ENDS

>>: B-

The Seasoning House (2012)

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A great premise to get exploit with 'Horror'! And it did that promisingly with adequate amount of gore & brutality. Loved it for that but I just found that end 'cat & mouse' climax kinda typical and not that much interesting or challenging for a film with such fantastic premise; where I was actually expecting a more shivering finale; something that could make it close to another Martyrs!

Overall, it indeed a great brutal flick from UK. I think V & Angra have seen it already, so recommending to Chrono, Newb, NE & Ferox.

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I just got a copy of this a couple of days ago, English language but I also have a link to re-written subs if you want it?

Anyway .... aha! I was wondering why I could never see the "spoilers" here, sussed it now :-D I'll watch the film this afternoon and see if I can answer your questions ...

*Edit; I'll have a search for The Seasoning House, looks like my kind of film. Must admit I didn't think much of Martyrs though.

That would be nice if you can share me the link but more importantly, I'd love to read your review about the film & get the answers. :)