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Calandrino said:
I'm actually glad they didn't push it too far. A more realistic modern remake would be like a bunch of low-functioning lolcow threads mashed together with every NSFL spoiler open. Hardly any limit to how disgusting it could be.
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Yeah I don't know if I want a remake of this. Especially with how creepy those diaper fetishes get
 
I just learned that Douglas McKeown, director of Deadly Spawn, died September 9, 2022. In my book, it goes on the short list of low budget craziness with Evil Dead, Basket Case, and Phantasm. One of the very best of its kind.

Just in case you never saw it:

 
Calandrino said:
I just learned that Douglas McKeown, director of Deadly Spawn, died September 9, 2022. In my book, it goes on the short list of low budget craziness with Evil Dead, Basket Case, and Phantasm. One of the very best of its kind.

Just in case you never saw it:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=M1Pxx4oUSOk
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Calandrino said:
I just learned that Douglas McKeown, director of Deadly Spawn, died September 9, 2022. In my book, it goes on the short list of low budget craziness with Evil Dead, Basket Case, and Phantasm. One of the very best of its kind.

Just in case you never saw it:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=M1Pxx4oUSOk
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The Deadly Spawn is a great scrappy low budget indie. Fun monster effects even if it's bogged down with the nerdy teen and his friends. I didn't like the director's other films.
 
BrunoMattei said:
The Deadly Spawn is a great scrappy low budget indie. Fun monster effects even if it's bogged down with the nerdy teen and his friends. I didn't like the director's other films.
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It's great, but yea the director could've done much more than done the same exact stuff.
 
I watched Flux Gourmet, and enjoyed it a lot. Not exactly a horror...ok not even remotely a horror, but it's by the guy that did Berberian Sound Studio, so we'll have to give it a pass, I think.

Very refreshing movie, since it doesn't just let a bunch of pseudo-feminist claptrap get away without questioning. The annoying artist chick is skewered by her patron, her bandmates, and the resident doctor (who all in turn, get shut down by everyone else). Verbally skewered, don't get excited, gorehounds.

This is all within the confines of a Musical Catering arts conservatory, with the impending threat of a previous band-in-residence getting ready to do something horrific (or maybe not). If you're still with me, then you'll probably enjoy the movie. It dumps a lot of shit on pretentious performance art (or at least to me, it did), but it's also pretty open to interpretation...I guess if you like pretentious performance art, you might think that it lauds it. In all honesty, the interstitial pieces, where the patron (Brienne of Tarth) makes the artists do fake shopping escapades were my favorite part. Peter Strickland isn't in the habit of making decisions for you, or telling you how to think, and he continues that here.

Really the only down side was the main character, a journalist/diarist documenting the happenings at the conservatory and his gastric problems. He's pretty good in the movie, and especially when he is conducting interviews with other characters, but his little Greek narrations between scenes get a bit long and repetetive. Maybe because he's speaking Greek in his journal, but the whole movie really put me in the mind of a more grounded Yorgos Lanthanos film. Very Dogtooth-esque.

Anyway, even though it's on Shudder, and listed on Hulu as a horror film, it's not horrific at all. I guess there's a little bit of grossout with the food performances, but really, they're basically 1% as horrific as your average Niko Avocado video. And there's a lot of dark subject matter, but it's just talking, and even that is presented more as a black comedy than horror.

But really, I guess no one is going to watch this, except for horror fans, and it does deserve to be seen. Best new(to me) movie I've seen in a while. Anyway, if you enjoyed any of Strickland's other films or Yorgos Lanthanos films, I'd say give it a shot. It's got some boobs in it, 4/5.
 
I rewatched some clips of The Thing and Im still blown away how amazing it still is to this day.

tho it breaks my heart to know it was kind of misjudged and shat on when it came out, especially by the director of the original movie that Carpenter liked so much (that must've really hurt...).
But then again, knowing what happened to Carpenter's most well known movie, Halloween, maybe it was for the best so The Thing was well preserved within the icy of irrelevance until being found by actual horror movie enjoyers through home media.

I wonder if there is a cut of the 2011 movie with the special effects preserved instead of the last minute CG that the suits decided to have at the last fucking second for some reason.
 
Calandrino said:
Deadly Spawn was his only film credit. Wikipedia says he also edited a book called "Queer Stories for Boys: True Stories From The Gay Men's Storytelling Workshop" and worked in theater. Anyhow, RIP.
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Maybe I'm thinking of the producer then? Ted A. Bohus who did Metamorphoses (which at one point was supposed to be a sequel to Deadly Spawn) and... Vampire Vixens from Venus.
 
BrunoMattei said:
Maybe I'm thinking of the producer then? Ted A. Bohus who did Metamorphoses (which at one point was supposed to be a sequel to Deadly Spawn) and... Vampire Vixens from Venus.
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Maybe you're thinking of Ted V. Mikels who directed something like 2 dozen films, but only one of them was any good.
 
Just watched MDPOPE 1 and the contrast between Snuff/Porn compilations and Actual movies with gory special effects become clear. I absolutely admired films such Cannibal Holocaust, Ichi the Killer, Oldboy, Orozco the Embalmer, Pink Flamingos and Irreversible. But I literally hated almost every single video in the MDPOPE compilation. One animal cruelty clip actually had me crying a little, clips of animal cruelty are so deplorable, and there were so much pornographic clips of genital mutilation and shit eating and I nearly vomited at one of them. They were all extremely pointless. But I truly get the concept of MDPOPE. It's meant to show the horrific nihilistic underbelly of humanity and it has succeeded in getting me to question humanity as a whole. Honestly, when watching the compilation, the most anticipated part for me was basically the end. I was literally furious seeing people mutilating themselves. They're sick fucks.
 
Lunar Eclipse Paradox said:
Just watched MDPOPE 1 and the contrast between Snuff/Porn compilations and Actual movies with gory special effects become clear. I absolutely admired films such Cannibal Holocaust, Ichi the Killer, Oldboy, Orozco the Embalmer, Pink Flamingos and Irreversible. But I literally hated almost every single video in the MDPOPE compilation. One animal cruelty clip actually had me crying a little, clips of animal cruelty are so deplorable, and there were so much pornographic clips of genital mutilation and shit eating and I nearly vomited at one of them. They were all extremely pointless. But I truly get the concept of MDPOPE. It's meant to show the horrific nihilistic underbelly of humanity and it has succeeded in getting me to question humanity as a whole. Honestly, when watching the compilation, the most anticipated part for me was basically the end. I was literally furious seeing people mutilating themselves. They're sick fucks.
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I wonder who the real MDPOPE's are?

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Renfield was enjoyable. Dare I say it was a...shh...brilliant movie? Did not expect to go into it and be confronted with themes of domestic abuse, emotional manipulation and destructive co-dependency relationships. It's handled with all the delicacy of a sledgehammer, but that only adds to the charm.

It feels like a version of Cocaine Bear which actually worked; cheap, schlocky horror movie that knew exactly what it wanted to say and do. CB wasted its potential, the kills were extremely mean spirited (someone's wife being eaten alive as she screams and cries for help in front of her husband...), and it didn't actually do anything with its premise. By comparison Renfield mixed glorious violence with humour, the kills were satisfying (and balanced the dark/funny ratio much better, with a brutal slaughter of innocent people that served the plot rather than trying to be edgy), and there was a surprising amount of action.

Plus at one point someone dual wields arms as they kill cops, so

Nicholas Cage was REALLY out of place, but it worked well because of that, strangely. His actual performance is...well...Nicolas Cage, but the scenes where the film reminds you he's a monster are all the more striking for it. His best scene is one where he terrifies another character without laying a single finger on him.

My only real issue is that the film's blood and gore were clearly CGI, and the fight scenes have a lot of jump cuts in which is rather jarring. The practical works are brilliant (especially Dracula in Nosferatu mode), so it's a shame they couldn't do more with them.
 
Evil Dead Rise.

I liked it. Let's face it: nothing is going to be as amazing as the OT. That's just the way it is. No one can replace Bruce. Bruce is an immortal legend. But, if you look at this as a side-story I think it works fine. I liked it more than remake. Great gore, camerawork, it took some turns that I won't spoil. Only things I didn't care for: some lines from the OT are re-used to varying effect. Our lead chick does say "Come get some." And she just can't deliver the line. Actors were great. Prologue was great but how it ties into everything else is a little weak. How the book is discovered is pure TV Trope plot convenience.

8.5/10 from me. I'd recommend this one.

Incel/anti-SJW/anti-woke shit: the oldest daughter has a feminism poster on the wall in one shot and makes mention of going to an unnamed protest. Some fags might be upset that it's a female lead again but it's honestly the best route to take because if you get a guy as the lead everyone and their mother will compare him to Bruce. And that's unfair to any guy for reasons cited above.
 
BrunoMattei said:
Some fags might be upset that it's a female lead again but it's honestly the best route to take because if you get a guy as the lead everyone and their mother will compare him to Bruce.
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Mia worked better as a female lead since her crack addiction subplot paid off to her literally fighting her demons. Beth's subplot pregnancy didn't really go anywhere. (The husband they kept bringing up didn't go anywhere either). For a motherhood theme, its like its forgotten halfway through the movie. Could had an unwanted pregnancy with a parasitic demon possession? I don't know, I'm just disappointed that any subplots in the movie didn't lead up to anything other than the obvious foreshadowing ones which spoil the whole plot like the woodchipper sitting in the parking lot, which removes the tension since you know people will get down there.

Someone did comment that the "J" deadbeat dad they keep mentioning could be a throwaway reference to Ash, his full name is commonly spelled as 'Ash(ley) "J" Williams' after all and what little behaviour told fit him. Knowing that kind of sullied my thoughts on the movie a bit. I just don't like it as a reference for some reason. AvED did the same thing where he knocked up some random lady and left the lady for a daughter. What is the point of Linda in the trilogy then? It's like his grief is suddenly gone.

My rating of Rise would be below yours, like 5/10 if I'm treating it as a original movie. 4.5/10 if I'm treating it as an Evil Dead entry. It's okay, but not sure if worth a rewatch other than checking out the sound design and the climax deadite.

On topic of a movie I watched: Shark Bait (2022) on Tubi. Other than one scene with glaringly obvious CGI, this was surprisingly good for a Tubi original. This is probably also one of the few movies where the only choice to win was just simply get out of the animal's territory, not fight against the animal. Never noticed how much of a breath of fresh air it was from all these 'protags wins by killing off animal' climaxes. Sometimes, you just need to run away to live.
 
Aib Ld said:
Mia worked better as a female lead since her crack addiction subplot paid off to her literally fighting her demons. Beth's subplot pregnancy didn't really go anywhere. (The husband they kept bringing up didn't go anywhere either). For a motherhood theme, its like its forgotten halfway through the movie. Could had an unwanted pregnancy with a parasitic demon possession? I don't know, I'm just disappointed that any subplots in the movie didn't lead up to anything other than the obvious foreshadowing ones which spoil the whole plot like the woodchipper sitting in the parking lot, which removes the tension since you know people will get down there.

Someone did comment that the "J" deadbeat dad they keep mentioning could be a throwaway reference to Ash, his full name is commonly spelled as 'Ash(ley) "J" Williams' after all and what little behaviour told fit him. Knowing that kind of sullied my thoughts on the movie a bit. I just don't like it as a reference for some reason. AvED did the same thing where he knocked up some random lady and left the lady for a daughter. What is the point of Linda in the trilogy then? It's like his grief is suddenly gone.

My rating of Rise would be below yours, like 5/10 if I'm treating it as a original movie. 4.5/10 if I'm treating it as an Evil Dead entry. It's okay, but not sure if worth a rewatch other than checking out the sound design and the climax deadite.
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I think we saw two entirely different movies. The female lead being pregnant and being in a wishy washy mood over it and then dealing with demonic possession and protecting her sister's children definitely fits in with it. I'm just going to assume that you went to take a piss during those scenes or were outback smoking crack. Either extreme.

The whole thing with the dad was setup for why they're in this current situation and it does pay off later with the little girl and the mother outside.
 
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