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The Outwaters. It's on Amazon video right now. I waited for a theatrical release but it was playing nowhere near me so I grabbed an online copy. It's definitely long in the tooth. Editing this down would greatly streamline the whole thing. It's basically a Paranormal Activity style movie that goes apeshit in the 3rd act. Just like those shitty Paranormal Activity movies there's a LOT OF ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOTHING HAPPENING. The entire 1st act - 25 minutes- could have been almost completely cut out. There's a lot of meandering and nothing until our main characters get to the desert. It does the Blair Witch thing too by claiming this is recovered footage.

Here's my advice: don't watch it in theaters, watch it online or download it, after the opening scene just skip right to the 25 minute mark. You don't miss a god damn thing. A fan-edit would be pointless because you just need to cut a good 20+ minute portion from the movie in one massive chunk and you're done.

Once the 2nd act begins it starts to get really good.

So do I recommend it? Yes but with an * to remind you to skip to 25 minutes in.


I feel about the same. The movie is way too long for what it is, and the characters are not interesting. Just some generic people.

Even the "good" parts get tedious, because they go on for so long, and it's in pitch black.
 
Wouldn't be surprised if the nuScream crew are completely out of ideas even as a self-aware franchise, and I thought last year's predecessor was insulting.
 
Just watched Demons, the 1985 Italian horror about a bunch of movie-goers turned into demons buy a cursed film. As you'd expect from an Italian film of the era it's completely over the top, makes little to no sense, has a comically bad dub, and yet somehow it all works. Despite how trashy the whole thing is, there is some good use of lighting and some parts are still pretty creepy (there always seems to be something unsettling about silhouetted figures with glowing eyes), so overall I really enjoyed it.

What I didn't enjoy on the other hand was The Lair, you would have thought being directed by Neil Marshall might mean something, but this was awful. Mostly I was just distracted by the terrible cgi muzzle flashes and how the lead always looked like she'd stepped straight out of the make up trailer.
I enjoyed Demons 2 much more, the soundtrack is way better too.

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What type of gore are talking? Is it Saw-like? Is it Eli Roth-like or Peter Jackson-like or Tarrantino-like?
Nothing special gore. Just a lot of repeated stabs. There's gorier more recent slashers like (this is off the top of my head): Terrifier 1 and 2, Haunt and The Last Matinee. If you're a gorehound don't expect much from this entry. Ironically, Scream 4 (the last directed by Craven) is easily the goriest film in the series.
 
Nothing special gore. Just a lot of repeated stabs. There's gorier more recent slashers like (this is off the top of my head): Terrifier 1 and 2, Haunt and The Last Matinee. If you're a gorehound don't expect much from this entry. Ironically, Scream 4 (the last directed by Craven) is easily the goriest film in the series.
Well that's dumb. Yea, even Scream 4 is still the most torture porn I've seen in the franchise, and having the people market it as the goriest is just being too nice. But yea, Haunt was great.
 
Well that's dumb. Yea, even Scream 4 is still the most torture porn I've seen in the franchise, and having the people market it as the goriest is just being too nice. But yea, Haunt was great.

I only thought the 1st film was decent but 4 had some good kills. Particularly when Anthony Anderson gets stabbed in the head.
 
I only thought the 1st film was decent but 4 had some good kills. Particularly when Anthony Anderson gets stabbed in the head.
The first two were decent. I'd say three and four I had soft spots for (yes, I will still defend the third movie til the day I die), and they also had very good kills. The fifth one was lackluster and I doubt that the new sixth one is the absolute goriest as marketing is just overselling that claim.
 
She had nice tits in Trading Places. I found her inoffensive and a decent actress.
Imagine being Arnold in that scene in True Lies and having to be all like "damn, Jamie Curtis, you fuckin' fine, all sexy with your tight body and horrific androgynous monster face. I would totally have sex with you, both my character and the real me." when all he really wants to do is fuck another 16 year old in his dressing room. Like seriously imagine having to be Arnold and not only sit in that chair while Jamie Lee Curtis flaunts her disgusting body in front of you, the favorable lighting barely concealing her stretchmarks and leathery skin, and just sit there, take after take, hour after hour, while she perfected that dance. Not only having to tolerate her monstrous fucking visage but her haughty attitude as everyone on set tells her she's STILL GOT IT and DAMN, JAMIE LEE CURTIS LOOKS LIKE THAT?? because they're not the ones who have to sit there and watch her mannish fucking gremlin face contort into types of grimaces you didn't even know existed before that day. You've been fucking nothing but a healthy diet of blondes and supermodels and later alleged rape victims for your ENTIRE CAREER coming straight out of the boonies in Austria. You've never even seen anything this fucking disgusting before, and now you swear you can taste the sweat that's breaking out on her dimpled stomach as she sucks it in to writhe it suggestively at you, smugly assured that you are enjoying the opportunity to get paid to sit there and revel in her "statuesque (for that is what she calls herself)" beauty, the beauty she worked so hard for with personal trainers in the previous months. And then the director calls for another take, and you know you could kill every single person in this room before the studio security could put you down, but you sit there and endure, because you're fucking Arnold. You're not going to lose your future political career over this. Just bear it. Hide your face and bear it.
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Just watched Demons, the 1985 Italian horror about a bunch of movie-goers turned into demons buy a cursed film. As you'd expect from an Italian film of the era it's completely over the top, makes little to no sense, has a comically bad dub, and yet somehow it all works. Despite how trashy the whole thing is, there is some good use of lighting and some parts are still pretty creepy (there always seems to be something unsettling about silhouetted figures with glowing eyes), so overall I really enjoyed it.

What I didn't enjoy on the other hand was The Lair, you would have thought being directed by Neil Marshall might mean something, but this was awful. Mostly I was just distracted by the terrible cgi muzzle flashes and how the lead always looked like she'd stepped straight out of the make up trailer.
Watched that once way back in 2009, I remember thinking it was really cool but what's funny is from what I remember it doesn't even begin to bother to explain WHY there's a cursed movie that turns people into demons, it just happens, unless I'm forgetting something.

Arguably that makes it creepier, especially as the projection room doesn't even have anyone in it, I like the Italian approach of scary shit just happens and not worrying too much about the why, it's a very nightmare like approach.

I also watched the sequel not long after but remember barely anything about it other than it has a Dead Can Dance song on the soundtrack, the first movie's theater setting is more interesting.
 
Watched that once way back in 2009, I remember thinking it was really cool but what's funny is from what I remember it doesn't even begin to bother to explain WHY there's a cursed movie that turns people into demons, it just happens, unless I'm forgetting something.

Arguably that makes it creepier, especially as the projection room doesn't even have anyone in it, I like the Italian approach of scary shit just happens and not worrying too much about the why, it's a very nightmare like approach.
The more you pay attention to the story the less sense it makes. It's like a nightmare consisting entirely of stock horror movie plot developments, hey we've all been there. I mean what else were they going to find in the projection room? You have to give credit, they just walk into the theater and stuff starts happening, no time wasted. Not like your nowadays movies where everything has to be two hours long.
 
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