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BrunoMattei said:
On that note, I had a bug up my ass and re-watched the Crow: City of Angels. Good sequel and it's better than the first movie. Come at me Brandon Lee-worshipping fuccbois.
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I heartily, heartily disagree that it was better than the first but it wasn't a bad movie at all. Everything else after that is a fucking trash fire though. Especially the one with fucking coked out Edward fucking Furlong.

While the first movie wasn't a spot on adaption of the comic, it was still pretty good and the aesthetic was spot the fuck on. That dark, grimy urban look you don't see anymore because everything has to be super clean CGI. The first one also had a stellar cast and was honestly, Brandon Lee's best acted movie. Then you have Michael Wincott stealing every single fucking scene hes in. How could you NOT like it?
 
White Devil said:
I heartily, heartily disagree that it was better than the first but it wasn't a bad movie at all. Everything else after that is a fucking trash fire though. Especially the one with fucking coked out Edward fucking Furlong.

While the first movie wasn't a spot on adaption of the comic, it was still pretty good and the aesthetic was spot the fuck on. That dark, grimy urban look you don't see anymore because everything has to be super clean CGI. The first one also had a stellar cast and was honestly, Brandon Lee's best acted movie. Then you have Michael Wincott stealing every single fucking scene hes in. How could you NOT like it?
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Yeah, we know, you dressed up like the Brandon Lee Crow for Halloween and went "Caw caw!" To everyone thinking you're the ultimate badass. We know.

But seriously, the first movie is bad. Brandon Lee is a terrible actor, the little kid was just baggage, Ernie Hudson was wasted in it, and there's too much plodding. Michael Wincott is a great villain and very underrated character actor. That's about it.

The 2nd movie is better. There's no little kid just hanging around (aside from 2 scenes that are short and don't weigh down the movie). There's no bumbling detective. Vincent Perez is a better Crow. The visuals are fantastic as is the soundtrack. Now, the one thing it has going against it is that's a reprieve of the first but you can blame the Weinstein's for that and that didn't mean a sequel like Predator 2 was bad. And it has Iggy Pop in it.

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It has some genuinely amazing visuals. This movie is bad? No. Fuck you, you're bad.
 
White Devil said:
Fuck you, I wore my dads 70s clothes and dressed up as Dracula.
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No, fuck you, I dressed up as the Bela Lugosi Dracula when I was 7 AND had Dracula on my birthday cake that year.

Now what?
 
I'm doing the challenge too.

I've watched Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Frankenstein 1970, and Parents.

I know Venom isn't a horror movie, but it has monsters in it so I'm counting it.
 
Gaear Grimsrud said:
I'm doing the challenge too.
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It' snot a challenge if you're watching a horror movie every day the rest of the year though

Tonight was Bloody Hell (2020). It was.... decent? Adequate? Pretty ok? Good enough? I see what they were going for, and maybe with a better lead and few script twists they would have been able to make a movie that would be considered a classic. As it stands, it's perfectly passable, a nice night out with friends, drinking and watching the shit happen. I mean, tell me you're not hooked by this basic description:

"A man gets out of prison and decides to leave the country so he stops being hounded due to the infamy of his crime wakes up in a basement in Finland, bound and missing a feet, and has to figure out what the fuck is happening and how he'll get out alive. Also it's a horror comedy."

I'll give it a 4/5, it's definitely worth a watch. Don't expect the best movie ever, but expect a really entertaining one you wish was just slightly better so you'd rewatch it a bunch of times.
 
Few I've seen this month

The Boneyard (1991): It was alright and had some great effect work and the setting of a coroner's building for a zombie movie is a good one. Just takes too long to get started and most of the characters are very weak, especially the main character who is a fat old psychic.

Prey (1977): UK alien movie, was fucking awful. Feels like the filmmakers had no script and just made shit up/ did random shit to fill the 90 minutes run time. The Alien is a shape-shifter which you never see shape-shift because they were too cheap to make an alien prop so they just hired a guy. In one part of the movie, the Alien is in drag playing hide and hide and seek with these two women, which goes on for about 10 minutes.

Rush Week (1989): The movie is late to the party of teen slashers, but that doesn't mean it's bad. The plot is overall fine but run of the mill, but it really is poor on any of the gore or kills, in fact only kill shown I remember in the movie is the last one.

Mikey (1992): A movie about a killer child. Wasn't a fan of this, because the lead kid with who you spend most of the movie with is so unlikeable and annoying, I kept wanting to see him die, but it never happens. It is funny how no adult can overpower this kid.

The Fly (1958): I have seen the remake a number of times but never the original. It was good, but I couldn't help but keep comparing it to the remake and the remake just pulls off the themes and ideas so much better. But despite that, it's still worth a watch.
 
Internet War Criminal said:
Predictable shit but not bad enough to make you angry, just don't bother unless there's absolutely nothing going on, or you like seeing American tourists die from killer plants.
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I think you give Ruins a bit less credit than it deserves. Having read the book I give the adaptation praise for mostly capturing the nihilistic mood and themes of the novel. They had to trim a lot to make it work so the film lacks that depth that would have pushed it beyond serviceable.

Then again, in the book those vines are super intelligent and can speak and carry on conversations or at least parrot words and sentences back. So it's either an evil, sentient plant or the alternative the book presents is that it's an Aztec god of sacrifice in some kind of physical form. Also everyone meets super gruesome and depressive fates.

So maybe it's best that the film stuck with the familiar formula for killing teens.
 
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I just thought the movie was extremely cliched, I could already tell what the ending was gonna be as soon as they arrived to the ruins and the mexicans came out to prevent them from leaving, and were following their movements, it was clear someone would break away and we'd get a cabin fever type ending.

As I said, I didn't find it in any way to be a terrible movie, I just found it... more boring than it should have been. Those elements from the book would have made it a whole lot more interesting.
 
Internet War Criminal said:
As I said, I didn't find it in any way to be a terrible movie, I just found it... more boring than it should have been. Those elements from the book would have made it a whole lot more interesting
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The book also has a lot more time in it, so it can really hammer home the slow crushing grind and misery of the days and days they were on those ruins. Seeing all their optimism slowly fade, dispair taking over, horror building, it's something really hard to convey in a movie in the limited runtime. Medium means a lot in horror, I think.

Sorry to turn this into a big book post, but even if you've seen the movie the book was pretty gripping. I'd say give it a try, you might like it.
 
JohnDoe said:
Then again, in the book those vines are super intelligent and can speak and carry on conversations or at least parrot words and sentences back. So it's either an evil, sentient plant or the alternative the book presents is that it's an Aztec god of sacrifice in some kind of physical form. Also everyone meets super gruesome and depressive fates.
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I think the plants do that in the movie too don't they? Imitate a cellphone ringing and IIRC lure someone by calling out for help. Or am I thinking of something else
 
downloads said:
I think the plants do that in the movie too don't they? Imitate a cellphone ringing and IIRC lure someone by calling out for help. Or am I thinking of something else
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There is a big difference between imitating a cellphone parakeet style and carrying on a mocking 'lol you're gonna die, loser' conversation in German. Which happens in the book.
 
BrunoMattei said:
It's like saying John Landis is a horror director even though he only directed 2 movies (and 2 episodes of Masters of Horror but I digress).
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They already call him one according to a few documentaries and I remember him being featured a shit ton of segments during a History of Horror film exhibition at my local museum. (Each part of the place had different sections dedicated to different films, you'd press a button and a few directors talk about the films impact.)
He's in that weird area of a creator like Edgar Wright, known for his love of Horror, only made two horror films, and only one of them is a true horror film (Last Night in Soho)

Edit: the exhibit was called: Can't Look Away: Thrill of Being Scared.
They recently expanded the thing and retitled it: Scared to Death. Landis helped curate both versions.

Also I'll post my list at the end of the month
 
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Frank D'arbo said:
They already call him one according to a few documentaries and I remember him being featured a shit ton of segments during a History of Horror film exhibition at my local museum. (Each part of the place had different sections dedicated to different films, you'd press a button and a few directors talk about the films impact.)
He's in that weird area of a creator like Edgar Wright, known for his love of Horror, only made two horror films, and only one of them is a true horror film (Last Night in Soho)

Edit: the exhibit was called: Can't Look Away: Thrill of Being Scared.
They recently expanded the thing and retitled it: Scared to Death. Landis helped curate both versions.
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I think he gets that title because of his friends in the business. He's friends with Mick Garris who is a producer and was behind Masters of Horror and the lame made NBC follow up Fear Itself.
 
BrunoMattei said:
I think he gets that title because of his friends in the business. He's friends with Mick Garris who is a producer and was behind Masters of Horror and the lame made NBC follow up Fear Itself.
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It's probably a mixture of that and what I previously mentioned, he's known for his love of horror.
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
It’s the trailer for the “Chucky” tv show.
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Looks like they're going to continue that "Jason Goes To Hell" gimmick they started in Cult of Chucky. Hopefully there isn't a scene where they talk about Hannibal getting cancelled. I honestly don't know where this series can go at this point, but they're bringing back Andy and Tiffany. Is Glen(da) still around or did that get retconned?
 
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