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Frank D'arbo said:
I do agree with the critics on this one, it did creep me the fuck out. However, the ending sucked ass.

I've said this to you before but I'll say it here, I enjoyed the Texas Chainsaw remake Platinum Dunes did, if only because R Lee Ermey stole the show in that one.


IMO I don't consider Exorcist as much of a horror movie as much it as is a really powerful drama. That's not a knock against the movie, its still one of my all time favorites.
Exorcist 3's patchwork cut on the Scream Factory release is really damn close in quality to the original Exorcist.
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I didn't really like the TCM remake. Ermey was great of course and I liked the "subversion of expectations" with the hitchhiker. Otherwise? It has nothing on the original. The prequel to the remake is a little bit better if you can turn off your brain with the incessant stupidity and the need of the filmmakers to explain things from the remake such as: don't you want to know why Ermey has false teeth? Well, a victim knocked his teeth out. Surprise, it's not that he's an old man in some back water shithole town. Remember the guy in the wheelchair? Aren't you curious how he lost his legs? Well, Leatherface accidentally nicked his leg with the chainsaw and Ermey was like "fuck it" and just cut off both legs for no reason.

Prequel to the remake at least has multiple on screen chainsaw murders. I'll give it that much. And, as much as I like Ermey, there's too much emphasis on Ermey in the prequel. You could call the prequel the R. Lee Ermey Massacre and it would be just as accurate.
 
Happy Friday the 13th, boys and girls.

Frank D'arbo said:
I've said this to you before but I'll say it here, I enjoyed the Texas Chainsaw remake Platinum Dunes did, if only because R Lee Ermey stole the show in that one.
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Somehow the TCM series turned into a showcase for good actors trying their hardest to save pointless movies.

I've been catching up on unnecessary remakes that I've avoided. Mixed results.

Child's Play (2019) - Once you get past sperging about how this isn't Child's Play and that's not Chucky, it's a decent enough science fiction movie that gives Amazon the Robocop treatment. Feels very '80s despite the modern premise and seems to have stolen some shots from Blade Runner. Making Chucky look like a ginger midget Mark Hamill was an odd decision, I can't see that doll selling irl. Original-continuity Chucky is coming back soon so I can't even get mad.

Friday the 13th (2009) - On the one hand, this is exactly the right way to reboot Friday the 13th: drop all the baggage introduced over the series but otherwise leave everything pretty much the same and continue on with Hockey Mask Guy going stabby-stabby. On the other hand, this is a generic underlit digital-looking murderporn that's identical to any other horror DVD a Redbox would have spit out ~10 years ago. Without knowing anything about the production history of this movie, I would guess the writers tried to respect the franchise but the suits really wanted those Saw/TCM reboot bux and forcibly pulled it in that direction. Not bad, but could easily have been much better.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) - They could have done pretty much anything with this, and instead they recreated the practical effects from the original in CGI and called it a day. JEH is by far the best thing about it and he's still not nearly as good as Robert Englund which really puts things into perspective. Nancy seems like she's half-asleep and doesn't want to be involved with any of this crap, so hey, spot-on acting there.
 
talk sh1t said:
I liked Rondo, but you're right about the ending. I found it almost anti-climactic. Also, maybe it's because I don't understand exploitation movies, but I thought the shooting scene at the end was tedious and went on for way too long.

I watched The Green Inferno, was over-all kind of meh. As I have said previously, though, I always dig the ghastly cannibal stuff, especially having ripped, almost skeletal corpses just hanging on poles around the village, like it's an open-sky slaughterhouse. The political message and undertones were nothing new and completely forgettable. I did get a genuine fright at the end when she dreams of the other guy making it back. Got me just the same way Bilbo Baggins at Rivendell got me from the first LotR lol.
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Green Inferno (no relation to the 1988 movie which is actually pretty good but not really a horror film per-se) is very close to being good. What kills it is the comedy which is deeply unfunny. The fake out jump scare and sequel bait in the credits was awful as well.

AmazingEagle said:
Train to Busan, it shows that zombies can be scary in the modern era.
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I didn't like it and the sequel was even worse. I don't think the first movie is technically bad I just wasn't very impressed by it and the lack of gore didn't win me over either. It's a to each his own kind of zombie movie.
 
talk sh1t said:
I liked Rondo, but you're right about the ending. I found it almost anti-climactic. Also, maybe it's because I don't understand exploitation movies, but I thought the shooting scene at the end was tedious and went on for way too long.
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Yeah I'm right there with you. It's like they wrote 3/4th of a fantastic movie, but had no fucking idea how to finish it and they went 'Uh, you know what, let's just do something cliche and overdone and call it an homage' and that was it. It felt forced, unearned and, as you said, went on too long. It's sad because it made it go from possible 'Exploitation classic' to 'Definitely worth a watch'

talk sh1t said:
I watched The Green Inferno, was over-all kind of meh. As I have said previously, though, I always dig the ghastly cannibal stuff,
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BrunoMattei said:
Green Inferno (no relation to the 1988 movie which is actually pretty good but not really a horror film per-se) is very close to being good. What kills it is the comedy which is deeply unfunny. The fake out jump scare and sequel bait in the credits was awful as well.
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Yeah I'm with BM on this one, I enjoyed some parts of it very much, I thought people had been too harsh on it when it came out, but sadly some of the out of place humor and other bullshit gimmicks they used made the movie not as good as it should have been. If they had stuck to making a classic cannibal movie it would have been so much better
 
talk sh1t said:
What are the good cannibal movies? I only watched Cannibal Holocaust a long long time ago, I think only bits and pieces here and there come to think of it. What I mostly remember is how jarring (in a good way) the cheerful, slightly sappy main theme of the soundtrack was (I think during the opening credits).
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I'll let @BrunoMattei take care of it I have a hunch he can come up with a good list
 
talk sh1t said:
Damn he did post a nice list with descriptions, but it got lost with the roll-back.
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Okay, this time take your notes.

Mountain of the Cannibal God. Has animal violence but it's a great jungle romp with sleaze and gore. Has the great character Stacey Keach and the legendary Bond Girl Ursula Andreas doing full frontal.

Cannibal Ferox. Also has animal violence but has legendary gore. Frequently considered to be the 2nd best Italian cannibal movie.

Jungle Holocaust. Ruggero Deodato's first cannibal flick, it also has animal violence, but a lot of people like this one. Also has some great gore.

The Naked Prey. The only one that isn't Eyetalian and it's from 1965. It's about a white guy being hunted down by a pissed off tribe in Africa. No gore but it is fantastic and comes highly recommended.

Cannibal Apocalypse. Cannibalism is treated like a virus that makes people crave human flesh.

Massacre In Dinosaur Valley. A jungle/adventure/horror/action/sleaze romp with some good gore. Fun B movie.

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals. A softcore porn and horror hybrid. Great gore. Great nudity.

Cut and Run. The conclusion to Deodato's loosely connected cannibal trilogy even though it doesn't have cannibalism it is set in the jungle, has some great gore, Michael Berryman. A nonsensical plot that runs a mile a minute that says something about journalism.
 
Long time poster, first time lurker.

I'm a horror movie freak so today, I just want to express my love for Texas Chainsaw massacre.

The original TCM is a classic movie that's shown very little aging and I've finally found out why.


Filming that beautiful shitshow was exactly that. Horror. Everyone was miserable, everyone wanted to go home. People were delirious from the experience to the point where they started to mix reality with the script. A movie that was lucky to be made after all the bullshit and misery has aged like a fine wine.

I love this movie.
 
Zelos Wilder said:
Long time poster, first time lurker.

I'm a horror movie freak so today, I just want to express my love for Texas Chainsaw massacre.

The original TCM is a classic movie that's shown very little aging and I've finally found out why.


Filming that beautiful shitshow was exactly that. Horror. Everyone was miserable, everyone wanted to go home. People were delirious from the experience to the point where they started to mix reality with the script. A movie that was lucky to be made after all the bullshit and misery has aged like a fine wine.

I love this movie.
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I'm still blown away they kept the chain on the chainsaw every single time when -aside from a few closeups- they didn't need to do that as the audience would never notice. It's a miracle no one was killed during the production.

As for the movie it's a masterpiece. One of the greatest horror films ever made. Perhaps the Citizen Kane of the genre?
 
BrunoMattei said:
I'm still blown away they kept the chain on the chainsaw every single time when -aside from a few closeups- they didn't need to do that as the audience would never notice. It's a miracle no one was killed during the production.

As for the movie it's a masterpiece. One of the greatest horror films ever made. Perhaps the Citizen Kane of the genre?
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Gunnar Hanson actually did cut his leg with the chainsaw while filming the ending, he had a scar and slight limp in that leg for the rest of his life (r.i.p cowboy)


Also in other news, finally watched an ep of Joe bob Briggs the last drive in and I gotta say he really is the only reason (aside the collection of classic horror and low price) to even have a shudder. Only he can spend the first 10 minutes grieving on Elon musk and Tesla's and sound badass while doing it.
 
horrorfan89 said:
Gunnar Hanson actually did cut his leg with the chainsaw while filming the ending, he had a scar and slight limp in that leg for the rest of his life (r.i.p cowboy)


Also in other news, finally watched an ep of Joe bob Briggs the last drive in and I gotta say he really is the only reason (aside the collection of classic horror and low price) to even have a shudder. Only he can spend the first 10 minutes grieving on Elon musk and Tesla's and sound badass while doing it.
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He didn't cut his leg but he burned it pretty badly because they just put a metal plate over his leg with a blood bag and put a live chainsaw on it. When I met him at a con I didn't notice a pronounced limp. He could have just been old.

Agree with Joe Bob, he is the only reason Shudder still exists. That and maybe the Creepshow series which is awful but retards seem to like it.
 
BrunoMattei said:
Agree with Joe Bob, he is the only reason Shudder still exists. That and maybe the Creepshow series which is awful but retards seem to like it.
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I picked a good ep too, deathgasm. Maybe it's my love for metal/dark music (as you can see) but it just goes balls to the wall batshit insane. It really feels like a movie troma would have made in their Glory days. It does kinda border on edgelordy at times but it feels like it knows that and just kinda rolls with it.
 
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