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[BrunoMattei]

With the holidays coming up, what Christmas/Thanksgiving movies are on your watchlist?

Blood Rage is my favorite Thanksgiving slasher, just for its ending. Christmas Evil/You Better Watch out is my absolute favorite Christmas movie. I know it’s more of a drama/character study, but the build up to the last third of the movie is great. The lead actor really nails the performance too.

Blood Rage is pretty fun. It grows on you.

What I've been watching this week: Black Friday.

It's a fun albeit paint by numbers kind of zombie movie. Very average. You'll get more out of it if you ever had to work retail.

Then I switched gears for All Night Long 4.

Ôru naito rongu R (Video 2002) - IMDb

Ôru naito rongu R: Directed by Katsuya Matsumura. With Yuuki Fukuzono, Kiyori Miyamae, Katsuya Ichikawa, Kazumi Hiraishi. This is the fourth in the All Night Long series, though with no suns available, it's little unclear what exactly is going on.But it appears that Yuuki , a young, endearing...

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I couldn't find a trailer and if there is one it wouldn't be on YT. The 4th part in the All Night Long Hexalogy. Of which, only the first 3 flicks have been released in North America with subs. The other three never got a release and up until now never got fan subs. Which is weird. Because there's fan subbers for the cartoons and especially the porno cartoons but not for All Night Long 4-6 and a handful of other Jap horror/exploitation flicks. Fan subs for part 4 recently came out. The series is known for being nihilistic and depraved and this one is no different by veering closer to Guinea Pig territory. A guy obsessed with dissecting fish meets several women, imprisons them, and slowly murders and dismembers them while performing inhuman science experiments. The gore is pretty good for something shot on video but it's the tone that will make you want to take a shower after watching it.

BTW, All Night Long 2 has the distinction of being one of the most disturbing films ever made.

Then rounded up the night with a re-watch of I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu. This time with Joe Bob Briggs' commentary and he manages to make this POS watchable.

 

[Commander X]

So Last Night in Soho was a fucking overlong mess with a confused and shitty message.

Sandy was clearly an insane cunt, but none of her victims deserved to be murdered for fucking a willing prostitute who went along with it aside from the pimp. The art student was annoying as fuck and caused the cop to die, I thought she was gonna redeem herself kinda when she recognized that all those dead guys were actually victims, but then she turns around and she's like 'nah no they deserved to die' and the movie agrees with it because even after the whole thing burns down not a word about the actual victims. The ending would have been much better if it had been the last delusional thoughts of the student as she choked to death and burned to death.

Aside from that, it's literally just coasting on memberberries

MEMBA 80S ITALIAN HOWWOW? MEMBA THE 60S? MEMBA WHEN I DIRECTED GOOD MOVIES?

Fuck that movie. A genuine 1/5.

The lesson from Last Night in Soho: Being a horny straight male is a crime far worse than murder.

 

[GLUE SNIFFER 9000]

The lesson from Last Night in Soho: Being a horny straight male is a crime far worse than murder.

When has being horny in a horror movie ever worked out?

 

[BrunoMattei]

When has being horny in a horror movie ever worked out?

Spoiler

Then there's the conclusion to Faust where the anti-christ's birth was thwarted by the fact that our heroine had been raped as a child.

#IWin

 

[GLUE SNIFFER 9000]

Haha, you got me there!

 

[Calandrino]

 

[Oats12345]

Blood Rage is a good Thanksgiving horror movie "It's not cranberry sauce"

 

[GLUE SNIFFER 9000]

Blood Rage is a good Thanksgiving horror movie "It's not cranberry sauce"

Can’t forgery the other line: “I’m Todd!”

 

[Internet War Criminal]

So Black Friday was extremely generic, it wasn't bad but honestly I'd probably give it a 2/5 and not 3/5 if it wasn't for the fact that I love Bruce Campbell. So yeah it's still a 3/5, and if you have got nothing to do it's worth a watch I guess, but this feels like a horror movie that was written by a conference room full of executives who then farmed out the ideas to an AI. It's that fucking generic without a single new original thought.

 

[XYZpdq]

I need your help everyone.
My coworkers and I had a discussion about horror movies, and the dishwasher said his favorite is Clockwork Orange.
Is that actually a horror movie?
I personally think it could be one, but what's your take?

I don't feel that it is, but I'd be open to hear a case made for the idea.
iirc the novel is usually classified more as "horror" for some reason?

 

[TV's Adam West]

Double posti

I love it's contrast of horror with surprising serenity and calmness, like the scene where this song plays.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CZCXbn2MrRo, list: PL9BIRiZvlKSQ2nmeTc4dlH_f9GqurqUXy
In fact I can't think of another horror movie that takes that approach, 28 Days Later overall has a very unique atmosphere that in it's own way by way of the metaphor for rage virus zombies, captured the vibe of what it was like in the early days post 9/11, when things were frightening and you didn't know what might happen next, but you tried to make the best of it.

That atmosphere is one place where the sequel was lacking though, it was a more straight forward horror film.

28 is unique in the beauty it shows. The shots of John walking around the empty London is so well done and has an almost dreamlike feel. It's so pleasing. It reminds me of the first episode of walking dead, seeing the highway. It's iconic.

 

[GLUE SNIFFER 9000]

So Black Friday was extremely generic, it wasn't bad but honestly I'd probably give it a 2/5 and not 3/5 if it wasn't for the fact that I love Bruce Campbell. So yeah it's still a 3/5, and if you have got nothing to do it's worth a watch I guess, but this feels like a horror movie that was written by a conference room full of executives who then farmed out the ideas to an AI. It's that fucking generic without a single new original thought.

I got the vibe it wasn't going to be anything super special, Zombie movies feel they've worn out their novelty with how oversaturated the market has been. Bruce Campbell has more than enough charisma and screen presence to be interesting, but I wouldn't mind if we pumped the breaks on zombie movies for a while. It's a fun idea, but should have really come out years ago. However, I love 'Silent Night, Deadly Night 1&2' so I'm not one to talk.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

It's not a zombie movie though, it's more of a creature movie.

 

[BrunoMattei]

It's not a zombie movie though, it's more of a creature movie.

No. You're wrong. It's a zombie movie. It follows almost all of the conventions of the zombie movie. It's as much a zombie movie as Night of the Creeps or Slither or The Hive.

I got the vibe it wasn't going to be anything super special, Zombie movies feel they've worn out their novelty with how oversaturated the market has been. Bruce Campbell has more than enough charisma and screen presence to be interesting, but I wouldn't mind if we pumped the breaks on zombie movies for a while. It's a fun idea, but should have really come out years ago. However, I love 'Silent Night, Deadly Night 1&2' so I'm not one to talk.

I love the Silent Night Deadly Night series. Even part 3 which is maybe the weakest one but parts 4 and 5 definitely need to be watched because they're so intentionally bizarre/surreal and do other things with the idea of Horror on Xmas.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

No. You're wrong. It's a zombie movie. It follows almost all of the conventions of the zombie movie. It's as much a zombie movie as Night of the Creeps or Slither or The Hive.

Almost all of the zombie conventions?

1) Those infected change right away
2) The infected physically change form. They are not dead and decaying, they mutate.
3) They are intelligent
4) They build things
5) They are all part of a hive
6) They work as a team
7) They create huge creatures that react intelligently
8.) Not everyone they kill mutates, only those they infect with the white shit that comes out of their mouth


It's a creature movie, the movie even drops a line about how they are basically an alien species that infects people and transform them really early on through a broadcast and shit.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Almost all of the zombie conventions?

1) Those infected change right away
2) The infected physically change form. They are not dead and decaying, they mutate.
3) They are intelligent
4) They build things
5) They are all part of a hive
6) They work as a team
7) They create huge creatures that react intelligently
8.) Not everyone they kill mutates, only those they infect with the white shit that comes out of their mouth


It's a creature movie, the movie even drops a line about how they are basically an alien species that infects people and transform them really early on through a broadcast and shit.

1: Running zombies. The Dawn remake, 28 Days and 28 Weeks Later. Come on man.
2: The mother zombie in Peter Jacksons masterpiece (fuck the Lord of the Rings trilogy) DeadAlive AKA Brain Dead. Come on man.
3: Bub from Day of the Dead. Big Daddy from Land of the Dead. Return of the Living Dead zombies. Come on man
4: Big Daddy from Land of the Dead. Burial Ground zombies. Come on man
5: The Hive, Slither, and Night of the Creeps. Come on man.
6: Burial Ground zombies. Nightmare City AKA City of the Walking Dead zombies. Come on man.
7: DeadAlive AKA Braindead again. Come on man.
8: Return of the Living Dead 1 and 2 (not so much 3 and so on) and Dead Snow. Come on man

Mic drop

 

[Internet War Criminal]

Yeah you said 'Conventions", just because it happened once or twice doesn't make them conventions of the zombie genre. It's a creature movie. Alien possession, specifically. The press packet themselves said those people were possessed by aliens.

Come on man.

Come on man.

Come on man.

Come on man.

Come on man.

Come on man.

Come on man.

Come on man.

Grandpa, time to go back to bed, you're getting confused again.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Yeah you said 'Conventions", just because it happened once or twice doesn't make them conventions of the zombie genre. It's a creature movie. Alien possession, specifically. The press packet themselves said those people were possessed by aliens.











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Grandpa, time to go back to bed, you're getting confused again.

Yeah, keep stewing because you got owned by a dead Eyetalian hack director you steroid junkie.

 

[XYZpdq]

Transmitted Mind Control Infestations From Space are more zombie than A Clockwork Orange is horror.
They're like, at least tangential to Zombie, like the Blind Dead or the aquanazizombies from Shock Waves.

 

[GLUE SNIFFER 9000]

No. You're wrong. It's a zombie movie. It follows almost all of the conventions of the zombie movie. It's as much a zombie movie as Night of the Creeps or Slither or The Hive.

I love the Silent Night Deadly Night series. Even part 3 which is maybe the weakest one but parts 4 and 5 definitely need to be watched because they're so intentionally bizarre/surreal and do other things with the idea of Horror on Xmas.

Was 4 the one with Clint Howard? He’s an amazing character actor. I haven’t seen part 5, but I’ll give it a try. For some reason, I love Christmas themed horror movies. Maybe it’s because they run contrary to the usual Christmas narrative.