I agree, logically, all the traditional principals of Scream should be strapped at ALL fucking times given their histories, but that'd just make for a boring movie once Ghostface comes around and gets instantly domed because Sydney and Gail have spent hundreds of hours training for gun fighting.
See, this is where my idea for a Scream would come into play: my idea (if I was commissioned to do one for the paycheck) I would make everyone the killer. So, one Ghostface gets shot to death then another one appears and they get blown away, and then another and then another. Everyone is Ghostface. Everyone is a suspect done literally.
See, this is where my idea for a Scream would come into play: my idea (if I was commissioned to do one for the paycheck) I would make everyone the killer. So, one Ghostface gets shot to death then another one appears and they get blown away, and then another and then another. Everyone is Ghostface. Everyone is a suspect done literally.
Finally got it, the Blu-Ray release of Eyes of Fire (1983) from Severin Films, restored in 4K using the original film negative. A somewhat obscure cult-status film, set in 1750 in the "new" America as a group of exiled settlers, lead by silver-tongued preacher Smythe, end up in a remote region no native tribes will enter. Leah, a member of the group who has mysterious abilities and has been secretly using them to help get the group out of trouble, like when the preacher is nearly strung up for coming on to a married woman at a settlement may be able to help out when the real inhabitants of the valley start to reveal themselves...Old World witchcraft and European colonials clash with Native mysticism and the antediluvian devils that haunt the forest...
Included is the extended cut of the film, entitled Crying Blue Sky, which is about 32 minutes longer. Both versions of the film are worthwhile. Eyes of Fire was cut to get to the horror more quickly while highlighting the character Leah’s powers early on; Crying Blue Sky is more focused on the frontier drama while fleshing out Smythe’s zealotry and other characters, the occult gradually creeping in.
There is a deleted scene from IT Chapter One where IT eats a baby. The scene has never been released but a still made it out there and the actor who played the clown confirmed it. The only reasons I can guess why it was never released is either (A) it has unfinished CGI and the studio didn't want to pay for it or most likely (B) they're saving it for a part 3 which might be a prequel.
I'll always defend Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 as one of the better sequels. Joe Bob hates this one for some reason although I'm thinking that's because it was the first one that was shot outside of Texas and shot in California. Bizarrely, he thinks part 4 is one of the best sequels.
I'll always defend Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 as one of the better sequels. Joe Bob hates this one for some reason although I'm thinking that's because it was the first one that was shot outside of Texas and shot in California. Bizarrely, he thinks part 4 is one of the best sequels.
I am kind of fond of 4. My biggest problem with 3 is that the protagonists are Californians travelling through Texas, so it's impossible to view them as the good guys.
I am kind of fond of 4. My biggest problem with 3 is that the protagonists are Californians travelling through Texas, so it's impossible to view them as the good guys.
Part 3 has a great line where the two family members (one played by the great Viggo Mortensen) are stripping the guy down as he's hanging from a meathook:
I'm only 10 minutes into Scream (2022) right now and... holy shit it's been a long time since a movie gripped me like that from the start. I'm so fucking glad they didn't stop the series at 3.
Edit: ok, the "People complain that in Stab 8 the killer switched weapons" and then that chick pulling out a gun and started to kill people was fucking brilliant foreshadowing.
Well, the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie is out... Oh boy. This is a stream of conscious post so forgive any fuckery on my part.
It went woke. It's so woke it went beyond broke and became a joke. Yeah, I'll stop. Yes, it's about influencers. There's a black dude with a white girl fiancé, they're doing some sort of influencer colony bullshit, and they're anti-gun... Oh, and one of the characters, one of the two sisters, is a survivor of a school shooting...
I went into this with low expectations because this franchise is all over the place. And I don't know why this is but the last couple of movies are obsessed with (1) demystifying Leatherface by explaining his back story plus showing him without the mask OR (2) making him into an anti-hero. The remake, prequel and the 2017 movie just titled Leatherface are guilty of the former while Texas Chainsaw 3D is guilty of the later. And you know what? Brownie points to Texas Chainsaw 3D for never explaining his back story or showing him without the mask. At least that movie got that one thing right.
This movie blatantly shows him without the mask. No dramatic reveal. You just see him without the mask. Once he puts on the mask it's business as usual but that doesn't happen until 30 minutes in.
Our main characters are incredibly unlikable although I liked the old Texas guy who walks around armed.
Of course the one character I liked is killed off very quickly.
All the scenes with the old/new Sally feel like they're part of the reshoots that happened. If you don't know, the producers fired the original directors when they were 2 weeks into shooting. Always a good sign for any movie of course.
Once Leatherface has his face mask and is doing his thing he just kind of meanders into the story and it's paint by numbers. No explanation how or why he's with this old woman. What happened to the rest of his family? The Old Cook and another relative (the guy who starred into the sun at the gas station) were still around. Part 2 makes sense that the remnants of the family would take off and continue their killing spree. Texas Chainsaw 3D's opening mostly makes sense with a large extended family killed by a posse. This movie doesn't even bother to explain what happened in the interim.
42 minutes in until we finally see a chainsaw.
I just started skipping through this POS. Only definitive plus I can say about it is that it has good gore. The scene on the bus where he slaughters the influencers is great.
You know what? Someone is going to upload the bus scene to YT. Just watch that and skip the rest of the movie. The obnoxious black characters die at least.
The last 20-30 minutes are just the 2018 Halloween all over again. He does kill the old/fake Sally. It was a very definitive kill. The ending is alright, it's always something when characters you dislike just fucking die in a very OTT way. It does bring to mind this: WHY THE FUCK DID THEY BRING SALLY BACK ANYWAY IF THEY WERE JUST GOING TO KILL HER OFF? DOES NO ONE KNOW WHAT THE FUCK TO DO WITH THIS FUCKING FRANCHISE??!?!?!??!?!?!??!
Just watch a kill reel of this. Save yourself the trouble.
The only positive I can say is that the gore was good. It really made me reevaluate Texas Chainsaw 3D and I think that one was at least "pretty good" even if the logic is completely nonsensical. Plus it's heart was in the right place with the casting.
Watched the new Texas Chainsaw, didn't find it woke but more of a piss-take on it. It wasn't poorly made in any way but it just devolves into a rehash of Halloween 2018 halfway thru just not nearly as interesting. Leatherface really doesn't feel like Leatherface but just a run of mill slasher villain, and that is the main issue the movie really does nothing to stand out in away way and plays it too safe most of the time.
The movie, of course, leaves open a sequel and if they do make one I hope they are more daring with the script and make Leatherface act closer to what he has in the past.
