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I watched a nice little film by Adam Greene (my guilty pleasure) called frozen. It's about a group of friends who end up stuck on a ski lift at the peak and desperately try to find a way down. I went in with low expectations, god damn. It's actually really fucking good.

I'll not go too crazy as I'm on my phone so four stars, check it out.
 
BrunoMattei said:
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Check out those directors. This is shaping up to be Masters of Horror: Good Version.

Cigarette Burns was merely decent as was the Takashi Miike episode.

Edit: Me and @Frank D'arbo saw Argento's latest Black Sunglasses or Dark Sunglasses or Black Glasses or whatever the fuck the exact title is. It's a painfully mediocre effort with some cheap cinematography. The opening kill was pretty good but it then it just meanders and doesn't do much with the premise. We're just shown who the killer is without any kind of mystery or anything to make it interesting. Aside from the opening gory murder there's one other bit of gore and then that is it.

The nicest thing you can say about it is that it's better than Dracula 3D which is not saying much if you've seen that one.
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Regarding Masters of Horror and Argento after his expiry date, I liked Jenifer the best of the series. Turned out pretty well. His other episode was... more what one would expect.
 
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Regarding Masters of Horror and Argento after his expiry date, I liked Jenifer the best of the series. Turned out pretty well. His other episode was... more what one would expect.
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I hated Jennifer. I hated pretty much every single episode other than the two I mentioned as being "decent."
 
BrunoMattei said:
I hated Jennifer. I hated pretty much every single episode other than the two I mentioned as being "decent."
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Come to think of it I liked Deer Woman too, which doesn't seem to be one people care about one way or the other. Probably me just being a AWiL fanboy. I wanted to like Cigarette Burns, it sounds good on paper. So did the Stuart Gordon one. Truly the series is not good and its greatest value is in gifting us unsalvageable crap like the Iraq War episode. That one's unwatchable but it's amazing they made it just the same.
 
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I watched a nice little film by Adam Greene (my guilty pleasure) called frozen. It's about a group of friends who end up stuck on a ski lift at the peak and desperately try to find a way down. I went in with low expectations, god damn. It's actually really fucking good.

I'll not go too crazy as I'm on my phone so four stars, check it out.
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I remember watching it 10 years ago, not really expecting much but MAN. Great tension-building.
 
Every Modern Woke Teen Slasher poster be like

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Sorry, I just needed to vent. Somebody please explain their obsession with purple.
 
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It was weird too was some seens made him a Bully and others had being bullied. But honestly it made since I would Bully the shit out of a peice of shit like him too.
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Hurt people hurt people. It makes sense that a bully would be bullied himself. In the film he's picked on by kids older than him too. I still like the movie as a cheesey B-movie.
 

Lindsey Beer To Write And Direct A Reboot Of ‘Sleepy Hollow’ For Paramount​


EXCLUSIVE: After recently signing an overall deal with the studio, Lindsey Beer and Paramount look to have found their next big property to tackle. Sources tell Deadline that the studio is set to reboot the classic horror title Sleepy Hollow, with Beer writing, directing and producing alongside Todd Garner and Spencer Walken of Broken Road Productions.

The tale about the headless horseman who terrorizes a small town and its newest resident, Ichabod Crane, has seen many iterations over the decades including the 1949 Disney animated movie and the 2010s Fox TV series. The most popular one was produced by Paramount in 1999 and starred Johnny Depp as Crane with Tim Burton directing. The film grossed more than $200 million at the worldwide box office and remains a must-watch during the Halloween season.

Exact plot details are unknown for Beer’s adaptation at this time.

Beer recently makes her directorial debut with the upcoming Pet Sematary prequel for Paramount, which Lorenzo Di Bonaventura is producing. The film is in post-production and is set to be released this year. Prior to making her jump to directing, Beer has been one of the most sought-after writers in Hollywood, having recently working on the new Star Trek film for Paramount and Bad Robot. She also recently turned in a draft for a remake of Bambi for Disney, and Hello Kitty for New Line and Beau Flynn for which she also serves as an executive producer.

In television, she is serving as writer and showrunner on several projects including showrunner and creator for Netflix’s The Magic Order, based on the comics by Mark Millar.

Garner is the founder and head of Broken Road Productions, which has an overall with Paramount. His Broken Road credits include Mortal Kombat, Vacation Friends, Haunt, The Possession of Hanna Grace, Tag, Isn’t It Romantic, Paul Blart: Mall Cop and its sequel, Knight and Day and many more.

Garner produced Senior Year, which has been No. 1 on Netflix’s film charts for two weeks in row. It stars Rebel Wilson and is produced by Paramount’ Players division.

Beer is repped by ICM Partners and Gang Tyre.

 
Late night Movie Night I was able to get The Greasy Strangler on and a decent number of people were shocked, repulsed and fascinated. If you enjoy Troma films, Basket Case or the films of John Waters then you need to watch The Greasy Strangler.


 
I don't know why, but I watched It: Chapter One and It: Chapter Two semi-recently. I've never read the book but saw the 90s miniseries in parts many years ago.

The movies were... okay, I guess. Unlike most people, I preferred Chapter Two over One. The adult actors were much better overall, though there are some standouts in the child cast. (And Finn Wolfhard is not among them...) And the characters were more built up by the second film so the very underwhelming, CGI horror scenes at least had more weight. There's some great cinematography and some interesting scenes. And the ending is pretty solid and fairly satisfying.

Still, the project is full of plot holes, weird choices, and definite mistakes. The pacing is far too snappy in Chapter One, leaving us with too little time to meaningfully establish the too-large cast (Mike is totally wasted as a character and never got enough development, and many of the others got too little as well), and the constant "scares" are terrible even when conceptually interesting. Bill Skarsgard is good as the creature but is almost entirely wasted with loud jump scares and annoying fast motion scenes that fail to frighten. The CGI is plentiful, and most of it is unconvincing. I was thinking, as Eddie's leper shambled around onscreen, how much better he would have looked as a practical effect, and that goes for a lot of the special effects and set pieces. I didn't think much of the score either. It felt far too "epic" and traditional for a story that's, at its heart, small and personal.

And the cast. The two film's worst performance goes to Finn Wolfhard, who is more annoying than anything and is always clearly reading a script. You never feel like he inhabits the character he plays. Bill Hader was fantastic as the adult version, though.

Yeah... it should have been a miniseries.

I also just got finished with the Netflix series Black Summer, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I started it because it was highly rated and I needed something to halfway-watch while I did other stuff, but I was pretty quickly riveted by it. I have found no info on a possible third season, but here's hoping.
 
frozenrunner said:
I don't know why, but I watched It: Chapter One and It: Chapter Two semi-recently. I've never read the book but saw the 90s miniseries in parts many years ago.

The movies were... okay, I guess. Unlike most people, I preferred Chapter Two over One. The adult actors were much better overall, though there are some standouts in the child cast. (And Finn Wolfhard is not among them...) And the characters were more built up by the second film so the very underwhelming, CGI horror scenes at least had more weight. There's some great cinematography and some interesting scenes. And the ending is pretty solid and fairly satisfying.

Still, the project is full of plot holes, weird choices, and definite mistakes. The pacing is far too snappy in Chapter One, leaving us with too little time to meaningfully establish the too-large cast (Mike is totally wasted as a character and never got enough development, and many of the others got too little as well), and the constant "scares" are terrible even when conceptually interesting. Bill Skarsgard is good as the creature but is almost entirely wasted with loud jump scares and annoying fast motion scenes that fail to frighten. The CGI is plentiful, and most of it is unconvincing. I was thinking, as Eddie's leper shambled around onscreen, how much better he would have looked as a practical effect, and that goes for a lot of the special effects and set pieces. I didn't think much of the score either. It felt far too "epic" and traditional for a story that's, at its heart, small and personal.

And the cast. The two film's worst performance goes to Finn Wolfhard, who is more annoying than anything and is always clearly reading a script. You never feel like he inhabits the character he plays. Bill Hader was fantastic as the adult version, though.

Yeah... it should have been a miniseries.

I also just got finished with the Netflix series Black Summer, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I started it because it was highly rated and I needed something to halfway-watch while I did other stuff, but I was pretty quickly riveted by it. I have found no info on a possible third season, but here's hoping.
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The remakes had a looot of issues, I felt. The TV movie series was way more in line with the book plus no one can replace Tim Curry. It's been awhile since I've seen the remakes so I can't accurately point out all the reasons I disliked them, I just remember that I did. I know the whole updating the timeline thing felt entirely unnecessary and that was a reason. The TV movie just felt more creepy to me. Probably because I originally saw it as a child when that kind of stuff still has the power to actually scare you.
 
White Devil said:
The remakes had a looot of issues, I felt. The TV movie series was way more in line with the book plus no one can replace Tim Curry. It's been awhile since I've seen the remakes so I can't accurately point out all the reasons I disliked them, I just remember that I did. I know the whole updating the timeline thing felt entirely unnecessary and that was a reason. The TV movie just felt more creepy to me. Probably because I originally saw it as a child when that kind of stuff still has the power to actually scare you.
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I liked IT Chapter One. It seemed like the majority of people complained about "jump scares" even though there really weren't that many of them. It's funny because I saw the TV movie/mini-series back in the day and it was the anticipation of being scared that heightened the initial viewing of part 1 but when I completed it I thought it was merely okay. Part 2 sucked and the same can be said for Chapter Two although there are some significant improvements just because of the higher budget and some changes were made to increase the body count (such as the house of mirrors scene).

I get the 80's nostalgia bait but it didn't bother me. I would have preferred had it not been set in any noticeable time period to avoid Memberberries of any kind but what can ya' do?
 
BrunoMattei said:
I liked IT Chapter One. It seemed like the majority of people complained about "jump scares" even though there really weren't that many of them. It's funny because I saw the TV movie/mini-series back in the day and it was the anticipation of being scared that heightened the initial viewing of part 1 but when I completed it I thought it was merely okay. Part 2 sucked and the same can be said for Chapter Two although there are some significant improvements just because of the higher budget and some changes were made to increase the body count (such as the house of mirrors scene).

I get the 80's nostalgia bait but it didn't bother me. I would have preferred had it not been set in any noticeable time period to avoid Memberberries of any kind but what can ya' do?
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The problem with IT is always gonna be that the book itself is a bit of a mess to turn into a movie. I personally loved the modern remake of it (part 1 at least), despite Tim Curry being absolutely iconic as Pennywise. There are a lot of questionable things in the book, and well, there is always the ending. The whole ritual in the book is an acid trip to read, and was probably written while under more then just King's regular alcohol abuse at the time.

What I found rather remarkable is that they actually managed to put a cast of kids together that weren't annoying to watch. A rare thing in movies/shows these days, hell, they can barely cast one child actor that isn't obnoxiously irritating at the best of times. As for the adult cast, it was ... fine, I guess. It's been years since I have read the book, but I have always remembered the parts with the Losers Club from the 50s a lot more enjoyable to read then the parts where they are grownups.

What I enjoyed more in the mini series with Curry was the soundtrack by Richard Bellis, while the modern score by Benjamin Wallfisch just did what 95 % of all horror scores these days do, enhance the jumpscares while serving really no other purpose then that. The Bellis score went from carrousel music, to downright eerie in a heartbeat at times, and that only added to the fact that Pennywise could go from appearing as a bubbly clown to literally your worst nightmare in a matter of seconds.
 
Somewhat obscure but recent horror I'd like to talk about:


Bliss (2019) an acid-infused drug/horror film that has an array of influences from Driller Killer to 70's/80's neon-colored flicks such as Liquid Sky. The carnage is great and there's some fantastic visuals. Plus I don't think there's a bad movie that has George Wendt from Cheers in it.
 
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I mean, technically there could be potential, some of the best stuff related to it had happened in the past, but I'm not sure how they are going to make it work except for the fact that the clown wins every time and there are no stakes as a result...

I doubt it's gonna be close to what was in the book, no way they'd make that shootout or the barn burning the way it's described.

Also King sounds like he doesn't give a shit but he's happy with getting a fat check.
 
Yeah, if they cover all the periods It fed in Derry prior to the start of the novel (or the first recent film adaptation) as individual seasons, you pretty much know all they will end. Given the horrific events that happened in Derry's past, you can guarantee the show would go hard on the social issues.
 
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