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Anyone seen Suitable Flesh yet? The trailer worked on me as a big Stuart Gordon and HP Lovecraft fan. Now that it's out on Shudder I'll probably watch it this weekend.
 
Yeah Suitable Flesh was an absolutely worthless movie. Lifetime Channel tier writing and acting (even from Heather Graham (although, to be fair, I guess it's harder when the script is that stupid)), zero gore or effects, and it's just fucking boring. I think literally half the movie is extremely awkward and un-erotic sex scenes with Heather Graham (no nudity), and either the singer from That Thing You Do (who is old and ripped for some reason) or a literal kid (I think he's like 22 IRL, but I had just assumed he was a teen in the movie). It's just so fucking pointless and awkward - there's a scene where Heather Graham gets taken over by some guy spirit, and of course he's like feeling his/her boobs and stuff and it's just very clunkily and stupidly cut between a body double and her face, and for no reason, I mean there's literally no nudity. It's almost worth it for how retarded her look is when he/she fingerblasts himself.

There's also zero Stuart Gordon batshittery in it - don't let anyone tell you otherwise. No pineal glands, crazy sex scenes, animated corpses, inter-dimensional creatures, mutant sea creatures - nothing. The only thing remotely close to an SG movie is it's based on an Lovecraft story and it's got Barbara Crampton in it.

Even the fucking car reversing scene that Jay from RLM got a hard on over is shit, because the fucking reverse camera stays on when she puts it in drive, which no fucking car does (it's probably not even legal), and the angle is wrong and it looks shitty. I was distracted at how poorly done it was (and it's kind of a waste of a good idea, tbh).

Honestly, I think if they cut out a little bit of blood from the last 5 minutes, they could play this on Lifetime, and the only thing the wine aunts would complain about is that it's more boring than their usual fare.
 

Interesting premise for a slasher that I admit I wanted to make myself. Although, this has been done before with Angst (1983) where you are with the killer the entire time without any cutaways at all to other characters.
 
Vampirella said:
This could be interesting.
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I temporarily forgot that the Maniac remake is another example of being with the killer the entire time. But I'd argue other serial killer movies are close enough to the premise.
 
BrunoMattei said:
I temporarily forgot that the Maniac remake is another example of being with the killer the entire time. But I'd argue other serial killer movies are close enough to the premise.
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I loved the Maniac remake so much. It's up there with my favorite remakes like The Thing, Little Shop of Horrors, and The Blob.
 

Tim Burton to Direct ‘Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman’ Remake With ‘Gone Girl’ Author Gillian Flynn​


“The Nightmare Before Christmas” director Tim Burton and “Gone Girl” writer Gillian Flynn are tackling a remake of “Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman” for Warner Bros.

Burton is directing the upcoming film from a script by Flynn. The science-fiction horror story follows a wealthy heiress who grows to a giant size after an alien encounter and exacts revenge on her cheating husband. It’s unclear how closely this new take will follow the original 1958 movie, starring Allison Hayes, William Hudson and Yvette Vickers.

The project reteams Burton with Warner Bros., where he is currently working on the sequel to his 1988 movie “Beetlejuice.” The follow-up film about a pesky poltergeist, newly and fittingly titled “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” will be released in theaters on Sept. 6. His other directing credits include “Edward Scissorhands,” “Alice in Wonderland,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “Planet of the Apes.”




Flynn, meanwhile, was recently hired to adapt her novel “Dark Places” for a limited series at HBO. The former “Entertainment Weekly” writer wrote the screenplay for David Fincher’s 2014 thriller “Gone Girl.” She also turned her 2006 book “Sharp Objects” into the HBO miniseries of the same name, starring Amy Adams.

In addition to directing, Burton is producing “Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman” with Andrew Mittman and Tommy Harper. Kai Dolbashian served as executive producer. Burton is repped by WME. Flynn is repped by WME, Theresa Kang, and Jackoway Austen.
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I've never managed to get beyond the shit CGI kill in the opening moments of the Maniac remake. Tried like 3 times, turned it off each time. I need to get better at just pushing through because I see so much praise for it everywhere.
 
I had an idea for a new Nightmare on Elm Street remake/reboot/whatever: Elon Musk is Freddy and kills people in their dreams through the neurolink.
 
VanyaMotorbike said:
It was 1994's Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation. It was directed by Kim Henkel who co-wrote the original TCM with Tobe Hooper, and was his first and last directing gig

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Epic bump. This dude is like "WTF? Who quoted this months later?"

But I think Next Generation has one very interesting idea that is deeply underdeveloped and that's the whole angle that the family work on behalf of the illuminati for unknown purposes but something involving rituals. It's also why I think Joe Bob likes Next Generation because of that angle... And it probably helped that he was quoted right on all the advertising.
 
BrunoMattei said:
But I think Next Generation has one very interesting idea that is deeply underdeveloped and that's the whole angle that the family work on behalf of the illuminati for unknown purposes but something involving rituals. It's also why I think Joe Bob likes Next Generation because of that angle... And it probably helped that he was quoted right on all the advertising.
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Kind of an interesting idea, but I felt like it sort of ran counter to the kind of random fatalism of the first one, where The Family is just totally fucked and nobody notices because its in the middle of nowhere. The government/illuminati angle sort of explains things that didn't need explaining and were better left unexplained. This goes into the whole random/reason spectrum regarding horror villains, and which you find scarier or more compelling. It can be a kind of fatalistic terror where the victims are just in the wrong place at the wrong time and usually involves flat characters with little development against mindless slashers, animals or monsters. Or the more personal kind that explores the deeper elements of the villain's motivation and relationship to the victims, including their emotional journeys, feeling of fault for being targeted, etc.

Interestingly enough, the idea of the government/conspiracy controlling the hows/whys of a horror type experience came back around with Cabin in the Woods. Maybe you and Joss are on the same wavelength about the strength of the core idea, though I guess you probably are less thrilled about the execution. Cabin does have a kind of desperate undertone of dread, but its got so many layers of quirky Joss-comedy on top that I always find it hard to take seriously. Its just too meta and comedy, with not enough actual horror.

Decent film though.
 

What do you guys think. Looks generic in my opinion. I Am Legend with Will Smith looks a million times better.
 
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