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Calandrino said:
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Alligator is a movie about a 40-foot alligator sneaking around Chicago. That's the scary thing about 40-foot alligators: they can easily slip around undetected and strike without warning. There could be one in the room with you right now, and you'd never know it until it was too late.

I liked how they had a life-sized alligator prop that goes NOM NOM NOM on the people getting eaten.
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The alligator for that movie just recently died.
 
Anyone else feel really bad for the little baby in Eraserhead? :(
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I watched Paranormal Activity for the first time the other night. First of all, it definitely isn't scary, at any point. I'm not usually the sort of retard to judge horror by whether it's "scary", because adults generally shouldn't be "scared" by movies, but there is a certain type of horror that goes explicitly for that effect, with literally nothing else to recommend it (not directing, creativity etc.) It's literally just, "This shit will be so scary," which is the sort of movie this is supposed to be. Didn't work.
It's not that it isn't possible. The movie it's clearly trying to be is The Blair Witch Project, which is successfully scary as fuck. But PA doesn't come anywhere close.
Aside from that, on a purely technical level it was very poor. I can understand that, based on the budget, but millennials want to talk about it like a great "scary" movie, so that's the standard by which I'm going to judge it (and them).
The movie at first seems like it's going to do a good job of slowly escalating realistic scares (omg did you see how the door just slightly moved??), when all the sudden there's this huge animalistic shriek, and a BANG against their bedroom wall that rocks the whole house, and would 100% have gotten their neighbors to call the police. It's not scary, it's like watching found footage of a bear charging someone in the woods. Yeah, that's a situation that would suck to be in, but I'm not in the frame of mind to be scared of demons. I'm now acutely aware that this is a movie.
It never improves from that point, the scares continue to "escalate" less and less convincingly until finally climaxing in the possessed Katie throwing her dead boyfriend across the room into the camera. She then creeps up to the camera with very cinematic intent, and finally lunges for one last scare.
Awful. This has none of the power of the final scene in the Blair Witch Project where the guy is standing in the corner. It's literally just going through the motions of being a scary movie.
 
Calandrino said:
Who sucks worse: Rob Zombie, or Eli Roth?

Usually I'd say Rob Zombie, but I watched Roth's Knock Knock recently and haven't recovered yet. How do you make a scene-for-scene remake with 1,000 times the budget and manage to make every single part of it worse?
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William Teller said:
I think Eli Roth is clearly more talented than Rob. It could also be that I'm just a bit biased, as I don't really like the kind of horror films Rob makes. They really seem like a hobby project by a guy who isn't particularly talented but simply has too much money and can therefore afford to make films. Besides, Eli wrote and directed Hostel. He managed to make people afraid of backpacking in Europe.
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Yesterday I watched Cabin Fever again, and wow... the movie was so bad I wanted to hurt myself. So I then of course watched Ti West's Cabin Fever 2.
Sometimes I don't understand why I do this to myself.
 
Was rather let down from Final Destination 6. The premonition was really good, everything else felt rather eh... I'll rewatch it again and let my opinions continue to form.
 
So a friend who watched an advance screening of Bring Her Back said it had some really gnarly teeth scenes and even gave me what everyone got: dental floss from a tooth-shaped box.
Made me wonder if anyone has a specific gore threshold if done well, or gore moments that wasn't done a lot in general. For the latter, I've barely seen anyone exploring on swallowing glass or the like but Evil Dead Rise did it so poorly that it didn't affect me. Meanwhile, Oculus' version still makes me cringe a bit.
 
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