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I don’t care what any of youse fanooks think, I can’t wait for Halloween Kills.
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Halloween is a franchise that solely lives off on just how good its first movie was and how iconic both Michael Myers and Jamie Lee Curtis's final girl became as a result.

Now the latest remake wasn't bad at all and I'm definitely gonna enjoy watching it, but it has a much better reputation than it deserves. At the end of the day it's one of the weakest of the horror series out there.

Even NOES doesn't have the lows of Halloween.
 
Internet War Criminal said:
Halloween is a franchise that solely lives off on just how good its first movie was and how iconic both Michael Myers and Jamie Lee Curtis's final girl became as a result.

Now the latest remake wasn't bad at all and I'm definitely gonna enjoy watching it, but it has a much better reputation than it deserves. At the end of the day it's one of the weakest of the horror series out there.

Even NOES doesn't have the lows of Halloween.
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It's a reboot. Not a remake, you schmuck.
 
You know, I'm still hopeful for the New Texas chainsaw massacre. I'll never forget the fact they revealed the next movie in my favorite horror franchise in call of duty and gave Leather some proper love.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Can Renfield even hold a leading role to begin with? Like I don't think people were exactly asking for an origin story.
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An origin story is an awful idea, but a movie set during his time in the lunatic asylum I could see working for a 90-minute movie if they play around if Dracula is real or something in his head. But sill like you said nothing anyone really wanted to see anyway.
 
Internet War Criminal said:
I really liked HT until the last five minutes and I hated the ending so much it retroactively ruined the movie for me.
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I guess they were trying to set that up the whole movie somehow, if you rewatch it, but yeah it still didn't make too much sense and I would have to classify that ending as retarded.

Kari Kamiya said:
For more proof how much of a fucking pussy I am outside of the fantastical elements, I still have of yet to watch J-horror movies despite the genre interesting me.
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Audition is probably the most uncomfortable-to-watch movie for me ever. Somehow it bothered me more than movies like that usually do. The Japanese are a frightening people.

I read Ring (the book) recently, and you know, that was alright. I don't remember the movie well enough to say how different it was.

Syaoran Li said:
Anyone here a fan of the really old-school horror films like Universal and Hammer's outputs?
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Yes, plus silent movies like Nosferatu and Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Val Lewton, etc. (Basically everything up to ~1996 and then my interest goes downhill fast.) Dead of Night is a particularly interesting British movie from 1945 that I didn't see until fairly recently.

I've been watching some Hammer non-horror movies (there are more than I thought) recently... mixed bag, but one movie, Cash on Demand starring Peter Cushing, I thought was particularly good. It's a thriller based on a play, and it's one of those movies that you can tell is obviously based on a play.

Syaoran Li said:
I've mentioned this in other threads, but I'm honestly surprised some low-budget independent filmmaker hasn't decided to do their own take on the "Dark Universe" since Universal's actual big-budget attempt bombed so badly.
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I find the Universal Monsters' status as the "first cinematic universe" a little overstated. Basically Lon Chaney's Wolfman crossed over with the Frankenstein series and beyond that it's kind of fuzzy. Yeah Dracula shows up but Dracula shows up in a lot of movies, there's nothing to tie him to Bela Lugosi's character. At points there's not a lot even to connect movies that are supposed to be in the same series. I didn't think the Hammer movies ever did any crossovers. So I can imagine the Dark Universe being an easy pitch for the Universal execs with the MCU being what it is and all, but as much as they want it to be a thing I don't think it ever will be.

Not-Universal "crossovers" with no supporting movies have been done, while skirting copyright: Monster Squad, The Creeps, probably others. ofc they won't leave Dracula alone but otherwise although I'd be down for low/mid budget Universal knockoffs that aren't straight CGI capeshit I dunno if the general audience would be having it.

Internet War Criminal said:
Halloween is a franchise that solely lives off on just how good its first movie
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That and TCM both, neat how both franchises are aware that they suck and constantly throw out continuity

Zelos Wilder said:
You know, I'm still hopeful for the New Texas chainsaw massacre.
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I wonder why? I guess statistically speaking if they make enough sequels one of them has to be good?
 
WS watching Halloween 2 and I just love how at certain points you can clearly see dick warlock (5he actor playing Micheal Myers in 2) standing on a box or stand on some kind to look taller
 
Product Placement said:
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Why X-rated masterpiece The Devils is still being censored

Fifty years ago, Ken Russell's historical drama shocked the world with raw violence and mass orgies. It is a tour de force that deserves to be seen in full, writes Adam Scovell.
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Interesting read if anyone cares
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Is it weird that as soon as I saw the title and the little thumbnail that I knew this was a Ken Russell film? The films I've seen from him are a hoot and I also highly recommend listening to his director commentaries because he sounded drunk off his ass during The Lair of the White Worm.

I haven't seen this one yet and I want to.
 
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