House from 1985, I don't watch movies from the people that gave us Bjork or Hentai. I do tend to add unnecessary The in front of stuff. Like The The's The.
I don't get the hate for Terrifier. I mean, why do we love F13 movies if not for Jason? Art the Clown has the same kind of presence. Not unless you're a bunch of sissies who are scared of clowns, of course.
Clown from Terrifier just came across as trying way too hard to be scary/creepy and he just annoyed me with how he acted. To me, he is the Carrot Top of slasher villains
I wouldn't say I hated it. It seems pretty well-received generally. I thought the clown actor was pretty good and that Carrot Top is an unfairly-maligned prop comic.
1 was good, 2 was not so good, 3 had a Jay and Silent Bob cameo, I forgot there was a 4. Scream became more popular than the movies it was deconstructing so I guess it didn't leave them anywhere to go.
Supposedly a movie called There's Nothing Out There did something like Scream a few years earlier, but I haven't seen it.
Honestly, I'd love to see someone do a "Hammer Horror" inspired take on Night of the Living Dead complete with all the bright crimson gore and the gothic trappings.
It'd be possible for low-budget filmmakers too, since the movie is in the public domain and has dozens of remakes, recuts, and fan edits both official and unofficial.
The 1990 remake of Night that was done by Romero and Savini was great but the independent 3D remake from the late 2000's was just god-awful, as was Russo's recut.
You've had American movies that were throwbacks to Hammer like Sleepy Hollow, but I've always wondered what a Hammer Horror take on zombies would look like.
Remakes have gotten out of hand, especially whenever Hollywood is involved, but I don't think they are inherently bad as a concept. It all depends on what you're remaking and how you're approaching it.
I watched a movie today and I have to say I was really fucking shocked. In awe, at some points. It's from 2012, called Aftershock. It's a Chilean movie, Eli Roth stars in it, the gore is top notch, and almost none of the story went the way I expected it to come. 10 minutes in I thought it was going to be a really shitty movie but it wasn't.
It's best to know very little about it, aside from the fact that a bunch of tourists end up in an underground (literally) club and then a earthquake strikes and shit gets real. I put it as another must watch. 4.25/5
I watched a movie today and I have to say I was really fucking shocked. In awe, at some points. It's from 2012, called Aftershock. It's a Chilean movie, Eli Roth stars in it, the gore is top notch, and almost none of the story went the way I expected it to come. 10 minutes in I thought it was going to be a really shitty movie but it wasn't.
It's best to know very little about it, aside from the fact that a bunch of tourists end up in an underground (literally) club and then a earthquake strikes and shit gets real. I put it as another must watch. 4.25/5
I thought it was great because the story literally doesn't go anywhere where you think it would traditionally go, The first 20 minutes were not so great but I understand why they needed the set up, and once the gore kicked in I thought it was fantastic. I was really surprised that they put some of that shit in it, and I don't think they'd be able to make it today
The thing about screams violence I'd that it WAS there especially the first. Like if you go back watch some of the work print footage it could get pretty intense, like Steve's death in the opening of 1 it originally held on that shot of him with his intestines all hanging out and we were originally supposed to see them fall out as he died.
It was toned down because the winestiens being the Hollywood tools they were didn't want to release the film with am NC 17 rating and the MPAA was merciless on scream, ironically mirroring the flack the slashers it was an homage to faced back in the day
I wouldn't say I hated it. It seems pretty well-received generally. I thought the clown actor was pretty good and that Carrot Top is an unfairly-maligned prop comic.
1 was good, 2 was not so good, 3 had a Jay and Silent Bob cameo, I forgot there was a 4. Scream became more popular than the movies it was deconstructing so I guess it didn't leave them anywhere to go.
Supposedly a movie called There's Nothing Out There did something like Scream a few years earlier, but I haven't seen it.
Japanese House is really great. American House is like the PG version of Evil Dead
The thing about screams violence I'd that it WAS there especially the first. Like if you go back watch some of the work print footage it could get pretty intense, like Steve's death in the opening of 1 it originally held on that shot of him with his intestines all hanging out and we were originally supposed to see them fall out as he died.
It was toned down because the winestiens being the Hollywood tools they were didn't want to release the film with am NC 17 rating and the MPAA was merciless on scream, ironically mirroring the flack the slashers it was an homage to faced back in the day
Not too mention the movie sweet home eventually gave us the entire resident evil series. It's too bad aside that nobody really talks about sweet home.
I've seen that uncut version of Scream and it really isn't that noticeably different. Biggest difference is the opening kill and it holds on the boyfriend's death for a few seconds and an extra stab to Drew Barrymore. Otherwise? Pretty much the same movie. Rose Mcgowen's death is slightly longer, holds on the body and I think we get a quick shot of the head being smashed in the garage door. And an extra stab or two to Matthew Lilard's character. I remember once I somehow torrented a weird even more cut version that omits almost every stab in the movie like it was taken from a TV version but had all the cursing.
I'm going to respectfully disagree with Horrofan69420. The uncut version of Scream isn't like the uncut My Bloody Valentine or Friday the 13th part 2 or 7 or Cherry Falls (which still has never been shown uncut).
I've seen Sweet Home and the game is better. People get confused if the movie was based on the game or vice versa since the trailer for the movie has footage of the game. But it was the old traditional Japanese-style of releasing a media project where a bunch of shit tied to a thing is released around the same time on different mediums. Blood: the Last Vampire was like that and Serial Experiments Lain. The movie has two good kills done by the late and great Dick Smith but otherwise it's an average Poltergeist ripoff.
On the subject of Scream I kind of recommend Cherry Falls. It's at least the most interesting of the post-Scream style of slasher movie and has an interesting gimmick where the killer exclusively targets virgins. It's just a shame the uncut version has yet to be found. Even Shout Factory tried to find the footage to no avail as per the IMDB page:
The movie had to be re-cut five times in order to achieve an R-rating. Most significant cuts include:
Graphic sexual activity during the climactic orgy sequence;
The death of Annette (Clementine Ford); the originally scripted scene showed her having her throat slowly pushed onto a pane of glass. The scene was filmed and very brutal, done all in one graphic cut. However, it was later replaced with her character's head split open in the front door. That scene was still trimmed heavily; in unrated versions the top of her head erupts and a splash of blood flies across the doorjamb.
Timmy (Keram Malicki-Sánchez)'s death was an on-screen kill that featured gruesome spurting blood.
A character's death involving a male character's throat being slashed open at the climatic orgy was nixed for time and MPAA constraints.
The released film is bloodless because the producers decided to release directly to basic cable where it was cut even more. But who knows? The uncut gore footage from Friday the 13th part 2 and My Bloody Valentine was eventually found and released so Cherry Falls might have it's day.
I've seen that uncut version of Scream and it really isn't that noticeably different. Biggest difference is the opening kill and it holds on the boyfriend's death for a few seconds and an extra stab to Drew Barrymore. Otherwise? Pretty much the same movie. Rose Mcgowen's death is slightly longer, holds on the body and I think we get a quick shot of the head being smashed in the garage door. And an extra stab or two to Matthew Lilard's character. I remember once I somehow torrented a weird even more cut version that omits almost every stab in the movie like it was taken from a TV version but had all the cursing.
I'm going to respectfully disagree with Horrofan69420. The uncut version of Scream isn't like the uncut My Bloody Valentine or Friday the 13th part 2 or 7 or Cherry Falls (which still has never been shown uncut).
I've seen Sweet Home and the game is better. People get confused if the movie was based on the game or vice versa since the trailer for the movie has footage of the game. But it was the old traditional Japanese-style of releasing a media project where a bunch of shit tied to a thing is released around the same time on different mediums. Blood: the Last Vampire was like that and Serial Experiments Lain. The movie has two good kills done by the late and great Dick Smith but otherwise it's an average Poltergeist ripoff.
On the subject of Scream I kind of recommend Cherry Falls. It's at least the most interesting of the post-Scream style of slasher movie and has an interesting gimmick where the killer exclusively targets virgins. It's just a shame the uncut version has yet to be found. Even Shout Factory tried to find the footage to no avail as per the IMDB page:
The movie had to be re-cut five times in order to achieve an R-rating. Most significant cuts include:
Graphic sexual activity during the climactic orgy sequence;
The death of Annette (Clementine Ford); the originally scripted scene showed her having her throat slowly pushed onto a pane of glass. The scene was filmed and very brutal, done all in one graphic cut. However, it was later replaced with her character's head split open in the front door. That scene was still trimmed heavily; in unrated versions the top of her head erupts and a splash of blood flies across the doorjamb.
Timmy (Keram Malicki-Sánchez)'s death was an on-screen kill that featured gruesome spurting blood.
A character's death involving a male character's throat being slashed open at the climatic orgy was nixed for time and MPAA constraints.
The released film is bloodless because the producers decided to release directly to basic cable where it was cut even more. But who knows? The uncut gore footage from Friday the 13th part 2 and My Bloody Valentine was eventually found and released so Cherry Falls might have it's day.
Huh guess that making of featuretee I got that from was over hyping itself, possibly in a way to make people want to see an "uncut" version of scream that never happened.
Still one thing is for sure the 1st and 4th definitely got made at the right place and time. The first was just as the slasher craze was all but forgotten, only the heavy hitters like elm street, Friday and Halloween were still getting movies made and two of those three were marketed as the "final" entries. Scream for better or worse did reintroduce the slasher films of the previous decade to a new audience and spark curiosity in them that brought life back onto what was essentially a dead genre.
Scream served a purpose. For better and worse. It came at a time when the major studios declared horror movies to be dead and considering how all of the major franchises were underperforming at that time it's hard not to see their point. Plus the design of Ghostface is cool. Getting the rights to that mask was championed by Craven. Harvey Weinstein wanted to use a more generic-looking mask partly so they wouldn't have to pay the mask company for licensing.
The first Scream was good for what it was and for the time it came out. Aside from that, I'm kinda indifferent towards the sequels and the franchise as a whole.
I still find it amazing that Ghostface actually predated the Scream series and that they had to get the license from a party store of all places.
The first Scream was good for what it was and for the time it came out. Aside from that, I'm kinda indifferent towards the sequels and the franchise as a whole.
I still find it amazing that Ghostface actually predated the Scream series and that they had to get the license from a party store of all places.
I was a little kid when the first Scream came out and I remember in the 90's, those masks were everywhere around Halloween. They still kinda are, but I didn't realize until years later that the Ghostface mask predated the movie by several years.
It was actually a little bit surprising when I found this out.
I was a little kid when the first Scream came out and I remember in the 90's, those masks were everywhere around Halloween. They still kinda are, but I didn't realize until years later that the Ghostface mask predated the movie by several years.
It was actually a little bit surprising when I found this out.
96-1999 half of the kids that came to my door on halloween had that mask. The other half were Darth Maul. It's iconic. Today there's so many variations of it. Someone should start a thread for that.
I was a little kid when the first Scream came out and I remember in the 90's, those masks were everywhere around Halloween. They still kinda are, but I didn't realize until years later that the Ghostface mask predated the movie by several years.
It was actually a little bit surprising when I found this out.
