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horrorfan89 said:
Funny how hindsight can change popular opinions. I still remember how for years people were calling the 2006 remake of black Christmas one of the worst remakes of all time and the pinnacle of bad 2000's horror then suddenly a decade later an even crappier remake comes along that embodies everything wrong with an even worse decade and suddenly everyone's apologizing to the 06 version left and right.


Say what you want about black Christmas 2006, but ive watched a few videos on it by guys like good bad flicks and...yeah if you go into the making of stories surrounding these movies they at least have interesting stories behind the camera often related to why they were made at all.
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2006 Black Chrismas I always felt was bad and still do. But I think what has happened, was the 2019 Black Christmas was on another level of bad and is truly one of the worst horror remakes. But that doesn't make 2006 any less bad than it was when it came out.
 
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horrorfan89 said:
Funny how hindsight can change popular opinions. I still remember how for years people were calling the 2006 remake of black Christmas one of the worst remakes of all time and the pinnacle of bad 2000's horror then suddenly a decade later an even crappier remake comes along that embodies everything wrong with an even worse decade and suddenly everyone's apologizing to the 06 version left and right.


Say what you want about black Christmas 2006, but ive watched a few videos on it by guys like good bad flicks and...yeah if you go into the making of stories surrounding these movies they at least have interesting stories behind the camera often related to why they were made at all.
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Alot people who hated it later saw the crappy 2019 one. It change their minds and 2006 one was no longer that bad of a movie. I mean out of the two 2006 one is more faithful to the orginal.
 
Sorrell said:
I don't know if it's very polarising but It Comes At Night. I found it a massive disappointment compared to what the marketing had teased.
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I thought it was really good, but by the time I watched it I heard about 25 jokes about how it really should be called Nothing Comes At Night, Or At Any Point, Fuck This Movie so my expectations were recalibrated knowing it was a post-apocalyptic slow burn


When it "fuck this movie", however, I watched Goodbye, Honey (2020) and, holy shit fuck this movie. How do you make a movie about a girl who flees a man who kidnapped her and takes refuge with a stranded trucker in the middle of the woods boring, I don't know, but it was fucking shit. 1.5/5 do not watch that shit.
 
I enjoyed the 06 Black Christmas or Black Xmas. It's on par with mindless slashers that came in the wake of Halloween and Friday the 13th.
 
Frank D'arbo said:
I'm curious, what are some polarizing as fuck horror movies that you either loved or hated
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Blair Witch Project is maybe the most polarizing ever. I liked it, wouldn't say I loved it, but it's the only found footage horror movie I've seen that sincerely tries to be believable. I really liked the remake of Suspiria, and I'm a fanboy for the original, and I like Dario Argento's Inferno nearly as much as Suspiria. Out of Fulci's maybe-not-praised-quite-as-much movies, I didn't like New York Ripper, but Manhattan Baby is aright. I like every Phantasm movie... I was downright afraid to watch Phantasm: Ravager, knowing how it got made, but I honestly enjoyed it.

I wouldn't call them "polarizing" but Jason X and Jason Goes to Hell are at least as bad as they're made out to be... they're not secretly underrated, they didn't age well, they don't deserve re-assessment, they're not "good but not really F13 movies", they just suck hard. Friday 5 is ok, I think the world is over Roy so maybe not worth mentioning. Freddy vs Jason is one of the better films in either franchise.

Halloween 3 is pretty good. Rob Zombie Presents: Halloween is very bad.
 
I think Blair Witch Project was a victim of the hype machine. It's not the movie's fault, of course. It holds up much better these days especially if you go into it not expecting the holy grail or anything.
 
I saw Blair Witch Project the day it came out, or the next day at most. At the time, even the local news station had described it as real, apparently confused about the description of 'Found Footage'.

Probably the most intense movie I watched in my life, considering it was presented to us as real. The whole cinema was quiet as fuck when the movie ended, too.

I wouldn't call them "polarizing" but Jason X and Jason Goes to Hell are at least as bad as they're made out to be... they're not secretly underrated, they didn't age well, they don't deserve re-assessment, they're not "good but not really F13 movies", they just suck hard. Friday 5 is ok, I think the world is over Roy so maybe not worth mentioning. Freddy vs Jason is one of the better films in either franchise.
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Friday 4-5-6 are the best entries in the series what are you on about? I'll agree that Jason X is... not good. As much as I wanted to love it and had fond memories, my last rewatch shattered all of that. It's basically a terrible Scify movie.

Which is a shame because the tricking jason with the holograms of the girls & sleeping bags kills is one of the best and funniest scenes in all of F13... much like the opening of Jason Goes to Hell, and those two are the lowest points in the series by far.

I'll agree that Freddy vs Jason is actually pretty good, in fact it's better than most NOES movies. Freddy is a great character, but holy shit they made some bad movies.
 
Friday 4-5-6 are the best entries in the series what are you on about?
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Just double-checked on IMDB and yeah Friday 5 is sitting at 4.8, everything else up to New Blood is ~6 or so. The commoners don't like it.
 
Frank D'arbo said:
I'm curious, what are some polarizing as fuck horror movies that you either loved or hated
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The recent Halloween remake. I fucking hated it. I'm probably going to hate watch the sequel to it like I did the shittier Rob Zombie Halloween films.
 
Frank D'arbo said:
I'm curious, what are some polarizing as fuck horror movies that you either loved or hated
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I unironically loved Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare as the goofy semi self-parody/over-the-top send-off it was supposed to be. It's a flawed movie and I get why people don't like it, but I enjoyed it even with those flaws.

Same goes for Jason X and Jason Goes To Hell. They're not as good as the classic movies but still are enjoyable.
 
Calandrino said:
Just double-checked on IMDB and yeah Friday 5 is sitting at 4.8, everything else up to New Blood is ~6 or so. The commoners don't like it.
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I'll amend that to say 3-4-5-6 are the best ones.

This explains everything that's good about Part 5


As for tonight's movie, Hunter Hunter. Another movie I was confused as to why it was considered horror. A rogue wolf terrorizes a family that lives in the remote wilderness, and the father decides to go out and take care of it. That's the description. That's.... not quite it. A slow burn, but the acting is fantastic, horror elements are there and once again, this movie manages to take a swerve where you did not end up at all where you expected you'd end up. Top notch gore with a particular shot you won't forget. 4.25/5
 
BrunoMattei said:
I think Blair Witch Project was a victim of the hype machine. It's not the movie's fault, of course. It holds up much better these days especially if you go into it not expecting the holy grail or anything.
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I think part of the reason Blair Witch got over hyped was because it was initially released to art house theaters. I saw it opening weekend at one of the Ritz theaters in Philadelphia and the crowds were insane. Like, think Wal Mart on Black Friday. Screenings were sold out for days. By the end of its run there was something like 75 percent staff turnover because they couldn't deal with the stress of dealing with the crowds. I'm not sure how it was in other cities, but in Philadelphia it was absolutely nuts.

I enjoyed it, and I thought it was scary, but it took them a few weeks for the movie to get a regular wide release, and by then the hype insane. Nothing could have lived up to it.
 
Don't Breath 2, is out on VoD (and torrent sites) tomorrow, only came out on 13th of August. Guess it made as much as it could in cinemas, which is $35.9 million on a $15 budget, so not too awful.
 
Just finished "Veld," an old Soviet horror movie based on some of Ray Bradbury's stories (mainly "The Veldt"). I'm not quite sure how I feel about it. There's a lot of pointless "weird" imagery and hollow symbolism, and it felt kind of unfocused telling multiple unrelated stories at once. But I try watching a different, more faithful adaptation of "The Veldt" and something about the Russian version feels better.

Link. Not great quality but it's the only copy I can find online
 
John Carpenter's "Apocalypse Trilogy" (The Thing, Prince of Darkness, and In the Mouth of Madness) are the best horror films of the modern age IMO.
Frank D'arbo said:
I'm curious, what are some polarizing as fuck horror movies that you either loved or hated
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I liked the Evil Dead remake and was more interested in a continuation of that than I was Ash vs the Evil Dead.

Lords of Salem was interestingly weird and I can actually enjoy Rob Zombie a bit once he gets out of the Hillbilly obsession.

Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is a far better movie than Stephen King's The Shining is a book.
 
The Shadow said:
John Carpenter's "Apocalypse Trilogy" (The Thing, Prince of Darkness, and In the Mouth of Madness) are the best horror films of the modern age IMO.

I liked the Evil Dead remake and was more interested in a continuation of that than I was Ash vs the Evil Dead.

Lords of Salem was interestingly weird and I can actually enjoy Rob Zombie a bit once he gets out of the Hillbilly obsession.

Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is a far better movie than Stephen King's The Shining is a book.
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Agree with everything except for Mouth of Madness which I would rate as more "pretty good" especially in comparison to The Thing and Prince of Darkness. The Evil Dead remake was painfully a-typical and paint by numbers until we arrive at the last 15 minutes where it feels unique but still plays out like an Evil Dead movie.
 
I didn't hate The Evil Dead remake, the raining blood was cool

I still stand by the fact I enjoyed Devils Rejects

High Tension (Switchblade Romance for the brits) was almost good, but that ending fucking ruined it for me because it ended up creating so many plot holes. It needed one more draft.
 
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