Halloween II (2009)

Loved it. A top notch modern slasher and one of the best horror flicks of 2009.

Silver Bullet.
I remembered it from childhood...it's not that bad, interesting twist on the werewolf thing. "ok" effects.

I thought Brad Dourif was really great as Brackett this time around.

Definitely!

Halloween (2007)

Liked it better than before.

>>: B

After that started to watch this year's H2 last night; but it was too late...almost 4:30 AM! So left the last half for tonight.

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Yikes. Think I ve found another worthy entry for the Sickest, Gorific, Disturbing & Controversial 100.

What sayeth thou, Despare? Anyone else?

The Tracy Fragments (aka: "my girlfriend made me watch it, I swear")...

It was a cool movie, I enjoyed Ellen Page going apeshit near the end, it never really reached a resolution but you can make your own assumptions based upon how nuts the character actually is. The weird camera and split scenes bugged but actually thinking about what Tracy is going through in her weird twisted mind, her conception of time made me appreciate the style so much more.
I recommend not watching it with your significant other if you plan on having sex after.

Underworld 2: Evolution and the original Amityville Horror. Amityville remains one of my favourite all time scary movies. Soon, I will watch the Ryan Reynold's remake. :D

Yeah - its a weird mix of humour and mean spiritedness...

Evil Aliens

A british flick with such bad effects, acting and "comedy" that I couldn't stop laughing.

Extract.
Whatever.
I'm done waiting for another "good" Judge film.

The Cottage (2008). Simply a fun, humorous, and entertaing horror flick. Ashe.
derek

Dug out a somewhat unsung one for my first watch...

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Dont let that cover fool you. This film is one of the most difficult films you will ever watch in your life. It is so brutal, unflinching and hard-hitting that you will have a difficult time bringing yourself back to the screen to continue watching it. The direction, performances and pacing are absolutely top-notch. This one ranks up there with one of the best ever made.

Beware though, it will rub a lot of people the wrong way. If you have a pretty open mind, be sure to watch this. And yeah, forget about re-watching this one, cuz you will be reeling under the invisible sledgehammer this one will deliver to your stomach and brains, long after the end credits are over.

Tossing a big rec for this, only for those who are totally open-minded about their cinema. If you are sensitive, please skip this.

The Uninvited - A solid remake of the Korean movie A Tale of Two Sisters, though the original is definitely superior (and scarier).

Book of Blood - Solid adaptation of the Clive Barker short story. The segments that are from the story are good, the rest just OK. Amazing sound design, though. Very scary in that respect.

Sam

It's been in my queue for a while, looks like I need to bump it up!

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Ahh...the beautiful Ingrid Pitt...sent my pulse racing again!

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Gutterballs was awesome! I'm looking forward to checking out Hanger.

Not a bad movie.....some of the performances got on my nerves.Some good kills in this one.

INGLOURIOS BASTERDS------Fun flic.......typical Tarantino

Brad Pitt rules in this one :D

as well as Christoph Waltz....I gots to check out more of his stuff

Good way or bad way...it's a poor piece of crap. I hate it.

Halloween II (2009)

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It already happened with Paranormal Activity and now Halloween 2! The thing is here lately the dvd of both the films came with non-theatrical ending! PA released here with the "Original ending" and few days back H2 hits the dvd store with alternate ending only. Thanks to blood-disgusting.com for notifying that the version I saw last night wasn't the original one which most of you have seen in the theater. And then thanks to youtube, where I just finally saw the theatrical one.

Anyway, I liked both the ending but I think alternate was the better one. **Spoilers about the alternate ending**During the film's finale outside the shade, Micheal Myers tears his mask off revealing his entire face (beard and all). He screams & says his first word of his entire adulthood to Dr. Loomis, "Die!" before he stabs Dr. Loomis. Then police shot him down and Angel Myers came out & made an attempt to stab Dr. Loomis by herself but she got shot too and in background a slow & fine version of LOVE HURTS starts. The rest are the same like in the theatrical one.**Spoilers end**.

Now, though I have said it before but like to repeat it here...years back just after the moment it was declared that Rob Zombie going to be the director of the remake of HALLOWEEN then I think every reasonable, thoughtful & open minded horror fans accepted the fact that this is going to be totally different treat than whatever they got from other sequel directors of original series and specially going to have some different approaches in many aspects than Carpenter version either in good or bad way. So when the director of the macabre violent films like House of 1000 Corpses & The Devil's Rejects takes this kinda project into his own hand then eventually he/she supposed to fail most of the “expectations” in a great deal of disrespect. And I said before that as a remake that was unnecessary but as a RZ film..it’s a masterpiece! But after seeing the remake again lately and H2 last night, I think Zombie did his best within his caliber & regarding his ways of making a film. I like to appreciate his own efforts & thoughts for the Michael Myers Legacy and the way he put it all together in. Though it’s flawed, it was sad & difficult to see that screwed portrayal of Dr. Loomis character and nevertheless it’s almost an exact 2 hour long feature (!), but it’s gorgeously gruesome, nasty in a cool way and darkly a long awaited dream for hardcore slasher fans.

>>: B


Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

haven't seen it before.

>>: D

Zombies Halloween 2.
Pretty decent though I found the end a tad confusing in what it was trying to symbolise. I like the opposite about this than I liked about the first one.
In the first, I loved the scenes where Myers was growing up/instituionalised but from the point he broke out I found it rather generic and boring.
In this one I felt the "young Myers" scenes weren't as good (nor was the kid), yet the present-time scenes were great.

Probably overall my favourite film by RZ...which isn't hard IMO, but all the same.

Pandorum - I REALLY thought I'd like this, I REALLY wanted to like it. I do not.
I won't even finish watching it, I think it's a completely crap film.

Ditto.

Btw, I found really sweet that "Are you a Giant?" scene, though I was expecting Michael would kick him off!:D

Yeah I thought that was cool - though I expected it to go the way he did...little clown kid and all.
But yeah overall this rates higher than the first one did for me...just too bad they didn't get what they nailed in the first one so well.

I thought it was weird that Loomis was a totally different character than the first film...

Was there a reason for this?

Pretty solid german thriller about people getting killed for their tattoos..

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Now that was a brilliant sales pitch. i'm hooked.
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He did go through a lot in the original and became a bit of a prick in the sequel, I can understand it, I also forgive it since he became his old self again toward the end.

Which ending did you have? I think the endings both had different meanings even though they're both the same exact scenes. In the theatrical version I think it was supposed to show that Laurie's snapped and she's as crazy as Michael now, haunted by a vision of their mother. In the Director's Cut I interpreted it as symbolizing Laurie's afterlife where she's together with her family because of Deborah mentioning the line about going home. I'm not sure why Michael wasn't in the shot in this case, though I assume it's because Zombie knew that wouldn't be the ending and didn't bother to shoot it.

As for the white horse, the introduction says "WHITE HORSE- linked to instinct, purity and drive for the physical body to release powerful and emotional forces, like rage with ensuing chaos and destruction." I think that's what was for Michael as well as Laurie in the theatrical version, but for Laurie in the Director's Cut ending I think it symbolized death, as Death, the fourth horseman rides a pale horse.

finally got round to watching ratman

That film is such a guilty pleasure of mine...

Inch for Inch Nelson Dela Rosa is one of the best actors ever...

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Really loved this - I was amazed how many of the films I'd seen (after the initial sexploitations ones)....I didn't realise Harlequin was an Oz film..

The stories of Dennis Hopper on the set of Mad Morgan were hilarious. As was Roger Ward offering to slap around Jimmy Wang YU. I wonder how that would have turned out....

I remember when I first saw Mad Max on video, the warner bros release was dubbed with American Accents...I also saw Turkey Shoot in some shit hole cinema when it came out. Ther was like 3 ppl in the palce...

I watched Hatchet, which was okay. More funny than horor.

silent night deadly night

Star Trek(2009)

Loved it, hated it, goddamn Spock is hot now! Never in a MILLION years saw that one coming. fuck me!



































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How they are going to work the fact that the future is now filled with multiple characters and story-lines....ugh, what a nightmare for the next movie unless they completely ignore the fact that two Spocks now occupy the same space and the impossibility of that is and dangerous....
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wierd
But I enjoyed the movie nonetheless

Man on Fire
Pan's Labyrinth
& half way through watching Bad Boys

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Saw Not Quite Hollywood awhile back when I reviewed it for another site. Excellent documentary for sure.

Last watched:

Fat Belly: Chopper Unchopped

Really interesting doco on ol' Chop Chop. Some eye opening stories in it. I could listen to the guy tell stories for ages. Well worth your time especially if you enjoyed the film about him from a few years back.

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Not even heard of that - even though I imagine 90% of what he says is bullshit I still love his stories....

It came out over here last week. He certainly knows how to tell a good yarn :)

I never knew he was given a lot of shock treatment when he was younger. He talks about at one point how he was wondering whether he imagined giving a guy a bash but the bruises on his face gave him proof it happened. They had him on shit like Largactyl too which would fuck your shit up and give you delusions. Definitely keep an eye out for it I think you'll dig it.