Paths of Glory (1957)

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Can you at least tell me if it was good or not?!?!?!?!?!?:p:D:p:)

Its a fantastic film. Certainly gets my recommendation.

Island Of Death (1977)

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Huge kudos to the horror channel for showing the full uncut version they genuinely risked being taken off the air for broadcasting it if non-horror fans saw it. It really is spectacular in terms of taboo breaking and sexual "depravity". It is undeniably mean spirited but gripping nonetheless. It really pushes things as far as it can and towards the end you are so bombarded with reprehensible scenes it will keep you thinking about it for days afterwards. Never a dull moment but you might want to take a shower after you'vce watched it-not for the easily offended of course but a must see for a very corrupt viewing experience.

Agree, it was insane:D

51 (2011)

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>>: C

Texas Killing Fields (2011)

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>>: B-

The Living Dead Girl (1982)

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>>: B

Setup (2011)

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>>: C-

the man with the severed head
stake land
x-men: first class
apocalypse now redux
rec
rec 2
the devil's kiss
the exterminator
season of the witch
dying breed
silent running
quarantine
horror express

There you go.
Sorry, I didn't say anything because that film is almost always considered a masterpiece. And it really is. I think it's the first Kubrick film in which he started to clearly dominate the medium.

Red State


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So here's my issue with this movie - The fact that crazy religious institutions like the Westboro Baptist Church exists gets me so fired up that I could care very little about the additional pseudo-political statement that Kevin Smith is trying to make - I just want to see these fuckers skinned, fried, and sodomized.

*ahem*

So I was pretty angry and riled up after watching Red State, which I think was the point... But what bothers me more about it is that, in terms of myself, Kevin Smith is preaching to the fucking choir:

• I already think that crazy religious fuckwits like the Westboro Baptist Church are self-righteous evil fucks.
  
• I also agree that government can be just as over-zealous when it comes to addressing cults (Smith is very obviously emulating the horrors of Waco).

So, I watch a movie like Red State and I see these points that Smith is making, but since I am already on that side, I feel as though I ultimately learn nothing new - I'm just utterly incensed.

So I'll try to give a review that is more objective:

• The movie is definitely intense.
  
• The direction is solid, especially the gunfight.
  
• The acting is incredible, specifically from Goodman (though not a big surprise) and the creepy Michael Parks
  
• The movie is definitely heavy-handed, though Smith does like to revel in his diatribes. Some scenes definitely went long.
  
• For the most part, the characters were two-dimensional, which bothered me a little bit - I with such an epic moral, it's a little disappointed that it's played out by caricatures.
  
• The end of the siege is one of the best resolutions that I've ever seen. Bloody brilliant.

In a nutshell, it's well-done but I didn't really fell like it covered new ground or did anything special for me other than piss me off.

Kudos to Smith for getting out of his usual mold. I think he did it well. Too bad that rumor has it his next movie will be his last.

3/5.

LOL thought only people from this part of the world used that saying :D

Maybe I got it from you. :p

I'm a bad influence :p

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Pretty decent entertainer, with some good performances. They could have treated the story a bit better though, with it's very dark and atmospheric overtone. It will remind you of 300 for more reasons than one.

Watch it just for Mickey Rourke alone.

* * * ½

Snow town,not really a horror but a true story about john bunting a serial killer in adelaide ausrailia,thought it was pretty good..pretty sick

and also "orphan"....very average

Snowtown sounds interesting, Ive been meaning to get around to watching Orphan for a while now and never seem to pick it up.


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Easter Bunny, Kill! Kill!

I laughed my ass off, but its a pretty sick, ridiculous movie. If youre into that sorta thing like I am then watch it.

haha fuck yeah that looks like my kinda movie who made it?

Its a Vicious Circle movie, from what I've seen of their stuff they are all pretty crazy

The Caller (2011)


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This is definitely an above-average little horror film that is genuinely creepy. I thank everyone on the forum for bringing this movie to my attention because, honestly, it is SO REFRESHING to see a horror film that is trying to do something new.

What I really like about it is that, with a title like The Caller, you definitely go into it with preconceived notions in terms of what type of movie it's going to be (Is it going to go the When a Stranger Calls route? Or the One Missed Call route?), but I ultimately found it different, interesting, and unpredictable.

I can't stand it when a movie tries to be clever but it's ultimately predictable - To me, this was not one of those films; I thought that it had strong pacing and while the very very end was obvious to me, for the most part I kept thinking, well, where will this movie go next?

My biggest complaint is the casting of Stephen Moyer (or you may know him as Bill Compton from True Blood). To be honest, I love True Blood, but I hold no delusion that anyone in that show can actually act worth a damn. And my friend Moyer is no exception... A native Australian, it's painful at times to hear him attempt a Southern drawl in True Blood - In The Caller, at least he's not Southern, but his Northern American accent is really no better... Plus, in the movie HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE ITALIAN. WHAT ABOUT STEPHEN MOYER SAYS I AM ITALIAN?!




Anyhoo - I gave the same complaint to the boyfriend and rationalized it by saying that they must have cast him because he was the biggest name they could find to play the leading man... But my counter-argument is: With a script this strong, they don't need "big" actors; in fact I found Moyer more distracting, with his bad accent, poor acting, and non-Italian-ness (plus the whole time I wanted him to say (SOOKIE)

Regardless, despite the above, I actually thought that the relationship he had with our heroine was genuine - Sweet, believable, and the love scene was genuinely romantic. I find love relationships in horror movies especially to be two-dimensional, but I actually really liked this one.

Also - Minor complaint: They kept using this constant chirping sound effect in the apartment that wound up driving me MAD by the end of the film.



All-in-all, I really recommend this movie. I do. I left it feeling similarly as I did after watching Triangle; that I had seen a solid little horror film and that there should be more like this (that is unlike everything else ;)) out there. Plus it really was genuinely creepy and did a great job at making this audience member uneasy.

3.75/5.

Hatchet 2
 

Hatchet 2 is a good sequel to the first one.if u liked the first one, your going to like thesecond one.If you like blood and gore, watch hatchet 2. your going to love it:)

The Last Wave (1977)

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>>: B+

Meskada (2010)

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>>: C

The Dark Half (1993)

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>>: B+

It's an enjoyable watch, and the girl is certainly hot, but the crap FX sort of ruined it for me. I understand it was low budget, but did everything have to happen off-screen or with some fake looking dummy? Even HG Lewis pulled off some decent no-budget gore.

"The new daughter" 5-6/10

A horror flick starring Kevin Costner? I had to buy it (cheap of course).


Well... it was better than what the cover had me believe. But what a half-assed performance by Costner. It was like he knew to begin with how the movie was going to be, but was forced doing it anyway. He was probably thinking about his band during the entire process.

The rest of the cast didn't do a much more convincing job. Especially not the "daughter".


What i DID like about this movie was that i had no idea what was happening until the very end. Now, if the very end was good is debatable. But i did like the very VERY end, right before the credits. Bye bye little guy. :D

outcast.. crap/10

Glad you liked it as well, Chrono. I thought it was very well done for the modest budget it was filmed in. The climactic climax was a bit predictable (but then seasoned horror fans should have a clue as the film progresses) but overall it's a nice little flick that deserves a bit more attention than it has gotten till now.

Totally agree.

I've been so frustrated lately as I page through all of the horror movies on Comcast On Demand - How incredibly derivative they are

... Group of teenagers going into the woods...
... Troubled family movies into a new house....

Those two scenarios cover about 90% of horror movies available on Comcast On Demand right now - scanning through them gives me a headache.

Really wish that more filmmakers would be more original, more daring - And a movie like The Caller shows that you don't need a lot of money to do it.

I have a few movies in my Netflix queue that I'm pretty hopeful about, and I'm hopeful about some of the trailers you've posted (The Innkeepers to name one off the top of my head), but FUCK there's a lot of awful stuff out there... The Caller was so refreshing!!!


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Cars 2 (2011)


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I really liked the first Cars. I was shocked, actually, because when they advertised it in the theater I was absolutely not interested at all - I figured it was going to be a stupid salute to Nascar fans and an ultimate flop a la Ricky Bobby. But then I watched it and found it utterly charming, despite of myself. It was cute, it was funny, and it was really sweet.

As for Cars 2, I don't want to rag on it too much, but I found it ultimately unnecessary - The story was not great and mostly boring and it focused more on Mater than the full cast of characters whom I had grown to love in the first film. Bruce Campbell made a great little cameo which made me smile, but for the most part I would have preferred to see Pixar put out something new. I absolutely loved Up and Wall-E. Let's get something new out there.

2.75/5.


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The Pack (2010)


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Ugh. This movie went from mind-numbingly boring and derivative to potentially interesting to... just plain stupid.

What pisses me off about this movie is that the trailer actually makes it look interesting. I had to sit through about a half an hour of derivative backwoods girl-in-a-cage crap before finally seeing the cool, creepy monsters that the trailer promised me and they were absolutely LAME.

There's some environmental subtext in there but, to be honest, about 40 minutes in our heroine makes stupid decision after stupid decision that I just couldn't take it anymore. Also the editing was bafflingly bad. And the second half of the movie I spent wondering, "WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY DOING THAT?!" Characters make dumb move after dumb move. I was baffled at the absurdity of how nonsensical it was.

Ultimately awful little movie. I want my 84 minutes and $5 back.

2/5.

I agree 100%

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Saw part 2 many years back on VHS, and it has always been a guilty pleasure of mine.

Finally managed to track down the original and watched it last night.

A more than average entertainer which brings in a whole "made for TV" kind of vibe. The biggest expenses must be for the effects which were decently done, and this film also has a head exploding scene like the film it's based on, Scanners.

But overall, I think I preferred part 2 a bit more (maybe because it was my first introduction to the Scanners universe, plus it had 2 Scanners fighting each other *geekgasm*).

Now to track down part 3.


* * ½

hmm iv got scanners in my collection and havnt watched it yet..must be good yeah

Don't think they made a Part 3 did they? I dig the Scanner Cop flicks they were the best of the sequels IMO.

Ah yes you are right, bud. I was thinking about part 3 of the Scanners series when I typed that.

I got all excited for a second and tried to track it down :D

Death Wish Movie Marathon
 

Darn! what a "bad luck guy" they made out of 'Paul Kersey' character! Almost every woman who fall for him...dies horribly!

But where's Robocop? Instead of that 5th installment story, they could make an interesting crime fighting duo in a Robocop meets Paul Kersey approach, which even could work out with a bit more improvised storyline in Part 4, IMO. :)

Anyway, loved the first one and also enjoyed its fist 3 sequels.

Not really a movie as such, but this series David Lynch did called "Dumbland".
Fucking absurd...though I can't say it didn't make me laugh.
Takes your brain to another place for a little bit - kind've messes with your head some.
I can't bring myself to say I liked it, or that I disliked it.
Stupid. Weird.
You might like to see it.

I can't wait to see it-"weird" is practically a recommendation for david lynch.

And Roshiq at last someone else has seen "The Living Dead Girl"! :)

I understand where you are coming from but disagree I think the bad FX heightened my "enjoyment" of the movie.

The Human Centipede

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very disturbing, i heard part 2 is worse than the first one, and there even making a third. even though there disturbing films, i will probably watch them, just to see how bad they really are.

rocky horror picture show with the family, what a feel good movie this is :)

March Of The Wooden Soldiers
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I watch this every Thanksgiving. I showed it to my girlfriend. I think she thinks i'm an idiot now. I still love it though. It reminds me of waking up on Thanksgiving and watching it as a kid. Despite the goofiness, i still enjoy it.

i love laurel and hardy

2 was awful in my opinion was all shock value, but thats what i watched it for :D

Watched The Omen Trilogy last night on Film4. I'd seen the first one loads of times but never bothered with the sequels. I was pleasantly suprised! Omen 2 was the weakest of the lot and, though it can't beat the original, The Final Conflict was enjoyable. Sam Neill as a fully self-aware Antichrist was very cool - pure evil in a business suit! Watch them back-to-back and the entire life of the Antichrist is played out in all its awesome glory! I was quite shocked when I realised I had hardly moved from the sofa in over 6 hours, mind...