That was one of my fave movies as a kid-I watched it again a few years ago as an adult and still loved it. Great film :)

I also preferred the second film over the first :) I gave up on the series after part 3 that was the one I really hated and felt didn't offer anything decent. Maybe I'll finally watch parts 4 and 5. in the mood for some escapist horror this xmas.

You can skip the 4th, it's the worst part, IMO but agree with Elvis & V about the new one...FD5, the story was good with a nice little surprise at the end.

Just watched Hostel III (2011).

It had a slow start but it soon built up into a nice little torture horror.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1255916/

The performances were okay and there are enough twists and turns to keep the viewer interested. I thought it was at least better than the first two Hostel movies which bored me rigid.

In the end, I gave it 6/10. A little high but I was entertained after all. :D

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Hostel Part III

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I enjoyed the story of this one more than the previous films. The characters were more likeable and it just lacked the pretension of the previous films. I loved how this one embraced it's trashier aspects and didn't try to hide that fact with the bullshit faux political commentary of Roth's films. Nice to see Scott Spiegel behind the camera again for a genre piece (which was my main reason for watching) but unfortunately this isn't another Intruder. Bit of a shame they obviously cut corners budget-wise because the film does suffer as a result. Shoddy effects and a straight to DVD look prevented this from being the strong entry to the franchise as it could've been.

The Revenant
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Great zombie-ish horror/comedy.
It's got a fairly different vibe and storyline to a lot of movies of this kind.
If you like films along the lines of "Dead Heat" and "Fido", this one feels at home in the same category.
It was a lot more entertaining and of higher quality than I'd expected.
I feel like I should recommend this film to zombie fans who are after something a little different.

Only watch part 4 if you want a good laugh :)

Dream House (2011)

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>>: C

Contagion (2011)

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>>: B

Our Idiot Brother (2011)

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>>: B+

this was an awsome movie 9/10

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also dust devil, this is a cracking little movie.

Yeah I'm going to give it a watch for this reason too.

The Spy Who Loved Me


Ah, I do love the Moore era of Bond, and this might just be my favourite. Equally, it has my favourite Bond Theme in it.

The Inbetweeners Movie

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A movie length episode as I was expecting and it follows the usual blueprint of the show with a few of the colloquialisms removed to appeal to a wider audience. The series had a bit more style to it and this comes off as just another American Pie styled "dick and fart" comedy flick. Still it made me laugh my ass off in parts which is the main reason for throwing on a comedy movie.

The Art Of Getting By

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A random selection that backfired on me. Angsty teenager rubbish. I just wanted to reach into my television and shake everyone while yelling "GET OVER YOURSELVES!!!". I guess I'm in the wrong age group to appreciate this one but it had none of the sharp satire or bite of say Pump Up The Volume. Bland in every way and had me questioning why the fuck did I even bother.

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Fuck the remark in the review on the main page pissed me off:

:rolleyes:

Source Code.
Checked all the boxes for decent sci-fi, pretty solid all-round.

Re-watched 'My blood valentine: 3D'.

Saw '30 minutes or less' for the first time, which was alright. It was a little short. It's tough to take any movie shorter than 90 minutes seriously, imo, let alone one shorter than 80 minutes.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - brilliant! Really funny and perfect for this time of year.

Same goes for Bad Santa which I always watch around Christmas. Hilarious!

Yeah with everyone saying it's the worst of the series I'll watch it wasted for a laugh if I get round to it.

The Ruins (2008)I was disappointed that there wasn't a lot more to the story of this. Howerver it is very gory and I was in the mood for gore. So don't expect much in the story department but gorefans will enjoy it.

Hatchet 2. It wasn't as good as the first one. I thought it was filmed by a different director. The movie just felt off. I wasn't expecting the new actress either for the lead character.

I liked it a lot more than the original.

In the days of the double bill, most "b-movies" - the ones that showed after the first or "a-movie" were all around 60-75 minutes in length. If you're a good director you can tell a story well in a short time. In his early days Woody Allen said the perfect length for a comedy was 87 minutes- and if you look at every one of his films up to, I think Annie Hall, they're all exactly 87 minutes long.

Hmm I knew movies used to run shorter, but I didn't realize run times that short were that common-interesting.

My favorite movie of the last ten years, 'Children of Men', is only a hair over ninety minutes. It also meshes with what you said about needing a Director who's worth his salt, which Alfonso Cuaran is.

I guess they did something right with '30 minutes of less', as they left me wanting more, so the director and writer did their jobs.

That being said, 83 (counting credits)minutes still feels a little short. I'm having a tough time thinking of another decent comedy from the last 5-10 years which was that short. Does anything jump out in your mind?

Ditto, it's Moore's best bond flick, loved the bond theme too.

The Woman (2011).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1714208/

I don't know what I was expecting with this. Wild woman is found in the woods, living like a savage. Yeah, sure enough, that's what I was expecting.

However, the story that transpires is quite weird, bizarre - something's not quite right. And I'm not talking about the woman.

You'll never guess the last 30 minutes. For me everything that happens took me by surprise. Lots of shocks in store.

I give it 8.5/10.

Hostel Part III (2011)

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>>:C+

Convent of Sinners (1986)

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>>: C-

The Tree of Life (2011)

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Instead having a vague journey in terms of the circle & meaning of life, suffering & death, it could be a very fine family drama on a conflicting relationship between a father & son. But at times it was like watching a documentary program on NAT GEO or Discovery channel. Bored & disappointed.

>>: B-

The Lovely Bones (2009) Normally I avoid saccharine sweet slopfests like this but it was directed by Peter Jackson so had to check it out. There's plenty of panoramic vistas redolent of his Lord of the rings films plus an exquisite score featuring cocteau twins, explosions in the sky and this mortal coil. However film4 warned at the start that the movie contained "chilling violence" so I was expecting that and there was absolutely none so thank you film4 for ruining the movie as I can't be objective about it now as I may have enjoyed it more had I not been expecting "chilling violence". Either way it was still messy unoriginal and pretentious (quoting Shakespere isn't intelligent it's lazy and BONE idle) despite it's plus points. Watch the far superior Enter The Void instead.

Have you seen "What Dreams May Come"?

Exit Speed

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1042497/


on netflix instant...really not a bad watch at all. Group of peeps on a bus are terrorized by Mad Max type biker gang

I still have to watch this and read the book. I really liked Off Season and Off Spring (Not so much the movie though.) So i've been very interested in this.

The Howling: One of my favourite movies from Joe Dante. Great atmosphere, quality story, amazing effects from Bottin and plenty of cameos to look out for (Dick Miller is awesome).

Man, I am totally with you on this. I'm a huge Malick fan, and was ready to love this film. But I thought it was really sloppy. Don't understand all the love it's getting.

yeah gotta read the book first(well i do)coz it usually shits on the movie,like pretty much every stephen king book turned into movie

Will have to check this out. Looks like something I'd dig.


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The Dunwich Horror

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Great atmosphere and I really liked the hallucinogenic looking scenes. Thought the title sequence was really well done and stylish too. You don't really see that done much in the modern era it's unfortunately become somewhat of a lost art. Killer set design too. The ending seemed rushed which was a shame but it was a cool looking scene. One of the more goofy looking monsters to hit the screen but that added to the film's charm. Enjoyable stuff.

Yeah that's true. Although i did like Pet Semetary and Thinner better then the books.

The Silent House (2010)


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I was really looking forward to this one. I'm a fan of experimenting with film techniques and was really curious to see how they they could make a successful horror movie in one take.

To be honest, I was oddly distracted and self-conscious about the fact that it was shot in one take (I found myself constantly scanning the screen and thinking, "Hey, have they cut yet?") - That was my own issue, not the movie's, but it was disappointing to see what should have made this movie interesting winding up distracting me.




But outside of that... Honestly, this was an incredibly well-directed film. Really well-directed. Created a fantastic mood - creepy, suspenseful, definitely had me clutching my boyfriend's hand at times. It successfully creating a claustrophobic, horrifying mood...

B U T

The ending was so incredibly God-awful and nonsensical that it honestly undermined everything that Gustavo Hernández had built up in the first 80 minutes.

I don't think that everyone will be as disappointed as I was, but, honestly, as someone who found this movie to be genuinely horrifying, I felt absolutely and completely ROBBED and baffled by the awful, terrible, abominable ending.

2.5/5.


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Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)


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In case you haven't seen the fantastic short films that inspired this film, here they are - I highly recommend them:


Rare Exports, Inc.




Rare Exports: The Official Safety Instructions




I really liked the shorts. And the concept that they were bringing the Evil Santas to the Big Screen really excited me... Maybe I was disproportionately excited about this movie... Maybe I had too high expectations... But I was a little let-down.

It wasn't a bad movie - It was certainly entertaining - It just wasn't as AWESOME as I was expecting. I was hoping it was going to be more of a monster movie - I was expecting maybe a bit more blood and gore, maybe a bit more quirky laughs, but that wasn't what it gave me.

It makes good short films, but didn't really need to be a feature-length film.

Naked running old men with weapons was pretty hilarious, though.

Like I said - Entertaining, but not amazing.


2.75/5.


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Fright Night (2011)


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Bottom line: This movie really DID NOT need to be remade.

Pros:

• Casting Colin Farrell as Jerry, the Vampire. Definitely creepy and unsettling.
• Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Evil Ed - So dorky yet charming.

Cons:

• The pacing was so incredibly bizarre. I feel like they really rushed into Ed's reveal of Jerry being a Vampire. Then again, that could have been purposeful since, as the audience, we know this is a remake so presumably we know this reveal, but the pacing really did seem odd to me.
• Also, Charley Brewster wasn't the likeable dweeb we knew in the original movie... He was kinda a social-climbing dick. I didn't really feel like wading through superficial teen drama to get to the crux of this movie.
• I honestly found it boring, which to me is a mortal sin for a horror movie.

Not really worth making or watching. At least the first two movies that I mentioned had something original to offer me!!

2/5.


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Super 8 (2011)


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This was actually really charming. Not really a monster movie; more of a coming-of-age character piece with a group of kids. I thought that the acting was fantastic, and the kids were really cute. Oddly enough, my favorite piece was the love story between Joe and Alice.

As an adult, I was a bit disappointed that this wasn't more of a monster movie. And I think that if I was younger I'd enjoy it a lot more.

Ultimately, cute and enjoyable.


3/5.


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Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006)


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Pretty much a must-see for any genre fan. It definitely spans the gamut of the slasher films of the 80s. My only complaint is that I want more - It could have been a great mini-series, spending more time on, say, special effects of Tom Savini, or the controversy of the Santa slasher movies. 88 minutes isn't long enough to really delve into the genre unfortunately.

Absolutely entertaining, though. If you love slashers, you should see this.


4/5.

Silent Night, Bloody Night
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So to begin the pacing was pretty crazy. A man stumbles out a house burning to death in the first minute and then after that is a boring narration suddenly followed by a rapid POV shot of a crazed man running through a crowd swinging a wrench around.

It took awhile to get going and really didnt get interesting until the end but once the full story was revealed it was actually pretty good. The ending was quick and hectic but i liked it and overall it turned out to be a decent movie.

Watching Twilight right now - either I'm too old or I'm a true horror fan - I think this movie sucks donkey dick

Not too old because i would agree on that opinion

Not too old at all - That movie is honestly just terrible, terrible, terrible...

I like Robert Pattinson better in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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Superbly entertaining. The direction is taut, the script pacy, and there's plenty of healthy doses of humor (Simon Pegg injection) interspersed between some really innovative action sequences which will make you hold your breath. You will love it.

* * * ½

Nattevagten aka Nightwatch (1994)

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>>: B+

The Ledge (2011)

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>>: C

Conan the Barbarian (2011)

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>>: C-