Maniac Cop 2

I'm enjoying going back over these movies after probably 10 years since my last viewing.

7/10

The Yellow Wallpaper (2011)

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Very loosely based on the short story of the same name (1892) written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The original source material is an important part of early feminist literature, portraying society's attitudes toward women in the late 19th century & the story unfolds a harrowing tale of madness resulting a pretty sad but creepy finale. Though this new adaptation almost excludes all those feminist parts but injects nicely some Lovecraftian materials towards the end. Overall, as a low budget indie horror it's pretty good at times...particularly creating a creepy-Gothic atmosphere & setting where the background music mostly did the work. A decent film, worth a watch.

>>: B

Chronicle (2012)

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The story was fine but it'd better if they used the handheld camera approach only at the beginning in 1 or 2 scene. It's getting bit annoying these days to watch an entire film this way.

>>: B

Masterpiece Theater:The Yellow Wallpaper (1989)

After watching the new adaptation, came to know about this BBC produced treatment in Wikipedia and luckily got it in 5 parts in youtube. Typical brilliant Britt feature of 80s with a great cast, atmosphere & a spooky but sad ending. Loved it.

Recommended to V, Hammerfan, NE & Chrono.

>>: A

Nightmare City (Italian 1980)

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It's about a reporter, Dean Miller who is assigned with his cameraman to interview a scientist that is arriving in the local airport. While waiting for the arrival, an unidentified Hercules makes an emergency landing and is surrounded by a military force. When the doors open, a legion of blood thirsty creatures commanded by the scientist attack the soldiers, killing them with hatchets and drinking their blood. Dean tries to warn the population about the happening but is censored by General Murchison. Later the military leaders discover that the creatures have not come from the outer space, but are human beings contaminated by radiation and needing to drink blood to stay undead. Dean unsuccessfully calls his wife Dr. Anna Miller and heads to the hospital where she works, trying to escape from the city crowded of the increasing walking dead creatures.

I found this movie to be quite entertaining to watch, if not a bit weird to say the list. It did have a few creepy moments, but the funny part was people stayed were they were while being attacked instead of fleeing. Which at times they had plenty of time to flee. All in all I'll give this movie a 7/10

Watched Evil Dead again last night. Never gets old

Contraband
Not what i expect from a heist type movie but it was good. A little rushed and there wasn't enough effort put into some scenes but i enjoyed it.

Transformers
I've been criticizing this movie for years without ever actually seeing it and finally decided that if i'm going to judge it i should watch it. After watching it i have to say that it was actually really cool. There were some stupid moments and some annoying ones at that but it was actually really good.

You might want to skip the second one.
But then again, maybe not.

IMO the third one was actually very well done.

- B.

Pontypool- I didn't really like this one. It was a good concept but it just didn't hold my interest; I found it to be kind of boring. There were many times during the movie that I just wanted them to get on with it.

Delicatessen- I liked this one. It was a nice mix of darkness and humor. The way the movie was shot was also really different. It reminded me of an episode of Tales from the Crypt where a chef at a diner murdered travelers and secretly fed them to the townspeople.

Just watched The Green Mile again for the 20th time I'd imagine. I really wish Frank Darabont would direct every Stephen King adaptation, he does such a great job.

look at my thread in true horror ;)

gettin into your directors lately :D na but yeah,he would of made alot of his shit movies from good books better

I can definitely appreciate a guy that at least tries to stick close to the book. I hate the idea of Ben Affleck directing The Stand, maybe he will surprise me though. I liked the idea of Ron Howard directing The Dark Tower but that's went kaput now. Truth be told, I wish Darabont would start with Carrie and work his way forward. The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption, and The Mist are the only great King adaptations, IMHO.

Megan is Missing

deeply disturbing mainly the last 20 minutes. based on or inspired by true events of kidnapping

Inside....

Trollhunter- I was so bored watching this movie that I eventually just shut it off.

Tucker and Dale vs Evil- Loved it! It dragged a bit during the end but other than that it was hilarious.

The Caller- I definitely thought this was going to be a flop but I liked it. This would be one I would recommend to someone.

darkest hour

good idea....but pretty avereage and the ending was cheesy shite

4/10

You didn't like Salems Lot (1979)??

..............or 1408 or creepshow

Or Cujo, Firestarter, and Misery?

Or The Shining?

or Maximum Overdrive



wait...nobody liked that one

cept me and Elvis [ where has he been btw ]

I liked it too

Here is how I see it:

Great adaptations- The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption, The Mist, Stand By Me (the only one not directed by Darabont)

Almost great adaptations- Salem's Lot (1979), Misery, Hearts in Atlantis, Apt Pupil, Delores Claiborne

Mediocre adaptations- The Mangler, Needful Things, Pet Semetary, Secret Window, The Shining (1980), Storm of the Century, Thinner, 1408, Bag of Bones, Carrie (1976), Cat's Eye, Christine, Creepshow I & II, The Dark Half, The Dead Zone, The Night Flier, Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Silver Bullet

Total Shite- The Shining (miniseries), Cujo, Desperation, Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, Rose Red, IT, The Tommyknockers, The Stand, Dreamcatcher, Firestarter, Golden Years, Graveyard Shift, Kingdom Hospital, The Langoliers, The Lawnmower Man, The Running Man, Maximum Overdrive, Sometimes They Come Back, Quicksilver Highway, Riding the Bullet, Sleepwalkers, Trucks

I liked it but I've also never read the book, so if we're comparing the two, I really can't say much about it in that aspect.

I decided to comment just on these. I actually really liked The Shining Miniseries and hated the Kubrick movie. I thought Cujo, Desperation, The Tommyknockers, The Stand, Firestarter, Maximum Overdrive, Sleepwalkers, and Sometimes They Come Back were good though.

the creeps

famouse monsters get brought back to life but they are midget
FUCKIN TERRIBLE

0/10

As far as The Shining miniseries goes, I liked that it followed the novel more but the acting was horrible. The film had better acting but didn't follow the novel very well at all, it had some good atmosphere as well.

I don't like the novel Cujo so don't expect me to like the film, same goes for Firestarter.

The rest I just think wasn't very well done and sucked in comparison to the stories or novels. That doesn't mean that they aren't fun to watch, they are just more laughable than anything.

Well that's fine. We all have our personal preferences

Yeah, I was wondering the same thing.

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Clerks (1994)

Felt like watching this for some reason. I hadn't seen it in years.
Not bad, but not great. Definitely not as funny as I remember it. I found myself getting bored.

Camp Blood Trilogy

It took me almost a year to finally finish these three movies. These are C Movies for sure, not too much to be enjoyed from these films unless you wanna laugh your ass off at how horrible the actors are. Especially the main chick in the last film.

Lamberto Bava's Demons (1985) Got to see this at a special screening at a cinema here. Before the movie there was a raffle for a couple of tshirts which sadly we didn't win. Worked out that this was my first time at the cinema for five years and it was for a film I already have on dvd. Anyway I wanted to see this on the big screen with powerful sound and if ever there is a film to be seen on the big screen it's this-the audience went manic at the "stop the movie!" scenes. Loads of gore frenzied harmless fun. If they show any more Italian horror I may return to the cinema again I just hope it doesn't take another five years.

Freddy vs Jason.

I never watched the whole movie before. I usually caught a few clips on TV. I always avoided this movie for the most part. I thought the idea was stupid. Who really wanted to see Freddy fight Jason? But I decided to finally watch the movie. The opening Crystal Lake scene starts off well and I had high (those who know the scene will get this) hopes. But somehow the movie turns mediocre. The movie has only one maybe two good kills. We don't get a good Friday the 13th or Nightmare on Elm Street movie. We get a bunch of characters telling stories and miraculously placing the pieces together. One of the best lines is from the companion girlfriend who can't believe they are taking Jason with them. Something that happened again for some reason in the Friday the 13th reboot. In the end, this is yet another sad entry to the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street series. I assume that these are dead for the most part after the two crap remakes.

On the plus side, I spotted Evangeline Lilly in the background at the school scene. She's the prettiest girl in the whole movie and was only in it for a few seconds.

Pretty decent explanation as to why Freddy and Jason would be in a film together but yeah, otherwise pretty mediocre film.

Halloween Night (2006)- Terrible. Ended up shutting it off.

Shrooms- Terrible.

Episode 50- Terrible.

Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver- Terrible. I thought this one would at least be funny to watch but it wasn't. Ended up shutting it off.

Also, I really hate when movies have awesome cover art but then the movie is awful.

Yeah, I was hoping for something really great with Shrooms but if fell way short. Too bad, could have been a clever idea.

That's what I thought, too. It was a good idea and they could have done so much with it. They just didn't hit the mark.

Um what? There's no werewolves in The Mist.

There's a preacher werewolf in Silver Bullet/Cycle of The Werewolf though.

Well the way you wrote it was confusing. One second you were talking about The Mist and then you were talking about Werewolf preachers. It didnt make any sense

You're a strange guy. Lucky for you i like strange. I think we'll get along.

Snow White and The Huntsman
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I was really expecting more from this but it was really mediocre. The fight scenes were badly choreographed and the uplifting speech that Snow gives near the end was terrible. The whole story just felt rushed as well.

I don't know if i'm just becoming jaded now but movies really fail to excite me and blow me away nowadays.

How did it look? From the trailer it looks like it'd at least be gorgeously filmed.