hey buddy, been away working with no computer.

How dare you pigeon hole me and subject my tastes to some sort of cliched 2 dimensional love of 'these kind' of films. Next you will be using the phrase 'torture porn' in the sentance as my name. Once Again, How dare you Sir!!!!

..and yeah I did really like that film :D

also I think 'baffling' is a great word to discribe The Tall Man (on all levels) - what were they thinking...

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Excellent, well shot Korean slow burner. Great ending too.

Watching The Prophecy III: The Ascent

Good to see you back

Ditto, loved it too.

This sequel to the last year's highly overrated found footage horror takes its first 35 long minutes to get its new "crew" of annoying bunch into that haunted psychiatric hospital where all the shits began in the first film. This whole build up was quite unnecessarily long as it clearly wasted some damn good minutes of the film reel. The cast was okay & the lead playing as an indie film maker as well as curious online video-reviewer of the 1st film finely suits into the role.
Now, about the main segment...after they finally sneaks in to the hospital & the main show begins: liked the idea of adding a security patrol this time, the cheap frights (that strangely somehow managed to get some good responses in the 1st film from the "fans") with effects of "corporal ghosts" returns as expected & some were treated I think slightly better this time but in only 1 or 2 scenes (like that dude coming out from a little door & as he runs after them, the size of his bodily figure increases!) and by saying that I think as far I remember as a whole this one has less 'encounters' than the first one as they wasted some good amount of time at the beginning. And that's actually all about it. There were few fine ideas to scare the shit out of its viewers and even the ending tried too hard to be a smart or classy one but becomes an utter failure, as there's nothing new to add in the found footage arena. Overall, surely worse than the 1st one but one thing this film did good & that is, helped me to realize how well & better The Asylum treated a similar concept in one of their recent movie...100 Ghost Street: The Return of Richard Speck and that's a better substitute for any of this 2 Grave Encounters films, IMO.

>>: C

Great movie! I love the unique films we've been getting out of South Korea over the past 10 years.
This one was unexpectedly funny, too.

I endured Final Destination 5..My son and I became bored after the first few deaths and started taking bets on who would suffer from the most hideous greenstick fracture.He won....
I am now a fiver down,so I give this film 2/5 .

Bait - The effects varied from passable to awful,the storyline was ridiculous and Julian McMahon irritates me.Basically it's a stupid shark film,but I do kinda like stupid shark films,so despite a mutitude of flaws I had strangely good (Beer fueled) time watching it. 6/10

Nope.

You said the word "disturbing", so i'm probably not gonna.

Shadow of the Vampire (2000)

Great film,did you enjoy it?

Saw Tall Man recently too. I'm going to rewatch it because I think it was good, I just thought it would be horror. It was certainly just a dark drama.

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ATM - I had heard a lot of buzz about this one. Good movie, though containing some logical flaws. Really suspenseful and gives a good non-supernatural scare. An interesting and unexpected way of revealing the killer. Definitely worth a rent.

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A notch down from ATM. Started out somewhat lame then picked up some steam as the film went on, then a confused conclusion. Very similar to the other possession films that have been making the rounds in recent years. Some creepy moments.

Apartment 143

Filmed "found footage" style, a movie about a man and his two kids possibly being haunted by his dead wife. All in all it was ok, there were some cheap scare moments and it gets to them pretty early in the film. Could be classified as a possession film in a sense. The ending though, wow... pretty stupid.

I couldn't disagree with you more. What a terrible movie.

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"Smiley" 4-5/10

Only 2 good things to say about Smiley.

1. The horror character Smiley is pretty great. Think a blend between Scream and Candyman.
2. Keith David had a small role in it. He's always a fun watch. Too bad he didn't have the lead role and this movie might have been good.

What ruined this movie for me was all the rest of the actors and the repetitive story. The story should have been a LOT better with a character like Smiley.

There's still a chance this could become a new franchise tho. Got potential.

SOLD! :D Gonna download it soon!

Oh yeah. I'd seen it before, but not in quite some time. Very cool movie.

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Nosferatu, phantom der nacht (1979)

I watch this every year around this time. So so great.

Good to hear, I have this in the dock ready to watch tomorrow.

IP MAN

IP mans the fuckin man,might be a bit betrayed as super man in this movie,but he was an amazing man.

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"Julia X" 7/10

Started out as an average cat-chasing-mouse serial killer flick, but turned out to be more twisty than expected with a last part that had me laughing out loud. Crazy bastards. :D

I'm pretty disappointed at how bad everyone is saying "Smiley" is, I felt like they had such a bad ass character to go off of, but it seems like they found a way to fuck it up.

Someone said again how awesome IP Man was, I agree, just fyi be prepared for a slight let down with IP Man 2

I recently watched Mortuary with Bill Paxton, It was a run of the mill 80's Slasher with a healthy serving of cheese and a single memorable performance from Bill Paxton... Not terrible, not great.

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Very average HK thriller staring the great Anthony Wong. Rich Business man goes to extremes to avenge his daughters kidnapping.

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Excellent and complex crime flick about the internal struggle for power in a Triad Society.

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Much like alot of Meadows films it covers disfuctional life up North. Great acting from the 2 kids and Paddy Considine is totally off the wall in this one...

jack frost (the horror one)

"V/H/S" 2/10

Amazingly bad.

hahaha - You know, you're the reason why I don't say "torture porn" around these here parts (though I will still claim that it's the best phrase to describe the type of horror that I'm trying to attribute it to).

The more I think about The Loved Ones, the more I like it actually. Having a fantastic climactic reveal like it did elevated it from "those kind" of movies for me. :p

I have a hard time with movies that are pure torture (not a judgement; just a comfort level thing), and this movie had a bit more going on, so I liked it more than, say a Mum & Dad. Robin McLeavy (Lola) toward the end was really funny; some great direction there as she goes utterly mad.

I think I'd actually go as far to recommend this movie, sans caveats.

How do you feel about THAT, eh??

Honestly, if he had started out with the dark crime drama tone and kept it throughout I probably would have liked it a lot more. This movie makes me think of Gone Baby Gone, which handles a very similar message, but does so effectively. I didn't think that The Tall Man effectively created a dialogue with the audience - The dialogue is, What is the right answer? How do we address the problem of poor and abused children with a system that doesn't work? - But I don't think that we really saw a broken system or really awful living conditions to build up half of the dialogue. It was just a diatribe on a topic that could have been interesting if done well, but I do not thing it was.

So strange and uneven. Makes me wonder where the movie started before production - there was a clear point that the director wanted to make, but it was just not successful for me.


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Re: Ferox, Roshiq, and Fortunato's buzz about Mother - Been meaning to watch this for some time and tried it yesterday; wasn't in the mood, so I'll give it another try. I'm going to be honest; I felt sooo much pathos for the mother and son right off the bat that I had a hard time going any further because her just running out of the restaurant when he was clipped by the car broke my heart (and this is before anything really happened!!) - All I can think of was, "It can just go downhill from here. LOOK AWAY." :o Man, when did I become such a pussy???


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Exorcismus (2010)

Pretty awful writing, acting, and directing. Didn't get very far with this one. Didn't seem worth the trouble.

I am glad you like it.

It's a fantastic little contemporary piece of cinema (that's why it finds a place in the HDC Top 200 of the 2000s) and more people need to see it to appreciate it for what it was.

Berserk, at it's absolute best. Try beating this intensity in a horror film.

Totally agree. I also think that it had a lot more going on than an average torture flick - I think that Lola's insanity definitely mirrors the teenage female compulsion toward beauty, popularity, and finding that "prince."

I was really reticent going into it just because I know where my comfort level lies when watching exploitative horror, so I was really surprised at how much I genuinely liked it (versus, say a Mum & Dad where I can say, "Sure, it's a very well-made film, but I can't say I liked it because it was past my comfort zone.")

LOL! nuff said, my friend:D

Detention -8/10

I haven't laughed that hard in a long time, but it did get a little too spacey towards the end.

Jack Frost 2 Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman

always good for a laugh!

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I am ashamed to say this is my first Seijun Suzuki and all I can say is WOW.
Not what i expected at all. Wierd, illogical, hard to follow, surreal - needless to say I will be back for more..

Same here, I have only seen Youth of the Beast; a great gangster flick, filled with some interesting beautiful shots. I'm sure you'll like it too. :)

Looks like Psy, doing gangnam style in the corner. :D

Werewolf: The Beast Among Us (2012)

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>>: C

Satan's Little Helper (2004)

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As a low budget indie flick, I think this can be treated as a fantastic Halloween feature for family viewing! Found it pretty entertaining all through the way. A nice come back for Jeff Lieberman, who have made few pretty decent genre flicks back in 70's & early 80s like Squirm, Blue Sunshine & even Just before Dawn...one of my favorite 80s slasher! The only complain from my part about SLH is it's bit too long, considering its pretty simple & amusing plot line which I think could be better packed in only 60 to 70 minutes.

Thanks to Sean Keller for mentioning it on his watch list (in FB) for this year's Halloween, otherwise I haven't actually much heard about it before and it would go completely under the radar.

>>: B+

Storage 24 - Sci fi guff about a group of unlikable characters being stalked by an alien beastie in a storage facility.

There is really not much on offer to elevate the film above mediocre,the storyline has been done to death,the characters spend the first part of the film competing to see who is the most dickish and I didn't like the creature design.

The pace picks up a little towards the end,and a couple of splashes of humour at least make the final third watchable but it's too little too late.I think the writers got a little giddy with the final scene which felt tacked on and really didn't work.

5/10

Nice! I would strongly recommend Tokyo Drifter and Gate of Flesh. I think you'd really dig those two.