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Originally Posted by ChronoGrl
Elvis: Thoughts on the Evil Dead Trilogy?
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Evil Dead 2 is one of my all time favorite horror flicks, amazing blend of humor, scares and splatter. I love the tone and look of the film really dark.
Army of Darkness is all good but a little diluted/family friendly and not as subtle has the first two films. I was a little disappointed at how it looked when it first came out because I loved how cool the medieval scenes looked at the end of
ED2. The stop motion stuff is fucking dope and its great comic book styled fun. I've seen it way to many times to really enjoy watching it these days. It's the weakest of the three films but still classic in its own right.
I've grown to dislike horror comedies because of their sameness/unoriginality.
Braindead and
Army of Darkness were great but they were something different and now they are just used as a blueprint for the horror comedy cookie cutter.
I get pissed at how over here unless its a film in the style of
Braindead splatter/horror gets no funding or even a chance to get off the ground. NZ has the potential to put out a great dark horror film but instead these scripts get canned and shit like
Black Sheep gets hyped to fuck.
Bad Blood and
The Lost Tribe meets
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre... could be epic stuff. The early Vincent Ward styled stuff would make for some great gothic themed horror films too. Fuck watch
Vigil or
The Lost Tribe and tell me that
Black Sheep wasn't a waste of the landscape. I relise we don't have a very big film industry that can afford to do stuff that risks losing money but a little thinking outside the square could really be beneficial.
I like
Shaun of the Dead a lot more than I used to and although it didn't blow me away as much as it did for other people
Zombieland was a step in the right direction.
It's a subgenre that I get more harsh on mediocrity with put it that way :)
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Kick-Ass
Brilliant. Really clever concept and I loved the dark humor. Haven't read the comics before so I don't know how it holds up in that respect. Up there with
Sin City and
Watchmen for me.