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Re: Your favourite horror movie (and sub genres)
Eh... yeah.
Mon Dec 08, 2014 5:49 pm
Cromwell
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Re: Your favourite horror movie (and sub genres)
Solaris wrote:
I recorded the Friday The 13th remake the other night, any use? I've only seen the first and another (can't remember what one, possibly Jason X) of the originals, from what I gather this compresses the first four into one film.
It's pretty entertaining. It's its own film in its own right really. There are boobs and a couple of comedy deaths, and it's just it's own film rather than being a rehash of the first few. I rate it for what it is. It's miles better than the Elm Street or Texas Chainsaw reboots.
Great tits and slow as fuck doom are Cromwell's Raison d'être.
Mon Dec 08, 2014 5:52 pm
Solaris
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Re: Your favourite horror movie (and sub genres)
It couldn't be any worse than the Elm St. one, that's for sure. Haven't seen any of the TCM ones apart from the original, which was awful.
Mon Dec 08, 2014 6:03 pm
Stat_Rad
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Re: Your favourite horror movie (and sub genres)
Tragic Idol wrote:
LincolnPark wrote:
Personally, I liked Sinister. I wouldn't say it was a classic but it was definitely worth a watch. Insidious? I thought it was drivel. I know some people who thought it was the best thing since sliced bread but after maybe the first 15 mins, its pointless.
You are kindly right. Certainly, most of criticism to his "remakes" based on "they are different from original". But Rob interested in inner and more modern side of it. As I am psychologist i prefer his works. I am also dark and pessimistic person)
Halloween films don't need psychology, particularly not the dime store psychology that Zombie came up with. What makes him scary is that he represents the unknown.
But if you are looking for psychology, the first Halloween has it all over Zombie's version anyway: it's about the return of the repressed. Which is what Murnau's classic Nosferatu is about too.
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Mon Dec 08, 2014 6:07 pm
Cromwell
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Re: Your favourite horror movie (and sub genres)
Solaris wrote:
Haven't seen any of the TCM ones apart from the original, which was awful.
Personally, I liked Sinister. I wouldn't say it was a classic but it was definitely worth a watch. Insidious? I thought it was drivel. I know some people who thought it was the best thing since sliced bread but after maybe the first 15 mins, its pointless.
You are kindly right. Certainly, most of criticism to his "remakes" based on "they are different from original". But Rob interested in inner and more modern side of it. As I am psychologist i prefer his works. I am also dark and pessimistic person)
Halloween films don't need psychology, particularly not the dime store psychology that Zombie came up with. What makes him scary is that he represents the unknown.
But if you are looking for psychology, the first Halloween has it all over Zombie's version anyway: it's about the return of the repressed. Which is what Murnau's classic Nosferatu is about too.
There's is much deep psychology in this abomination as there is your average Papa Roach song.
Mon Dec 08, 2014 8:22 pm
Cromwell
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Re: Your favourite horror movie (and sub genres)
I quite like the first Halloween remake, but the second one is arse. Even I think so, so it must be bad.
Great tits and slow as fuck doom are Cromwell's Raison d'être.
Tue Dec 09, 2014 1:51 am
LincolnPark
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Re: Your favourite horror movie (and sub genres)
With reference to Zombie's Halloween movies, I think some of you are confused between the words psychology and psychological. They don't mean the same thing.
I much prefer Carpenter's version but you have no idea about Michael's background and how he got to where he did. It's all down to what you look for from a horror movie. I would see Zombie's Halloween as a supplement to the original and never a replacement.
The latest Friday The 13th? Certainly not a remake and not one redeeming feature. It makes you think "Wow, this guy will go on to direct Saw 31".
I much prefer Carpenter's version but you have no idea about Michael's background and how he got to where he did.
Who cares that much about his background or motivation? As Stat says, you get all you need to know from the original anyway, revealing too much and getting into his back story, certainly in the way Zombie did, actually takes away from the appeal of the character and the horror IMO.
Tue Dec 09, 2014 11:45 am
doomovertheworld
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Re: Your favourite horror movie (and sub genres)
The Wretch wrote:
Who cares that much about his background or motivation? As Stat says, you get all you need to know from the original anyway, revealing too much and getting into his back story, certainly in the way Zombie did, actually takes away from the appeal of the character and the horror IMO.
Tue Dec 09, 2014 3:12 pm
Solaris
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Re: Your favourite horror movie (and sub genres)
LincolnPark wrote:
The latest Friday The 13th? Certainly not a remake and not one redeeming feature. It makes you think "Wow, this guy will go on to direct Saw 31".
Watched it. Yeah, it's shit. By-the-numbers, nowadays goldfish-attention-spanned teenage bollocks. Even the tits were fake and uninteresting.
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Re: Your favourite horror movie (and sub genres)
LincolnPark wrote:
Solaris wrote:
Watched it. Yeah, it's shit. By-the-numbers, nowadays goldfish-attention-spanned teenage bollocks. Even the tits were fake and uninteresting.
It was so bad they didn't make any more. That really is saying something.
There's one in development, from what I gather. Set in the eighties, so presumably a prequel/'origin' story or another 'reboot'.
Wed Dec 10, 2014 9:47 am
Stat_Rad
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Re: Your favourite horror movie (and sub genres)
The original Friday The 13th is pretty shit too. I honestly don't think the remake is much worse. It's better mostly because of the old school atmosphere.
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Wed Dec 10, 2014 11:25 am
Solaris
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Re: Your favourite horror movie (and sub genres)
Yeah, I thought the original was crap, hence not bothering with any of the sequels (the other one I saw I watched in a mate's house).
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