[quote=“sartana1968, post:660, topic:405”]i prefer none of the evil dead trilogy[/quote]Just can’t resist ;D
The Cat, 2011… It tries to stay above mediocrity and relatively succeeds. High production-values, impeccable cinematography, superb acting, wonderfully scored, and a script that is just too ‘safe’. -Entertainingly predictable.
We’re probably wrapping-up Asia’s golden-age of cellphone horror gimmicks, and this one fits in, though the phone is kind of a side-tool here. -About a pet-shop employee suffering from claustrophobia, who becomes involved in a string of deaths related to adopted cats. But the plot really doesn’t know what to do with ‘itself’ after the fright-setups are established.
BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974)
Just finished watching Black Christmas. From watching the film, one can definitely see how it was a huge influence on Carpenter’s Halloween. Everything from the POV shots following the person inside the house at the beginning of the film to the shot of the “final girl” discovering the dead bodies in an arranged manner, to the killer’s heavy breathing. One interesting thing is that in Halloween, the innocent virgin lives to the end, while in Black Christmas, the innocent virgin is the first to die! Its really a groundbreaking film, artfully directed, great sound editing with an excellent cast including John Saxon, Keir Dullea, Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder, and Andrea Martin. The acting was good, and the characters were not as paper cutter as the later slashers, and there was more reliance on suspence than gore, always a big plus, and despite the sorority house setting, the movie was in good taste by not including sex scenes or gratuitious nudity. I’m normally not a slasher fan, but I do like a good slasher when its done right. This one not only does it right, but its the first one to do it right! This film definitely deserves praise for being very influential, everything from the final girl, to the killer making phone calls, to the youthful victims, has been done to death by virtually every slasher since.
The film was shot in my hometown Toronto, at my University, U of T. I should go on a Black Christmas location hunt one day, some of the locations are just a 20 minute drive from me and I happen to frequent that area often, such as the “6 Belmont”, which is at Avenue Rd and St. Clair, a rather posh area of town. When I was a student I walked past some of the very buildings that the film was shot everyday, not realizing that one of the best horror films ever was filmed there!
gallowalkers last news
** GALLOWWALKERS: The film starring Wesley Snipes arrives on DVD (plus Digital UltraViolet), Digital Download and Video on Demand August 6th. A mysterious gunman, Aman (Snipes), is the son of a nun who breaks her covenant with God to ensure his survival. This act brings a curse upon Aman - all those that die by his gun will return. Soon, he is hunted by a gang of his undead former victims, led by the vicious Kansa (Howarth). Aman enlists Fabulos (Riley Smith), a new young warrior, to fight by his side. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)
** GALLOWWALKERS
Thanks for the update, sartana1968. Never thought this one would ever get released at any level.
[quote=“AceHigh, post:665, topic:405”]** GALLOWWALKERS
Thanks for the update, sartana1968. Never thought this one would ever get released at any level.[/quote]
i waiting this film from the first time i saw it in internet and read some things i about it
My Horrors (it’s quite an umbrella term so there’s plenty that I maybe shouldn’t have put in there; I know there are one or two I’ve omitted that maybe should’ve gone in. Horror/comedies and the like, you know? Ah well):
[size=8pt]Favourites (bearing in mind that I like ALL of them) in BLUE[/size]
1930s
Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931)
Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935)
1950s
The Thing From Another World (Christian Nyby, 1951)
Creature From the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold, 1954)
Them (Gordon Douglas, 1954)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold, 1957)
1960s
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)
Night of the Living Dead (George A Romero, 1968)
Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)
1970s
The Last House on the Left (Wes Craven, 1972)
The Crazies (George A Romero, 1973)
Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)
The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973)
The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
The Omen (Richard Donner, 1976)
Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977)
The Hills Have Eyes (Wes Craven, 1977)
The Amityville Horror (Stuart Rosenberg, 1978)
Damien: Omen II (Don Taylor, 1978)
Dawn of the Dead (George A Romero, 1978)
Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)
I Spit on Your Grave (Meir Zarchi, 1978)
Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979) My all-time favourite movie of ANY genre
The Driller Killer (Abel Ferrara, 1979)
Zombie Flesh Eaters (Lucio Fulci, 1979)
1980s
Friday the 13th (Sean S Cunningham, 1980)
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
An American Werewolf in London (John Landis, 1981)
The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, 1981)
Friday the 13th Part 2 (Steve Miner, 1981)
Omen III: The Final Conflict (Graham Baker, 1981)
Friday the 13th Part 3 (Steve Miner, 1982)
The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
Christine (John Carpenter, 1983)
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (Joseph Zito, 1984)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven, 1984)
Day of the Dead (George A Romero, 1985)
Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (Danny Stein, 1985)
Fright Night (Tom Holland, 1985)
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (Tom McLoughlin, 1986)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton, 1986)
The Hitcher (Robert Harmon, 1986)
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (Sam Raimi, 1987)
Hellraiser (Clive Barker, 1987)
Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow, 1987)
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (John Carl Buechler, 1988)
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (Rob Hedden, 1989)
1990s
The Exorcist III (William Peter Blatty, 1990)
Night of the Living Dead (Tom Savini, 1990)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992)
Candyman (Bernard Rose, 1992)
Cronos (Guillermo del Toro, 1993)
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (Adam Marcus, 1993)
Interview With the Vampire (Neil Jordan, 1994)
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Kenneth Branagh, 1994)
From Dusk Till Dawn (Robert Rodriguez, 1996)
Scream (Wes Craven, 1996)
Cube (Vincenzo Natali, 1997)
Funny Games (Michael Haneke, 1997)
The Faculty (Robert Rodriguez, 1998)
The Last Broadcast (Stefan Avalos & Lance Weiler, 1998)
Ring (Hideo Nakata, 1998)
Vampires (John Carpenter, 1998)
Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999)
The Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez, 1999)
Memento Mori (Kim Tae-yong & Min Kyu-dong, 1999)
Ring 2 (Hideo Nakata, 1999)
2000s
Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett, 2000)
Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows (Joe Berlinger, 2000)
Final Destination (James Wong, 2000)
Freezer (Takashi Ishii, 2000)
Ring 0 (Noria Tsuruta, 2000)
Versus (Ryuhei Kitamura, 2000)
From Hell (The Hughes brothers, 2001)
Hannibal (Ridley Scott, 2001)
The Hole (Nick Hamm, 2001)
Jason X (Jim Isaac, 2001)
28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, 2002)
Dark Water (Hideo Nakata, 2002)
Dog Soldiers (Neil Marshall, 2002)
The Eye (Oxide Pang & Danny Pang, 2002)
Ju-on: The Grudge (Takashi Shimizu, 2002)
The Ring (Gore Verbinski, 2002)
Final Destination 2 (David R. Ellis, 2003)
Freddy vs. Jason (Ronny Yu, 2003)
Into the Mirror (Kim Seong-ho, 2003)
Ju-on: The Grudge 2 (Takashi Shimizu, 2003)
Switchblade Romance (Alexandre Aja, 2003)
A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Jee-woon, 2003)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Marcus Nispel, 2003)
Creep (Christopher Smith, 2004)
Cube Zero (Ernie Barbarash, 2004)
Dawn of the Dead (Zack Snyder, 2004)
Exorcist: The Beginning (Renny Harlin, 2004)
The Eye 2 (Oxide Pang & Danny Pang, 2004)
The Grudge (Takashi Shimizu, 2004)
Infection (Masayuki Ochiai, 2004)
Premonition (Norio Tsuruta, 2004)
R-Point (Kong Su-chang, 2004)
Saw (James Wan, 2004)
Three… Extremes (Fruit Chan, Park Chan-wook & Takashi Miike, 2004)
An American Haunting (Courtney Solomon, 2005)
The Amityville Horror (Andrew Douglas, 2005)
Dark Water (Walter Salles, 2005)
Dead Birds (Alex Turner, 2005)
The Descent (Neil Marshall, 2005)
Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist (Paul Schrader, 2005)
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (Scott Derrickson, 2005)
The Eye …Infinity (Oxide Pang & Danny Pang, 2005)
Hostel (Eli Roth, 2005)
Land of the Dead (George A Romero, 2005)
The Ring Two (Hideo Nakata, 2005)
Saw II (Darren Lynn Bousman, 2005)
Wolf Creek (Greg McLean, 2005)
Altered (Eduardo Sánchez, 2006)
Final Destination 3 (James Wong, 2006)
The Grudge 2 (Takashi Shimizu, 2006)
The Hills Have Eyes (Alexandre Aja, 2006)
The Host (Bong Joon-ho, 2006)
Saw III (Darren Lynn Bousman, 2006)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (Jonathan Liebesman, 2006)
Them (David Moreau & Xavier Palud, 2006)
The Zombie Diaries (Kevin Gates & Michael Bartlett, 2006)
28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 2007)
30 Days of Night (David Slade, 2007)
1408 (Mikael Håfström, 2007)
Diary of the Dead (George A Romero, 2007)
Flight of the Living Dead (Scott Thomas, 2007)
Frontiers (Xavier Gens, 2007)
Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino, 2007)
Halloween (Rob Zombie, 2007)
The Hills Have Eyes 2 (Martin Weisz, 2007)
Hostel Part II (Eli Roth, 2007)
Inside (Julien Maury & Alexandre Bustillo, 2007)
The Mist (Frank Darabont, 2007)
Outpost (Steve Barker, 2007)
[REC] (Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza, 2007)
Rogue (Greg McLean, 2007)
Saw IV (Darren Lynn Bousman, 2007)
The Burrowers (JT Petty, 2008)
Colin (Marc Price, 2008)
Eden Lake (James Watkins, 2008)
The Eye (David Moreau & Xavier Palud, 2008)
Funny Games (Michael Haneke, 2008)
The Grudge 3 (Toby Wilkins, 2008)
Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
Martyrs (Pascal Laugier, 2008)
The Midnight Meat Train (Ryuhei Kitamura, 2008)
The Orphanage (JA Bayona, 2008)
Pig Hunt (Jim Isaac, 2008)
Pontypool (Bruce McDonald, 2008)
Quarantine (John Erick Dowdle, 2008)
The Ruins (Carter Smith, 2008)
Saw V (David Hackl, 2008)
Seventh Moon (Eduardo Sánchez, 2008)
Splinter (Toby Wilkins, 2008)
The Strangers (Bryan Bentino, 2008)
Trick 'r Treat (Michael Dougherty, 2008)
Antichrist (Lars von Trier, 2009)
Dead Snow (Tommy Wirkola, 2009)
Drag Me to Hell (Sam Raimi, 2009)
The Final Destination (David R. Ellis, 2009)
Friday the 13th (Marcus Nispel, 2009)
Halloween 2 (Rob Zombie, 2009)
The House of the Devil (Ti West, 2009)
The Last House on the Left (Dennis Iliadis, 2009)
Orphan (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2009)
Paranormal Activity (Oren Peli, 2009)
[REC]² (Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza, 2009)
Saw VI (Kevin Greutert, 2009)
Survival of the Dead (George A Romero, 2009)
Thirst (Park Chan-wook, 2009)
Tony (Gerard Johnson, 2009)
Triangle (Christopher Smith, 2009)
2010s
The Crazies (Breck Eisner, 2010)
Devil (John Erick Dowdle, 2010)
I Saw the Devil (Kim Jee-woon, 2010)
I Spit on Your Grave (Steven R Munroe, 2010)
Insidious (James Wan, 2010)
The Last Exorcism (Daniel Stamm, 2010)
Let Me In (Matt Reeves, 2010)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (Samuel Bayer, 2010)
Paranormal Activity 2 (Tod Williams, 2010)
Piranha (Alexandre Aja, 2010)
Saw: The Final Chapter (Kevin Greutert, 2010)
Skew (Seve Schelenz, 2010)
Stake Land (Jim Mickle, 2010)
Wake Wood (David Keating, 2010)
Yellowbrickroad (Andy Mitton & Jesse Holland, 2010)
Exit Humanity (John Geddes, 2011)
Final Destination 5 (Steven Quale, 2011)
Fright Night (Craig Gillespie, 2011)
Grave Encounters (Collin Minihan and Stuart Ortiz, 2011)
Hostel Part III (Scott Spiegel, 2011)
The Innkeepers (Ti West, 2011)
Kill List (Ben Wheatley, 2011)
Lovely Molly (Eduardo Sánchez, 2011)
Paranormal Activity 3 (Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman, 2011)
Quarantine 2 (John Pogue, 2011)
The Thing (Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., 2011)
The Woman in Black (James Watkins, 2011)
World of the Dead: The Zombie Diaries 2 (Kevin Gates & Michael Bartlett, 2011)
The Bay (Barry Levinson, 2012)
The Cabin in the Woods (Drew Goddard, 2012)
Grave Encounters 2 (John Poliquin, 2012)
The Lords of Salem (Rob Zombie, 2012)
Paranormal Activity 4 (Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman, 2012)
Sinister (Scott Derrickson, 2012)
V/H/S (Various, 2012)
Television
Salem’s Lot (Tobe Hooper, 1979)
It (Tommy Lee Wallace, 1990)
Salem’s Lot (Mikael Salomon, 2004)
Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King (Various, 2006)
Dead Set (Yann Demange, 2008)
The Walking Dead (Various, 2010- )
Phantoms, 1998… Not bad. But it has the same trouble that the book has. Nobody’s gonna have the time to write some professor’s name down in less than 4-or-5 seconds as a horror engulfs them from-outta-nowhere. Because that’s the story’s pivot-point. The film has additional drawback though. The ‘enemy’ isn’t gonna waste too much time teasing a victim, so Liev Schreiber’s constant re-appearances are ridiculously illogical. It stars Ben Affleck and Rose McGowan… with Peter O’Toole miscast, somewhat.
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[size=12pt]BAD KIDS GO TO HELL[/size] (2012, Matthew Spradlin)
Bad Kids go to hell is a sort of horror update of John Hughes’ Breakfast Club. Six prep school students, all spoiled by their rich parents, serve detention on a stormy Saturday and discover, working on the assignment they’ve been given by the school master, that a deceased Indian, Jacob Rainwater, owned land that was stolen from him by the father of one of the students; it was then bought by the local authorities to build a school. The six discover that all of their families were involved in the history of the disowned Apache land, and when terrible accidents start happening, they think the place is haunted …
There are also references to Agatha Christie’s Ten little Indians (And then there were none), Stephen King’s The Mist (both the novella and Darabont’s movie adaptation), Carrie, Scream (I-IV) and a half dozen of other horror movies. What director Spradlin apparently had in mind, was a referential, tongue-in-cheek, thinking man’s slasher movie; it scores with a few satirical punches and comes up with a unforeseeable conclusion, but it’s all so far-fetched, that you don’t even care if it makes sense. It’s not as bad as some sites specialized in horror will tell you, but in the end it’s not gory enough to serve the slasher tribe, and not intelligent enough to please more demanding viewers.
Teens are played by actors and actresses in their twenties, but that’s usually the case in these type of movies. They do a reasonably good job, but I found none of the three ‘girls’ attractive. They have only a picture of Jacob Rainwater, and I thought the man on the pic was good old L.Q. Jones, but Chris Casey said no (on facebook). Turned out it was a guy called Doran Ingram.
Sounds like a possible missed potential. Do like The Breakfast Club though.
Sounds like a possible missed potential. Do like The Breakfast Club though.
Should have been a lot better. Somehow you notice that the director even has some talent, but I had the idea he simply wanted too much. It would’ve worked better if it had been a bit more straightforward. You still might like it - a bit. I didn’t think it was dull.
By the way Sherp, how is Chris Casey? I miss the guy.
@ By the way Sherp, how is Chris Casey? I miss the guy.
He’s okay, but his mum had some troubles a while ago.
He’s not a regular visitor of these pages, unfortunately. But he’ll be back. You’re not on facebook, I suppose?
No - I’ve never been a fan of such things, maybe one day…
Just been recently listening to the rants of a mate who was trying to delete his facebook account.
Well, I don’t want to be spied by CIA. ;D
Never been a fan of facebook or any site like this.
Never had any trouble in relation to facebook. Don’t think the CIA has any special interest in me, if they have, they can always ask.
Girl : My father says you can see into my computer
Obama : That is not your father
;D
I saw the new film The Conjuring, and IMO, it’s the best new horror film to come out in years. And I see a lot of horror movies, and in most cases am sadly disappointed. What I liked is the emphasis on atmosphere, the excellent acting, and a clear de-emphasis on CGI. I also liked the ‘period’ feel, as it takes place in 1971. It’s also exceeded expectations at the box office, which proves that really good movies can still be made for relatively cheap that can outdo big, CGI-laden ‘mega-blockbusters’. Director James Wan appears to be the new master of cinematic horror.