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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jun 2, 2012 2:20:02 GMT -5
Ok folks after some deliberation after my victory I've decided to make this months theme horror anthologies. Now due to the shorter nature of many horror anthologies there'll be some different rules in place.
Horror anthology tv shows such as Master's of Horror, Twilight Zone, Tales from the Crypt, etc. will be worth 1 point.
Any horror anthology movies that are an hour + will be worth 2 points.
Honor system at works once again and the contest will end at the end of the month June 30th at midnight pacific time. As always the winner gets to choose next months category.
Bring it on LOB!
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jun 2, 2012 4:21:52 GMT -5
Watched Tales from the Dead a Japanese-American horror anthology about a psychic who picks up a hitchiker and tells her various ghost related tales. I'd seen this one for a previous contest and have to say that overall I still enjoyed it. Interestingly upon a second viewing I noticed it had an American crew and director being filmed in California, but used all Japanese actors to bring more of a Japanese feel. It makes sense because on of the outside shot of a house didn't look too Japanese to me.
JAS-2
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jun 2, 2012 6:12:21 GMT -5
Watched From a Whisper to a Scream an American horror anthology from the late 80's starring Vincent Price. Like the above movie I'd seen this one before for our original contest. I still enjoyed the first two stories and didn't like the last two. In particular I liked the second one so much I'd like to see it remade as a full movie perhaps, I just loved the isolated swamp feeling in the woods it had.
I did some research and apparently Price didn't think the film was good ,but respected the director for being so bold on his first movie.
JAS-4
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Post by loverofbeers on Jun 2, 2012 20:29:08 GMT -5
To those who have seen Shakes the Clown, the following is in Shake's voice during the hide and seek game, and I am absolutely not calling JAS a "little bastard". It has been a long month, I'm watching movies for a chunk of the next 36 hours, and I am in the process of getting beer into my system.
"Ready or not here I come!!! You.... little... bastards".
Just one peek at a great and twisted comedy. Drinking Rogue's Chatoe Rogue First Growth OREgasmic Ale. Good stuff, I'll tell you what!
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Post by loverofbeers on Jun 3, 2012 14:17:01 GMT -5
Masters of Horror, Tobe Hooper's Dance of the Dead. A post-apolyptic American tale about teens, rebellion, parents, drugs, science, and entertainment. Not for me, but the last few minutes finally hooked me. The dance itself looked like Leatherface on the back of the pick-up in TCM Part 2 spliced with an extra from Thriller. It was okay.
Ban Tobe Hooper! Drinking a Costa Rican lager, Imperial. Decent. Salud!
LOB-1
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Post by loverofbeers on Jun 4, 2012 4:11:41 GMT -5
First off, ban Tobe Hooper. Don't watch his stuff.
So I just watched a great episode of Masters of Horror directed by Tobe Hooper. The man is a genius.
First I'm going to go back to Dance of the Dead. It featured a great performance by Robert Englund, a very good script, good acting, great lighting and cutting, and a script that just didn't do it for me. Tobe Hooper did an excellent job with a story I was not into.
The Damned Thing is a very Texas horror story, and a good one, a very good one. The curse of oil (booms and busts), the oil monster, haunts this tale stretching over three generations and three small towns and their population. Think The Crazies. But cursed...
The family in the early 1980s were a perfect, perfect and loving unit, and the curse struck. Again. A nod to Jack and Danny in the Shining.
This shorter film builds tension, does incredible work with practical effects, did a very good job with CGI, and had good old Ted Raimi playing a priest. He is a classic upon himself. Just ask Bruce Campbell.
And Tobe knows Texas. The image of the Texas flag waving as a reflection in the storefront window, is genuine. This movie was very "homey" for me. Yet filmed in Vancouver Canada. Tobe Hooper is good, folks. He is a classic.
Tobe once again used the term "dirty legs" in reference to a woman, just like he did in The Toolbox Murders. That makes me giggle inside. I'd recommend this great flick, but y'know, don't watch Tobe Hooper. He is mean to Islam.
Based on the story by Ambrose Pierce (Sp?), who apparently also wrote "The Devil's Dictionary", and someone I'm going to look up and read about.
LOB-2
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jun 4, 2012 6:14:27 GMT -5
Yes it's quite the conundrum with Tobe Hooper's films beings so good ,but yet so mean to Islam.
Anyway, I watched Tales That Witness Madness a British horror anthology from the early 70's starring Donald Pleasance as a doctor showing a colleague four different cases involving the supernatural. I enjoyed all four of the stories and the effects worked except for the end of the third story, though the actual idea is pretty creepy. The bad guy in the fourth story does a great job playing the manipulative, charming sociopath. And of course there was a twist ending.
JAS-6
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jun 4, 2012 7:49:53 GMT -5
Watched Screamtime which was a British-American anthology from the 80's about two friends in New York who steal some horror movies and find out they're British. There's three different tales with the first two being the best and the last one being downright dumb. The twist at the end is that the actual killers from the movies come in and kill the friends, which I figured would happen. The last shot was pretty effective though showing how nobody will here your scream in NYC.
JAS-8
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Post by loverofbeers on Jun 5, 2012 14:21:31 GMT -5
Watched a terrible, awful, horror anthology, Campfire Stories. Did I mention it blew?
LOB-4
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jun 5, 2012 14:24:21 GMT -5
Is that the one with the insane guy, an Indian on a motorcycle, and a crazy woman in a house?
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jun 5, 2012 14:36:02 GMT -5
Watched Trapped Ashes an American-Japanese production from the 2000's that was filmed in Canada. Now I'm not saying this movie is a masterpiece ,but it is entertaining and features four tales. The first involves vampiric breasts and is purposely so dumb that it is funny, the second one is set in Japan and is about this zombie monk and interestingly cuts between animation(which looked good) and live action ,but the acting was pretty weak, the third is about the friendship between two directors and is actually really well done which kind of made it seem out of place, the final tale is about a girl who's twins with a tapeworm and while an interesting idea gets dumber as it goes on.
The framing device is that 7 people taking part in a Hollywood tour get stuck in a house and have to tell their stories to get out and of course there's the twist ending which was weak, but still kind of funny. I didn't recognize him ,but it had Henry Gibson and John Saxon.
JAS-10
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Post by loverofbeers on Jun 6, 2012 0:25:35 GMT -5
Sounds like you know that abomination of a film. Jeez. It had it's moments, but it was the opposite of good.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jun 6, 2012 13:30:24 GMT -5
Goddamit.
Watched a great episode of Tales from the Crypt, but it was thirty minutes long. I thought I remembered the shows were longer, but nope. So that takes about twenty points I hoped to score away. Dammit. So, Tales from the Crypt is officially off the table for this competition, except for their movies.
Dammit. So I popped in The Best of WCW Clash of the Champions, and rewatched for the first time since it happened, I believe live on the old teevee, the 45 minute bout between a great and promising newcomer, Sting, and the greatest heel champ ever, Ric Flair. And that said, in my opinion, Tully and Arn were the third best tag-team ever after The Road Warriors and The Dudley Boys, edging out The Miracle Violence Connection.
And now I need a new strategy for the competition at hand. LOB +0.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jun 7, 2012 0:18:07 GMT -5
Watched one of my favorite episodes of Masters of Horror which reunites director Lucky McGee (whom I incorrectly elevated to the status of "Texan" a month ago) and Angela Bettis from May.
This is a lighthearted monster tale about a dorky entomologist and her sweet new lesbian crush/relationship being infected by an outside the mainstream antagonist. Fun, dorky, sweet.... Not your typical horror, but my third viewing. Good stuff full of bug puns.
LOB-5
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Post by loverofbeers on Jun 9, 2012 0:51:00 GMT -5
"They're still having trouble finding one of his arms". A reference to a spree of mayhem in Picadilly Circle by some kind of animal in 1981, and talk about scratches and bites.... I recommend this to ya, JAS.
Part of the Masters of Horror series and directed by John Landis and written with his (I guess brother, son, third-cousin).... um relative, Max Landis. A great story, well filmed, and great use of effects whether a man in a comical deer costume, CGI, or good old fashioned horror effects and gore.
My second watching of Deer Woman, and I dig it. A very good/excellent film about very bizarre murders of numerous men who were beaten to paste while sexually aroused, a dysfunctional at times police department, Native American folklore, man-like animals like Sasquatch and man-wolves, the power of legends and tales, and why women will ruin, utterly ruin, a brother man. Remember, "Don't trust anything that bleeds every month".
Cool question from a Native American to the cop buddies, paraphrasing here, "Why do we have to ask why so much"? Just say, "It is". And move on....
Drinking a Stone 13th Anniversary Ale, another Russian Imperial Stout, a style of beer I am trying to steer clear from, because simply put, they fuck me up. Black like my soul and beautiful like Nirvana, and often times my favorite beer style. This one is 11% ABV and made from 13 grains and 13 hop varieties, all printed DIRECTLY on the bottle. Happy 13th, Stone Brewery, and Cheers! to great beer and breweries. I still look down on Stone's flagship, Arrogant Bastard Ale, a cocky beer, that my cockiness poops on. But Cheers! nonetheless.
LOB-6
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