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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 1, 2012 2:22:18 GMT -5
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Oct 1, 2012 2:39:50 GMT -5
Same rules as the original, honor system at work. One point is scored for any horror movie watched. Each movie should be at least an hour long ,but exceptions will be made for shorter, older movies when they were considered full length. Competition ends midnight pacific time on Halloween.
I did pretty good in some of our competitions ,but I really want to win this one bring it on LOB!
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 1, 2012 11:52:26 GMT -5
You did much more than good in our competitions, sorry to correct you. It starts. Bring it, and dog will hunt. Revenge of the Creature, released in 1955, one year after Creature From the Black Lagoon. Never saw it before this morning. Along with Creature, Frankenstein, and Bride of Frankenstein, I have to call this one of the best made and most entertaining of The Universal Monster franchise. I recommend all four films. When I was a kid, I had a few action figures released in the 1980s based on this classic genre. Fun times. LOB-1
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 1, 2012 12:04:30 GMT -5
This is the version of The Gill-Man that I had as a kid. I also had Count Dracula. Fun times, good times.
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 1, 2012 21:58:22 GMT -5
Just watched The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari from start to finish for the first time. This movie very probably introduced the twist ending to horror. Kind of bland.
LOB-2
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 2, 2012 20:42:55 GMT -5
As a little kid, I caught Saturday the 14th a bunch of times on Showtime, maybe in 1981 or 1982. A fun horror comedy. I watched it on Youtube this morning before work. If you can rent it, I recommend this movie. If not, if you want to watch it, here it is. Drinking a Ska Brewery's (Durango, Colorado) Autumnal Mole Stout an "ale with peppers, cocoa, and spices". Good stuff, and like most Ska beers, this one has a skeleton as part of the label. Good dark black drinkin' for Halloween Month. Cheers! my fellow freaks. LOB-3
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Post by Golgo Van Helsing on Oct 3, 2012 13:30:01 GMT -5
Better hope this guy does not enter... THE CONTEST!
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 4, 2012 5:02:22 GMT -5
What a dickhead.
Just watched The Creature Walks Among Us, my first viewing. The finale of The Gill-Man Trilogy. Beautifully shot. Great plot for the third installment.
A Modelo Cerveza Salud! to The Creature.
LOB-4
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 5, 2012 0:04:18 GMT -5
Okay, I'm sad tonight. I was a bully and an asshole, whether I was right or wrong.
I was an asshole.
That makes me sad. I am sad for what I have said about Tod Browning's Dracula and Bela's performance. Tod needed music, and was truly a "soundie" pioneer, but he was a victim of his own time, and was wearing horse-blinders. Bela needed good directors, and music, creepy music. It makes me sad to be an asshole. Especially when I was in the wrong. Sorta and kinda.
So I have criticized Bela and Tod Browning for this film. Before tonight I was bored by this movie, even though I watched this film four or five times in my life before, three, including tonight, as an adult, including on the silver screen.
This was like a whole new first time viewing, and felt like Murnau's Nosferatu at many, many points of the movie. Dracula is a very good movie, if viewed as a quasi-silent film that NEEDS a very good musical score, which Browning, a victim of his own times, did not anticipate and include in this film. I half wish Tod Browning could experience HIS MASTERPIECE, Dracula, with the genius musical score by Phillip Glass and performed by the Kronos Quartet.
A Cheers to Mr. Browning for trying but failing to recognize the present (1930s) and the future, but being the first "soundie" horror director, and a much bigger Cheers! to James Whale. Frankenstein was, is, and always will be the best from Universal. Mr. Whale was a visionary.
To everybody but JAS: Only watch the Spanish version of Dracula, and this new and improved version.
Jake: Try the original, followed by the Spanish, and finish it off with the modern.
Drinking a Southern Star Buried Hatchet Stout, from Conroe, Texas. I detest this brewery, and gave this beer another chance. It is in no way large enough to be considered an imperial stout, or even a basic Irish Stout. It is a glorified Porter. It is a good beer, but it thinks it has bigger balls than it really has. So no Cheers!, just a Jeers! to those with horse-blinders who are products of, and limited by, their times.
LOB-5
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 6, 2012 22:07:34 GMT -5
Just watched Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943). I'm no longer sad. Bela was not good as an actor. Here he plays the Frankenstein Monster. Boris Karloff played that role so very well. Bela was Bela, weak. Lon Chaney Jr. reprises his role as Larry Talbot. A beautifully shot film, and a good Universal Monster sequel. The make-up effects were revolutionary. Good stuff. Too bad Hammer didn't have a werewolf movie. Or did they? Anyone know? Drinking a 750 ml. Dogfish Head Bitches Brew, 9% ABV, an Imperial Stout brewed with honey and gesho (what's gesho?). A Cheers to Miles Davis. He was the freaking goat! LOB-6
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 7, 2012 14:44:41 GMT -5
Jacob's Ladder, is to me, a classic Vietnam War movie, one of the best in terms of what the war does to one individual, and better than Platoon. Like The Deer Hunter, most of the story does not take place in "Vietnam". This also is a wonderful horror film in the vein of The Twilight Zone/Planet of the Apes/Fight Club. The cast is stellar: Jason Alexander, Ving Rhames, Danny Aiello, Elizabeth Peña, and Tim Robbins. Dare I say, a perfect horror movie and a must watch. And a Helluva ride. Oh yeah, a very sad film. SPOILERSPOILERSPOILER I can sum this movie up in one word Purgatory. To go further, it is about the angels that help and guide you, and the demons (even the one that truly cares about you and adores you) that clutch at your legs and try to pull you down with denial of the true situation you might be facing. The Ladder is either a path to heaven which in this case is guided by the angel of a little boy, and also the name of the drug, The Ladder, which leads you down into the primordial reaches of the brain. This story is about Jacob's Ladder, both of them. SPOILERSPOILERSPOILER ENDS. One more good thing about this movie. A very young and "pre-Michael Jackson" Macualay Culkin is run over by a large vehicle. THIS IS HORROR! LOB-7
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 9, 2012 0:18:54 GMT -5
Since yesterday I have watched three movies. First. If you mix AC/DC, Emilio Estevez, the Green Goblin, Night of the Living Dead, Smokey and the Bandit, murderous electronics and machines, and a coked out of all of his senses Stephen King, what do you get? Maximum Overdrive, baby. Good times, fun times. My first full viewing. First gear, and it is being brought, Jake. Next I watched a really good Korean horror film/fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel. I recommend it. Beautifully shot, great acting, and an original idea for a horror film. Third. Just finished watching Ash Williams vs. Army of Darkness (correct title, so ya know). The least great of the Dead Trilogy, but oh so much fun anyways. I do enjoy the slapstick ala The Three Stooges. Extremely good and fun times. Drank two beers during the last movie. A Sixpoint Righteous (Rye) Ale from Brooklyn, freakin' right ale in my not humble opinion, and the best Samuel Adams beer I have drank in my life, a Samuel Adams Thirteenth Hour, 750ml of yum (Belgian style Imperial Stout with 13 different ingredients and a respectable 9% alcohol by volume, great stuff, I tell ya what). The thirteenth hour is the witching hour. Jake, I'm bringing it. LOB-10
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Oct 9, 2012 4:40:03 GMT -5
First I watched 70's Spanish horror film Who Can Kill A Child?. This was an ok movie ,but the problem was that the main characters were just unbelievable dumb in certain parts. One of the things I liked was the gore which looked good and how the movie would fake you out. For example the whole time it makes you think the main character won't kill any of the children and instead kill himself ,but then he lets lose with a sub machine gun on them. I thought the cinematography of the isolated island was pretty nice as well. Overall not too bad ,but not as good as I was hoping it'd be.
Second I watched Roman Polanski's The Tenant a psychological horror movie that also stars Roman as the titular tenant and his descent into madness. It's the third in his apartment trilogy of psychological horror films. Polanski can act that's for sure. He puts up with alot of crap I wouldn't in his apartment and just as in TCM and BWP finding teeth is not a good sign. At first I thought it was a conspiracy ,but I think it's pretty clear by the end that his annoying neighbors that make his life a hell slowly drive him mad.
Third I watched An American Psycho for the first time and have to say this is a great movie. The use of music is great, acting great, gore is great. It's realistic when it wants to be ,but then gets over the top intentionally to be funny. One of my favortie parts is when his tiny pistol causes this huge explosion and he just looks at it amazed and bewildered. This is a hilarious movie and if you've never seen I reccomend. Christian Bale is just amazing in this movie.
Finally I watched Don Cascarelli's Phantasm for the second time in my life the first beeing when I was about 7 when I watched it with all my cousins on tv. I enjoyed it both times ,but picked up on different things this time around. The soundtrack is great in this movie, every little piece of music in this movie is just great. The special effects don't necesarrily hold up ,but they don't really need to. This is one of those movies that just seems to go by real quickly because it's so enjoyable. I remember them spending alot more time in the funeral home ,which was do to the movie being stretched out on TV and I forgot about that bug thing which was able to make me jump even though it didn't look scary at all. The sound effects in this movie are awesome, they are genuinely scary off screen. I remember when I first saw it how the ending scared the hell out of me, but I was more prepared for it this time. Just an awesome movie.
JAS-4
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 10, 2012 4:51:47 GMT -5
The Tenant was a great film. I'm glad you saw that. And I love the film score in Phantasm, and well, I just love that seventies' classic of horror. Great stuff, and not dated to me. Suspension of disbelief. I love the mustard blood and even the wind-up bugs. Just watched Slither from 2006. I recommend this to all horror fans, this was one of the best horror films from the 2000s. It had a great soundtrack, a great team in front of and behind the cameras, great combination of practical and CGI effects, and a new monster from Universal that was a bit like "The Thing" and someting Lovecratian. And much humor. Watch this movie and smile over and over. Drinking a very limited release of Full Sail Sessions Fest Premium Red Lager (Winter seasonals are now being released, Halloween beers are fading fast from the market). Employee owned and proper. Cheers! to American workers' co-operative efforts. LOB-11
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 10, 2012 5:09:34 GMT -5
Hey Jake, what is BWP? I bet it is obvious, but my brain does not compute. A Cheers! to the brain-numbing effects of cerveza!
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