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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Oct 10, 2012 8:12:36 GMT -5
Blair Witch Project and yeah I liked Slither.
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 10, 2012 23:17:06 GMT -5
Thank you. And teeth are found in a wall in Tobe Hooper's great The Toolbox Murders. Watch it and Jinn if it ever is released, thank you the Prophet Muhammad.
Jake, two things? I want to watch Zodiac this month. Will it count? You are in the driver's seat this month.
Nah, we'll keep it at one question. And sir, You are the King of October (think Grady in The Shining). You ARE in the driver's seat. You have ALWAYS been in the driver's seat. A Jester King Wythchmaker Cheers! to the King of October!
My next movie, my friend, should be viewed as me diverting to psychological warfare. It is the political season after all. And in 2012 I vote..... Horror, motherfuckers, I mean, dear friends and fellow Americans. Cheers! to JAS and Cheers! to the magnificence of silence.
And yeah, I misspelled "Lovecraftian". A Cheers! to that!
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Oct 11, 2012 0:39:36 GMT -5
Yeah from what I've heard and the little I've seen of it Zodiac is horror so it counts. Also since you've also seen Polanski's Apartment trilogy which one was your favorite. Mine is Repulsion just a great movie, I was blown away at how good it was.
Anyway, first I watched Thomas Edison's 1910 version of Frankenstein for the third time. Still not a fan I'm glad that it was rediscovered and it is historically important ,but I don't really like it. I like that they tried going for the original appearance of the monster with the long hair and corpse face ,but it doesn't look good. Just looks like a whole bunch of sea weed around some toilet paper to me.
Second I watched 1978's TV movie Devil Dog The Hound of Hell about a German Shepard possesed by Satan. This is an example of a so bad it's good movie. I like how evil the dog is it manipulates people, has the power of hypnosis, is bulletproof, and pyrokenisis. However, until the end it never drags on which is something to be said of a movie. The end gets weird when they go to South America and fight an atrociously bad looking devil dog. The soundtrack was funny because it was so overly dramatic at parts for no reason. One part that was genuinely good was the kids transformation from good kids to pretty evil sociapthic people.
Third I watched Lucius Henderson's 1912 adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. While not particuarly good it had an entertaining score that kept me from becoming bored and near the end did a decent job compared to the rest of the movie showing a desperate trapped man in chaos.
Fourth I watched Herbert Brenon's 1913 adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Man this version was longer than the previous version and extremely boring. No soundtrack either which managed to make it drag on.
None of these four were actually good films ,but at least I can say I've fully seen some version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Going to watch some more modern films for the next set.
Oh by the way speaking of the Djinn, I remember watching a horror movie when I was a kid about an evil Djinn that scared the hell out of me. I've been wanting to watch it again and see if it holds up. LOB do you know which movie I'm talking about I just remember there was a bathroom death, a ouji board, and one of the main characters was a black woman who I think was British. Thanks either way.
JAS-8
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Oct 11, 2012 0:43:04 GMT -5
Speak of the devil I just manged to find it it's called Long Time Dead and is from 2002.
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 11, 2012 1:48:31 GMT -5
Never seen it or heard of it but I am glad you figured out the name. I've been trying to figure out a movie I saw in the seventies as a teeney tyke of less than six. Men were walking out of the desert sands. People always suggest Dune. I repeat to them, the late seventies. And my older brother is no help. He doesn't remember the movies he subjected to me like Wolfen or The Howling. But I remember and am a Horror fiend because of it. A Cheers! to my brother David. I'm gonna have to watch those movies. Jake you knew that we both would be watching Frankenstein (1910), didn't you? I am finishing off a Jester King Wytchmaker. Delicious and extremely complex. A rye India Pale Ale fermented with a local farm (wild) yeast. Oh yeah. Vampyr. Liked it a lot especially the cinematography but hard to follow. This would have been the first "talkie" horror film, but the powers that be held it back to follow the premiers of Dracula and Frankenstein in 1931. But good stuff. Jake, we have evolved this year as movie watchers. Try this movie again. I plan to. LOB-12
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 11, 2012 1:52:58 GMT -5
Oh yeah, sorry, mine is Rosemary's Baby. HAIL SATAN!
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Oct 11, 2012 2:02:29 GMT -5
I'll give Vampyr another chance ,but man I remember being so bored during that movie and yes I knew about Frankenstein.
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 11, 2012 15:22:11 GMT -5
Just watched Identity which co-stars John Cussack, Ray Liota, Jake Busey,and an otherwise talented cast. I very much recommend this movie. Great stuff here, my third viewing and it just gets better.
It has great usage of SPOILERSPOILERSPOILER three red herrings (two individuals and a very minor plot thread). This movie pays heavy homage to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians. Also it is heavy on an element from my favorite run of comic books, Peter David's classic and universally praised The Incredible Hulk run, specifically about the relationship between Bruce Banner/Rampaging Green Hulk/Joe Fixit. If you read those, you immediately get an idea of who is not killing a motel full of soon to be disappearing corpses, and what the upcoming swerve is all about. A+ quality stuff here. SPOILERSPOILERSPOILER ENDS.
This movie uses Bob Dylan's "I Miss You So Much", so well, that when I hear that song, I feel somewhat sad and like death is flowing by me, and I think of the end of this film. Yeah, creepy genius use of an old classic tune. And yes, the end is shockingly sad and horrific. No happy ending, and the killer, when revealed, well Holee Macaroni!
LOB-Lucky 13
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 11, 2012 15:25:27 GMT -5
Oh yeah I heard the on-line talk about Devil Dog. Sounds fun. The dog has sex with the mom? Did I hear that right? Or it is hinted at? Gross. I want to see this sometime.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Oct 11, 2012 15:51:58 GMT -5
Hinted at. It's available on youtube in its entirety right now.
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 11, 2012 15:56:57 GMT -5
Public domain, yo! This film belongs to us all. We own it. Depending on your start date for film horror, the genre is 102 proof this year. Edison's Frankenstein. The fiend does look like a seaweed/toilet paper monster, but I still think it is creepy as all hell, just not how I picture Dr. Frankenstein's creation. I think Boris Karloff. The Monster in this film was supposed to look like the second, third, and fourth pics, but that is a not so very clear of a surviving print, so we get a hazy image instead. A Modelo Especial salud! to a film returning from the dead. Now I want London after Midnight to be discovered and re-released. LOB-14, luck is a fleeting thing, you gotcha catch it and hold it by it's ears. And don't let go!
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 12, 2012 4:25:14 GMT -5
Just watched Werewolf of London for the first time. I like it a lot and I have wanted to watch this movie, no shitting here, for thirty years since I discovered the Crestwood Collection of monster books in my grade school library. These were awesome for a little tyke, kinda like The Famous Monsters magazines from the sixties and seventies were for the generation before me, and my source for monsters until I started reading Fangoria at the Waldenbooks at the local mall while my mom went shopping. Some of my earliest memories of horror and my first guide after my brother left for college were these great books: The end is borrowed by An American Werewolf in London, and the possibility of seeing two werewolves fighting is brought up in this film and later incorporated in the modern Universal version of The Wolf-Man starring Bennicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins. Also this is the most intentionally humorous Universal Monster film I have seen to date, followed by The Bride of Frankenstein. I love that horror and comedy have gone hand in claw for all these decades. To me the most effective horror has moments of humor to lure you into a false sense of security.... Oh yeah, this was the first Universal werewolf movie and this werewolf is the most "mannish" lycanthrope I have seen. In wolf form, he puts on a cap and shawl and talks at the end. This movie originally flopped because it was too similar to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. But I like it, and I recommend it more than Lon Cheney's Wolf-Man which I am a fan of. Take it away Wikipedia! Werewolf of London is a 1935 Horror/werewolf movie starring Henry Hull and produced by Universal Pictures. Jack Pierce's eerie werewolf make-up was simpler than his version six years later for Lon Chaney, Jr., in The Wolf Man but, according to film historians, remains strikingly effective as worn by Hull.
Werewolf of London was the first Hollywood mainstream werewolf movie.Jack Pierce's original werewolf design for Henry Hull was identical to the one used later for Lon Chaney Jr. in The Wolf Man, but it was rejected in favor of a minimalist approach that was less obscuring to facial expressions. Hull was unwilling to spend hours having makeup applied. The werewolf's howl was an audio blend of Hull and a recording of an actual timber wolf, an approach which was never duplicated in any subsequent werewolf film.The movie was regarded at the time as too similar to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with Fredric March, which had been released only three years before, and flopped at the box-office, but has been regarded by cinema historians as an imaginative classic. One striking similarity between the two films is that each time the man becomes a monster, the monster looks markedly more monstrous than the time before, a feature found in Robert Louis Stevenson's novella Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as well as most of the movies based upon it. Additionally, the wolf in the film acts very human at times, such as his first transformation, where the wolf dons a hat, scarf and coat.Finishing up a Full Sail Session Fest. Second gear, baby! LOB-15
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Oct 12, 2012 14:05:13 GMT -5
I think I've seen that one. Is the guy a scientist who'd gone to some mountains and got bitten by a werewolf or am I thinking of some other werewolf movie from the 30's that I saw?
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Oct 12, 2012 19:00:38 GMT -5
First I watched 1909's The Sealed Room by D.W. Griffith which is about a king finding out his favorite concubine is cheating on him with one of his entertainers and so he decides to brick them into the room as revenge. I really liked the movies organ soundtrack and besides liking the idea of walling someone in until they suffocate, I loved how the king took such delight in mocking the fact that they were trapped.
Second I watched Ti West's The Innkeepers starring Sara Paxton, which is about a pair of innkeepers who are trying to find a ghost before the hotel they work at shuts down. The main two characters are really likeable and there is lots of genuinely funny stuff that goes on before anythings scary happens. The ghosts themselves looked pretty good and I liked the idea that they can't actually harm someone so instead they find other ways to kill them. The ending was sad though. So far I've seen two Ti West movies and I thought both were good.
After that I watched Stir of Echoes starring Kevin Bacon, which is about a man who after being hypnotized by his sister in law, starts recieving messages from the dead. This was a really good movie. There were parts that were funny and the main character is likeable. The mystery is a good one and the ending was really good. I reccomend.
Finally I watched The Last Broadcast which was made before The Blair Witch Project and is about a group of people who dissapear while making a show in The Pine Barrens about the Jersey Devil. I thought the acting was good, the soundtrack was great, and the Pine Barrens do have a beautiful, yet eerie feel. The ending didn't work for me though. I thought the idea itself was good ,but the sudden shift from found footage/mockumentary to traditional camera didn't work and took me out of the movie. I still reccomend though if you haven't seen it.
JAS-12
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 12, 2012 20:09:56 GMT -5
Yessiree, same movie. The scientist was looking for a plant that only blooms by moonlight in the Himalayas in Tibet when confronted by the lycanthrope.......
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