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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 13, 2012 22:38:15 GMT -5
First I watched The Monster Squad. I saw this movie for the first time a few years ago and it has become a favorite. Another tribute film to the Universal Monster films. The Frankenstein monster even has the small deep dimple in his cheek that Boris Karloff's version had. And speaking of Karloff, the name of a store is Karloff's. Also to my chagrin, this movie has both armadillos and a possum in the Transylvania castle scene. The small girl who befriends The Frankenstein Monster is first shown walking with a flower in her hand and plucking it's petals. What gets me in this movie is the Scary German Man who confirms that yes, there really are monsters as he closes the door of his house. You can see the concentration camp tattoo on his left forearm. Yes, Man can be the worst and scariest monster of all. I appreciated that message. Thirty-seven of my mother's family were murdered by the Nazis. Reality is more horrific at times than fiction. Next I watched my new favorite of The Friday the 13th franchise, "Jason Lives", part six. This is the most intentionally humorous flick in the series. It is also the one that treats it's viewers with the most respect, and expects the viewer to be a smart fan. If I could recommend only one film from this series to a newbie, it would be this one. I love Kane Hodder's Jason, but I think I might like this one better. Last, I watched The Devil's Castle (1896), two times, two times. Some are in the camp that Edison's Frankenstein is the first horror movie. Another camp argues that this is the first horror film. And here it is: Drinking a Victory Hop Devil Ale, a damn good IPA and another attempt on my part to drink beers that are monster themed or Halloween seasonals. Cheers! to horror. LOB-18
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Oct 15, 2012 5:17:30 GMT -5
First I watched 1972's Moon of the Wolf which was a made for tv movie. One funny thing that kept happening was that the version I watched would have this place commerial here prompt anytime a scene would end. It' a who dunnit of sort trying to figure out who the killer or wolf is and it takes place in Louisiana.The acting was good and the werewolf which was of the wolfman variety looked good. Overall it was a pretty good movie, except for this really fake looking punch at one point. Also I thought it was dumb, but funny how the wolfman's clothes were left intact.
Second I watched 2011's Wendigo which was a Candian film and connected Slenderman with the wendigo folklore. It was found footage and while it started out good with good cinematography and a slow increasingly creepy feel, but was ruined by the atrociously bad ending. You end up seeing the monsters too much and they looked bad, one scene in particular where they burn one and it looks like a crappy stick figure drawing added in post to the fire. Also they had these incredibly fake looking fight scenes near the end and this hoky narration which made a decent movie crap.
After that I watched I Saw the Devil for a second time. Not much to say this time except that it's a great movie and my dad loved it as well.
Finally I watched Easter Bunny Kill Kill, which was a slasher/splatter film about an abused mentally handicapped kid who gets avenged by a killer in an easter bunny mask. It had slasher elements with people getting picked off one at a time, but was mainly splatter with the film focusing ont he gore in extruciating detail. There were two good things about this movie, the gore which looked realistic and it was funny. The acting was really bad though. Now I can say I've seen an Easter horror movie.
JAS-16
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 15, 2012 8:53:58 GMT -5
First a bit more about The Devil's Castle. It has many names and some consider it released in 1897, not 1896. Here's the Mighty Wikipedia. The Haunted Castle (French: Le Manoir du Diable which means "The Manor of the Devil") is a 1896 three-minute-long French film by Georges Méliès and number 78-80 on the Star Films catalog. The film contained many traditional pantomime elements and was intentionally meant to amuse people, rather than frighten them. Nonetheless, it is considered by many to be the first horror film, as well as the first vampire film. The Haunted Castle is now in the public domain.
In English, this film has been known as The Haunted Castle, The Devil's Castle, The Devil's Manor, The Manor of the Devil, and The House of the Devil.
It was released on Christmas Eve, 1896, at the Theatre Robert Houdin, 8 boulevard des Italiens, Paris.First I watched George Melies' The Merry Froloics of Satan. I watched it twice. Twice. The guy was so ahead of the times and truly a visionary director. Fun times on a hellish carriage ride. I recommend. So here it is. Second I watched Friday the 13th Part 8 all the way through for the first time. The GOOD: Kane PHYSICALLY is the best built and most passionate actor when it came to the role of Jason Voorhees. Plus I liked the rope-a-dope between Jason (Ali) and JC Dupree (Foreman). The BAD: the stupid fucking script. This is the worst of the series for me, so far, because I still haven't watched Parts 9-11. The UGLY: Jason disappears and reappears like a magical imp. The little Jason stuff stunk. The ending was a stinking pile of monkey turd. I recommend skipping this one unless you are a completist. I wish I had. I re-watched The Merry Frolics of Satan. Then I watched Child's Play for the second time. This is great eighties horror. When it came out I refused to watch it because it was about a doll and I was a Leatherface fan. Now I love this film. The effects are perfect. No complaints here. And the movie was not funny, more serious and creepy than anything. Last, I re-watched The Merry Frolics of Satan. LOB-21 EDIT, I corrected myself (think Grady). I meant Foreman. Hey JAS, check this out! www.horroretc.com/2009/07/07/episode-91-public-domain-horror-films/
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 15, 2012 23:12:31 GMT -5
Just watched, with many, many, many puppy interruptions, Carl Laemmle's 1913 Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. Jake, I recommend you check out the 1920 John Barrymore version. It is the best of three versions I have seen. Drinking a St. Arnold Pumpkinator, from Houston, Texas. I have been prepping my customers (custies) for a month and a half about this beer, when to buy it and where to get the latest information. I knew we would sell out in hours even though we would get more in than anybody else in Austin. We got it in today, 120 bottles that sold out in three hours. I earned my beer today. Talked myself dry. I talked to about thirty to forty individuals by phone and maybe another fifty in person after we sold out of Pumpkinator, about how to and when and where to secure this beer tomorrow. Single-handedly, the most important beer in Texas this day. and for the rest of the week I'll be getting calls about this beer. Pumpkinator, the formerly released and limited St. Arnold Divine Reseve #9, a Russian Imperial Stout, at least 10% alcohol by volume (ABV) and brewed with pumpkin meat and a dose of pumpkin pie spices. The best pumpkin beer I have ever had and I'm not a fan of the pumpkin beers. This is a man's beer, not like the majority of pumpkin beers made for girls and Nancy-Men. This beer is black, viscous, and so thick it literally stops light, like my beautiful and blackened soul. A Cheers! to Frank Mancusso, an old friend and somewhat pro-beer mentor, and the face of St. Arnold in Austin, and a very good-hearted man! LOB-22
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 16, 2012 7:16:27 GMT -5
Just watched Tobe Hooper's Mortuary. My second viewing, and for the second time it reminds me (a crap load) of Mr. Hooper's Masters of Horror episode, "The Damned Thing", but replace oil with a bad CGI blackish green mold. I liked everything but the CGI and was annoyed at the end, again because it reminded me too much of that aforementioned episode. But discounting that, a really good script, believable actors especially the kids (the little girl was great!), just very well made from both sides of the camera. The bitch blonde character was so hot, that I have the need to mention it. Sex kitten, gentlemen, sex kitten. Oh, and great man-mades! And I don't even find blondes attractive that much. I have noticed that Mr. Hooper seems to often focus on portrayals of families. Whether newlyweds (The Toolbox Murders), or seemingly normal families (The Damned Thing, Mortuary, Poltergeist), or fucked up families (Dance of the Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Parts 1 and 2 and The Funhouse). Just something I seem to notice from this Master of Horror. Drinking a beer I am really proud of because it was one of the two best rated (100 rating on two sites) beers I introduced to Texas back in my sales days. Great Divide's Oak Aged Yeti Massive Imperial Stout (9.5% ABV) from Denver, Colorado. Cheers! to Sasquatches never being captured. LOB-23
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 17, 2012 22:25:44 GMT -5
Just watched Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon for possibly the fifth time. This IS one of the best horror films of the Double Aught years. Watch it if you haven't, it is must-watch horror. Eugene. Ah, Eugene. He makes me so happy. This character is wearing a Kreuz's BBQ baseball cap (http://www.kreuzmarket.com/index.shtml). Kreuz's is located is Lockhart, Texas, forty miles away from Austin, and recognized by Texas Monthly magazine (http://www.texasmonthly.com/bbq) as the Valhalla of barbecue (I once took a day trip and ate in three legendary bbq restaurants and drank a Texas-cold Lone Star beer. I thought I was going to pop! Or poop!). This town has three or more great BBQ joints, Kreuz's, Schmitty's, and Black's. And this film from Oregon gives Kreuz's a shout-out, again, in the credits. And the credits continue to rock. The film thanks three Oregonian breweries, Full Sail, Widmer Brothers, and Rogue, and then gives a "Special Thanks" to Kane Hodder. And the credit's theme song is The Pixies' Psycho Killer. One last time, watch this over and over folks. It is horror gold and smart! Drinking and finishing A Boulevard Sixth Glass Belgian Style Quadruple. A beauty. Before that I drank a Harpoon Leviathan Imperial IPA. Damn solid and named after the Biblical sea monster. Last night I drank a Limey beer I used to like, Hobgoblin. Shit, I'd rather drink a Dos Equis or most Mexicans lagers instead of that brownish Thames River water. An American Craft-brewed Cheers! to the town of Lockhart and her delectable meats! LOB-24
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Post by luditesupreme on Oct 19, 2012 4:07:35 GMT -5
lob are you sure you don't mean the talking heads psycho killer . i checked youtube to see if the pixies had a version . they on't seem to not saying the don't
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Oct 20, 2012 2:16:23 GMT -5
First i watched The Haunted Castle from 1897 the first horror movie ever made. Third time I've seen it. Don't really like it ,but hey it was the first horror movie ever you had to start somewhere.
Second I took Neal's suggestion and watched Canadian horror movie Exit Humanity which is about a zombie apocalypse in the post civil war era. The gore was good and the zombies looked really good particuarly the way they'd have these black eyes. Most of the combat scenes were filmed really well and most of the acting was good though there were parts where it fell short. The cinematograhpy was great thought, the movie looked gorgeous and I liked how it'd cover periods of time with animation. The soundtrack was really good and I liked how unlike alot of zombie movies where there's just hopelessness there's actually hope at the end of this movie and the message is that you shouldn't give up.
Then I watched a movie of the so bad it's good variety Man's Best Friend starring Lance Henriksen and made in 1993. It's about a gentically modified Tibeten Matsiff and it's downfall. Man this movies was so damn funny the dog pisses acid, climbs trees, is fireproof, understands how to rig car "accidents", dispose of evidence, bury bodies, eats a cat like that shark from that SciFi original movie, can cloak, and rapes a collie while They Call it Puppy Love is playing. This movie made my day.
Finally I watched Steven Spilebergs's Jaws for the first time and I thought it lived up to it's reputation great movie. The acting was really good-great, the cinematograhpy was great, and the gore looked great. I liked how all the characters had unique and likeable personalities and how the trio at the end all end up fighting until the end isntead of just panicking. Quint in particular was awesome. Bruce looked awesome and when he popped out of nowhere during the final fight it scared the hell out of me. The soundtrack was great and I liked how everyone including Bruce made there last stand at the end.
I reccomend all the films for various reasons if you've never seen them the 1st because it's historical, the second because it's a surprisingly good little treat, the third because it's one of those awesome so bad it's hilarious movies, and the fourth because it's just a great horror movie.
JAS-20
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 20, 2012 7:08:23 GMT -5
Just watched a modern animated movie, Monster House (2006). It did not work for me. I don't think I will revisit it. In the last year I have watched two "new to me" Steven Spielberg movies and my first two "new to me" Spielberg movies watched since The Flintstones and Jurassic Park way back in the Papa Bush years of the very early 1990s. One I loved, one I didn't. I like traditional animation, claymation, muppets, puppets, and a very little bit of computer animation. I don't like motion capture of real actors performing in front of blue screens. I like actors to react to what they are seeing (non-post production additions) and to their surroundings. I felt that the "acting" was hollow. This movie had no "Shine", just felt plastic to yours truly. The characters were not believable to me and I found myself rooting for our heroes.... to be eaten by the monster in this oh so slick flick. Here is Wikipedia: Monster House is a 2006 computer animated motion capture horror/comedy film produced by ImageMovers and Amblin Entertainment, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Executive produced by Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg, this is the first time since Back to the Future Part III that they have worked together. It is also the first time that Zemeckis and Spielberg both served as executive producers of a film. The film's characters are animated primarily utilizing performance capture, making it the second film to use the technology so extensively, following producer Robert Zemeckis' The Polar Express.The film was made in performance capture, which the actors did all the movement by themselves, wearing wet suits, with sensors glued to their bodies. The movement was then transferred into a computer, and animation took place around their bodies. All of the props were made out of a wire material to also be animated. The background was completely animated in CGI.
This process was pioneered by Robert Zemeckis on his film The Polar Express, also produced by Sony Pictures ImageworksLast night I drank an old favorite I haven't revisited in years, Rogue Dead Guy Ale, a Helles Bock from Newport, Oregon, at a mellow 6.5% ABV. Still good spooky drinking. Now drinking a Modelo Especial Cerveza. Salud! a mi amigo JacoboImpresionanteCulebra. LOB-25
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Oct 20, 2012 16:59:52 GMT -5
First I watched Insidous which is about a family who continues to b haunted even after moving. I liked this movie overall and thought the monster looked really awesome in it's lair, which also looked good. I also kind of liked how all the ghosts had these smiles that were overexaggerated purposely for creepy effect. I didn't like how there were parts where the monster looked really bad particuarly during the day. Also the dad was dumb, just like the characters from Paranormal Activity. Good movie ,but nothing special.
Second I watched 1983's Sleepaway Camp which is about a pair of cousin's who go to the aformentioned camp. This is a weird movie in the sense where it's got lot's of bad acting(some so bad it's funny), actual good acting, good gore, an actual sad fucked up story, and a great ending that makes up for any of the bad. The old black guy in particular does a bad job and the pedophile does a great job at playing this sick, menacing character. I don't want to give away the ending if you haven't seen it ,but that is genuinely scary shit man, like demonic. I also liked Felissa Rose's performance as the protagonist Angela and the ending theme song.
After that I watched George A. Romero's 1988 Monkey Shines which is about a man who becomes crippled and gets a monkey from his friend to help take care of him. The movie is well acted particuarly by the two main characters Allan played by Jason Beghe and Ellen(the monkey) by Boo, they both do a great job. The soundtrack is good, the gore is good, you actually feel sad for both of the main characters particuarly the monkey and there's a great scare near the end. The climax of the film is just brutal man. This is a great horror movie.
Finally I watched Spanish horror film Intruders starring Clive Owen about hollowman a monster that becomes stronger the more you belive in it. The acting and story is good ,but there's some pretty bad CGI. Hollowface's design itself is simple ,but good using a jacket keeping it's face obscured. It's not great ,but it's pretty good.
This may be blasphemous ,but I've actually enjoyed two of Romero's non Dead trilogy horror movies more than the trilogy. I thought both Martin and Monkey Shines were great and sad movies.
JAS-24
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 20, 2012 23:17:44 GMT -5
Just watched an unexpectedly awesome modern horror flick by a team of young Turks, and they serve up the fixings Southern-Fried Rock and Roll style. Trailer Park of Terror starts of with a shout-out to Herschel Gordon Lewis and Blacula. This film is fun, cruel, creepy, cruel, humorous, cruel, and over the top sadistic in its portrayal of gore, yet it is fun times. This movie further has helped me get over my Asian Fever. I highly recommend this one.
Drinking a Pabst Blue Ribbon, cheap yet dignified. Cheers!
LOB-26
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 21, 2012 17:27:51 GMT -5
Just watched From Hell for the first time. I need to track down a copy of the comic series's reprints by the very talented Alan Moore. Johnny Depp did great in this film as did all the actors. I could fall in love with a woman that looks like Mary Kelly (played by the angelic-faced and redheaded Heather Graham) just like Mr. Depp's inspector character did. This movie is a horror film and a chunk of that horror is England, London specifically, during it's Industrial Revolution. The streets are grimy, wet, and vermin plagued, both the four and two legged varieties. The Brits are downright hateful and subject to the baser qualities of humanity. There is ritual murder, British Royal/Freemason conspiracies, a filthy swine herd for a police force, Syphylis, "Chasing the Dragon" experiences and Absinthe drinking, and a tale of the possibliity of finding romance and happiness ever after (away from grimy Old England and it's smog!!!). A smart film I plan on revisiting again and again and also to watch back-to-back with V for Vendetta someday. I recommend very much. LOB-27
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 21, 2012 22:21:04 GMT -5
I just watched an extremely good and original film about a baby that was not supposed to be born. Grace was written and directed by Paul Sollet, a young new director, and produced by Adam Green and his production house Airescope.
This movie has two mothers with severe problems/issues, and a seemingly sexually frustrated and sexually disingenuous cast of characters. And joyless sex just to make a baby.
I am Pro-Horror. I am also pro-choice. In the case of Baby Grace, I am pro-abortion. A truly damned little breast-wrecker!
LOB-28
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Oct 22, 2012 0:11:34 GMT -5
I liked Grace I watched it after some friends told me about the last scene. Did you get the feeling the main character was just using her husband to have a baby?
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 22, 2012 3:53:01 GMT -5
Yep, I did get that feeling. She had joyless sex just to conceive and then lay in bed in a position to maximize the chances of conception (see The Big Liebowski). She also had been in a relationship, a very strong one, with the mid-wife previously to getting married. What a bummer, man. All for a freaky baby.
This PBR Cheers! is for my distinguished rival. He too is Pro-Horror.
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