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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 22, 2012 15:38:49 GMT -5
Do not watch Decadent Evil.
The pluses, one pretty talented actress portraying one of the three vamps working as a stripper, the dwarf from Land of the Dead playing the Van Helsing role, and a red and a green proto-human reptoid muppets having doggy style relations in a big bird cage.
The minuses, the rest of the cast including the dwarf in the Van Helsing role, the painfully stupid plot, the changes to the vampire mythos, the silly goth girl feel, and the anorexic pole dancers with "a" to "b" cups.
A pointless horror film nearly as bad as Andy Warhol's Dracula. Utter crap. On this one, I took one for the team. Steer clear of this abomination.
LOB-29
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 23, 2012 19:45:36 GMT -5
Zodiac, a David Fincher film. A perfect cast, a perfect soundtrack, a perfect script. A perfect film.
If it was not Arthur Leigh Allen... Shit. Truly, a maddening case. I have done a number of hours of research on who the Zodiac Killer might have been. The more you learn, the more questions arise. I think the police departments in the small Bay Area towns screwed it up, protecting their turf, not being too helpful with other jurisdictions, and frankly, just letting the killer slip through their fingers. Dave Tosche (Bullitt/Dirty Harry) just couldn't pull it off this time. It really is too bad.
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 24, 2012 12:26:25 GMT -5
No one can hear you scream in space. Just watched Alien (1979) for the first time since it came out or the very early 1980s. I thought I had rewatched this whole movie, but I never re-watched the first third. Starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerrit, and Harry Dean Anderson as well as other talented actors. And it has an effective man-in-rubber costume monster. This movie saw a new take on the main female character. No screamie blonde here. Just Sigourney Weaver, sexy as Hell, kicking ass. This time the woman plays the bad-ass of the group of victims. A must watch.
LOB-31
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 25, 2012 1:56:29 GMT -5
A friend and co-worker lent me a handful of horror films. She really is into horror from the 2000s and some torture porn. So my fourth torture porn flick, not my cup of tea, but this was my favorite of this genre so far. Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2. Never heard of Laid to Rest, the first installment, so the origin and financing of our villain are confusing points for me, and why does he have a whole team of experts who pretend at times to be FBI agents? Who is this sadistic freak? Why is he so loaded and important. This movie gave no hints. He just is a horrifying killing machine. With cash to spare. The kills were effective and bloody spectacles. The effects were spot-on. This film also starred the two male heroes of one of my favorite teevee shows of yesteryear, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Thomas Dekker (Sarah Connor's son) and Brian Austin Green (Kyle Reese's younger brother from the future) both did a great job, no surprise to me. The previous movie had Sarah Connor from this series, Lena Headley, in a starring role. Weird, right? This movie grew on me. I don't know if I recommend it, but it is horrific and a splatter gem. Just too torture porn for my usual fare. Drinking a St. Arnold Santo, which I believe is named after Santo Muerte, which I believe is the Saint of Death, from the Mexican religion, Santeria. From Houston, Texas. Cheers! ya'll. Oh yeah, third gear, and DOG WILL HUNT! LOB-32
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 25, 2012 2:22:43 GMT -5
Just watched D. W. Griffith's The Sealed Room (1909).
Where were the white actors in blackface eating watermelon and chasing lustily after the fair ladies of the Old South? Fuck D. W. and also Woodrow Wilson for playing Birth of the Nation inside of the White House. Two dead racist fucks of the 20th Century.
LOB-33
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 25, 2012 23:21:01 GMT -5
Growing up, the only horror icon I feared was Jason Voorhees. I never saw the original Friday the 13th as a kid, but I did watch Parts 2-4. Twelve years ago I finally watched the first movie in this gold mine franchise. I now have watched it thrice, thrice, thrice. It is a very good movie and the last fifteen minutes are classic. "His name was Jason". "Kill Mommy, kill!" During the movie I drank two beers, both good but not impressive or classic. Both are from Durango, Colorado's Ska Brewery. First I drank a Ska Euphoria Pale Ale. Right now drinking and finishing up a Ska Pin Stripe Red Ale. A Cheers! to Jason Voorhees and a Cheers! to Betsy Palmer. Hold your glasses up! LOB-34 and it is being brought.
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 25, 2012 23:52:59 GMT -5
The earliest surviving version (There is a lost film? I wanna watch it!) of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from 1912. My favorite continues to be the John Barrymore version. Watch it Jake, trust me, I am after all the Devil's favorite nephew (Oh, you didn't know?). Drinking a Unibroue Maudite (Damned in French) from Chambly, Quebec, Canada, and a warming 8% ABV. The only Canadian brewery that I know of that doesn't make skunky little lagers. I have been a Mark for these brewing wizards since the last years of the prior century. A Cheers! to my soon to be vanquished rival. It is Halloween Month, a little trash talk to stoke my rival's fires. This beer is for you! LOB-35
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Oct 27, 2012 11:25:19 GMT -5
First I watched great British werewolf movie Dog Soliders which I'd seen for the fifth time. So much that I like about this movie: the cinematograhpy in the Scottish woods, the werewolfs themselves, the fact that the gore looks good, all of the main group are actually likeable characters, the soundtrack, the fact that you can kill werewolves without silver it's just really hard, and Spoon. More on Spoon I liked that he doesn't give up and keeps fighting his last stand is just awesome. Now where's that damned sequel?
Second I watched George A. Romero's 2000 horror film Bruiser about a man who works at a fashion magazine agency and after wearing a mask finds it fused to him and finding all his inhibitons cleared, decides to take revenge. Jason Flemying stars and does a good job as a likeable justified protagonist and Peter Stormare is awesome as his former friend and boss who happens to be the ultimate douche bag. The gore looks good and I liked the bluesy/jazzy score and the Misfits score as well. The gore looks good and the movie starts out serious ,but as it goes along it turns more into a comedy with over the top sound effects for hitting. The atmosphere of the final area is awesome you've got The Misfits playing in the background, an impromptu pro wrestling fight taking place in the background, and all these awesome costumes. A fun, entertaining movie.
Third I watched 1988's The Unnamable based on the H.P. Lovecraft story of the same name about a house that contain's something unnamable that causes those who see it to go mad. I thought the gore looked good except for this really fake looking decapitated head. The acting was bad ,but the characters were still likeable. The monster looked bad ,but the screams and hissing/growling noises it made sounded great. I liked the soundtrack particuarly the ending theme song which is something I've noticed about alot of 80's horror movies, most of them all have these awesome ending songs during the credits. I thought there was one shot that showed the ominous woods well. Not a good movie, but entertaining.
Finally I watched Stuart Gordon's 1985 H.P. Lovecraft adaptation Re-Animator starring Jeffrey Combs. This movies is really funny, has an awesome soundtrack, really good gore, likeable characters, the reanimated corpses are great and I particuarly liked Herbert West's mix of serious intensity with a tinge of dark humor. Really reccomend this awesome film.
JAS-28
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Oct 27, 2012 11:28:00 GMT -5
Hey LOB was wondering which sort of werwolf you prefer, the big wolf looking one or the wolfman looking one? I think both can be good ,but personally prefer the big wolf and I kind of like the dog soldiers bipedal giant wolf.
Something that's kind of surprised me is all the good werewolf movies from the 80's An American Werewolf in London, The Howling, Silver Bullet, and the werewolf in Monster Squad all look good-great.
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 27, 2012 12:09:20 GMT -5
The Dog Soldiers/The Howling type, the giant bi-pedal wolf monster. Yep, those are the most effective in horror movies.
Sometimes I think I'm the only person who liked 30 Days of Night. I think it is a great vampire movie. I like my vampires to be animalistic and gory in their attacks. The acting was great as was the effects and the script. I recommend this unnder-hyped film.
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 27, 2012 12:16:43 GMT -5
"Under". Oh yeah, last night I drank a Squatter's Outer Darkness Imperial Stout. Delicious and oily pouring out of the bottle. My kind of beer.
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 27, 2012 12:18:46 GMT -5
Fuck! Why is that picture huge? The Devil must have done it!
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Oct 27, 2012 12:21:01 GMT -5
I really liked 30 Days of Night and saw it in theater when it came out. I really thought the last scene was done well.
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 29, 2012 0:39:01 GMT -5
Just watched The Phantom of the Opera, I the 1925 (EDIT) version. More on that in a second. I had never seen this movie before. All three of Lon Chaney, Sr.'s "faces" were creepy and very well done. This movie also has the most intricately and accurately colorized single scene I have seen in a movie this old. The scene is the Masquerade Ball in Paris celebrating the Opera. I like this movie, but it is long for the time period. It is almost two hours long. Oh, this is the oldest Universal Monster film I have seen, and the only silent one. I will re-watch this someday. Now the Mighty Wikipedia: The Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 American silent horror film adaptation of the Gaston Leroux novel of the same title directed by Rupert Julian. The film featured Lon Chaney in the title role as the deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to force the management to make the woman he loves a star. It is most famous for Lon Chaney's intentionally horrific, self-applied make-up, which was kept a studio secret until the film's premiere.
The film also features Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Gibson Gowland, John St. Polis, and Snitz Edwards. The only surviving cast member is Carla Laemmle (born 1909), niece of producer Carl Laemmle, who played a small role as "prima ballerina" in the film when she was about 15.Production started in late 1924 at Universal Studios and did not go smoothly. According to the Director of Photography, Charles Van Enger, throughout the production Chaney and the rest of the cast and crew had strained relations with director Rupert Julian. The first cut of the film was previewed in Los Angeles on January 7 and 26, 1925. The score was prepared by Joseph Carl Breil. No information survives as to what the score consisted of other than Universal's release: "Presented with augmented concert orchestra, playing the score composed by J. Carl Briel, composer of music for "Birth of a Nation". The exact quote from the Opening Day full page ad in the Call Bulletin read: "Universal Weekly claimed a 60-piece orchestra. Moving Picture World reported that "The music from 'Faust' supplied the music [for the picture]." Due to poor reviews and reactions, the January release was pulled, and Julian was told to re-shoot most of the picture. He eventually walked out.
Edward Sedgwick (later director of Buster Keaton's 1928 film The Cameraman) was then assigned by producer Carl Laemmle to re-shoot and redirect the bulk of the film. Raymond L. Schrock and original screenwriter Elliot Clawson wrote new scenes at the request of Sedgewick. Most of these scenes depicted added subplots, with Chester Conklin and Vola Vale as comedic relief to the heroes and Ward Crane as the Russian, "Count Ruboff" dueling with Raoul for Christine's affection. This version was previewed in San Francisco on April 26, 1925 and did not do well at all. "The story drags to the point of nauseam", one reviewer stated.
The third and final version was the result of Universal hold-overs Maurice Pivar and Lois Weber, who edited the production down to nine reels. It debuted on September 6, 1925, at the Astor Theatre in New York City. It premiered on October 17, 1925 in Hollywood, California. The score for the Astor opening was to be composed by Professor Gustav Hinrichs. Hinrichs' score was not prepared in time, so instead, according to Universal Weekly, the premiere featured a score by Eugene Conte, composed mainly of "french airs" and the appropriate Faust cues. No expense was spared at the premiere; Universal even had a full organ installed at the Astor for the event. (As it was a legitimate house, the Astor theater used an orchestra, not an organ, for its music.) For all of the production problems, the film was a success at the box office, grossing over $2 million.Mordaunt Hall of The New York Times' gave The Phantom of the Opera a positive review as a spectacle picture, but felt that the story and acting may have been slightly improved. TIME praised the sets but felt the picture was "only pretty good".
In November 1929, after the successful introduction of sound pictures, Universal dubbed and re-shot a new cut of The Phantom of the Opera with the new Western Electric sound-on-disc process. Ernst Laemmle re-shot a little less than half of the picture in sound, while the remainder contained music and sound effects, with stock cues and original pieces by Sam A. Perry and David Broekman. Chaney was at MGM, and by contract Universal could not dub his voice, so "third person" dialogue by the Phantom was looped over shots of his shadow. (The voice-overs are uncredited, but are probably Universal regular, Phillips Smalley.) Because Chaney's talkie debut was eagerly anticipated by filmgoers, the posters emphasized, "Lon Chaney's portrayal is a silent one!" The sound version of Phantom opened on February 16, 1930 and grossed another million dollars, then was stored away for future use, but has since vanished and is presently considered to be a lost film, although the soundtrack discs survive.The success of The Phantom of the Opera inspired Universal to finance the production of a long string of horror films such as Dracula and its sequels, Frankenstein and its sequels, The Wolf Man, The Invisible Man, The Mummy. Many of the films are now considered studio classics.The first image is from 1925, the second from 1930. Drinking a Real Ale's Devil's Backbone from Blanco, Texas, about thirty miles away in the Texas Hill Country. Cheers! LOB-37
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 29, 2012 15:27:18 GMT -5
So I spooked myself last night.
All the pictures I pasted on this thread were copy/paste jobs from random sites. That big picture of the Outer Darkness beer.....
I don't know who took that picture, but looking at it, I noticed a detail I hadn't noticed before. I found something. I started really studying the picture, and I found a repeat of the first detail somewhere else. I started looking at these two spots and I started to get uneasy, like, "no way is that really there!", and I started to get creeped out.
Either the guy who took this picture photo-shopped it, or my narrow atheist ass got spooked big time by religion last night.
Anyone see what I am talking about? I will let ya'll tell me what else you see in that pic. And I sure as Hell didn't alter this picture.
I am hesitant (barely) to Cheers! a Devil's Backbone, but I am the Devil's favorite nephew after all..
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