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Post by loverofbeers on Mar 1, 2013 0:10:50 GMT -5
I'll use the same term as I used for that crap actor, Jake, the MPAA is the shits. Fuck censorship, and a Lagunitas Wilco Tango Foxtrot Ale Cheers! of deliciousness to our Bill of Rights, all of it. Dammit.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Mar 1, 2013 1:41:02 GMT -5
Spoilers for any movie discussed below:
First I watched Jimmy Huston's 1981 slasher Final Exam about a killer who goes around the college campus and kills during... you guessed it the students' final exams. This wasn't a good movie the characters weren't particularly likeable, the acting was awful, and the gore was ok. The only good thing about the movie was the unmasked killer, with no given motive who did a good job of looking intimidating and had this awesome scene where he jumps out of nowhere from a tree and stabs the hell out of some schmuck, but man even he couldn't save that scene in the end where he grabs an arrow from midair flight. Oh yeah the asshole sheriff was actually well acted.
Finally I watched Paul Lynch's 1982 Canadian slasher Humongous ,which was to say the least not very good. The acting was bad, the cinematography was bad in the typical 80's slasher way where it's dark and you can't see anything, and the gore was all right. The positives for this movie was it's really good soundtrack which was a combination of jazz, rock, and the Carpenteresque 80's electronic music; the sound effects were great whenever violence was occurring(even though I may have not been able to see what was going on everything sounded really gruesome/real), the avenging German Shepards at the beginning looked ferocious, and finally I thought the opening credits was really well done, which was accomplished through showing the initial heroine in pictures before and after her incident, with the jazz score starting out happy and light while getting progressively more serious as she begins to become more and more malevolent.
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Post by loverofbeers on Mar 1, 2013 2:22:30 GMT -5
First of all, I can't get my copy of Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932) to play and it was an hour long controversial and banned film, and a classic favorite of mine going back two decades. Goobble Gabble indeed. So, I have to bow out and declare Jake the winner, but buddy, I almost snuck in 36 points.
I just watched Dementia 13 (1963) a highly controversial black and white film depicting a few brutal scenes of characters being axed to death. It looked pretty darn good. To be honest the film was a bit too complex and I will revisit it someday because I did enjoy it by the end. It is a whodunnit that borders on the supernatural SPOILERSPOILERSPOILER but that is a red herring SPOILERSPOILERSPOILEREnds. The actor portraying the family doctor was my favorite performance but it was a distraction, he also played the writer whom is the subject of Alex and his Droog's home invasion in A Clockwork Orange. I believe it was banned in a few European countries including West Germany and is known for a few things. It is considered a cheap knock-off of Psycho, and it was produced by Roger Corman. Oh yeah the biggie. It was the first "straight" movie from Francis Ford Coppola who had previously only directed a couple of "nudies". Obviously the movie looked great, but like I said, the plot was confusing. Too many characters and too many bleached blonde girlfriends and wives for my pea brain tonight.
Congratulations JAS! A Lagunitas Wilco Tango Foxtrot Ale Cheers! to you.
LOB-31
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Post by loverofbeers on Mar 1, 2013 2:55:32 GMT -5
And I gots a few more things to say.
Personally, the movies that have fucked me up the most are:
A Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 (Tom Savini effects) when I was subjected to it at the age of twelve by my brother. The hammer scene seemed to last forever and it was a violent and gruesome spectacle. Now the movie is fun times to me.
Requiem For a Dream. This was my introduction to Aronofsky whom I have on a pedestal. I watched this movie on Thanksgiving Day during it's theatrical run to get out of meeting one of my then roommates crazed family before my Thanksgiving plans had started. During the climax, I felt as if I had been punched in the solar plexus. I re-watched it twice more on the big screen during it's initial run. Genius and the only drug themed movie that ever affected me, not Sid and Nancy, not The Basketball Diaries, not Train Spotting, nor Reefer Madness. This movie got me big time and hard. I love it.
Peter Jackson's first "mature" film and by that I mean his first foray away from movies like Meet the Feebles and Brain Dead, both that I love. Heavenly Creatures shows you in it's opening how the movie will tragically and brutally end, and that said, the rest of the movie drags you in and makes you pray that the end that you know is coming won't happen. Based on a true event in New Zealand. Madness is chilling. A gorgeous film and a major recommendation to all. This movie is tragic, beautiful art.
A Serbian Film. Thanks Jake. Thanks a whole bunch.
Now to agree with Jake, those badly lit night scenes from the eighties, not so great. I appreciate Adam Green and the director of Leatherface for their great day-for-night shots. I approve of filming this way, scenes look better and director's have more control over the end result.
And to end this month for me, I go once more to Adam Green and the MPAA. Bastards stole my chances by 24 hours to watch Hatchet 2 on the big screen. I can't believe it was yanked after 48 hours from theaters continent-wide.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Mar 1, 2013 22:04:41 GMT -5
Hmm, on the top of my head two horror movies come to life that really affected me.
First was Romero's Martin which worked by no only having a character I really cared for being involved in near constant sadness and depression ,but also the end which thanks to the preceding scene and Savini's magnificent effects caught me completely off guard and shocked me.
Anyway, LOB any ideas for next month's competition?
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Post by loverofbeers on Mar 2, 2013 4:20:59 GMT -5
I'll have to give Martin another try. I watched it once in my mid-twenties and I was underwhelmed. I guess I was thinking it would be about a textbook vampire. He was too weak for my liking, but I've changed, and you have cited it a few times as a movie you enjoy a lot.
Ideas? Hmm...
How about three monsters? Werewolf, Zombies, and Extraterrestrial?
Or pick three or four directors and/or producers?
Or Animal/Nature/Big Foot movies and their Horror equivalents count more?
Or build a Mt. Rushmore of Horror of our own and tackle four giants of Horror?
Your call. And time for a Cheers! to the Champ. It is now 3:17 Am and I just opened a Modelo Especial. twenty seconds later and it is empty. Salud! JAS.
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