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Post by psychogoatee on Oct 9, 2010 16:07:16 GMT -5
Caught My Soul To Take yesterday, great fun horror stuff. One thing unadvertised is how hilarious the movie is at least for most of the first fourty minutes or so. I mean its intentional comedy, some of the funniest stuff I've seen all year, and I can dig that. The main two best friends have razor sharp interplay. I notice a lot of horror movies have tons of comedy these days, or at least start out funny to contrast the horror that comes later. Also interesting is how they never advertise the comedy aspect, and the trailers are dead serious. Examples: this, Drag Me To Hell, Hostel, Cabin Fever, etc. Essentially you have this very eccentric naive teen and his sarcastic best bud, and various girls some who are bullies some who are cool, as well as requisite jock guy and whatnot. Wes uses a little bit of supernatural style and/or the main character's issues to make this a very stylish and interesting film. Seeing people in mirrors, strange voices, cool stuff like that. Oh, and by the way its also a slasher film, so every now and then this "Ripper" will come along and kill the fuck out of somebody. And since Wes is at the helm, The Ripper says awesome shit when killing people. I love the talkative slasher, as a nice contrast to the silent slasher type. And it moves at a super sharp pace at 88 minutes, looking forward to catching it again on blu-ray. Check it out!
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Post by Neal on Oct 9, 2010 20:06:58 GMT -5
Going to check this out with Flea this week. Wes Craven muyst have really bad dreams, he makes no many films about it.
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Post by jhuddy666 on Oct 10, 2010 23:40:41 GMT -5
I heard nothing but bad about this flick. It really bombed this weekend too.
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Post by psychogoatee on Oct 13, 2010 20:21:09 GMT -5
You did here something other than bad though from one humble headless horror fan oh yes!
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Post by jhuddy666 on Oct 13, 2010 23:33:50 GMT -5
Im sick of the comedy in horror though. I want a good new slasher, not another hatchet or scream.
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Post by Golgo Van Helsing on Oct 23, 2010 20:33:15 GMT -5
I saw this movie today and I did not think it was very good at all. The characters were all annoying and the story sucked. Also, this movie had no real 3D effects to speak of except for the title. It's like 3D was an afterthought unlike Piranha and RE: Afterlife. I hope Wes did a better job with Scream 4 as I love the Scream films.
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