from imdb: "Exterior, hallway and stairway scenes were actually filmed for a few days in the infamous Cabrini-Green housing projects, though the producers had to make a deal with the ruling gang members to put them in the movie as extras to ensure the cast and crew's safety during filming. Even with this arrangement, a sniper put a bullet through the production van on the last day of filming, though no one was injured."
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
one of the things i like about candyman is that while we're never fully allowed to take the title character/creature's side (except during the flashback describing his creation), there is something sympathetic and even romantic about him, the product both of his tragic story and of tony todd's performance.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
Oh I know, it was one of my top votes. It was just perhaps a bit more of a stretch than the other "puns"
― a parker full of poseys (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
oh ok sorry for being accidentally condescending
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
just fired this up on netflix btw
Candymam is scary
IF YOU THOUGHT CANDYMAN WAS SCARY... YOU SHOULD MEET HIS MOTHER
― emil.y, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
so the 'gremlin' portion of The Twilight Zone Movie was based on an actual episode of the original show? well you live and learn. you'll have to forgive me but .. Zone wasn't very big on TV here in the UK and they almost never showed re-runs in the 80s/90s (if at all?).
wow black and white action figures; what an amazing idea!
― piscesx, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/The_Candy_Man_Sammy_Davis_Jr.jpg-
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
Ah, nuts.
Anyway, why does the gremlin figure look like it's wearing a costume?
I seriously doubt that Cabrini Green is R-ing in P -- too much history there.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
All the TZ movie segment were based on TV episodes -- except maybe the fatal Vic Morrow one?
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, that was A John Landis Original.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
"Running zombies? Thanks for that, Danny BOIL!"
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54. 28 DAYS LATERBernard Rose, USA, 2002(331 points, 13 votes)
28 Days Later is still the worst film I have seen this year. Lumpen, uncinematic stupididity spread thickly over a two hour movie.Don't go in the transport cafe, don't go in the transport cafe. He goes in the cafe, there is a zombie. SHOCK!!!!― Pete (Pete), Monday, December 2, 2002 7:26 AM (9 years ago)28 Days Later is very good.Millions: Worst Film Evah!― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, March 27, 2005 12:50 AM (7 years ago)28 Days Later : Worst Film Evah!
28 Days Later is very good.Millions: Worst Film Evah!― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, March 27, 2005 12:50 AM (7 years ago)
28 Days Later : Worst Film Evah!
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
Er, yeah, Danny Boyle, not Bernard Rose.
love the atmosphere, goes some really stupid places in the final third
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
xp mm less said about that Vic Morrow episode the better i guess :/
― piscesx, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
This holds up. It also has one of the best sequels ever to have a different director from the first.
― Simon H., Monday, 21 May 2012 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
Would never have occurred to me to vote for either of the 28 X Later movies.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
so the 'gremlin' portion of The Twilight Zone Movie was based on an actual episode of the original show? well you live and learn.
yeah, if you haven't seen the original "it's a good life", that is highly recommended. much scarier than dante's cartoonish segment, one of the alltime great TZ episodes.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, May 21, 2012 11:11 AM (7 minutes ago)
pretty faithful to what he looked like in the show?
http://images.wikia.com/headhuntersholosuite/images/c/c2/TZ_-_Nightmare_at_20,000_Feet_007.jpg
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
i'm ok with 28DL but i was like 'ilx is gonna overrate that no matter what' and didn't vote for it
― some dude, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
I overlooked Candyman! Went back and checked out the synopsis and realized I'd melded the storyline with that godawful urban legends movie. Definitely deserved consideration for the list. ;_;
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
I like Candyman fine but didn't vote for it. But this is probably the last chance on the poll to rep for the other Bernard Rose film on the noms list, so ... see Paperhouse!
http://reverseshot.com/files/images/issue30/paperhouse.jpg
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
i heard an interpretation to the ending to 28DL (spoilers): whenever someone says hello in the movie, something bad always happens (i didn't notice this), so when they have a huge banner saying hello at the end it means shit is about to start
― the acquisition and practice of music is unfavourable to the health of (abanana), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
oh that's kinda cool
― some dude, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
otm. once they show up at the army base you might as well stop watching
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
"I wonder if PolanSCARE eventually made Simone GHOUL, ahem, SPLIT the utilities!"
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53. THE TENANTRoman Polanski, USA, 1976(338 points, 11 votes)
Trailer tag-line is gold: "No One Does It to You Like Roman Polanski!"― circa1916, Sunday, March 7, 2010 4:50 PM (2 years ago)Wish I had some friends who'd claim they were Simone Choule every six months.― queen frostine (Eric H.), Sunday, March 7, 2010 5:13 PM (2 years ago)Am I the only one who, after seeing The Tenant, thought: "So this is where David Lynch got his ideas from."― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, July 15, 2003 3:42 PM (8 years ago)
Wish I had some friends who'd claim they were Simone Choule every six months.― queen frostine (Eric H.), Sunday, March 7, 2010 5:13 PM (2 years ago)
Am I the only one who, after seeing The Tenant, thought: "So this is where David Lynch got his ideas from."― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, July 15, 2003 3:42 PM (8 years ago)
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
xpost
It's not entirely unlike The Descent in that respect. Also in terms of a protagonist seemingly 'turning' in the midst of their inadvisable endings.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
NOOOOOOO!!!!!! TOO LOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!!
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
as far as jogging zombie fare goes, I'll take the dawn of the dead remake over 28 days later.
― original bgm, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
funniest of the ones i've seen on the list so far
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
I was surprised -- tho maybe shouldn't have been -- by how good Polanski is in The Tenant. He's so sort of hapless and anxious, it's a great diminutive performance.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
didn't vote for this particular Polanski entry but yeah it's great
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
The Tenant was #3 on my ballot. Horror directors should be forced to watch it as an example of how to slowly both ratchet up tension and pick away the seams of the sane and stable world of a film. It does so very many things just absolutely right.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
28 days later isn't perfect and the last third isn't as strong as the beginning, but it's a killer ride, and it totally kept me on-edge. Very fun! SPOILERS The army scene was much less fun and very cliche. But the infection is released again and woo-hoo, RUN!
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
Re: Candyman: I've been trying to see Rose's Paperhouse for years. I have the soundtrack, which is great.
Re: 28DL: Love this movie's energy, but for me the final act is disappointing enough to take it out of the running for a "great" movie. Now Alan has me worried the Dawn remake could make the list. Surely that's not possible. Surely?
― The Thnig, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, I doubt it. obv all speculation but I can't imagine anyone would vote for the remake over the original and how many people would vote for both of em?
― original bgm, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
So happy to see Candyman. I love Tony Todd so much.
(My only beef, and it's unquestionably an irritatingly nerdy beef, is that they have Candyman running to safety in a field known as Cabrini Green when really, the housing project was named after Francis Cabrini and William Green.)
― carl agatha, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
Dawn remake isn't on the nominations list, so you can probably draw your own conclusions.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
the field was named for their forbears, Lucius Cabrini and Willingsford Green
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
in his defense, clive barker is british.
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
Are we feeling like Wait Until Dark is gonna make it?
― Simon H., Monday, 21 May 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
Bernard Rose, too. xp
― carl agatha, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
Tuomas's Tenant quote is onto something, albeit wrong. It's excellent proto-Lynch, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if Lynch has seen and was inspired by it, but his sensibility is pretty different from Polanski's (there's usually very little effort on Lynch's part to create such a concrete and believable reality before unleashing the batshittery, for a start).
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
xpost Cabrini Green is pretty peaceful these days. And by peaceful, I mean converted into mixed income housing and fancy condos.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
Well...the fact that no one has anything to say about The Tenant goes some way towards explaining its too-low placing, I guess.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
Also: lunchtime.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
the Tv version of Salem's Lot better show up!
― piscesx, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
"Stuart GORE-DON sure lives up to his name!"
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52. RE-ANIMATORStuart Gordon, USA, 1985(342 points, 13 votes)
I'm just writing a review of "Beyond Re-Animator" (n.b. don't ask), and found this quote, from a Ebert's review of the first Re-Animator: "One of the most boring experiences on Earth is a trash movie without the courage of its lack of convictions." -- This pretty much sums up my thoughts about most films in the past year.― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Monday, December 15, 2003 1:42 PM (8 years ago)RE-ANIMATOR APPRECIATION THREAD
RE-ANIMATOR APPRECIATION THREAD
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
whoah this is WAY too low
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
TOO LOW.
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link