[rec] and Blood on Satan's Claw -- Both were movies i voted for so HOORAY!
― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
also this is just about the best possible way to pass time while proctoring an exam
enjoying these results so far.
phantasm was on the shortlist but just missed my ballot. a great, great b-movie, the ideas and scope are way beyond what they had the budget to pull off but they still went for it with a madness.
I like pontypool, maybe for the reasons jjjusten hates it, tho I think it's more effective in creating a creepy mood than he's giving it credit for. recency handicap kept it off my ballot.
blood on satan's claw was my #45. this and witchfinder general did bloody battle for the tigon spot on my ballot. I guess the fact that satan is actually afoot won the day, even though it looks like they spent about 10 quid on his costume. entire thing's on youtube btw.
[rec] has been in the to-watch pile on my shelf for a while.
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
[rec] set the bar embarrassingly high for other pretenders to the whole 00s shakey-cam/found footage thing
― Troll 3 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
So far Blood on Satan's Claw the only one I voted for. Haven't even seen the others.
― MrDasher, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Only saw the American remake of [REC]. (shameface)
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
They're practically identical.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, Wikipedia says it's a shot-for-shot remake.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
In that case, that movie sucked.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
"You know what they say about MAY-DECEMBER romances: half plus seven ... FEET UNDER!"
96. MAYLucky McKee, 2002(186 points, 8 votes)
so i suppose its too late for Lucky McKee to have any auteur left in him huh?― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, October 22, 2010 4:58 PM (1 year ago)ok lets all shit our pants to something new: post 2005 horror film thread
ok lets all shit our pants to something new: post 2005 horror film thread
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
also pillbox's screengrabs are some pro-level shit
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
^^ I want these as a series of trading cards
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, no kidding!
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Collectible lobby cards.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think despite its flaws The Woman bests May a 'lil bit through sheer intensity. But they're both good and distinct.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
yay, may! another late cut from my ballot, glad to see it made it. angela bettis is to may what de niro is to taxi driver.
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
May! Next time you hear a girl is "super into crafting" you might want to inquire further before you pursue...
― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
creating a creepy mood
Yes! Which was built up and then lost in last half of the movie. I was distracted by a lot of awkward scripting and clunky, unnatural dialogue. I really wanted to enjoy the word-association bit, but was coming down and feeling less engaged by that point. Felt like a promising first draft, but flawed in its execution.
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
ahahaha genius
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Can't believe I still haven't seen MAY. McKee's episode of "Masters of Horror" w/Bettis was just o_O.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
The images are amazing, my god.
Bit sad that Blood on Satan's Claw is so low - didn't it do quite well in one of the year polls? I guess it's different when you have the whole history of horror to choose from.
Phantasm was a fair way from making my final list, but it is enjoyable and a bit odd at times. But yeah, I remember it as something that doesn't quite hang together.
People repping for May on the other thread, and now it appearing here, hmm. MAYbe I should see this film.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
MAYbe you should
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
april showers bring MAY HORRORS
― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
May has a strong late 90s/early 00s vibe to it, which smells a little ripe these days, but I think it will age better than most.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
blood on satan's claw still a bit obscure, especially in the US. I'm pleasantly surprised that it placed at all and I think bodes well for the poll results. BOSC didn't even make the timeout london list, which was pretty good as far as non-canon and offbeat picks go.
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
figuring around #84 you'll get to something I've seen
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
already jonesing for more crypt-keeper style puns
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
"When the system is PURGING, you best be a VIRGIN!"
95. THE CABIN IN THE WOODSDrew Goddard, 2012(189 points, 6 votes)
a musical number wouldn't have been that out of place in this― humba (NZA), Sunday, April 15, 2012 1:48 AM (1 month ago)Kiko's spirit will live in the happy frog― Ò (Ówen P.), Monday, April 16, 2012 9:57 AM (1 month ago)felt a bit weird watching it after the hunger games which tbh "did" reality tv much more creatively.― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Sunday, April 15, 2012 5:35 PM (1 month ago)are you even listening to me? THE CABIN IN THE WOODS thread (WARNING: SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILEROS! SPOILIDAD!)
Kiko's spirit will live in the happy frog― Ò (Ówen P.), Monday, April 16, 2012 9:57 AM (1 month ago)
felt a bit weird watching it after the hunger games which tbh "did" reality tv much more creatively.― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Sunday, April 15, 2012 5:35 PM (1 month ago)
are you even listening to me? THE CABIN IN THE WOODS thread (WARNING: SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILEROS! SPOILIDAD!)
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
it came out a month before polling closed, are we really ready to call it one of the all-time greats
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
apparently 6 of us are
― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wow, really? That's nuts.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was not one of them. Whoever voted for it must have voted it really high too for it to place with 6 votes.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
god that sentence was an abomination but you know what i mean
Who were they, and what will be left of them?
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
pontypool almost but not quite low enough
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wait until you see the movies that JUST missed the top 100, jjjusten.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
rec is really surprisingly good, and ive already stanned for May. phantasm is one of those indelible early childhood horror films for me.
true story: i saw it when i was a kid and then had (largely inaccurate) dreams about it for years afterwards so i was very disappointed when i saw it and there was no laser maze or underground catacomb any more. prefer the inside my fucked up head directors cut.
xpost oh noooo that is not something i want to hear
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Scream put me off self-reflexive horror forever; not that it was bad, but why bother?
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hate to be a pooper, but Drew Goddard directed Cabin In The Woods.
― I serve at the pleasure of Dr. Dre and a team of Sorbonne scientists. (R Baez), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
i knee jerkingly top 10ed CITW, it blew me away. will i regret that, who knows? i still stand by it a week or two after.
― second only to popcorn (or something), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
You think that's bad, I just watched Scream 4. It disappears right up its own asshole.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
cinematic centipede
― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
also i have no problem with recent stuff making it into the countdown (wait until you see my ballot) but yeah cabin in the woods is not probably going to age as well as some might hope i think. gotta see it again before i go all in with that pronouncement, but as much as i enjoyed it i found it a little bit slight, also joss whedon should stop doing interviews abt it that irritate me
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
RE: SCREAM 4
The first five minutes are silly metastupid fun, though. The rest, bleh.
― I serve at the pleasure of Dr. Dre and a team of Sorbonne scientists. (R Baez), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
I need to rewatch Phantasm. The best word I can think of to sum up my memory of it is 'unmoored'.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, May 16, 2012 7:20 AM (47 minutes ago)
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, May 16, 2012 7:25 AM (42 minutes ago)
describes pretty well what i like about phantasm. also has a strange, psychedelic, deeply 70s look and vibe that reminds me in a weird way of stuff like valerie and her week of wonders.
― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
liked cabin in the woods a lot, but i dunno that it'll go down as one of my all time favorites. fun, but a little glib. we'll see in a couple years.
― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
"PARANORMAL? In my day, they used to call it VERYNORMAL!"
94. PARANORMAL ACTIVITYOren Peli, 2012(189 points, 7 votes)
Problem w/ Paranormal Activity gag: required having seen Paranormal Activity.― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Monday, March 8, 2010 12:52 AM (2 years ago)those dudes are always dicks in these movies, not antiheroes. Dude in paranormal activity is a total jerk.― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Saturday, November 13, 2010 7:26 PM (1 year ago)
those dudes are always dicks in these movies, not antiheroes. Dude in paranormal activity is a total jerk.― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Saturday, November 13, 2010 7:26 PM (1 year ago)
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
hmmmmm
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
also joss whedon should stop doing interviews abt it that irritate me
geting dangerously close torture porn discussion. we need some sort of early warning system
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Didn't vote, but loving the images and having fun watching the results.
When I was little I used to wake up super early on Saturdays to anticipate cartoons. My parents encouraged this because I could handle breakfast and turning on the TV myself, allowing them a few more hours of precious sleep. I often woke up early enough to turn on the TV before the farm report. One morning I caught the last twenty minutes or so of Phantasm. I'm pretty sure those twenty minutes still inform my fucked up dreams, more than 26 years later.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Bit of both. The whole 'listen to the night' thing or whatever it was felt a lot like proto-MPDG crap.
― emil.y, Thursday, 13 September 2012 19:07 (8 months ago) Permalink
given the general misogyny in the horror genre, near dark seems a weird item to single out for it. it never set off any warning bells for me, but my last viewing of the film was about 10 years ago. isn't the main character kind of a raffish dick who underestimates jenny wright's character, and then she ends up being tasked with introducing clueless him to the world of being a vampire? she saves him so he saves her, don't think it's a one-sided relationship, and I don't remember the film in general being overly hostile or denigrating of women.
there's some problematic treatment of women in blue steel and strange days, but also strong women characters. not a huge bigelow fan, in fact this might be the only movie of hers I rep for. haven't seen hurt locker.
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Thursday, 13 September 2012 19:08 (8 months ago) Permalink
She sort of saves him at the beginning (from burning up in the sun), but she's definitely a sappy pixie type who doesn't actually have any control over the situation. She's also incredibly naive about what she does, and has to have her eyes opened by a man/men.
― emil.y, Thursday, 13 September 2012 19:12 (8 months ago) Permalink
maybe, but i was struck in watching near dark (at age 20) by how much attention the film paid to her sense of being in her body, this condition as a source of both wonder and danger. the approach seemed unusual and interesting to me, and i wondered whether a male director would have made the same choices. impossible to say, of course. i want to say that her characterization is in some respects similar to that of the protagonist of amer in that film's second section, but i'd have to see both films again before i felt comfortable about making that comparison.
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Thursday, 13 September 2012 19:15 (8 months ago) Permalink
That didn't come across to me at all. But I'm gonna bow out of this I think, I didn't like it one bit but I didn't hate it quite enough to enrage myself about differing tastes. 4/10.
― emil.y, Thursday, 13 September 2012 19:18 (8 months ago) Permalink
fair enough. it's been ages (at least a decade, and probably a good deal more) since i last saw it, so i might feel very differently about it now.
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Thursday, 13 September 2012 19:22 (8 months ago) Permalink
So, animation results aside, the talk on this thread kinda turned to 'what next?' SF, war, romantic comedy, what's next and who's doing it?
― Irwin Dante's Towering Inferno (WmC), Saturday, 15 September 2012 03:17 (8 months ago) Permalink
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Sisters didn't make the Top 100? Whaaaaaat.
― The Thnig, Monday, 17 September 2012 17:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
Dressed to Kill did instead.
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Monday, 17 September 2012 17:18 (8 months ago) Permalink
ppl too busy voting for dressed to kill iirc
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 17 September 2012 17:19 (8 months ago) Permalink
xp
I watched The Caller on Netflix streaming and ugh what a risible piece of crap. The whole stalker/abusive ex-husband plot was twice-warmed-over crap, the film was set in Puerto Rico for no discernable reason whatsoever and was oddly devoid of Hispanics not named Luis Guzman, it actually had a scene of the heroine falling to her knees in front of a grave . . . it started strong but just completely went to crap very, very quickly.
― a shark with a rippling six pack (Phil D.), Monday, 17 September 2012 17:20 (8 months ago) Permalink
so where did the caller place in the top 100
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 17 September 2012 17:21 (8 months ago) Permalink
lol wrong thread
― a shark with a rippling six pack (Phil D.), Monday, 17 September 2012 17:24 (8 months ago) Permalink
I wanted the "shit our pants" thread.
No, the other one.
― a shark with a rippling six pack (Phil D.), Monday, 17 September 2012 17:25 (8 months ago) Permalink
rewatched Candyman the other night. I should've put that on my ballot.
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:00 (7 months ago) Permalink
I just watched it yesterday. I forgot how much I liked it.
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 21:57 (7 months ago) Permalink
Saw Black Christmas tonight. I think I saw it on TV once years and years ago. Definitely scared me--spent enough time covering my eyes that I was a little confused at the end--and it felt like a new kind of horror film on the timeline. Not Night of the Living Dead-new, but it did seem like a blueprint for lots that followed. Best of all, Lynne Griffin (first victim, plastic bag) was there--she must still live in the city. She spoke before and after and was great.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 05:12 (5 months ago) Permalink