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  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    Freddy vs Jason (2003) Awesome! My favorite of the F13 and ANOES movies! 90 minutes of pure fun. But I have to say I rooted for Jason :D

    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) There you go @Creasy47, I finally saw the remake! Awesome movie too. I really liked the cinematography of the movie. I think this is my favorite of the TCM franchise.

    Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) Woooow! This one is utter gore effect! Some of the kills in this are pretty gruesome. This may well join the 2003 outing as my 2 favorite TCM movies!
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    I'm not a huge fan of FvJ. The film treated Jason like a pussy. Where did his fear of water come from? He was in water in Pt6, Pt7 & Pt 8.

    And I think it was about 8 years too late. There was a really interesting article in Fangoria back in 2003, that looks at the 10 year journey it took for FvJ to be made. The article is an extra on the UK R2 copy of Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    Yes, I wondered about his fear of water, @MajorDSmythe. One of my problems with Freddy vs Jason.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    @DaltonCraig007,

    I'm glad you enjoyed FvJ. I too consider it one of the best. Imagine you had to think up a story for this crossover. Would you have come up with something that worked so well in both universes? And the group of teens has to be my favourite of the bunch. Not only are these characters rather interesting for a change, but the acting is pretty solid too.

    @MajorDSmythe, I agree the film was made too late, but there are reasons for that. I believe some New Line executives refused to dive into the project immediately after JGTH - which would have been the perfect time for it - and so Sean Cunningham pushed Jason X into production. Meanwhile though, they went through many scripts for FvJ, several of which you can find online. They kept trying to work in New Nightmare and ultimately settled for the script Shannon and Swift, who incidentally also wrote F13 (2009), had written, a script without a trace of New Nightmare.

    Still, I love the film. Freddy's lines are great fun. Everything is great fun! But I must agree with my good pal @MajorDSmythe, the water fear is a bit inconsistent with some of the Friday films. Anyway, when Freddy and Jason battle it out, I actually get what I bargained for watching a film with that title. By the end of it, I feel satisfied. Both Freddy, Jason and the teens take a hell of a beating in this film. Unlike AVP, this film really tried to please the fans of both its source series.

    @DaltonCraig007, I'm also glad you appreciate Platinum Dunes' TCM remakes/reboots/re-whatevers. ;-) Very brutal films, great score by Jablonski, whose scores for the F13 and NOES remake/reboot/re-whatever were also powerful. I love the photography of these films, the greyish images of that AWESOME house in the country. R. Lee Ermy is brilliant and Leatherface rocks. Genuinely frightening is how I'd describe these films, a sensation I haven't experienced in this series since the original. To bridge the gap between both films, there's a pretty decent comic book by Wildstorm which I can certainly recommend. It's 100 % part of this film universe, characters and their appearances included.

    You're really catching on very quickly with our slashers. ;-) From here on, I can certainly suggest:

    * Hellraiser: 1 -> 4 (and 5 -> 9 if you want to hurt yourself or if you're a completist, like me ;-))
    * Child's Play: and promise you'll sit through this series all the way. 2 and 3 aren't exactly popular and 5 often proves polarizing, but 1 is mandatory and 4, directed by FvS's Ronny Yu, is usually considered the BEST Chucky film, mainly thanks to Jennifer Tilly. 6, though released DTV, is considered by many to be an unexpected surprise.
    * Saw: you mentioned this series before. I'm a bit of a fan, though it's IMO not a slasher series but more the appendix of the slashers, a so-called torture porn series. Lacking the 'fun' and 'charm' of the slasher film, Saw is brutal for brutality's sake. But go ahead and give it a try. If nothing else, at least you might find the high level of continuity, though intricate and more heavy-handed towards the latter instalments, appealing.
    * Scream: mandatory viewing since now you'll get most of the references these films are so famous for. I LOVE Scream.
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    Curse Of Chucky was really good, and do watch for the post-credits scene.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    Halloween (2007) I don't know if I should love this remake, but I really did love it! Dirty, violent, gritty! I felt dirty after I saw it but my god, what an epic and gruesome 2 hours!

    The Evil Dead (1981) Loved it! With the original TCM, this is the horror film that I saw recently that truely scared me. I kept thinking how it must be like alone in that cabin :-O Really, really scary film!
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
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    [quote="Birdleson;363866" THE FOUR MUSKETEERS: MILADY'S REVENGE (1974). I remember it being much darker. They were actually filmed as one movie, which led to a successful lawsuit brought on by the cast (who were only paid for the one film). That pretty much ended that practice[/quote]

    Well, the Salkind's tried the same thing again with the Superman films, that also went horribly wrong when they hired a new director and re-filmed most of the second movie.

  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    @DarthDimi and @MajorDSmythe I will do a little break now, after so many horror films in the last week :) So I have: Hellraiser, Saw, Scream, Child's Play to see next :)
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  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    @haserot I've seen Wicker Man (not the Nic Cage version :P ), and loved it! I've also seen Night of the Living Dead (1968), but the other two suggestions I haven't seen.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Children Of The Corn... Okay, I have a lot to say about that series. ;-) But let me give you the short version. Yes, you might want to give it a try at one point, but don't expect the high marks of the series you've just sat through. In all honesty I can't say I've ever found any of those scary or exciting.

    It's good that you've seen The Wicker Man. It's not good that you're not watching it again right now. ;-) That's how great The Wicker Man is. ;-)

    I agree with @haserot about the The Conjuring. Of all the ghost house junk they put out these days, it's one of the better films along with Insidious and The Woman In Black. But for your own good, stay away from Paranormal Activity. It's boredom redefined. Anyone, usually a minor, telling you HOW AWESOME! and FREAKING SCARY! those are, clearly needs to sit down a watch a real horror flick. Even the old black-and-white The Haunting delivers more scares and, in the first place, more story than PA. I watched the first film with some expectations and ended up checking my watch about every 30 seconds. I watched the second one and third one with progressively less expectations and ended up nervous and irritated from pure boredom. Despite my being a completist, I have thus far refused to watch any of the other PA films. People tell me I need to turn off the lights and turn on the volume. I have done that! The very first time! My maiden voyage into this series was precisely that: alone, at night, and things playing very loud. I kept going on pure willpower. I then gave myself one year to clear my mind and start over with this series. And the second time I also felt myself closer to snoreville than to the much desired land of film horror and terror. So whatever you do, DON'T . FALL . ASLEEP! don't watch PA. It's so dull one might as well stare at a dead mosquito for a full two hours.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    I've seen the first Paranormal Activity and hated it! ;)
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    Any Given Sunday (1999) Great movie! 2.5 hours but not one moment too long. Pacino was awesome, and his final speech mesmerising. Great supporting cast too. And the musical choice were all very catchy.

    Top Gun (1986) Badass film! But very, very '1980's-ish' :P I wanted to go to the gym after the movie ended :D

    Remember the Titans (2000) Another great sports film. Washington and Patton were great, and I say the same about the rest of the actors. Many emotional moments in it, the story and the characters were very interesting.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
    It's good that you've seen The Wicker Man. It's not good that you're not watching it again right now. ;-) That's how great The Wicker Man is. ;-)
    I have never seen it. I think from what I'm reading here I might be scared to. Legend Of Hell House is kind of my envelope-pushed point with scary movies....


  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    @chrisisall, I don't think TWM will frighten you all that much. Fear plays on a very different level than what most people consider "scary". You need to see the performances, listen to the music and experience the twists and reveils.

    LOHH is, I dare say, scarier. The presence of ghostly sounds and the constant terror in the eyes of the characters, including the great Roddy McDowall, makes us nervous but in a completely different way IMO. ;-)
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  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    Any Given Sunday (1999) Great movie! 2.5 hours but not one moment too long. Pacino was awesome, and his final speech mesmerising. Great supporting cast too. And the musical choice were all very catchy.

    Top Gun (1986) Badass film! But very, very '1980's-ish' :P I wanted to go to the gym after the movie ended :D

    Remember the Titans (2000) Another great sports film. Washington and Patton were great, and I say the same about the rest of the actors. Many emotional moments in it, the story and the characters were very interesting.

    And I wanted to marry Val Kilmer. 8->
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    @haserot, I quite liked V/H/S, I very much did. :-)
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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Sin City-A Dame To Kill For 3D

    Loved it. Movie of the year. But disgusting violence.
  • The Worlds End Started of well enough though the final third of the movie was lacking and became repetitive. Had alot to live up to, the first two films in the corneto trilogy are superior.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Howard The Duck

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    I was listening to the John Barry score for HTD the other day and I felt like dusting off this old box office tragedy. But to be fair, I like this film for two reasons. 1) The music is great. It's not just the Barry magic that does it, but also the cool - in an 80s kinda way - Cherry Bomb songs. 2) Lea Thompson. She's one of my earliest film crushes thanks to HTD and Back To The Future.

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    So while I recognise the obvious fact that this film is not "good"; I must also confess that it's one of my all-time guilty pleasures.
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    I like this series, mostly due to Berenger, who brings a little of that military toughness seen in Platoon, though Beckett isn't a psycho.
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
    Howard The Duck

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    I was listening to the John Barry score for HTD the other day and I felt like dusting off this old box office tragedy. But to be fair, I like this film for two reasons. 1) The music is great. It's not just the Barry magic that does it, but also the cool - in an 80s kinda way - Cherry Bomb songs. 2) Lea Thompson. She's one of my earliest film crushes thanks to HTD and Back To The Future.

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    So while I recognise the obvious fact that this film is not "good"; I must also confess that it's one of my all-time guilty pleasures.

    My goodness! Howard the Duck! :)) Now that's a film that takes me way back!
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Tropa de Elite (Elite Squad)

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    Oh my, what a film! After seeing Robocop 2014, I wanted to explore some of José Padilha's former work and this one came highly recommended. Well, I wasn't disappointed, I can assure you. It's a tough, brutal and violent film, but it excellently depicts the urban wars that plague the Brazilian favelas. Remember the half video game half film Max Payne³? After Elite Squad I might as well throw it away for good. Tropa de Elite is beautifully shot, very well scripted and perfectly acted. It almost felt like I was part of that gang versus police war. Not that I want to be, mind, but that's how effective it is. I can't wait to watch the sequel!
  • Hot Fuzz Totally awesome, lost count how many times I have watched this film, though it just seems to get better. David Arnolds soundtrack is brilliant, great movie.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    @DarthDimi, I'm glad you liked 'Tropa de Elite'! I loved it. Let me know what you think of the sequel, if you get around to checking it out.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    @Creasy47, try to stop me. :) The sequel is within a few inches of my keyboard. ;-)
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    Wow, I've been wanting to watch Tropa de Elite, and @DarthDimi's review made me want to even more! :D

    Quick update:

    Coach Carter (2005)
    Empire of the Sun (1987)
    Barry Lyndon (1975)
    Nixon (1995)
    Monty Python and the holy Grail (1975)
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