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Kill List: Not sure why anybody would voluntarily not watch that movie, what a goofy, not boring pile of blood-soaked realistic not family drama horror. The best not arthouse slow-burn crime thriller I have never seen I'm afraid.
And if you can make sense of what I've just written you certainly can explain the Kill List to me, or maybe I have to travel to an alternate universe for that.
Next on my list: Outpost
Can I just say how much I love FFC's Dracula? It's such underappreciated, experimental fun. I'm disappointed there aren't many good analyses of that film. Besides the lush imagery, there's so many interesting shots and techniques to discover. It's biggest flaw in my opinion is the uninteresting way the three main characters were portrayed. Oldman has delivered much better work in other movies, Winona Ryder is beautiful but sorta flat and Keanu Reeves is just dreadful. The supporting characters, in contrast, were never boring to look at, particularly Anthony Hopkins as Van Helsing and Sadie Frost as Lucy Westenra (that scene in the maze when she seems to be floating in that see-through red dress has stuck with me ever since I saw it) and Richard E. Grant as Dr. Seward.
I would also like to note that Eiko Ishioka has been criticized for her work in other movies, which I take as a person insult ecause she has designed some of the most wonderful, sexy, dreamy east-meets-west costumes for this film that I would count as some of cinema's all time best.
I haven't seen the remake, still, but that is an odd move.... if true.
(and I too have a tradition of watching the original Halloween every Oct. 31st!)
Absolutely! It doesn't feel like Halloween without "Halloween". ;)
I have a list now to "work off" and will continue as soon as my Bondathon is finished.
Today I felt like watching two "classics" that I've never seen in HD.
So I bought Poltergeist (1982) and The Ring with Naomi Watts.
Poltergeist
Having seen this maybe once or twice twenty years ago it was high time to visit that movie again, now in crystal crisp HD and nice surround sound.
This is a nice addition to my Horror Movie collection.
Although Poltergeist never really scared me I like this one a lot. It is so typical Spielberg and you can see clearly that this was made in the same time as Raiders Of The Lost Ark.
The many homages to Star Wars are staggering. And there is an Alien poster on the wall of the kids room, a Rubriks Cube and a Clue(do) board game. The product placement is quite fun to watch in retrospect, it's like a time capsule :) opened.
The cast is superb and the girl is the star of this movie although JoBeth Williams gives a gripping performance as the mother. Even Craig T. Nelson doesn't fail in this movie.
The special effects are quite dated and have the Amazing Stories quality of that later TV Show.
The story itself is simple but effective. Having built a whole suburbia on a former graveyard but not removed the coffins bites the protagonists of that movie in the ass so to speak.
The young daughter gets sucked up by the television set into the white noise.
That white noise image has become iconic.
With help of some Ghostbusters the movie ends with everybody being saved but the house gets sucked into hell.
Speaking of the white noise image on the TV set.
The Ring also uses this to scare the hell out of people.
I haven't seen The Ring in almost 10 years (which is kind of a crime I guess).
Because now that I've re-watched it I realise this is one of the best horror movies and one of my favourites.
Being of the Scream generation "my horror decade" was from 1996 to 2005. Everything that followed (SAW and the lot) never appealed to me.
The Ring has amazing direction and cinematography. This is Gore Verbinski's masterpiece, yes, better than the Pirates movies.
The music is gripping and truly amazing and I was surprised that it is Hans Zimmer who did the score. Must be one of his best works.
The Ring overall works on every level. It scares. It is suspenseful and fascinating.
The cast is great. Naomi Watts in her prime is a feast for the eyes.
The special effects are absolutely great and hold up very well.
This is the kind of movie I love most in the horror genre.
Next I will watch Poltergeist 2 (just purchased it on iTunes) and The Ring Two (on Blu-ray). I haven't seen both, although I'm not entirely sure about Poltergeist 2.
Not expecting those two sequels to be as good as their originals I'm still looking forward to watching them back to back soon.
But now back to my Bondathon where the 11th movie will be AVTAK.
I would be totally okay with this. I loved '28 Days Later,' and '28 Weeks Later' had some great moments in it, so sign me up for '28 Months Later.'
http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/new-friday-the-13th-video-game-challenges-you-to-survive-a-night-with-jason-206
The game - targeted for play on PC, Xbox One and PS4 - is designed as a multiplayer affair, in which one gets the distinct opportunity to be Jason Voorhies, stalking camp counselors with the mission of killing them until none are left alive. The rest are the counselors who are tasked with surviving the night, either by running for their lives or doing what they can to stand up to the horror icon in the hopes fighting back might serve them better.
Kane Hodder will actually be motion-captured as Jason for the game, so there's that bit of coolness, and there are a number of sweet rewards if you want to throw some money into backing the project. This is one I plan to throw a few bucks behind, and if you choose to do the same, more power to you. It's been never since we've had a cool FRIDAY THE 13TH game on our hands. This one looks like it could do the trick, so I did the math.
Looks a little better than the NES one ;)
Oh, that's disappointing, it's multiplayer only? I don't use the PSN, and I don't know enough people that would be interested in playing this. Damn, I was excited for a moment, there.
That multiplayer-only virus that is rampant in the Game Industry should get extinct.
I completely agree with you. If they can work in a single player mode, I would be all over this like a rash.
Though I am curious as to how the game works. I assume the environment will be heavily interactive.
http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3366500/friday-the-13th-shifts-to-2017-in-hunt-for-new-writers/
Lord have mercy. How long have they been working at this film? Since the last film, EON have made 1, soon to be 2 Bond films, while Paramount can't seem to get this fully through development. The sad thing is, after yet another date change, I still want to see the film. There are a number of directions they can go. Here's two, 1) make a sequel to the reebot, simple enough, and 2) make a sequel to the original series, and fubar the timeline in Jason X.
Would that be a remake of The Cell? Good film, but seriously dated now.
I don't believe so; I'm pretty sure it's based off of the Stephen King novel, where everyone using a cell phone at a certain period of time gets turned into savage killers or zombies or something. Haven't read it myself.
Yes, I have been eagerly awaiting the release of The Cell. It looked like a 2015 release for a while, but now it's moved to 2016. While I haven't read the book, the inclusion of Cusack and Keach instantly puts it on my radar,
I'm not sure I could think of 5 (though the Rave scene would make my list). More interesting than the film itself, though, is the journey to getting the film made. Almost every screenwriter working in the 1990s, must have submitted a draft for the film.
FvsJ is in my top 3 of all-time favourite slashers.