JOE29

Picked up Byzantium at FYE for $5 today. Yes it's the DVD and not the bluray. I've been waiting for a while to pick this up on blu but the price was always too high. So when I saw it for $5 on DVD, I had to jump on it.

Undeadcow

Watcing Final Exam made me realize how much more I prefer silent killers than the ones (like in Intruder, Club Dread, etc) that pause to explain the motive or exchange banter with victims.

mightysparks

I can never decide which type I like more. Just depends on how well the films [and the killers] do it I suppose.

asianxcore

I think I'm finally going to make it to my goal of 31! Between crazy schedules with work/classes as well as meeting this awesome new girl, I haven't watched many films recently.

First 5 days I watched 25 vs. the 4-5 I've gotten in during the last week?

I finished re-watching The Prowler (1981). As much as I love this film I had to laugh that line

BobO'Link

In the spirit of full disclosure, the three directors I selected are:

James Whale
Roger Corman
Mario Bava

coyoteblue

My selection were:

Terence Fisher
Michael Reeves
John Carpenter

mrcellophane

My selections:

Tod Browning
Terence Fisher
John Carpenter

Sorry, coyoteblue for repeating you a bit. I was going to go with Freddie Francis for my Hammer horror pick, but Fisher did The Mummy in which the villain bursts through the hero's front door with a humorous amount of gusto! It's awesome!

I also deliberated going with James Whale over Browning since I enjoy the campiness of Whale's films, but Browning achieves a haunting quality in every film of his I've seen.

Dimension X

In the novel,
As I said above, in the original novel,
To me, the cell phone video gave a reason for an updated movie. It showed how today, what was just a small humiliation (the girls in the locker room and the kids they told) in 1978, can become huge in 2013 by someone posting a video on the internet for millions to see (and laugh at).

I think the biggest difference here is that kids today are more likely to talk back to a teacher than they would've been in 1978. As for Carrie not seeming "as alone," I didn't see that. Well, there was a nerdy kid who helped her with the computer.
There are marks on the floor for the queen and king to stand on. I'm pretty sure they're mentioned in every version. And in the book,

I just re-watched this scene on YouTube, and I'm not seeing it.
Watching the prom scene again, I can see where you get that she imagined them laughing at her, but that's not the way I saw it. Again, back to the source,
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Her reaction was always over the top (in the book,
I was wrong with this one. Having just re-watched it,


ntnon, watch the first two minutes of the clip posted above.
There's nothing wrong with liking one version and hating another. I'm only defending the newest one because I was surprised that I didn't hate it. And the 2002 version stars Angela Bettis (May) as Carrie, Emilie de Ravin (Lost) as Chris, Kandyse McClure (Battlestar Galactica), and Katharine Isabelle (Ginger Snaps), so it's worth a look, if only for the cast.

Gobear

I went with Roger Corman, George Romero, and John Carpenter. I can't actually say Corman is a great director, but I do enjoy his movies.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

Thanks Synapse, Hamilton Book, and Chad!!

BobO'Link

If I'd thought about it rather than putting down the first three who came to mind any of these three could have easily been on my list too, especially Fisher! How can you leave out such a prolific director of Hammer Films product!

asianxcore

I think I expected too much from See No Evil 2 (2014).

I absolutely love The Soska Sisters, but in essence they are polishing a turd script (that they didn't write). The film is leaps better in so many different ways compared to the first film, but then that would be a pretty easy feat.

I enjoyed the cast far more this time around, cinematography was better as well as the setting & atmosphere. It was bloody but I was honestly expecting an all-out gorefest with the Soskas involved. The film feels very light on the red stuff for almost an hour in.

Liked what the Soskas did with what they were given, but if WWE Films wants to keep this franchise, it needs to push harder.

walletboyniac

Noboru Iguchi
George A. Romero
Sam Raimi

shadokitty

William Castle
Roger Corman
Wes Craven

J. Farley

I really enjoyed the new The Town that Dreaded Sundown. I mainly watched for Addison Timlin, but the film itself was surprisingly unflinching and moody with a great time out of place quality. Beautifully shot, too.

The House of the Blue Shadows is a pseudo-giallo that really worked as a haunting mood piece. It's quietly unsettling and has an atmosphere thick with dread. Bonus points for use of the Onibaba mask, always an alarming sight.

One of my favorite slashers due to the motiveless killer and giving the characters room to breathe. Makes a good double feature with House of Death.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

Has anyone else noticed how in the '80s, Wes Craven really seemed to liked to do last minute surprise endings that look awful? This is including but not limited to, A Nightmare on Elm Street.

The last movie I watched of his really drove home that point.

DaveyJoe

The Living Skeleton (1968) is a moody revenge/ghost tale about a group of Japanese pirates that are haunted by the ghost of a woman they killed, among others, during a raid. This movie had a great soundtrack with jazzy riffs that would play when something spooky happened, it really worked and made the movie more fun that it probably should have been. It boasts a solid atmosphere, some neat underwater scenes, the skeletons were a bit goofy, but you can see a lot of modern J-horror elements in this forgotten gem.

Mama (2013) is a creepy little flick about a ghostly mother figure to two children who lose their parents. The children are eventually found and sent to live with their uncle and his girlfriend, but Mama gets jealous and wants them back. Some good scares and unnerving moments are almost undermined by some iffy CGI at spots. But when it works, it works well. Solid performances by the leads(Jessica Chastain and Jaime Lannister!) really make this movie effective. I think the ending would be pretty divisive, I'm not sure how I felt about it, but the movie sort of takes on a dark fairy tale feeling.

The Blob (1988) is a smart way to do a remake. Like The Fly and The Thing, they both show respect to the original while going in their own direction and tone. The Blob features relives some of the best moments of the original(trapped in a meat locker, the blob attacks a movie theater) but the scope is bigger with a new subplot about a government organization trying to contain the Blob to use in biological warfare. The effects and make-up are gruesome and gory and there are a good amount of scares here, the script pulls no punches and no character is safe from the Blob. It also gets meta at times with winking humor before Scream made it popular, also Shawnee Smith is adorable in this, overall a very fun time!

shadokitty

Vampire Twilight? Not familiar with that episode Davey. What ep is that avatar from?

DaveyJoe

It's just a fan drawing! I thought it'd be suitable for the season.

shadokitty

Ah, cool drawing.

Undeadcow

Vampyros Lesbos was really psychedelic with a groovy soundtrack and probably one of the best depictions of vampire seduction that despite some sleaziness (or perhaps because of it) convincingly depicts dreamlike lust for a vampire tormentor that I've seen.

Dracula 2000 may not be perfect but I think it's a fair modern vampire film and really awesome to see it followed by 2 continuous sequels (Dracula II: Ascension, Dracula III: Legacy). Patrick Lussier is under-rated as a director (Drive Angry, White Noise 2, etc).

Rented Bloodwork (2012) and despite a slow amateurish first half really amps things up for a crazy medical horror conclusion, not great but worth watching.

asianxcore

Soledad Miranda (RIP) is absolutely gorgeous.

Giles

how we are counting the new 'American Horror Story: Freakshow' since the running time of the first episode was 90 minutes and the most recent was in a 81 minute time slot?

Chad

Can anyone recommend Bandh Daraza? Was about to watch it until noticing the Netflix sleeze said 145 minutes! Don't know if an almost 2½ hour Bollywood film is a gamble I wanna take.

I'd say ¾ an entry for each since that's including commercials.

SethDLH

My 3 directors were pretty easy for me- Dario Argento, John Carpenter, Mario Bava