100 Movies. 31 Days. The 10th Annual October Horror Movie Challenge (Oct 1-31) Pt 3
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"You don't understand, he likes to chase skunks in the woods. And when he finds them he tries to mate with them. Only skunks don't like to mate with poodles. So they spray him and then he really gets turned on!"
A snippet of dialog from The Video Dead
A snippet of dialog from The Video Dead
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Has anyone else ever seen Valerie and Her Week of Wonders? It aired on TCM in the last week (so I guess that means it should be on their on-demand service too). I just watched it from my DVR last night. The on-screen guide (and most movie websites) have it listed as just the fantasy genre (and the synopsis I saw just talked about a girl and her magic earrings), but it certainly counts as horror too: it's a vampire story (no spoiler there - the vampires appear very early). It's very dreamlike, surrealistic, and symbolic ... so it's certainly not for everyone. But I found it quite striking. Kind of like a less sleazy (and better directed) Jean Rollin movie. As if a director like Fellini, Bunuel, or Bergman wanted to make a vampire movie (comparisons to Dreyer's Vampyr and Herzog's Nosferatu are also apt).
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Forgot how much fun Slumber Party Massacre was, and the Scream Factory blu looks pretty darn good. Almost popped in the sequel until remembering they all (including Sorority House Massacre) took the Aztec Mummy approach and pad them with footage from the original.
Love that one even though it's essentially Continental Video plugging their own video line. I was even gonna do a marathon alongside Terror in the Aisles, Mad Ron's Prevues from Hell, and Zombiethon, but Netflix stopped streaming the latter.
Love that one even though it's essentially Continental Video plugging their own video line. I was even gonna do a marathon alongside Terror in the Aisles, Mad Ron's Prevues from Hell, and Zombiethon, but Netflix stopped streaming the latter.
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Day 17 reviews are up! http://celluloidterror.blogspot.com/...14-day-17.html
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So I want to check out the new Elvira stuff on Hulu but was curious what people here think of Hulu+ who has it. Do they have commercials before or during TV shows or movies? How long are they? What's the picture and sound quality of their streaming like? And are they any better codes that can be used than just a free week trial (1 week seems the best I can find that can be actually used right now).
I've been happy with picture and sound (although I don't think I've been watching anything in HD, if that matters). Using an old iPad 1, it rarely has to buffer at all, and only takes a few seconds to 'rewind' on the. Ouple of occasions I've needed to do that.
Their "auto-play" feature can be annoying, but can be turned off. Their search function is pretty rubbish, and I am yet to find a good way to get the the 'main' page for any film - the search page takes me straight to the video, the pause's 'more info' only gives a single line and also doesn't link back - but that's a minor annoyance.
I easily found a bonus 1 month code, but it didn't apply automatically. However, calling the customer service people was very, very easy. Probably the most pleasant customer servive experience I've had (bar TCM) in years. So I got five weeks free.
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Watching Carries back-to-back... I can't decide whether I'm quite annoyed that they made Sue "nice" in the remake, or a little baffled as to whether she was meant to be in the first one. I was thinking that she asked her boyfriend to take Carrie solely to set her up; in the remake she seems to be genuinely trying to make amends. Was there ambiguity in the original that sailed over my head, or was it changed to make sure that everyone wasn't a heartless bitch...?
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Watched Friday the 13th The Final Chapter earlier today, and forgot how typically 80s it was. One quote, 'What if the psycho came in here?' 'He'd probably challenge him to a game of Zaxxon.', and how short the shorts were, on the guys.
Then this afternoon I decided to take a break from the F13 movies and popped in a Universal picture I hadn't seen in a long time, Dracula's Daughter. Still enjoy it.
Then this afternoon I decided to take a break from the F13 movies and popped in a Universal picture I hadn't seen in a long time, Dracula's Daughter. Still enjoy it.
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Watching Carries back-to-back... I can't decide whether I'm quite annoyed that they made Sue "nice" in the remake, or a little baffled as to whether she was meant to be in the first one. I was thinking that she asked her boyfriend to take Carrie solely to set her up; in the remake she seems to be genuinely trying to make amends. Was there ambiguity in the original that sailed over my head, or was it changed to make sure that everyone wasn't a heartless bitch...?
Taken on it's own, I supposed the remake is an alright movie. But I can't take it on its own because I can't wipe out the original from my memory. And the remake is appallingly lazy, slavishly following the original scene-by-scene (and line-by-line in some parts). Except for the occasional nod to modern technology and CG effects. Very disappointing, because I was looking forward to a fresh approach to the story. There were aspects of the novel that the film didn't use:
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Watching Carries back-to-back... I can't decide whether I'm quite annoyed that they made Sue "nice" in the remake, or a little baffled as to whether she was meant to be in the first one. I was thinking that she asked her boyfriend to take Carrie solely to set her up; in the remake she seems to be genuinely trying to make amends. Was there ambiguity in the original that sailed over my head, or was it changed to make sure that everyone wasn't a heartless bitch...?
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Aside from the continuous insertion of camera phones, and an irritating need to keep on mentioning that what they were doing was A Crime, there was nothing good in the remake at all. Worse, everything that was different lessened the film considerably. For instance...
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Looks like it. I guess the repeated dialogue might be due to both adapted literally passage of the novel, but... No, that doesn't seem likely that went back to the book.
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Commercials plague TV content (although it's not quite as bad as "real" US TV), but every film I've watched has been completely free. Also, the Criterion TV bits seem to be advert-free, too. Typically the advert breaks are at the regular TV break points, and usually around a minute long (usually 1 x 1m or 2 x 30s), give or take.
I've been happy with picture and sound (although I don't think I've been watching anything in HD, if that matters). Using an old iPad 1, it rarely has to buffer at all, and only takes a few seconds to 'rewind' on the. Ouple of occasions I've needed to do that.
Their "auto-play" feature can be annoying, but can be turned off. Their search function is pretty rubbish, and I am yet to find a good way to get the the 'main' page for any film - the search page takes me straight to the video, the pause's 'more info' only gives a single line and also doesn't link back - but that's a minor annoyance.
I easily found a bonus 1 month code, but it didn't apply automatically. However, calling the customer service people was very, very easy. Probably the most pleasant customer servive experience I've had (bar TCM) in years. So I got five weeks free.
I've been happy with picture and sound (although I don't think I've been watching anything in HD, if that matters). Using an old iPad 1, it rarely has to buffer at all, and only takes a few seconds to 'rewind' on the. Ouple of occasions I've needed to do that.
Their "auto-play" feature can be annoying, but can be turned off. Their search function is pretty rubbish, and I am yet to find a good way to get the the 'main' page for any film - the search page takes me straight to the video, the pause's 'more info' only gives a single line and also doesn't link back - but that's a minor annoyance.
I easily found a bonus 1 month code, but it didn't apply automatically. However, calling the customer service people was very, very easy. Probably the most pleasant customer servive experience I've had (bar TCM) in years. So I got five weeks free.
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Now I've decided: annoyed and irritated that anyone felt the need to remake it.
Aside from the continuous insertion of camera phones, and an irritating need to keep on mentioning that what they were doing was A Crime, there was nothing good in the remake at all. Worse, everything that was different lessened the film considerably. For instance...
Aside from the continuous insertion of camera phones, and an irritating need to keep on mentioning that what they were doing was A Crime, there was nothing good in the remake at all. Worse, everything that was different lessened the film considerably. For instance...
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Ordered then called a couple of days later. Explained that I had had the code and had been looking for a box to enter it, but didn't see one... "I'm new, can I get it added/extended, etc." And the lady I was talking to could not have been more helpful.
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Any opinions on the movie Sinister? I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised by it. I did think it faltered some as it went along, but I still found it genuinely creepy in parts. Maybe it was just because it was my first movie of the day.
Count me as another person who thought the Sue in the original film was being genuine and wanting to make amends with Carrie.
Watching Carries back-to-back... I can't decide whether I'm quite annoyed that they made Sue "nice" in the remake, or a little baffled as to whether she was meant to be in the first one. I was thinking that she asked her boyfriend to take Carrie solely to set her up; in the remake she seems to be genuinely trying to make amends. Was there ambiguity in the original that sailed over my head, or was it changed to make sure that everyone wasn't a heartless bitch...?
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Watching Carries back-to-back... I can't decide whether I'm quite annoyed that they made Sue "nice" in the remake, or a little baffled as to whether she was meant to be in the first one. I was thinking that she asked her boyfriend to take Carrie solely to set her up; in the remake she seems to be genuinely trying to make amends. Was there ambiguity in the original that sailed over my head, or was it changed to make sure that everyone wasn't a heartless bitch...?
And going back to the source material, near the end of the book,
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Hmmm ... I always saw Sue's actions (in the original) as trying to be nice. She regretted contributing to Carrie's humiliation in the showers and wanted to do something to make it up to her.
Taken on it's own, I supposed the remake is an alright movie. But I can't take it on its own because I can't wipe out the original from my memory. And the remake is appallingly lazy, slavishly following the original scene-by-scene (and line-by-line in some parts).
Taken on it's own, I supposed the remake is an alright movie. But I can't take it on its own because I can't wipe out the original from my memory. And the remake is appallingly lazy, slavishly following the original scene-by-scene (and line-by-line in some parts).
Spoiler:
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Except for the occasional nod to modern technology and CG effects. Very disappointing, because I was looking forward to a fresh approach to the story. There were aspects of the novel that the film didn't use:
In promotional interviews, I heard the filmmakers of the remake talking about how they were going back to the source novel instead of the DePalma movie. Given the resulting film, I have to conclude that that was an outright lie.
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What? Maybe I need to look at the ending again.
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Where are you getting that Tommy knows anything about what is going to happen at the prom?
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I'm pretty sure, in all three filmed versions, as in the book,
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Guess what?
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Thanks for that. So it IS possible to have that opinion of the first Sue. I thought she was deeply involved in manipulating Carrie into place. (In the remake, there seemed to be no attempt to even rig the vote... Maybe I missed it.)
Looks like it. I guess the repeated dialogue might be due to both adapted literally passage of the novel, but... No, that doesn't seem likely that went back to the book.
Looks like it. I guess the repeated dialogue might be due to both adapted literally passage of the novel, but... No, that doesn't seem likely that went back to the book.
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That, and the stuff I mentioned earlier, plus I think they redid "the girls and the guys getting ready for the prom" montage.
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For anybody who still watches the simpsons Halloween episodes. The new treehouse of horror is suppose to air tomorrow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_XXV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_XXV
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Any opinions on the movie Sinister? I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised by it. I did think it faltered some as it went along, but I still found it genuinely creepy in parts. Maybe it was just because it was my first movie of the day.
Count me as another person who thought the Sue in the original film was being genuine and wanting to make amends with Carrie.
Count me as another person who thought the Sue in the original film was being genuine and wanting to make amends with Carrie.
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Also, I kept thinking about Ethan Hawke while I was watching it. I never really thought of him as a horror guy, but he seems to be showing up a lot more in them in the last few years.
I can definitely see myself revisiting the movie post-challenge. Shit, I just checked and the Blu-ray is only $9.96 at Amazon right now. That's mighty tempting ... I wish I hadn't bought so many other titles recently!
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re: Graveyard Shift(1990)
If it shows
That's the TV-version alternate ending. It doesn't get shown as much lately though and is mostly just the theatrical version edited for content.
The last time I saw the TV version was on basic TV(not cable) a couple years ago. It was interesting to see just how much footage was added; since the film didn't get to the
until their was only 30 minutes left(with commercials) in the two hour time slot!
re: Carrie
I haven't seen the remake yet, but it sounds worth skipping, especially if stuff shown in the teaser trailer
isn't in the film, that's a huge disappointment.
Here is a comparison between the theatrical and alternate ending of the remake. Basically it looks like the theatrical went for a more subtle ending. While the alternate went for a over the top attempt at one upping the jump scare ending of the De Palma film. It looks pretty comical to myself, though I don't know how it plays out in motion. But just knowing the attitude going into the scene of attempting to out do the 1976 film makes it amusing to myself, since they're trying to hard and it's to obvious.
http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=463760
I read the book years ago and may give it a reread after finding a copy for free in the dumpster outside Half Price Books(it was at the top of the book pile, so I wasn't dumpster diving). It was a movie-tie in edition of the novel with photos from the 1976 film, and even a newspaper clipping from the 70's about a bullied teen girl in high school! So that was a pretty cool find.
I definitely need to get the original version on Blu--Ray since it looks like Scream Factory won't be releasing it any time soon. I bought Escape from New York earlier in the year, and then find out they acquired it for a special edition release next year. So I held off on Carrie just in case. But the price is right, so I should pick it up, since it's the movie that matters over extra features.
Spoiler:
The last time I saw the TV version was on basic TV(not cable) a couple years ago. It was interesting to see just how much footage was added; since the film didn't get to the
Spoiler:
re: Carrie
I haven't seen the remake yet, but it sounds worth skipping, especially if stuff shown in the teaser trailer
Spoiler:
Here is a comparison between the theatrical and alternate ending of the remake. Basically it looks like the theatrical went for a more subtle ending. While the alternate went for a over the top attempt at one upping the jump scare ending of the De Palma film. It looks pretty comical to myself, though I don't know how it plays out in motion. But just knowing the attitude going into the scene of attempting to out do the 1976 film makes it amusing to myself, since they're trying to hard and it's to obvious.
http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=463760
I read the book years ago and may give it a reread after finding a copy for free in the dumpster outside Half Price Books(it was at the top of the book pile, so I wasn't dumpster diving). It was a movie-tie in edition of the novel with photos from the 1976 film, and even a newspaper clipping from the 70's about a bullied teen girl in high school! So that was a pretty cool find.
I definitely need to get the original version on Blu--Ray since it looks like Scream Factory won't be releasing it any time soon. I bought Escape from New York earlier in the year, and then find out they acquired it for a special edition release next year. So I held off on Carrie just in case. But the price is right, so I should pick it up, since it's the movie that matters over extra features.
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The biggest thing impacting me right now is a slight change in my work schedule. Most of shifts have been pushed back an hour. An 8-5 shift isn't that bad, but that 9-6 shift breaks me for some reason. I come home just exhausted.
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But at least I have a job where I can pretty much watch movies most of the shift.
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Surprised myself today by getting in 4. The highlight of the day was The Shadow of the Vampire. What if the man, Max Shrek, who played the vampire in Nosferatu, really was a vampire? Love it.
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Sinister is good, I started thinking the premise was cliche but despite that it sure does get eerie and tense. Sinister doesn't pull many punches (as far as more recent commercial horror goes); definitely worth seeing. It turns things up to 11 on ghastly.
Dear Dracula's Daughter,
Thank you for your legacy that became Jess Franco.
[What the world needs now really is an epic lesbian vampire movie; whatever happened to eurosleaze?]I've become increasingly disgruntled with NetFlix's offerings; not sure if it's just that the honeymoon period is over or if they're going downhill. Glad to see the "soon to be a movie I watch" Witching and Bitching show up (from The Last Circus director; go see The Last Circus now if you haven't already... even though it's not horror).
Thank you for your legacy that became Jess Franco.
[What the world needs now really is an epic lesbian vampire movie; whatever happened to eurosleaze?]I've become increasingly disgruntled with NetFlix's offerings; not sure if it's just that the honeymoon period is over or if they're going downhill. Glad to see the "soon to be a movie I watch" Witching and Bitching show up (from The Last Circus director; go see The Last Circus now if you haven't already... even though it's not horror).
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