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Post by Vaughan on Oct 18, 2009 12:01:45 GMT
Wow, seems I have a different taste in horror movies than most here. What with someone saying Dead Snow was poor (I loved it). Same with The Cottage. I thought that was great stuff. Good blend of humor and horror, and as it slowly evolves from a simple kidnapping movie into a backwoods horror, it really cranks things up. Wonderful movie, imo. I ended up watching Staunton Hall as well last night. www.imdb.com/title/tt1118693/Frankly this was your typical nihilistic modern horror. Just a bunch of nasty people doing nasty stuff for no good reason. Some decent gore though. No point in watching it to be honest.
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Post by Vaughan on Oct 18, 2009 12:05:26 GMT
Oh - I did watch Doghouse last night too.
Danny Dyer is - well Danny Dyer. I always find him watchable.
Overall though they don't manage to maintain the humor enough - in other words, it's just not funny enough. I could have done with a lot more of the zombie in stocking and suspenders. ;D
A minor one this then. Half the movie Shaun of the Dead was, sadly. Too many characters not doing enough. And the hairdresser must have been a friend of Director Jake West or something, since she was in it far too much.
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Post by Jim on Nov 9, 2009 18:15:35 GMT
Diagnosis Death, pretty poor
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Post by williemeikle on Nov 9, 2009 19:04:17 GMT
Surveillance: www.imdb.com/title/tt0409345/Not strictly horror, but pretty horrific. The director Jennifer Lynch is David Lynch's daughter.. and it shows. Not great, but interesting direction and weird characters keeps you watching. Much like a lot of her dad's stuff in fact :-)
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Post by blueiris666 on Apr 12, 2010 17:38:47 GMT
Started watching The Descent pt 2 the other night online, but my connection went and when I went back the next day to finish watching it had been removed! Shame as I really enjoyed the first one, but on my "to rent" list now. Last horror film I actually saw all the way through was Mum and Dad. Pretty f*cked up British movie. Not bad
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Post by ian on Apr 12, 2010 17:42:31 GMT
I've not seen the sequel yet but I heard it is rather good.
Last horrorfilm I (re)watched was Aliens.
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Post by amie29 on Apr 22, 2010 14:24:46 GMT
The Seventh Moon not bad zombies were pretty intereting.
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Post by Dreadlocksmile on May 18, 2010 11:07:56 GMT
Dreadlocksmile review:Set in the not-too-distant future, `Ghost Machine' follows a small group of U.S. military computer techs who quietly acquire a top-secret combat training virtual reality simulator for a weekend of ultra-high-tech video gaming. However, upon installing this state-of-the-art equipment into the creepy grounds of an abandoned and derelict prison (that we quickly learn was supposedly used to torture post 9/11 prisoners) a virus seems to have infiltrated the software, uploading itself into the programming and corrupting the gaming.
During the first experimental game, another presence is detected within the A.I. software, an unknown player whose interaction with the soldiers' game causes tragic consequences. Something is stalking the gamers in their virtual reality gun-fighting world. A presence whose actions transcend the limits of a digitally created game. The soldiers must fight for their lives in the ghost machine... This straight to DVD movie, begins with an early display of the horror/sci-fi action to come; throwing in a short display of CGI heavy violence, showing the viewer the utterly realistic capabilities of the combat training simulator that the plot is solely based upon. With this early eye-candy action aiming to suitably whet the viewers appetitie (cough cough...alas, not by a long shot my friend), the pace quickly slams on the breaks, instead laying down the principles of the storyline in what can only be described as a tedious and entirely monotonous fashion. At this time, you can only guess that some suspense was supposed to be forming around the young marines actions, whilst thickening out their characterisation and creating a current of underlying tension for the movie to build upon. However, the film falls pitifully short in each one of these aspects, instead merely pacing around the details of the films basic concept, whilst trawling through an endless sludge of unimportant dialogue from a band of uninspired characters. The characters themselves are as believable as the second-rate CGI that the entire film decides to rely so very heavily on. A clichéd and uninspired script is hard enough for the cast to work from, let alone what must have been a `one-take-will-do' decision to the acting. The end result leaves the viewer continuously rolling their eyes until their optical nerves are eventually stretched out of all recognition. To add insult to injury, the film's creators have decided to jump on to the already well and truly over-saturated horror bandwagon with the inclusion of a Hideo Nakata style uber-violent `ghost' that haunts our hapless mob. The action is as gory as budget CGI can allow. However mildly entertaining the gun fights are against the A.I. militia and our `oh-so-scary ghost-girl', you can't help but feel utterly disconnected from the action portrayed in the film by the over-reliance on a barrage of pretty shoddy CGI effects. So much so that every drop of blood appears to be added to the picture digitally. And don't go giving us this "it's supposed to be set within a virtual reality world" nonsense! The creators clearly wanted us to feel shocked and absorbed with the action and bloodspill. When will so many of these low-budget film creators learn that realism flies out of the window as soon as the principal characters turn up looking like members of the Hollyoaks cast? You can almost tell how long someone is going to survive by the whiteness of their teeth and the depth of the dimples in their cheeks. Unfortunately, the storyline plummets further and further into an abyss of boredom, which lets be honest, is a cardinal sin for such a horror/sci-fi/action movie. Scare factor remains at zero throughout this pulse-slowing slice of a horror charade. The only saving grace is the somewhat chaotic action scenes that from time-to-time actually draw the viewer's now roving eyes back towards the screen. If you can tolerate poorly executed films for the sake of a well thought out storyline, then I'm afraid your efforts will go unrewarded, due to the lack of any development on the films original concept. The idea was thought up, the logistics and premise were decided upon, and then the rest of the film's storyline was just left to burn itself out. Cue credits... Thankfully no one will ever ask me to sit through the film's 88 drawn-out minutes again. The DVD also includes a `making of' feature and an interview with the film's writer Sven Hughes - both of which, for some reason, I decided to give a miss. Funny that! www.amazon.co.uk/review/R1D6L4NH8AHP93/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm
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