Parents - Totally forgot Badalamenti is on this with another composer. It is pretty much what I expected apart from the mother having a bit more humanity and doubt than the father. The scene of the boy jumping into the bed is probably my favorite thing. Might surprise some with it's Lynchian side but I was already prepared for that. Would like to know how Balaban's other films compare when he isn't a hired hand. My Boyfriend's Back looks a bit more comedic.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 30 September 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
for New Yorkers who plan ahead
https://www.bam.org/film/2019/nyc-horror
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
oooh q in 35mm
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 18:11 (four years ago) link
i really liked Wolfen 38 years ago
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 18:11 (four years ago) link
I saw Of Unknown Origin last year, I can't believe that movie was made. Someone got the greenlight to make a studio horror film about yuppie anxieties with rat infestations with pre-Robocop Peter Weller and Shannon Tweed. The '80s were a crazy time.
― Nhex, Thursday, 3 October 2019 02:06 (four years ago) link
Holy shit, directed by Panos’ dad?!?!!
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 3 October 2019 02:22 (four years ago) link
yup
― Nhex, Thursday, 3 October 2019 03:57 (four years ago) link
soul survivor: 1984 proto-final destination... yet not really a slasher at all. like next of kin it feels like it belongs to '70s horror in its slow shifts in mood and motion. compositions are relentlessly beautiful, dialogue is disarmingly clever and real-feeling, empty rain-slicked streets of l.a. look like the most abandoned place on earth. phenomenal
the people under the stairs: wow wes craven really was the best to ever do it. landlords are fuckin cannibals
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 01:48 (four years ago) link
I keep meaning to see Sole Survivor because the lead (who I just found out was also in Claudia Weill's Girlfriends) was the teacher of one of my summer school acting classes as a child. She brought the script in one day for us to take a look through.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 02:11 (four years ago) link
lol i knew i spelled the title wrong! i am too stoned
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 02:18 (four years ago) link
also holy shit eric
museum of the moving image has an incredible horror movie lineup for halloween, all 35mm http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2019/10/26/detail/retroactive-a-disreputable-cinema-halloween/
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 11 October 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
Shoulda maintained the theme and screened Prom Night 3. Not that anyone wants that but still.
I continue to maintain that the early Nightmare sequels (2-4, specifically) are underrated and I would happily see any/all of them on a big screen again.
― Furter-Bursting Tater Squirter (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 October 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
i think the only nightmare sequel that's properly rated is the dream child. 6 is a blast (of garbage) (but a blast nonetheless)
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 11 October 2019 18:32 (four years ago) link
i used to think 2 was kind of boring and stupid beyond being gayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy but i've gotten over that
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 11 October 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
Based entirely on shaky memory, here's how I rank the first string of sequels.
The Dream Master (4)Freddy's Revenge (2)Dream Warriors (3)The Dream Child (5)Freddy's Dead (6)
And New Nightmare below the entire lot of them tbh.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Friday, 11 October 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
Your ranking is eerily close enough to mine that I will toss you an OTM. 4 is the undisputed best/most entertaining.
― Furter-Bursting Tater Squirter (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 October 2019 18:41 (four years ago) link
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Friday, October 11, 2019 11:36 AM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
you're the worst eric!!!!!
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 11 October 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
xpost Freddy is brought back to life by incendiary dog piss, for the love of everything.
― Furter-Bursting Tater Squirter (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 October 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
4 is a little obviously made during a writer's strike but i do love it
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 11 October 2019 18:43 (four years ago) link
I feel like we've trod this ground a dozen times by now, but New Nightmare is truly bad. All concept, no execution.
― Furter-Bursting Tater Squirter (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 October 2019 18:43 (four years ago) link
New Nightmare is good iirc
― Simon H., Friday, 11 October 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
i know we have discussed this before but i can't tell you how vigorously i disagree still. as a meta horror film i think it's even better than scream and heather lagenkamp's performance is the best of the series
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 11 October 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
New Nightmare is great if you enjoy watching someone chase behind a little kid for 45 minutes trying to keep him from accidentally killing himself.
― Furter-Bursting Tater Squirter (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 October 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
... i feel like you need to rewatch it
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 11 October 2019 18:47 (four years ago) link
I have! Within the last couple years! It was bad then and it's bad now.
It's just bad, folks.
― Furter-Bursting Tater Squirter (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 October 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
Okay, if 'bad' feels like a step too far how about just 'boring'.
i guess i understand being bored by it?
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 11 October 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
Here is the sum total of what you need from the 'big 3' slasher franchises:
NoES 1-4Halloween 3 and the scene from 2 when Lance Guest accidentally kills himself by slipping in bloodJason Goes to Hell and the scene from Friday 4 where Crispin Glover dances and maybe the scene in Manhattan where Jason punches that guy's head off
The rest can go straight in the terlet (unless you're drinking with friends in which case they make for fun background noise)
― Furter-Bursting Tater Squirter (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 October 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
I do have some fondness for Jason vs. Carrie (is that the 7th?)
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Friday, 11 October 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
yes, it's my favorite friday the 13th movie
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 11 October 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
i'm assuming old lunch meant jason lives instead of jason goes to hell aka eat your and everyone else's heart out jason
No way, man, Jason Goes to Hell is completely batshit + great.
Full disclosure: still have not seen most of the Friday sequels after 4 because goddamn are those movies a slog.
― Furter-Bursting Tater Squirter (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 October 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
i mean i also love jason goes to hell, i've just never had anyone agree with me about it (except you, probably a year ago in the friday the 13th thread)
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 11 October 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
Ha, yes, I engage in this playful argument way too often and stump for that steaming POS every time.
― Furter-Bursting Tater Squirter (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 October 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
Jason Goes to Hell is the only one I saw in the theaters, and iirc it suuuuuuuuucked. Great cold open, though.
Red Letter Media has a good appreciation of Exorcist III it just posted.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 October 2019 15:49 (four years ago) link
exorcist iii is one of the best movies ever made, between it and the ninth configuration i think william peter blatty had a really individual and beautiful voice as a director, i wish he had made more films
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 12 October 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
The RLM review taught me that the film contains blink and you miss them cameos from Patrick Ewing, Samuel L. Jackson, Larry King and ... Fabio.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 October 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link
yes!!!!
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 12 October 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
plus the greatest brad dourif performance
New nightmare is so boring and po-faced and dumb guy’s idea of “intelligent horror” to me, I’ve tried but I really can’t groove to its unscary half-baked ambition. Langenkamp(sp?) is really good tho, and the bit where she suddenly has the Nancy white streak is done so subtly, it belongs in a better filmI pretty much like all the other nightmares, even the dogshit one with Roseanne in it. I also like Jason goes to hell but my opinion is fairly worthless as I only recently watched most of the big masked killer franchise movies and don’t really care about any of them
― YouGov to see it (wins), Saturday, 12 October 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
I've mostly avoided them but there's a few I might watch. There's maybe only 10 horror films left that I'm still really eager to see, the 70s version of Demon Pond at the top of the list. I'm hugely pleased to see there is a bootleg version of Kumashiro's Hell/Jigoku available now.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 12 October 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
has anybody seen this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Night,_Deadly_Night_3:_Better_Watch_Out!
I mean... Monte Hellman! Two Twin Peaks castmembers! uh... Robert Culp!
otoh the first film is truly atrocious and this was straight-to-video, how good can it be...
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
It has its fans but I’ve never pulled the trigger myself
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 22:39 (four years ago) link
Can't be bothered to sift through thread, but watched Chopping Mall last week and am totally flummoxed that this film hasn't been remade in a dead mall/robot cop scenario for the 21st century.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
Silent Night Deadly Night? I'm happy with the all time great clips on youtube (garbage day! and old man talking about santa), probably wont ever watch the actual films.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
the first one is really pretty shitty and ugly.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
I'm happy with the all time great clips on youtube (garbage day!
garbage day is silent night deadly night 2
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
oh which you probably knew lol
Yeah, I heard it played on a bad movie night and there is a compilation of that actor moving his eyebrows about.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link