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Too late, I watched Books of Blood last weekend. How many people prefer Hellraiser 2 over the original? While the sequel expands the lore and retains the same gross and screwed up qualities, it doesn't feel quite as nasty as watching Frank regenerate every layer of skin in that dirty attic. Then there are the Cenobites whose actual screen time and presence in the original (or lack thereof) is similar to all the blood people imagined getting spilled by Leatherface in the original TCM. It's been pointed out numerous times on here, but in the original, the Cenobites are just peripheral players while "Frank bones well enough to be summoned back from hell" is the actual plot catalyst. The Cenobites really come into focus in the sequel. I prefer the sequel because there is more to digest while also having plenty to be disgusted by. I still haven't watched Hellraiser 3. It was directed by the same guy that did the Waxwork movies. I have a hard time believing anything is a shittier sequel than Waxwork 2.

Deadly Friend still works as an after school special. It's about the warning signs that your girlfriend is being abused by her drunk loser dad and.....

The fat little guy (at the beginning of Ravager) that stole the Charger gave me major George Costanza "trying to be a bad boy" vibes.

I think The Shining has been brought up as an inspiration for The Beyond too. The Sentinel is a bit long and drags in places. There isn't really much gore or actual murder until the finale. Until then, it's carried by atmosphere and the fashion model's creepy weirdo neighbors.....in an apartment that the landlord swears is unoccupied besides the model herself. When the denizens of hell show up for the cursed midnight hour, they turn out to be a line of actual circus performers, and I don't mean jugglers or clowns. Besides the general plots resembling one another and one key character trait providing the major characteristic of crossing over into the beyond, I found one more similarity. That is how the zombies (reanimated cadavers) just sort of shamble and stumble around very similarly to the way the denizens of hell in The Sentinel stumble around. It strikes me as one more odd similarity between the films, since by all accounts, the zombies (reanimated freshly deceased cadavers) in The Beyond were something the German film financiers mandated by tacked on. A bunch of future stars have bit parts.....Goldblum as a fashion photographer, Walken as a detective. The main character could pass for Leslie Bibb's mom. Last but not least, the model's boyfriend is none other than Jerry Dandridge.

Yeah, what Jae said is probably the deal. I remembered hearing that same thing after posting the previous comment. Shudder only gets the rights to certain inferior or watered down versions due to rights issues that are out of their control. It was Victor Crowley I was thinking about from Joe Bob's show. I think Halloween IV may have also been missing cop's daughter's milkers. I was also going to comment how surreal it is that three of the big four Fulci movies are streaming on Encore/Showtime, but I'm pretty sure that a few of them were previously available on EPIX. House By The Cemetery is the one I held out on buying a DVD/Blu-Ray of the longest. I finally purchased the recent Blue Underground Blu-Ray. Up until then, it was usually available on some streaming service and before that, I had a burnt disc of some crappy torrent. I've always had some version of The Beyond or City of The Living Dead after discovering Fulci around 2007. I thought about buying one of those new Zombie Blu-Rays with the holographic covers (probably would have purchased the splinter) but I had already brought the previous version less than a year before. Not enough of a reason to splurge again. House By The Cemetery also used to pop up in TCM Underground's rotation 3-4 times a year, being temporarily added to their digital library for a week afterwards, and that's when I usually got my fill of it. I listened to the commentary on the new disc the weekend before last, although the most interesting details from that have already went one ear out the other. One of the people on the commentary mentioned something that I was already sure of but I hadn't heard pointed out in any Fulci career retrospectives.....that The Sentinel was an obvious inspiration for The Beyond.

Caught From Beyond on one of Shudder's 24/7 streaming channels, and yeah, they wimped out on the eyeball scene too like the version on premium cable. I had assumed it was going to be the fully, intact director's cut although there have been other movies that Joe Bob showed, which were missing certain scenes for whatever reason. I'm good because I already have it on DVD and Blu-Ray, but that one scene must have been the entire reason for the movie's original x rating. I can't even think of the next most graphic thing in the movie that comes close to the scene Then again, all the Fulci eyeball trauma is shown fully intact on premium cable and Shudder. While the scene in From Beyond is grosser and looks slimier (therefore more organic and/or alive) than the effects in the Fulci fillms, the splinter scene in Zombie is still easily more painful looking. Maybe the effect being somewhat exposed by the tight pull-in and execution on the splinter scene from Zombie and maid scene in The Beyond makes them come across as less graphic or gross, but the way Joe The Plumber

Looking at the artwork in the still image......I have no idea what the hell the cat is from in that logo but I definitely recognize some old friends on the left. I'm not completely sure but if the rodent is who (or what) I think it is, you'd have to have seen the batshit ending of a certain movie to recognize it. I'm also kind of confused why the killer from Insidious seems to be on the right. Never mind that shit though, this one is going to heavily focus on Italian horror. Hopefully they'll cut back on Dead Meat dork's contributions to this one.

Creeps without a doubt. Those three came out within a four year period in the mid-to-late 1980's. 1984, 1986, 1988. That's probably what Control was going for. I remember the infected in Night of the Comet looking pretty freaky when I was a kid. Now it seems like Night of the Comet belongs more in a triple feature with stuff like Just One of The Guys and The Karate Kid than Night of the Creeps or Night of the Demons. That being the case, Night of the Comet serves as the ideal prototype for the type of throwback 80's pastiche movies and TV shows that have become all the rage recently. As far movies with The Living Dead in the title go, I can think of quite a few that I personally prefer over NOTLD. Return of The Living Dead is a no-brainer for me. The closest comparison (in terms of place and time in the actual zombie film cycle) is probably The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (even though that's the alternate title with Let Sleeping Corpses Lie being the original title) and I actually like that one more than NOTLD. Even though it isn't any more of a zombie movie than the other films in the Gates Of Hell Trilogy, City of the Living Dead is also something I've seen the hell out of. After that, there's probably a bunch of 80's Italian knockoff zombie movie turds like Hell of the Living Dead trying to capitalize on the success of Dawn of the Dead. Obviously none of those knockoffs are as good or entertaining as NOTLD. I chalk it up to not having seen NOTLD over and over when I was a kid. NOTLD is one of those movies that's so ingrained into the collective consciousness that you can feel like you've seen it a couple hundred times even if you've only seen it a half dozen times. It might be heresy but there are quite a few other Living Dead movies I'd rather watch than the granddaddy of them all.

Yeah, but what else would you expect a lying sack of soon-to-be-heel shit to say?

If Cody loses and turns heel, it's an easy justification that he just got done having a war with Brodie Lee, and regardless of what he said about being a fighting champion, he should have never granted an attention-seeking jackass like Orange Cassidy a match in the first place. It's only after he gets upset by the goofball, that he'll insist he was nowhere near recovered from the dog collar match. He'll also point out that Cassidy was a nobody and a weasel that was very shrewd in picking his spot to ask for a title shot. Classic Bret Hart bitter loser bullshit.

I'll probably put it on in the background while I'm drawing or doing something else. It seems like one of those bad movies where you think it will be fun to drink to. Ultimately though you end up royally pissed that you wasted booze watching that crap....... when you could have had a better time getting shitfaced watching anything else.

I liked the cheesy video game main theme to the second one.

That onside kick was so good it hypnotized the Falcons into not even attempting to recover it.

Cleveland

I got a feeling I can see any of the actresses in Verotika doing all sorts of things in the genre of film they normally work in.

The numbers on the jerseys appeared to be fruit roll-ups.

Eye boobs, brother. Eye boobs. Evil eye boobs.