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11 hours ago, RazorbladeKiss87 said:

I'm interested to see how it compares to the trailer from "Grindhouse." At least in terms of tone since it's obviously not the same actors or footage. 

I read somewhere that since it’s not a period piece, the screenwriter approached it like he was writing a reboot of the Thanksgiving from Grindhouse. It references the trailer quite a bit, but tonally it’s less of an exploitation movie and more like a modern neo-slasher. 

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Netflix’s new release Time Cut is a very lazy facsimile of the high-concept comedic slashers of the past decade. Totally Killer and The Final Girls are both significantly better versions of it, not to mention several of Christopher Landon’s movies. 

I also watched Silent Night Deadly Night 4: Initiation. I’ve never heard much about this other than that it’s unrelated to the original killer Santa storyline, so I had no idea it’s a Brian Yuzna movie that’s arguably just as grotesque and bizarre as Society. It’s LA-based occult coven body horror that just happens to take place during the Christmas season, it doesn’t make much sense, and it’s quite fun and sleazy. 

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I’ve always loved the story about Tony negotiating a $1000 bonus per individual bee sting for Candyman and walking away with an extra $26k. 

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Curt McGirt

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Wow, I never heard that. 

I went onto Facebook to drop the news and the first four posts I had already did that. I guess you know who my friends are, heh. 

Everybody brings up Candyman or Final Destination but his revision of Ben in the NOTLD remake was the best. 

RIP

Anyway. I have no idea why I've never seen those last three Silent Night movies because they all look batshit crazy. The third one has Ben Moseley with a see-through plastic brain cover, the fourth has Screaming Mad George effects and Clint Howard, and the fifth has... Mickey Rooney?!

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17 hours ago, (BP) said:

Netflix’s new release Time Cut is a very lazy facsimile of the high-concept comedic slashers of the past decade. Totally Killer and The Final Girls are both significantly better versions of it, not to mention several of Christopher Landon’s movies. 

Thanks for bringing this up. Been seeing it pop up on Netflix. It kept reminding me of those two only it didn't look anywhere near as fun. Glad to know its not really worth bothering with.

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Curt McGirt

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Asylum, the Amicus anthology film, was just on the Midnight Pulp channel. It's one of them that I haven't seen before and is a treasure. So many great actors -- Patrick Magee, Herbert Lom, Charlotte Rampling, Brett Eklund, Peter Cushing (of course) -- taking some simple EC Comics ripoffs and making a hearty meal out of them. I'd be remiss to give any specific details; basically it involves an interviewee for a position at the title location being exposed to several inmates and their individual stories. Funny enough I'm not sure if the first or second stories are creepier. It's not as good as Tales from the Crypt from '72, maybe even with Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, better than Vault of Horror. I still have yet to see the rest (Torture Garden, The House that Dripped Blood, From Beyond the Grave). 

Oh, and it was written by Robert Bloch, so obviously it rules. 

And now, Ben is playing on the channel! I wonder if Willard is on after.

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Silent Night Deadly Night 5: The Toymaker…also pretty good!

This franchise is very unique. The first three are all essentially about the two psycho Santa orphans, and they go the  Halloween III where characters in 4 and 5 are briefly shown watching those movies. The latter sequels are connected, as the surviving characters from Initiation return in Toymaker as family friends of the protagonist. The two films don’t share any salient plot points and the returning characters are more than walk-on cameos but less than integral supporting figures in the story. Very curious. 

Yuzna returns as producer and co-writer, but the film’s director is Martin Kitrosser, who also wrote two of the Friday the 13th installments. He’s been most successful as a script supervisor, including credits on every single Tarantino film. 

This is the goofiest and lightest of the five; it’s like an extended Are You Afraid of the Dark episode with some gore and the most chaste sex scenes I’ve ever witnessed. 

I’m bummed I slept on these for so long. They’re for sure going into my rotation for annual Xmas horror watches. 

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J.T.

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So I hate to break this to you, but the quality of the animation from E1 of Uzumaki to the final episode drops dramatically.  It's really kinda bad.  So bad that the Metacritic ratings tanked overnight.

Junji Ito cannot catch a break, I swear.

Curt McGirt

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I didn't notice anything but I'm probably not the best person to be a judge.

In any case, the shit was totally disturbing and horrific, in a way that I haven't felt since I was a child. I'll watch again and reevaluate. 

J.T.

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Oh the story is as great as it ever was even though it skips around a lot.  It was just sad to see the artwork fall off so much.

On a happier note, the legal BS with Hardware has been cleaned up so it was announced that there should be a 4K blu-ray release very soon that includes a metric fuckton of extra shit.

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The full article at JoeBlo

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Lawful Metal

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On 11/15/2024 at 10:04 AM, J.T. said:

Oh the story is as great as it ever was even though it skips around a lot.  It was just sad to see the artwork fall off so much.

On a happier note, the legal BS with Hardware has been cleaned up so it was announced that there should be a 4K blu-ray release very soon that includes a metric fuckton of extra shit.

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The full article at JoeBlo

FUCK YES

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Lawful Metal

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Just watched Sting.  It was fantastic.  Alien spider runs amok.  Main character is a 12 year old girl who has like the worst attitude but most every body that gets got kinda deserves it and I have a dumb theory

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Spider never really directly attacks Charlotte, and actively removes obstacles in her life like the mean old aunt, the creepy biology student, takes her parents and the baby away (doesn't kill them, just kinda ties them up in the web).  Sting was ride or die for Charlotte.  Yeah, she ate the poor suffering drunk widow, but really she was kinda asking for it and Sting did jump on her from the photo of her dead family.  But then again the bite with her and the cat and parrot acted different than the bites on the parents and the exterminator but plot armor?  Still loved it. 

 

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J.T.

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I don't think you can blame the kid for her attitude.  Her mom was the worst enabler and kept stringing the boyfriend along because she was too cowardly to commit to the relationship or tell her kid the real story about her deadbeat dad.

And yeah, your theory holds water.  I had similar ideas about Sting's nature.

Curt McGirt

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On 11/15/2024 at 10:32 AM, zendragon said:

For those who don't know Richard Stanley was the director of Hardware which got him onto Island of Dr. Moreau in which Marlon Brando elected to sabotage his career 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Soul:_The_Doomed_Journey_of_Richard_Stanley's_Island_of_Dr._Moreau

That's such a good documentary. If you haven't seen it, I would not even read that and go in cold. It's so crazy. I was reading about that shit in Fangoria when it happened as a teenager and while they revealed a lot, it's not even close to what Stanley reveals. 

He also did Dust Devil which had an incredibly cursed and problematic release (and somehow I've never seen all the way through). Him finally getting a movie that works out without any difficulties is an entire lifetime of attempts before panning out. I don't believe in magic, though he does, so maybe I'm wrong? 

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Curt McGirt

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Also, about Hardware. You can't scare me with a monster in a movie unless it's the Xenomorph. Can't happen; no zombies, no nothing. But the robot in Hardware will freak you the fuck out. 

OH! And we have to bring up Death Machine, with Brad Dourif, a VHS special feature from 1994. It's gotta be influenced by Hardware, definitely is influenced by Aliens, and if you watch this looks like the baddest shit on the planet. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ2DkxXbQ1Y

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J.T.

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On 11/19/2024 at 7:33 PM, Curt McGirt said:

Also, about Hardware. You can't scare me with a monster in a movie unless it's the Xenomorph. Can't happen; no zombies, no nothing. But the robot in Hardware will freak you the fuck out.

Yeah, the M.A.R.K XIII is nightmare fuel.  And a fitting name for genocidal robot given that chapter 13 of the Gospel of Mark is where Jesus talks about the end of the world.

 

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Curt McGirt

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Oh, for god's sake. 

Here is Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein -- coming soon! 

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May be an image of 2 people

He looks like fucking Marky Mark dressed up as Gein for Halloween.

 

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