Niners Fan in CT Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 I also enjoyed House for what it is but I did not understand the ending at all and I'm pretty sure whatever was going on isn't referenced in Rejects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Distaste for the OG Chainsaw? I... I... oh man, I just don't understand... WHAT?! House is fun but that's it. Sure did watch it about a thousand times in the theater (Devil's even moreso). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Yeah, JT is weird and doesn't like TCM, and Jingus is weird and doesn't like the original Halloween. I think we discovered both these facts on basically the same day during the first of the Halloween Havoc movie exchanges. It was mind-boggling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stennick Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I can get behind the not liking the original Halloween. The first half hour or so is pretty interesting but I thought it was kind of dull. TCM is good stuff though and the original is hard to watch as a kid in parts which always makes a good horror movie in my opinion. Not just for the gore but the "fuck this isn't that far outside of being able to really happen". I think that for me is a big part of horror movies atleast growing up. Freddy and Jason where cool but pretty much didn't fit in my rhealm of possible even if I guess the first Jason or two could be possible but those aren't even that good of movies. But its also why movies like The Shining scared the ever loving shit out of me but supposed scary movies like Exorcist didn't do anything for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Halloween scared the shit out of me when I was around 20. I've never quite understood what is scary about The Shining though, so different strokes and all that jazz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Having lived around rural poverty as well as quiet suburbia most of my life, both films have always been extremely effective to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 I think we discovered both these facts on basically the same day during the first of the Halloween Havoc movie exchanges. It was mind-boggling.Hey, I like the movie. I'll give it the props it deserves for innovating what it did, and Pleasance turned in one of his best performances. It just never scared me or clicked with me on a personal level, at all. Michael's quasi-supernatural powers set off my bullshit alarm, and I kinda sorta must admit that I never found Jamie Lee Curtis's performance to be all that genre-defining. I'm more of a Sigourney Weaver kinda guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 TCF is chilling until you get to the ridiculous Dinner With Grandpa scene and you are all like, "What the fuck is this shit?" The random insertion of dark comedy in TCF ruined my horror buzz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Mine was killed the instance it occurred to me that poor Franklin was rolling around with what was probably someone's wang in his mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Hey, lookit me being an outlier again: the first time I saw the dinner scene, it actually scared me. I took it seriously: "holy shit, if Grandpa managed to hold his grip on the hammer for just long enough, they'll kill this poor girl". I empathized with her plight in that scene, I totally went to that place where you kinda feel like you're in the movie yourself. The way you know a horror movie is doing its job is that you truly don't know what's gonna happen to the heroes, and this movie had convinced me that it would do anything to these characters that it damn well pleased. The movie had grabbed me hard enough with all the preceding material that I was willing to follow it, however reluctantly, wherever it may go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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