Jingus Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 AND some of the reviews hint that ISoYG 3 totally rips off Ms. .45's unique idea of having a rapevenger "graduate" from they-totally-deserved-it targets to some uh-that-guy-didn't-really-have-it-coming victims. Except the new movie apparently does it much shittier. Let's put it this way: all the screencaps I've seen depict the "heroine" as wearing a jailbait schoolgirl uniform (the kind that you expect to see Alice wearing in Wonderland) and then also wielding a sledgehammer. Because empowerment, ya know?! Don't look at me, I avoided the second one and only own the first because it was packaged with Day of the Woman.Yeah, I had that too. Finally sold it, because I decided I didn't like the original enough to justify owning the fuckin' remake. MAN that movie pissed me off. The first half is perfectly decent, it feels more like Straw Dogs than it feels like Day of the Woman but whatever, who cares, it's acted and directed well enough that none of my alarms rung. But then the rape scene happens, and the movie falls off a cliff... and then the revenge happens, and the plummeting movie somehow manages to fall into the mouth of a bottomless pit and just keeps falling, getting worse and worse until the end. The "kill" with the crows, JESUS, I want that image OUT of my goddamn brain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 30, 2015 Author Share Posted December 30, 2015 Yeah, at least Ms. .45 had the vaguely appealing Nietchzhean sub-text of vengeance turning victim into monster even though the whole Death Wish 2 deal of vividly depicting violent rape still turns my stomach. If you want to watch some proper vengeance themed horror / thrillers, go chat with Park Chan-wook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Or watch I Saw The Devil. I'm surprised nobody in Hollywood has attempted a remake yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumanChessgame Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 While Thriller - A Cruel Picture/They Call Her One-Eye isn't full of amazing writing or acting, it's definitely up there as far as rape/revenge movies go, and the amount of sleaze involved in the production only add to it. Christina Lindberg's character would have been great as a Charles Bronson in Death Wish type exploitation series character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 If anyone ever remakes I Saw the Devil they should be given the treatment of the killer in the film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Halloween Returns has been cancelled and Dimension has lost the rights to the franchise Supposedly Miramax is shopping the franchise rights to other companies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Thank God for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 If New Line scoops it up that means FvJvLvM right? I mean it's all about universes now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Nightmarish Halloween on a Texas Friday No, that's no good... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.K.o.S. Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Rolling Stone had a top 10 list for 2015 horror movies, and put It Follows at #1, but it doesn't sound like the person who wrote the blurb for it actually understood the premise of the movie. http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/10-best-horror-movies-of-2015-20151223 David Robert Mitchell's indie-frightfest phenomenon is predicated on the fact that a zombie-like state can be passed on by sexual contact from one person to the next, like a chain letter or a haunted J-horror videotape. And the killer can often be anybody lurking somewhere in the background; once possessed, they start walking towards you, often in a straight line from the depths of the frame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 That is an amazingly bad summary of It Follows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 Spring needed to be a little higher on that list and Goodnight Mommy needed to be #1 with it Follows being #2. All of the rest are placed about right. I know it is now en vogue to hate on It Follows since the masses are finally catching up to and gushing over a movie we snobs have known about for ages, but let's not sleep on how good it really is. Best of the 2010's? We'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianS81177 Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 M. Night Shyamalan is bringing back Tales From The Crypt on TNT: http://comicbook.com/2016/01/07/m-night-shyamalan-rebooting-tales-from-the-crypt-at-tnt/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 M. Night Shyamalan is bringing back Tales From The Crypt on TNT: http://comicbook.com/2016/01/07/m-night-shyamalan-rebooting-tales-from-the-crypt-at-tnt/ TWIST YOURE ACTUALLY WATCHING USA!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Beat ya to it in the TV thread! I'm thinking they might run this like Devil where it'll be "M. Night Presents..." with different writers and directors. At least, I hope so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 You know he's going to want to be the new crypt keeper. I swear they're going to have to have this discussion with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Maniac Cop and Maniac Cop 2 on Chiller tonight. Dunno why they didn't get 3 as well. Anyway, there's your dose of Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell, Robert Davi and the late Robert Z'Dar for the evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 http://www.fangoria.com/new/tales-from-the-crypt-reboot-plot-details-format-uncovered/ Well I think we can go ahead and ignore the Tales reboot already. According to this, piranesi was probably right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stennick Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Its not going to be an Anthology series is pretty shitty. No Crypt Keeper, they aren't doing an episodic anthology series. I would imagine the only reason they are even calling it this is to gain more eyes than if they called it something else entirely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 So, it's Tales From The Crypt but not Tales From The Crypt. Lame. Horror anthologies were a key part of being a boy in the early '90s. And now after going back and watching all of the original Twilight Zone and a shit tonne of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, it's one of my favourite genres of TV. If not for Star Trek, Twilight Zone would be my favourite series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted January 11, 2016 Author Share Posted January 11, 2016 Its not going to be an Anthology series is pretty shitty. No Crypt Keeper, they aren't doing an episodic anthology series. I would imagine the only reason they are even calling it this is to gain more eyes than if they called it something else entirely. Looks like it will be Tales in name only merely for the immediate recognition. Which is dumb if you are not going to have any of the other Crypt elements in play. Just call it something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 "Tales from the Darkside" is right there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted January 11, 2016 Author Share Posted January 11, 2016 And The Darkroom and The Hunger are right there too and even more obscure and ready for re-exploitation / re-introduction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted January 12, 2016 Author Share Posted January 12, 2016 Angus Scrimm, better known as the Tall Man from the Phantasm franchise, passed away today at the age of 89. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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