The Horror Movie Thread

[Spartan]

So here's the Evil Dead remake red band trailer.

[Tweak Da Leak]

are they remaking the whole trilogy?

[Spartan]

It hasn't been mentioned anywhere but I hope not.

[Spartan]

nvm

[Spartan]

Another naughty remake. I hope this is better than that other recent festive horror, Sint which was a disappointment.

[Spartan]

Latest trailer for the very ambitious, The ABCs of Death. Really looking forward to this.

Synopsis
Twenty-six directors. Twenty-six ways to die. The ABCs of Death is perhaps the most ambitious anthology film ever conceived, with productions spanning fifteen countries and featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. Inspired by children’s educational books, the motion picture is comprised of twenty-six individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free reign in choosing a word to create a story involving death.

[The Aluminum Falcon]

[Spartan]

Nice. Sack cloth Jason didn't appear until the sequel though, but I guess it's in keeping with tradition with some of the wrongly carded SW figures from back in the day.

[Spartan]

Merry Christmas

[360]

Top 3 merry christmases ever given.

[Spartan]

Don't Open Till Christmas is a completely horrendous film but I'm strangely fascinated by it.

I followed up my Christmas Eve film marathon with Silent Night, Deadly Night and the classic Black Christmas original.

[illuminati_guy]

don't open till christmas was fun

so was christmas evil, i might watch it tonight

[Spartan]

don't open till christmas was fun

so was christmas evil, i might watch it tonight

Agreed, DOTC is a fun movie, kind of refreshing to have the majority of the film's victims as mostly drunk middle-aged guys in santa costumes instead of bimbos. In terms of entertainment value, I would still put Dick Randall's other slashers, Pieces (1983) and Slaughter High (1986) above it though.

I don't think I've ever given Christmas Evil a fair chance, I remember being letdown by it for not really being a bonafide Christmas slasher like it's title suggested, but I should give it another go.

Since you're fond of Brit seventies horror, illuminati guy, I'm guessing you're already familiar with the All Through The House segment featured in the Tales From The Crypt (1972) portmanteau which had a killer santa stalking Joan Collins?

[illuminati_guy]

nah actually i haven't seen that

[Sylissez]

That Tales From The Crypt scene fucked me up when I was younger. And I never remembered what it was from until I tracked it down a few years ago.

[Spartan]

Same. Definitely one of Amicus' better anthology films.

[Comedy Quaddafi]

Am I the only who is going to check out Texas Chainsaw 3D this weekend?

[Spartan]

I gave it some thought, but I think I'm gonna give it a miss. Marketing for films like this put me off. I kind of feel that I'll be ripped off if I watch it in a movie theater, 'cause I just know there will be a more definite cut when it hits the home formats.

[Comedy Quaddafi]

I like to watch 3D though and I'm kinda anxious to see it. Are you also optimistic about the film?

[Spartan]

Ughh! Never been totally impressed by 3D movies. The ones shot with proper 3D cameras might look decent but they've never wowed me. It's a gimmick and not a game changer, imo.

Latest Evil Dead trailer:



Judging from the comments I've read; Horror hipster newjacks under the age of 25 seem to be under the assumption this will be the best horror movie ever. Personally, it's not really doing it for me, not an anti-remake bias by the way. Will obviously check it out (because I'm a sucker and a horror nerd), but I loathe this unnecessary cold sheen look most modern horror flicks have incorporated today.

[Spartan]

Some of you have already heard about the film Mama. The Guilermo Del Toro produced feature film is based on a short Spanish film Mamá from a few years back

Here's the short film:



And here's the trailer for the feature film:

[Spartan]

First shot from Eli Roth's new film Green Inferno.

A group of student activists from New York City travel to the Amazon to protect a dying tribe, but crash in the jungle and are taken hostage by the very natives they saved.

Despite my condemnation for the cannibal themed fad that proliferated the seventies and early eighties, I'm kind of looking forward to this.

[Comedy Quaddafi]

It's only logical that this would be the next exploitation subgenre to be put in to a modernized American context. Very good idea and the film could be okay as well.

[Spartan]

You've sort of lost me there, CQ. Are you referring to the cannibal genre being an analogy to the current social climate?

[Comedy Quaddafi]

No, though perhaps that could be argued.

I just meant that it's a very marketable concept.

[Spartan]

^ Sorry didn't see your post until now, CQ. Yeah horror critics and journos seem to run a real-world events/phobias into horror trends quite often. The guy who made the Going To Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher, seems to draw parallels with the popularity of torture porn to 9/11. No idea how he got to that conclusion.

Anyway, here's a trustafarian Sheri Moon Zombie in the latest trailer for The Lords of Salem:



Never thought I would ever say this about a Rob Zombie film, but I'm actually amped for this.

[Comedy Quaddafi]

I've read that before. It's much more simple IMO: The torture-horror was a way to up the ante, a cheap gimmick to disgust the audience and get a strong reaction. Nothing more. Hostel and Saw made money and turned in to franchises while others tried to ride that wave of popularity. And it wasn't an entirely novel concept either, the Japs were doing it two decades earlier. Martyrs pretty much obliterated the whole subgenre in 2008.

Some horrorscholars seem too eager to overintellectualize stuff just to add validity to their profession. The same way rapbloggers write essays about Chief Keef's socio-cultural capital.

I have not seen House of a 1000 Corpses btw. Should I? I did enjoy Devils Rejects.

[Spartan]

Always felt Hostel tapped into the fear of poverty and foreigners steez, especially with an ex Eastern Bloc country being the key setting. The fear of foreigners is hardly anything new when considering HG Lewis did that thirty years prior to Hostel, with his film Blood Feast.

The House of 1000 Corpses isn't really all that. It basically plays along with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre formula: Outsiders stray into the lair of psychotic hicks blah, blah, blah. The last twenty mins goes into a different tangent altogether, but it's all been done before. The Rob Zombie hero worshipping makes no sense to me; maybe it's a generational thing. The Lords of Salem does display plenty of potential, however.

[Random Sample]

I think Rob Zombie movies are fucking shit, but that new one looks pretty good.

[Tommy Bunz]

Yeah Rob Zombie sucks. Only seen his first two but that was enough. No desire to watch his Halloweens.

Blood Feast is awesome.