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It's been a while since I"ve seen Devil's Rejects, but I remember being a big fan and it being one of the better entries into the mainstream exploitation revival

The first third (half maybe) or so of his Halloween, which played like a kiddie killer flick without having much to do with the OG source, was also a lot of fun.

But he can't seem to capture whatever he had in these consistently
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Always felt he was massively overrated to be perfectly honest. When he got his hands on Halloween, I imagine he said this to himself, "OK, so how do I turn the iconic mystique of Michael Myers into a white trash emo kid?"

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I think we agreed at some point prior that the movie would've been much better if it didn't have anything to do with the OG Halloween at all, just a standalone slasher about origins of a killer
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I must be senile, I don't remember any agreement.

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I just thought that he never made anything original. All of his movies were just recycled ideas. Is this Salem one an original story?

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well let's be honest here... at this point the majority of horror movies, or any genre movies for that matter, are rehashing old ideas from elsewhere. the best ones re-invent them into something new or put original twist on them. very rarely does something really really original and completely new actually appear.

the thing i dug about Devil's Rejects is how he unabashedly embraced the killer rednecks are protagonists, even giving them a heroic coda with the Freebird scene at the end (that outro really made the movie for me I think). obviously the idea of an anti-hero or a villain as a protagonists isn't new either, but it's rarely done with that much gusto. even in the 70s it was rarely taken to that gleeful extent.
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Random Sample wrote:I just thought that he never made anything original. All of his movies were just recycled ideas. Is this Salem one an original story?
From the brief plot outline and judging from the trailers, it seems like Salem is indeed an original story. Given his predilection for 70's horror, however, I highly doubt he won't borrow any ideas from the series of occult themed movies from that era and incorporate them here.
drizzle wrote:well let's be honest here... at this point the majority of horror movies, or any genre movies for that matter, are rehashing old ideas from elsewhere. the best ones re-invent them into something new or put original twist on them. very rarely does something really really original and completely new actually appear.

the thing i dug about Devil's Rejects is how he unabashedly embraced the killer rednecks are protagonists, even giving them a heroic coda with the Freebird scene at the end (that outro really made the movie for me I think). obviously the idea of an anti-hero or a villain as a protagonists isn't new either, but it's rarely done with that much gusto. even in the 70s it was rarely taken to that gleeful extent.
That whole movie, exemplified in that very scene you're referring to is Zombie doing The Last House on the Left, including the car ride scene where it attempted to inject a human side to Krug, Weasel & Sadie and a sense of camaraderie between them. It might be comical given the soundtrack to it has Hess singing a ragtime style tune and playing a kazoo while this is happening, but it's still an example of the three antagonists not being complete monsters all the time. Sure, The Devil's Rejects scene borrows that valiant last stand principle from more obvious movies but I still believe Zombie was expanding upon the antagonists' philosophies evident in The Last House on the Left.

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I never watched Devil's Rejects. But to me House of 1000 Corpses was sort of a Texas Chainsaw ripoff. And then he did the Halloween movie. He always seemed to me like he was always riding the coattails of classic horror movies without coming up with something original.

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That's basically my major worry about The Lords of Salem.

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And it looks like my worries are real.

Easily my favorite movie blog ever, Arena of the Unwell, was not too pleased with Rob Zombie's latest.
There was barely time for a slash 'n' fag before the high-point of Friday’s proceedings, not content with raping our childhoods with his abysmal Halloween xerox and subjecting viewers to endless shots of his wife’s scrawny arse disguised as entertainment, Robert 'Rob' Zombie (not his real name) has returned to our screens with his attempt to do a Rosemary's Baby with his much anticipated (it says in the PR handout) Lords of Salem.

Before the screening ringmaster Paul McEvoy promised us that the film would 'divide the audience'.

Which frankly was a polite way of saying it's shite and only wanking obsessed wee boys and fat neck bearded virgins in man-tit revealing White Zombie t-shirts would enjoy it.

And then only because they don't know any better.

Lords of Salem: Fucking shameful.

Allegedly a tale of witches wickedly wreaking revenge on the town of Salem via the medium of a shit doom rock 12 inch single and forcing a ball-headed chicken man to impregnate Sheri Moon Zombie, the movie proves once again why Zombie needs to have both his hands and his testicles removed before he forces another 2 and a half hour excuse to wank over his wife's frankly average arse on the unsuspecting movie-going public.

The mind boggles as to how the man could get a cast of such high calibre (and his wife) to appear in such unmitigated arse biscuit.

I mean it boasts such talent as Bruce Davison, Ken Foree, Patricia Quinn, Dee Wallace, Meg Foster, Michael Berryman and Judy Geeson, what did he do? threaten to fuck their kids?

Less a bad movie, more the cinematic equivalent of being brutally (and forcibly) taken up the shitter by a crab infested, middle aged Croatian transsexual whilst your parents drunkenly raise a glass shouting "happy 18th birthday son!" and laugh maniacally.

Apologies tho' to the wee boy I shouted at outside for enjoying it.

I really should have stabbed you in the face putting us all out of our misery instead.

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:lol: you should ask that dude to post here

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Tried to converse with him a couple of times over the years. No luck. Worth reading his trashy movie reviews, though, as they are awesome www.areaoftheunwell.blogspot.com/

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His blog is great. I can't wait to read the exchange of when he asked Eli Roth for his 6.50 back. LOL

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Always felt James Wan was very overrated during the whole Saw phenomenon, but Insidious, while hardly ground-breaking, was a definite improvement in the right direction. The trailer to The Conjuring looks very nice.
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Starring the great Lili Taylor alongside the equally smashing Vera Farmiga (soon to be best known to geeks as Mrs. Bates on the new Bates Motel show) and Insidious star Patrick Wilson, The Conjuring is a period ghost story set in the ’70s and inspired by the ‘true’ case files of the infamous husband and wife ‘demonologist’ team of Ed and Lorraine Warren. If you’ve ever seen a ghost or ghost hunter ‘documentary’ special on TV, chances are you’ve seen or heard mention of the Warrens at some point. They were the ‘expert’ point team on the “Amityville Horror,” which they swore by as legitimate, as well as the famed Smurl family demon haunting of Pennsylvania, which, totally coincidentally, was also made into a successful and well-remembered TV movie for FOX in the network’s early glory.

Though the Warrens have long since been dismissed by most (myself included) as publicity-hungry hucksters, their legend and several of their more memorable cases live on in our cultural memory. There’s something about the idea of a little old husband and wife team going from house to house hunting demons that intrigues us. I think that’s what James Wan is after, and this teaser looks great.


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really enjoyed that trailer. Also a huge fan of Insidious.

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Was actually going to make a thread about Bates Motel and that Hannibal TV show. I figured, fuck it, let someone else bother.

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Sam Raimi is planning to make Evil Dead 4

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Just because Fede Alvarez is directing a remake of Evil Dead doesn't mean that Sam Raimi is done with the franchise. At a press event for Oz the Great and Powerful, Raimi announced that he plans to return to his horror series with Evil Dead 4.

During a Meet the Filmmakers event in London, Raimi gave a rather surprising answer to a question about Evil Dead:

I would love to make Evil Dead 4. My brother and I plan to work on the script this summer.

Hopefully, Bruce Campbell is in this equation as well. It'll be interesting to see if Raimi has Campbell on board at this point—and what they have in store for an older Ash.

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Raimi has been harping on about it for decades. I'm guessing if that Oz movie flops like I'm predicting, he'll probably take ED4 more seriously. Hopefully, it'll be a post-apocalyptic setting like Army of Darkness' proper ending alluded to.

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First was meh and despite all the hate, I thought the second one was entertaining.


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I get the feeling that all the jokes this film has, have been used in this trailer.

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So glad that Stage Fright isn't a remake of either Hitchcock's or Soavi's films.

The Babadook and In Darkness We Fall look very promising.

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Aren't you down with Død Snø 2?
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I am, but after five years you'd think the film makers would come up with something special. I'm hoping the alarm bells only apply to the trailer and not for the feature film.

Looking forward to REC 4 and strangely enough, Eli Roth's The Green Inferno this year.

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Had my fill of the whole found footage sub-genre, but titles like The Bay, tell me there's life in the old dog yet. The Borderlands is another worthy and recent example. Initially passed this up, but the film really won me over and the characters are nowhere near as annoying as I initially thought. The ending is :ohsh:

Definitely one of the better horror movies of 2013.

The Borderlands (2013)

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The Sacrament (2013)

This story follows two Vice Media correspondents as they set out to document their friend's journey to find his missing sister. They travel outside of the United States to an undisclosed location where they are welcomed into the world of "Eden Parish," a self-sustained rural utopia, comprised of nearly two hundred members. At the center of this small, religious, socialist community is a mysterious leader known only as "Father." As their friend reunites with his sister, it becomes apparent to the newcomers that this paradise may not be as it seems. What started as just another documentary shoot soon becomes a race to escape with their lives.

Considering my love for Ti West's The House of the Devil (perhaps my very favorite horror film of the last decade) and The Innkeepers, his latest offering could be another winner for me and might possibly rid the taste of his lackluster segment in the horror anthology V/H/S (the sequel was a big improvement, though).

Trailer might seem a little misleading since after doing some digging, this might be another found footage type movie. Based on West's track record and some recent examples in the admittedly over-saturated sub-genre ranging from being actually good to exceptional, I'm willing to let it slide. Loving the whole cult religion theme to this and the trailer evokes some serious Jim Jones vibes.

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This shit looks so awesome, wish I could find a leak



edit - just noticed it was in CQ's wall of trailers

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