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Just a heads up too, deepdiscount is having a horror sale right now and there are some pretty great deals buried in there.
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Tommy Bunz wrote:This one looks pretty cool too, rather prolific group of directors for a horror anthology
Just a heads up too, deepdiscount is having a horror sale right now and there are some pretty great deals buried in there.
Spirits of the Dead is presented in a brand new transfer from a new High Definition restoration of the original film negative. Reinstating Terence Stamp's superb performance with his original English audio as well as alternate English audio options for Metzengerstein and William Wilson.
Trailer looks surprisingly decent, despite the fact the whole shaky-cam/CCTV steez has really outworn it's welcome.kato wrote:<object width="600" height="342"><param name="movie" value="http://ictv-bd-ec.indieclicktv.com/play ... ram><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://ictv-bd-ec.indieclicktv.com/play ... player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="600" height="342"></embed></object>
Doesn't look too bad...I enjoyed the first one for what it is.
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This is really worth checking out. Watched this today and I gotta say this was even better than I expected. Very disturbing and one of the better teen focused horror flicks I've seen since All The Boys Love Mandy Lane.
Sounds pretty good. Should be interesting to see how these guys handle the supernatural element. They went really ape shit with the extreme violence for L'Interieur .It's young Lucy's first day as a trainee in-house caregiver. She visits Mrs Jessel, an old woman who lies in cerebral coma, by herself, in her large desolate house. Learning by accident that Mrs Jessel, a former dance teacher of repute, supposedly possesses a treasure somewhere in the house, Lucy and friends William and Ben decide to search the house in the hope of finding it. At night, they get into the house, which reveals itself to be increasingly peculiar. Their hunt for Mrs Jessel's treasure leads them into a horrifying supernatural series of events that will change Lucy forever...
it is crazy as fuck...very dope flick...Trademark wrote:Spartan wrote:<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Cb5BFm4qIow?fs ... ram><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Cb5BFm4qIow?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>
This is really worth checking out. Watched this today and I gotta say this was even better than I expected. Very disturbing and one of the better teen focused horror flicks I've seen since All The Boys Love Mandy Lane.
that looks crazy as fuck!
The call is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE!Spartan wrote:Oh man! Where do you start?
Creepy backwater/rural types "they got religion".
The campfire tale.
Essential T&A scenes - I always enjoy gratuitous female nudity in horror flicks. They're fundamental to the sex=death logic.
Stormy nights and trees thrashing against the house.
The film is set on the very anniversary linked to the killer's/killers' backstory/origin.
The very final scene where Final Girl might just be insane/presumed insane after everything that's happened to her.
Couple having sex "What was that sound? Go outside and see what it is"
The cock-blocking killer.
Reluctant cops who would rather lock-up the male lead instead of checking out his story.
The car not starting the first time.
The lighter not working right away.
Pets sensing imminent danger/evil.
Operatic vocals on the soundtrack to represent something being demonic or supernatural.
Potential victims stumbling into the killer's lair and trying to stay quiet while he's just wondering about.
The random scene made to look inconsequential where an important piece of info or prop is introduced that could stop the killer/killers.
The kooky old guy warning everyone.
Hiding in obvious places - closet or behind a shower curtain or a refrigerator.
Over eagerness to dismember someone bitten by a zombie.
The assumed off-screen kill of a character (male lead in a slasher usually), only for him to crop up and help the final girl in the film's big confrontation.
I'll do some slasher specific ones later on.
They use it in other movies like When A Stranger Calls, I'm sure there's more but I can't remember right now.Spartan wrote:Black Christmas!!!
ebooks??
Horror movies divide into several very different categories: slasher, zombie, vampire, mainstream horror, Asian horror and revolting Eli Roth films. Devotees of one category often have no interest in the others, a fact that is incomprehensible to snooty types who cavalierly make no distinctions. All of these subgenres rely on worthy, battle-tested cliches that appear again and again. Indeed, horror is the one genre in which the absence of cliches would ruin everything. If the Japanese started making horror movies that did not revolve around creepy little girls who come back from the dead to avenge themselves on other, even creepier little girls, no one would go to see them. If there was not somehow a sense in the Saw-style movies that the victims deserved to be dismembered, the genre would implode. If zombies didn't constantly turn up in unusual places ג convenience stores, high-rise student housing, rural Pennsylvania ג aficionados would drop the subgenre just like that. And if vampires weren't likable in some strange, misunderstood, vampiric way, vampire movies would be nowhere near as popular as they are.
Small children are often evil in horror movies, a tradition that descends from The Bad Seed and The Exorcist and The Omen. When they are not evil, they are troubled loners who consort with invisible playmates who are evil. If one hears children humming innocent nursery rhymes in the background, you can bet your bottom dollar that somebody's getting a carving knife through the retina pretty damn soon. Conversely, it is very rare to hear a baritone or heldentenor on the soundtrack of a horror movie. Teens in horror movies are usually spoiled brats who deserve to die. They are always the products of broken homes. This is why they are so often home alone. Since horror movies are marketed toward teens, this seems to suggest that at some level, teens already understand that everybody wants to see them die, preferably in some hideous fashion. Yet they flock to see the movies. Strange.
Horror films work best in rural settings, because rustics are scary in and of themselves, and because there are lots of frightening farm tools on hand, and also because there are no neighbours to beg for help when the flaying and amateur surgery get into full swing. One should never trust a handyman or a farmer in a horror film. It is said that in space no one can hear you scream, but no one can hear you scream in Nebraska or south Dakota or rural Slovakia, either. Horror films do not work well in places like Holland, because horror films require basements, for the crucial scene where the prettiest girl, for no good reason, descends into the miasmic cavern in which Leatherface obviously spends most of his free time. Linen closets and tidy storage areas are surprisingly common in Asian horror films, which may have cultural ramifications that go over the heads of moviegoers in the west. In the west, linen closets are simply not scary. Neither are vestibules. They're just not.
Horror movies almost always contain a scene in which a woman washes her face in a sink, and when she straightens up and looks in the mirror, a girl missing half her face is staring directly back at her. If she decides to take a bath, the tub will soon fill up with hair, blood or a woman with purple skin and one eye missing. Horror movies also contain lots of scenes in which the living dead or the living undead zip past an open door or window, but nobody sees them. A surprise appearance by subaquatic, recently deceased femmes fatales is another popular trope; the distaff dead, like U-boats, do not like to surface. The more gruesome films in the genre require captives to sacrifice one section of their bodies in order to preserve others; this always comes as a surprise.
Women constantly take showers in horror films, even though this has been a terrible idea ever since Psycho. People check into remote, deserted motels, even though this too has been a bad idea since Psycho. If the people who inhabit horror movies had only seen Psycho at an impressionable age, an awful lot of carnage could have been avoided. This, in fact, is the basic joke in Scream.
It is always a bad idea to go to sleep in horror films, or accept a ride from strangers, or respond to a personal ad. It is an even worse idea to get in an elevator, a popular hideout of the promiscuously dead. Computers are another place where the dead sometimes lay low. Priests are generally well-meaning but incompetent in this genre, but nuns are to be avoided. Rabbis rarely appear in horror films.
In a horror movie, you should never purchase a dirt-cheap house or apartment without making detailed inquiries about how many previous tenants were skinned alive in the pantry. But be aware: estate agents can never be trusted. It is pointless to look at the images on the security camera in your apartment or office to see if the monster is in the lobby, because the dead cannot be seen on conventional cameras, no matter how high the resolution.
You should never have any kind of medical operation in a horror film, particularly a transplant, because you will inherit the eyes of a witch, the heart of a cannibal or the kidneys of a murderous transvestite. Never go into a darkroom alone, because someone in the film you are developing will come to life and rip your lungs out. Finally, never answer the phone in a horror movie. To avoid disaster, text.
The classic cliched horror movie: The Ring
The Ring, a remake of Hideo Nakata's 1998 Ring, is the horror movie that introduced the west to all the cliches that are so popular in the east, and that are now popular everywhere. It is the only American horror movie that is scarier than the film it is based on. The heroine is an attractive woman who stumbles on a series of weird, inexplicable deaths. Even though young people are dying in droves, the police dismiss it as one of those zany coincidences.
Soon, she starts to receive phone calls from the dead. She becomes involved with a scary little girl whose eye keeps poking out from beneath a mane of matted black hair, never a good sign. She is dating the initially skeptical boyfriend, who comes around to her point of view, then dies. She makes the statutory trip to the asylum, for a chat with the uncommunicative witness to the murder that launched the movie. Other great cliches: the strange little boy who seems to understand more than he is saying. The water seeping from the bathroom door. The girl who has been left to die by friends or family and is now coming back to even the score. The spasmodic, time-lapse camera work that enables the dead girl to cover enormous distances in a short period of time. And, of course, the surprise twist at the end. Two of them, in fact. All in all, The Ring puts Carrie to shame.