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Post by Mod City on Oct 10, 2014 2:06:15 GMT -5
Bram Stoker's Dracula for the scariest thing to ever grace the screen: Keanu Reeves attempting a British accent. More chills up my spine than any other film in here. Oh, that's what he was doing! Yeah, not good. Still, I have a soft spot for that flick. I'm in for a little Night of the Living Dead. Maybe some Hellraiser. Throw in an early Friday the 13th for good measure. That's Halloween watching. |
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Post by nondescript spice on Oct 10, 2014 9:04:25 GMT -5
i thought keanu had just had some dental work done or something. getting used to a new partial, maybe. i also am kind of nostalgic about that movie, despite the accents.
when the first friday the 13th movie came out that was 3D - i have no idea which one that would be; i know it was in the early 80's because i was around 13 or 14 - i wanted to see it, solely because i had never seen a real 3D movie before. so i went with my cool aunt and uncle. it wasn't until the theater lights went down and everyone was putting on their glasses that i thought - holy sh*t, i forgot i HATE horror movies! i was just all about the 3D. so i kept my eyes shut through most of it, only occasionally opening them to hopefully catch some kind of 3D action that didn't include some guy's bloody head being thrown towards the audience or something. that didn't happen so much.
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Post by Crowfan on Oct 10, 2014 17:24:05 GMT -5
It was Friday the 13th Part III in 3-D. My Mom took me to see it. She took me to all the horror movies until I turned 17.
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Post by Satchmo on Oct 10, 2014 19:28:21 GMT -5
Bram Stoker's Dracula for the scariest thing to ever grace the screen: Keanu Reeves attempting a British accent. More chills up my spine than any other film in here. I think I enjoy the idea of that movie more than I enjoy the movie itself. I admire the film Coppola was trying to make- and when it succeeds, it really succeeds- but it has some horrible, glaring flaws, mostly having to do with casting. Gary Oldman was well cast because he's always fantastic, and Tom Waits was well cast because he might actually be crazy in real life. I genuinely don't know whether Anthony Hopkins is amazing or terrible as Van Helsing. Pretty much everybody else is miscast. That said, Wojciech Kilar's score is marvelous. I think it's one of the best horror film scores ever written, though I have a soft spot for modern Polish classical music. |
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Post by Mod City on Oct 11, 2014 14:14:20 GMT -5
It was Friday the 13th Part III in 3-D. My Mom took me to see it. She took me to all the horror movies until I turned 17. I think that's the first one with the hockey mask, isn't it? I like that one and the Final Chapter. Oh, and the sixth one. I'm not ashamed. |
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Post by Frameous on Oct 11, 2014 16:20:33 GMT -5
You're correct. Those three are my favorites, too. I also like part 5, but I judge that film on its own merits, which a lot of Jason fans refuse to do.
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Post by nondescript spice on Oct 11, 2014 16:54:54 GMT -5
the hockey mask didn't show until part 3? i'm not even close to the level you others are on this genre, but i thought the mask was part of it from the start.
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Post by Crowfan on Oct 11, 2014 18:17:49 GMT -5
It was Friday the 13th Part III in 3-D. My Mom took me to see it. She took me to all the horror movies until I turned 17. I think that's the first one with the hockey mask, isn't it? I like that one and the Final Chapter. Oh, and the sixth one. I'm not ashamed. Yes, that was the first with the hockey mask. I always enjoyed that movie....the only one I really had a problem with was Jason Takes Manhattan, and I don't know why I didn't like it. |
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Post by Mod City on Oct 12, 2014 1:52:08 GMT -5
You're correct. Those three are my favorites, too. I also like part 5, but I judge that film on its own merits, which a lot of Jason fans refuse to do. I'll agree there, too. I like the fifth one. It kind of stands on its own in a way, but it still comes from that era when the franchise was still scary. Well, to me, anyway. |
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Post by Crowfan on Oct 12, 2014 5:21:09 GMT -5
I also liked the fifth one too. I've often wondered if the writers and producers wanted to go in a different direction and see if the audience likes it, much like in Halloween, with Halloween 3: Season Of The Witch. That movie is one of my guilty pleasures....as a kid it scared me with the creepy masks that could kill people.
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Post by Crowfan on Oct 12, 2014 5:22:51 GMT -5
the hockey mask didn't show until part 3? i'm not even close to the level you others are on this genre, but i thought the mask was part of it from the start. Nope. Jason isn't really in the first movie, and in the second, he's wearing a sack over his head. In the third film, practical joker Shelly tries to scare some of the girls by wearing a hockey mask and carrying a spear gun. When Jason kills Shelly, he takes the hockey mask. |
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Post by Torgo on Oct 12, 2014 12:13:47 GMT -5
Bram Stoker's Dracula for the scariest thing to ever grace the screen: Keanu Reeves attempting a British accent. More chills up my spine than any other film in here. I think I enjoy the idea of that movie more than I enjoy the movie itself. I admire the film Coppola was trying to make- and when it succeeds, it really succeeds- but it has some horrible, glaring flaws, mostly having to do with casting. Gary Oldman was well cast because he's always fantastic, and Tom Waits was well cast because he might actually be crazy in real life. I genuinely don't know whether Anthony Hopkins is amazing or terrible as Van Helsing. Pretty much everybody else is miscast. That said, Wojciech Kilar's score is marvelous. I think it's one of the best horror film scores ever written, though I have a soft spot for modern Polish classical music. The one casting decision I will add to the "pretty good casting" list is Monica Belucci. Any film in which she takes her top off is pretty damn good casting. But in all seriousness I completely forgot it was October until I saw this thread. I don't have any concrete plans. I binged on monster movies earlier this year when Godzilla came out in theaters. I might go see Dracula Untold because I got a coupon for it with a DVD set of the Psycho sequels, though it doesn't look very good. One of my roommates wants to have a marathon of Simpsons Treehouse of Horrors. Since I own every DVD release so far I told him why not? |
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Post by nondescript spice on Oct 12, 2014 17:23:30 GMT -5
oh man. i wish i could attend. i have some of the treehouse horrors, but not all.
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Post by RedTom on Nov 3, 2014 1:24:47 GMT -5
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters 2
Nightmare before Christmas
It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
Coraline
28 Days Later
Sinister
All of those were enjoyed.
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