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Post by Mighty Jack on Aug 24, 2010 1:06:09 GMT -5
Found a DVD with 4 Carpenter films on it cheap, so I picked it up.
Prince of Darkness With all due respect to fans of this flick, I just can’t get into it. It starts off okay but gets progressively sillier. Some of acting and dialog was a fright and when that guys head fell off, well I haven’t laughed this hard at a horror film since “The Happening”.
They Live Believe it or not I’ve never seen this all the way through. I’d catch a bit here and there but that was it. What did I think of my first full viewing? I give it two thumbs up! Loads of fun (though just what the hell did the aliens want anyway?)
Village of the Damned Nowhere near as brilliant as the original – and while it too suffers from some terminal silliness (the pregnant dream sequence) and some bad casting (Kirstie Alley) I actually found it somewhat effective. Not a classic by any means, but entertaining enough.
The collection also included the Thing. There were no extras but it was nice to finally see some of these for the first time, and others for the first time in ages.
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Post by zombiewhacker on Oct 9, 2010 15:36:14 GMT -5
The scariest thing about In the Mouth of Madness was that Hayden Christensen played the paperboy.
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Post by BJ on Oct 20, 2010 11:39:23 GMT -5
Over the weekend, I watched Big Trouble in Little China. That movie gets funnier every time I see it. I just love the way Jack Burton is billed as the hero, thinks he's a hero, yet he's just along for the ride blundering around. For anyone interested, the Blu-Ray of this looks fantastic and I found it at Wal-Mart for 10 bucks. If all movies got transfers this good, I'd be wasting a lot more money on Blu-Rays.
I also watched the Fog as part of my annual October horror movie marathon, with Halloween and the Thing coming up. The atmosphere in the Fog is just so well done. All it ever tries to be is a simple, fireside, ghost story, but in the hands of Carpenter it becomes so much more.
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