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Posted: 3/23/2009 6:20:25 AM | I love alot of the old films aswell but theres alot of crap out there and its hard to find a decent flick in amongst all the old banned films that are dubbed as the most shocking thing you'll ever see.
Maniac was very disturbing if not just cos the guy is so dam creepy in it and theres scenes that genuinly creeped me out, i do want to see the Last House on the Left remake because it is a good idea for a film but i remember when they re-released the original after having been banned for years, i got it watched it and thought it was the biggest pile of rubbish i'd ever seen, even worse than Driller Killer which i was also led to believe was really shocking, I Spit on your Grave was another terrible film, granted the bath scene is'nt very pretty but other than that its just so bad with the same scene's being looped around again and again just to take up time, thats not to say there are'nt some great old horror films out there but its mostly rubbish that sell on the fact that it was banned. | |
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Posted: 3/23/2009 6:24:25 AM |
Wow.. I am in awe of all the.. movies y'all are throwing about.. but.. the kind of exploitation horror flicks I LIKED were all American ones.. I did see Maniac.. I think.. friggin BRUTAL.. but the acting.. was kinda cheesy.. now Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer distubs the hell out of me..
Henry was excellent, the sequel on the other hand- horrid.
but.. I liked stuff like.. Sleepaway Camp (ALL THREE.. I will never admit to there being a 4.. kinda like Aliens..), Basket Case (trilogy), Frenkenhooker, actually looking forward to Hennelotter's newest should be out soon.. Bad Biology.. always loved the 80s schlock.. not so much exploitation.. but.. Macnac Cop from William Lustig, with Bruce Campbell of course.. and later bad ass Robert Davi.. the Troma flicks.. mostly Toxic Avenger.. never saw the 4th though.. but.. Tromeo and Juliet.. and for really disturbing. check out Terror Firmer..
I love the first Sleepaway Camp, I was never a fan of the sequels(I just found Pamela Springsteen annoying), I was excited when I heard Robert Hiltzik was returning along with some of the original cast members for 'Return to Sleepaway Camp', I regularly checked updates, then when it was finally released- Yikes! What happened?
Technically 'Return to Sleepaway Camp' would have been part 5 if 'Sleepaway Camp IV The Survivor' would have been completed. And now there is 'Sleepaway Camp Reunion' in the works.
Maniac Cop 1 and 2 are great. Also looking forward to 'Bad Biology'.
I love Troma movies. If you haven't seen it, check out 'Poutrygeist- Night of the Chicken Dead'. Probably my favorite non-Kaufman directed Troma released movie is 'Combat Shock'- talk about disturbing. Troma though packaged it all wrong, their cover/poster art made look like a Troma's War style movie. 'Mother's Day' directed by Lloyd's brother is also loads of fun.
I love 80's schlock too- Redneck Zombies, Psychos In Love, Pieces, Don't Go In The Woods, Chopping Mall, Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, Street Trash, Slime City, The Dead Next Door, They Don't Cut The Grass Anymore, Long Island Cannibal Massacre, Slumber Party Massacre, Neon Maniacs, Thou Shalt Not Kill...Except, Flesh Eating Mothers, Rabid Grannies, Attack of the Beast Creatures, Killing Spree, Truth or Dare?: A Critical Madness....... | |
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Posted: 3/23/2009 6:32:12 AM |
I Spit on your Grave was another terrible film, granted the bath scene is'nt very pretty but other than that its just so bad with the same scene's being looped around again and again just to take up time
I've seen I Spit On Your Grave several times and don't recall any scenes being looped around. | |
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Posted: 3/23/2009 7:18:04 AM | | Trust me there are looped scene's, not big scene's but like when she's sunbathing and stuff like that, the same shot is played a few times and varying shots get repeated, no big deal but still bad film making. | |
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Posted: 3/23/2009 7:43:17 AM | Trust me there are looped scene's, not big scene's but like when she's sunbathing and stuff like that, the same shot is played a few times and varying shots get repeated, no big deal but still bad film making.
Oh, ok. I thought it was more noticeable scenes, lots of films do this- big budget and small. Even Peter Jackson did this in Lord of the Rings.
I guess unless it's so noticeable like with the constant boom mic, shadows of the camera, and reflections of the crew being seen every 5 seconds in films like Night of Horror, or actually being able to hear the director's voice yelling directions in The Brainsucker I don't pay much attention. | |
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Posted: 3/23/2009 12:52:12 PM | I could'nt help but notice since the film bored me so much 
Anyway back on subject, i just watched the remake of Last House and was well impressed, very gritty and dark and loved the final death scene although it totaly took all the seriousness out of the film, whole film was done very raw and kinda how things could play out but then that last death was just typical over the top horror death scene for the sake of gore but still ace  | |
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Posted: 3/23/2009 4:23:11 PM | I EVEN enjoyed Maniac Cop 3.. on.. some weird level..
as for Sleepaway Camp 5.. 4.. whichever.. cause EVEN Survivor didn't have Springsteen in it either.. and I didn't buy the box set of the trilogy, in fact I don't own the first.. I dug the whole sadistic but overly cheery creepy transgendered female killer.. she was just so damn chipper!!! like all those years of shock therapy just fried her brain.. which made me laugh my head off. but taking them seriously, no.
As for the new one.. they CLAIMED for like TWO YEARS they were "working on completing the CGI".. but.. it suffers from.. well what alot of horror films suffer from.. you don't really empathize with ANYONE, so you're just waiting for them to all get killed off. but how sad that that was Isaac Hayes last film.. and Vincent Pastore? man.. he never shoulda left The Sopranos.
oh.. another Troma flick I get a kick out of.. Trey Parker and Matt Stone's first film "Cannibal: The Musical".. who says cannibalism and musicals don't go together? | |
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Posted: 3/23/2009 4:32:32 PM | Totally OT.. but I got a thread removed for calling "Twilight" stalker-iffic!!! I almost feel proud.. but for a film that.. seems to be clearly aimed at younger females (one who have no discernment.. for good acting, writing, plot, direction..) The "relationship" in the flick seems more stalker/stalkee than.. romantic interest.. then again.. neither character was all that particularly interesting.. but still.
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Posted: 3/24/2009 4:48:54 AM | you don't really empathize with ANYONE, so you're just waiting for them to all get killed off.
It's pretty bad when the kid who is being picked on is more obnoxious than the kids picking on him. Not to mention the fact that as soon as I saw the cop I knew it was Felissa Rose(even if I didn't know it was her it was obvious it was a woman)- so the ending was already given alway. A disappointment considering the first film. | |
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Posted: 3/24/2009 7:22:02 AM | part of the problem.. they were going for that.. kind of schlocky ending. LIKE the first film.. even the whole shot where she has her face open and the laugh.. just.. seemed really corny.. then to top if off.. they feel the need to have to explain how she got there?
its pretty obvious her loonieness escaped and did something to get there.. I figured the cop was her.. almost the SECOND they showed him.. the make up was not all that convincing, at all.. and I KNEW she was coming back.. from the.. what was it? THREE years of updates on the making of this thing? so you put 2 and 2 together.. and got 1 3/4... which is about what I put the movie at.
You don't like the kid being picked on.. you don't like the kids picking on him.. you don't care that anyone is killing them off.. and you don't really care if that person gets caught. And you don't even particularly like any of the "adults" either.. maybe that's the point? Should it be something that.. we're showing our lack of empathy because they're NOT good people? | |
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Posted: 3/24/2009 7:51:23 AM |
I figured the cop was her.. almost the SECOND they showed him.. the make up was not all that convincing, at all.. and I KNEW she was coming back.. from the.. what was it? THREE years of updates on the making of this thing? so you put 2 and 2 together.. and got 1 3/4... which is about what I put the movie at.
Yeah, that and Felissa Rose and the director Robert Hiltzik talked about wanting to do a new one during the commentary on the Sleepaway Camp DVD.
The one part that I did like in Return to Sleepaway Camp was how Ronnie who in the first film was always sticking up for the kids and butting heads with Mel, actually ended up being like Mel in Return... | |
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Posted: 3/24/2009 8:47:16 AM | | Return To Sleepaway Camp was horrible. I don't know why they even bothered to make the film. And the fat kid I wanted to kill him myself. The whole movie just stunk. | |
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Posted: 3/24/2009 2:13:28 PM | Yeah.. but the sad thing is some of us older farts.. had been.. well maybe NO ONE ELSE on Planet Earth.. but I'd been WAITING for a Sleepaway Camp 4 as soon as the credits came up on 3.. I was just with it.. then again I actually enjoy 3.. even more than 2. I dig how the old super chipper facade is beginning to crack in her.. and she's kind of.. what's the word even here.. just.. kind of longing for those days when maybe she wasn't faking the cheer.. but that is going WAY WAY too deep into a flick that which its best scene is a decapitation by lawnmower!!!
But.. Return was not only a MAJOR disappointment to the fans of the sequels.. in that.. it didn't even.. have a sense of fun.. but REALLY let down the original fans who were expecting something.. so much better, who many seem to deride the sequels.. so you have 2 sides of the coin.. both actually.. kind of HOPING.. and somehow the writer/director let's them both down in every single possible way.. its just too bad. | |
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Posted: 3/24/2009 4:32:08 PM | | I'm not a fan of parts 2 or 3, but they are far far better movies than 'Return-' was. When I first saw the original Sleepaway Camp back in the 80's I disliked it, but I liked parts 2 and 3 and watched them several times. Then when they were released on DVD, and having not seen any of them since back then I figured I'd give the original another chance, and assumed I'd still like the sequels. But quite the opposite, I enjoyed the original, but disliked the sequels. | |
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Posted: 3/24/2009 8:16:43 PM | Seein how you guys keep talkin about "Return" movies..what did you think of the "Return of the living dead series?" personally I thought those were ****in golden..right behind romero' s zombie flicks... to the horror fanatics | |
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Posted: 3/25/2009 5:26:34 AM | | I like the original Return of the Living Dead, it's one of my favorite zombie films(Great characters, great soundtrack). Part 2 wasn't bad, part 3 was decent, watched part of one of the newer ones, didn't like it, haven't bothered with the other. | |
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Posted: 3/26/2009 8:46:00 AM |
Seein how you guys keep talkin about "Return" movies..what did you think of the "Return of the living dead series?" personally I thought those were ****in golden..right behind romero' s zombie flicks... to the horror fanatics
Return Of The Living Dead especially the first one was a great mixture of horror and comedy not many movies can do that. I like parts 1&2 haven't really watched all of part 3. I like how in 1&2 you had the same two main characters and how they would say things like I feel like I have done this before and the such. | |
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Posted: 3/28/2009 1:10:08 AM | Return of the Living Dead is definitely a rare movie - a fantastic horror comedy.
I love the scene when the young guy screams out "The movie lied?" after discovering a blow to the head didn't work
I haven't seen the other films in the series - they didn't get a cinema release in Melbourne; and never had the urge to see them on DVD (not a huge fan of series)
Hope they don't remake "Return of the Living Dead'. | |
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Posted: 3/30/2009 8:34:45 PM | I can't really remember ANY of the Returns.. aside from 3.. 4 and 5 were just AWFUL AWFUL bought by Sci Fi flicks.. and looked pretty cheesey.. but THREE held a special place..well for a few reasons.. that whole. piercing fetish. and a very very sexy Melinda Clarke pre OC (that was the one she was on right? and Xena).. and it was kind of a Romeo and Juliet love story.. with the chick being a brain hungry zombie.. and I remember it mostly cause I was a HUGE fan of Brian Yuzna.. who was beginning at that time to start directing after doing effects for Reanimator.. he directed Bride of Reanimator? I believe.. or did he just do fx there? and then he did a film that I can NOT even find.. maybe I just haven't looked on DVD but it was called "Society" where this troubled kid comes to like the 90210 and find out the reason all the rich douches are like that.. is because they are all freaky twisted monters!! I remember it made me laugh when I was alot younger must have been the early 90s?
Also.. the fx were CHEESEY as all get out.. and the acting was pretty awful.. but did anyone else see Zombie Strippers? I just cracked up.. at first I was MAD.. cause I was expecting SOME cheese.. with a horror zombie movie.. but its more a comedy.. with a ton of gore and blood and boobs.. twisted comedy. also liked 2001 Maniacs.. it was cheesey.. but fun.. actually can't wait to see 2002 Maniacs, whenever they finally release it. | |
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Posted: 3/31/2009 4:56:40 AM | Society(1989) is loads of gooey effects fun. You can get it on DVD- Amazon has both copies, a single disc version, and an Anchor Bay double-pack with Spontaneous Combustion. I think Netflix even carries it.
Zombie Strippers was alright, though the scariest zombie was Jenna Jameson, and that was before they put the zombie make up on her.
I also liked 2001 Maniacs, and since we're talking about recent horror flicks with Robert Englund (2001 Maniacs, ZS), I really enjoyed Jack Brooks Monster Slayer, again more comedy, but it was fun, Robert Englund was hilarious, and the monster effects were really impressive.
A recent zombie film I enjoyed was Severed: Forest of the Dead, I know this gets a lot of hate, but it's nice to see a zombie film going back to shambling walking and gut chomping.
I'm still waiting for the 80's cheese classic The Video Dead to finally get a DVD release- zombies come out of a TV and terrorize a neighborhood- chainsaws, 80's hair, zombie hunters, corny dialogue.
I also really enjoyed the 80's low budgeter 'The Dead Next Door'- produced by 'The Master Cylinder'(aka Sam Raimi),and if the character Raimi sounds familiar, even if he doesn't look familiar(that's Bruce Campbell's voice you hear), an elite squad of zombie hunters go to Ohio! Some fun low-budget effects. | |
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Posted: 3/31/2009 7:53:56 PM | speaking of 80s.. or possibly early 90s flicks.. but there was a flick called I believe the original title was "Knight Life" later retitled "Night Life" and it may even have a third title.. but it was a zombie flick.. with.. the Scott Grimes (Critters, ER) and Cheryl Pollak.. Grimes works in a.. funeral home run by Gomez Adams himself (I THINK been a while..)
but anyway.. Grimes and Pollak are fighting off the four "cool kids" who become zombies.. and it was corny as hell.. but I KNOW its not on dvd.. I've actually looked around for it, although it may be possible to find on black market.. or maybe out of the US import.. guess I should look into Canadian DVDS.. like I did with "Rad" which I found grey market.. someone got it off a HI-DEF tv broadcast.. so many movies really are forgotten.. its just that they weren't HUGE hits and with so many movies out every week there are so many we just can't remember.
Another horror flick.. and it was NO CLASSIC by any stretch.. but it was called "The Hospital Masscare" probably very early 80s.. around the time of Halloween 2.. but I can never forget the very very unnerving opening with 2 kids, a boy and girl playing some game.. while laughing as a third boy sent a valentine to the girl.. they laughed at him.. while the little girl leaves the room.. the boy, watching from outside, hangs the laughing boy from a coat rack!! silly.. and.. wow that just sounded weird having to describe that, I suppose my grammar is ****'d. But anyway..
and yeah.. you're right.. Jenna Jameson did look pretty damn creepy in Zombie Strippers.. I was just waiting.. for the longest time.. I was wondering when the hell Jenna was going to show up.. took me a long time to realize that crazed stretched face creature was her.. OUCH.. the plastic surgery definitely has not been kind. | |
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Posted: 4/1/2009 6:38:07 AM | I haven't seen Night Life in years, as far as I know it hasn't gotten an official DVD release. The thing I always remember about it is the zombies could drive.
I remember Hospital Massacre- it had Barbi Benton. I preferred it's alternate title, 'Be My Valentine, Or Else...'
One of my favorite 80's horror films is The Pit, creepy 12 year old boy who obsesses over the town librarian and his babysitter, befriends creatures that lives in a hole in the ground out in the woods. When he discovers what the creatures like to eat, people he dislikes begin to disappear.
antoniusblock, Cemetery Man is excellent, one of my favorite zombie films. | |
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Posted: 4/1/2009 8:55:30 AM | | I remember seeing the original. It was around 1972. It was pretty scary back then as it was a new type of horror film, more like something that could actually happen in real life than those old supernatural horror films that preceded it. | |
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Posted: 4/1/2009 7:49:12 PM | | yes I love all the returns..the cheesiness is what makes them their own unique movie..cant compare them to the new-age campy films..cemetary man was good..never got a chance to check out 2001 maniacs but have heard good things. | |
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