Fucking love Bruce Campbell. He’s got a book called “If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor” and “Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way”
All this mention of Cabin in the Woods, i feel like i missed out on something.
What was so great about it? (without revealing spoilers please)
Karen effing Black FTW…
God I loved the Evil Dead movies, the gore, the comedy (which made it even more creepy in a sense). Bruce Campbell’s herky jerky movements and his eyes just were perfect. The sounds of the film were great. I am not a fan of CGI and to know there wont be any CGI in the remake really makes me happy. Saw the trailer and it looks pretty damn good.
I loved 80s slasher flicks. some of my faves…
Happy Birthday to Me
Nightmare on Elmstreet 3
Original Creepshow
Redneck Zombies
Chud
Prom Night
Backwoods
Terror Within (maybe my favorite)
The Demon
American Gothic
Girls School Screamers
The gates of hell (dont eat eggs when watching this)
The Slumber Part Massacre
Satans Blade
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[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
All this mention of Cabin in the Woods, i feel like i missed out on something.
What was so great about it? (without revealing spoilers please)[/quote]
it’s starts off like “meh,” then all of a sudden turns into “Holy shit!”
It’s worth watching. I was really impressed with it.
Remakes sucks. So I think this will too. I much rather an evil dead 4 with Bruce Campbell.
[quote]rds63799 wrote:
[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
All this mention of Cabin in the Woods, i feel like i missed out on something.
What was so great about it? (without revealing spoilers please)[/quote]
it’s starts off like “meh,” then all of a sudden turns into “Holy shit!”
It’s worth watching. I was really impressed with it.[/quote]
It ended “meh” too. There was no character or plat development, so you don’t love them and want them to get away, or hate them and want to see them get killed. Cabin in the woods just had every horror bad guy in it, but not in a good way. They were all cameos it seems. It just was not work the time to watch it.
The terror within! Oh man I remember that from when I was a kid, good shit.
[quote]krazylarry wrote:
It ended “meh” too. There was no character or plat development, so you don’t love them and want them to get away, or hate them and want to see them get killed. [/quote]
That was the point. It’s a satire of formulaic horror flicks and the people who devour them ritualistically - including the people who went to see this expecting more of the same (geddit?).
They weren’t cameos.
SPOILERS
The technicians represented scriptwriters on bad horror movies. The plot was made up as they went along and they even had a lottery on which monster would be released. The junk in the cellar dictated how the college kids would die: the hellraiser box (orb, lol), the book in Latin (don’t read it) and Patience Buckner’s journal.
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[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]krazylarry wrote:
It ended “meh” too. There was no character or plat development, so you don’t love them and want them to get away, or hate them and want to see them get killed. [/quote]
That was the point. It’s a satire of formulaic horror flicks and the people who devour them ritualistically - including the people who went to see this expecting more of the same (geddit?).
They weren’t cameos.
SPOILERS
The technicians represented scriptwriters on bad horror movies. The plot was made up as they went along and they even had a lottery on which monster would be released. The junk in the cellar dictated how the college kids would die: the hellraiser box (orb, lol), the book in Latin (don’t read it) and Patience Buckner’s journal.
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Lol people think that was a horror movie?
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
Lol people think that was a horror movie?
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For real. Some people have posted about walking out when it got past the cliches.
Ya, Cabin in the Woods was truly something special and those that don’t like it/didn’t enjoy it definitely don’t deserve to, IME.
Personally, aside from ^, Sinister (above-average,) and Insidious (also above-average,) I’ve been much more impressed with much “quieter” horror films in recent years - Martyrs, Dead Girl, House of the Devil (a terrific homage to Hitchcockian suspense movies of yesteryear.)
There will always be gems to be found, sometimes one just has to be persistent in their search.
Alright so maybe i didnt miss out too much by not seeing Cabin in the Woods…
It seems like i get a lot of flack whenever i say this, but did anyone else love the remake of The Crazies? I saw it in theatres and while its not a really shocking or make you jump up out of your seat type of movie, it was intense as fuck i thought. Definitely on the edge of my seat for much of it.
[quote]Cortes wrote:
Return of the Living Dead is one of my all time favorite movies for the same reason that Evil Dead is. It is creepy and gory as hell, but never stops having a great time being a silly, totally self-aware horror movie. Part II is also good.
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ROTLD is the definitive meta-zombie flick. Dan O’ Bannon was an unsung master of horror. He should have directed more movies.
Dead and Buried is dated, but it takes a classic murder mystery, throws in a handful of zombies and tops off the mix with a twist so killer that Ridley stole it for Blade Runner.
[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
Alright so maybe i didnt miss out too much by not seeing Cabin in the Woods…
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I think that’s pretty much the opposite of what was said in this thread… ? Just watch it dude. Learn as little about it as possible beforehand.
“…with a twist so killer that Ridley stole it for Blade Runner.”
D&B is an underapprecated stunner, coming from a jaded horror/film film background.
But Ridley didn’t ‘steal’ anything as the Philip K. Dick based novel on which
B.R. is based on came WAY before D&B.
Anyway, the Grandaddy of modern ‘Slasher Films’, of which generally I am NOT
a fan of, is the excellent, atmospheric 1974 Film BLACK CHRISTMAS, directed by Bob Clark, the SAME guy that
made A CHRISTMAS STORY and PORKYS…what an astonishing diverse director.
3 Classics…A Classic horror film years before even ORIGINAL “Halloween” came out, a perennial
Family Christmas classic, and one of the original classic ‘Frat Boy’
College comedies.
[quote]Karado wrote:
“…with a twist so killer that Ridley stole it for Blade Runner.”
D&B is an underapprecated stunner, coming from a jaded horror/film film background.
But Ridley didn’t ‘steal’ anything as the Philip K. Dick based novel on which
B.R. is based on came WAY before D&B.
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Blade Runner bears as much resemblance to “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” as Total Recall does to “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale”.
O’Bannon wrote Alien, Dead and Buried came after Alien but before Blade Runner, the plot of Dead and Buried is Blade Runner with zombies. Work it out.
[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
All this mention of Cabin in the Woods, i feel like i missed out on something.
What was so great about it? (without revealing spoilers please)[/quote]
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
You just need to see it.
Not the same without Bruce FUCKING Campbell and his awesome crazy gaze.
"Blade Runner bears as much resemblance to “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” as Total Recall does to “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale”.
O’Bannon wrote Alien, Dead and Buried came after Alien but before Blade Runner, the plot of Dead and Buried is Blade Runner with zombies. Work it out."
Agreed, and was already familiar with ALL you said, but this nothing to do with the ‘twist’ you claim Scott stole from D&B in spite of the major differences between novel and film because the twist was ALREADY
in ‘Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep’ in 1968 years before O’Bannon even concieved of it D&B.
O’Bannon and Scott stand on Philip K. Dick’s shoulders, not the other way around.
[quote]Karado wrote:
"Blade Runner bears as much resemblance to “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” as Total Recall does to “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale”.
O’Bannon wrote Alien, Dead and Buried came after Alien but before Blade Runner, the plot of Dead and Buried is Blade Runner with zombies. Work it out."
Agreed, and was already familiar with ALL you said, but this nothing to do with the ‘twist’ you claim Scott stole from D&B in spite of the major differences between novel and film because the twist was ALREADY
in ‘Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep’ in 1968 years before O’Bannon even concieved of it D&B.
O’Bannon and Scott stand on Philip K. Dick’s shoulders, not the other way around.
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You must be talking about a completely different plot twist, then. Care to elaborate?