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[quote]Paste42 wrote:

[quote]optheta wrote:
Dead Snow!

Nazi Zombies how can you not love it?

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I was really confused on that movie to be honest. Was it supposed to be a comedy, similar to Shaun of the Dead?

Edit: Good watch either way.[/quote]

In general it was just a spoof of John romerillo movies (or however its spelled).

Also Netflix instant streaming has ALOT let me repeat ALOT of B-Movies horror/comedy/action etc so if your a fan of B-Movies i suggest u cough up the 8 bucks for Netflix and stream all the B-Movies of your hearts desire

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[quote]optheta wrote:

[quote]Paste42 wrote:

[quote]optheta wrote:
Dead Snow!

Nazi Zombies how can you not love it?

[/quote]

I was really confused on that movie to be honest. Was it supposed to be a comedy, similar to Shaun of the Dead?

Edit: Good watch either way.[/quote]

In general it was just a spoof of John romerillo movies (or however its spelled).

Also Netflix instant streaming has ALOT let me repeat ALOT of B-Movies horror/comedy/action etc so if your a fan of B-Movies i suggest u cough up the 8 bucks for Netflix and stream all the B-Movies of your hearts desire[/quote]

I’ll def need to check that out.

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[quote]DJHT wrote:
Thought this movie was really good I thought[/quote]

Damn. I was going to buy this one time when it was on sale at Best Buy… but I figured it wasn’t worth it.

I’ll definitely remember to keep an eye open for a decreased price next time, though.

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[quote]SSC wrote:

[quote]DJHT wrote:
Thought this movie was really good I thought[/quote]

Damn. I was going to buy this one time when it was on sale at Best Buy… but I figured it wasn’t worth it.

I’ll definitely remember to keep an eye open for a decreased price next time, though. [/quote]

I used to be on the Blockbuster mail in rental. So I would watch like 5-6 movies a week for a couple of years. Movie is good.

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[quote]four60 wrote:

[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:

[quote]four60 wrote:
I have no idea what it was about this movie. But My large azz jumped more in this movie than I ever want to admit to. And everything about it should have made it suck.[/quote]

Is this the sequel? I really liked the first one.[/quote]

No its the original just the Theater poster pic. I didn’t even know there was a pt 2[/quote]

I don’t know if there is. The tagline on the poster directly under the title threw me off and led me to believe that it was a sequel. The first one is a cool throwback horror film.

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Dreamcatcher, I thought it was pretty good and I was impressed by Donnie Wahlberg’s performance.

(Dreamcatcher)
A movie directed by Lawrence Kasdan
2003

The native peoples of North America gave us the tradition of the dreamcatcher, a hoop of twigs woven with an intricate web of sinew. It is believed that good dreams, floating in the night air, pass through the hanging web and flow down the dangling feathers to the sleeper below. But nightmares are caught in the web and held until they perish in the first light of day.

Four young friends who perform a heroic act â?? are changed forever by the uncanny powers they gain in return. Years later the friends, now men, are on a hunting trip in the Maine woods when they are overtaken by a blizzard, a vicious storm in which something much more ominous movesâ?¦ Challenged to stop an alien force, the friends must first prevent the slaughter of innocent civilians by a military vigilante, then overcome a threat to the bond between them. In the end, the friends confront an unparalleled horror, with the fate of the world in the balance…

Cast
Morgan FREEMAN
Thomas JANE
Jason LEE
Damian LEWIS
Tom SIZEMORE
Timothy OLYPHANT
Donnie WAHLBERG
Ingrid KAVELAARS
Alex CAMPBELL
Chera BAILEY
Shauna KAIN

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[quote]The Savage wrote:
Dreamcatcher, I thought it was pretty good and I was impressed by Donnie Wahlberg’s performance.

(Dreamcatcher)
A movie directed by Lawrence Kasdan
2003

The native peoples of North America gave us the tradition of the dreamcatcher, a hoop of twigs woven with an intricate web of sinew. It is believed that good dreams, floating in the night air, pass through the hanging web and flow down the dangling feathers to the sleeper below. But nightmares are caught in the web and held until they perish in the first light of day.

Four young friends who perform a heroic act â?? are changed forever by the uncanny powers they gain in return. Years later the friends, now men, are on a hunting trip in the Maine woods when they are overtaken by a blizzard, a vicious storm in which something much more ominous movesâ?¦ Challenged to stop an alien force, the friends must first prevent the slaughter of innocent civilians by a military vigilante, then overcome a threat to the bond between them. In the end, the friends confront an unparalleled horror, with the fate of the world in the balance…

Cast
Morgan FREEMAN
Thomas JANE
Jason LEE
Damian LEWIS
Tom SIZEMORE
Timothy OLYPHANT
Donnie WAHLBERG
Ingrid KAVELAARS
Alex CAMPBELL
Chera BAILEY
Shauna KAIN
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When I finished watching the movie, I had no idea what it’s about.

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[quote]matko5 wrote:

[quote]The Savage wrote:
Dreamcatcher, I thought it was pretty good and I was impressed by Donnie Wahlberg’s performance.

(Dreamcatcher)
A movie directed by Lawrence Kasdan
2003

The native peoples of North America gave us the tradition of the dreamcatcher, a hoop of twigs woven with an intricate web of sinew. It is believed that good dreams, floating in the night air, pass through the hanging web and flow down the dangling feathers to the sleeper below. But nightmares are caught in the web and held until they perish in the first light of day.

Four young friends who perform a heroic act Ã?¢?? are changed forever by the uncanny powers they gain in return. Years later the friends, now men, are on a hunting trip in the Maine woods when they are overtaken by a blizzard, a vicious storm in which something much more ominous movesÃ?¢?Ã?¦ Challenged to stop an alien force, the friends must first prevent the slaughter of innocent civilians by a military vigilante, then overcome a threat to the bond between them. In the end, the friends confront an unparalleled horror, with the fate of the world in the balance…

Cast
Morgan FREEMAN
Thomas JANE
Jason LEE
Damian LEWIS
Tom SIZEMORE
Timothy OLYPHANT
Donnie WAHLBERG
Ingrid KAVELAARS
Alex CAMPBELL
Chera BAILEY
Shauna KAIN
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When I finished watching the movie, I had no idea what it’s about.[/quote]

An alien infection that causes the hosts to literally become hosts for their off spring named “The Ripley” in homage to the Alien movies lands on Earth as part of an invasion.

The 4 friends who were meant by fate to help save the world were brought together by “Duddets” (Douglas), an alien (who in human form, comes across as “mentally handicapped”) who gave them all individual gifts or “powers” to help them out at very specific points during the invasion.

The book is epic. The movie did not live up to it but it was not a total waste.

The gift of a “mental storage warehouse” is what saves one of the friends from being completely infected by the alien because he can lock his true mind away inside and safe from it.

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Monster Man.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Paste42 wrote:

[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:

[quote]Paste42 wrote:
I have to give a vote to Jeeper’s Creepers also. It did go mainstream though. I was expecting a crappy teen horror flick, but I still think about the creeper everytime I’m walking in the dark (I live in the country). It seemed to start like a slasher flick but the plot twisted when you found out he can sense,and is attracted to fear. Thought it was a great concept.[/quote]

I liked it when I saw it in the theater, but when watching it later it dawned on me how silly it was. Nothing about the monster is explained. Where’d he come from? Why every 23 years for 23 days? Why does he drive a big ass truck if he can fly, or have all kinds of knives and torture equipment if he can just rip an arm off with his bare hands? Also, the director did pen time for raping an underage boy. That last one doesn’t/wouldn’t take away from a movie in any way, just tossin’ it out there.[/quote]

I feel the same. I think I was 14 when it was in theaters. I was looking at the ground a few times throughout the movie lol.

My take on any horror movie is that if you start to analyze it, you’ll find it becomes less and less scary, and actually funny. I try to watch horror movies with an open mind and let it surprise me. So far that strategy has made many crappy movies enjoyable.[/quote]

I agree. I still like Jeepers Creepers and am fine with the fact that they don’t give a full history of the creature. They implied he is either a demon or some ancient being that had been here for millennia who only wakes up ever 23 years to eat and then goes back to sleep.

The sequel truly sucked, but the first one was decent.[/quote]

I was so fucking pissed after watching that movie. It had the most potential of any horror film I had seen in 20 years up until the monster got hit by the car. Then it turned into a pile of crap. It really pissed me off. LOL.

I liked Pandorum (2009) quite a bit, but the ending was kinda hokey.

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[quote]optheta wrote:
Dead Snow!

Nazi Zombies how can you not love it?

[/quote]

Hell yeah!!! Now that’s what I’m talkin about.

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Thoughts on what’s been mentioned:
Splinter was great. A solid new type of “monster movie”.

Behind the Mask was good, but I felt it fizzled towards the end.

High Tension was great, but totally lost me in the last 10 minutes or so. Martyrs is another French horror film that confirmed that I just don’t “get it” with French horror films.

Dead Snow is already in my Blockbuster queue. Looking forward to it.

My own suggestions:
Martin. George Romero’s take on the vampire myth. Very dated (from 1977 and feels every bit of it) and a little slow, but the story is solid overall.

Grace. What happens when a vegan mother realizes her newborn baby is really a bloodthirsty ghoul? Good times. That’s what.

Hatchet. Good old hack’n’slash flick, reminiscent of the original Friday the 13th 1 and 2, with a brand new character (a deformed backwoods child all grown up, of course, and played by Kane Hodder.) Plenty o’ gore. Plenty. A sequel is planned for later in 2010.

Black Christmas. Another good old hack’n’slash flick. Crazy killer dude escapes a mental hospital at Christmastime and returns to the house he grew up in, now inhabited by a sorority. Maybe not uber-creative, but a nice change of pace from other “horror” movies today.

Fido. A tongue in cheek (no pun intended) sorta-horror/sorta-comedy along the lines of Shaun of the Dead. With a '50s-atmosphere, zombies can be tamed and kept as pets when wearing a special device, until there’s an accident. Dun-dun-dunnnnnnn.

Defiance. Prof did also mention action movies in the first post, and this is a very underrated WW2 movie. Very powerful, with good performances from Daniel Craig and Liev Schrieber (but cut them some slack on maintaining their accents).

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Here’s one that I saw a few months ago. It’s a Spanish movie, but it’s dubbed in english. I thought it was going to suck, it was just a last minute rental. It turned out to be great. The only thing is that after watching it, you feel like it could have been 100x better. Like they could have taken the concept and really cranked out something sweet. Not that this movie sucked, it was really good, but you just think “Man, they could have done this and that with it and made this movie even better.”

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Dusk till Dawn.

Rented it thinking it was going to be an action movie.
Started out that way then took a twist.
The dance with the snake salvaged it. Who was that? Damn!
Tarantino’s character was pretty funny.

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Great thread. I love horror movies, but unfortunately there are precious few “sleeper” hits that escape my radar. All of the ones I know of have already been mentioned.

If anyone hasn’t seen it, Event Horizon is outstanding. I remember going to the theatre to watch it. I was really young and on a date with some fat chick who kept hogging my Junior mints. One of the scenes scared her so much that she actually spit one out. It ricocheted off the seat in front of us, and I think for a minute she considered picking it up and salvaging it, but she was on a date and trying to look classy. I didn’t get any sex.

Terrifying movie though. They managed to successfully combine Sci-Fi and Horror, which is damned hard to do (Aliens comes to mind, not too many others).

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[quote]DM65 wrote:
Dusk till Dawn.

The dance with the snake salvaged it. Who was that?[/quote]

WHOA! That’s almost grounds to have your man card revoked!

Salma Hayek

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Dusk till Dawn started off as a great movie, but when the chicks all turned into vampires, I thought it turned kinda hokey. Kinda liked the ending, especially Clooney’s classic line, “I may be an asshole, but I’m not a fucking asshole.” If he had taken her to El Rey with him, it could have opened up a good sequel(I know there was a sequel, but it looked worse than the first).

High Tension was good, but if you have ever seen a horror movie, you knew who the villain was by the time the second person dies. A friend of mine freaked out from it, which didn’t make sense to me…until I found out he was bi-polar. Then a LOT of stuff made sense.

Cabin Fever was pretty good, but more in a comedic kind of way. Loved the old man in the general store with the shotgun, “No, that there’s for the niggers”, then at the end he’s selling it to some black dudes. Classic.

Behind the Mask was great, one of the best horror movies I’ve seen in a long time(admittedly, I’m not a huge horror fan-as was mentioned above, most have too many holes). However, throughout most of the movie, I couldn’t help but think how awesome it could have been if they’d had a bigger budget and hired bigger talent.

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[quote]bluefingas wrote:
Monster Man.[/quote]

This is easily one of the dumbest movies in the history of movies. The gore is over the top cheesy but they don’t cuss. “holy flippin’ shoot!!!”

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[quote]boatguy wrote:
Dusk till Dawn started off as a great movie, but when the chicks all turned into vampires, I thought it turned kinda hokey. Kinda liked the ending, especially Clooney’s classic line, “I may be an asshole, but I’m not a fucking asshole.” If he had taken her to El Rey with him, it could have opened up a good sequel(I know there was a sequel, but it looked worse than the first).
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This is one of my fears for the new predator movie. Rodriguez makes cool movies, but he has a tendency to get real silly real fast. I don’t want to see some super mutated predator with 6 arms that spits barbs and kncocks down walls while Adrien Brody runs around screaming one-liners.

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[quote]skaz05 wrote:

[quote]DM65 wrote:
Dusk till Dawn.

The dance with the snake salvaged it. Who was that?[/quote]

WHOA! That’s almost grounds to have your man card revoked!

Salma Hayek[/quote]

passes out