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3 students go in search of the origins of an 80's film called The Hills Run Red. It was banned everywhere for being too gruesome, and the only thing left of the film is a trailer which does the rounds on the internet. The director's daughter is found, and is asked to come along with them to the location the film was made. Needless to say, they run in to the killer who starred in the original film. It has a good build up, and plenty of time to get to know the chracters. When the mayhem starts, it really goes for it, with some brutal torture scenes. There's also a lot of nudity, a damn fine bad guy, and some impressive visuals.
3.5/5



Seriously, i should have looked at the cover and known what this was gonna be like. The Exorcist for 2 year olds! A terrible film! ***POSSIBLE SPOILERS MAY FOLLOW****Molly died at child birth, and her parents make a deal with some demonic person to bring her back to life. Only problem is, on her 18th birthday, she becomes the property of the demons. On the run up to her birthday, she starts to experience weird goings on, and when i say weird, i mean that in the most light hearted, sugar coated way possible. THIS IS BABIES STUFF!!! If anyone even gets a slight tingling of tension from this film then you should not be on this thread, it will give you nightmares and fuck you up for life (the thread content, NOT this awful film ). A shocking film, it really is. Oh, there's lots of school uniforms, so half a point for that!
Half a point out of five!!

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ORIGINAL: evil bill

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ORIGINAL: dj vivace



3 students go in search of the origins of an 80's film called The Hills Run Red. It was banned everywhere for being too gruesome, and the only thing left of the film is a trailer which does the rounds on the internet. The director's daughter is found, and is asked to come along with them to the location the film was made. Needless to say, they run in to the killer who starred in the original film. It has a good build up, and plenty of time to get to know the chracters. When the mayhem starts, it really goes for it, with some brutal torture scenes. There's also a lot of nudity, a damn fine bad guy, and some impressive visuals.
3.5/5



Seriously, i should have looked at the cover and known what this was gonna be like. The Exorcist for 2 year olds! A terrible film! ***POSSIBLE SPOILERS MAY FOLLOW****Molly died at child birth, and her parents make a deal with some demonic person to bring her back to life. Only problem is, on her 18th birthday, she becomes the property of the demons. On the run up to her birthday, she starts to experience weird goings on, and when i say weird, i mean that in the most light hearted, sugar coated way possible. THIS IS BABIES STUFF!!! If anyone even gets a slight tingling of tension from this film then you should not be on this thread, it will give you nightmares and fuck you up for life (the thread content, NOT this awful film ). A shocking film, it really is. Oh, there's lots of school uniforms, so half a point for that!
Half a point out of five!!

S
And as for the other movie the cover would of put me off right away,i bet it's not even worth a 12 cert.

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ORIGINAL: dj vivace

So recently i have watched



This echoes Hellraiser. Its a very very dark film, with some great ideas about people making deals with demons to get their loved ones back from the dead. Good ideas, a rather nasty demon (the thing on the cover) but it never really delivers on its promise. Could have been great, but becomes slow, repetative and a bit boring really
2/5



Its a realy shame Michelle Soavi is not around to make films anymore, he could easily have been up there with Argento. They both worked together on the Church and The Sect, 2 great films, his other flim is Cemetary Man. 4 classic horrors (including this one!). Anyway, Stage Fright is about a group of actors who are making a play about a serial killer who wears n owls costume head. The killer then breaks out of a mental asylum, turn up on set and starts picking off the cast after locking them in. Que some inventive deaths, cheesy as hell 80's music, bad acting and bad dubbing. All the things that make Italian horror great. Go see it if you haven't already
4/5



Ths was a damn fine oldie aswell. Vincent Price plays a Shakespearean actor who gets a terrible review, and no award for his performance. He then comes back, with his cult followers, to avenge his review and kill the critics in some really great ways. Simple, effective, and with a sense of humour too, this was great
4/5

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ORIGINAL: evil bill

  
Well after watching the sad mess that is Rob Zombies Halloween II,i've decided to revisit the classic John Carpenters HALLOWEEN.After all it's coming up to that time of year again,and i don't think i've posted my feelings for this one on here.Well we all know the story,evil, emotionless Michael Myers stabs his sister to death at age six on Halloween night in 1963.On October 30, 1978, he escapes from a mental institution and so begins a new reign of terror in his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois. He is pursued the whole time by a psychiatrist (Donald Pleasence) who knows just how evil this young man is.It opens with a bang, and sets up a genuinely suspenseful and atmospheric chiller that is actually superior to the many slasher pictures it helped to inspire.There are no nasty bloodbaths,which many of those subsequent movies were,it's subtle, and scary.Pleasence is great in what was probably the definitive role of his career; Jamie Lee Curtis, in her motion picture debut, became a bona fide scream queen after acting in Halloween, as well as a few subsequent slasher pictures,like Prom Night etc, and she is an intended victim worth rooting for.Co-writer / director John Carpenter knows what works in this movie, making excellent use of shadows and dark skies; notice how most of the movie is set after nightfall.He like Hitchcock(Psycho the true first slasher)knows how to play with are primordial anxietes,and the voyeurism thrill of horror.Carpenter is a great fan of Hictchcock as we see with the casting of Jamie Lee Curtis,daughter of Janet Lee Psycho 1960,and both Sam Loomis and Tom Doyle are characters from Psycho and Rear Window 1954. With this picture, he and his former collaborator Debra Hill created a franchise that has spawned seven sequels, many imitators, and re-imagining.It's very quotable - who could ever forget Dr. Loomis' (Pleasence) speech in which he describes Michael Myers to the sheriff (Charles Cyphers, a reliable repertory player in several of Carpenter's earlier works)?It is brilliantly paced,as we follow Micheal or Laurie though the homes and streets,and the fact he can never be stopped as he rises from death time and time again,still chills to the bone.A masterpiece and milestone in cinema history that still looks great and shows you don't need gore all the time.5/5CLASSIC

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Necromentia looks worth a watch.

Vincent Price is a legend. I loved the Dr Phibes movies and Mask of the  Red Death, however, I think The Theatre of Blood is my favourite as it was funny and depraved. 7/5 /10.

I gonna go with one of LH's recommendations and watch The Orphan tonight. It seemed to be hit by many mixed reviews at the time of release, but as we all know, this does not make a bad movie.

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ORIGINAL: evil bill

  
Well after watching the sad mess that is Rob Zombies Halloween II,i've decided to revisit the classic John Carpenters HALLOWEEN.After all it's coming up to that time of year again,and i don't think i've posted my feelings for this one on here.Well we all know the story,evil, emotionless Michael Myers stabs his sister to death at age six on Halloween night in 1963.On October 30, 1978, he escapes from a mental institution and so begins a new reign of terror in his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois. He is pursued the whole time by a psychiatrist (Donald Pleasence) who knows just how evil this young man is.It opens with a bang, and sets up a genuinely suspenseful and atmospheric chiller that is actually superior to the many slasher pictures it helped to inspire.There are no nasty bloodbaths,which many of those subsequent movies were,it's subtle, and scary.Pleasence is great in what was probably the definitive role of his career; Jamie Lee Curtis, in her motion picture debut, became a bona fide scream queen after acting in Halloween, as well as a few subsequent slasher pictures,like Prom Night etc, and she is an intended victim worth rooting for.Co-writer / director John Carpenter knows what works in this movie, making excellent use of shadows and dark skies; notice how most of the movie is set after nightfall.He like Hitchcock(Psycho the true first slasher)knows how to play with are primordial anxietes,and the voyeurism thrill of horror.Carpenter is a great fan of Hictchcock as we see with the casting of Jamie Lee Curtis,daughter of Janet Lee Psycho 1960,and both Sam Loomis and Tom Doyle are characters from Psycho and Rear Window 1954. With this picture, he and his former collaborator Debra Hill created a franchise that has spawned seven sequels, many imitators, and re-imagining.It's very quotable - who could ever forget Dr. Loomis' (Pleasence) speech in which he describes Michael Myers to the sheriff (Charles Cyphers, a reliable repertory player in several of Carpenter's earlier works)?It is brilliantly paced,as we follow Micheal or Laurie though the homes and streets,and the fact he can never be stopped as he rises from death time and time again,still chills to the bone.A masterpiece and milestone in cinema history that still looks great and shows you don't need gore all the time.5/5CLASSIC

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ORIGINAL: dj vivace

Planned viewing for the next few days

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Please tell me if Fulci's House by the Cemetery is any good.

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ORIGINAL: DAVID GILLESPIE

Please tell me if Fulci's House by the Cemetery is any good.

It's pretty good, but I thought the revealing of the zombie doctor was a letdown. I preferred it when you didn't see him. Plenty of gory shocks though .

It's getting another release by Cornerstone Media, when it already has a great package courtesy of Shameless/Arrow Video, so I'm assuming it'll be a poor transfer. They're also releasing The Beyond but I won't bother with it until Shameless/Arrow decide to put out a proper version. Apparently they are considering City of the Living Dead!

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ORIGINAL: DAVID GILLESPIE

Please tell me if Fulci's House by the Cemetery is any good.

It's pretty good, but I thought the revealing of the zombie doctor was a letdown. I preferred it when you didn't see him. Plenty of gory shocks though .

It's getting another release by Cornerstone Media, when it already has a great package courtesy of Shameless/Arrow Video, so I'm assuming it'll be a poor transfer. They're also releasing The Beyond but I won't bother with it until Shameless/Arrow decide to put out a proper version. Apparently they are considering City of the Living Dead!

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I didn't think much of Inside, one reason being the silliness in the plot. I think this suffers the same problems as Martyrs where it's trying to overcomplicate a very simple, completely unsophisticated formula, seemingly ashamed of what its doing, and thinking that if it just takes itself seriously enough no one'll possibly suspect its just the pointlessly crude cinema that we all know and love, but something with loftier ideas, somewhere. But there were a lot of problems with Inside. I couldn't stand Beatrice Dalle's performance for example, perhaps because it did seem very familiar, linking quite neatly to a generic J-Horror baddie. But also because the use of the pregnant victim is so sickeningly lazy and the CGI baby was an embarrassment as a tool.

But the plot is silly. We had a bottle of wine out during the film so maybe that had something to do with it, but where the hell that zombie cop come from, for example? Was his sudden possession by the forces of evil explained at all?

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I didn't think much of Inside, one reason being the silliness in the plot. I think this suffers the same problems as Martyrs where it's trying to overcomplicate a very simple, completely unsophisticated formula, seemingly ashamed of what its doing, and thinking that if it just takes itself seriously enough no one'll possibly suspect its just the pointlessly crude cinema that we all know and love, but something with loftier ideas, somewhere. But there were a lot of problems with Inside. I couldn't stand Beatrice Dalle's performance for example, perhaps because it did seem very familiar, linking quite neatly to a generic J-Horror baddie. But also because the use of the pregnant victim is so sickeningly lazy and the CGI baby was an embarrassment as a tool.

But the plot is silly. We had a bottle of wine out during the film so maybe that had something to do with it, but where the hell that zombie cop come from, for example? Was his sudden possession by the forces of evil explained at all?

I too at first thought...."Hang on a Zombie!!!!!!" then I realised that the copper probably had brain damage from the pyscho bitch and the reason he attacked the good pregnant one is because he had no idea who she was....

But you right.....that is what I meant by at times the stupidity of the plot.  It seemed the director was more interested in just getting more shocks to the auidence than gaining some tension.....

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Interesting finally reading the reviews for Inside...

I still stand by it as a masterpiece of modern horror and the best of the French new wave of horror by miles. Dante's plot flaw never even crossed my mind when I watched it as I was just swept up in the imagery, total nastiness of it all, and it really upset me... something the family death scene in Martyrs attempted but failed on. It seems the way folks think about Inside, is how I feel about Martyrs.

...Still different strokes for different folks as they say!

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ORIGINAL: DAVID GILLESPIE

Please tell me if Fulci's House by the Cemetery is any good.

It's pretty good, but I thought the revealing of the zombie doctor was a letdown. I preferred it when you didn't see him. Plenty of gory shocks though .

It's getting another release by Cornerstone Media, when it already has a great package courtesy of Shameless/Arrow Video, so I'm assuming it'll be a poor transfer. They're also releasing The Beyond but I won't bother with it until Shameless/Arrow decide to put out a proper version. Apparently they are considering City of the Living Dead!

I really must give The Beyond another go as I was a little disappointed by the version I watched a year ago. However I think it was very badly cut. The final quarter was highly entertaining. Why that doctor insisted on body shots on those zombies though..I mean..duuuuhhhh!

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ORIGINAL: DAVID GILLESPIE

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Planned viewing for the next few days

DJ you worry me. What is a national geographic flick doing in with all that carnage and depravity? Sick one, indeed.
Please tell me if Fulci's House by the Cemetery is any good.