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ORIGINAL: Sledge Hammer

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ORIGINAL: ADRIAN MOORE

Where the hell are Sledge Hammer and Rubadub??!! Not to mention Paap!!
We need their in-depth analysis of the current trend in horror films,be it american remakes,european extreme or japan's output.
I think you people scared them away.Talking about horror films? How dare you!

Sometimes people shouldnt wish for certain things.

Heres my review of

REC:

The action starts off with a weather girl doing a report from the local hospital. She is very hot and HOT if you know what I mean. She follows one of the cops out on a routine search. I think he was played by Mario Sanchez who was AC Slater in Saved by the Bell. He was excellent nevertheless.

Anyway, the reporters and firepeople get to this building where a little girls guinea pig has bitten several people. After investigating, it turns out they are all ZOMBIES!!!!!!!!

A lot of arguing happens in French (but there are subtitles lol) and its all recorded on someones Iphone. In the end, the hot weather girl (thinking Wincey Willis hot) and the soldier make it past the zombies and get to the penthouse, as they are not allowed out of the building as its been sealed off by a mysterious corporation (I dont speak French so didnt quite get this bit).

In the loft, they find this anorexic chic who is maybe also a zombie. The camera turns into a night vision shot (must have downloaded an app for the iphone) and the girl gets dragged away by the skinny zombie. Thats it! No explosions or anything. Which would have made it better.

If there would have maybe been a monster behind it, I would have given it 5* but as it turned out to be a really hot skinny girl, it only gets 4.5*.

Looking forward to the sequel: [!] PLAY 2: high voltage.

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ORIGINAL: AngryDude92

Well last saturday I perchased Rob Zombies "re-imagining" of Carpenters classic and I've now watched it.
For those of you who give a shit here's my opinion/review.

Halloween (2007)


Dir: Rob Zombie (this name needs sorting)

I'm pretty sure we all know the plot to this one. Michael is in a mental asylum for killing his sister when he was 6,
15 years later he escapes and goes about stalking and slashing Jamie Lee Curtis and friends.
A very simple idea that spawned a legend, a sub-genre (sort off), to many sequels and now a Re-make.
With this one Director Rob Zombie of Devils Rejects fame (It's not terrible) has decided to give michael more of a back story
and tries to explain why he's so fucking menta, and this results in some 50 plus minutes untill we get to Laurie Strode but more on that later.

In the original all the back story we ahd for Michael was his parents seemed normal and he killed his sister because he's just evil, here Mr Zombie
forgets about dramatic subtlety as it's revealed that Michael has: a horrible abusive step dad; a stripper mum; a slag for a big sister; and a little baby sister.
Holy crap what chance did this kid have he was fucked from birth! and this is one of my biggest problems with the film, explaing why he's so nasty, originally
we just had a simple young man who's evil no explanation he's just evil and now we go through every cliche in book for why someone is messed up.

After some character development with Rob Zombie diolouge (it's like normal diolouge but the f word pops up at random points) we get the Michael
rampage where he kills, the local school bully, His abusive step dad, his sisters' Boyfriend (he gets it the worst in my opinion) and of course his sister. By
Now we've vastly multiplyed the amount of blood compared to the original and nearly hit the same body count and believe me there's more to come. 
He's sent to the institute where he's psycho analysed by Sam Loomis played here by the best thing in the film Malcolm McDowel. After lots of bullshit
and the revelation taht michael is obsested with masks we finally cut to 15 years later whaere it is revealed that Michael Myers, rather than be the human
sized killer from the original, is a 7 ft mutant with long hair, what the fuck were thay feeding him while he was in the asylum? He escapes by killing everyone
in as nasty a way as possible (especially those who are nice to him) and escaped back to haddonfiels Illanoise where after over an houre we meet Laurie strode
and the rest of the gang.

Laurie Strode's character in this one isn't shy around boys, or really well behaved, instead she's a stereo typical teen girl who looks rediculously attractive and
probably more at home down the local park getting pissed and violated. It's at this point in the film where I serioulst question wether or not Rob Zombie has ever seen
the original because non of the characters are the same except maybe Loomis(though that may just be Malcolm doing it his way), the only things that are the same are the set
peices that we all know, mostly beacuse most of them were in scream. All of Lauries friends just show up, have sex, as Michael watches, ew, then are killed in the manner
that we saw back in 1978 (if you're old enough). To sum the ending up stuff happens, Michael Chases Laurie for way to long, with no element of peril introduced and I get
a little bored.

It's not that the film's terrible by any means but more a savierly wasted opertunity, all the teenage girl characters are bland, uninteresting and badly characterised so we haven't really
got anyone to root for, Scout Taylor Moor is awful as Laurie Strode making me want to see her killed quickly, the back story thing is just iritating and cliched and the biggest anoyance
is that the plot point in the original sequal of Laurie being Michael's sister (WTF) is also present in this film and that in my opinion is one of the worst twists in history.
And most of the young cast just show up and are killed as quickly as they appeared . Still it's head and shoulders above Halloween:Resurection. And what's the deal with most people in
this film, the women are babes, the guys are really ugly with long hair and almost everyone acts like an asshole.

Verdict
This is a poor effort with a director who seems to think that replacing scares with gore is a good idea, it isn't and the film really suffers
as a result as it grows dull as the over long running time takes it's toll on the audience. Most of the diolouge is at best uninteresting and at worst
sounds like some asshole trying to copy Tarantino when they really can't. Over all if you enjoy Zombie's work you'll probably dig this but if like
me you find his style to over the top with no real skill involved you'd do yourself better by giving this a miss and watching the original instead.
2/5

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ORIGINAL: DONOVAN KURTWOOD

I just don't get it, not my kind of humour i guess!

However Friday the 13th (1980) is one of my alltime favourite movies, 5/5 from me.

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ORIGINAL: Sledge Hammer

I didnt think I would ever do this again on this thread but here it goes....a sensible question.

I am a huge Halloween fan but one thing I never understood (except for the ending of Halloween 6) is why the hatred for Halloween: Resurrection?

I actually quite enjoyed it and it was far more watcheable than parts 4,5 and 6.

Okay so Busta Rhymes Kung Fu kicked Michael but apart from that, I actually thought it was quite good (and dare I say better than H20)

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ORIGINAL: Sledge Hammer

I didnt think I would ever do this again on this thread but here it goes....a sensible question.

I am a huge Halloween fan but one thing I never understood (except for the ending of Halloween 6) is why the hatred for Halloween: Resurrection?

I actually quite enjoyed it and it was far more watcheable than parts 4,5 and 6.

Okay so Busta Rhymes Kung Fu kicked Michael but apart from that, I actually thought it was quite good (and dare I say better than H20)

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ORIGINAL: HughesRoss

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ORIGINAL: AngryDude92

Well last saturday I perchased Rob Zombies "re-imagining" of Carpenters classic and I've now watched it.
For those of you who give a shit here's my opinion/review.

Halloween (2007)


Dir: Rob Zombie (this name needs sorting)

I'm pretty sure we all know the plot to this one. Michael is in a mental asylum for killing his sister when he was 6,
15 years later he escapes and goes about stalking and slashing Jamie Lee Curtis and friends.
A very simple idea that spawned a legend, a sub-genre (sort off), to many sequels and now a Re-make.
With this one Director Rob Zombie of Devils Rejects fame (It's not terrible) has decided to give michael more of a back story
and tries to explain why he's so fucking menta, and this results in some 50 plus minutes untill we get to Laurie Strode but more on that later.

In the original all the back story we ahd for Michael was his parents seemed normal and he killed his sister because he's just evil, here Mr Zombie
forgets about dramatic subtlety as it's revealed that Michael has: a horrible abusive step dad; a stripper mum; a slag for a big sister; and a little baby sister.
Holy crap what chance did this kid have he was fucked from birth! and this is one of my biggest problems with the film, explaing why he's so nasty, originally
we just had a simple young man who's evil no explanation he's just evil and now we go through every cliche in book for why someone is messed up.

After some character development with Rob Zombie diolouge (it's like normal diolouge but the f word pops up at random points) we get the Michael
rampage where he kills, the local school bully, His abusive step dad, his sisters' Boyfriend (he gets it the worst in my opinion) and of course his sister. By
Now we've vastly multiplyed the amount of blood compared to the original and nearly hit the same body count and believe me there's more to come. 
He's sent to the institute where he's psycho analysed by Sam Loomis played here by the best thing in the film Malcolm McDowel. After lots of bullshit
and the revelation taht michael is obsested with masks we finally cut to 15 years later whaere it is revealed that Michael Myers, rather than be the human
sized killer from the original, is a 7 ft mutant with long hair, what the fuck were thay feeding him while he was in the asylum? He escapes by killing everyone
in as nasty a way as possible (especially those who are nice to him) and escaped back to haddonfiels Illanoise where after over an houre we meet Laurie strode
and the rest of the gang.

Laurie Strode's character in this one isn't shy around boys, or really well behaved, instead she's a stereo typical teen girl who looks rediculously attractive and
probably more at home down the local park getting pissed and violated. It's at this point in the film where I serioulst question wether or not Rob Zombie has ever seen
the original because non of the characters are the same except maybe Loomis(though that may just be Malcolm doing it his way), the only things that are the same are the set
peices that we all know, mostly beacuse most of them were in scream. All of Lauries friends just show up, have sex, as Michael watches, ew, then are killed in the manner
that we saw back in 1978 (if you're old enough). To sum the ending up stuff happens, Michael Chases Laurie for way to long, with no element of peril introduced and I get
a little bored.

It's not that the film's terrible by any means but more a savierly wasted opertunity, all the teenage girl characters are bland, uninteresting and badly characterised so we haven't really
got anyone to root for, Scout Taylor Moor is awful as Laurie Strode making me want to see her killed quickly, the back story thing is just iritating and cliched and the biggest anoyance
is that the plot point in the original sequal of Laurie being Michael's sister (WTF) is also present in this film and that in my opinion is one of the worst twists in history.
And most of the young cast just show up and are killed as quickly as they appeared . Still it's head and shoulders above Halloween:Resurection. And what's the deal with most people in
this film, the women are babes, the guys are really ugly with long hair and almost everyone acts like an asshole.

Verdict
This is a poor effort with a director who seems to think that replacing scares with gore is a good idea, it isn't and the film really suffers
as a result as it grows dull as the over long running time takes it's toll on the audience. Most of the diolouge is at best uninteresting and at worst
sounds like some asshole trying to copy Tarantino when they really can't. Over all if you enjoy Zombie's work you'll probably dig this but if like
me you find his style to over the top with no real skill involved you'd do yourself better by giving this a miss and watching the original instead.
2/5

I give a shit because its Halloween, and I agree with your score!

The best advantage I had for Zombie's version, two days before the offical release, I was given an advanced copy. I never felt so angry in my life, spitting out blood at each ghastly scene. I vowed never to watch it again, but somehow being Michael, I had an urge to watch it when it premiered on SKY!.....

I was shocked at the many added scenes and realised that this was the directors cut, which in fact enhanced the picture, not a great deal, but enough to make it watchable and 100 times better than the Friday remake....

Its also much better than the horrid H2

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ORIGINAL: DONOVAN KURTWOOD

Has anyone seen this?:



Got it for my Bday last week and have been wanting to watch it for a while. I'm quite a big Platinum Dunes fan and also very much enjoyed Spun, Jonas Ackerlund's 2004 movie.

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ORIGINAL: Sledge Hammer

Ah Friday the 13th....here's my review:

Set on Halloween in a haunted camp on Lake Diamond, a group of campers (including Kevin Gammon and Julian Sands) go camping at the camp. The campers, whilst camping, start to be picked off my Micheal Vorhees, who was the brother of the the camps original janitor. He picks the campers, who are camping at the camp, one by one as they display bad frowned upon habits (such as having sex, smoking spliffs and listening to james Blunt).

He picks the m off in a number of inventive ways (at one point he jumpsout of a boat with garden shears, and another time, he puts a sheet over his head and then goes back to a bedroon of a girl who as just had sex and strangles her)

Anyway, it all ends when they realise he has been hiding in the attic all along as the phone calls are traced back to the house. I mean camp, where the campers are camping. Jason Myers, who appears in the sequels, makes a brief cameo at the end when he pulls the mother through the small window in her door as Kevin Rasher drives off.

Pretty good but a pretty poor remake of the 2009 version starring Robert England.

My favourite of the sequels was Friday the 13th Part 3: Season of the witch.

I give it 2.5 paaps out of 5.

WTF!?

YIKES!!!

???!!!

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ORIGINAL: Sledge Hammer


Heres my review of

REC:

The action starts off with a weather girl doing a report from the local hospital. She is very hot and HOT if you know what I mean. She follows one of the cops out on a routine search. I think he was played by Mario Sanchez who was AC Slater in Saved by the Bell. He was excellent nevertheless.

Anyway, the reporters and firepeople get to this building where a little girls guinea pig has bitten several people. After investigating, it turns out they are all ZOMBIES!!!!!!!!

A lot of arguing happens in French (but there are subtitles lol) and its all recorded on someones Iphone. In the end, the hot weather girl (thinking Wincey Willis hot) and the soldier make it past the zombies and get to the penthouse, as they are not allowed out of the building as its been sealed off by a mysterious corporation (I dont speak French so didnt quite get this bit).

In the loft, they find this anorexic chic who is maybe also a zombie. The camera turns into a night vision shot (must have downloaded an app for the iphone) and the girl gets dragged away by the skinny zombie. Thats it! No explosions or anything. Which would have made it better.

If there would have maybe been a monster behind it, I would have given it 5* but as it turned out to be a really hot skinny girl, it only gets 4.5*.

Looking forward to the sequel: [!] PLAY 2: high voltage.

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ORIGINAL: Snake-Eyes

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ORIGINAL: Sledge Hammer


Heres my review of

REC:

The action starts off with a weather girl doing a report from the local hospital. She is very hot and HOT if you know what I mean. She follows one of the cops out on a routine search. I think he was played by Mario Sanchez who was AC Slater in Saved by the Bell. He was excellent nevertheless.

Anyway, the reporters and firepeople get to this building where a little girls guinea pig has bitten several people. After investigating, it turns out they are all ZOMBIES!!!!!!!!

A lot of arguing happens in French (but there are subtitles lol) and its all recorded on someones Iphone. In the end, the hot weather girl (thinking Wincey Willis hot) and the soldier make it past the zombies and get to the penthouse, as they are not allowed out of the building as its been sealed off by a mysterious corporation (I dont speak French so didnt quite get this bit).

In the loft, they find this anorexic chic who is maybe also a zombie. The camera turns into a night vision shot (must have downloaded an app for the iphone) and the girl gets dragged away by the skinny zombie. Thats it! No explosions or anything. Which would have made it better.

If there would have maybe been a monster behind it, I would have given it 5* but as it turned out to be a really hot skinny girl, it only gets 4.5*.

Looking forward to the sequel: [!] PLAY 2: high voltage.

Not sure if someone has mentioned a few errors here Sledge - Angela Vidal is a TV Show Host, NOT a Weather Girl. And this is a SPANISH film, not French.

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ORIGINAL: DONOVAN KURTWOOD

Horsemen of the Apocalypse was alright until the ending, then i when i realised where it was going, i realised everything before that was completely boring! Oh well. First real mis-step for Platinum Dunes IMO.

I watched Mutants (the French movie), the first half was fantastic, the second half was lame as it turned into your average action gorefest, dropping all the interesting horror elements that had been set up. The first half really creeped me out though.

Anyone recommend anything else for me that's recent?

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ORIGINAL: DONOVAN KURTWOOD

Horsemen of the Apocalypse was alright until the ending, then i when i realised where it was going, i realised everything before that was completely boring! Oh well. First real mis-step for Platinum Dunes IMO.

I watched Mutants (the French movie), the first half was fantastic, the second half was lame as it turned into your average action gorefest, dropping all the interesting horror elements that had been set up. The first half really creeped me out though.

Anyone recommend anything else for me that's recent?

Single Virgin Mod Candidate 2013

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ORIGINAL: horribleives
To paraphrase the great man himself:

Vad3r won't go anywhere near this.