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Post by theravenking on Apr 21, 2023 22:19:45 GMT
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Apr 22, 2023 9:21:16 GMT
Amityville Scarecrow
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Post by Captain Spencer on Apr 22, 2023 13:49:32 GMT
Is it as bad as it sounds?
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Apr 22, 2023 18:56:57 GMT
Is it as bad as it sounds? Actually its worse. Boring as hell. Very little happens.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Apr 22, 2023 19:53:44 GMT
Is it as bad as it sounds? Actually its worse. Boring as hell. Very little happens. Another case of the poster art being better than the movie itself.
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Post by merh on Apr 22, 2023 22:14:09 GMT
Today Evil Dead Rise Last night Beau is Afraid
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Post by James on Apr 22, 2023 22:26:38 GMT
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Apr 22, 2023 23:25:27 GMT
Actually its worse. Boring as hell. Very little happens. Another case of the poster art being better than the movie itself. Indeed. I fell for that many times.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Apr 23, 2023 4:01:01 GMT
Another case of the poster art being better than the movie itself. Indeed. I fell for that many times. I know what you mean, I'm just as guilty for falling for it at times.
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Post by theravenking on Apr 23, 2023 15:39:58 GMT
Eyes Of Laura Mars (1978; Irvin Kershner) "I saw the blood dry on her face, and it had just the color of your hair."A fashion photographer (Faye Dunaway) suddenly starts experiencing horrifying visions of murders, seeing the deaths of her friends and colleagues through the eyes of the killer. Luckily handsome cop John Neville played by Tommy Lee Jones is on the case, providing some comfort and even romantic interest. This is sometimes described as a US giallo, and while there are certainly traces of that Italian sub-genre, it's a more sanitized, less gruesome and stylish version of a serial-killer movie. Dunaway's character is rather reminiscent of the one she played in Threee Days Of The Condor, a lonely and slightly neurotic woman who, as the movie implies has just been waiting for the right man to knock on her door. It's not much of a detective story, how are we supposed to find out the killer's identity without any proper clues? The central romance lacks a bit of spark too - if you use the tired old cliché of the investigating cop falling for the potential victim, you should at least give them proper personalities. There are supporting turns from Brad Dourif and Raul Júlia as potential suspects, but the movie fails to utilise these charismatic actors in a more effective way. I have to admit, I knew the final twist beforehand and was wondering how it would be presented. Well, the script (heavily re-written from John Carpenter's original treatment) doesn't even try to make the ludicrous reveal even halfway plausible and the abrupt ending sort of leaves the viewer hanging, lacking any emotional resolution. I don't mind crazy and illogical as long as it's fun, but director Kershner is no De Palma, and his handling of the material mostly lacks self-irony (excluding an amusing scene with a male character in drag) and the sort of operatic grandeur which might've turned this into a great ride. 6/10
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Post by mowlick on Apr 24, 2023 20:51:30 GMT
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Post by Nalkarj on May 1, 2023 17:58:16 GMT
I wasn’t sure about posting this here because the movie’s not really horror, so I posted in the movie rankings thread, but, well, it is horror-adjacent… Two nights ago I rewatched the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie (1992), which Joss Whedon wrote before making his much more famous TV show out of this property. What I always find odd about this movie that, despite how much Whedon hates it, it’s not that different from the TV show (which I’ve been watching and enjoying recently). It’s got the same blend of humor, horror, and drama—and the same characterization of Buffy as split between her Chosen One duties and being a regular high-school kid. In fact, I’m pretty baffled at Whedon’s much-repeated criticism that the producers and director Fran Rubel Kuzui turned the movie “into a broad comedy.” The movie actually treats the kooky premise seriously, going in depth about Buffy’s internal conflicts, much as the show would do. And there are no real comedy set pieces; the comedy almost entirely comes in one-liners—one-liners that Whedon probably wrote. While we’re at it, the last episode of the show’s first season, “Prophecy Girl” (which Whedon directed as well as wrote), is basically a remake of this, and I’m not sure which one’s better. “Prophecy Girl” has an excellent Sarah Michelle Gellar performance (her speech about not wanting to die is heartbreaking), but it’s also too stuffed and too rushed (the Master’s death is so anticlimactic). Here, we hit most of the same plot beats, but the feature length means they don’t come too fast. And Kristy Swanson’s performance as Buffy is good. It won’t make anyone forget Gellar, but then the actresses were playing different versions of the character (Swanson’s Buffy doesn’t originally know she’s the Chosen One, so she starts off as more stereotypically Valley Girl). Another odd thing is that the director, Kuzui, only directed one movie before this and has never directed a movie since. Her direction is not noticeably amazing, but it’s not noticeably bad either (at least, after that cheap-looking opening sequence, which seems tacked on—is this what Whedon hates?). Buffy isn’t a great movie, it certainly doesn’t hit the hilarious heights of Amy Heckerling’s similar Clueless three years later, but it also doesn’t deserve its status as the show’s red-headed stepchild. It’s an amusing little picture with a good lead performance, some memorable lines (“Kill him A LOT!”), and a good take on its material.
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Post by TheSowIsMine on May 2, 2023 8:35:44 GMT
Well, I finally watched Jaws 4:The Revenge. I shouldnt have.
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Post by kuatorises on May 2, 2023 15:16:34 GMT
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Post by politicidal1 on May 5, 2023 0:35:24 GMT
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