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[Angra]

Originally Posted by urgeok2

i enjoyed it for what it was .. i would have hated it if jackie chan was in it ..
Ive only seen him play the brooding serious action hero in one movie .. most of the time - as likeable as he is - his acting is painful and his martial arts are more like circus tricks than martial arts.

there wasnt much to Extraction except for a pretty cliche narrative and video game violence - but it looked great and moved at a good pace. and the performances/locations/cinematography were all very good.


but no no no to Jackie Chan :)

Fair enough, no Jackie Chan. The dude is 60 anyways, which would have made it really weird. I just wanted an action hero who could actually fight.

[DeadbeatAtDawn]

The Lodge, 2019. 6/10

Directors: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz





Meh.

[urgeok2]

get your photo taken by this old 70's polaroid camera and you die.

I guess if you were 16 and never saw a horror movie before - you might think this was a cool film.
I don't fit either criteria so to me this movie was so bad i fell dead asleep half way through.

Typical pathetic writing. so many filmmakers seem to live in a world where nothing has to make sense.

Here's where the film lost me: in the opening scene - 2 teenage girls are going through a box of stuff belonging to one of the girls recently deceased mother (where they find the haunted camera)

The first thing the other girl does is pick a ball out of the box and flippantly throw it across the room where it goes into a dark closet.
Of course the only purpose of this was to provide an obvious future jump out scare with the ball bouncing back into the room later ... but stop right there...
What kind of friend's first instinct would be to throw a dead mothers belonging across the room while smiling?
no one

This is the kind of thing that makes me crazy .. people doing things they never would do in real life just to provide a lame scare that has already been seen in a dozen better movies. Right then i shut down. Lazy ass 'writing'
The rest of what i saw followed suit.
So many shitty horror films ... so few good ones.

[classic_horror_fan]

This is a new horror anthology film that is based on the same classic E.C. Comics published by William Gaines that Tales From The Crypt, The Vault Of Horror, and Creepshow are; and it continues in the tradition of the stories being based on bad karma getting those who have it coming to them! This one also won the Driectors' Choice Award at the Indie Horror Film Festival near Chicago and screened at the Bram Stoker International Film Festival in England as well. It opens up at a local diner with several of the main characters at different parts of it discussing brief intros to the segments they are in. It then starts off in a dark creepy graveyard with a few kids messing around, only to meet a scary but cool looking ghoul who has a lesson to teach about disturbing the dead.

The second segment is about a troubled young man named Norman who is believed to have a sick mother living with him who nobody has seen, and keeps going to the library to check out books on different plants and medicines who also has a very nosy neighbor who keeps suspecting he is up to something, then gets too carried away with her spying on him and eventually starts making accusations without proof or enough legit reason to believe.

The third segment begins with a hunter traveling from out of town on a hunting trip, hunting coyotes out of season, saying that when a farmer is offering $100 per coyote head, it's open season all year round. One thing he doesn't realize is that there are werewolves in that area that could bite him and turn him into one of them, and another farmer is offering $500 per werewolf head.

The fourth segment starts with a couple of young bank robbers on the run when their car breaks down, and they end up having a mysterious family who lives in that isolated area take them in for the time being until they can get their car fixed and back on the road. They don't realize the dark and maybe deadly secrets that family possesses.

The fifth segment is about a scientist studying human cell regeneration and about how starfish can grow lost legs back but humans can not, trying to discover a way he can change that. When a girl he cares about gets severely injured, he really goes over the top by trying to help her by using his research, then gets carried away when it doesn't work in the way he had hoped.

The sixth segment is about a pedophile who stalks small children at local playgrounds and elementary schools, only to find that not all young small children are as dumb and vulnerable as he thinks, and about how the past can come back to haunt in more ways than a lot of people realize.

This film is overall well done with the whole cast and crew doing excellent jobs in what they did and/or with the roles they played. There is also great looking props, scenery, costumes, and make up to have really cool and scary looking creatures like a ghoul, a werewolf, and zombies. The stories are also very original with good twists and turns before displaying bad karma getting those who have it coming to them. My personal favorites of the segments are the first, third, and sixth; but they are all good overall. This is also one of the better horror anthology films to come out in years, maybe decades now. Fans of E.C. Comics, Tales From The Crypt, The Vault Of Horror, and Creepshow should not be disappointed with this one.

[Tommy Jarvis]

Never Hike Alone

I love this shit.

Immediately from the title card with the Elm Street-nod, you know that these people know what they are doing. Following the vlogger made me think for a minute that this would turn into found footage, but they carefully moved around that. This is easily one of the scariest entries in the franchise and at least this kid puts up more of a fight than Rob did in part four.

I loved how one of the medics was called Axel. Great callback to The Final Chapter. I also thought the head squeeze was a little nod to part six, but maybe that's far fetched. And of course Thom Mathews making an appearance. Awesome.

[Bloof]

Originally Posted by Tommy Jarvis

Never Hike Alone

I love this shit.

Immediately from the title card with the Elm Street-nod, you know that these people know what they are doing. Following the vlogger made me think for a minute that this would turn into found footage, but they carefully moved around that. This is easily one of the scariest entries in the franchise and at least this kid puts up more of a fight than Rob did in part four.

I loved how one of the medics was called Axel. Great callback to The Final Chapter. I also thought the head squeeze was a little nod to part six, but maybe that's far fetched. And of course Thom Mathews making an appearance. Awesome.

I saw this awhile ago and remember being quite impressed.

[Bloof]

THE SLEEPING ROOM 2014

A chance rendezvous between a prostitute and a young man awaken the spirits in an old building he is restoring.

I liked it. Bit confusing but different.

[FryeDwight]

HIS NAME WAS JASON (2009). Released in time for the 2009 FRIDAY, THE 13th release, this is an OK little doc on the whole series with interviews with many of the players involved in the franchise, such as Tom Savini (pretty cool job as Host), Sean Cunningham, Julie Aaronsen, Debisue Voorhees, Jensen Daggett, Kane Hodder, Harry Manefredi etc. Entertaining, but has a quality of being rushed to be ready in time for the reboot and would liked to have seen interviews if at all possible with Steve Miner, Kevin Bacon, Crispin Glover and Jeannine Taylor. Still a sense of fun about it and worth seeing if You're a fan. ***

[Maila Munster]

Mandy (2018), directed by Panos Cosmatos.

I decided to check it out because I've heard that Panos Cosmatos is compared to Alejandro Jodorowsky (whose movies I personally like very much). After watching Mandy, I can see why he is praised for his expressive and original style. Using dreamlike frames and overwrought colouring, he created one of the most oneiric movies of recent years. Here we have Linus Roache as a mad preacher, who is worthily competing for each scene with Nicolas Cage... and Andrea Riseborough, portraying Mandy - she looks as if she existed on the border between waking and sleeping.
This movie isn't for everyone and that's perfectly fine. There is nothing new in the presented story, but the way it is presented... Well, colours are outstanding, visuals are totally trippy, music fits the sinister atmosphere perfectly. I must say, I'm not a fan of Nicolas Cage but his performance is on the verge of insanity and that works superb. Worth checking out if you like slightly psychedelic stuff.

[Amaltheaunicorn]

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