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Been binging a lot of horror with my girlfriend lately.

Started with Friday the 13th and watched all of them, minus the remake. Most are amazing with a few just being alright. Jason Takes Manhattan is as underrated as Halloween 3: Season of the Witch. Fantastic movie, and just like Halliween 3 one of thethem best films in the entire franchise.

Also watched Vengeance and Vengeance 2: Bloodlines, two fan made full lenght movies made on 50k and 77k. Both good, but they should both be cut about 25-30 minutes as they don’t exactly tell much story or build characters. But they were goos, with the second being the best. Some really good kills, although there’s toomany off screen kills. Understandable considering the budget, but still sucks. Still recommended tho!

Also watched the entire Child’s Play franchise, including both seasons of the series. I really, really like all of the movies, and the series is great too, although some of the main characters are bland and boring/uninteresting. I love how it gets more and more Child’s Play as it goes, and more and more over the top and crazy. Can’t wait for next season.

And we watched Megan last night. Was ok, but that’s it. Can’t believe how much praise it’s getting. Seems just weirs too me. Also, the dance scene might be the worst thing I’ve ever seen captured on film. Bloody awful and embarrassing. Jeeesus!

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After Child’s Play we decided it was time to go through the Hellraiser franchise. It’s interesting to say the least.

Hellraiser - Proper classic. Truly a brilliant piece of work.

Hellbound: Hellraiser II - About as good as the first one. A fantastic piece of work, and really underrated

Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth - Again, this is proper underrated like. It’s slightly worse than the firt two, but good enough for my band to make a song about it. It’s awesome, and the cenobites in this rules. CD are probably the least liked cenobite in the entire series, but I love him. Think he’s fantastic! Goofy as fuck, but cool.
Also super cool that Armored Saint is in the film. Hanging Judge is a god damn banger!

Hellraiser: Bloodline - This is where the series takes a drop in form. It’s not bad by any means, and there’s some really cool elements and fantastic kills here, but it’s so messy. Feels like they had ideas for 4 different movies and just decided to make it into one film. A big mess sadly. But it’s fairly entertaining nonetheless.

Hellraiser: Inferno - This is where the series just completely collapsed into something truly unwatchable. First off, this does not feel like a Hellraiser movie at all. Sluggish, messy, boring and just awful. It’s feels like someone untalented wanted to make a Jacob’s Ladder and In the Mouth of Madness type of movie, but lacks talent in every department. Cheap and awful.

Hellraiser: Hellseeker - Pretty much the same as the previous film, although slightly worse. But again, how did this piece of shit end up a Hellraiser movie? Makes no sense. Awful, awful film.

Hellraiser: Deader - As cheesy as it is, this is a step up from the previous two for sure. The main problem here is it’s a bit too messy for its own good, and could’ve done with a more straight forward plot. But it’s OK, and some parts are actually great.

That is as far as we’ve come for now. Although some of the movies are dreadful, we’re both enjoying the hell out of this. Watching franchises from beginning to end is just loads and loads of fun.

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I just watched Winnie the Pooh last night in the cinema with my sis, the visuals and gore are actually pretty good, except for the edited masks in some scenes. Some times they digitally edit the masks to smile, and you can tell it’s done by computer ahaha
For a $100.000 budget movie they actually didn’t do so bad

I Tweeted I was going with my outfit of the day attached, and one of the team members who did the composing actually commented on it :skull:

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Finished Men in 2 parts.

In the first part, I thought the movie was just going to be a bombardment of visual and sound avant gardeish. I took a break since I was fully engaged and was getting tired as it was the second movie of the afternoon. Came back to it to watch with dinner after preparing a bombing bibimbap. I was not prepared at all for the third act while trying to eat. The suspense was already killer building to the climax but then the birthing scene kept happening and happening … like bro… what is going on and why lol I was disgusted but couldn’t keep my eyes off the screen nor stop eating. It was a weird sensation.

Anyway, the movie is a good watch. I need a cleanse.

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Watched In Search of Darkness III last week. Another excellent entry to the In Search of Darkness franchise, but sadly the last in this trilogy. It’s a five hour long speedrun through the home video era of 80s horror. Probably the most interesting entry for me, as they go through a lot of movies I’ve not yet seen.

At the end of the movie I’m super satisfied, but it’s got one big problem, and it’s the exact same problem as the two others: it’s way too short. It runs away in a blistering pace, and ends before you know it. Each movie deserve more time, and there’s still a crazy amount of 80s horror they should’ve gone into.

Each entry could and should have been at least 10 hours long, and even that would’ve been a bit short. But it’s excellent!

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Got to finish the Hellraiser franchise with my girlfriend this weekend. It’s been a fun, interesting and bumpy ride to say the least.

Hellraiser: Hellworld - I’ve seen a lot of critic towards this, and it’s often mentioned among the worst in the franchise, but I beg to differ. Is it a good Hellraiser movie? No, it isn’t, but it’s actually a decent early 00’s teen slasher.

Hellraiser: Revelations - Pretty fucking bad, but still better than Hellseeker and Inferno, just because it got a couple of decent kills. Stephan Smith Collins however is the new Pinhead, and he’s nothing short of awful. Overall pretty bad, but not the worst in the franchise. Not that is says much at this point.

Hellraiser: Judgment - A huge step up from the previous films, and easily the best the 4th (Bloodline). There are some elements to this film that feels cheap, and there’s elements I’d simply drop, but it’s actually fun and visually pleasing a lo of the time (especially the Stygian Inquisition scenes). Paul T. Taylor is the new Pinhead and does a really good job. Instead of trying to imitate Doug Bradley, he does his own spin on things and it works really well.

Next up is the remake which we’ll watch later this week. I’ve already seen and enjoyed it, so that’s gonna be fun.

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Anyone seen Godzilla Minus One yet? It was pretty much everything you could wish for in a Godzilla movie. Godzilla looks incredible and acts even better, with top notch special effects, the human characters and drama is asolutely fantastic and it plays out beautifullyIt’s an absolute masterpiece of kaiju action and human drama. 9,5/10!

Also, the effects. How the hell are Shin Godzilla and Godzilla Minus One looking so good on around $6m and $12m budgets, while the American films look so cheap, stale and boring on $150+m budgets?It should not be possible.

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Hugely inflated actor budgets in Hollywood movies. That’s almost entirely it.

but yeh Minus One was v good. Hoping they follow this one up instead of leaving potential on the table like they did with Shin Godzilla

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I actually enjoyed Judgement too. It has a gritty atmosphere and interesting take on other wordly aspects. I also thought this pinhead did a great job doing their own thing.

The new Hellraiser I thought was just ok. Like with judgement, it did some things great but other things mediocre. Tbh, aside from the beginning and ending, I don’t really remember the details of the film.

One aspect I think is never done quite right again is the appearance of the cenobites. In the first 2 films their presence demanded attention. The room creaked and morphed, there was fog and light, and they filled the space with their horror. They truly felt like otherwordly apparitions. Post movie 2, they just come across as monsters or goons.

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Yeah, they spend a lot on fees to the actors and stuff. They still got more than enough money to outdo a less-than-$15m movie. That is for sure. But there is more to it than that.

One thing is that Godzilla Minus One is a passion project. It’s made by loads and loads of people who truly love the shit out of Godzilla.
A second thing is that they are, for most part, given time to create something.

I highly recommend Corridor Crew on youtube. They got series where they reacts to special effects, series where they react to animation and series where they react to stunts, and quite often they have people who has worked on a lot of shit. And you see a huge connection between things there:

Where as in Asia they are often given weeks, or even months, to practice stunts and choreography fights, in Hollywood productions they are often given days, or just a few hours. A lot of stunment have talked about how hard it is to make decent fight scenes in hollywood movies because of this.

The same goes for CGI. Special effects studios are often asked about doing a scene/whole movies, but in very limited time, often less than half the time of what they actually need for a scene or movie like that. But they got two choices; take it and make the best out of it, or loose as someone else will take it and do the dirty work.

It’s not how things should be for obvious reasons, but it is and it’s a damn shame.

One of the recent Jurassic Park movies spent something like $170m on CGI without looking very good.
One of the recent Transformers movies spent $15m on one big CGI scene, at it wasn’t very impressive at all.
Superman Returns spent $10m on one CGI scene, and it didn’t even make the final cut. Not sure it was included on the extended version either.

So yeah, in big buget Hollywood movies they do have more than enough money to create something good. They just don’t, for some weird fucking reason.

But at the end of the day it’s all about giving people what they actually need in terms of time, and actually caring about what you’re doing. Look at something like the original Jurassic Park. The CGI doesn’t look as realistic as what you can today, yet Hollywood has never been able to touch the quality of the CGI in this film. It’s all about how, when and why it’s used. Absolute gorgeous stuff!

This post got messy, my apologies.

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Just finished watching the entire Children of the Corn franchise (minus the remake and reboot), and it was quite something. Dear god!

Children of the Corn - 8,5/10
Classic! Man, the kids are so fucking spot on in this. Creepy as hell!

Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice - 7,5/10

Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest - 6,5/10
This was saved by some top notch special effects.

Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering - 3/10

Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror - 6/10
This was also saved by some decent special effects, but story-wise the best since II.

Children of the Corn 666: Isaac’s Return - 3/10

Children of the Corn: Revelation - 4/10

Children of the Corn: Genesis - 2/10

Children of the Corn: Runaway - 2/10

Yeah, overall it’s not a great franchise at all. Superb at its best, but it’s mostly pure doo-doo, and they don’t try to hide the fact that some of these movies are made only so that they can keep the rights to Children of the Corn, and some of the movies you would not guess were a part of this franchise unless you knew it from before. They got nothing to do with Children of the Corn at all. It’s truly awful!

I love watching through franchises tho, bad as well as good ones, and I’m not kidding as weird as that sounds.

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Roger Corman, one of the most important persons in Hollywood during the 60s and 70s recently passed away, 98 years old. Roger Corman was a director and producer mainly known for creating B-movies, hence his nickname King of the Bs, and directed and produced loads and loads of films, most of which was super cheap films made to cash in on the success of other similar movies. He is also well known for giving young people a fair chance, such as Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Francis Ford Coppola and many, many more. He’s been a much bigger and more important figure in Hollywood than he gets cred for which is a god damn shame. The man is an absolute legend!

The Corman-Poe cycle (not a big fan of The Raven, but the other 7 are masterpieces!), The Little Shop of Horrors, A Bucket of Blood, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Intruder, X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes and The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre are some of his best movies as a director. The Fall of the House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum, The Haunted Palace and The Masque of the Red Death are just some of the best movies ever. These movies had a budget of something like $2-300000, which was pretty low budget at the time, but for Roger Corman-made movies it’s big budget movies. But they look like they had a $10m budget, and are visually some of the most impressive movies ever made. They are simply gorgeous to look at. Top that with a prime Vincent Price who gives his best performances ever and you’re left with some of the best movies ever. The casts for all the Corman-Pie cycle movies are hella good.

As a producer he’s got almost too many great movies to his name, but The Dunwich Horror, Death Race 2000, Piranha, Galaxy of Terror, Forbidden World and Dementia 13 are probably my favorites. Fantastic films!

I highly recommend the masterpiece that is Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel, a documentary on the man himself. It’s a must see!

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In A Violent Nature - An exceptional slasher movie with an original twist. Dark, gloomy, grim and really damn good. THAT one kill was in-fuckin-sane! One of the wildest kills I’ve ever seen tbh. Looked so damn good too. 8,5/10

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Anyone here seen Ti West’s new X trilogy? Man, it’s so damn good.

X very much feels like a homage to 70’s exploitation, but more specifically The Texas Chain Saw Massacre with some hints of The Hills Have Eyes. It’s gritty, primitive and so fucking good. A modern masterpiece! 9.5/10

Pearl works as a prequel to X and is more of a psychological horror movie, and where as X was a slasher this is more of a homage to 60’s psycho-biddy (or hagsploitation as I like to call it) film more in the vein of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Strait-Jacket and What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?. It’s doesn’t quite nail the aesthetics of the hagsploitation films like X did the 70s exploitation vibe, but it is nonetheless a fantastic film. Story and character wise it’s probably the strongest of the three, but still my least favorite of them. 8/10

Maxxxine is the sequel to X and is absolutely fantastic. If you read around the good ol’ web you’ll see people call it a slasher, and that’s not wrong or anything, but what this really is is a neo-giallo and a homage to the late 60’s and 70s giallo films. There is a strong Blood and Black Lace and All the Colors of the Dark vibe going on, but more the latter tbh. The entire film feels like a homage to Sergio Martino’s giallo films, but that doesn’t mean there’s not much Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci and Mario Bava elements here, because there truly is. And it’s truly superb. 9/10

Mia Goth stars in all of them, and she’s nothing short of brilliant throughout. Her performance throughout is nothing short of breathtaking, and one for the history books. So damn good!

Highly, highly recommended. Ti West is a bloody fucking genius, and a modern horror legend. Brilliant!

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I’m gonna see Maxxxine tonight with a friend, very much looking forward to it as I loved the previous two movies! Especially Pearl, it surprised me a lot in a good way, very cool visuals/atmosphere and Mia Goth’s performance was 10/10.

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Gonjiam is like the best korean horror so far. One of the girl got possessed and her face looked creepy af

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I thought I was gonna love X, but I felt like it really needed to up that gritty 70s porno sleaze - which was the assumption I drew about it after hearing the premise. I was kind of disappointed how much more 80s it felt than 70s, you know? More parity between the content and form. It wasn’t entirely lacking in those things, I just didn’t expect it to be so much a slasher above everything else. Oh well, I guess that’s the curse of expectation. Still need to catch the other two, I’ll probably give them a go once it gets a little more autumnal outside - we aren’t too far from it now.

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Small update, just finished watching Maxxxine, it was killer. :sunglasses: She was a real ball-buster.

Not sure now if I like this more than Pearl, but it’s a close call! I love how different but kinda “tied-together” these three movies are, a beautiful trilogy imo (as weird as it sounds to use the term ‘beautiful’ for stories like these, heh).

(soundtrack was sick too, shoutout to that one super deep-cut Judas Priest track)

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I highly recommend the new French movie MadS, by the guy who made the excellent Ils (Them) and the awful The Eye remake. MadS gave me much of the same feeling I got when I watched 28 Days Later for the first time. It’s not original, but it’s made in such a way that it feels really fresh and unique. Dark, grim and chaotic, but the standout element was the cinematography. It’s so well-made and the way it’s shot and put together is just beyond fantastic and impressive.

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