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post #1 of 22
3/7/08 at 10:00pm
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Good christ! You know a movie's bad when even Tiffany Shepis' ass doesn't get me excited about it.

Well, that's a lie. But the movie's garbage.
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post #2 of 22
3/7/08 at 10:05pm
I just got all 8 of these in the mail. I was planning on watching as many as possible tommorow and eek out a passible review for all of them at once.

Are any of them any good?
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post #3 of 22
3/7/08 at 10:08pm
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Well, I only watched The Deaths of Ian Stone and this one so far. Ian was pretty good, though.

Were you like me and got all excited to see that big package in your mailbox only to be let down by its contents? I'm sure some of these would be fun in a theater with people ripping the hell out of them, but most probably won't work too well at home. Unless you're good and drunk.

I definitely would not try to watch all 8 of them in a day though. Down that road lies only madness.
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post #4 of 22
3/7/08 at 10:19pm
Yeah, they sent them to me with some random Jackie Gleason movie, so I had a 9 movie pile to be depressed by. The cover art is pretty cool at least.
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post #5 of 22
3/8/08 at 12:06am
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Originally Posted by Alex Riviello View Post
I'm sure some of these would be fun in a theater with people ripping the hell out of them
I have actually seen Nightmare Man in a theater, thank you very much.

It's not a good movie by any stretch. But there are a few nice little touches. I love the ridiculous cross-cutting between (IIRC) the girl being chased through the forest and the sex scene. And this was the first Shepis film I saw, and I thought she was pretty good in it.

Richard Moll's 5-second appearance is pretty shitballs though.
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post #6 of 22
3/8/08 at 12:16am
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Originally Posted by Gabe Powers View Post
I just got all 8 of these in the mail. I was planning on watching as many as possible tommorow and eek out a passible review for all of them at once.

Are any of them any good?
I second the love for Ian Stone; I go to the Horrorfest every year w/ my brother, and he liked it even more than I did. "Borderland" is good, too, if somewhat predictable. I'll probably buy that one eventually. "Unearthed" is just OK, and squanders its potential w/ overuse of the shaky camera/out of focus bit. "Tooth and Nail" has a neat Michael Madsen cameo. "Lake Dead" is good for a laugh at the end (you'll know what I mean when you get there). The rat movie (sorry, I can't recall the title) wasn't awful, but it could've been a bit better. Overall, the production values on these films, if nothing else, are far & away better than the ones from the 1st Horrorfest.

BTW, did I call it or what, Alex? TOLD you you'd hate this one.
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post #7 of 22
3/8/08 at 12:20am
Ian Stone and Borderland were the two most interesting based on discriptions, so I'll probably watch them first.

Last years crop was average to bad all around. Unrest was a half decent thriller I suppose.
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post #8 of 22
3/9/08 at 10:28am
I was a HUGE apologist/supporter for the first year of Horrorfest and vowed to be one every year. Then I saw the trailers for last year's mess and didn't go. I guess I'll try out some of this crap on DVD and hope for a better 08.
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post #9 of 22
3/9/08 at 9:03pm
I've watched 4 of 'em, and so far 3 were fun enough. That's already one better then last year's batch.
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post #10 of 22
3/10/08 at 11:45am
Just curious, Gabe: which 2 did you like from 06? I liked "Penny Dreadful" and "Wicked Little Things" enough to buy them, and i'm still wavering on whether ior not I want to buy "Resurrection", the subtitled J-horror entry. Which 4 have you seen from the 07 batch?
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post #11 of 22
3/10/08 at 5:38pm
In 06 I liked Unrest and Grave Dancers. The former had some genuine chills and the latter was fun/silly and had neat ghost designs. I thought all the rest were pretty average, except for Dark Ride which I hated a lot.
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post #12 of 22
3/10/08 at 11:17pm
Different strokes, I guess; I HATED unrest. Gravedancers was just OK, but much better than Dark Ride. I confess, though, I enjoyed watching Dark Ride as a bit of very cheesy, MST3K worthy fun. It wasn't the worst of the lot, IMO.
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post #13 of 22
3/11/08 at 7:31pm
I enjoyed "The Gravedancers", a movie I think is pretty underated. "The Abandoned" had a pretty good climax, but it was rather slow going till then. "Reincarnation" was decent, but the directors previous works, "Junon" and "Marebito" were better. "Penny Dreadfull" and "Unrest" felt like short subjects that got stretched to feature length, while "Dark Ride" was a so-bad-its-good type of movie.
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post #14 of 22
3/11/08 at 8:04pm
Well, just got done with Nightmare Man. Boy, that sure was a bad movie. I don't even know how to review it. I'm affraid it's a tiny enough production that I'll get emails from the cast and crew for slating it (which has happened before). I just don't want to deal with that.
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post #15 of 22
3/12/08 at 6:27pm
Perhaps you can mitigate that by saying - truthfully - that at least the chicks had nice tits.
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post #16 of 22
3/12/08 at 6:56pm
I love the constant and totally gratuitous bra shots. It's like the director and his actresses struck this uneasy accord where he still got his T and A, but they didn't have to show any nipple. Shepis was the only one with the balls to go balls out at the end.
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post #17 of 22
3/20/08 at 11:25pm
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Originally Posted by IggytheBorg View Post
"Lake Dead" is good for a laugh at the end (you'll know what I mean when you get there).
I spent the whole movie waiting for this moment, but it never came. What were you refering to? Was it the hero getting shot most undramatically?
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post #18 of 22
3/22/08 at 10:32pm
mulberry street is pretty darn good.
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post #19 of 22
3/23/08 at 1:27am
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I spent the whole movie waiting for this moment, but it never came. What were you refering to? Was it the hero getting shot most undramatically?
No, it was Papa's tagline at the end. Not si funny because it's a good line as because it's a horrifically bad one. Again, this is where seeing it in a theatre may have helped a lot; the guy a few rows behind us laughed out loud - and not in the good way - when this line was uttered, which sparked the whole theatre into a chuckle.

Mmmmmm. Guess ya hadda be there. I can see this losing its effect greatly on DVD.
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post #20 of 22
3/24/08 at 4:29pm
Ohhhhhh.
Yeah, at the end of the day I only recommend Mulbery Street, Borderland, and Death of Ian Stone. I already wrote those reviews. The rest are varying degrees of meh to vomiting. Unearthed had a few moments and Crazy 8s had some decent cinematography.
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post #21 of 22
3/24/08 at 5:20pm
I agree w/ that assessment completely. NOt necessarily in that order, but yeah, you nailed the ones worth seeing.
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post #22 of 22
3/24/08 at 6:13pm
That was in watching order. In goodness order it would go Ian Stone, Borderland, Mulberry Street.
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