Horror RECOMMENDATION or WARNING thread. - Page 3

Anything on Feast II? I'm about to watch it, regardless, but hey.

Hey, I have FEAST II as well! Between the three of us we form some sort of unholy triumvirate of hardcore horror chewers.

I am watching an insane amount of horror movies this month. I always watch a lot, but this is fucking ridiculous, I should have my head examined. I just got back from a double feature screening of THE DEADLY SPAWN (awesome) and the 80's remake of THE BLOB (fun).

On top of all the screenings and DVDs I am reading THE SPACE VAMPIRES and WORLD WAR Z. I've got CABAL and CUJO on deck. I am fucking retarded.

FEAST II is an insane film. In a lot of ways it's trying to hard, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't entertained. The Judah Friedlander cameo made it all worthwhile. And the baby sequence, that was gold.

What about Rest Stop 2 (first one was horrible!) and Joyride 2 (gotta say I liked the first)?

Great review. A little heavy on the parenthesis but dropping PROJECT:METALBEAST more than made up for it.

Great review of what looks like a really horrible flick, DM. Believe me...after my tenure at Creature Corner, I empathize. Oh, and this:

...nearly killed me.

I'll say this much, NEVER CRY WEREWOLF is a lot better than most of its Sci Fi original brethren, like THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN for instance. Man, that was a stinker.

Finally got around to watching P2 last night and I wish I hadn't. I found it hard not to turn it off it was so boring. The main character kept making the wrong choices which I found really annoying.

I have to agree with you on that. Bentley's 'out there' performance was my reason to finish the movie.

Well, that and the cleavage.

Has anybody else seen the Ghosthouse release Dance of the Dead? I thought it was pretty damn good, very much in the spirit of Return of the Living Dead.

I Sell the Dead:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0902290/

A grave robber reflects on his life of crime, starring Ron Perlman.

Dance of the Dead is fun. It does have a similar vibe to ROTLD or maybe Night of the Creeps, though it isn't as good as those. Still, a fun zombie comedy.

I just watched Trackman and Room 205, neither is bad but both are underwhelming. Last House in the Woods is, I think, pretty awful. I'm baffled that it's gotten some good reviews on horror sites. I think people go easy on it because it's Italian and going for a 70's/80's vibe. But it's not good. I'm still interested in the rest of these titles, although my expectations are low and I have a feeling Dance of the Dead will end up being the best of the bunch.

I really, really want to see this. The trailer is awesome, the concept is cool, and the cast is solid.

I Sell the Dead trailer:

http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer...e-dead/trailer

So far the best Ghost House Underground movie is far and away The Substitute, though it's barely a horror movie. It's like Monster Squad or Fright Night, only good.

How about Trailer Park of Terror, Re-Cycle or Zombie Strippers

DARK FLOORS. Stay away. It's like KISS MEETS THE PHANTOM meets SILENT HILL. Only bad.

The Lordi videos are far more amusing than the film. The press conference is a hoot as well, especially when the guys with full prosthetics try to talk. Finnish people...what dorks!

I was shocked at how much I enjoyed their music, which made the fact that there was basically none of it in the movie that much harder to take.

I saw the first 5 minutes or so. All the complaints about the quality are true. Its like watching a really bad bootleg on youtube or something.

Saw Dance Of The Dead though. Wasnt that bad. The whole teen thing was keeping it from being good. Had the guy from The Signal wich was fun.

Also watched half of Midnight Meat Train. Kinda lame. Breaks my cardinal rule of shitty CGI gore so it might just have that swaying my opinion.

It's not all that bad. There are some great moments of verisimilitude that hit the same dread-filled chords that the best of the BBC faux-docs like SMALLPOX and DIRTY WAR did.

They got the "shambles" down pretty well, opting for the traditional slow lurking dead thankfully. The fx work is pretty good and goes probably much farther for them thanks to the shaky, improperly aimed camera technique.

Maybe not surprisingly, it also suffers and benefits from the same inherent issues as with any "Diary" film. The acting has moments of sheer amateurism, and while in the best of these types of narratives that can be offset by the idea that these are supposed to be your average garden-variety folks, in this film it breaks the quality chain.

My largest gripes with ZOMBIE DIARIES actually cover almost all the "diary" types. Distinct lack of older folks. Too often, these films are populated with almost exclusively under 30 types. I get that in a world collapsing under a zombie apocalypse, the older people might not stand that great a chance, but the insistance on having it peopled entirely by fresh out of collegers is pretty damn preposterous. Also, though Romero's DIARY doesn't suffer from this as much(and DIARIES only a small bit), I can't escape the impression that often these zombie flicks are designed to be little more than a gun nut wank fest. From the most amateur tripe on YouTube to the ones that actually get released, too many of these zombie films(and they are legion!) don't have much going on beyond some young twits running around in a SWAT fantasy masturbating high-powered weaponry. Sounds harsh, I know, but frankly that's what I'm getting from alot of these.

(I won't even get into the "Put the fuckin' camera down" disorder that almost all films of this type-DIARY, DIARIES, CLOVERFIELD-suffer from. It's an unfortunately required factor in these particular kinds of films...problem is, they still haven't found a a truly clever way to make it work logically. Romero came close in DIARY with the mansion security camera sequence, something that played perfectly to one of his strengths going all the way back to his commercial days...brilliant editing of static shots.)

Folks were rough on Romero for DIARY and in alot of areas they had valid issues. Despite doing a fine job for it's genre(low-budget undead flick)ZOMBIE DIARIES will help to show just how well Romero actually did with his film.

If you're a zombie film fan particularly, you should check it out. Every unseen dead film diminishes you.

The Cell 2

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/films.php?id=4043

Plot Summary: The Cusp is a serial killer who kills his victims and then brings them back to life...over and over again until they beg to die. Maya is a psychic investigator who gained her powers after a 1 year coma after she was the Cusp's first victim. Now the Cusp Killer is back and Maya has little time to do what she has never done before, go into the mind of a killer unprotected, and save his latest victim.

Sounds interesting.

Way better than something named Trailer Park of Terror has a right to be.

It's serious flaw is that it's a bit schizophrenic,veering wildly from fairly serious for a lot of it's running time out into comical outlandishness. It also allows some women with fantastic cleavage to somehow keep their tops on throughout the entire film.

That said, it's gory as hell (I watched unrated version of course), has some nice effects (there's some weak CGI outweighed heavily by some great makeup) and a rocking "rockabilly" soundtrack provided often by an undead redneck. Director Steven Goldmann used to direct Metallica Videos, so it's got a sense of style that managed to keep my finger off the FF button the entire running time.

Well worth a rental.

I'll be checking out EDEN LAKE this weekend. As you can see from the banner ads it is sure to be terrifying.

Um... so, according to Netflix, The Poughkeepsie Tapes DVD was released on Tuesday. This morning, it went from "Very Long Wait" to "Infinitely Long Wait, Fucker!", in that it was bumped from my queue and removed from service entirely. Google yields nothing. It doesn't appear to be for sale on Amazon. What happened to this movie?

I know it's supposedly terrible, but Horror Movie a Day guy liked it.

Also: Does anybody know what's going on with Paranormal Activity?

Storm Warning
yes or no
i'm talking buying.i don't rent.that's for poonannys.

Stay away, of all this DTV horror sequels, this by far is the worst.

And Trailer Park of Terror is actually fun. My only complaint it the first half hour or so feels very much like The Devil's Rejects, then suddenly shifts to a slapstickish zombie flick. The make-up and gore is great though.

What about Amusement?

Starving Dog also reviewed it?

It's ok, he's a good dude and one I'm not ashamed to be confused with.

I enjoyed FEAST III. Less wacky than part 2 and not quite as kinetic as part 1. The ending is really great however. So out of nowhere that it made me feel good about the whole experience. Definitely worth a rental, but you absolutely need to have seen parts 1 & 2.

I realize I'm probably way late to the party, but I also just caught THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN and aside from the incongruous bits of slow mo and CG gore, really liked the film. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I like it. Not a classic by any means, but a really solid original (meaning non sequel or remake) film. Is there an old thread kicking around about it? I wouldn't mind discussing it more at length.

Who has seen Tun Fei Mou's "Lost Souls" and is it anything near his later gore-hound exploitation classic "Men Behind the Sun"?

It seems to have just got released on DVD in the states.