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I watched V/H/S Halloween edition, I thought the one about the demon phone was ok, I stopped halfway through the last one where they’re pulling kids apart like a grilled cheese. I’d say give it a miss.
 
Yeah, not to pile on the V/H/S Halloween shit, but it is so very, very meh. Honestly, it's less hateable than a few other entries, but like every vignette is just a complete rush to let's show some OTT gore/body horror shit. I will go off script and say that I liked the wrap-around story because the idea of a guy just like so fucking intent on putting an alien-demonic force into a diet cola is just hilarious to me. It really deserved better than just being the wrap-around because it's a better story than any of the others.

This isn't as bad as '99, but it doesn't have anything close to the good parts of '85 or Beyond. On the other hand, you can just throw it on and not worry about it, and there's no faggotry or niggerness promulgation, so I'm willing to give it a 2.5/5.
 
FatalTater said:
I do not get why the stuff about Psycho and Texas Chainsaw Massacre was shoehorned in where it was.
If they wanted to show how Gein's life story affected the world?
Hell, the man lived until 1984. Psycho came out in 1960 and Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 1974.
Do flashbacks while showing what Gein was doing at that time.
Show the world reacting and moving forward while he was in the mental hospital.
But no, instead we get whatever the hell Ryan Murphy was going for.
Meh.
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The only reason why that shit is there is to stretch a 3 episode series to 8.
 
Your Starter for 10 said:
Yeah, not to pile on the V/H/S Halloween shit, but it is so very, very meh. Honestly, it's less hateable than a few other entries, but like every vignette is just a complete rush to let's show some OTT gore/body horror shit. I will go off script and say that I liked the wrap-around story because the idea of a guy just like so fucking intent on putting an alien-demonic force into a diet cola is just hilarious to me. It really deserved better than just being the wrap-around because it's a better story than any of the others.

This isn't as bad as '99, but it doesn't have anything close to the good parts of '85 or Beyond. On the other hand, you can just throw it on and not worry about it, and there's no faggotry or niggerness promulgation, so I'm willing to give it a 2.5/5.
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I knew I had made a huge mistake within the first ten minutes of the first V/H/S movie. You guys who watched all 27 of them to determine which of them are horrible and which are merely mediocre are the real heroes.
 
PS1gamenwatch said:
That was dark. Imagine if it was adapted for Tales From The Crypt
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I think I heard that Alfred Hichcock hour got the rights to it back in the day and couldn't find a way to film it with out being too dark for TV, even if they showed nothing like the story. It's just the idea that they might be passing around the body parts of a little girl is too much. It's never said one way or the other if he killed his daughter or not. I personally like to think he had his kid hidden and told her "We're going to play a joke on mommy." to drive his wife insane.
 
Vampirella said:
I think I heard that Alfred Hichcock hour got the rights to it back in the day and couldn't find a way to film it with out being too dark for TV, even if they showed nothing like the story. It's just the idea that they might be passing around the body parts of a little girl is too much. It's never said one way or the other if he killed his daughter or not. I personally like to think he had his kid hidden and told her "We're going to play a joke on mommy." to drive his wife insane.
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I like to think if they did adapt as an episode of Tales From The Crypt it would have a twist like the little girl really was a witch and she got back at the dad by having him hallucinate every kid that took a piece of her looks like her and he goes crazy admitting of his crime, and begs to be executed to make the illusions go away which keep talking to him.

 
I like this thread. It deserves to keep going, and I did a video on werewolves on my YT channel, and so, I'll talk about my opinions on werewolf horror films:

■ The new Wolf Man isn't bad. I dig that we see the point of view of a victim of the curse/infection, I dig the inclusion of the militant, harsh father, and I like that Ben Prendergast, AKA Týr, is in it. I geeked out a little bit when I realised who he was. I read reviews and comments of tossbags saying that the Benecio del Toro one was way better, and that it was an insult to the Lon Chaney Jr. one.

■ I will never let go of my great dislike for Bone Tomahawk, and I harbour the same heat towards Howl. The werewolves look ugly. Not scary-ugly, just fucking ugly. I gave it a try, not because of everyone sucking it off, but because Shauna MacDonald, who I first saw in The Descent - and, now I ponder on it, why I have a bit of a thing for blond Scottish gals - is in it. Nah. Weren't impressed with it.

■ Dog Soldiers is mid. And everybody who loves the movie quotes Spoons (the raving Geordie who goes down like a warrior). Nae bothered.

■ I like the ending to Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed, but... it's a permanent cliffhanger, so, I partially don't like it at the same time.

■ An American Werewolf in Paris would have done better, probably, as a series. The nightclubbing werewolf cult is the best thing about the movie, so a series, or mini-series, would have had the chance to show us more scenes of what they get up etc.

■ Curse of the Werewolf is the most underappreciated Hammer House of Horror werewolf film. It actually, in my eyes, manages to be sadder than An American Werewolf in London. David is scratched and mauled, Leon is cursed from birth: the result of a rape on a full moon before the New Year (I think. I'm definitely right about the full moon).
 
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I know I’m not the only one here that has zero faith in the upcoming Return to Silent Hill movie. I think you can really tell how confident a studio is in a movie in their reluctance to release any kind of promo material for it. Feels the same way as Tron Ares to me, it’s like they knew they had a stinker on their hands and kept the marketing for it very subdued all things considered.
 
Heavy Galaxy said:
I know I’m not the only one here that has zero faith in the upcoming Return to Silent Hill movie. I think you can really tell how confident a studio is in a movie in their reluctance to release any kind of promo material for it. Feels the same way as Tron Ares to me, it’s like they knew they had a stinker on their hands and kept the marketing for it very subdued all things considered.
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I never really did honestly. The movie is being made by the same guy who did the first movie which originally he wrote was all women there were no men until they added in Chris and his little investigation and you've got two separate movies of one in silent hill and one being a crime thing.

From everything I've seen it's supposed to fix how horrible the second movie was but he didn't even make that so..

Then on top of that as bad as Silent Hill Ascension was I think people have just forgotten about Silent Hill in general. Silent Hill f just came out and for me to buy the base game in Canada tax and everything it's $106 so I know I've definitely forgotten about Silent Hill.
 
I just came back from seeing The Strangers: Chapter 2 and my god it was shit. Like most of it is a slog watching the dumbass final girl from the first movie run around to make the dumbest decisions ever while the killers are also retarded for the sake of expanding the runtime.

I can tolerate idiocy in horror movies but this is actually boring and there was nothing fun.

It also betrays the entire premise of The Strangers by trying to give the killers a backstory (while explaining random shit) and making us feel bad for them after the main girl kills one of them.
 
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