A few friends of mine told me that the movie was dumb, but I felt it was alright. There were a few scares here and there, though I do see what you say it’s boring to watch. The sole annoyance I had with this movie was…
[details=Spoiler]The fact that Evelyn (Alfre Woodard) sacrificed herself to help a family she barely knew with the excuse that “it was what her late daughter meant by that it wasn’t her time when she tried to kill suicide”. Sure, it brought the baby back but the movie pokes you twice with the shot of her lying dead on the sidewalk with the doll missing. It would had been more fitting to me if the priest was the sacrifice or the husband, considering he was just oblivious to everything, but Evelyn pretty much could had survived.
Burt if we want to talk racial stereotypes in horror media, would a black person really run back to the apartment after getting sent flying by a demon? At that, I thought she was a goner. [/details]
Hellraiser: Bloodline Director’s Cut is one of my holy grails. The movie before Bob Weinstein fcked it up would’ve been so much better and it never would’ve been saddled with the “Hellraiser in Space” moniker. The original cut was in chronological order, with a lot more to the Angela/Lemarchand relationship. Dimension though there wasn’t enough Pinhead up front so they axed half the story and turned the Space stuff into book-ends.
I love me some Irreversible and everything Gaspar Noe has done. The movie is genius and art and original.
I thought The Exorcist was overrated the very first time I watched it, but now it’s one of my favorites. I think the key is that so much of the horror has nothing to so with Regan.
I liked Irreversible, but it wasn’t something I would watch again. The French Extremism movement is something I am still learning a lot about. I felt that Inside was beautifully shot and relentless in execution (riot gun, and scissor scene). But I have read a few articles explaining where to start with delving into these movies.
Is the Director’s cut even available? Last I checked they didn’t have prints of it or some of the scenes. I could be wrong though.
I remember the Toymaker and stuff, just it’s been about…ten years since I’ve seen it. And the only thing that stuck out was the scenes they forced on, so Pinhead in a Space Station being all evil.
Well in the meantime if you haven’t read the Hellraiser comics, then you most definitely need to. Very, very good stuff. The end is really creepy though, just learning about everything really had me feel some type of way.
True that, going to pre-order the Nightbreed collectors set this coming paycheck. I have never seen the film before in any form, so I have a lot of hype for this film. Hopefully it lives up to my expectations.
Now that I am sufficiently drunk (Typing while drunk isn’t that hard people, just takes a bit longer. Don’t be fooled!) time to delve into hours of Horror films that may be wonderful or having me contemplate suicide.
Yes I was going to bring up the Hellraiser comic again because the final tpb comes out today - Hellraiser: The Dark Watch vol. 3. Looking forward to reading how it all ends but sad that it’s over - the comic has been excellent.
I still have to buy the tpb. I have them on my comp though, and near the end it is just weird (in a good way). Honestly I may go back and read it again, because it feels like there is still a lot I don’t understand.
The main guy from Lord of Illusions (who also showed up in Everville and is referenced in some other Barker works) plays an important role in the last third of the storyline so it helps if you’re familiar with him
Speaking of comics, recently I started reading “Nailbiter” (#1~#6) pretty good so far, its about a town that has a tendency to produce serial killers (16 of them, over the span of I dont know, 20+ years?)… I’d recommend it over Hack/Slash any day.
I wanted to start reading Hack/Slash since I heard Jason Voorhees pops up in it, and that in general it’s a great series. Been reading old Alien and Predator comics as well as all the NOES titles currently.
I’ll check out Nailbiter along with the AoD series that ran for a while. I still got a F13 comic motherload to go through as well.
I wish Marvel didn’t chicken out of their NOES comic after two issues, the artwork was superb and I was interested enough in the story to see where it went. Oh well.
Just watched VHS Viral…pretty bad and easily the weakest of the trilogy. First one could have been cool but falls flat due to the style it was shot and ending. Second skit seems lame as fuck at first, then turns uncomfortable, then grabs your curiosity, then it just goes off the fucking rails but in a bad way. Last one could have been epic but cock teases you at the end. Overall I’d stay skip this shit unless you liked the other two and absolutely must see the third.
