Me, the woman and a couple of friends watched it earlier, really enjoyed it.
We also watched Uzumaki (Spiral) earlier. JP horror based on one of Junji Ito’s mangas. Some town gets haunted by spirals, some people die in different ways but always relate to a spiral (some kid commits sudoku jumping down the centre of a spiral stair case etc etc.). I had no idea what was going on, then people started turning into giant snails, it felt creepy sometimes but then either something silly happened or bad acting would ruin the mood. I have all of Ito’s stories downloaded so I’m going to read it later to see if it was just a bad adaptation or just complete nonsense with no actual cause or conclusion.
After that shit I decided we should watch a good film and I ended up picking They Live, was going to watch a few more movies but peeps left.
One was removed, not sure if it ever saw the light of day. Carpenter wanted the film to end on a bleak note where you could draw your own conclusions on what would happen.
The ending is left up to your interpretation barring the PS2 game picking up from it. I myself like to think neither was infected but figured the other was, and simply died in that state.
Watched the 1943 remake of Phantom of the Opera with my boy Claude Rains and the Spanish version of Dracula.
Now I’ll say Bela Lugosi is the best Dracula standing next to Christopher Lee, but the Spanish version is a superior film overall. Amazing use of camera work not seen in the American production makes the sets come more alive.
The ending is left to your imagination, but MacReady is clearly not a Thing. Even without playing the second game, everything points towards Childs being a Thing at the end.
Apparently Carpenter hates discussing the movie because it did so poorly in theatres.
A lot of his films did unfortunately, his work found new audiences later like me and are now regarded as classics.
The movie gives hints that it is Childs but he never wanted to outright specify it. Also that game was ass from a mechanics standpoint. Always easier to just kill your party prior to a boss fight, since even if they are clean or not they will mutate.
Ash vs Evil Dead was pretty good. I really hated the beginning and how out of character it was that Ash just got high and recited parts of the Necronomicon to get laid. It just felt lazy. His actions directly led to his date getting killed off. But after that it improved quite a bit and the ending was great.
Can anyone help identify this film for me. I don’t have much to describe it by except some random things I remember. Not sure the exact year, but I do know I used to watch it on HBO in the 80’s. Plot revolved something about miners in a cave and monsters killing anyone that went down into it. Final scene of the movie that always stuck with me was people escaping in a helicopter and one of the monsters pops out from behind them with the screen freezing in place and fading out. Closest suggestion I ever got was the Boogens, but after hunting it down and watching it I know for sure that isn’t it. Anyone have any other suggestions?
Boogens is all I can think of really, besides like My Bloody Valentine but that is a slasher.
That’s happened to me. Remember seeing a film as a child where a woman and a man are sleeping in a bed and some kind of monster is scurrying on the floor. She tries to wake her husband up only to find he is dead and she is essentially trapped there. Was in black and white and I never found anything close to what it was nor could anyone help me.
I chalked it up to childhood fantasy of seeing something that wasn’t what was actually shown. Same thing happened when I tried to look for a Darkwing Duck game that doesn’t exist.
Yes, yes we are. I’ll explain it so you can all be confused as well.
First level was a rooftop section with rain and Thunder, TV antennas and shit. Was 16bit and a side scroller with sorta big character models, looked great.
Had the gun and a glide and the final boss of the stage was Megavolt.
Only two games I know of are the Capcom NES one and the TurboGrafx 16 title. It fits more with the latter. But I don’t think Megavolt or that stage was in, also it wasn’t shit.
Edit: shit maybe it was the TurboGrafx and my baby mind made it better through sheer imagination.
Hmm, well I know the ending was real, I probably got the rest of the movie confused with something else. Speaking of creepy endings I think I’ll pop in Mother’s Day later, 80’s version of course. To anyone that has seen it, that ending gave me the legit creeps for years.
I saw the TG16 version on an episode of Angry Videogame Nerd. It looked pretty bad.
Anyway, I watched Bone Tomahawk last night. It’s was a pretty cool movie. Gory as fuck at times too. Slow paced but solid performances. I recommend it.
The Strangeness, The Terror Within, Trapped Alive, What Waits Below, Underworld.
I’m basically just listing off any horror movies from the 80’s that involved a mine.
Yeah I wasn’t a fan of the game, but it at least answered that question. I dunno if it counts as canon though, but whatever.
What gets me, is you get a ton of people who legit think that MacReady was a Thing, for the entire movie. Like Childs is the only question mark, in my book. He goes away, then just shows up at the end, while they wait for help/death. MacReady you literally watch save the day. I appreciate the open ending, you are able to kinda come up with your own conclusion, but the only conclusions should be about whether or not Childs is a Thing.
I think it’s pretty obvious that MacReady is not the Thing. From the scene where he breaks back in and is holding the dynamite we with his character the entire time. The character played by Keith David at the end was most likely the Thing.
IIRC The Thing game is supposed to be canon, and you find Childs dead and frozen early in the game. MacCreedy survives and you run into him later in the game; he helps you progress in the game.
Watched the 2011 The Thing yesterday. It was okay; worth the rental. I guess my biggest complaint about the film is that it felt unnecessary. Like it felt like it was just the 1982 version but with Norwegians. It tries to replicate the first film but doesn’t feel like it brought anything new. Like I get that the point of the film is to explain what happened to the Norwegian camp, but the way it played out left me feeling a bit empty. I felt as if I didn’t learn anything I didn’t know already, other than details of how people died, which isn’t that important in the end. Characters were pretty forgettable too. Special effects were above average but nothing amazing. Creature design was consistent though. Overall, by its own merits, it’s a decent monster flick but is a monster flick only.
Personally, until they make Thing 2, I view the game as canon.
I agree with the comment about the prequel. You learn nothing, there are no surprise, and the Thing wasn’t as interesting as the John Carpenter version.
The Thing prequel did a ton of shit wrong, and was directed by a man who only had one other film to his credit at the time.
First is the CGI work, I wouldn’t mind it honestly since practical effects in this day and age seems to be a lost artform but it was so fucking terrible. No effort or money put into it. Very shoddy, cheaply done, and it takes you out of the film each time you see them. Final Norwegian doctor man monster looked more like someone slapped DSP’s face on a RE6 monster than anything frightening.
Second The Thing itself doesn’t act remotely like it did in Carpenters version, in The Thing from another world, or the short story Who goes there?
Instead of being a creature of stealth and survival, finding hidden ways to access people and isolate them for production, it outright flies around and creates as much noise as possible. It bursts out of the ice somehow and flies through the roof, it mutated on a helicopter and crashed it, when it tried to get female doctor lady the Thing crashed and screamed the whole damn time.
The only times you saw it mutate in the Carpenter film was when it had no choice, it was either about to be exposed or needed a way to escape.
Finally the pacing. There was no tension at all, the Carpenter cast may have been bare bones but they steadily built tension and paranoia among each other. Here we know literally nothing about these people, are suppose to care when they die off, and it is so by the numbers Horror with its action and suspense that it loses the integrity of what made the other films work so well.
I’m all for sequels/prequels and remakes, don’t get me wrong. I would just like people that are motivated and passionate to do these projects instead of falling in line trying to make them fit into the new Hollywood trope methods for a quick buck. Its why specifically with Horror these days I tend to find more independent films that have creative freedom to enjoy since good major releases are few and far between.