My apologies…I think? Unintentional troll on that one, someone sent me the link the other day. It does have a spot on IMDB though, but with very little information and a “2016” release date.
As much as I hate the “series”, I do like part 1. I like to think of it as part 1 and the other 6 don’t exist. It’s kinda like the show Heroes to me, Season 1 awesome, everything after that never happened as far as I’m concerned.
Also many thanks for the When Animals Dream recommendation, watched it yesterday, I really liked it.
I just rewatched See No Evil 2 because it had been a while and I am a gluten for punishment.
Man, that film is just as bad as I remember it.
Uninventive kills all over the place.
Nice cast completely wasted on a boring, nothing story as well as the atmosphere of a morgue.
Turning Jacob Goodnight into a Z level slasher was such an odd choice. His thing in the first one was taking people’s eyes and he didn’t even do it once in the whole film.
I expected a lot more from the Soska twins after American Mary.
The only explanation I can come up with is they had zero dollars and no time to do the movie.
(I’m not surprised that VHS: Viral is crap. Good to know. I still need to watch the first one all the way through.)
Speaking of crappy horror movies, I randomly tuned into Chiller last night and saw that The Rage: Carrie 2 was on. I vaguely remembered that movie existed, but, man, I forgot how poor it was and the amount of (now) familiar faces that were in it, like pre-Syfy, pre-pudgy Jason London, Mena Suvari, Zachery Ty Bryan, and one of those guys who was apparently in Entourage, which I’ve never watched. I can’t say I’m surprised I forgot they were in it, though, given the only good part of that movie is the massacre at the end, which got edited to hell on Chiller; I think it lost up to a minute or more, which is ridiculous as far as editing censorship goes:
After that, I skimmed through some crappy movie from 2011 called Hidden that basically was so bad it made Sharknado look Oscar-worthy. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever seen such a poor plot in a horror movie, which is saying a lot given I’ve seen way too many bad horror movies. My gods.
(Oh, this reminds me: I also skimmed through The Pyramid about a month ago and it was bad as I expected. Actually, it was arguably even worse, just like with Chernobyl Diaries was last summer when I caught it on Syfy.)
The only thing I remember about Carrie 2 is her blowing up a girls glasses and the lenses went into her eye balls. Not a bad kill for such a shit movie.
(Same. That and the “impaled through the head through the door” deaths are the only things I really remembered.)
The former scene is there 4 minutes into the video I embedded. Chiller edited the hell out of both of that death and the other aforementioned one alongside many others. I’ll be the first person to say that “gore” doesn’t necessarily equal “horror”, but it’s still annoying when things get edited that much.
That said, I can at least somewhat understand why they would edit out the black comedy harpoon-castration that I don’t really remember happening. Arguably it shouldn’t have killed the character it happened to anyway actually, though maybe he just went into (presumably fatal) shock. Shrug.
Found out that James Wan is producing a full length feature based on the short film “Lights Out”. It’ll be written and directed by the creator David Sandberg and Lotta Losten and star Teresa Palmer.
Coming in July 2016.
(I’m not sure whether it would count as a horror film, @Weeaboo, but given you mentioned “serial killers”, I figure that I’d mention Black Mass if you haven’t already seen it. I haven’t seen it myself and you may have meant more “slasher” films rather than “biopics about murderers”, but I’ve heard good things about it either way, not that I care enough to watch it myself. Then again, I did like Monster with Charlize Theron and Christian Ricci, so maybe I would like it.)
On the flip side, yesterday I apparently watched half of a “horror” film on some random MGMHD channel that was so janky the movie is not even listed on IMDB. It was called Contamination .7 or something along those lines, about tree roots that had become killer and carnivorous because they were irradiated by illegally dumped toxic waste from the local nuclear plant or something. Yeah…stellar plot there typical of some 90s movie no one has ever heard of right there. The “acting” in it was so bad that it almost become good again honestly on top of that. Never thought I’d see a horror movie where the monster is defeated by standard construction equipment rather than the typical monster killer that is high-grade explosives.
Either way, what struck me most is how Hidden was still probably a worse film overall because Hidden took itself far more seriously for minimal payout, on top of using unnecessary babble about “addiction” that ended up going nowhere except “somehow this results in tentacle-monster kids”. I’m not sure how the hell that works, on so many levels, though I know at least part of that is the fact that Contamination .7 clearly had a lesser budget and still made it work, for a generous definition of “work”.
(I only saw half of Prince of Darkness unfortunately, but what I saw good.)
This reminds me: aren’t those two movies supposedly related to The Thing or another of Carpenter’s movies? I vaguely recall hearing that those two and a third movie were supposedly intended to be part of some loosely connected, Lovecraftian triology he had in mind.
Carpenter has his Apocalypse Trilogy. The Thing, Prince of Darkness, and In the Mouth of Madness.
They all share similar concepts of world ending Horror visiting the population, the last two are definitely Lovecraft inspired for sure.
That and The Three Mothers Trilogy from Dario Argento are similar in that aspect. Just very loose concepts that tie them together in an artistic manner.