Speaking of shit sequels. How about that Ring 3 trailer? Lol
Blair Witch is a sequel/reboot like Jurassic World was a sequel/reboot.
The first one still happened, but you’re likely going to get a lot of the same beats over again with some twists here and there.
I loved the Guest and You’re Next so I’ll likely give this one a shot sometime.
Currently on deck for me: From Dusk Till Dawn season 3, The Neighbors and I’m NOT A Serial Killer.
I heard they are also making the ring vs the grudge
Yes, it’s premiering soon and it’ll be on Shudder after that.
November maybe?
Thanks a lot @“Dios <-X->” , seems pretty skip-able to say the least. That’s a shame since I thought the first trailer premiere did a good job of tell not show. Then again the final trailer was all action scenes and loud noises so eh.
[details=Spoiler] The alternate universe bit kills my sides. I mean it isn’t the worst concept ever, but it kills a lot of the mystery and is a cop out that let’s them do whatever the fuck they want while shifting blame to this shaky concept if people bitch concerning the real world aspects of the first film.
Also seems like they didn’t know how to build up toward a suspenseful ending naturally and figured a SFX overload would get casuals talking. The Blair Witch universe has a lot of exploration they could have done, but the first sequel was so horribly botched by studio interference and odd choices, then this version takes it in a more Supernatural bend while showing damn near everything. Maybe it was never intended to have sequels in the first place. [/details]
The Rings trailer what you are talking about @Foolinfection? That was hysterical, little ghost girl now e-mailing herself to white women in order to create some real first world problems for them. The ending scene in the trailer I have to admit is pretty cool, where everyone on the plane is forced to see the video on the seat TV’s and she starts crawling toward handsome white lead #1 from the Pilot cockpit.
Yeah the airplane scene actually looks kinda dope. The rest of the movie itself as a premise seems meh. Like why is the cursed video now online chain mail in 2016? Can you imagine the hilarity if it was a widely shared viral video on facebook?
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Also I forgot to mention that unlike the original, this movie has alot of cheesy jumpscares, the camera moving really quickly to the side and someone is standing there, everything dead silent then all of a sudden someone is just HAPPENS to have appeared right next to them and say something really loud. Fucking annoying. Like seriously, its the middle of the night in the woods without a sound, you could hear a twig snap, and somehow, while you are standing there all alone, someone managed to walk up to you, stand right next to you, and is gasping or breathing heavy like they just ran up next to you and didnt make a sound. get the fuck out of here.
Fuck it let’s actually make that a thing. Lol
Time to learn photoshop brah, I’ll have HAX teach me his ways.
Just got done viewing The Last Broadcast, a semi-found footage film released in 1998. The plot revolves around murders pertaining to a group of local television hosts for a show called “Fact or Fiction?” that attempt to boost slagging ratings with a live feed of the Jersey Devil mystery in the woods. Two of the people are confirmed dead, one is missing, and the survivor is charged with the murders and subsequently tried for his actions.
Film plays out like a Unsolved Mysteries style documentary, a Filmmaker determines to piece together the facts and evidence presented in the case and trial and come to his own conclusions about what actually transpired that night. As he delves more into the case it becomes less clear of what actually happened, with plots and evidence piling up around him and interviews suggesting something else could have happened.
Very engrossing film that had me hooked all the way until the ending, which without spoiling anything, is one of those endings I can acutely tell people will either love or hate it. Personally I’m in the middle, still undecided as I replay the movie in my head and come across stuff that seemed small but starts to add up when taken into context.
Despite a similar premise to The Blair Witch Project it was filmed and released beforehand, and was also one of if not the first movie to be made all digitally without film. While there are a lot of similarities the two films play out drastically different, with The Last Broadcast taking a more straight laced documentary bend for the majority of the film, while The Blair Witch Project has a more guerrilla shoot feel to it. Basically reverse how The Blair Witch took place (Hardly any interviews and setting up in the actual film or dealing with the consequences, focusing more on the found footage aspect) and that’s this film.
One of those rare situations where I come across an unorthodox movie via another review and decide to see it immediately, and pretty happy I did. It was a different viewing experience from my usual Horror stomping grounds, and I appreciated what the film makers were going for within their budget ($900 by the way).
I suggest if you can handle that kind of filming style, and enjoy a good documentary genre film, to seek it out yourself and give it a watch. If only so I could have someone to discuss it with in the mighty power of spoiler tags. From now until I get bored or until Halloween’s conclusion I’ll try to get up some reviews and interesting Horror flicks I run across to share with you guys. Hopefully a few of you left will do the same, as it’s always a fun time of the year for doing such things.
Documentary filming style, you mean like The Fourth Kind? I liked that film, and the finale scene was super creepy. Gave me the chills.
Thats a close enough concept to give you an idea, yes. If you were able to enjoy Fourth Kind you should have no problems here.
Some searching brought up a couple of more found footage films that I’ll check out tonight, Unaware from 2010 and The Collingsworth Murders from 2003. Probably move onto a new genre after these.
Recently saw “I Am NOT A Serial Killer” and “The Neighbor”.
First one was a little slow in parts but ultimately worth the watch. Neighbor moves pretty quickly, though.
Both films managed to pleasantly subvert my expectations.
Easy recommends.
(Having randomly re-watched Jeepers Creepers 2 yesterday since it was on Syfy yet again, I was reminded that both movies in the series are surprisingly decent for a horror series that is apparently still stuck in “development hell” as far as further sequels go. I still think the first movie is the better one though.)
Speaking of randomly watching, despite barely watching TV, I have been catching some season 4 episodes of The X-Files just because of there being nothing else on that I want to even have on in the background and because of how often Chiller shows the series. In re-awatching episodes I barely remember, when not getting distracted by now familiar faces like Raymond Cruz, I just have say “geez.” I vaguely remembered that the majority of episodes had bad endings, but I had forgotten just how bad and just how quickly and easily the body count can rise, even among victims who don’t deserve it. Dead bodies everywhere.
Of course, “bad endings” or “downer endings” are part of the reason why I think I like horror movies as long as the “bad ending” is not forced or does not come out of nowhere. The horror genre tends to be the only genre besides war, which is itself arguably a type of horror, that is “allowed” to have bad endings in general. This even in the era of the McCarthy levels of bullshit sanitation. For instance, I also randomly caught the latter halves of The Alligator People and The Day Mars Invaded Earth and damn if both of those movies do not end on down-notes. Additionally, just randomly caught the tail-end of Frankenstein again since it and its related movies happen to be on TCM tonight apparently and we all know how that ends.
As such, I have been thinking: Is the relatively greater freedom of ending choice something you think influences why you like horror movies?
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Well, any time your sequel revolves around a bus full of high school kids, you KNOW you’re scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas. They could’ve pulled a Ginger Snaps Back and made movies about encounters with The Creeper in previous centuries. We know he’s been around a LONG time.
(Meh. The “kids on a school bus” angle works surprisingly decently for Jeeper Creepers 2, especially since they avoid going with a cliche protagonist.)
From what I understand and recently learned, apparently one of the sequels being considered for the series was–is?–being considered to take place in old Wild West. Of course, that is obviously stuck in development hell as previously mentioned, so whether we ever see that and whether it is actually of any quality should it ever come out are two other issues.
(I hate double-posting, but this is one the second page, so…)
So I had Darkness Falls on in the background a couple of hours ago because it came on Syfy yet again and man, I had forgotten both how much wasted potential this had and that the person who plays the main character, Chaney Kley, died all the way back in 2007 of sleep apnea of all things; I feel a bit bad for immediately thinking of him as “budget Ryan Reynolds” when I saw him again. I also had not realized that the woman who played Anya in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Emma Caulfield, was the main female character until just now despite her being Anya before she was in that. Weird. I still wonder what the original plot for the movie was going to before it got screwed with so much by the typical idiot executives.
Similarly, I have to wonder how much Poltergeist III would have changed if Heather O’Rourke had not died during it. It would have likely still been a crap movie, especially since I only realized a couple of nights ago when it came on Chiller yet again that the boyfriend did not even get rescued at the end, but I still have to wonder. At least Poltergeist II was surprisingly decent though, even if it largely rehashed the plot of the first movie and just fleshed it out with the things got excised, like Kane, and a literally magical Native American.
Speaking of which, it seems appropriate to cap this particular post off by saying that I also had not realized until a couple of nights ago that Kane’s original actor, Julian Beck, was essentially dying of stomach cancer while filming Poltergeist II. That explains he looks so creepily gaunt during throughout, which ends up working extremely effectively in his intro scene. That poor guy though:
Yeah disease or not, he was the best part of II and was damn creepy in the role. One of the saving graces of that film.
Btw, don’t watch the remake. It did one thing right and everything else wrong.