We watched Friday The 13th and Evil Dead II in honor of Halloween last weekend. My wife HATED Evil Dead. She likes her movies all modern and glossy and such.
Hell yeah it does, and it kicks F***ing ASS!
Took the first movie in a new direction and a welcome one at that.
Hmmm
At the movies: I finally had a chance to go see Devil..... Was freakin good. I was expecting to be dissapointed so my expectations were low even after a lot of good/passing reviews... but yeah it was a nice surprise IMO. Definitely worth a watch.
At home: I've been bashing through the 40 some odd hours of horror movies I recorded during AMC's halloween horrorfest.
Just finished 13 ghosts... I remember it being soooo much more suspensful.. this time.. it was just kinda... meh. I don't want to say bad, because it has some solid ok performances.. enough to keep your interest at least... but it wasn't great.... or even good really.
On the other hand I'min the middle of House on Haunted Hill which is the opposite.. I remember hating that movie.... At the moment I'm really enjoying it. Solid performances; Geoffry Rush and Chris Catan (I don't feel like looking up the spelling on these names) steal every scene they're in, and the whole cast is pretty strong.
Good movie that does a good job of not taking itself too seriously but delivering when it counts.
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Just finisher House of Wax yesterday... Holy shit is that movie god aweful.
The town was pretty creepy in how it was set-up... but the "get to know our victims" took WAAAAAAAYYYYYYY too much screen time. Do we really need to commit this much time to backstory and exposition rather than real character development? The performances from the cast were lacking something fierce... I mean, you know there's a problem when you can't really distinguich Paris Hilton's performance as worse than the people she's surrounded by in the film. She was actually better than half the cast IMO.
That's not a good thing.
Was nice to finally see a wrong male lead who handled the situation like a strong male lead should instead of being just a run of the mill tough guy who gets off screened or ambushed etc.
Overall the whole movie was just... Meh.
__________________ "damn jinzin, you're a real trooper, you provde fact after fact and pages and pages of proof and these wanton miscreants just keep at it"~MERC
Ok overall, the deaths are not as setup or as inventive as the previous ones but the problems that Jarvis was going through was well done. I kind of had a 'hey, cool' moment when I saw the actor from Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, the guy who gives the young Jones his iconic hat at the beginning.
I've got three more to watch and then I'll decide if I'll watch Jason X or the re-make they did.
I wish he completed the Trilogy apparently he wanted Jennifer Connelly to play the third witch but after Phenomena I can understand why she steered away from that genre.
A good 7/10 Goblin soundtrack excellent as always.
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Thanks! I've just recently started my Argento marathon.
In Inferno the 3 mothers/witches had Tenebrous as the third so I assumed it was intended to be the third but obviously because the hack couldnt get Connelly he went ahead and just made another Giallo flick.
Shame about MoT being bad how can anyone mess that up?
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"damn jinzin, you're a real trooper, you provde fact after fact and pages and pages of proof and these wanton miscreants just keep at it"~MERC
