Fair enough! I think I might give it a miss... doesn't sound like anything special!

I liked the remake, honestly. I'd say watch it just so that you can say you've seen it. It's worth a watch in my opinion.

So true. Although the remake of Fright Night surprised me in this regard. Not sure if it's better, but it's not as abysmally bad as they generally are.

I'm quite fond of the TV movie The Woman in Black from 1989. It's a very creepy ghost story about a lawyer Arthur Kitt who's job it is to inventorize or whatever it's called this mansion left behind by its recently dead owner. Of course there's something creepy going on there ..

Now there's a remake out with Daniel Radcliffe in the lead. From the old movie, you'd think a remake would have the potential to be a sophisticated, exciting film, but my knee-jerk assumption is they probably turned it to ****. I still may have to watch it though.

I've heard nothing but good things about The Woman in Black (2012), although I was not aware it was a TV movie, now I'm sad :(

Well, the original was. The remake is probably a regular cinema blockbuster. ;)

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By the way, I liked the top review on imdb of the original :

The reason I saw it the first time many, many years ago is because a friend of mine had a similar story to this. A teacher had shown them this film in the classroom when he was a kid. He was quite traumatized. :p:

Outside of Maniac, The original Omen still has the best head loss scene in cinema.

Really? Now that gives me a reason to check it out...

probably watching Cabin in the Woods this weekend

my two cents on these



jackhammer gets 1000 points for even mentioning maniac....let alone the close range shot gun blast to the head :thumb:

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Swamp Thing (1982)

I've always been a fan of the comic and this movie came out right around the time Alan Moore started writing it and taking it in a slightly more complex direction with notions towards humanity, environmentalism, addiction, love, etc. Sadly this movie seems to be more geared towards the simple idea that Swamp Thing is just a monster who happens to be fighting for the good guys and it just doesn't work all that well. He and his female love interest are constantly besieged by the same grunt commandos because all he ever seems to do is knock them into the water. It's weird because Netflix has this rated as PG and I figured it was to make it accessible to kids... until the scene where Adrienne Barbeau swims naked in the swamp and you get to see her tits (they're awesome by the way). By the end it just devolves into a creature feature where enemy Arcane takes the same serum that made Alec Holland into the Swamp Thing and it turns into two guys in rubber suits attempting to fight while in thigh-high water.

I know I really shouldn't have expected much, but I really like Swamp Thing, and while this did come from a time when he was just a silly monster with the depth of a spoon, I do think there was some real potential here. If Marvel Studio's Avengers movie turns into a massive hit and the fear of trying to ape the complex continuity of comic books is banished, I really hope DC get their act together and create their own movie studio. Not only could they do a proper Swamp Thing movie, but they can also right the horrible wrong Warner Bros. did to John Constantine.