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Pure awesome. Too bad horror films don't really have a replay value...best thing since The others...
9/10

The twists in this movie are crazy awsome. It's a nice break from all the stupid torture movies that have been coming out recently.

The sequels aren't sooo bad...but go with your gut and stick with the original!

Have you checked out:

Session 9
Devil's Backbone
The Night Of The Eagle
The Haunting (original)
Les Diaboliques

I think you would like them.

As for horror films having no replay value. John Carpenter. George A. Romero. Dario Argento. Alfred Hitch****. All these directors demand repeat viewing to grasp all the various intricacies that their films posess.

Can you believe they censor cock and not pussy? Discrimination I tell you! http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/c...ower/judge.gif

Anyhoo, you can't ever recreate the first experience with a horror film of this type. Well actually I'm talking out of my ass, you can't do that with any type of film.

Thanks for the recommendations, I'll try to avoid the ones with the "occult" tag though...I'm not into that.;)

Devil's Backbone is None other than Del Toro. Night Of The Eagle is an early 60's low budget British film that is very suspenseful and uses a myriad of camera tricks and cinematic sleight of hands to freak people out.

I haven't seen too many Del Toro films, but what I have seen I love. I'll have to check out Devil's Backbone!

speaking of occult, does anyone know if there are any
lovecraft adaptations that are any good?

I honestly have been looking and there aren't as many even watcheable ones as there are garbage versions.

I will say in the spirit of Lovecraft, Frank Darabonts adaptation of "The Mist" is brilliant. it pulls no punches and has the spirit of John Carpenter's The Thing coursing through its veins.

9/10

^second that

Lovecraft is very difficult to pin down visually. Director Stuart Gordon is a huge Lovecraft fan along with his regular writer Denis Pasoli. Dagon had some nice visual touches but collapsed in a mess by the end of the film. Re-Animator is an absolute classic but the humour detracts from the original story and From Beyond needed a bigger budget. Dreams From The Witch House which is from the Masters Of Horror Cable series was a fairly effective 50 mins.

:pssst: hp lovecraft is nazi ****....

Oh dear Oh dear...Do you know who he is?

Of couse, but he was also anti semitic and a known racist. Don't get wrong I think he was a great writer....but still

:rofl:

you know it's true it's in some poems...just look it up.

Have you read any of his works?

Call of the Cthulhu, but do I have to point it out?

Yeah so that i can prove you wrong.

That's a short story, not a poem and if you're going to call someone racist you should back it up. Like this:

"When, long ago, the gods created Earth. In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth. The beasts for lesser parts were designed; Yet were too remote from humankind. To fill the gap, and join the rest of Man, Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan. A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure, Filled it with vice, and called the thing a ******."
- HP Lovecraft "On the Creation of ******s"

oh well, who wasn't a racist back then

but that's beside the point, i think what makes lovecraft's stories
so difficult to translate onto the screen is because he tries to conjur
up images completely detached from reality and everyday experience
and doing that visually is a quite difficult task.
i think the only one i've seen is Dagon and it was a mess.

I never said it was a poem and I didn't put that poem because of I thought that the n word wasn't allowed.

lolol that was completely unexpected to me.

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I love this movie it's probably my favorite out of the horrorfest 2007....I haven't finished watching all eight yet though but this will be definitely be in my top 3 if not my favorite

I saw Horton Hears A Who last week with my girlfriend...it was cute...

Plan 9 From Outer Space

I agree, as long as his works aren't hate literature or propaganda for his beliefs, the guy was a great horror writer and is seen as such. Would you all disparage Hunter S. Thompson for being a drug user?

Sure it certainly isn't exactly something you would want in a role model but all of that aside he was a fantastic writer who crafted worlds that people love to be in so much that fans created their own studies of his mythology.

And on his poem that Crowquill quoted, sure he wrote that but how many times did Mark Twain use that word throughout the books and stories he wrote, remember the "N bomb" was a commonly used word to describe black people up until the middle twentieth century.

Watched Dan In Real Life last night was quite funny...

Lol. I actually though Ethan was kidding...wow. And check this out:

In "Herbert West - Reanimator," Lovecraft gives an account of a just-deceased African-American male. He asserts:
“ He was a loathsome, gorilla-like thing, with abnormally long arms that I could not help calling fore legs, and a face that conjured up thoughts of unspeakable Congo secrets and tom-tom poundings under an eerie moon. The body must have looked even worse in life - but the world holds many ugly things.

Anyhoooo...

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9/10
He sure did make some fantastic stuff in the 70's.

*Spoiler*




The Conversation is a stunning film. you really need to watch it with surround sound though. The sound design is integral to the film.I love the last shot with the camera mimicking a CCTV camera.

Huh...haven't thought about the camera.*daft*

And I'll see it in surround sound as soon as you buy it for me...;)

P.s. This is how you properly protect others from spoilers.

I watched Tao of Steve last night,
it wasn't anything spectacular but it
was a fun slacker romantic comedy.

Anything with Donal Logue is win...:yeah:

I saw "21" at the theatre this weekend. It was pretty much crap. I expected better from Kevin Spacey.

Does that include Ghost Rider? :-/

Grounded For Life is certainly a guilty pleasure though.

Why would GFL be a guilty pleasure?

well i don't really feel guilt too often, so i guess that's kind of a lie,
but it's not exactly the most groundbreaking or original sitcom out there.
it delivers the laughs but does have a lot of the same pitfalls as most
american sitcoms

that's too bad. i also heard that stop loss was a little over the top, so i'll probably skip that one as well.

the last movie i watched was reservior dogs again. :ar_15s:

I watched this earlier...was watchable...sorta...

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i just watched rendition,...and it was a bunch of political propaganda crap,.....