SethDLH

Yea, he used Anthony M. Dawson often. I don't know if that was his choosing or not to appeal to American audiences.

I just finished MST3K of Horrors of Spider Island... its time for bed after that crap. The movie was awful, the commentary wasn't funny except for a few chuckles. A truly rough 90 minutes.

Undeadcow

Tourist trap (1979) was a lot of cheap schlocky fun ... I didn't expect it to be as intense as it was.

Mondo Kane

Agreed. I first saw this on the exploitation challenge. I still remember receiving a case of the creeps during the first attack-scene.

ParadiseVendors

5 more minutes and I am done with an all day movie marathon. Counting one that I just finished from where I fell asleep last night, and one that I watched half of a few days ago and finished today, I watched 9 movies. Exhausting. I did a few of these all day marathons last year, no idea how I did it. But I'm way behind pace to get to 100, so I needed the marathon to even have a chance at it.

Travis McClain

We just completed a Night of the Living Dead double feature with the 1990 remake. It was my first time watching the original and remake back-to-back, and it was rather revealing. On a lot of levels, the remake is an improvement over its predecessor. And yet, I felt like I was watching a movie during the remake; it felt less organic than the original. It was almost like going from a documentary to a dramatization, where the point of the latter is to hit the essential points of the story rather than to explore its depths. Still, I think it holds up fairly well 20 years later on its own merits.

Now, off to bed with the Mike Nelson commentary track on the original. Those check marks are pilin' up!

Julie Walker

Going back to my high school years, I just viewed 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' tonight and I don't recall seeing the film since sometime in the late 90's. I saw it in theaters originally, then probably once more on video and that was it(other than bits and pieces on t.v. at the time).

If anyone was online in the late 90's on some horror forums. It was a pretty dark time to be posting opinions on the current films. Since there was a huge war between 'new school'(so called 'fake' horror fans) and 'old school'(self proclaimed 'real') horror fans. The 'old school' were closed minded and hated anything mainstream current and popular and the 'new school' were just not made to feel welcomed at all and mostly left the forums, leaving an echo chamber of people who agree on everything, and were just bitter jerks. It wasn't fun to post at all back then since flame wars would begin the moment someone admits to liking Scream for example. It's pretty stupid looking back how people were on the various horror forums though. That I almost laugh at the praise Scream gets today with people admitting to liking it with no real backlash resulting, and heck some of the same people might be those that were protesting against it at the time since it was 'cool' to do so.

So with that said, I revisited 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' for the first time in more than a decade, and I think it's a good movie. I love the opening camera shot during the credits. That's always impressed me and is just an awesome opening sequence. Technically the film is well made with lots of great camera shots, and it's filled with nice atmosphere and suspense.

...and to the haters that may still exist, I still like the original Scream as well(ducks from flying objects).

Darth Maher

I watch most of my horror stuff alone as well. If you see a kid's movie on my list, it is most likely viewed with my daughter. I just watched a bunch of Halloween TV episodes with her. As each one ended, she asked for more. I was happy to oblige.

My wife doesn't care for horror (she waited until after we were married to tell me this), so most of my viewing is done after everybody goes to bed. But between being busy at work and being sick, I've been heading to bed early after watching just 20 minutes of something.

On Saturday, I turned on The Innocents, and my wife was actually enjoying it, but we were both extremely exhausted so we ended up going to bed after watching only 45 minutes. But she told me last night that she thought it was interesting (the absence of "blood and guts" helped, of course) and wants to see the rest of it. I see this as a small victory in my book.

Dick Laurent

I'm lucky that my wife loves horror even more than me (her favs are Hammer studios, Franco, Rollin, Argento, and anything with a vampire... and not the shiny, soccer mom kind ).

It was my 13 year-old son that decided to go to bed right at 9 PM. I told him he'd be done by 10 PM, but I guess he's just more responsible than me. Go figure...

And being sick this month sucks. Sleep is the best cure when I'm sick, and that's hard to come by during a marathon. Hope you're on the mends, though.

shadokitty

I've seen it before and when I saw it was available on Netflix, I put it on my queue to watch this challenge. I should be getting it either in my next batch of movies or my batch after that.

Fist of Doom

No flying objects from me - I like the whole trilogy. In fact, now that you mentioned it I think I'll put them next on my list.

SethDLH

I just watched Return To Horror High... ugh. Pretty terrible stuff.

SterlingBen

Try Bloodsucking Pharaohs In Pittsburg instead.

Indy24LA

Watching Pitch Black, forgot how much I liked this.

Travis McClain

Nonsense! This is a favorite of ours. It should really have a Mystery Science Theater 3000-style commentary track, though. Which reminds me, we went to bed after watching the original and remake versions of Night of the Living Dead and popped in the 2004 colorized version of the original (sacrilege, I know) with its Mike Nelson commentary track. He goes to the "This is what life is like in Wisconsin" well too many times early on, but my chief complaint is that he gets on the movie for its slow pace and lack of anything dynamic occurring for long stretches, but doesn't really punch up the movie with any humor himself.

And since this version was colorized, I'll go ahead and note that the colorization (why don't we call it, "coloring?") was garish. Way too many pastels, which I personally found entirely incongruous with not only the feel of the film, but it just wasn't a plausible decorating aesthetic for an old farm house. Unless, of course, that had been one fabulous farmer.

Jediturtle

So last night was pretty interesting. Here's a copy/paste from my list entry:

October 17:
22) Ju-on: The Grudge (2002) - DVD ****1/2
The first time I saw Ju-on, before the countless remakes, spoofs, and rip-offs, I'd have to say it was the scariest movie I had ever seen. Now seeing it for the second time it didn't have quite the same affect on me, but it was still pretty amazing and creepy. The terror has been diminished a bit since it's style has been imitated so many times, but the original is still by far the best. It's one of the few movies that can still put me on edge.

Tonights viewing led to an interesting story afterwards. Right after the movie we headed for bed. I was just coming out of the bathroom when my wife, who was in our bedroom already, said "what's that noise"? I thought it was just the cat, but then it started again. It was a loud, metallic scratching noise coming from the corner of our room. Now under normal circumstances this would have been mostly annoying, but right after watching Ju-on...yea...slightly unsettling. Upon further investigation it seemed to have been coming from the gutter outside, so I gathered my courage (and the big-ass maglite) and went to take a look. I never did find anything, and the noise didn't come back after that, so I'm guessing it was just a squirrel or mouse playing around in the gutter, but who knows. All I know is that I don't usually get that nervous, and my wife really doesn't get rattled easily, but that sure did it for both of us! I spent the next hour plus laying wide awake in bed listening to every little noise in the house. That's definitely the most creeped out I've been in a while! Quite exhilarating!

Julie Walker

That's good I wasn't to big of a fan of the sequels, but will give them a fair chance sometime with part 4 coming out next year. I only have the first film on dvd and laserdisc at the moment. Depending how I'm feeling, I might give it a viewing sometime for the challenge, and maybe see if i can find the sequels used somewhere for a low price.

I did see all three films in theaters though,and that was fun and so there is a little nostalgia in that regard. And the sequels at least did have some memorable scenes from what I recall, but overall only the first film really entertained me from beginning to end.

OldBoy

anyone on the above...

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

I did the same sort of thing with movies I made in high school. I worked at a TV station and regularly kidnapped anchors and reports for my projects. It was nice to have the equipment to do some decent editing and cheesy special effects.

The 'new school' were also closed minded about the older films but they lost the war and fled. Me, I like the older stuff but watch newer stuff even if they are a different style along with bigger budgets. I'll never grow fond of quick MTV style ADD editing and shakycam types of stuff.

SterlingBen

I had always just assumed it was because they both took so much from the book. But I didn't know about the writer so it could be the case that he just modified his existing script, it would make since since he already picked the plot elements and scenes from the book that he thought would translate to film.

Also if those lines weren't directly from the book it would have been mentioned quite a bit more how similar two were.

And since we are bumping did anyone watch Zombie RoadKill? It comes highly recommended. (6 5 minute shows)

SethDLH

Just finished up This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse and thought it was fantastic! Coffin Joe is now 2 for 2 with me. For anyone looking to get into the series the region 2 boxset from Anchor Bay is usually pretty cheap on Amazon UK and the picture quality isn't nearly as bad as the reviews make it out to be.

Mondo Kane

Sad to say that the first two were the best. Hallucinations/Mind is the only follow-up of his that I liked (It's a great movie to have playing in the background)

Travis McClain

You haven't by chance posted any of these to YouTube, have you? Or are the original masters "unaccounted for?"

I'm gonna jump in here and go a bit off-topic, if you don't mind. One thing that's never occurred to me while watching an older movie is to think of how it could/would be shot or edited today. For instance, contrasting the two Night of the Living Deads, there's an awful lot of exposition in the original shared over either the boarding of windows and doors or watching TV. In the remake, the boarding process happens more quickly and there are frequent instances of zombies trying to break in during the process which injects some action to an otherwise dull activity.

I don't think filming the original with that kind of streamlined approach would have improved it at all, and I think if the remake had retained the original's deliberate pacing it would have been far more underwhelming. There are numerous artistic and aesthetic choices to be made for any given movie, and whether the film works or not depends largely on how many of those choices turn out to be right for that given film.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

The last one I did was about 15 years ago for my senior project on alien abductions. I don't have the finished product anymore but I think I have some unedited footage. I think the only two things I have left are a couple of snowboarding videos. The first one was decent enough to get a request from someone else for the second one but then they just kept pestering me to get it done, so I did a completely quick and shitty job just to shut them up.

Everything else was pretty much given away before I joined the Air Force.

Growing up, I liked the newer stuff, which at the time would be 80s because there was more action and things happened faster. I hated older stuff because nothing ever really happened until the end. Now that I'm all grown up, I like much older films since I can appreciate the suspense and await the payoff. At the same time, I don't like the more recent things since I've pretty much seen it all before except this time the action starts out much earlier and it gets relied on more for the story than anything else.

Granted, there's exceptions to everything but for me, House On Haunted Hill was much better originally than the remake. It's hard to describe but the suspense isn't really there for me in the remake and other newer films. It's there but it's not well done, or something.

Chad

Last night I had a mini NOES marathon for 3 - 5. Wow, I take back every negative word said about part 3. It's right up there competing with New Nightmare for best sequel. The Dream Master was good fun in a cheesy sort of way that only an '80s film can accomplish. And part 5 was, well, better than part 6, although the special effects were quite impressive for the time. Totally misjudged the sequels.

asianxcore

I love Part 3. The first film (obviously), Part 3 and New Nightmare are by far my favorite films in the entire series.

Thanks for the heads up. The PQ was pretty much the only thing holding me back from getting the set.

Just finished watching Tenebre. No matter how many times I watch it, I can't ever get tired of it. Good stuff!