Underrated Horror Films?

[ArmoredFoe]

Cool, Also, I liked DEAD SNOW, just as you did.

Did you see BOOK OF BLOOD? I read mixed things about it, but was curious, since it was a follow-up of sorts to MMT.

This I didnt know, I heard about it, but didnt really look into it. Now knowing that I will look into it.

* I just added it to my netflix

 

[thenammagazine]

Cool, Also, I liked DEAD SNOW, just as you did.

Did you see BOOK OF BLOOD? I read mixed things about it, but was curious, since it was a follow-up of sorts to MMT.

Not really a follow-up. It was another short story from Barker's Books of Blood, as is Dread and the aforementioned Rawhead Rex.

 

[Maglor]

See again thats my problem with the August series...to me there $5 budget and camcorder footage just doesnt do it for me let alone there "special FX". I feel like it has no context so it doesnt do much for me.

To me, the "camcorder look" can really go a long way toward making a film look more like a document of what some people are doing than a movie.


Below is a trailer for August Underground. Obviously they have played with the audio/slow-mo for the trailer and they have upped the contrast/went black and white for the nudity part, but just this little bit really does make me feel like I'm watching real psychos videotape each other humiliating and slaughtering people. Dunno, just really find it disturbing. What I'm trying to say, is that it feels more real to me than I think it would if they would have had a bigger budget. With a big budget, it makes it easier to distance yourself from the violence because you can tell "it's just a movie." That's why movies like Saw really don't disturb me. But if real psychopaths were just documenting their sadism, this is what it would look like imo:

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I realize that "sickest/most violent" is kind of off topic for this thread, but we've discussed most of the movies in this list/clip:

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[thenammagazine]

To me, the "camcorder look" can really go a long way toward making a film look more like a document of what some people are doing than a movie.


Below is a trailer for August Underground. Obviously they have played with the audio/slow-mo for the trailer and they have upped the contrast/went black and white for the nudity part, but just this little bit really does make me feel like I'm watching real psychos videotape each other humiliating and slaughtering people. Dunno, just really find it disturbing. What I'm trying to say, is that it feels more real to me than I think it would if they would have had a bigger budget. With a big budget, it makes it easier to distance yourself from the violence because you can tell "it's just a movie." That's why movies like Saw really don't disturb me. But if real psychopaths were just documenting their sadism, this is what it would look like imo:

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I realize that "sickest/most violent" is kind of off topic for this thread, but we've discussed most of the movies in this list/clip:

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Add tasteless to all that garbage and it's perfectly accurate.

Again I'll ask. What does this type of trash have to do with the topic?

 

[The Batman Professor]

Not really a follow-up. It was another short story from Barker's Books of Blood, as is Dread and the aforementioned Rawhead Rex.

Wasn't it part of the Lionsgate/Barker "yearly adaptation" plan that was prematurely aborted? Yes, I do believe it was. That's what I meant by "follow-up of sorts."

 

[ArmoredFoe]

see I look at the camcorder shakey cam like a gimmick, so for me it doesnt work. While yes I guess it does kinda give it that "real" look again I see it as a gimmick and the only thing disturbing about it to me is the fact that it looks like some 12 yr olds filmed it and called it a movie. I just dont care for that stuff.

 

[thenammagazine]

Wasn't it part of the Lionsgate/Barker "yearly adaptation" plan that was prematurely aborted? Yes, I do believe it was. That's what I meant by "follow-up of sorts."

My apologies. It sounded like you were inferring it was a sequel. Though it has more relativity to Dread than Midnight Meat Train. He still has some other Books of Blood in development so I'm wondering if it was aborted or just shifted production companies.

 

[ArmoredFoe]

Yeah im really interested in this Book of Blood movie now.

 

[The Batman Professor]

My apologies. It sounded like you were inferring it was a sequel. Though it has more relativity to Dread than Midnight Meat Train. He still has some other Books of Blood in development so I'm wondering if it was aborted or just shifted production companies.

Probably a shift in production/distribution, as Barker was furious when the new regime at Lionsgate dumped MMT into $2 theaters. The original plan was to get "name" directors to come in and helm an adaptation and then have a theatrical release at a rate of one per year. Ryuhei Kitamura was hand-picked by Barker as a way of starting things off with a bang.

 

[The Batman Professor]

Not to dump on Frank Miller (who I consider to be a god among comic creators,) but Lionsgate would have done better BO releasing MMT wide, while dumping THE SPIRIT into $2 theaters.

 

[thenammagazine]

Probably a shift in production/distribution, as Barker was furious when the new regime at Lionsgate dumped MMT into $2 theaters. The original plan was to get "name" directors to come in and helm an adaptation and then have a theatrical release at a rate of one per year. Ryuhei Kitamura was hand-picked by Barker as a way of starting things off with a bang.

It's really a shame. It seems like most of his stories are mishandled in one fashion or another. I'd add Nightbreed to the Underrated list too. First time in a loooooooong time, the audience actually feels sympathy for the "monsters."

Not to dump on Frank Miller (who I consider to be a god among comic creators,) but Lionsgate would have done better BO releasing MMT wide, while dumping THE SPIRIT into $2 theaters.

Spirit should be a skidmark on Miller's resume.

 

[The Batman Professor]

Gotta say g'night, as I'm going to settle in and watch HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB, a Nachy film that Rue Morgue magazine says is the pinnacle of his work. We'll see, as I'm still unimpressed with Senor Nachy based on the nonsense I've viewed thus far from him.

 

[CelticPredator]

Was never really scared by Meyers.

The only two movies to have freaked me out in the past 20 years have been The Grudge (that bastard little kid! ) and The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Other than that, it's just all the same stuff to me.

You cant tell people to "cowboy up" if you're scared of The Grudge. kiddin.

What a terrible movie. Hilarious though.

 

[thenammagazine]

You cant tell people to "cowboy up" if you're scared of The Grudge. kiddin.

What a terrible movie. Hilarious though.

$50 bus ticket and 3 years of your life and I bet we could change that.

Again, it wasn't so much the movie as a reminder of past experience.

 

[fosing]

i just finished let the right one in.
damn, it was cute. dark romantics.

i did not get why

Spoiler:

eli said she's a he when she has a vajayjay(or so i thought it was)

somehow makes me want to read the novel if its available, looks like eli got an interesting back story which didnt make it on screen.

 

[AladdinSane]

i just finished let the right one in.
damn, it was cute. dark romantics.

i did not get why

Spoiler:

eli said she's a he when she has a vajayjay(or so i thought it was)

somehow makes me want to read the novel if its available, looks like eli got an interesting back story which didnt make it on screen.

Spoiler:

I thought it was supposed to be a scar.

 

[fosing]

Spoiler:

I thought it was supposed to be a scar.

oh...

Spoiler:

wow, i couldn't tell to be honest. it was too hairy to tell, did not see anything dangling(wasn't like Lois Einhorn either)...me placed my bet on my too quick on deductive reasoning...oh vajayjay.

 

[Maglor]

Spoiler:

I thought it was supposed to be a scar.

Yep. Paused it just to make sure.

 

[Shanester]

Midnight Meat Train was a nice surprise for me. It kept me intrugued with what Mahogany was all about and I thought the ending was classic Barker.

Ichi was strange and a bit graphic, but in an "over the top" kinda way. High pressure showers of blood coming out of a neck kinda thing... I was way more appreciative of the sadist/masochist relationships that made it all come together.

 

[fosing]

felt pervy pausing that scene.
so that's what it was then.

insert joker's do you know how i got this scar? here.