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Post by Flyboy on Aug 7, 2008 8:08:45 GMT -5
Creepy, atmospheric ghost story brought to us by John Carpenter & Debra Hill. The soundtrack to this movie really does enhance the suspense & other moods of this movie. I talk not of the shitty remake but the 1980 classic. Good acting all around especially by Adrienne Barbeau. One of her finest roles. And she's hot in this. And of course, The Atkins is in it as the main male hero sans mustache but he's still a tough guy. All-star cast consisting of Atkins, Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Charles Cyphers(in his greatest role since Death Wish II), Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh, Nancy Kyes, George "Buck" Flower, & John Carpenter as Bennett. The ghosts in this movie were extremely scary. Carpenter does it again without a lot of gore. A true classic & one of Carpenter's best movies.
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Post by blackknight273 on Aug 7, 2008 23:13:43 GMT -5
Damn good movie. One of the creepier ghost stories ever filmed The Atkins bags Jamie Lee in this one too!!
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Post by Flesh Eater on Aug 8, 2008 0:25:56 GMT -5
Atkins bags every chick he sees!
Yes it is indeed a classic, the remake doesn't hold a candle to it. The arms crashing through the windows is so very effective. An all around great movie, one of my favorites.
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Post by tannerboyle on Aug 8, 2008 9:56:45 GMT -5
Come on, man! He was in Death Wish II for about thirty seconds....if that! ;D As for Atkins, he was indeed the man. In that one, even though he's an antique, he bags a 20 year old hitch-hiker (the most beloved Jamie Lee) after knowing her less than an hour. Hell...he didn't even know what name to call out when he shot his load all over her ass! ;D
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Post by Flyboy on Aug 8, 2008 10:22:19 GMT -5
The Charles Cyphers crack was sarcasm.
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Post by blackknight273 on Aug 10, 2008 22:46:42 GMT -5
Come on, man! He was in Death Wish II for about thirty seconds....if that! ;D As for Atkins, he was indeed the man. In that one, even though he's an antique, he bags a 20 year old hitch-hiker (the most beloved Jamie Lee) after knowing her less than an hour. Hell...he didn't even know what name to call out when he shot his load all over her ass! ;D Sounds like me in my twenties.. I miss those days
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Post by tannerboyle on Aug 10, 2008 23:13:15 GMT -5
Shit...I've got that beat.
A couple of times I got caught calling girls by different names! And, once I forgot this broad's name altogether! LOL! ;D
Anyways...The Fog is one of my favorite flicks of all time. No bullshit.
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Post by Flesh Eater on Aug 10, 2008 23:41:47 GMT -5
Anyways... The Fog is one of my favorite flicks of all time. No bullshit. It's a great movie. The remake was atrocious. Something about these original films that current directors can't seem to get a handle on.
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Post by tannerboyle on Aug 11, 2008 0:03:16 GMT -5
It's a great movie. The remake was atrocious. Something about these original films that current directors can't seem to get a handle on. As for The Fog being a great flick, you're spot on. Ditto for the remake...although I wasn't surprised that they moved it farther north. As for the rest...maybe, maybe not. As you can tell from my posts, I'm silly and I'm ignorant and I'm an opinionated cock...but I'm also a student of horror (of sorts) and I actually think about what I'm watching and what's going on. And, I honestly think that guys like you and me and maybe some others don't connect to the new stuff because we're too old. It's just not our time anymore. The shit doesn't speak to us the way the old shit did. We've witnessed many changes in horror. Many revolutions. We started with the Silent Era, which morfed into the Universal Monsters phase. That gave way to the '50s sci-fi/ horror, which reverted back to the old shit with the Hammer flicks. THEN...we hit the late '60s/'70s, and the real revolution began. The old timers of yesterday blasted flicks like NOTLD and TCM and The Exorcist and Friday the 13th...calling them vulgar and trendy and NOT scary. The kids of yesterday (that's us) reveled in the new stuff and said the opposite--we didn't think that Frankenstein or the Mummy was scary, anymore. Hell, we didn't even think that Norman Bates was much of a much. Now, we're seeing the same shit...but we're the old timers now, and the kids of today don't think that the shambling zombies are scary anymore. Hell, I showed the Dead trilogy to my nephews and niece about ten years ago, and they were bored to tears. They told me that they would just run away from the zombies--that they were too slow. At one point, they were so bored that they actually asked me if I was punishing them by making them watch those movies.... So, I put on The Exorcist, and got the same thing. They were like: "It's a little girl tied to a bed. Big deal." A few years down the line, and they were into the new stuff like RE and 28 Days and Saw and Scream. I'm reminded of a line from The Howling: "Times have changed, and we haven't! Not enough!" ;D
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Post by Flesh Eater on Aug 11, 2008 0:10:49 GMT -5
All too true. Things like Saw and Scream don't do anything for me. There is no art there. Films like Phantasm, Friday 13th, NOES, GAR stuff, on and on, entertain me. I stopped being scared long ago, but there is more to them than just shock factor. There are so many more dimensions to the films of old, compared to todays releases.
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Post by tannerboyle on Aug 11, 2008 0:18:56 GMT -5
I feel the same way.
Most of the flicks I stick to are at least 20 years old...often closer to 30.
The new shit just doesn't speak to me anymore.
But, I'm not going to go so far as to say that the new shit is just that....shit. I'm just saying that it's not for me.
I don't want the kids of today getting stagnant and hero-worshipping the old stuff without moving forward...without having their own shit. You know?
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Post by Flesh Eater on Aug 11, 2008 0:22:00 GMT -5
Yep.
It's just always funny to see someone who is a Saw fanatic look at things like Dawn, NOES, FT13, City of the Dead, Suspiria and other like it and say "boring." I am in that generation, and I don't see how it's boring. I find stuff like Saw boring. It's about a guy that is pissed because they forgot his name at the hospital? Real character development.
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Post by tannerboyle on Aug 11, 2008 0:26:27 GMT -5
Yeah...but even most of our shit had little or no character development, either.
It's really a matter of taste, in the end.
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Post by blackknight273 on Aug 11, 2008 4:40:54 GMT -5
Taste and age I think. I sit clueless at the appeal of most horror or anything else lately. It cant be argued that things have gotten better, but worse if you ask me.
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Post by Flyboy on Aug 11, 2008 9:14:43 GMT -5
Yep. It's just always funny to see someone who is a Saw fanatic look at things like Dawn, NOES, FT13, City of the Dead, Suspiria and other like it and say "boring." I am in that generation, and I don't see how it's boring. I find stuff like Saw boring. It's about a guy that is pissed because they forgot his name at the hospital? Real character development. I've only seen Saw & Saw II. I thought they were mediocre at most, the first being slightly better than the third. I don't really give a shit if I see the rest of the Saw films.
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