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Director Scott Glosserman likes PLAYING HOUSE!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I was one of the first to declare my love for Scott Glosserman's BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON. I rewatched the DVD when it was released and it holds up just as much as it did on the second viewing at SXSW '06.
Now his follow-up flick is officially in the works at Paramount Vantage. It's called PLAYING HOUSE and he's co-writing it with Macy Raymond, who penned the short story upon which it is based.
The one-liner isn't all that inspiring... A young couple are preyed upon when they inhabit a seemingly deserted island mansion. However, I have faith in Glosserman. It'll be interesting to see him take on a horror picture without the comedy. I wish him well with it.
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then again, I never worse leslie vernon's mask either...
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man, slow night if I get the first posting, and still have time to correct my typo a few minutes later...
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When does PLAYING DOCTOR come out?
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to live up to the brilliance of the first 75% of the movie. The credits kept me intrigued, however.
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I've seen Behind the Mask at my local wal-mart is it worth picking up? I'm curious about it but at the same time, I've been burned by overhyped movies in the past...
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Well, everybody else seems to like it, but I'll be the dissenting voice to lower the overhype factor for you. To me this movie is the very definition of a nothing movie that is mysteriously popular on the internet. As a comedy it didn't work for me, it is literally one joke for the whole movie (what if... ha ha ha, get this... what if being Jason or Freddy was a job, and some guy did a documentary about it! And did interviews about how it works! Ha ha ha) and since the guy is just an annoying Sean William Scott type dude you keep wondering how the hell he is gonna be like Jason or Freddy. Then at the end he puts a mask on and it's supposed to turn "actually scary", but it's this little guy who has spent the whole movie explaining to you what his tricks are and he looks like a guy that most of the victims could take in a street fight so you're not sure why anybody is scared of him. Plus, the heroine who you are supposed to side with is an idiot who has just done 2/3 of a documentary about a guy planning murders and only now has it occurred to her that maybe she should try to stop him from murdering people.
And I don't even think they have their horror movie shit down that well. They make too big a deal about Freudian symbolism and even copy SCREAM's "the survivor is a virgin" thing, which as far as I can figure doesn't come from real slasher movies (the heroine is often less sexually active than her friends but in what movies is she actually said to be a virgin? I can't think of any).
But like I said, everybody else seems to like it. And I thought the premise sounded dumb and only saw it because the reviews were so through the roof. So maybe that should be your test, if you think the premise sounds dumb, don't believe the hype. If you think it sounds good maybe you would like it, maybe I am insane. -
btw I do think you're crazy but only in a great way. Thanks for the info, I've been hesitant to shell out the $20 or so bucks to purchase it because it does seem like just kind of a one note or one trick kind of movie. Kind of like the Robot Chicken sketch where it's the real world meets the movie killers. So yeah I don't know about it, I'll probably wiat for a discount verison of a PV dvd. also last weekend, TNT or TBS was having like a Steven Seagal marathon and I caught Under Seige 1 & 2 back to back and forgot how fun and crazy US1 is, espically Busey and TLJ.
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Behind the Mask sucked. I don't even know why Vern spent so many words getting that point across. Avoid it at all costs. I respect the hell out of Quint and Harry but sometimes they shoot their load on head-scratching projects like this one and Hatchet. I had fun with the latter but it was a low-budget cable movie at best. But Leslie Vernon, ugh, it was terrible. I can't believe they're mulling over the possibility of a sequel. The premise was smart and there is a little bit of cleverness but yes, when Leslie starts to go from good guy to suddenly supposedly scary bad guy, the movie becomes a steaming pile of shit. Damn near unwatchable. Like worse than An American Haunting and Tamara. Anyone who wants to see a great satire of the horror genre and is thinking of watching Behind the Mask would be better off just rewatching Scream for the millionth time. If there's someone who still really, really wants to see it, email me and I'll send you my copy. Thing is a god damn embarassment on my DVD shelf. There. I said it. That said, Vantage has a fantastic track record and I can't imagine they'd make a horror movie unless they had a really good script, so I'm looking forward to seeing what Glosserman does with material that isn't so beneath his genre IQ.
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seriously, I'll see it just because you offered to send it to me
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wasn't Laurie in Halloween mentioned as being a virgin? Or was Heather Langenkamp from NoES? I could swear that one of them was mentioned as being a virginnow this has nothing with being a virgin but how many horror films is the hero a male? I can think of the first 3 Child's Play, Evil Dead, and it's been a long time but wasn't the hero in Phantasm male too? Am I missing any where the focus of the killer whatever was a male?
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Behind the Mask was the defintion of underwhelming post-modernism. Hollow, academic, and uninvolving, it relied WAY too much on our knowledge of movies that were by now well over 20 years old. Kids, I know its been codified into myth but Scream worked because it was actually a REAL movie with intelligence, suspense and a sense of humor that added TO the horror canon rather then piggy backing on it. And all the pop culture referencing and dissection took place WITHIN the context of the story. Leslie Vernon wasn't scary and barely adhered to its own logic plus it very much felt like an exercise. Also, its late and Im in a shitty mood but Glosserman was kind of a jerk when I met him. Although not as big of an idiot as the guy who directed Mandy Lane, which is just BARELY a better movie. Glad these guys caught a break. But their thrilless horror movies sucked.
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. . . was a VIRGIN. But, I'm not really sure that movie counts.
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Good call ProzacMorris, they did explicitly say she was a virgin in FREDDY VS. JASON. But I agree that it probaly doesn't count, being post-SCREAM and therefore a post-postmodern slasher movie (or something).
I think it goes back to HALLOWEEN, where Laurie's friends are sexually active and she is not, and I guess it is fair to assume she's a virgin. But in TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE you got no clue if Sally is. In TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE PART 2 I doubt Stretch is. In NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET Nancy probaly is, but isn't Johnny Depp her boyfriend? Maybe she isn't. In FRIDAY THE 13TH... well, I don't remember who the surviving characters are in any of those.
Mirajeff - so HATCHET isn't good? I was hoping for a fun FRIDAY THE 13TH sequel throwback slasher movie, no postmodern or anything. Doesn't cut it though?
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