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Our first review of one of Sundance's Midnight films: Nazi Zombies run amok in DEAD SNOW! Plus short film TREEVENGE!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. You know, to be honest, the DEAD SNOW trailer didn't hit me in the same sweet spot that it did Grand Master Knowles. It felt to me like it was going to spend too much time referencing other films than focusing on hitting that perfect balance between horror and comedy that is damn near impossible to strike. I can count the successes in that genre on one hand.
However, I love Nazis as villains, I love Zombies as villains so those two great tastes must taste great together, right? And our first word from out of Sundance is very positive... and the short that played before it, Treevenge, sounds absolutely spectacular.
If you're in the snow watching flicks in Park City, do email us in your reviews. AICN doesn't have a presence at either Sundance or Slamdance this year, although I will be contributing some reviews of films playing both festivals in the near future.
Here's the review of DEAD SNOW and TREEVENGE!!!
Hi, Harry-
I remember how excited you were about Dead Snow after seeing the trailer, so I thought you would be interested in hearing about (and seeing some pictures from) the premiere! My thoughts on the film in short: It was simply Outstanding! Like you, I was excited about the trailer (Nazi zombies in the snow? What's not to like?), and I had pretty high hopes going in. I'm happy to report that the film absolutely lives up to the promise shown in the trailer, and it actually exceeded my expectations.
The film was shown at the Egyptian theater at midnight, and upon entering the lobby I was immediatly suprised to see two actors in full zombie make-up and tattered nazi uniforms (see pictures attached). This is my fifth year attending Sundance, and I've never seen this sort of thing before. Nice touch.
After being saluted by the zombies on his way to the stage, the director, Tommy Wirkola, was introduced by one of the Sundance programmers, Trevor Groth. Mr. Groth was clearly a big fan of the film, and he complimented the film-makers on both the unique concept and successful execution their horror film. Mr. Wirkola gave a brief intro along the lines of: We wanted to do something new with the genere, and what could be more scary than zombies? Nazi zombies! Hell yeah!
There was a short before the film called Treevenge. This was a great warm-up for the audience: basically a B-movie-style horror film involving Christmas trees taking their bloody revenge on the humans who'd harvested them. Lots of gore, often involving tree branches impailing eyeballs, mouths, etc. And in a scene of pandemonium in the streets, I think I actually saw a guy being sodomized by one of the trees. Twisted stuff, and pretty damn funny.
Then we were on to Dead Snow. The film was produced and shot in Norway, and it was subtitled. As I recall the film, I really don't remember reading them at all, so that didn't detract from my experience. And when the characters quote American films, they do it in English with an American accent, which was amusing.
Overall, the film had an 80's horror movie feel (Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Evil Dead). Eight 20-something-year-old friends, all medical students, are going on vacation in the mountains unaware of the 'history' of the area they're visiting. They eventually learn this from a spooky camper who visits their cabin on the first night of their stay. This bit was very well done, explaining how Nazis had brutally tortured and robbed the local residents for years. As the war was ending, the locals fought back fiercly, but some of the Nazi's, including their leader, Colonel Herzog, escaped in the nearby mountains. The creepy camper (who kind of reminded me of the guys in The Slaughtered Lamb scene of An American Werewolf in London) cautions that it would be best 'not to awaken the evil in the mountains'. Well, it's not suprising when the don't take his warning seriously.
I really don't want to give away more of the plot at this point. I thought that overall the story had a great mixture of dark humor, suspense, sex, and of course gallons and gallons of blood, brains, intestines and other 'giblets'. I think you'll agree that this is a worthy addition to the zombie genere, and horror fans are going to find there's a lot to sink their teeth into here. If you need more convincing, when the house lights came up I noticed that John Cusack was sitting in the row behind me. When I looked back he was laughing, so I guess it was o.k.
Interestingly, in the Q&A afterward, the director was asked about his views of established zombie 'rules' laid down in previous films. He mentioned that he'd followed "a discussion of fast and slow zombies on Aint It Cool News" a while back. Nice. He said that he went with faster zombies, because a slow zombie, lumbering through a foot of snow would not have been very scary. Point taken.
Well, that's about it. As I said, I'll include a few of my pictures from the premiere which I hope you enjoy!
Best Regards,
SkinJob69
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its a friggin miracle!
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awesome pictures and great report... I wish more AICN'ers did that shit... this movie looks sick man.. there is a preview on ebaumsworld.com...ill post it here meow..
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http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80487185/
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http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80487185/
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Which also featured Nazi Zombies! How strange.Having seen the trailer for Dead Snow, it sure does look like someone watched "Shaun Of The Dead" too many times and then thought 'Hmmm... what's better than just zombies? Aha! Nazi zombies!'
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Let's see:
- Fright Night
- The Frighteners
- The Return Of The Living Dead
- Gremlins
- Shaun Of The Dead
- Night Of The Creeps
They are already six. Okay, none of them is seriously scary but they knew when it was time to stop being funny and when you can start again to make the audience laugh. Maybe I would also add Ghostbusters to the list, although this is definitely more comedy.
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Yep, this sucks.
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this already. Is there anything left to say?
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This seems similar to the classic schlock fest Shockwaves, which if true should be very entertaining. Interesting that Scandanavia seems to be the new source (let the Right One in, Dead Snow) of horror flicks. Im looking forward to more.
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...that came up with this one?
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...be giving a different salute? Not the over the brow salute, but the ol' Heil Hitler? And are they Zombie Nazis or Nazi Zombies? There is a difference, ya know.
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Jan 18, 2009 3:54:07 PM CST
Love that poster (or whatever it is). Also, I like stuff in the
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Is this the same guy that didnt think it was okay to laugh until he saw Kurt Russell laugh at the grindhouse movies? LOL
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holy shit! I never heard of something like that before!
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How creative!
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Dead Snow reminds me of that. Filmed in Romania I bet.
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Nazi's are only about sixty years out of date. Maybe some Mossad villians for a treat.
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Slither
Chud 2 Bud the Chud
Bordello of Blood
Innocent Blood
Arsenic and Old lace
Young Frankenstein
Dr Phibes
TOXIC AVENGER!
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Uzumaki(Spiral)
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and adventureland tomorrow.
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jeez...
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Way to go Cards!
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First thing I thought of when I read the title.
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What? No Hamas zombies? Hezbollah zombies? They start them early you know...but hey, guess they're scary enough alive.
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Robert something or other.
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until kurt russell laughs.
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an intelligent scifi movie that gets lots of raves and deep thought, tons of praise for its low budget visuals, only one middling review (Moriarty, who says the direction is spot on but the script needs help)... and you visited the set and aren't going to tell us anything about it?
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Hope it's done up nice. As a fan of Shock Waves though, Dead Snow is not going to be that, but I'm looking forward to it. The Dead Snow trailer shows it to be a different kind of film (has humor, etc, see review above). Shock Waves was pretty serious and I could go on and on forever about the look and feel of that film. And the fact that Shock Waves is 1977 and Halloween is 1978 always blows me away. To me, Shock Waves has that John Carpenter feel. I'll never be able to say enough good things about Shock Waves. But I love seeing others take a stab at the Nazi zombie world.
Not really too many Nazi Zombie films that are worth much. I don't know of anything earlier than Shock Waves (1977-Ken Wiederhorn). There is also Zombie Lake (1981 - Jean Rollin) which is terrible. Oasis of the Zombies (1981 - Jesus Franco) is not much better but has a few points of merit. There is also Night of the Zombies (1981) by Joel M. Reed (Not to be confused with Bruno Mattei's film of the same name, available on DVD, also known as Night of the Zombies II). And there is the recent Outpost (2008 - Steve Barker). Outpost really isn't a true Nazi zombie flick, more like Nazi's meet The Philadelphia Experiment, but it certainly has some merit and had a decent look and some sort of budget. And that's about all I'm aware of. All this, because I got into Shock Waves so much that it got my interest in the Nazi zombie.
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Also got to mention this project in the making. The promo trailer is great. I've know about it for a couple years. Hope it comes out soon.
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there, that's better, no spacing.
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Screw it, should just used tiny url. Whatever, I'm sure you can get there.
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i never thought this movie would garner any attention.
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put up that watchmen TV spot from the AFC championship.
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Severance, Behind the Mask of Leslie Vernon, American Warewolf in London, Bad Taste, Poltergeist(im pushing it...)
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Did you come up with it after watching the old Saturday Night Live Sketch with the same name? Yours couldn't be as cool, SNL had Frank Zappa.
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They stole your alternate name for THE HAPPENING. Yup, TREEVENGE. Brilliant. OMFG, am I the saddest Vern fan ever or what?
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Did someone already mention De La Iglesia's DAY OF THE BEAST and COMMON WEALTH. Those are perfect mixes, in my opinion
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Would love to see it.
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don't exist in this dojo. but if they are on ski's, i'll accept it.
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Is the comedy. Who the fuck thought those two should be mixed, when adding comedy instantly kills the horror aspect? A Nightmare on Elm Street part 1 is horror. There is no comedy in that movie, and it's a horror classic. One the scariest movies ever made. You see what happened to later movies in the series as Freddy turns up the jokes/mugging for the camera/one liners. Comedy has no place in real horror movies. Horror comedy is just a comedy with a silly horror theme.
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I wish I had thought of it. I'm not seeing the movie, though.
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...with horror elements. Films that are made to make you laugh with the help of monsters and don't even try to scare you or build up some serious horror movie mood. Films like Bad Taste or Black Sheep use seperated body parts and guts like pies in a Stooges short.
However, I DO agree about Slither and El Dia De La Bestia. Maybe also about Re-animator, but I haven't watched it for ages and are not sure at the moment.
I definitely wouldn't even think of calling Arsenic & Old Lace and La Communidad horror, even if they are brillant movies. And pretty much every other movie that was named is "just" a Horror/Comedy mix, but not a perfect one.
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or whoever wrote this column? no article? wait let me check. Quint! are you a gamer? You'd know that most hollywood films these days, get ideas from video games.
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is the coolest game mode ever!
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http://tinyurl.com/9mo32c
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it's a farce.
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= instant and epic win.
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Did you ever watch Hard Rock Zombies over the weekend?
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You forgot the greatest combo ever: An American Werewolf in London.
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My schlock loving mates were working at the weekend so I promised I'd save it until they were off. Can't wait.
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Christmas Tree Rape is not necessariy epic win. Remember Snowman Rape in Jack Frost?
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Shaun of The Dead, American Werewolf in London, Ginger Snaps, Dog Soldiers, Braindead, Fright Night. Maybe The Howling. What is it about Werewolves that lend themselves to comdey horror?
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I take it that nobobdy has seen Outpost, the Nazi Zombie thriller starring The Punisher? It sounds to me as if they ripped of the story of that movie.
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...it's... a CHRISTMAS TREE. I am COMPELLED to love that, sight unseen.
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but when I start to think like that I've got a Jack Frost expectations lowering hormone that kicks in.
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I'd class that as a horror comedy. Saw Treevenge, I think it uses the music from Cannibal Holocaust for added effect. Now, Moon review please.
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No one thought of the best (and maybe first?) film of this genremix: The Fearless Vampire Killers. It combines horror and comedy in the most lovable way. I'm also looking forward to Worst Case Scenario. I signed up as a zombie extra years ago but never heard from them. Hope it ever gets made. Oh...and Black Sheep doesn't count. That film was just a steaming pile of sheep dung.
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The two trailers for that thing are better than most complete horror films made in the past ten years. Amazing.
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and thought it was very funny. It wasn't horror though. Is Scream a Horror comedy?
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...American Werewolf. Dammit.
And no, Braindead is more pure comedy than The Frighteners was. Yes, Braindead also works well as character piece (even if 99% of its audience only focus on the splatter and ignore the surprisingly well written script) but my point is that it's again one of these Let's-use-horror-elements-to-make-people-laugh horror comedies. As soon as a Zombie appears, it's used as a prop for a joke, even if the joke is that someone gets ripped apart by it. The Frighteners on the other hand gets much darker and intense towards the end. You can say that from the scene in the museum the movie tries to make you laugh as less as possible and even an over the top comic villain like Jeff Combs' character becomes a real threat. -
The state of horror nowadays is fucking pitiful. Curse Torture Porn.
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Well, that's up to your definition. I hate to call movies where the killer is a normal human being 'horror', because that would also make crime shows like CSI horror.
But let's pretend that the Slasher movie with the normal human killer IS horror, then yes, Scream is a horror comedy. Is it one of the perfectly balanced horror comedies? Not in my opinion. The whole the-characters-tell-you-what's-gonna -happen-next-because-they-saw-it-in-a-movie-shtick kills (for me) the whole atmosphere. It's like someone would stop the movie every few minutes and yell in your face: "Remember! It's just a movie, ha ha!" -
The state of modern horror nowadays is fucking pitiful.
Curse self referential teen horror.
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I honestly think you've got that the other way round.
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and I think they are horror. Whereas I'd argue that crime is, well, either crime or procedural.Although Scream is arguably to blame for the fucking wave of ironic postmodern shite that followed, that's like blaming every crappy slasher movie on Halloween. Horror does die every 10 years as each fad burns out, but the Torture porn one is the worst I've seen- the sooner it fucks off (Like J-horror remakes) the better.
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what do you think of Funny Games? Which isn't torture porn.
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...is how it seems to infect other horror subgenres. Take The Ruins, for instance. Great idea, shit movie -- mostly because of its insistance to incorporate graphic amputations, knifings and body horror whch is anything but horrific in the Cronenberg sense. It's simply disgusting for its own sake.
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There's nothing clever about making the audience wince. Was I scared in Hostel? No. Did I wince when he tried to walk on slashed achilles tendons? yes. Until horror starts giving up characters we give a shit about, creating some tension and shifts from it's stupid "gross for grossness sake" juvenile frat boy mentality, then Horror will stay fucked.I haven't seen The Ruins. So it's shit, then?
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This really was a weekend for watching films that I don't think I'd ever want to see again. Videodrome, for example, great film and one of the Archetypes of Body Horror. I don't think I'll watch it again though. And as for Funny Games, while surprised and impressed by the American Remake, I never will sit through that again either. I don't like being sneered at by a film maker with artistic pretensions, and it was only morbid curiousity (I wanted to compare it to the original) that had me watching it.
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Was that it was really a great novel. How they managed to turn it into such a bad movie is beyond me. I was so disappointed. Made me want to kill a plant to ease my mind.
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I seem to remember.
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hi Mavra.
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Harry also loves stripgirl. Nuff said.
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...that it isn't supposed to be a "smart" take and revival of a genre, but pretty much a comment on the audiences bloodlust. And I got no idea what the real idea behind the 1:1 remake was, but to make it in a time when 'Saw' is the most succesful horror franchise was very good timing.
And no, I won't use the term "torture porn", because that would be like labeling action movies "explosion and gunshot porn'. And no offense DocPazuzu, but what you said about Ruins makes you look like you think that all horror movies where unbloody and only had off screen violence, before 'Saw' turned out to be a hit at the Box Office.
The discussion about violence in horror films exists since...well, since horror movies are made! Face it, everything that you can think of has already been shown on screen. Most of these movies were never shown in local multiplexes, but to think that todays graphic torture movies are worse than 30 year old cannibal movies is wrong. Is the current torture trend annoying and questionable? Yes, but most of you forget that there is still just a very limited audience for these movies. Hostel 2 bombed and most of these movies don't even reach theatres and go straight to DVD. So stop complaining and wait for the next big trend. -
Before I go to bed, on the subject of weekend movie viewing: I saw a certain upcoming film featuring The Ponytailed One battling the undead. I love being Changian. Ciao.
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On the contrary, I'm neither so naïve as to think gory movies are new or so squeamish as to have a problem with gory movies. I love loads of horror movies that are VERY bloody. It all comes down to purpose and execution.
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...since the gore functions in exactly the same way that the graphic sex does in ordinary porn.
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The Ruins is shit. Like Mavra said, the book is great but the movie is a load of TP-flirting assballs.
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And as much as the remake is great timing- I don't like being told I'm basically an asshole. You can use as many Brechtian devices as you like, but it still makes you a condescending prick. I'm also not deluded enough to think that gore= TP, or even that it's anything new. DocP is right, it all comes down to purpose and execution. Night mavra, I have to see that, by the way.
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shame. I had hopes for it.
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hitler!
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Sleepy Hollow was decapitation porn? The Blob (remake) is melting face porn? Comedies are joke porn?
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..had a lot of dark humor in it..just sayin'..and "The Fearless Vampire Killers"..an old gem!! (Hmmm..just realized that both were directed by Polanski)
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Now you're just being silly.
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...every movie is some kind of porn. That's why they put so called 'money shots' in the trailers. And that people who accepted over decades movies in which people where killed in the most gruesome ways are suddenly offended by Saw and Hostel is hypocritical. I'm not defending these movies and I don't think they are scary, but a.) slasher movies aren't scary either (wow, a guy with a knife) and nobody talks about how Halloween and Friday The 13th "ruined the horror genre" and b.) while on-screen torture isn't scary, it makes you at least disgusted and uncomfortable, which is one of the purposes of a horror movie.
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are absolutely The Boogens and American Werewolf in London. Werewolf is among the greatest scary films ever (gross, sleazy, hilarious and even sexy and touching at times). And The Boogens..what a lost gem: an old abandoned mine is reopened and giant turtles with claws that stick out of their ass crawl out and start feeding on house pets and attacking the local populace. The greatest moment is when an old guy sees one and actually yells "Boogens!". Priceless.
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OK Let me add # 3 ... Reanimator - HILARIOUS movie. Cmon people! The headless head gives head! One of the best visual puns (and shockingly gross moments) ever!
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eg- Psycho= Murder Porn. It's bollocks. Torture Porn as a term is very apropros as pornography= "obscene writings, drawings, photographs, or the like, esp. those having little or no artistic merit." Is the torture in the likes of Hostel (let alone really hard-core stuff like Guinea pig or August underground) obscene? I think it is. Does it have any artistic merit? I'd argue no, or if it does then very little. That makes it porn. In the other examples, you can argue that they usually do have some merit, and in the case of comedy, if the jokes don't work then the film is bad, and they don't even register as jokes. Furthermore, I don't think that the purpose of Horror movies is to disgust you or make you feel uncomfortable- it is if you ask a clownshoe like Roth, but he wouldn't know a good horror movie if it fucked him in the ear. They're fucking lazy LCD films that, because the writers/ directors don't have the talent to actually create a scare (or even a jump), are not horror- did Rosemary's Baby rely on gore?. They're just Torture Porn crap, and I despise them.
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before scream talk about slasher films ruining the genre with endless lame sequels.
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Nice all on Hard Rock Zombies and Space Mutiny. "You're neat."The writers are geniuses.
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Nice Call.Fuck you Monday.
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Urban Justice for me. And while he killed a shitload of badguys, what absolutely killed it was all the kills in slow-mo.
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Jan 19, 2009 9:21:00 AM CST
I bet Prince Harry will be first in line opening weekend...
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for this film. What a Nazi loving son of a bitch.
As for the torture porn discussion, I tend to agree with the term. I think it comes from the disparity in power between the victim and the assailant. While in other films there was at least an opportunity to run or fight back, in torture porn films the point is to linger on how helpless the victim is.
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and a new talkback name is born.
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What Jarv said.
Or, in a simpler fashion:
Last Tango in Paris and European Bukkake #3. Both feature sex as a central ingredient, but are both porn? If not, then WHY not?
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My pleasure. Can't beat mutant Nazi dwarf zombies eating themselves or Reb Brown shrieking like a girl while racing a golf cart in a spaceship.
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Sorry.
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I've missed the most important point: There's European Bukkake #3? I didn't even know there was 1 or 2.
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and yelling "yeeeaaarrrrggghhh!" before launching into battle was pure gold. And I will stand by my words that the space golf cart enforcer thingies chase scene is the GREATEST chase scene ever caught on film.
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I've been reading that AMAD article and I wish my Telly would light cigarettes for me.
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I definately want one. I don't care that it's a time travelling Alien from the future.
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The pro is that it is about Nazi Snow Zombies, which is a very changian startnig point. The con is that it is also about Sundance which sucks asshole.
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apparently Anna Valerious, she the Kos play queen of the Sommersverse has high level Autism/ Asperger's syndrome. I almost feel bad for being so rude about her now. Almost.
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when the one with big tits was berating the other annoying one for dumping a blind guy, and her defence was that "it wasn't because he's blind. It's because he's a jerk". That's kind of how I feel about Valerious.
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I hope I don't get banned for that.
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Will Rawwwk!
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I would post the link but I don't want to be responsible for vomit stained keyboards across the civilised world. It ain't pretty. Anyway I can't find it. Autistic from that thread on the right which I clicked by accident.
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that extreme makeover one.
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Directed by Mel Brooks. I'd pay to see that shit. XD
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WTF?
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and it's OK. It isn't the second coming, and it's a bit too self referentially masturbatory for it's own good, not to mention I'm sick of psuedo documentary style, but as a Zombie thriller it's got it's moments.
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I watched 'Baghead' (where's the love AICN???) the other day, not strictly comedy in the way that the people in it act the way your mates do and the main crux of the story is the emotional bond you feel between the characters. By the time it turns into a 'horror' you really don't want it to be. Favourite trad horror comedy has to be Fido, American werewold in London and *hides* Cabin fever.
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The only positive thing that can possibly be said about it is that it looks like Citizen Kane next to the rest of that dickhead Roth's contribution to world culture.
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Oh yeah! Dead set! As a Brit, who loves charlie Brooker, Nathan Barley and all, zombies and is easily pleased - I have to say Dead set was very dissapointing in it's straight down the line ness.. I'd given up by episode 5. We need epic zombie action now, I really hope World War Z makes a good go of it, the books great.
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Jan 19, 2009 12:08:39 PM CST
oh...what the fuck is this? A substitute home?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Like a brothel/halfway house?
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Treevenge is done by Jason Eisener. Probably best known for creating Hobo With a Shotgun. So of course it's good.
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Greatest. Movie. Never. Made.
"Jerk on this, you child-molestin' shitburger!"
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So its just a trailer? Thats all they have made? Do they plan on making a film to go along with it? It still doesn't beat Run Bitch Run for me.....
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Nothing, except for the mighty Arizona Cardinals going to the Superbowl, is truly orginal. What truly matters is in the execution of the stolen swag. A new twist or fresh take on an existing idea goes a long way in selling ownership over an idea. That's what seperates the men from the boys. Well that and a good lawyer.
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When Wes Craven made "Scream", (ostensibly an original take on the horror genre where such movies are referenced and sent-up throughout the script) he unwittingly unleashed a decade of appallingly cheap slasher horror films, all of which clearly missed the point.
It still amazes me that a spoof ("Scary Movie" in 2000) was made which tried to lampoon "Scream". That's like taking a Xerox photocopy and then photocopying it again 20 times, and then taking the final copy and drawing it on another piece of paper, which you then fax to a blind person. -
Not worried, the last time the Cards and Steelers met, the Cards wailed on them, bad. Last season the Cards were not anywhere near as good as they are at this moment. The Cards head coach used to be the Offensive Coordinator of the Steelers and he knows Rothlesbergers tendencies, strengths and weaknesses. Also, there are something like 15, in total, coaches and players with current or near current, ties to Pittsburg, advantage Big Red. The other way? none I believe.Vader, I wasn't specifically talking about your idea, I was refering to ideas in general.
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Jan 19, 2009 3:59:49 PM CST
STEELERS WILL DOMINATE!!! John fucking Stallworth baby!!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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Looks like a guy who sort of maybe kind of looks a little like John Cusack might have looked in person 20 years ago, but isn't actually him. Maybe it's him, and the fact that it doesn't look like him means it's authentic. But it doesn't look like it's him. But I don't know him, so what do I know?
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Sorry Xi. I will not be suprised if Cards win though. Looks like 1999 Rams all over again with one glaring exception that could turn game either way. James is not Marshall Faulk
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Porn is porn. That's it. The rest is bullshit.
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The CGI gore looks atrocious in this trailer. There's 0 reason to ever use CGI gore aside from laziness. It just looks cheap and awful.
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the 70's movie "shock waves" starring peter cushing also had nazi zombies...get a fucking clue people..
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"THE COTTAGE" starring Andy Serkis. A British film about 2 nobs who kidnap a mobster's daughter for ransom that goes horribly wrong - with a mutated axe-wielding farmer throw in the mix. Netflixed it a few months back and laughed my ass off. Has a great, sick end kicker too. Check it out...
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Yes, that is the Seagal movie (and with Keith David, though sadly not David Keith). www.mymavra.com
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The movie looks cool and I am anxious to see it, but Nazi Zombies? Let's see...Zombie Lake, Shockwaves, Outpost. Three movies off the top of my head that are about Nazi Zombies.
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wow. Profound. I think we can stop the debate on Torture Porn forever now that confuscious is in the room.
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is that not everyone knows where they are.
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Scream was necessary. Remember the rotten state of Horror before it? What followed was, sadly, all too predictable and fucking depressing and totally led to the rise of Torture Porn.
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between this and the Ong Bak thread. How annoying.
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I don't think anyone has mentioned it yet. And another vote for 'Paul Blart: Mall Zombie'
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That was one of the best Cable channels ever.Uncensored Horror Movies 247 in HD has returned to the grave thanks to some litigation bullshit.Fuck Cablevision!
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If you should happen to find this post, I found "The Escapist", which I believe you were looking for. http://tinyurl.com/7z2kds
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The distinction between horror and terror is a standard literary and psychological concept applied especially to Gothic literature and film. Horror is the feeling of revulsion that usually occurs after something frightening is seen, heard, or otherwise experienced. It is the feeling one gets after coming to an awful realization or experiencing a deeply unpleasant occurrence. By contrast, terror is usually described as the feeling of dread and anticipation that precedes the horrifying experience. In other words, horror is more related to being shocked or scared, while terror is more related to being anxious or fearful.
Anne Radcliffe first made the distinction and if you go along with it then it places films (and novels) like Rosemary's Baby more in the tradition of terror than horror (which was an intellectually superior tradition in Radcliffe's eyes) and films such as the recent Eden Lake in the tradition of horror.
A horror comedy then, by this definition would have to both make you laugh, whilst subjecting you to something deeply unpleasent. I think if you look at the pulp horror mags like Tales from the crypt, they tried to do exactly that, but very few movies have succeeded. I'd say John Landis has scored twice with AWiL and Thriller and the first Evil Dead gets the balance pretty spot on (ED2 veers too far into commedy IMO). Also, nobody has mentioned The Beyond. Its been a while since Ive seen it though and perhaps that is also too much a comedy.
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good work.
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