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WETA Digital and Asian horror' What is THE HOST' Wanna see a pic from it'

Korean Horror Night at AICN by Elwood_Blues	Jun 13th, 2005 02:58:30 AM
Very cool pics
Wow by Elohim	Jun 13th, 2005 03:45:53 AM
It's been a long time since a still image from a movie gave me chills like that. Ain't it cool indeed.
Could be cool .... by godoffireinhell	Jun 13th, 2005 04:05:54 AM
It certainly has me more interested than yet another of those played out Asian ghost stories with their spooky black haird chicks that just make my ass yawn by now. Of course it could also be a creature feature of Sci-Fi-Channell level badness.
... by Gluecifer	Jun 13th, 2005 04:34:28 AM
Barking dogs never bite was pretty good, Memories of murder is a masterpiece, his scenario for the excellent Phantom the submarine was brilliant...so...I wanne see this flick, now!!!!!!!
Yes, MEMORIES OF MURDER is brilliant. by Cash Bailey	Jun 13th, 2005 05:20:22 AM
But it is an odd movie; very dramatic and intense but also extremely funny. Especially when they're kicking that retard around.
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I second that! Memories of Murder is brilliant! by DarthBakpao	Jun 13th, 2005 06:19:56 AM
highly recommended
HOST-TASTIC by BrainFart	Jun 13th, 2005 06:51:01 AM
the host? so was that the corpse of jimmy fallon?
Korean well is running a little dry ... by Shan	Jun 13th, 2005 07:08:58 AM
... I think Korean films are usually excellent but one of the films coming up soon is about an evil possessed wig. It may actually be very good, it's just that, that synopsis was a bit lacking for me. Hopefully they're still making a point of being creative with their films.
Watcher by StovetopStuffin'	Jun 13th, 2005 09:25:31 AM
Does anyone else think that looks like the Watcher in the Water for FOTR?
It looks like... by Trancer	Jun 13th, 2005 10:15:49 AM
Giger's Alien and the Loch Ness monster got busy, and this is the result. But very cool.
What About the Weta EVANGELION Project? by ZombieSolutions	Jun 13th, 2005 12:11:28 PM
fuck KONG, fuck K-Horror, i wanna see the psychotic religious apocalyptic prophecy (with robots!) of EVANGELION brought to life. c'mon WETA, make with the Asuka Langley and the Rei Ayanami! chop chop!
Evangelion.... by Shaner Jedi	Jun 13th, 2005 01:41:20 PM
....is in turnaround.
Yeah, i second that, too. Memories of Murder was great. by CurryIce	Jun 13th, 2005 02:36:45 PM
well the picture looks promising but why does the monster resembles too much the LochNess? omg, i'm pretty sure the following TB posts will be written like this: "Hey CurryIce, how do you know how the LochNess look like? Did you see one in real life? HAHA"
everything old is new again by Hud	Jun 13th, 2005 02:38:08 PM
any of you jackanapes ever see "Island of Terror," starring Peter Cushing? This monster looks quite a bit like the bone-eating monster in that old chestnut. except that one ate your bones out of your body. While you were still in it. I hope that's what this monster is. Instead of a ghost, or some shit.
I think 'Lovecraftian' is the new whatever-it-was-before by Stan the Bat	Jun 13th, 2005 04:16:09 PM
There's nothing about that that looks particularly 'Lovecraftian'. I think somebody's trying to sound like they've read something that they maybe haven't read. What little you can see of the creature's body does make it look like yet another movie monster design ripped off from H. R. Giger's painting. Note to art directors: it's getting old.
Incidentally, if you want to read something REALLY horrifying, by Stan the Bat	Jun 13th, 2005 04:17:48 PM
keep your eye on the Internet news outlet of your choice- they're going to announce the Jackson verdict sometime soon.
Michael Jackson guilty of looking "Lovecraftian!!" by chickychow	Jun 13th, 2005 04:52:51 PM
Two questions (this post-aquittal..) 1. How long till he's accused again (it's inevitable) 2. What the hell is this guy gonna look like when he's 70? (my guess - The Crypt Keeper)
Killer news. Memories of Murder is a great flick. by Daddylonghead	Jun 13th, 2005 05:27:03 PM
I bought it the same time I got "Nowhere to Hide" and "Die Bad," which I watched first. When I came to Memories I thought, oh god, not another arty police procedural. Instead, I found a brilliant, spare, character-rich suspense drama which I'd rank above most of its kind, including Se7en. In other news, MONSTERS ARE AWESOME AND LOVECRAFTIAN MONSTERS THE MOST SO.
While I have some Korean film buffs here: Recommendations? by Daddylonghead	Jun 13th, 2005 05:36:06 PM
Please, lay 'em on me. I got a region-3-only DVD player and I'm ready to rock. I've seen a bunch but I'm always hungry for more. Really appreciate the attention Harry gives Korean cinema... not that it doesn't deserve all of it and more! Fuck Hollywood! AICN turned me onto Chan-Wook Park, for which I'll be forever grateful.
Holy malignant crackerjacks BATMAN!!! by Neosamurai85	Jun 13th, 2005 08:16:16 PM
Stan the Bat, I totally agree about the Lovecraft thing. People have gotten to the point where if it has a tenticle... It
Island Of Terror by Lain Of The Net	Jun 13th, 2005 10:56:02 PM
Ya I saw that when I was....younger...It was creepy back then and I never remembered the title. I read Lovecraft when I was a kid (parents wonder why the kid screams in her sleep...heh heh). Thing about Lovecraft - these are the old original rulers of the planet (uttering their names out loud is a no no) and they just don't kill humans. They like to play with them a bit first. They are always coming up with new ways to play. It is sort of what they find amusing. These things could turn you inside out and keep you alive by their will alone just to see you suffer. I mean think of a social worker with face of a ....SOCIAL WORKER.
neosam by Stan the Bat	Jun 14th, 2005 12:16:34 AM
It's not Giger's work that I feel is getting old, it's the endless watered-down regurgitation of parts of it in everything from the Green Goblin costume to who knows what else. Giger's paintings are great fun, but the Biomechanoid stuff does NOT have to be used as the art direction for every goddam monster movie for the rest of all of our lives. And if they must use it, they should get it from the source- bring Giger in to oversee it as he did with Alien, which looked fantastic as a result. As for Lovecraft- I find it hard to take the bulk of his writing seriously. I enjoy it, but it reads more like slapstick than horror. Once you've read one or two of the stories, you know what's going to happen in every one- and, in fact, all the incidental characters in all the stories seem to know what's going to happen, too. The ONLY PERSON who isn't in on the joke is the main character, who is going to get his face sucked off his head at the end of the story, and after a while you just can't believe that he really doesn't get it, and he really is going to go down into the tomb or out into the swamp at night or into the library to read The Bad Book or do whatever the dumbass thing is that he has to do in order to get the same thing to happen to him that always happens at the end of a Lovecraft story...
Giger by Neosamurai85	Jun 14th, 2005 01:28:46 AM
The Green Goblin suit was wrong on so many levels. Even if someone were to defend it as a throw back to old school sci-fi suits
The fifth writer... by Neosamurai85	Jun 14th, 2005 01:36:24 AM
So I was just thinking about horror writers and a thought occurred to me that might make for interesting discussion. To my knowledge and opinion, the for literary figures who shaped horror best for the later half of the 20th century were Edgar Allen Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Clive Barker, and (though I hate to admit it) Stephen King
... by HurricaneRobby	Jun 14th, 2005 01:52:33 AM
J.K. Rowling?
Daddylonglegs by Shan	Jun 14th, 2005 09:17:09 AM
Some suggestions of Korean films ... My Sassy Girl, Volcano High (120 minute version, accept no substitutes), Public Enemy, Il Mare, Taegukgi, Silmido, Ditto, Sex is Zero, Tell Me Something. Go to www.koreanfilm.org for recommendations.
"the FOUR literary figures" by Neosamurai85	Jun 14th, 2005 09:44:48 AM
Damnit that makes me want to go back to sleep... oh and good one HurricaneRobby. I think it might be more interesting if I just opened this up to the whole century insted of the second half, that way I might bump off King and maybe even discover a writer a new writer to read. Peace.
... by Neosamurai85	Jun 14th, 2005 09:47:37 AM
Yeah... I'm totally going back to sleep now... Peace.

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