if this is more of the same, I'll pass...

'Cept surely the creatures were supposed to be scary, not laugh-out-loud, "you-got-to-be-kidding-me" awful..? What's frightening about people going to a Lord Of The Rings fancy-dress party?

Marshall is a force to be reckoned with - he's the director I'd hire if I wanted to make a good horror movie and, by the sounds of it, he's about to bring back the eighties Apocalypse movie. Who the frak doesn't like Mad Max?

The Descent was fabulous- if derivative, it was a great little low budget movie. Stick to your Eli Roth/ Rob Zombie Torture Porn drivel.

Dog Soldiers, is a rollicking little film- it is obvious they had no money, but had a lot of fun. The script sparkles with comic moments- but these might be too British for Americans.

Fingers crossed that Doomsday rocks and Marshall gets given the next Alien film.

Looking forward to DDay. Marshall makes movies for dudes. if you don't like his stuff, go watch some lifetime.

Otto- does Shrooms really suck, I fell for the strapline and have just managed to talk the wife into seeing it, I could have sworn it would be a tongue in cheek Friday 13 style slasher.... If it is shite then I'll find something else

I've put this to the test myself, and in every case these people have turned out to be shallow, uninteresting, dull and possibly perverted individuals.

This is a local TB for Local people, we'll have none of that talk here.

(I add League of Gentlemen to that litmus test)

Otto- to be fair- the missus LOVES the descent. She describes it as a welcome change from all the Torture Porn dreck masquerading as horror that you see nowadays. She remains unconvinced by the awesomeness of the Leprechaun series, though.

So the odd complete cunt does indeed slip through.

I'd rather watch Creep again than Hostel 2 and Creep is one of the most painfully awful movies I've ever seen.

What was Lola doing in it?

Sue me.

think i'll just wait for shrooms on DVD.

pity it isn't region 2 though.

If you don't "get" the humour in it, I can understand this as it is very anglo-centric (Spoon shouting Football Hooligan chants when trying to get the wolves to chase him, the other links to football- "They Think It's all over, it is now" used as the last kill line) then fair enough.

It was not shit. Not on any level at all.

Phantasm is great however.

YOU FUCKING LIAR. YOU MADE THE WHOLE THING UP. PLANT CUNT.

Someone mentioned litmus test. Hell yes, for sterilization and the right to render your feeble ass opinions online or in any forum ever again. Get off Roth and Zombie's ballsacks, you fucking morons.

Not so much as an adult.

Your critiques of both Dog Soldiers and The Descent tell me either you didn't see either flick or are, in fact, a 12-year-old.

And Memories- Kiss my arse, the point I was trying to make is that Dog Soldiers is a war movie with Werewolves in it. The early scenes with the squaddies function as a proper war movie should. It isn't a horror movie with squaddies.

You see the difference?

I do agree that Marshall is not one of the greats yet- but he is the only young horror director with the potential to be the next carpenter.

Strong female characters in the descent: Juno, (a complete cunt but still... ain't no screaming from her), Holly- pre accident, and even Sarah. Even the screaming ones that are basically cannon fodder have moments of strength (What's her name crossing the overhang)

Not all the screaming cliche you think?

With Dog Soldiers- the camera work is not great, but the script sparkles- see the above arguments about humour. I'd actually put Dog Soldiers on the same level as Dark Star, (a great start) and The Descent is a serious development- Let's see what the man can do in the future- I'll bet certainly more than Roth, Zombie and the rest of the Torture Porn fools.

And Death Proof was Tense, Enemy? get off tarantino's cock and recgnise that it was awful, turgid shite. DId you sneak in to your first "18" in the multiplex?

The supporting cast in The Descent could have done with some more fleshing out, but it was certainly the best horror film of the 21st Century so far. (And with the unmitigated pish that is calling itself horror it is likely to remain so). See you in the queue for DD then!

BTW do we get it before the US?

Hey- it isn't my fault this decade has been pretty fucking ordingary for horror films- put it this way, if you had to choose would you rather watch The Descent again or Creep?

from the moment when her coke addled co-worker tries to rape her in the empty carriage to the end it is complete shit.

A real horror movie is getting the fucking tube in rush hour. That's soms scary, dirty, grimy, shit.

It is one of my favourite films of 2005

firstly, to Mr. Saxon- "Your loss, idiot." This post is actually deeply condescending. Because he didn't like the descent doesn't necessarily make him an idiot. When I used it above, I was referring directly to the cretin (the Enemy) with his "And I hate, HATE that it took an HOUR to see the first monster"- who managed to show all the critical faculties of a lemon. Call him an idiot, fine, he obviously is- as this is a view he has said before. Mr Saxon on the other hand just doesn't like it- fair enough, it doesn't automatically make him stupid

2)To Metaltuna: "Congratalations, you personify snobery condescendence to a T." Actually, you personify condescension to a T, as your above post demonstrated.

How can you not see the hypocrisy in this post.

Do you understand now?

And agreeing with someone is entirely different. I frequently agree with many of the things you type, just I find your attitude irksome.

This was put to you calmly and rationally, so please think about the post.