There's nothing quite so satisfying as unintentional humor.
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WarrenPeace — 3 years ago(April 28, 2022 05:05 AM)
Slasher flicks are not for me though I did enjoy the orig. I Spit on your Grave that I watched on here.
I'm sure we have found other movies in common or we will again.
The classic Deliverance with Burt and Jon?
It was OK for me though I love the Dueling Banjos scene.
What I really liked was The Last Movie Star which had Burt with flashback scenes of Deliv. in it which was surreal.
You should check it out if you have not seen it already.
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I love hutch — 3 years ago(April 28, 2022 05:16 AM)
"I Spit on Your Grave" had some good things going for it. The cinematography was beautiful and Camile Keaton gave an excellent performance and it is easy to cheer her revenge. Everybody seems to think the rape scene in the French artsy fartsy "Irreversible" was particularly heinous, but I am thinking that is because Monica Belucci is so beautiful and somehow that makes it worse. Because to me, that movie was dull, pretentious and filled me nausea, literally. The hand held camera gimmick becomes tiresome after 8 seconds. The rape scene in this movie was much more upsetting I thought.
The semi-retarded guy seriously affects the movie's credibility.
Yeah, I started out liking the Ronny Cox character, but the way he went on and on about the person who raped Ned Beatty and was going to kill Jon Voight and how that man deserves the law to be upheld/to be treated with respect just pissed me off. After that, it just started feeling like the movie was going for a message and I couldn't take Ronny Cox's side. After all that, I was totally on Burt's side.
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WarrenPeace — 3 years ago(April 28, 2022 05:35 AM)
Do you know how or why Ronny fell into the water like that all of a sudden?
Then they find him dead with his arm in a weird position!
And did Voigt get the right guy at the top of the cliff?
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I love hutch — 3 years ago(April 28, 2022 06:55 AM)
The last time I saw the movie was maybe 8 years ago. And I had not remembered the part where Ronny's arm is twisted in that horrific way. The Jon Voight character seems to think that Ronny got shot and fell into the water. But that is not made very clear. I always thought and still kind of do think that his character just went into shock and was basically suicidal. He couldn't deal with the reality of what was happening. But even that sounds odd. The movie could have done a better job with clarity. I think "Deliverance" is a good movie, but maybe a little over-rated.
I loved the Ronny Cox character when he is bonding with that creepy kid. It showed he had a big heart. I just didn't care or really buy into his liberal ranting. It didn't ring true. But "Duelling Banjos" is the best part of the movie.
Edit. Jon Voight says he got the right guy. But there is too much ambiguity in this movie. This is where the movie tries and fails. I just watched "Hunter's Blood" and I think it is just as entertaining a movie as "Deliverance". I also just watched "Rituals" (1977) for the first time and it was gruesome. Hal Holbrook hardly ever plays the strong character and he did fine here. Also nice is that one of the guys is gay and it is mentioned very casually. So natural back in 1977. Lawrence Dane plays the annoying character in this one.
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ToastedCheese — 3 years ago(April 28, 2022 05:41 AM)
I recall seeing
Madman
on vhs for the first time with a buddy in the mid 80's and we were pissing ourselves at this scene.
He was utterly impressed with the final kill of Betsy, when Marz put her on a meat hook and he's going yes a meat hook, do it! Though she needed more of fight with Marz and the basement fire scene was a bit weak.
The Burning
climax was better.
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I love hutch — 3 years ago(April 28, 2022 06:07 AM)
I didn't like that Betsy got killed. Didn't the actress star in "Dawn of the Dead"? That was a goodie.
I remember liking "The Burning". I saw it for the first time only about a year ago. That one started off strong.
From what I can remember, "The Prowler" was the goriest of the early 80s slashers. Also "Dead and Buried". "Terror Train" and "Prom Night" would be the two weakest in the gore department. Though when the bitchy Wendy gets hers, it was quite suspenseful. TT has the wonderful sense of claustrophobia and the green lighting is irresistible.
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ToastedCheese — 3 years ago(April 28, 2022 06:28 AM)
I don't like
Prom Night
. I find it a waste of my time to watch. I wanted to watch TT again, but the versions on here were all in French. If the slasher has some style and sublimity in the atmosphere to go along with it, I don't mind if they aren't too graphic, ala
The Funhouse
, but something like PN was just pretty weak all over.
The Prowler
has a fairly low body count, yet very intense and bloody kills.
Dead & Buried
has sadistic violence and atmosphere to boot.
The Burning
is very graphic too.
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I love hutch — 3 years ago(April 28, 2022 07:17 AM)
Melody Anderson is in "Dead and Buried". I loved her character in "Flash Gordon"!
"Prom Night" is a pretty weak entry, but I like it well enough. I saw it during my formative years and it was scary enough for a ten year old. Overall, the movie is pretty lame, but the disco song was cool and the chase scene with Wendy was well done. She was such a bitch to everybody. I always thought her mom was more like her maid. lol
"The Funhouse" is a great movie. Fun fun fun. Absolutely.
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ToastedCheese — 3 years ago(April 28, 2022 07:24 AM)
"The Funhouse" is a great movie. Fun fun fun. Absolutely.
It is fun, it is spooky, it is scary, it is subversive, it is atmospheric and it knows that less is more and still manages to make it intense.- Where did you find that gif image of the girl hiding in the refrigerator?
Norman! What did you put in my tea?
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I love hutch — 3 years ago(April 28, 2022 08:05 AM)
I say "Reform School Girls" is my favorite comedy because of Pat Ast and because, technically, it IS a comedy. "Heat" is genius comedy as well. But the 1974 low-grade horror film, "Persecution" is without a doubt the funniest film I have ever seen. Leonard Maltin gave it *1/2 and said it was unintentionally hilarious and boy was he right about that.
The only thing I cannot in good conscience give such a low rating to a movie that brings so much unexpected joy and hilarity to me. I think "Persecution" should be mandatory viewing. It was on Showtime back in the mid 90s and that channel would show these obscure little films twice a month. Well, we got back from the bars, it was super late and my friend had taped it because he has a finely tuned sense of what is going to be entertaining. We laughed so hard, we woke up his brother. The movie has to be seen to be believed.
"Persecution" gets ***1/2 from me.
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WarrenPeace — 3 years ago(April 29, 2022 02:19 AM)
OK I just saw a part in a movie that was like this…..
Commando where Armold manages to push his disabled truck to a mountain edge, get in, and steer it down a mountain after bad guys on a windy road and then misses them and goes right on by!
It was funny and I don't think it was meant to be.
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