My horror film for today, and you should know the drill by now:

10/6: So, Sean's horror film of the day: Stuart Gordon's Dagon. I picked this movie pretty randomly off Netflix as it's based on H.P Lovecraft's "Shadow Over Innsmouth" (that more so than the actual story "Dagon," oddly enough), and I love Lovecraft. Essentially a man and his girlfriend shipwreck and find themselves in a strange town where the people are half sea creature and worship a sea god named Dagon. A great story idea that suffers from what I'm assuming a very small budget. The acting is fairly atrocious, situations are pretty ridiculously played out/resolved, and the special effects are abysmal (save make up effects, which are actually quite well done). However it did keep me entertained and these flaws sort of feed a B-movie aesthetic in the film. Also has a few very well done horrifying scenes, one involving a man being gruesomely skinned. There also seemed to be a lack of a soundtrack which I wanted badly for some of the more horrifying scenes and to set the mood better. A potentially good horror film mostly due to it's source material that ultimately feels forgettable and lands in a place not over the top enough to be a good "bad" horror film and not good enough to be considered a great.
6.5/10

[JuZ]

Watched The Castle the other night and wasn't expecting much; it's this tiny low-budget Australian movie from the late 90s that takes the absolute piss out of the Australian working class when a family is gonna be kicked out of their home by the government to allow for the expansion of an airport. The humour is so simple and obvious but some of it was just fucking hilarious. I was very taken aback by how much I enjoyed it... Looked it up after and a lot of other people did too, for a film that was only made for $19,000, it made over $10,000,000 at the box office! It's kinda sad in some parts but when it's on the ball with the humour, it's feckin' fantastic.

You're an ideas man, Leech.

I'm gonna print that compliment, frame it, and then it's going straight in the pool room.

Get ya hand of it, Darryl!

Watched The Castle the other night and wasn't expecting much; it's this tiny low-budget Australian movie from the late 90s that takes the absolute piss out of the Australian working class when a family is gonna be kicked out of their home by the government to allow for the expansion of an airport. The humour is so simple and obvious but some of it was just fucking hilarious. I was very taken aback by how much I enjoyed it... Looked it up after and a lot of other people did too, for a film that was only made for $19,000, it made over $10,000,000 at the box office! It's kinda sad in some parts but when it's on the ball with the humour, it's feckin' fantastic.

You're an ideas man, Leech.

I'm gonna print that compliment, frame it, and then it's going straight in the pool room.

Get ya hand of it, Darryl!

And there ya go. Pluggin' right along. I think tomorrow may be Audition, then some day soon I'm going to just pick some random horror film from Netflix. Can't just watch all good ones this month can I?

When you watch Audition, give us your thoughts on it pleeaasssee . I've been meaning to watch it so badly but wasn't really sure if its worth it or not. I guess it should be. Being a Japanese horror, it should be freakishly scary haha.

The first two thirds of Audition serve to build drama and empathy, and you do connect to the characters. The final third suddenly becomes a barrage of intense and horrific scenes, and it's not for the squeamish! Love that film.

High Fidelity

I liked it, somewhat relatable to me and funny.

[EphelDuath666]

Friday the 13th part 2

After killing the crazy Mrs. Voorhees, who was avenging her son Jason's death, Alice can finally sigh with relief. But there is just one problem. Jason never drowned in Crystal Lake and lived in the nearby woods as a hermit all this time. The day that Alice beheaded his mother, Jason saw everything and his heart filled with thirst for revenge. Two months later, Alice gets stabbed by an ice pick in the temple and disappears. Is Jason behind this? Five years later, a camp next do to Camp Crystal Lake is built and the counselors start snooping around the old, abandoned camp ruins. This makes Jason very upset, since his shack is next to the remains of Camp Crystal Lake and what is inside the shack shall be kept secret forever, even if it means killing nine people!

started with part 2 because let's face it...you watch the Friday the 13th movies for Jason and not his friggin mom. I watched it on Blu-ray and man, it was like watching an all new film. Paramount did an excellent job remastering this movie and I think I'll have to pick up part 3 on Blu-ray too. (Yeah, not much of a DVD fan anymore, I'm sooo spoiled ). Jason ain't wearing his iconic hockey mask in this one yet and therefor doesn't look all that awesome yet but the movie is still a bloody good time despite that. So yeah, I'll most likely watch a few more of that series this month, got them all on DVD, and might try to order part 3 on Blu-ray in England asap.

The Tunnel Aussie indie horror flick about journalists who investigate Sydney's underground train tunnels to find out why the government scrapped a project years ago. The story finds them before they find it.

The makers financed it by selling each frame for a dollar. Fucking scary and well acted, this is only more proof that we make the best movies.

[Octillus]

Friday the 13th part 2

After killing the crazy Mrs. Voorhees, who was avenging her son Jason's death, Alice can finally sigh with relief. But there is just one problem. Jason never drowned in Crystal Lake and lived in the nearby woods as a hermit all this time. The day that Alice beheaded his mother, Jason saw everything and his heart filled with thirst for revenge. Two months later, Alice gets stabbed by an ice pick in the temple and disappears. Is Jason behind this? Five years later, a camp next do to Camp Crystal Lake is built and the counselors start snooping around the old, abandoned camp ruins. This makes Jason very upset, since his shack is next to the remains of Camp Crystal Lake and what is inside the shack shall be kept secret forever, even if it means killing nine people!

started with part 2 because let's face it...you watch the Friday the 13th movies for Jason and not his friggin mom. I watched it on Blu-ray and man, it was like watching an all new film. Paramount did an excellent job remastering this movie and I think I'll have to pick up part 3 on Blu-ray too. (Yeah, not much of a DVD fan anymore, I'm sooo spoiled ). Jason ain't wearing his iconic hockey mask in this one yet and therefor doesn't look all that awesome yet but the movie is still a bloody good time despite that. So yeah, I'll most likely watch a few more of that series this month, got them all on DVD, and might try to order part 3 on Blu-ray in England asap.

Bite me. The first Friday's effing great, but you spoiled it for yourself.

BTW, I've seen all of them, and know them by heart pretty much

Jason Lives is the best for all of those who were wondering.

started with part 2 because let's face it...you watch the Friday the 13th movies for Jason and not his friggin mom.

I saw this at the flix when it was released. Hadn't seen the first one at the time.
Took a girl from High School for whom I had ze severe chubbo, and we got in underage.

Bad idea.

Spent most of the film too busy crappin' to lay on some smooth moves...

[EphelDuath666]

I saw this at the flix when it was released. Hadn't seen the first one at the time.
Took a girl from High School for whom I had ze severe chubbo, and we got in underage.

Bad idea.

Spent most of the film too busy crappin' to lay on some smooth moves...

wait, wait, wait....you went out with someone other than me and you tried to do naughty things with that person????

...oh wait, I was -1 years old then....nevermind

Bite me. The first Friday's effing great, but you spoiled it for yourself.

BTW, I've seen all of them, and know them by heart pretty much

Jason Lives is the best for all of those who were wondering.

oh no worries, I have seen the first one multiple times, own all Friday the 13th movies on DVD (even own the mediocre remake and Freddy vs. Jason), got them all in a fancy collectors box, same with all the Nightmare on Elmstreet movies and both boxes are in between two 18 inch big figurines of Jason and Freddy /geek mode off

I do enjoy the first one but since I probably won't watch them all this month I want to concentrate on the best ones with Jason in them. I know he's also in the first one very shortly in the end but that doesn't really count.
I actually dig most of them with the exception of Jason goes to Hell, which was watchable but not really good. And then Jason X. Now that one just blows donkey dick.

Allow me to preface this by saying I am currently pretty buzzed, and this review was written while said buzz has been effecting me, but here's my review as it stands now:

10/7: A-ha! Sean's horror film of the day, Takeshi Miike's "Audition." I hate to say it, perhaps it was too built up by others, but I was pretty disappointed in the film. For the first 2/3s the film plays out like a sort of romantic film with dark under tones, and as the last 1/3 plays out I felt underwhelmed by the horror I was supposed to feel at the love turned evil this man experiences. Potentially the idea behind Miike's film could have been very powerful, a man's wife dies and he finds a replacement for her only to find she has far more sadistic tendencies, but ultimately the scenes at the end that should have had such an impact after such a slow building film fall flat. Perhaps repeated watchings will reveal further details that change my opinion of the film, but as I stand right now I would easily pick "Visitor Q" over "Audition" for it's ability to shock and it's underlying meaning. Not by any means a bad film, but for me, "Audition" fails to live up to it's hype.
6/10

[EphelDuath666]

Dellamorte Dellamore (aka Cemetery Man)

This movie is based on a novel of Tiziano Sclavi, and it always reflects the "sclavian philosophy" diffused by the most succesful comics in Italy: Dylan Dog, the detective of the nightmare. There is the duality between love and dead (in Italian "dellamore" means "of love" and "dellamorte" means "of death"), a duality that Dellamorte feels in a really hard way. He is the guardian of the cemetery of Buffalora, a little town in the north of Italy, in which, we don't know why, corpses rise from tombs and Dellamorte has to destroy them.

watched this one once again yesterday and still love it. It's funny and bizarre with great dialogues and monologues and pretty neat splatter effects. Rupert Everett is just awesome in this flick. Certainly not your average zombie flick. Imagine David Lynch made a zombie movie, then you kinda have an idea what this movie is like. And I read that there might actually be a sequel but I'm sure Rupert Everett won't be part of that, heh.

Naked Lunch. Hadn't seen it in years, and I forgot just how bizarre it is.

Here ya go, and Ephelduath, you inspired me. Thanks a lot.

10/8: Today my horror film was Jason X, and I'll not even mention the director because honestly, who the hell cares with a movie like this. So... I really forgot just how bad this movie was. Like it's not even so bad it's good. It's just really, really bad. The plot here doesn't really matter, but essentially Jason gets frozen in the present to be awoken in 2455 where there's cyborg women, Earth 2 because Earth 1 is uninhabitable, and women dress like 90s whores apparently. Yup, that's the future for ya. The movie consists of horrible attempts at humor (mostly involving how the futures different, i.e. hockey was outlawed in 2024! Whoa!), cheesy-as-hell murder scenes, rampant sex, and an absolutely ridonkulous story line. The biggest crime of this film is it basically shits all over what Friday the 13th is about as a slasher film and makes it into a laughably bad failure at a mishmash of genres. Oh, and the best part: Uber Jason. Yes. His official name. Really the only reason it's getting this high a rating is the few laughs it gave me throughout at it's ridiculousness.
2.5/10

Here ya go, and Ephelduath, you inspired me. Thanks a lot.

10/8: Today my horror film was Jason X, and I'll not even mention the director because honestly, who the hell cares with a movie like this. So... I really forgot just how bad this movie was. Like it's not even so bad it's good. It's just really, really bad. The plot here doesn't really matter, but essentially Jason gets frozen in the present to be awoken in 2455 where there's cyborg women, Earth 2 because Earth 1 is uninhabitable, and women dress like 90s whores apparently. Yup, that's the future for ya. The movie consists of horrible attempts at humor (mostly involving how the futures different, i.e. hockey was outlawed in 2024! Whoa!), cheesy-as-hell murder scenes, rampant sex, and an absolutely ridonkulous story line. The biggest crime of this film is it basically shits all over what Friday the 13th is about as a slasher film and makes it into a laughably bad failure at a mishmash of genres. Oh, and the best part: Uber Jason. Yes. His official name. Really the only reason it's getting this high a rating is the few laughs it gave me throughout at it's ridiculousness.
2.5/10

While you're on this whole horror kick, you should check out 'Martyrs' and 'Possession'
They're both a bit different from other horror flicks, 'Possession' especially.