noiseredux Presents THE MONTH OF HORROR (2015) (remake)

Post by **Gamerforlife** » Sun Oct 04, 2015 4:59 pm

and holy crap does Danielle Harris look hot.

Post by **noiseredux** » Sun Oct 04, 2015 5:03 pm

I didnt like Texas 03, but that 2009 one was good. The last one was even better.

Danielle Harris rules.

Retro Achievements · Post by **Jagosaurus** » Sun Oct 04, 2015 10:27 pm

noiseredux wrote:I didnt like Texas 03, but that 2009 one was good. The last one was even better.

Danielle Harris rules.

Hmmmmm interesting, I enjoyed & was genuinely scared by the 2003 reboot. We'll see how the 2009 prequel goes.

Danielle Harris is awesome. She even played a great prego lady in Stake Land. That could be an entire post on its own. Go watch Stake Land this month if you haven't!

Knocked three of my list today:

Hocus Pocus
Mrs Jagosaurus & I watch this every year. I saw it in theaters as a kid. I have quite a bit of nostalgia for it, but I objectively think it's a fun seasonal Halloween flick. There's also quite a bit of adult humor snuck in if you pay attention that'll go right by kiddos. Highly recommended.

Paranorman
First time seeing this one. A few funny scenes, nice animation, & very cool visuals in the final witch scene. The good stops there. Overall, a big let down. They try to get way to serious with the storyline but there's not enough there to make you care. I'd avoid this one.

Tales from the Crypt: Death of Some Salesman
This is the 1st of 6 episodes I'll be watching. I watched this series as kiddo at my aunts & now I already see why she covered my eyes a lot!

Yikes was this one creepy & unsettling. Great episode staring Ed Begley Jr, the Dean from Veronica Mars Season 3. He's a traveling salesman that's a con. He runs into the wrong backwoods family & the horror begins. Excited to see the other 5 episodes I own now. Gritty, gorey, campy, creepy.

Post by **Ack** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 10:56 am

Some of you guys might be thinking, "A whole weekend went by, and Ack didn't post! Did he watch any horror movies?"

You bet your sweet ass I watched horror movies.

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

I hear this movie gets a lot of hate, since it's not really about Jason Vorhees and is more the aftermath of Tommy Jarvis taking him in The Final Chapter. Yet I find the idea of the hero now being a broken man who must face his demons again and inevitably succumbing to them to be a worthy goal, even if it proved to not be very popular. Think of this one as Friday the 13th Gaiden, a 'what if' wearing the skin of the series but off to the side as a pure hypothetical...which sucks, because I actually really liked this version of Tommy, and Reggie the Reckless is great! There are also elements of hixploitation in this one, and greasers roam the countryside, unaware that the 1950s ended 30 years before. Faux-Jason kills them all with style, though he doesn't seem nearly as physically impressive in this incarnation.

This film also feels like a return to the original, because once again you don't know who the killer really is and instead are fed multiple red herrings. It really feels like a return to form, even if it isn't what the series is known for.

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives

Despite V trying to go in a completely different direction, VI brings the series back to what it is known for and injects copious amounts of humor in the process to make it much more of a comedy horror than previous entries. No longer is Jason a pissed-off man who is simply too dumb to die. Now he is the uber zombie, brought back with enough juice to send a DeLorean forward through time. There is even a 007 parody before the opening credits, and after that we get car chases, shoot outs, goofy violence, and one of the weirdest sex scenes I have ever seen.

While Tommy Jarvis is very different from the mentally ill version we saw in A New Beginning, this version is a lot of fun to watch, and C.J. Graham was absolutely menacing as Jason. On the one hand, it's sad Graham never got to reprise the role...but on the other, Graham ended up befriending Kane Hodder and loved his later work in the series. I guess it all just works out.

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood

This is where I feel like the ideas were running out. Once again, there is a group of horny teenagers hanging out by Crystal Lake. Once again, Jason shows up to butcher them. Only this time one of the girls is psychic...oh dear. And yet, this is still entertaining. A lot could have gone wrong with this entry that didn't, and the violence was so great that nearly every murder in the movie had to be toned down to avoid an X rating. I was surprised by how much I ended up liking this particular entry into the series and how easily it accepted the new telekinetic addition without giving up anything else about what the series had become. Sure, killing kids at a cabin was getting pretty stale after this many entries, but we hadn't ventured into really terrible territory yet.

This also marks the beginning of the Kane Hodder run as Jason. He did some great work making the character a menacing wall of pure death and destruction, and Hodder is a phenomenal stuntman. He actually broke a record filming this by being on fire for a full 40 seconds.

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

Jason's on a boat and it's going fast and
Wrongful advertising claimed this would be in Manhattan
He's the king of the world, on a boat like Leo
If you're on the shore, you're watching a better movie.

My girlfriend and I discussed this movie and tried to come up with better titles for it. Jason Takes a Cruise. Jason Travels. Jason Rides a Boat. Little Jason's Little Boat. Jason Rows, Rows, Rows the Boat. Jason and the Little Boat that Could. If you haven't figured it out yet, most of this movie is Jason on a boat. Actually, most of this movie is Jason blindly wandering around, peeking his head around corners, walking past portholes, and teleporting for no reason as he explores a boat. He even visits the engine room and the deck to find out what the captain does. Jason, you so precious! Oh, and he kills teenagers occasionally, though some of them die off screen and only kinda get mentioned that they are totally dead, or drowned, or something. During this whole time, he faces off a girl who is kinda psychic and keeps seeing visions of little Jason despite her only real superpower being that she is afraid of water. Peter Mark Richman plays a wonderful douchebag though.

And then we get to Manhattan...which is actually mostly Vancouver with extra graffiti and trash added. Seriously. Jason drowns a guy in a barrel of sludge, complete with the drowned corpse of Splinter(there is so much toxic waste in the end of this movie, I was kinda surprised the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles didn't do a cameo). There are some highlights here, such as how much Jason just does not care about destroying stuff to kill the people he wants to kill. The scene where he scares kids by removing his mask? Priceless. And this movie has Julius, the boxer. Full marks for him trying his damnedest and actually putting up a fight against Jason Vorhees. Too bad he lost his head. Yet it just does not make up for the silliness of this movie, made worse when Jason removes his mask at the end and starts vomiting water for no reason before turning back into a child. A scene was even cut where the heroes would have seen little kid Jason trying to escape Jason's mouth. God, I'm glad they cut that, it would have made things even worse. But I did enjoy the opening credits for at least trying to be different from the rest of the series. I just wish they could have done more with the New York idea and way less with the boat.

Also...anybody else remember a time when you could get forcibly injected with heroin and not immediately freak out about dirty needles and AIDS? Man, the '80s was a simple time.

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

Before I begin, I have to reflect on this movie poster a bit. When I was a kid, hitting up the local Family Video for cheap rental movies and video games, this poster always stuck out to me. Little ten-year-old me would go and stare at it for an hour, wondering what I was looking at. What was that little demon slug thing? Why was that mask made of metal? Just who was Jason, and why was he going to Hell? Then I would go rent Mega Man. But for some reason, The Final Friday always stuck with me from those trips. Well, that and the poster for Monkey Shines. Seeing it again brings back nostalgic memories of childhood and the video rental places I loved to visit. It's a shame the kids of today don't know that experience.

As for the movies...oh dear. New Line Cinema got their hands on the franchise and then went weird with it. Jason isn't a dude so much as he is a slug thing that needs to climb inside his family relation's womb to restore himself after the FBI blows him up, so he body hops to do it by being vomited into folks' mouths. And for some reason, Steven Williams knows all of this and wears a cowboy hat. It's very, very different. Off the rails different even. I get that after VII and VIII, we were beyond what we could do with kids at a campsite, but I was not expecting things to have gotten this strange. Still, it makes for an unusual movie. I find I like the core idea, I just wish it wasn't a Friday the 13th. Our plucky hero trying to stop a body hopping demon while steadily going from geek to full badass is great, and the fights inside the police station and diner with the unkillable douche were awesome! But it's way out there for this series, even moreso than psychic teenagers and Back to the Future-style resurrections.

Also, I think more should have been done with that title. I would have preferred to see way more demons in this. The Freddy cameo at the end is wonderful, but I think there is a lot more that could have been done. Also, that intro is so over the top. God, the '90s.

Jason X

In the future, there is absolutely no shame.

Ok, so here's the deal: up to this point, I've enjoyed every Friday the 13th on some level, even when I felt they made some bad mistakes. It's tough getting past that stupid boat in VIII when I want to see New Yorkers getting whacked, and demon slug Jason would have worked better for me if it wasn't Jason, but then there is...Jason X. The one entry I can honestly say I disliked. No, I take that back. This movie was physically painful. I still have a headache from it.

It's the future. Jason has been captured but must be studied. He escapes but then gets cryogenically frozen and revives even further into the future, on a space ship with full of dumb ass kids and adults who wish they were dumb ass kids. Somewhere around here, between the bad CGI and what I think are miniatures, I checked out. There were some kind of holograms, a poorly-lit room with no purpose, a robot who wished she could star in the Resident Evil movies, and the worst line of the series: "It's ok, guys. He just wanted his machete back."

I realize that for some reason long running horror franchises eventually end up in space. Critters did it and it made sense even if it was the worst entry of the series. Leprechaun did it, and it was awful. This one...this shouldn't have done it. Bad Jason! Bad! I want to bleach my eyeballs after how terrible this movie is.

Never again, Jason X. Never again.

My progress so far:

Post by **prfsnl_gmr** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 11:36 am

Nice work, Ack! You are off to a great start this year! I have always been intrigued by the later entries in the Friday the 13th series, even if it is unlikely I will ever watch any of them, and I enjoyed your reveiws. Are you going to follow up with Freddie vs. Jason?

.....

My wife and I also watched a few horror films this weekend, specifically:

The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014) is a "found footage" horror film that starts strong, but ends up succumbing to the conventions of its subgenre. In it, a documentary film crew is making a film about a woman with early stage Alzheimers disease and the toll that the disease takes on the woman's caregivers. Shortly after the crew begins filming her, however, the eldery woman facing the disease begins exhibiting some very strange symptoms which may have supernatural origins. The film begins with some creepy footage, but it eventually takes things a bit too far. First, it overxplains, and by the end of the film, there is no doubt about not only the origins of the woman's symptoms, but the history and motivation of the supernatural agent
controlling her. (The film would have been much, much stronger if, like The Last Exorcism, it had remained ambiguous until the very end.) Secondly, the final act stretches plausibility past its breaking point (i.e., why is someone holding a camera in this situation?), and there are a lot of annoying, inneffective "jump" scares as the camera inexplicably cuts in and out while people are screaming. At least, however, one of the characters has the good sense to realize that he is in a horror movie, and he simply drives away half way through the film. (Good for him!)

We also watched:

Late Phases (2014). It is about a blind veteran, who upon moving into a retirement community, is attacked by a werefolf. He survives the attack, and he immediately begins preparing for the creatures return by literally feeling his way around the community, setting traps, buying silver ammunition, and attempting to determine the werewolf's identity. Aside from (literally) a couple of scenes, the practical creature effects are great, and the film is well-acted. It is easily one of the best werewolf films, and the best I have seen since Ginger Snaps. I enjoyed it; I recommend it; and those of you with Netflix can watch it instantly.

prfsnl_gmr's 2015 LIST OF TERROR!

Post by **noiseredux** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 11:38 am

great post, Ack!

VI is one of my absolute favorites in the series!

VIII is, yeah, the worst.

Jason Goes To Hell I have a weird fondness for. It's like Jason thru the lens of EC Comics or something. Fun, I think. And the (unrated) tent scene is amazing.

Jason X is way more fun that it gets credit for. Hello frozen headsmash.

Post by **Ack** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 1:48 pm

prfsnl_gmr wrote:Nice work, Ack! You are off to a great start this year! I have always been intrigued by the later entries in the Friday the 13th series, even if it is unlikely I will ever watch any of them, and I enjoyed your reveiws. Are you going to follow up with Freddie vs. Jason?

Thanks, and you bet I will eventually(I now own 2 copies of it...), but I have a bunch of Nightmare on Elm Streets to get through first. I want to see those before I finally see the film that pairs up Freddy and Jason. I also have yet to see the Nightmare remake, but I can save that for later. I've already seen the Friday the 13th remake, so at this point Freddy vs. Jason is the only film from that series I have not watched.

Post by **Michi** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 3:14 pm

The Butterfly Room

The Butterfly Room is about Ann, an reclusive older woman with an affinity for butterflies. Some time in the past, Ann is befriended a charming, yet eerie young girl named Alice. The two of them establish a bizarre mother-daughter relationship, but Ann soon discovers that she is not the only woman vying for Alice’s affections. The sudden shock of this discovery awakens Ann’s dark, inner madness.

Back in the present, Ann meets another young girl, nine-year-old Julie, the daughter of her next-door neighbor. Ann befriends the girl and as they spend more time together Julie starts to explore Ann’s apartment and starts to uncover the dark secrets hidden within the older woman’s forbidden butterfly room.

The Butterfly Room is a movie filled with familiar horror fan faces, both new and old: Barbara Steele, Erica Leerhsen, Camille Keaton, Adrienne King, P. J. Soles, Heather Langenkamp, Ray Wise, James Karen…Even if their names don’t sound familiar, their roles in everyting from Black Sunday, Blair Witch 2, I Spit on Your Grave, Friday the 13th, Halloweeen, Nightmare on Elm Street, Twin Peaks and Poltergeist should ensure that at least their faces look familiar. Seriously, it’s like The Expendables, but with horror icons.

All these familiar faces not only make me obnoxiously giddy…

Be still, my heart

….but also ads some necessary weight to a film with a heavy focus on the two child actors. That’s not to say that the kids seen here are in any way bad, but they are young, with limited film credits and such things always come with certain caveats.

That said, the primary focus here is on Barbara Steele’s, Ann, and my, was it a pleasure watching her slowly descend into Crazy-Town. Steele naturally brings a level of elegance to anything she does, but she also weaves in elements of the powerful and the exceptionally creepy. Here she is all beauty, elegance and sinister and it was a joy to watch her flip between the three, all while her character tries to maintain a persona of harmlessness.

I mean, she’s a septuagenarian. She can’t actually swing that thing, can she?

The rest of the supporting cast is also excellent, even though several of their roles amount to no more than cameos. With all the who’s-who going on, the movie could have devolved into a ‘star-spotting-athon’, but they were all handled seamlessly enough to not be too distracting. Heather Lanenkamp boasts a more prominent role as Ann’s daughter, Dorothy, and it was nice to see her (and her pretty blue eyes) in an acting role again.

Though you’d think after all these years she would have learned her lesson about answering strange phone calls in the
middle of the night.

The film involves a lot of flashbacks. It actually begins towards the end of the story and then slowly interweaves between the past and the present. I was concerned at first that this might cause confusion, but the transitions are pretty seamless and easy to differentiate.

The way the film is set up, the viewer is initially sympathetic towards Ann, who comes across as a lonely, if not eccentric, woman who just seems to be looking for a little companionship. But then as the pieces fall into place and we learn some of Ann’s motivations and the reasons for some of her eccentricities, the viewer discovers just what Ann is capable of and what that revelation might mean for poor, young Julie.

Or anyone else, for that matter.

I found The Butterfly Room to be a very enjoyable thriller. The characters are well developed and well acted. I enjoyed the film’s focus on exploring the mother-daughter relationship and the lengths one might go to in order to try to preserve it. It’s a slow burn of a film, with the horror slowly piling up upon you until the very end. The scares are old school (as is much of the cast) and the visuals are reminiscent of Jonathan Zarantonello’s Italian roots. It’s a movie that achieves its goals and uses a more old fashioned approach to story telling while still feeling current. I would consider this a must-see for anyone interested in the nostalgic or the oft-neglected ‘vengeful old woman’ sub genre. Or anyone who just wants to see Barbara Steele being excellent at being...Barbara Steele.

Just remember, whatever you do, do not piss off Barbara Steele.

Post by **noiseredux** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 3:18 pm

never heard of that one Michi, but just seeing all those names on the poster blew my mind. Wow.

Post by **TSTR** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 4:21 pm

Hell of a cast there, def gotta check that one out.

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