Racketboy Month of Horror 15: Whelp, That Happened
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Speaking of Bram Stoker's Dracula, did any of you see the Robert De Niro pseudo-sequel film, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein? I never have and have wondered about it for years. It seems entirely forgotten.
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Anyone a fan of Mel Brooks' Dracula: Dead and Loving It?
Keanu's accent... Yeah.
It doesn't bother me, actually. In fact, I find it humorous. You'd think something like that would ruin an otherwise good movie. But this movie is already weird for different reasons, so his bad English accent seems to oddly fit in some how.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqotT8iERxk
Earlier this year, I watched it for the first time in a long time, so with fresh eyes. And also, I watched it on my new 4K TV (4K being new to me) and it was a nice master. But yeah, I have a new found appreciation for the movie.
Bram Stoker's Dracula is a new like for me. I tired watching it years ago and found it to be very boring. And it still is in a some ways, if I'm being honest. But where the movie excels is in the visuals. It has some really beautiful shots, like Dracula's eyes in the red sky. It has some pretty nice looking sets. And it has some other visually striking things, like when Dracula backs into a shadow with his cape up, then turns into a pile of rats that falls to the floor. That part was awesome.
Keanu's accent... Yeah.
It doesn't bother me, actually. In fact, I find it humorous. You'd think something like that would ruin an otherwise good movie. But this movie is already weird for different reasons, so his bad English accent seems to oddly fit in some how. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqotT8iERxk
Earlier this year, I watched it for the first time in a long time, so with fresh eyes. And also, I watched it on my new 4K TV (4K being new to me) and it was a nice master. But yeah, I have a new found appreciation for the movie.
I think for good reason it's forgotten. I've never seen it, but I've seen clips of it. And from what I've heard, it's terrible. I'm not curious enough to give it a viewing. From everything bad I've heard about it, there's not enough time to do things I know I'll like, so forget about watching a movie that's pretty universally agreed on to be bad LOL.
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It’s fine. A lot of critics hates it at release, and it wasn’t as successful as Bram Stoker’s Dracula, despite stronger source material. I think that’s why it’s been forgotten. I have watched it more recently, however, and it’s a solid two to two-and-a-half stars out of four film. It’s worth a watch, but I doubt it will end up being your favorite movie.
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TBH, strong source material helps, but with films it's all about what you do with it. Coppola did all sorts of crazy awesome shit (including amazing casting) with Dracula.
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Yeah, I don't think De Niro was a good choice. Gary Oldman as Dracula was awesome. Every clip I've seen as De Niro as the monster, I just hear the De Niro I know from mob movies.
Just found out that Salem's Lot is getting a new movie release on Max on October 3rd.
Just found out that Salem's Lot is getting a new movie release on Max on October 3rd.
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Ah, not even October yet, and already so many posts. It warms my horror-loving heart.
I too, have been doing some pre-Halloween horror watching, so I thought I'd share a bit.
The Bridge Curse
Some years ago, a group of students set out to record themselves following a series of steps to recreate a local urban legend. But things went awry and the students went missing. Years later, a new group sets out to follow their same steps in order to figure out what happened to them...to disastrous results.
This is a Taiwanese horror/mystery from 2020 that some of you may recognize, because they made a game based on it. I don't know anything about that game, but the movie itself is....eh, okay. It looks nice and it's well acted. But the bulk of it boils down to a lot of atmosphere and jump scares. I kinda liked how it played with time, but it's not something I'd go back to. But still a pretty easy watch.
Available on Netflix.
The Bridge Curse: Ritual
At another location in the same town as the first film, a completely different group of students, at a different school, are trying to recreate a different urban legend, this time involving an elevator and what amounts to a portal to Hell. Why they would want to do this is never really explained. But when the brother of one of the students goes missing after trying to recreate the legend, she goes to extreme lengths to figure out what happened to him.
This is the sequel to the first Bridge Curse, because I guess they figured it was popular to warrant one. But already they've irritated me, because it involves an elevator and not a bridge, so it is quite poorly named. Still, I ended up liking this one a bit more than the last one. It's still a lot of atmosphere and jump scares, but they seem to have polished their formula, so it flows a little bit better. This one also plays with time (I'm sensing a theme...), but I feel like they implemented it a bit better, so the story ends up benefiting a little more here too. Still not what I would consider a great movie, but decent enough for what it is. I hear they're making another one. But based on these two, I don't really have high expectation.
Available on Netflix.
The Call
Kim Seo-yeon, a young woman with a troubled relationship with her mother, returns to her childhood home in the country to get away from her life for a while. While there, she plugs in an old phone, but becomes concerned when she keeps receiving calls from Oh Young-sook, a distressed woman whom she doesn't know, and nobody in town can seem to identify. After several conversations in which they become close and a little bit of digging, Seo-yeon discovers that Young-sook died 20 year ago, and deduces that the two of them somehow seem to be conversing through time. Wondering if this is true, Young-sook travels out of town and is able to prevent the death of Seo-yeon's father, immediately improving Seo-yeon's life in the future. Wanting to equally help her new friend, Seo-yeon discovers that Young-sook didn't just die, but was murdered, and warns her in the hope that she can prevent her own death. The plan works, but it turns out to have dire consequences for Seo-yeon that she could have never imagined.
Ah, finally! A good one! Ya'll remember the 2000 film Frequency? The one where Dennis Quaid talks to his future son over CB radio and the two of them figure out how to prevent his death? Well, this movie is kinda like that. Except this is a horror movie, so Quaid's stand-in turns out to be a nightmare and saving her ends up being a really bad idea. It's a very good movie though. Everything from the visuals to the acting to the story is just *chief's kiss* levels of excellence. This one of course also heavily features "time", but they thankfully implemented it better than those Bridge things, so ya-rah for that. Double thumbs up and all that shit.
The only downside is, if you do decide to watch it -- and this is very important -- you need to remember to hit STOP as soon as the credits start to roll. I mean it. Screen goes black, STOP, exit movie. Because if you don't, you will be greeted by a mid-credit sequence that seems to go out of it's way to try to completely bork AAAAAALL the goodwill built up by an otherwise excellent film. Seriously, it's like they got 99.99% done and decided "You know what, nah, lets piss everyone off instead." And I'm here to tell you DON'T LET THEM! DON'T LET THEM DO IT! YOU DON'T NEED TO SEE THOSE LAST 20 SECONDS! I KNOW YOU CURIOUS ASSHOLES WILL WANT TO, BUT DON'T! TRUST ME! THE ONES WHO DON'T LISTEN WILL WISH THEY HAD!
Available on Netflix.
I too, have been doing some pre-Halloween horror watching, so I thought I'd share a bit.
The Bridge Curse
Some years ago, a group of students set out to record themselves following a series of steps to recreate a local urban legend. But things went awry and the students went missing. Years later, a new group sets out to follow their same steps in order to figure out what happened to them...to disastrous results.
This is a Taiwanese horror/mystery from 2020 that some of you may recognize, because they made a game based on it. I don't know anything about that game, but the movie itself is....eh, okay. It looks nice and it's well acted. But the bulk of it boils down to a lot of atmosphere and jump scares. I kinda liked how it played with time, but it's not something I'd go back to. But still a pretty easy watch.
Available on Netflix.
The Bridge Curse: Ritual
At another location in the same town as the first film, a completely different group of students, at a different school, are trying to recreate a different urban legend, this time involving an elevator and what amounts to a portal to Hell. Why they would want to do this is never really explained. But when the brother of one of the students goes missing after trying to recreate the legend, she goes to extreme lengths to figure out what happened to him.
This is the sequel to the first Bridge Curse, because I guess they figured it was popular to warrant one. But already they've irritated me, because it involves an elevator and not a bridge, so it is quite poorly named. Still, I ended up liking this one a bit more than the last one. It's still a lot of atmosphere and jump scares, but they seem to have polished their formula, so it flows a little bit better. This one also plays with time (I'm sensing a theme...), but I feel like they implemented it a bit better, so the story ends up benefiting a little more here too. Still not what I would consider a great movie, but decent enough for what it is. I hear they're making another one. But based on these two, I don't really have high expectation.
Available on Netflix.
The Call
Kim Seo-yeon, a young woman with a troubled relationship with her mother, returns to her childhood home in the country to get away from her life for a while. While there, she plugs in an old phone, but becomes concerned when she keeps receiving calls from Oh Young-sook, a distressed woman whom she doesn't know, and nobody in town can seem to identify. After several conversations in which they become close and a little bit of digging, Seo-yeon discovers that Young-sook died 20 year ago, and deduces that the two of them somehow seem to be conversing through time. Wondering if this is true, Young-sook travels out of town and is able to prevent the death of Seo-yeon's father, immediately improving Seo-yeon's life in the future. Wanting to equally help her new friend, Seo-yeon discovers that Young-sook didn't just die, but was murdered, and warns her in the hope that she can prevent her own death. The plan works, but it turns out to have dire consequences for Seo-yeon that she could have never imagined.
Ah, finally! A good one! Ya'll remember the 2000 film Frequency? The one where Dennis Quaid talks to his future son over CB radio and the two of them figure out how to prevent his death? Well, this movie is kinda like that. Except this is a horror movie, so Quaid's stand-in turns out to be a nightmare and saving her ends up being a really bad idea. It's a very good movie though. Everything from the visuals to the acting to the story is just *chief's kiss* levels of excellence. This one of course also heavily features "time", but they thankfully implemented it better than those Bridge things, so ya-rah for that. Double thumbs up and all that shit.
The only downside is, if you do decide to watch it -- and this is very important -- you need to remember to hit STOP as soon as the credits start to roll. I mean it. Screen goes black, STOP, exit movie. Because if you don't, you will be greeted by a mid-credit sequence that seems to go out of it's way to try to completely bork AAAAAALL the goodwill built up by an otherwise excellent film. Seriously, it's like they got 99.99% done and decided "You know what, nah, lets piss everyone off instead." And I'm here to tell you DON'T LET THEM! DON'T LET THEM DO IT! YOU DON'T NEED TO SEE THOSE LAST 20 SECONDS! I KNOW YOU CURIOUS ASSHOLES WILL WANT TO, BUT DON'T! TRUST ME! THE ONES WHO DON'T LISTEN WILL WISH THEY HAD!
Available on Netflix.
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Imagine if those movies had kept going. This fall we could be seeing Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto.
Bram Stoker's Dracula inspired a pretty great pinball machine. The DMD was red, and your score dripped blood. It also had a unique feature in which a ball made a slow, spooky journey from left to right and you had to hit it to put the second ball in play.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein also had a pinball machine, but like the movie, it wasn't as good as Dracula.
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I just finished House but I'm not exactly sure what I watched.
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Yup. That sounds about right