The Month of Horror PART IV: dsheinem vs. noiseredux

[BoneSnapDeez]

Anyone play the video game?

[noiseredux]

Anyone play the video game?

sure have. I played the PS2 version quite a bit in 2008. It's actually pretty damn good. It's supposed to be a sequel to the Carpenter movie if I recall (sort of like Colonial Marines was lulz). What I enjoyed so much was the "trust meter," which was a sort of stat where you had to keep the trust high among your troops else be suspected of being The Thing. Really added that sort of "who is it?" suspense that the movie had going for it.

EDIT: Did not know it was on PC, wonder if it's available for download anywhere at a good price?

[Ack]

I own the PS2 version of The Thing, but I dislike the camera in it. The way it spins really bothers me.

Also, I agree with Ds on the prequel. It wasn't nearly as good. I think hurting it most was the poor CG that they relied on at points instead of always using models(which were good), and also the female lead felt like a character just forced into the plot because some studio exec demanded there needed to be a woman.

[noiseredux]

I almost wonder if it was marketed as a prequel because they thought calling it a "remake" would hurt sales. It strikes me as more of the latter than the former.

How would that work? I've tended to think it's usually the opposite. Remakes are what seem to sell these days, so the only way sequels/prequels seem to get made is by calling them remakes.

I mean you saw it, and I haven't yet, but it was the crew that was there before the crew in Carpenter's film, right? I mean, technically speaking story-wise, it was a prequel, right?

[Menegrothx]

The Thing is one of the first games Spoony reviewed. Judging by the review, the game is horrible
http://spoonyexperiment.com/2007/02/25/ ... ng-review/

[Michi]

Hatchet


My first horror movie of the month. It feels good to get into the swing of things. I watched the sequel last year, so it seems only fitting that I watch the first one.

To summarize for anyone who hasn’t seen it, Hatchet is the story of a hapless tour group who have the unfortunate luck of being stranded in the bayou after their boat sinks and their subsequent struggle against the backwater, supernatural mutant known as Victor Crowley.


If this the look on your face when driving the boat, than perhaps you should not, in fact, be driving the boat.

Hatchet is a simple if slightly campy mixture of horror and humor. If the film has anything over it’s sequel, it’s that I preferred the humor in the first movie much more than that of the second film. But even saying that, I believe Hatchet leans more towards being a ‘horror’ film than Hatchet II. There were some genuine moments in this movie that made me jump, something I didn’t get out of the second film. So in those respects, it gets some extra brownie points.

But that’s not why someone watches Hatchet. No, you watch Hatchet for the inventive, gruesome slasher kills and, believe me, this film has no shortage.



They also threw in some gross-out moments for the hell of it.


Ugh, dude. Unnecessary….

The only thing I really didn’t like about this movie was Ben. Ben is annoying. Ben needed to take a long walk off a short pier. I’m glad they switched the focus away from him as the film progressed, because I might have had to stab myself in the ear just to drown out his whining and awkwardness. Having Mary-Beth the lead in the sequel was a much better decision.

So, basically, I found this to be a really fun movie. It’s got some humor, its got some gore, it’s got an 80’s horror vibe going on, and it’s got horror icon cameos….What’s not to love? It might be simplistic in its story, but that’s a slasher hallmark. Not every movie needs a moral. But if every movie did need a moral I think Hatchet’s would be ”don’t let your boat sink in the damned swamp.”


Now tell me class, what have these two done wrong?

[BoneSnapDeez]

I liked Tony Todd in the Hatchet movies.

Last year my students read that novel called "Hatchet" - the one by Gary Paulsen where the kid gets lost in the woods.

When they were done they tried to find "the movie" on YouTube - well, a movie based on that book doesn't exist so they ended up watching death scene compilations from the Hatchet horror films while laughing their asses off.

(somewhat related now that I have Tony Todd on the brain) - how many of you have seen Masters of Horror, the Showtime series? I watched the entire series recently - the episodes range from brilliant to really, really atrocious. I don't know about Netflix and Hulu and all that jazz, but they all appear to be currently free to watch on YouTube right now.

[Michi]

I liked Tony Todd in the Hatchet movies.

Tony Todd is awesome. I loved Reverend Zombie. He had one of the best exchanges in the whole movie.

Ben: We want to do a haunted swap tour.
Rev. Zombie: I don't do night tours anymore, I'm not allowed to. Insurance got to high after what happened.
Marcus: Too bad. Let's go.
Ben: Wait, wait, what happened?
Rev. Zombie: Oh, you *dont* want to know.
Ben: [eagerly] I so want to know.
Rev. Zombie: I had a tour group, out in the swamp, last Halloween. It was the mist of night, and there was this kid, who looked kind of like you, he was spooked by something in the marsh. He saw two eyes staring at him from the woods, it chilled him to his very marrow. He wanted to get off the boat in a hurry, and he had his foot dangling over the edge. He...
Ben: He fell in?
Marcus: A gator got him?
Rev. Zombie: He slipped... hit his head... on the roof *dramatic pause*... and sued me for negligence! That cock sucker!
Ben: [disapointed] That's it?

[GirlGamer55]

Silly me forgot I have like six or seven horror movies I put aside a few years ago. Never seen them...at least now I know what I'll be watching!

[noiseredux]

Michi's reviews always make the month of horror a blast! Are you gonna see Hatchet III now Michi? I haven't seen it yet myself. Danielle Harris is in that one too.

@EVERYONE: Just a heads up, Walking Dead (The Game) Episode 1 is free right now on PSN and XBLA. You should all download it if you haven't played yet.