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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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 Posted - 03/20/2008 : 1:16:25 PM
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I've seen this popping up as an ad on some sites I've visited. Here's the Amazon link:
[url]http://www.amazon.com/Horrorfest-Borderland-Unearthed-Nightmare-Mulberry/dp/B0012RCNDM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1206040000&sr=1-1[/url]
Eight horror movies that I've never heard of for $100+ dollars? I can pick up a bargain bin DVD collection of fifty horror movies I have heard of for under $20.
Anybody know what this is about? |
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Ken HPoJ
Supreme Potentate
USA
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Posted - 03/20/2008 : 3:19:00 PM
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This is some sort of annual festival thing showcasing eight independent, low-budget horror films. I think the idea is that it's marketing itself as an imprimatur of actually decent horror, and thus something the fan community would support almost as an investment in superior, non-studio horror.
That's only an assumption, because otherwise, I'm totally with you on this.
PEGGY: I don't see how having a girl on the team would ruin it. Did a woman judge ruin the Supreme Court?
HANK: Yes, and that woman's name was Earl Warren.
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TimLehnerer
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 03/20/2008 : 6:19:02 PM
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And supposedly the quality ranges from "surprisingly competent" to "I usually have to drive to Chicago in January to see something that bad", with heavy skewing towards the awful.
A hundred bucks for one good, two mediocre and five bad movies? No thanks. |
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TheFoywonder
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
833 Posts |
Posted - 03/20/2008 : 9:37:31 PM
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I saw six of the eight films at the theater last fall and the only one I'd recommend is MULBERRY STREET. Not a masterpiece or anything, but a pretty good little film. Think 28 DAYS LATER/NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD in New York City with rat people instead of zombies.
NIGHTMARE MAN is one of those you're either going to enjoy on a NIGHT OF THE DEMONS level or you're not going to like it at all.
Been told by others that BORDERLAND is pretty good. Can't say since I haven't seen it. Didn't see CRAZY EIGHTS either; I hear I missed nothing. THE DEATHS OF IAN STONE falls into the category of watchable but not something you should go out of your way for. IAN STONE is your typical Sam Winston production: good production values, solid special effects, iffy story.
As for the rest, I did a Foyeurism last year called 5 OUT OF 8 FILMS TO DIE FOR. Link - http://foywonder.com/current_columns/foy_1207.html
Here's some snippets from some of my thoughts on the other three films.
UNEARTHED
What an ominous start for the Afterdark Horrorfest. Only four other people joined me for the film kicking things off and two of those people walked out of the film with only about ten more minutes to go. Can't say I fully blame them though. There it was a Friday afternoon and here I was watching a Sci-Fi Channel original movie on the big screen.
I couldn't help but get the weird feeling that writer-director Matthew Leutwyler must have really loved Uwe Boll's ALONE IN THE DARK or at least thought it sucked but dug the film's monsters because the monster in his movie bares more than a passing resemblance to the ALONE IN THE DARK monsters. They've roughly the same body type, move and sometimes even attack in a similar fashion, and both films even claim their respective monsters to be responsible for the mysterious disappearance of the Anasazi Indians who vanished from the face of the earth some 900 years ago.
In this case, instead of a mad scientist resurrecting the monster to conquer the world, some old Indian guy has it dug up because he wants to close the book on his ancestors' disappearance by proving that some otherworldly creature was what wiped out almost every last one of his people so very long ago. If that reasoning seems rather dumb and short-sighted, well, welcome to UNEARTHED.
The monster here looks remarkably like H.R. Giger’s ALIEN design after having been tricked out with some different appendages and a few detachable accessories, as if the UNEARTHED creature designers merely gave it a makeover on a TV show called "Pimp My Alien". In those scenes where you get a really clear look at it, to me, this would be the hybrid creature that would pop out of Pumpkinhead if it got impregnated by an Alien facehugger.
TOOTH & NAIL
TOOTH & NAIL has everything you could possibly want in a post-apocalyptic cannibal movie: you got people sitting around and bickering, walking around and bickering, standing around and bickering, and then the cannibals finally show up, but don't worry because in between cannibal attacks you'll still get more bickering.
LAKE DEAD
Just how bad is LAKE DEAD? There's a scene about an hour in when one of the girls in the movie freaks out over their situation and starts yelling, "This is so bad! This is awful!" Sitting in the theater I felt like that scene in THE TERMINATOR when the building super knocks on the door to ask The Terminator if everything is okay in there and multiple response choices began scrolling across the machine's field of sight. In this case, my options were:
"No kidding!"
"You're telling me?"
"Ain't that the truth!"
"Tell me something I don't know!"
"Preach on, sister!"
"Oh, so it's a self-reviewing movie?"
LAKE DEAD is a film that will in infamy as far as I'm concerned because if ever there was a film that had zero business ever playing on a big screen... The whole production smelled of a cheap DVD slasher flick that a company like Lionsgate would dump to DVD with no fanfare, yet there I was in a theater watching it on a big screen.
And despite the 2007 Horrorfest being a dud and most of the films being poorly received, they're planning to do it again this year too.
Now Playing in Foyeurism at Foywonder.com: PILOT ERROR - An American Mad Mad, Andy Kaufman as a wacky robot butler, and combat hockey: a triple threat of futurisitic failed TV pilots
Plus: B-WARE THE BLOG is alive at http://www.livejournal.com/users/foywonder |
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2008 : 3:50:53 PM
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Thanks for the info.
Mulberry Street strikes me as the most intriguing. Fortunately, I've just discovered that it's also being sold separately on DVD. Which, of course, makes more sense.
[url]http://www.amazon.com/Mulberry-Street-After-Dark-Horror/dp/B00127RAHQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1206135835&sr=1-2[/url]
Not that I plan to buy it sight unseen, but now at least I know there's a good chance I could find it for rental somewhere. |
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Greenhornet
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 03/21/2008 : 7:02:29 PM
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There's a scene about an hour in when one of the girls in the movie freaks out over their situation and starts yelling, "This is so bad! This is awful!"
And that would be the "stinger" at the end of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
"The Queen is testing poisons." CLEOPATRA, 1935 |
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TheFoywonder
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
833 Posts |
Posted - 03/23/2008 : 03:08:46 AM
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The true highlight was the hearing the little kid these idiot parents sitting behind me had brought with them to see LAKE DEAD complaining about how not scary it was. When your horror movie can't even scare a 5-year old you can pretty much chalk the movie up to being a massive failure.
Now Playing in Foyeurism at Foywonder.com: PILOT ERROR - An American Mad Mad, Andy Kaufman as a wacky robot butler, and combat hockey: a triple threat of futurisitic failed TV pilots
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