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Lance845 wrote: I saw Alien in theaters last night (released for 45th anniversary on 4/26 for alien day weekend i guess).
I saw it as well. Hopefully yours was a reasonably nice theater. My showing taught me that our big theater had little half screens hiding in the back of the building.
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
Zed wrote: *All statements reflect my opinion at this moment. if some sort of pretty new model gets released (or if I change my mind at random) I reserve the right to jump on any bandwagon at will.
There are certainly plenty of places they can drop the ball and make a horrible movie, but the trailer looks to be hitting all the right notes. Might even try to catch this on the big screen.
Looks cool, and its making me get the itch to play my long delayed new game+ of Aliens: Dark Descent.
"Sometimes the only victory possible is to keep your opponent from winning." - The Emperor, from The Outcast Dead.
"Tell your gods we are coming for them, and that their realms will burn as ours did." -Thostos Bladestorm
To be honest, much as I’m a fan of the genre, modern horror has kind of blurred into one for me. I blame Insidious and The Conjuring sharing not only tone, but lead male!
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To be honest, much as I’m a fan of the genre, modern horror has kind of blurred into one for me. I blame Insidious and The Conjuring sharing not only tone, but lead male!
Horror more than any other genre seems to be dominated by trends where studio productions are concerned.
We've been in a 'demonic possession or crazed killer' phase for a long ass time.
One of the joys of Horror is it tends to be pretty cheap to produce. So when you hit pay dirt, you make some serious, ridiculous profit - particularly as marketing wise, horror seems to work best left alone to word of mouth.
But, the downside is that when one film creates a new zeitgeist? You get cash in compilations. Because again, it doesn’t take much to turn a decent profit. And so it all goes back to being really formulaic after initial innovation.
I still enjoy my horror, and even kinda like that stuff gets formulaic. Because part of the appeal is “turn off brain, enjoy the various ooooh, nasty! shenanigans.
But it does make it increasingly difficult to remember whether or not I have seen a given flick when it comes to modern stuff.
Of course, give I can easily discern older tropey horrors from one another, is entirely a Me problem.
But just bought Evil Dead anyways, so sod it, time to do a remember!
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