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I always get that mixed up with House 3.

This looks like it could be fun. Could be a good tension builder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR7cc5t7tv8

I’ve now seen Jigsaw, and IT.

Both largely enjoyable. Though perhaps unfairly, I found IT to feel like an extended episode of Stranger Things. Still highly enjoyable, but just not as good as Stranger Things.

Jigsaw? Well, I’ve always enjoyed the Saw series, and this is worth enough. Though here, I feel like those involved could’ve survived quite nicely if they’d just taken five minutes to think. They also seem to die in a narratively convenient order....

I' am Hammer Horror fan. I just pick up a bunch blue ray dvd of some Hammer films .

Ooooh! Which ones?

Though perhaps unfairly, I found IT to feel like an extended episode of Stranger Things.

That's not unfair that's just backwards.

 Azreal13 wrote:

Though perhaps unfairly, I found IT to feel like an extended episode of Stranger Things.

That's not unfair that's just backwards.

Yeah, Stranger Things is an unabashed homage to all things Stephen King, all the way down to the font in the title.

Yea thats because in the 80s King was still King. People hadnt realized yet that hes a 50/50 kindda guy. Half is great and half is too much cocaine

I haven't seen Stranger Things (and truthfully I'm just not interested in it) but I did see IT (2017) and MDG's comparison seems fair to me. For example, the setting of IT was moved three decades ahead to the 1980s. If the producers on IT weren't explicitly motivated by ST's success (I don't know the timelines) it's a safe bet that producers on both projects understood that 80s-centric faux nostalgia is currently doing big business. I don't think it matters too much that IT (the novel) came out long before and apparently helped inspire Stranger Things.

As for the movie itself, I wonder if it plays better on a small screen. In the theater, there were so many set ups and scares, all with basically the same structure, played back-to-back that the repetitiveness starter to undermine the tension. I enjoyed it overall but it's not a movie I can see making an effort to see again.

Manchu may have put his finger on what I was trying to convey.

With the 80's vibe throughout (not unwelcome), compared to the TV Movie version, this did feel heavily influence by Stranger Things.

Absolutely not a bad thing - ST is a superb bit of entertainment.

Filming on It started before Stranger Things premiered. The film had been in development since 2009.

While it's feasible that the creatives involved in filming it somehow saw ST pre release, and were so heavily influenced by it they incorporated ideas into the production, it's far more likely that they simply decided to update the time frame to something more contemporary as is frequently done with adaptations, and any currency gained by the surge in 80s nostalgia generated by ST is just a happy accident.

While they're both tapping into the same thing, it's really hard to argue an influence, other than from other, outside, properties that they share.

I just rewatched 30 Days of Night on Netflix. Been so long that I forgot about certain parts, was almost like watching a new movie!

Pretty solid vampire flick, up until the last 5 minutes or so. It suffers from all the other loopholes and problems of horror movies, but I love it. I will always remember Danny Hustons performance as the head vampire. The part where he unsuccessfully tries to use a woman as bait and is about to kill her, she begs “Please God”. His characters reaction was pretty damn chilling. And when he had to kill his wounded lady vamp sidekick.

I used to be bonus features/directors commentary nut, and during the commentary of this flick I found out how hardcore of an actor Ben Foster is. He had a minor, but crucial and disturbing role in this flick. Dude went balls deep to play the role according to Josh Hartnett and the main chick and he became one of my favorite actors after this.

Protip, lightning only strikes once. If you enjoy this movie and want some more, just rewatch it and avoid anything else in this franchise.

I feel the same way about 30 Days of Night. Really great vampire movie if you just turn it off right before the end. Ending is a bit lame IMO.

Ben Foster is a friggin awesome actor. Loved his character Charlie Prince in 3-10 to Yuma. Dude is a very under rated actor.

I know they aren't Shock horror movies (I loved house of 1000 corpses and high tension) but the 2 movies that still give me the creeps to this day are:
The Sixth Sense , and The Shining.

The atmosphere of both movies is just intense and the music and sounds in The Shining is so unsettling and perfect.

I actually find the Terminator to be a creepy movie as well. None of the others had that vibe at all but the first one just gets under my skin. I think its because no matter what, the 101 just doesnt ever stop, the way Reece explains to Sara in the beginning is spot on. It really gets me after the semi crash at the end, you think that definitely stopped the damned thing but nope, melted outsides and a busted leg wont stop it either.




Uhg...creeps me out

30 days of night was awesome. Gotta rewatch it. Danny will always be that head vampire for me too. Not Stryker, not the serial killer from AHS, nobody. He was awesome in 30DoN.

Watched The Circle over the weekend. This is my new favorite horror movie.

I watched a movie last night titled "Caught", out of the UK and I enjoyed it.

Was an interesting sci-fi twist on the home invasion sub genre. The pacing was great, a sense of foreboding starts at the very beginning that only briefly lets up to introduce the two main characters and the dialogue was... strangely fascinating, mainly because of the sparsely explained foreign nature of the perpetrators and what they were looking for. Ending could've been better, I guess I wanted it to turn into a creature feature towards the end, or at least a "reveal" but it went low key. I think the directors/writers wanted it to be a bit vague, or the budget didn't allow it.

All in all, a fun watch.

edit* Caught(2018). The other movies with the same title name from 2015+ 1996 are worlds apart in plot.


edit2* Some trailer action in the spoils!