Hehe wizard, you been snooping through my DVD collection?
You missed Pumpkinhead (my personal favorite) - it's like the most atmospheric horror ever made.
One thing that annoyed me was The Hills Have Eyes remake - now the remake is cack, even with that cute girl from LOST in it there's still no point at all in watching it - despite all the hype.
They can recreate the horror, add in better cast, better effects, but they can't remake the charm. And this is not my getting all dewy eyed about old horror films, because I saw the remake first, then was stunned by how much better the original is, not was
. There's so many little bits where the bad guys just make me laugh, they are infinitely more believable as a family of psycho's than the remakes cast. There's a bit where Jupiter and Mercury are talking about what's for dinner, then Mercury get's savaged by a dog and falls off a cliff - but the reaction on Jupiter's face and in his voice, this look of real shock and horror, and this sad little yelp. I remember that, I remember how unsettling it is when you can't stick a convenient label onto something that scares you.
The more human they make the monster, the scarier it is - the original Hills had very human bad guys, they might eat you, but they'd eat you as a family, around the dinner table. The remake forgot this, and sucked. That's what is so awesome about Pumpkinhead too, and Freddy Krueger - give these monsters a sense of humor, family, friends, make them human and then there's a reason to fear them. Everything else is a zombie.
Really though, if horror writers don't get it by now, they never will - that's why before very long, independent horror films will get a more loyal and interested fan base. I mean how much fun would it be to make an old style slasher movie.... it's becoming more and more accessible for people to do this stuff, and I hope they do.
Anywhoo, to keep this on topic....
Predator 2 was just meh, nothing substantial to it, like eating a pie with no filling - or filled with broken dreams and empty promises. Compared to the first movie it's just rancid. And I can feel justified in tearing it a new one because I waited so damn long on Pred 2, it should have been awesome, like Aliens. Then we waited so DAAAAMMMMNNNNNN long on AVP, then that was a turd as well. Then AVP2 is turd... we're on a slippery turd slope, with only a s!!t-rope to hold onto. (soz, watched Countdown To Liquor Day the other day
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