Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[Bebpo]

I'd have to watch it again, though I loved Don't Breathe... I think I liked Hush more.

I thought Hush was kind of boring honestly.  Probably because it wasn't really a scary movie.  Hoping Don't Breathe is better than Light's Out, which was good but not great.  2016 needs a great horror film. 

This is by the guy who did the Evil Dead remake?  I thought that was really solid so it gives me some hope along with the good reviews.

[Joe Molotov]

10 Cloverfield Lane was good.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

I think we can all agree that the "best horror movie in years" is a dum fallacy as there's usually a couple of good ones a year.

abso-frigging-lutely.

There's quality out there, just as it is with every genre, sometimes you have to look a little harder to find it (international or indie).

[Mupepe]

My god. The Point Break remake is so awful.

[chronovore]

After seeing Brandon Routh as A.T.O.M. in The Flash TV series, I went back to re-watch Superman Returns. Turns out, the movie is every bit as bad as I remembered. Routh's impersonation of Christopher Reeves is still charmingly slavish, but it's hard to believe that Singer was on-board with all the horrible, horrible superpowered Peeping Tom act Superman indulges in, and all the insecure pettiness. Just... no. This is a weird and disappointing way to humanize Superman.

[VomKriege]

Watched Argo yesterday. The embassy being overrun intro is excellent. Rest of the film is more than decent but while it is using a very competent structure it does feel a bit by the numbers and superficial. Characters are likeable but cookie cutter, I never felt we went in deep with most of them.

[benjipwns]

  visionary art house director Zack Snyder does it again

[toku]

PLEASE

[bork]

In any case, Innocence is still better than Arise 

and this is why I'm never gonna bother watching Arise!

Arise is way better than those first two GITS movies.  Crack-smoking going on in this thread.

[Phoenix Dark]

  visionary art house director Zack Snyder does it again

Heroes saving Moscow? Sorry, #cantrelate

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Review:

Suicide Squad: Basically it's Mike Lowery from bad boys in a superhero film.

+ Harley Quinn was great
+ New Joker should be okay
+ OMG Flash and Batman cameos
+ saw it in 3D looks good in 3D
- Too much Will Smith
- Uninteresting Supporting Villians
- Story is rushed and pretty shitty
- Acting is rough
- Weak action sequences
- not enough bad people being bad

4/10

Probably would only watch it again as my commercial break flip to during sports games.

[Great Rumbler]

In any case, Innocence is still better than Arise 

and this is why I'm never gonna bother watching Arise!

Arise is way better than those first two GITS movies.  Crack-smoking going on in this thread.

[toku]

[Madrun Badrun]

GAAAAAAAAAAY

[Phoenix Dark]

That looks really good. Great cast.

[Bebpo]

10 Cloverfield Lane was good.

Yup, though it's more of a great intense thriller than horror.  Wouldn't really call it a horror movie, but I'd put it over everything else listed below besides Green Room.

I'd have to watch it again, though I loved Don't Breathe... I think I liked Hush more.

I thought Hush was kind of boring honestly.  Probably because it wasn't really a scary movie.  Hoping Don't Breathe is better than Light's Out, which was good but not great.  2016 needs a great horror film. 

This is by the guy who did the Evil Dead remake?  I thought that was really solid so it gives me some hope along with the good reviews.

Yeah its VERY different from Evil Dead.

Also, The Witch came out in Feb, so... there's a good horror movie in 2016.

Also, The Green Room.

Also, The Blair Witch is coming out.

I'll give you Green Room.  Keep forgetting it came out this year.  That was top-notch.  Witch was good, but like Light's Out, it wasn't great imo.  I feel like The Witch only got really entertaining in the last 30 minutes or so and had some good scenes prior, but just wasn't that interesting for a lot of it (and they kind of mumble their lines a lot which annoyed me).  Hopefully Blair Witch is good and looking forward to Don't Scream.  I thought The Invitation was just ok since the reveal was kind of uninteresting and the build up was far more interesting. 

I think we can all agree that the "best horror movie in years" is a dum fallacy as there's usually a couple of good ones a year.

abso-frigging-lutely.

There's quality out there, just as it is with every genre, sometimes you have to look a little harder to find it (international or indie).

Kinda.  While horror films have improved in mass over the last decade, I still feel there's really only like 1 great horror film a year where you walk out and go "holy shit that was awesome".  There's definitely a lot more good/passable horror films these days that are worth matinee and 90 mins time, but we haven't quite hit the award winning horror film era yet.  I do think we're getting there though.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

well yeah, 'great' movies in any genre are rare. That's what in part makes them great, because they stand way the hell out.

speaking of great. I caught The Bridge on the River Kwai today in my monthly 'last day of Netflix binge before movies get delisted' ritual. And I really liked it. Holy shit was Alec Guinness awesome as hell in that, being a personified British Stiff Upper Lip. There seemed like a lot of digressions with minor and less compelling characters, but then they all collide together in a very gripping last act. Great damn movie.

[Mupepe]

The Witch was the "Holy shit, that was awesome" horror movie for me this year.

[Bebpo]

Watched Creep with Mark Duplass on Netflix.  Eh, was ok.  Kinda predictable and a slow burn, but clever in how it probably cost $5 to make and does a good job making you feel uncomfortable.


Running out of horror films to see at home.  Stuff I haven't seen yet from the last few years is Spring, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Unfriended, Stake Land, but none of them really are grabbing me.  I'll watch a Girl Walks Home at some point, but from what I understand it's more a stylish nod to cinema than a horror film, so haven't gotten around to watching it when in the mood for horror.  I wish there was some good lovecraft-esque movies out there.  Not like fish people ones, but the elder gods type stuff.  Cabin the Woods & Monsters I guess are the closest in the last decade.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

Most modern day Westerns don't actually take place in the West proper. They've got Western story themes, but they dance around the genre that they're a part of. Hell or High Water is an unapologetic, capital 'W' Western. But since its also a contemporary movie it also gets to make some points about the state of the West (or at least some particular dusky parts of Oklahoma and Texas) as it is today. In between the copious cowboy hats and well tuned small town atmosphere, there's a pretty good adult film that's not at all square, with pleasurably colorful dialog and characters. I liked it a lot.

[Madrun Badrun]

no

[Bebpo]

I'm not even a big marvel movie fan, but Winter Soldier & Civil War were both great.  I'd like to say the Russo Brothers are overrated blahblahblah because I love nitpicking and hate hype trains, but nah, those two movies are great action flicks with real good action direction and tight pacing, good lines.

[Madrun Badrun]

I never hoped that a middle eastern dictator would shut down the internet to stop dissenting opinions online till now.   

[Bebpo]

Winter Soldier is great but I never really liked the story in it. Basically felt like a generic 90's political thriller in that aspect. The action and dope shit that was going is what made it for me.

Yeah, I wouldn't hold up either of the Russo films for their stories.  To me they're Marvel's take on Bourne movies.  Just good action flicks and that's better than what 90% of comic movies are, so I'll take it.

[Tasty]

Civil War was great, and in the top 5 MCU movies for sure (with IM1, GotG, Avengers, and TWS.) If you got yourself overhyped for Spidey and Black Panther that's your own damn fault. I thought they were both great additions and the Peter/May/Tony scene was the tits.

I thought it went darker and deeper than any previous Marvel movie and that sold me on its length. The payoff in the bunker is excellent and you can really feel the emotions of all three characters very clearly.

Airport battle is possibly my favorite superhero battle scene ever. Every character except Vision is used to great effect.

[Tasty]

American Ultra

I enjoyed this one. The action was surprisingly good and I actually liked Esienberg and Stewart way more than I thought I would. The movie leans pretty heavily on ripping off the Bourne series but it worked for me. Eisenberg plays the normal schlub better than Matt Damon, but that does make it harder to buy him as a super agent I suppose.

I loved the Pamela Landy expy. Seeing her in action bumped up my enjoyment a bit too. Tony Hale was wasted. Topher Grace was hamming it up pretty well.

Weird color scheme and cinematography overall, aside from the action which was brutal.

Was hoping for a better sequel based on the semi-cliche final scene but it barely made its budget back.

Worst part was the opening recap which literally shows frames from EVERY scene before the movie even starts. What the fuck? The Director's Cut should just be removing that dumb as fuck scene and it'd be significantly better.

3 / 5

[Momo]

Killing Slazar + Kickboxer 2016

I admit I watched both for GSP, utter nonsense movies. I went into them expecting stupid 80s cheese and horrible acting performances and I was rewarded with just that. I can see myself re-watching this junk again drunk/high. GSP is super bad as an actor, I was not impressed by his performance   

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[chronovore]

American Ultra

I enjoyed this one. The action was surprisingly good and I actually liked Esienberg and Stewart way more than I thought I would. The movie leans pretty heavily on ripping off the Bourne series but it worked for me. Eisenberg plays the normal schlub better than Matt Damon, but that does make it harder to buy him as a super agent I suppose.

I loved the Pamela Landy expy. Seeing her in action bumped up my enjoyment a bit too. Tony Hale was wasted. Topher Grace was hamming it up pretty well.

Weird color scheme and cinematography overall, aside from the action which was brutal.

Was hoping for a better sequel based on the semi-cliche final scene but it barely made its budget back.

Worst part was the opening recap which literally shows frames from EVERY scene before the movie even starts. What the fuck? The Director's Cut should just be removing that dumb as fuck scene and it'd be significantly better.

3 / 5

This was nearly exactly my reaction as well. I like Eisenberg okay. I have a Stewart aversion. Even so, I liked both of them very much in this. Turned me around on Stewart a little. Topher Grace was excellent. Plenty of action, and it was impactful, and fun. Not sure if I'll watch it again, but I liked it.

[Bebpo]

Don't Breathe was good.  Another quality thriller by Fede Alvarez after the Evil Dead remake.  I liked Don't Breathe for a couple of reasons, one is that outside an initial dog bark, there are no fake out jump scares the entire movie.  Respect that.  Another is the movie is FUN and feels throwback to the genre with an initial camera swooping overview of the entire house that the cat & mouse will take place in and all the weapons & tools that we be available.  Again, tastefully and respectfully done.  Third reason I like it is that's it's surprisingly not scary at all because there's no supernatural monsters, no masked killers, and at the start of the movie you're basically siding with old blind guy so you're kind of taking a middle ground where there's no good guys you're worried for.  As the movie goes on the film gives reasons to not side with old blind guy, but the main characters are pretty much total shits so it's an interesting take where you're just kind of watching this intense cat & mouse thriller going on without any stake in any of the characters. 

Another thing I dug was how they made 3 people vs. a blind guy a fair fight without being too unrealistic.  Because even if the dude is an army vet, the premise is pretty unbelievable that these kids could be on the defense vs. a blind guy.  But it works because the difference is that the kids are still human and even when they have the advantage they always take half-measures whereas blind dude is not give a fuck hardened guy who only plays by full measures.  For the most part it works and there's enough back and forth between offense & defense and some twists and surprises that it's very entertaining for the run time.

But then there's that one reaaaaaally gross part.  Yikes.   

Still, good movie.  Much better than Light's Out and second favorite horror film this year after Green Room.  Oh and I should add I generally am not a big fan of home invasion movies, but I liked this one because it kinda of mixed up the concept.  Probably my favorite home invasion movie since Funny Games.


Also totally do not want Stephen Lang to play Cable after this movie.  Dude is way too scary serious for Cable.

[Bebpo]

So I'm reading some of the reviews and people are talking about how scary it is and how you're rooting for the main characters to survive.  Like I get that after the 2nd half, but for the first half but in the first half I was totally ok with old man logan killing these characters.  I mean:

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They break into old blind man's home, try to gas him, pull a fucking gun to his face and fire a shot and then steal all of his life savings.  Like, I've got zero sympathy for the first half of the movie where old blind man defends himself by trying to kill these fucks.  Maybe it's just because I'm getting old and cranky, but until they pull the "he's kidnapped the person who killed his daughter and got away with it" I wasn't really rooting for the leads.  Especially the main girl who pretty much goads and is using security dad's son to break into houses and make money off him, and then they decide rather than call the police/kill him they'd rather steal all old man's money so they leave him alone which ends ups killing the sorta-decent kid.  Yeah, very little sympathy for main characters  here.  Otoh after the basement reveal old man gets really creepy gross so basically was rooting in the 2nd half for them to get away just to avoid gross raping.    Still the main kids did a lot of dumb stuff, but dumbest thing they did was not finish the job after knocking old man raper out.

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[Tasty]

why wrath is wrong: a story in gif form

[VomKriege]

Watched Ratatouille last night. It's a perfectly fine film but I was slightly bored all throughout. A little too edifying maybe for my taste and treading in too familiar places. CGI does also age, even with the stylisation. The missus liked it.

[Tasty]

Watched Ratatouille last night. It's a perfectly fine film but I was slightly bored all throughout. A little too edifying maybe for my taste and treading in too familiar places. CGI does also age, even with the stylisation. The missus liked it.

It's one of my top 3 fave Pixar movies.

[toku]

[chronovore]

Looks hot has fuck. Also, women-in-glasses are a thing. I'm not sure that curly-haired one is actually all that magical with knives. Or at least not that knife. #notallknifewielders Action looks freaking intense.

[Madrun Badrun]

Damn I could go see that on the 16th.  Toronto 

[toku]

[Tasty]

So much Boston in the last day.

[Madrun Badrun]

Blood Father was good.  I really like Mel Gibson, even if he hates Jews. 

[bork]

Decided to torture myself this past weekend and watched the last three Resident Evil movies.  I never bothered watching them after 2004's Apocalypse.  Extinction, Afterlife, and Retribution all kind of bled together and I felt like I was watching the same movie over and over again.  Every movie had the same plot- Umbrella is evil and is doing shit in "secret" underground labs while the outside world is overrun with zombie hordes.  There's survivors.  Here comes Alice to wreck shit and take down the lab.  The main bad guy gets away.  Rinse and repeat.  Alice also being a one-woman army also makes most of the RE game characters' roles in these movies pretty much pointless.  None of them really do anything except for Jill, who is the villain in the last movie (because of the whole mind-controlling-chest-thing from RE5).  Ada Wong and Leon also pop in the last movie and are both sort of...there.  And there's also clones.  Lots and lots of clones.  Very cheesy way to bring back dead characters.  There's one more of these stinkers left, The Final Chapter, due out next year.  No more, please.

[VomKriege]

They're just vehicles for Milla Jolovich, really. I did kinda like Extinction for how ridiculous it pushes it, with the whole clone dump and all, it's like a fetish film (she's also very visibly "lifted" in post production, a bit of the uncanny valley effect... with a real actress).

The first half of the first film is a decent approximation of a film faithful to the old RE. That's about it.

[Joe Molotov]

I've started doing some October Horror Marathon pregaming.

Howling 2: Your Sister is a Werewolf
Starring Reb Brown (Yor, Hunter From the Future; Space Mutiny) and a miserable looking Christopher Lee, this movie is hilarious and bad. The on-the-nose subtitle is this movie's sole connection to the original movie (Reb Brown plays the brother of the woman from the original movie that becomes a werewolf). Christopher Lee is a werewolf hunter that appears at her funeral to convince Reb to come to Translyvania to fite worrwolves. Reb is unconvinced until he sees his sister bust out of the coffin in wolf-mode. A co-worker of his sister comes with him to Translyvania and they immediately start banging (Chunk Drywall's manliness too stronk).

Once in Translyvania, Christopher Lee introduces them to his army of doughy, white priests that are going to defeat the werewolves. His masterplan is to wait until they get attacked and then do something. Reb Brown and a midget with a switchblade go wandering around in the woods looking for the werewolf castle, which they easily find, even though Christopher Lee couldn't. Reb's new girlfriend gets kidnapped, and the Werewolf Queen Stirba sends a challenge to Christopher Lee to come to her castle and rumble. While she's waiting, she hosts a werewolf orgy, in which the director makes the unfortunate rookie mistake of having werewolves banging in missionary position. 

The furfest comes(heh) to an end, as Christopher Lee and his crew show up. All the doughy priests are immediately killed, but manage to take out most of the werewolves their sweet titanium weaponry. (Oh yes, these Super Worrwolves can't be killed by silver, only titanium.) Christopher Lee confronts Stirba, who turns out to be his sister, and they engage in mental combat. Stirba attempts to seduce him () but ultimately he kills her and they both explode into flames for reasons. Reb grabs his gf from the werewolf sex dungeon and then peaces the fuck out immediately, leaving flaming Christopher Lee to his fate. I mean, he didn't even check to see if Christopher Lee was okay. The movie implied that he immediately jumped in his car, drove to the airport, and hopped a plane back to Vaguely American City while still covered in werewolf blood. Kind of dick move, tbh.

Oh, and the end credits feature clips from the movie, including a clip where the main villianess rips her dress off ~20 times. They were proud of that scene.

[VomKriege]

You forgot to mention the end credits. Don't they re-use half a dozen times a shot of Queen Stirba going topless with her massive jugs ? 
Also the film has another, as dumb, title "Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch", an homage to Ilsa She Wolf of the SS maybe ?

Overall you get the impression the makers went all in on doing a straight exploitative, borderline parody (C.Lee doing into a nightclub with gaudy modern sunglasses is surely intentional). But a poor effort played for laughs is still poor. It's just a stupid, crass and cheap (that eastern european town set is... mediocre, IIRC) movie that is trying way too hard to be hip.

The Howling sequels are a special kind of bad, the third episode tried an ever more distinguished mentally-challenged gimmick with Were-Marsupials. Less titties and orgies than the second but might be a treat if you like terrible movies.

The fourth one, which I am certain I have seen but can't remember any of it, tries to go back to basics (A horror novel writer suffers a mental breakdown, goes to isolated house in a rural area etc...) but is just a bore from beginning to end. I suspect werewolves are not that deep of a subject matter to begin with, even Terence Fisher sorta fumbled it with The Curse of the Werewolf (Watch it nonetheless, O.Reed makes for a great character and it's beautifully shot as always). The original Howling itself is "only" good IMHO.

I thought Late Phases, about a blind war vet moving in a neighboorhood plagued by mysterious attacks, was a decent & recent homage to the 80's classics. It's flawed, a bit by the numbers and would have benefitted from a bigger budget but it has more purpose than any of those horrible Howling sequels.

[Joe Molotov]

Vampyres
This is a lesbian vampire movie. They have sex with guys too, but let's not split hairs. The plot of this movie might generously be called hallucinatory, or you might more bluntly say that it doesn't make a damn bit of sense. Fran and Miriam are the title vampires (vampyres) and they die in the opening scene. Then they're alive again. Did they die and come back to life as vampires? Where they already vampires before they died? Are they vampire ghosts now? Unclear. Their modus operandi is to go hang out on the side of the road near their large gothic castle (actually a Hammer set) get guys to pick them up, then bring the guys back to their castle and suck them dry (double entendre!). Then they put the dudes back in their cars and make the cars wreck on the side of the road (how they do this is never shown/explained) making the cops think it was an auto accident.

Fran brings a guy back to the castle and decides not to kill him, which makes Miriam mad. Fran leaves him in her bedroom during the day while they go to...hang out in the cemetery during the day? I guess? Except for one time when Miriam seems disturbed that the sun is coming out, so she grabs Fran and they go and sleep in the wine cellar. I'm not sure what rules apply to these vampyres. Again, it's unclear. A man and woman on vacation show up in a camper and decide to camp basically in the front lawn of the castle. These people just hang out and watch the goings-on at the castle and do nothing else. In one scene, Fran and Miriam confronts the woman outside the castle and says "I knew I'd find you eventually. We know you by your mark" and points at her forehead and then walks away. No explanation for this scene is ever given.

Fran's boytoy eventually figures out that the two women aren't just nice young ladies that want to do him all the time, and that something nefarious might be occurring so he finally decides to leave, but he's weakened from the blood loss. He stumbles into the vacationer's camper, where they tend to him, but are attacked by the vampire ladies. The vampires tear the man to pieces and then grab his wife (the one they made the cryptic remark to earlier) and drag her down to the wine cellar, and then slit her throat with a dagger in a ritualistic fashion. The wounded man stumbles to his car and tries to drive away, but faints at the wheel. Miriam says they need to kill him, but Fran says it's too late and they need to leave now. They run away from the house and back towards the cemetery.

The next morning, the guy gets awoken by a real estate salesman saying that he's on private property and he needs to leave before he calls the cops. The salesman is showing off the castle to an elderly American couple, and telling them that the castle is super cheap because two young women were killed there years earlier. DUN DUN DUN

[Joe Molotov]

You forgot to mention the end credits. Don't they re-use half a dozen times a shot of Queen Stirba going topless with her massive jugs ? 

Yeah, sorry. Updated my post.

[VomKriege]

Good evening sir, may I interest you in some Jean Rollin's films ?

[Joe Molotov]

My friend is a big Jean Rollins fan, so I've seen a few (Fascination is the main one I remember watching) Vampyres is definitely in that same vein.

[VomKriege]

My friend is a big Jean Rollins fan, so I've seen a few (Fascination is the main one I remember watching) Vampyres is definitely in that same vein.

Never cared for Rollin much to be honest, his style of bis cinéma is not my cup of tea. It always looked to be fairly close in tone with Jésus Franco and the trends in horror films from Spain.

[Joe Molotov]

Back to The Howling though, I was surprised to see they actually made EIGHT of these things. I knew there was several sequels, but wow. At least with most over-long horror franchises there's an iconic villain they can hang some sequels on, but with The Howling, it's just like "well, there's werewolves, you see..."

[VomKriege]

8 is pretty extreme for the level of quality, even by the standards of horror movies in that day, yeah. They must have been really cheap to make (6 entries in 10 years !) and in fact my recollection is that they didn't really bother with having good, expensive, transformations.

[Joe Molotov]

The transformations were pretty bad in 2 and I assume they only got worse/cheaper from there on. I'd forgive a lot of things in werewolf movie if it at least had a badass transformation scene. American Werewolf in London is still the best imo, but that movie was just great all around.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

The Howling might have been the very first franchise to ever degrade to direct to video status (didn't happen until part 4), and even the crappier ones were cable TV staples back in the day. I guess the rights holders did just fine with them.

[benjipwns]

 

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[Joe Molotov]

Is Kate Backinsale still in skin-tight black leather? Guess I'll watch, then.

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Nah, I'll probably just rewatch the first one.

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[Joe Molotov]

Okay, one more for now:

The Mutilator
This was a low-budget, low-talent movie that somehow works if for no other reason than just the incongruity of it's upbeat opening with how nasty it gets later. The happy opening before everything goes bad is a pretty well-worn horror trope, but this movie really goes all out. The first thirty minutes of this movie seems to be going for Porky's before swerving into Halloween territory. Even the title is a nod to that, with the original title being the innocuous "Fall Break" before being changed by the distributors to "The Mutilator" because it would put more butts in seats. Just give this theme song a listen:



Actually, the very first scene is pretty dark, with a young boy accidentally shooting his mother while trying to clean his dad's guns as a birthday surprise for his dad. His dad comes home, sees the dead body of his wife, and just wordlessly collapses on the couch and starts chugging the nearest bottle of liquor. The movie flashes forward, and now the kid is a happy-go-lucky college student, hanging out with his friends at the local establishment. He gets a phone call from his dad asking him to shut down his beach house for the season, and his friends gossip/infodump behind his back that his father became an alcoholic after the shooting and the two have become estranged for several years. Ed doesn't want to go to his dad's cabin, but his friends tell him it'll be a fun time to go get drunk, so he finally agrees.

For the next 30 minutes or so, there's a lot of goofy sex jokes and just general horsing around the cabin while, unknown to them, the dad is sleeping off a bender down in the garage. Eventually he rouses himself from his stupor and decides to kill his son and the others because he's all messed up inside. The kills are pretty brutal, except for one drowning (which was supposed to be a harpooning, but the SFX crew couldn't get the rig to work right). One chick gets a meat hook through the vagina and out through her guts. No punches pulled here. Eventually everyone dies except Ed and his virginal girlfriend, who run over Ed's dad and back him into a brick wall, cutting him in half. The cops show up and start inspecting the body,  then the top half of Daddy Ed jumps back to life and cuts a cop's foot off while laughing maniacally. It was quite an ending.

[Joe Molotov]

From Beyond (1986)
A juicy, body-horror morsel from Stuart Gordon, a director I have quite a bit of fondness for. Mostly for his Lovecraft adaptations, but I still like Robot Jox too, dammit! From Beyond reminds me of the first two Hellraiser where you have this hedonist doctor who believes he has experienced all this world has to offer, so he seeks out pleasures beyond human comprehension and ends up in a world where lines between pleasure and pain become irrelevant and only obtaining the ultimate sensation matters. In this case, it involves using his invention The Resonator to stimulate the pineal gland in humans, unlocking a 6th sense. This lets them perceive another, parallel plane of existence, but it also lets the creatures that live in that plane to see them.

The creature effects in this movie were great. Alan Moore even ripped them off for the issue of Providence that dealt with the characters in From Beyond (they look very similar). The gore effects were messy and over the top. People get melted, people get transformed, people get their brains sucked out through their eye sockets, there's tentacles, there's Barbara Crampton in fetish wear. Wew, lads. The final climactic battle has two people merged into one body, tearing themselves apart. Solid movie. I would give it an A-, but then I remembered the scene where Jeffery Combs is like "It ate him. Bit. Off his head. Like a. Gingerbread man!", and then I gotta go A+.

(watch the end)

[VomKriege]

Robot Jox rules and has a bit of an unfair reputation, i think. From Beyond is worth the ticket too.

[chronovore]

If you'd like to get a picture of how old I am, I saw each of those movies in theaters during their initial theatrical run. I loved all of them except Robot Jox, which I now appreciate with a more mature understanding of intentional cheesiness. Reanimator is gold. From Beyond is just about as weird and awesome as it gets.

[bork]

In any case, Innocence is still better than Arise 

and this is why I'm never gonna bother watching Arise!

Arise is way better than those first two GITS movies.  Crack-smoking going on in this thread.

I literally fell asleep watching the first GITS movie.  They took the original story, stripped out a lot of it to make it fit the film's runtime, and also took out all the humor and character personality.  Boring shit.

[Joe Molotov]

Re-Animator (1985)
I hadn't seen this movie in a long time, and I'd forgotten how good it is. This is my ideal type of horror film. Although I appreciate well done gore fx, I'm not really much of a gorehound. My perfect horror film is a little blood and a lot of humor, like Re-Animator or Evil Dead 2 or Dead Alive. Modern horror movies sometimes focus to much on the shock and the terror, but what about the sense of fun? Where's the charm? Horror movies don't need to be so joyless. Re-Animator is everything that gives me life.