Just saw the trailer for The Blue Rose, a movie billed as a "surreal noir" and boy does that description seem fitting! This seems to be just my kind of "weird"; hope it delivers on the promise of the trailer
@JohnnyShoulder Really looking forward to that one! Looks spectacular! I'm not the biggest Eggers fan; I've only seen The Witch (which I felt was perfectly fine, but a bit overrated), but this one looks to be a hand-in-glove fit for me
So following a nostalgia-fuelled chat with @Malaise on another thread, the missus and I are gonna start watching all the John Carpenter movies (well all the good ones anyway). We’re gonna watch one every Saturday night, starting tonight with The Thing. Pretty amped tbh as it’s been around 20-30 years since I’ve watched any of these.
@colonelkilgore Good shout. I was very amused by your "BTiLC" exchange earlier. Such a quotable movie - "you can run off and rule the universe from beyond the grave...or check into a psycho ward,whichever comes first."
@colonelkilgore One of my favourite films there... got it on 4K blu ray. Love the practical effects, love the soundtrack, love how tense it is in some scenes. Hopefully the upcoming remaster of the game, which is an official sequel to the film still holds up today.
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Last night watched In a Violent Nature and it was probably my favourite horror film of the year so far. It changed up the slasher formula by following the antagonist third person over the shoulder style rather than focussing on the group of victims. Some really nice slow paced nature shots of outdoor Canadian countryside and some gruesome deaths.
Recommended 👍
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Yeah The Thing is still great. Amazing how well some of the practical effects still hold up after all these years.
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Good reminder guys. I got the 4k of The Thing for Christmas and I’ve realised I still haven’t checked it out.
Need to stop falling back on the lazy option of going to Netflix and Prime and start watching stuff I haven’t touched from my physical collection.
Just got home from seeing A Quiet Place: Day One and I quite liked it! It doesn't do anything particularly new, but what it does it does well and both Lupita Nyong'o and Joseph Quinn deliver very good performances. The movie has the expected amount of jump scares (a couple very cheap ones as well), but it is also good at building a proper amount of tension at times, so I can forgive the worst offenders in this one (and they are by no means the cheapest jump scares I've seen in the theatre this year).
Anyone have any thoughts on that Hellboy trailer? I love the characters but I’m just not feeling the excitement this time. I was day dreaming the other day about Del Toro doing a sequel but in stop motion animation.
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@AgentCooper It's funny, because I was about to ask the same thing. I'm curious as to what "proper" Hellboy fans think. I actually thought it looked like a potentially cool supernatural horror flick with images of Hellboy spliced in For all I know, this is the kind of tone the comics set, but I really couldn't say.
I loved the first Del Toro movie, didn't care all that much for the second and skipped the new non-Del Toro version completely, so I don't have all that much experience with the character.
And Hellboy looked a bit "off" to me, but that is probably because Perlman inhabited that character so well that it just feels weird when it's someone else
Annual rewatch of "Jaws". Still brilliant. Go backwards and forwards on whether Robert Shaw as Quint or Rutger Hauer as Batty is my favourite movie performance of all time.
@AgentCooper@FuriousMachine I first got into the comics because of Del Toro's movie's. I do really like those movies, but they are nothing like the comics.
The last movie was plagued with lots of stuff behind the scenes and had lots of unfinished looking FX shots. But it was pretty faithful to the comic, just a strange point in HB's life to adapt as it's quite a lengthy story in the comics so squeezing it into one film definitely didn't help.
As for the new one. It's taken from a fantastic story drawn by the excellent Richard Corben. Apart from not having yellow eyes, the design of HB looks great. The sloping shoulders, the coat all look spot on. In the comics big red is never consistently the same colour. Depending on lighting and what his situation is he will be different shades of red, he's even been greys and other dull colours.
This is one of the stories where Hellboy just happens to be thrown into investigate and doesn't really explore his background. It's more of the horror vibe from the comics rather than the fantasy that Del Toro went with for his outings, especially The Golden Army!
@AgentCooper@MightyDemon82 I watched the trailer again just now and I must say I'm liking the full on horror vibes it gives off and hope that's the tone in the movie as well. I'll definitely keep an eye out for this one. Probably won't come to the theatres over here, but here's hoping!
@FuriousMachine The thing is that Hellboy is a quiet comic for the most part. People want a blockbuster but in reality, the lower budget horror dripping in atmosphere is where Hellboy will fit very well. I've been a fan of Hellboy and Mike Mignola's art/ storytelling for 20 years. Always happy to check out adaptations but nothing can beat the comics especially when Mike is behind both the story and the art.
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