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Is that the one that was supposed to have different outcomes like a choose your own adventure book? I remember buying the dvd for that (I think) and it was supposed to have it but didn’t.
Essential The Official Coli Horror Film Thread: Discussion, Recommendations And Murder.
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Yeah....that's staying with you for a few days....it's graphically disturbing. question, when he was with that abomination in the water....and he got behind it to turn it - that walrus thing. Did he ummm....rape the walrus???? I saw some movement but I was still in shock over that thing he created.Wife and I watched Tusk this past weekend, and it's BY FAR one of the most disturbing movies I've ever seen in my life
Interesting watch if anyone is interested..Halloween
Great movie
Good question
It's really hard to know, anytime that walrus suit is in the scene and dude is screeching it steals it. It's hard to pay attention to anything else.
You can tell me in the background there's a clown on a unicycle juggling DVDs of In Living Color and I would still have missed it
Heard the new halloween stinks
Theres one scene that just stupid
Theres one scene that just stupid
cheesiest b-horror movie moment, came across Troll 2 the other day-
"they're about to eat me, ohhhh my goooodddd"
"they're about to eat me, ohhhh my goooodddd"
I posted this in the Halloween thread but upon further reflection I think it could be a good discussion here.
Jason Blum did an interview with Polygon about Halloween and his answers to the lack of women making horror films at Blumhouse has gotten him in a bit of deep water:
So what do you guys think? Did Blum put his foot in his mouth?
And who are some women horror directors, or even women who haven't done horror yet but would be good at it, that you can think of?
I honestly think that Blum might have been shooting too high in his search by focusing on Jennifer Kent since she has become a bit of a critical darling after The Babadook and seems to have her sights set on more prestigious fare than a sequel to Annabelle. And in the case of Leigh Janiak, she is likely doing The Craft remake for Sony so she has already "made it" so to speak. But there are some good women directors out there who haven't gotten their big break yet who would be cool additions to Blumhuse's talent roster.
I'm gonna put together a list real quick and post it in a bit.
Jason Blum did an interview with Polygon about Halloween and his answers to the lack of women making horror films at Blumhouse has gotten him in a bit of deep water:
So what do you guys think? Did Blum put his foot in his mouth?
And who are some women horror directors, or even women who haven't done horror yet but would be good at it, that you can think of?
I honestly think that Blum might have been shooting too high in his search by focusing on Jennifer Kent since she has become a bit of a critical darling after The Babadook and seems to have her sights set on more prestigious fare than a sequel to Annabelle. And in the case of Leigh Janiak, she is likely doing The Craft remake for Sony so she has already "made it" so to speak. But there are some good women directors out there who haven't gotten their big break yet who would be cool additions to Blumhuse's talent roster.
I'm gonna put together a list real quick and post it in a bit.
I think he misspoke and he already apologized for it. Vulture already put the list together too lol. There are plenty of directors he could reach out to, even if they don’t have a history of horror. Look at David Gordon green. No history in horror but is directing possibly the biggest horror flick of the year.
He’s got a large pool he could pick from.
He’s got a large pool he could pick from.
LOL. I had no idea what I was about to get into with that movie. The beginning was fine, started off normal horror movie trope- man ventures out to small town to meet with unknown stranger for an assignment. The convenience store scene was funny... I'm thinking, this must be horror-com. Fast forward to the scene where they're talking in the old man's house. The old man starts talking about how a walrus saved his life. In the back of my head, I'm like this guy must really like walruses (it weird, and mad random but that's his thing.. fine, I guess)..Good question
It's really hard to know, anytime that walrus suit is in the scene and dude is screeching it steals it. It's hard to pay attention to anything else.
You can tell me in the background there's a clown on a unicycle juggling DVDs of In Living Color and I would still have missed it
Then the other man drinks the laced coffee and passes out (I knew something was up when he offered him a cup but.. ok, I can deal with that- he's about to get misery'ed... )... Next scene where he's in the wheelchair with only one leg.. after that scene- whole program took an unexpected hard left... I'm like hold up... whyyyyyyy, wait... whuttttttt
. I said to myself, I'm not watching this ish, toooo much, but I couldn't. stop. watching. that was straight up trauma.
LOL. I had no idea what I was about to get into with that movie. The beginning was fine, started off normal horror movie trope- man ventures out to small town to meet with unknown stranger for an assignment. The convenience store scene was funny... I'm thinking, this must be horror-com. Fast forward to the scene where they're talking in the old man's house. The old man starts talking about how a walrus saved his life. In the back of my head, I'm like this guy must really like walruses (it weird, and mad random but that's his thing.. fine, I guess)..
Then the other man drinks the laced coffee and passes out (I knew something was up when he offered him a cup but.. ok, I can deal with that- he's about to get misery'ed... )... Next scene where he's in the wheelchair with only one leg.. after that scene- whole program took an unexpected hard left... I'm like hold up... whyyyyyyy, wait... whuttttttt
The most surprising thing we found out was that JOHNNY fukkING DEPP was in that movie
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Never found anything but the AMC's tonight are showing them from abour 7 PM on, I'm trying to figure out what's the best time to avoid the teen crowd but still get a good full theater.
I'm gonna check out that Vulture list.
Here is a quick 5 I came up with:
The Soska Sisters
Also known as The Twisted Twins, Jen and Sylvian Soska are Canadian actors and filmmakers who tend to play in the horror realm more than anything else. They are more populist in their brand of horror and make violent bloody style horror movies.
Past Work: AMERICAN MARY; SEE NO EVIL 2; ABC'S OF DEATH 2 ("T is for Torture Porn" segment)
Karen Moncrieff
Not a "horror director" per se but Moncrieff has shown an ability to handle subject matter that is intense and dark, sometimes veering on the edges of the macabre. She also has directed a film for Blumhouse already which means Jason Blum already has her contact info.
Past Work: BLUE CAR; THE DEAD GIRL; THE KEEPING HOURS; THE GIRL IN THE BATHTUB
Lexi Alexander
After doing the criminally underrated Punisher: War Zone feature film, Alexander seems to have been relegated to episodic TV work which is a shame because she has shown an ability to convey visceral action onscreen and I would love to see what she could do with some stright up horror material.
Past Work: GREEN STREET HOOLIGANS; PUNISHER: WAR ZONE; episodes of ARROW/SUPERGIRL/HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER
Roxanne Benjamin
Benjamin doesn't have a lot of credits so far but her two biggest credits are parts of horror anthology films (the all women directed XX and Southbound) and I felt her segments were the most fun segments in both of those films.
Past Work: XX ("Don't Fall" segment); SOUTHBOUND ("Siren" segment)
Axelle Carolyn
Carolyn directed one of the better segments in the horror anthology, Tales of Halloween and then hasn't really done much since. Maybe she's waiting on her "big break"or something but it would be a shame for her directing voice to have ended with the promise of that Tales of Halloween segment.
Past Work: SOULMATE; TALES OF HALLOWEEN ("Grim Grinning Ghost" segment)
I need to read more about this; But I can relate to the fact that the horror is not a "traditional" woman's genre of interest creating certain roadblocks into this particular field. I don't think it's Blum's intent or purposely avoided working with female directors. Lack of numbers as far as woman's representation in that field anyway.
Other than one of my close friends, who only watches horror movies with because she knows that I like them, we don't know of any other females like us that that have a real interest and appreciation for it. I actually used to write short horror/thriller stories when I was younger sort of like the 'creepypastas' that have been around; and show them to my friends. But I started holding back bc people always responded with 'a girl wrote this??' look on their face or always questioning why I like horror movies, or why do I write such morbid stories. Its like feeling defeated before you even start, get tired of that type of feedback. That being said, I don't think it's necessarily Blum's fault for the lack of female horror directors; I think people have preconceived notions, so a lot of the female voices in the industry get silenced before they start, for the same reasons. Other than the 'scream queens' roles - This might be my own ignorance, but I didn't know of that many female-led director horror movies; aside from a few indie films, but I still couldn't state their names or movies they directed right off the top of my head. Blumhouse and Gravitas Ventures seem to be the main distributors and producers of horror films rn. The majority of the public who don't regularly watch horror are only going to know about the mass-marketed movies. In general, I think horror movies are of interest to a small segment of people anyway, even lower if we limit it to female watchers. If I don't like a particular horror movie, then it's not likely that I will seek out info on the director- for example- I didn't like The Babadook- anyone involved in that is a passing thought to me. Honeymoon was barely memorable imo.