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That popped up as a suggestion on Hulu over the weekend and I binged the first 4 eps. Good show.I think FOX has another one. (Via Hulu) - technology based thriller
Silicon Valley pioneer Paul LeBlanc discovers that one of his own creations -- a powerful A.I. called NEXT -- might spell doom for humankind, so he tries to shutter the project, only to be kicked out of the company by his own brother, leaving him with nothing but mounting dread about the fate of the world. When a series of unsettling tech mishaps points to a potential worldwide crisis, LeBlanc joins forces with Special Agent Shea Salazar, whose strict moral code and sense of duty have earned her the respect of her team. Now, LeBlanc and Salazar are the only ones standing in the way of a potential global catastrophe, fighting an emergent super intelligence that, instead of launching missiles, will deploy the immense knowledge it has gleaned from the data to recruit allies, turn people against each other and eliminate obstacles to its own survival and growth.
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Between this and HELSTROM been on a binge watch
Another week, another Zombie slander
I started watching it tonight - I’m kind of liking the “technological disaster/catastrophe” horror/thriller sub genre
Poetical Poltergeist
Precise and cold hearted
Devils rejects was his best work but those Halloween flicks are some of the worst movies I've ever seen.Yes
Exaggerate much? That RZ version was an interesting take that provided additional details into the Myer’s backstory and the character development. He can’t keep retelling the “babysitter is murdered” trope that are the basis of the original.
Know what? You RZ haters are dismissed -
Poetical Poltergeist
Precise and cold hearted
His white trash take wasExaggerate much? That RZ version was an interesting take that provided additional details into the Myer’s backstory and the character development. He can’t keep retelling the “babysitter is murdered” trope that are the basis of the original.
Know what? You RZ haters are dismissed -
sorry.
Flex Grossman
Funky
You mean to tell me that the embodiment of evil that can kill anyone at any time is scarier than a trailer park kid with an incestuous dad?His white trash take was
Rob Zombie's Halloween: 37 Things You Didn't Know About The Slasher Remake
But love it or loathe, Rob Zombie Halloween--plus its 2009 sequel--are a crucial part of the history of this long-running franchise. As with many of Zombie's movies, the home entertainment releases have been packed with bonus material, including an extensive making-of documentary and director's commentary. We've been back through the behind-the-scenes material to find some of the best, most surprising, and fascinating references, Easter Eggs, and things you didn't know about the film.
But love it or loathe, Rob Zombie Halloween--plus its 2009 sequel--are a crucial part of the history of this long-running franchise. As with many of Zombie's movies, the home entertainment releases have been packed with bonus material, including an extensive making-of documentary and director's commentary. We've been back through the behind-the-scenes material to find some of the best, most surprising, and fascinating references, Easter Eggs, and things you didn't know about the film.
Rethinking Rob Zombie's 'Halloween' Movies | Hollywood Reporter
Zombie's Halloween and its sequel Halloween II (2009) are still contentious films. And I get it. These aren't easy films to love, particularly when compared to the perfection that is John Carpenter and Debra Hill's original. Yet, there's something within Zombie's grungy, trailer park takes on an American classic that's impossible to get clean of. Rob Zombie's Halloween and Halloween II are dirt-under-your-fingernails movies, and while you may not like them, they leave an impression, and that's more than many of the era's remakes have managed to do.
One of the biggest changes to the Halloween mythos that Zombie created was an explanation for Myers' evil. While Carpenter's film presented a blank canvas of pure wickedness — later retconned and given explanation in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) — Zombie gives him humanity, makes him a result of circumstance rather than preternatural inhumanity. Young Michael Myers (Daeg Faerch) grows up amid extremes, raised by foul-mouthed hicks who owe more to Texas Chain Saw Massacre filmmaker Tobe Hooper than to John Carpenter
Zombie's Halloween and its sequel Halloween II (2009) are still contentious films. And I get it. These aren't easy films to love, particularly when compared to the perfection that is John Carpenter and Debra Hill's original. Yet, there's something within Zombie's grungy, trailer park takes on an American classic that's impossible to get clean of. Rob Zombie's Halloween and Halloween II are dirt-under-your-fingernails movies, and while you may not like them, they leave an impression, and that's more than many of the era's remakes have managed to do.
One of the biggest changes to the Halloween mythos that Zombie created was an explanation for Myers' evil. While Carpenter's film presented a blank canvas of pure wickedness — later retconned and given explanation in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) — Zombie gives him humanity, makes him a result of circumstance rather than preternatural inhumanity. Young Michael Myers (Daeg Faerch) grows up amid extremes, raised by foul-mouthed hicks who owe more to Texas Chain Saw Massacre filmmaker Tobe Hooper than to John Carpenter
Remakes are almost always controversial, but perhaps none more than horror remakes. Despite the fact a few of the genre's remakes have gone on to become vital films in the horror catalog — John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) and David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986) chief among them — horror fans are fiercely protective of original films and canon. Rob Zombie's Halloween came during a cycle in horror that was characterized by constant remakes, some with solid reception, but many that both critics and fans found disposable. Emboldened by the success of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), titles like The Amityville Horror (2005), House of Wax (2005), Black Christmas (2006) and The Wicker Man (2006) filled cineplexes. And that's to say nothing of the Asian horror remakes like The Grudge (2004), Dark Water(2005) and Pulse (2006), which offered a steep downturn in quality from The Ring(2002). Yet a number of these remakes, while not reaching the heights of Cronenberg or Carpenter, did offer an execution that lived up to the original property, sometimes exceeded it and added to the conversation. Films like Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead (2004) and Alexandre Aja's The Hills Have Eyes (2006) made duds like The Fog (2005) or The Stepfather (2009) worth sitting through, in the hopes that some filmmaker would be able to make the case that if a remake was not necessary, it was at least worthwhile. Many of these movies were the horror films those in their 20s and 30s were weaned on. Before streaming platforms gave us such broad access to back catalogs, many a millennial horror fan, myself included, experienced these remakes before they had seen the originals, or at least saw them so close to seeing the originals that there was no time gap in which the seed of nostalgia or reservation could grow.
While so many horror remakes in the 21st century feel like a shadow of the original, Zombie managed to create two films that feel fully formed, even if audiences disagree over whether they enjoy the shape they took. Halloween '07 is a remake with a voice of its own and Halloween II '09 is one of the most original films to come out of the slasher movie subgenre, and ended on a note far more interesting than any of the sequels that had come before it. The psychological aspects of horror, the trauma of the final girl, and the thematic through-lines across franchises that have become so key in modern blockbuster horror today in such films as Get Out, A Quiet Place and even David Gordon Green's newest Halloween, were evident in Zombie's films, which was uncommon for slasher movies. As horror fans, we're constantly seeking out the new, and Rob Zombie gave us something new with his Halloween films. Risky, divisive and elevated only by the standards Zombie wished to reach, Halloween and Halloween IIare love letters to horror's broken figures and broken minds. They hurt, they scar, and yet in the end, they are entirely worthwhile exercises in giving new voices to old stories.
cant spin this
While so many horror remakes in the 21st century feel like a shadow of the original, Zombie managed to create two films that feel fully formed, even if audiences disagree over whether they enjoy the shape they took. Halloween '07 is a remake with a voice of its own and Halloween II '09 is one of the most original films to come out of the slasher movie subgenre, and ended on a note far more interesting than any of the sequels that had come before it. The psychological aspects of horror, the trauma of the final girl, and the thematic through-lines across franchises that have become so key in modern blockbuster horror today in such films as Get Out, A Quiet Place and even David Gordon Green's newest Halloween, were evident in Zombie's films, which was uncommon for slasher movies. As horror fans, we're constantly seeking out the new, and Rob Zombie gave us something new with his Halloween films. Risky, divisive and elevated only by the standards Zombie wished to reach, Halloween and Halloween IIare love letters to horror's broken figures and broken minds. They hurt, they scar, and yet in the end, they are entirely worthwhile exercises in giving new voices to old stories.
cant spin this
Poetical Poltergeist
Precise and cold hearted
He went from the shape to the shythole.You mean to tell me that the embodiment of evil that can kill anyone at any time is scarier than a trailer park kid with an incestuous dad?
