It's all "Survival horror" now.slave2moonlight wrote:Also, I got the new horror film, Trick or Treat, on Blu-Ray, and I watched it with my friends. We all thought it was great! More my style than most slasher stuff, which is the bulk of horror these days it seems.
I like Trick r Treat's advertising campaign, but nothing else about it looks that great. Maybe I'll check it out later...
Ah, yes, that was the phrase I was looking for when I said slasher stuff. I can appreciate survival horror (I mean, I love zombie films), but it is really usually more action than horror, especially when it's not zombies (though now that zombies are usually fast and all, they're not usually that creepy either, just deadly). Anyway, for me, Trick r' Treat was something I'd been waiting a long time for. It was a Halloween horror movie that was about the holiday itself more than about some other horrible event that just happened to take place on Halloween, like a Michael Myers murder spree. I love anthology type horror films too. This one tells multiple stories like that, though it weaves them together like Pulp Fiction. It only lacked a good Halloween witch story. I have always wanted to see a horror film take on the old concept of a Wizard of Oz looking witch who lives in the creepy house on the block and steals children or whatever, rides a broom and all that. Hocus Pocus did it well with comedy, but I want to see a real horror film do it. Best stuff I've seen in that vein has been on Tales from the Darkside (or Monsters, I forget which), and it's still not exactly what I have in mind.Lazario wrote:It's all "Survival horror" now.slave2moonlight wrote:Also, I got the new horror film, Trick or Treat, on Blu-Ray, and I watched it with my friends. We all thought it was great! More my style than most slasher stuff, which is the bulk of horror these days it seems.
I've heard several other people go quite mad for Tales from the Darkside. I never even heard of it before a few years ago, as a television series. I assume that's what you were referring to. And even afterward, it's all faded into the background. What, did it air on Network television?slave2moonlight wrote:Ah, yes, that was the phrase I was looking for when I said slasher stuff. I can appreciate survival horror (I mean, I love zombie films), but it is really usually more action than horror, especially when it's not zombies (though now that zombies are usually fast and all, they're not usually that creepy either, just deadly). Anyway, for me, Trick r' Treat was something I'd been waiting a long time for. It was a Halloween horror movie that was about the holiday itself more than about some other horrible event that just happened to take place on Halloween, like a Michael Myers murder spree. I love anthology type horror films too. This one tells multiple stories like that, though it weaves them together like Pulp Fiction. It only lacked a good Halloween witch story. I have always wanted to see a horror film take on the old concept of a Wizard of Oz looking witch who lives in the creepy house on the block and steals children or whatever, rides a broom and all that. Hocus Pocus did it well with comedy, but I want to see a real horror film do it. Best stuff I've seen in that vein has been on Tales from the Darkside (or Monsters, I forget which), and it's still not exactly what I have in mind.Lazario wrote: It's all "Survival horror" now.
) are not scary. Though there is one exception. Just that one 45-minute episode of Fear Itself, "Skin & Bones." Too bad it wasn't released separately on DVD. A whole host of Wolf Creek's, Splinter's, and Hostel's aren't able to match that level of thorough character-oriented intensity, quality frightful storytelling, and honest nasty shock. If that thing were feature-length, it would be this decade's... well, actually- we have Ginger Snaps. But it could be right up there with the classics of decades previous. Larry Fessenden is definitely this decade's best horror director.
You make it sound like you just got here... but you've been a member since 2006.Tomorrowland Man wrote:I think I'm going to love this forum!
Yes, that IS exceptionally cheap for a Blu-ray here in Australia. Other stores like Target and Kmart have the "Snow White" combo priced between $37-$42, so I hot-footed it over to Big W when I saw the advertised price in this week's catalogue! This bodes really well for the lowering of new release Blu-ray prices here in Oz.bern1992 wrote:Yesterday from Big W I got....
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Diamond Edition Blu-ray + DVD - $28.98 (which is really cheap for a Blu-ray in Australia, let alone a new release).
The catalogue wasn't meant to begin until Thursday, but I bought it on Wednesday and still got it for the catalogue price. On the Wednesday, the DVD price was actually the same as the Blu-ray price, so that was a little bit exciting. There's also meant to be a bonus pillowcase, but I could only see the pillowcase with the DVD.Cordy_Biddle wrote:Yes, that IS exceptionally cheap for a Blu-ray here in Australia. Other stores like Target and Kmart have the "Snow White" combo priced between $37-$42, so I hot-footed it over to Big W when I saw the advertised price in this week's catalogue! This bodes really well for the lowering of new release Blu-ray prices here in Oz.bern1992 wrote:Yesterday from Big W I got....
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Diamond Edition Blu-ray + DVD - $28.98 (which is really cheap for a Blu-ray in Australia, let alone a new release).
I've been an off and on member in the three years I've been registered here and I've only just started posting more often.xxhplinkxx wrote:You make it sound like you just got here... but you've been a member since 2006.Tomorrowland Man wrote:I think I'm going to love this forum!
Anyway, great purchase on the Little Nemo! Used to watch it all the time as a kid.
