Hey, that series scared the piss out of me...when I was 11.

Plus, wasn't that a "new" series for which he was the director? I'm pretty sure the Rose Red book came out afterward and was by a different author.

IT is my favourite novel. IT is my least favourite mini-series.

The best thing about Zelky's posts is that I can trace 80% of them back to Nostalgia Critic, Spoony, or Cinema Snob.

It was written by someone else and it came out before the show. I believe it was also a prequel to the miniseries.

Children of the Corn has the best opening horror theme in my opinion. I usually can be found listening to the extended version.
Also the Re-Animator theme is cool too, best thing about Beyond Re-animator is the intro and opening credits.

I've been trying to watch Rose Red and not fall asleep but all the characters are so unappealing and prototypical cliche. I was interested right up until Louis from American Psycho wearing a fat suit and being an uber lame wad.

I actually watched the original Hellraiser yesterday. It was good though something about the cenobites just randomly running off with anyone who opens the box seemed odd. I thought the idea of S&M taken to a horrific extreme seemed intriguing, but I wish they had emphasized the psychological aspect of that a little more. Frank's corpse slowly bringing himself back to life while Julia's humanity and sensitivity withers was a nice touch. I suppose I'll go ahead and watch the second and see if it's worth continuing.

As for a good Stephen King mini-series my vote goes to Storm of the Century. It's not without it's problems but it's not bad.

I need to watch The Stand all the way through. Loved the book (except the ending).

I keep 'em all in one place for easy reference, too!

...er, I mean, NO! LIES! YOU LIIIEEEEEE

There's a small part of a scene in TGP3 that has always puzzled me. I'm hoping someone on here might be able to elucidate...

Before i get to it can I politely ask that people don't just talk about how much they hate the film, how bad Sofia Coppola was etc etc?

In the scene where the families all meet in Las Vegas, the one where the helicopter attacks them, a curious thing happens at the table. Once the girls are sent away and they all sit down to get down to business, a platter is passed around each Don. On this platter are jewels, gold watches, rings and stuff like that. They all select an item and then pass the platter along. This is all done quite casusally and you'd miss it very easily. I just want to know what this is.

I've read Mario Puzo's novel and don't remember anything like this happening when the families meet. Nor do they have this in the first movie. I've tried searching online for any iideas bout this scene but cn't find anything. Does anyone here have an idea? It's niggled at me for a while.

My friend and I tried to watch The Stand miniseries a few years ago and both of us slept through almost all of it. Insufferably boring movie.

And yeah Storm of the Century is actually good, I still enjoy it!

The dude is so rich he's giving them away as souvenirs? That was the impression I got at least haha.

I watched "Curse of Chucky" today. I'm so glad they injected new life into the franchise as there is going to be a 7th film now. It starts out way too slow but I guess it was necessary - as if to burn the memory of the last few away. It connects all the dots kinda like how Insidious 2 blew the door open for more sequels. No complaints here. As long as Brad Dourif is still Chucky, I'm all in.

@marcomai: I was under the impression that Michael was trying to butter them up, so that they would feel better about not getting into his deal. Honestly, I never got all of the criticism, I'd say the film is pretty close to the first two.

Yeah, I always enjoyed the 3rd film too. I thought they did a good job of bringing the story into the 1970s.

With regard to your point about my question, I'll need to look at it again. I didn't think the times were provided my Michael, more that it was some established ritual or something. Maybe yours and Yayattasa'a interpretations are nearer to the truth though!

Cheers to you both for responding.

I just finished watching Elvira Mistress of the Dark. I've seen some of the reboot series and thought the film might be funny. Lo and behold, I laughed a good deal. The townspeople threatening to burn her was exceedingly stupid, but it was pretty funny otherwise. The story of an extroverted person alarming more introverted, conservative townspeople is hardly original, but it's simple enough to support the humor. This is pretty low-level boob and sex jokes, but none of them were ones I had heard before, so it was easy to laugh. It was a pretty low-budget affair by any standards, and it showed up dreadfully in the lighting. There were moments that the picture dipped below soap-opera quality. The ever-present godawful 80's hairdo's are ignoreable, and as long as you're not expecting too much it's quite enjoyable.

Last night I saw Antichrist by Lars Von Trier. I don't know if I was expecting way too much, but it left me a bit dissapointed. Of course, the imagery and the photography were EXCELENT. The disturbing settings, perfectly done. Acting, superb as always with Willem Dafoe.
The movie tried to tackle so many subjects: motherhood, misoginy, femicide, human sexuality, but at the end the overwhelming and constant symbology ("Nature is Satan", the 3 beggars deal and the power and violence inherent to human nature) overshadowed (at least for me, a random internet asshole) the point of the movie, which seemed unfocused. It's an interesting flic for sure, and worth of some of the praise it has won over the years, but certainly not a masterpiece.

I enjoy it as a thought-provoking horror film, it's not cliche and takes chances where few movies have dared and it's nice to see that, I don't bother with the symbolism or if it makes perfect sense. It was entertaining in a very unpleasant way.

Thought the opening could have been trimmed but at least it wasn't a stupidly aimless mess or reek of pretentiousness like Melancholia. I basically hated everything about it and as a result have zero interest in watching Nymphomaniac, that and it's an simply excuse for pornography http://www.sortiesdvd.com/affiche/3641.jpg

Melancholia was far less pointless and pretentious than Antichrist. In fact I don't think any of Von Trier's films have ever had more of a point to them (at least one which resonated with me) than Melancholia did. Maybe Breaking the Waves, but I haven't seen that for ages.

The point of the film was I wasted 136 minutes watching horrible people do horrible things with virtually no insight to their reasoning.

Reading Von Trier's inspiration for the film sounds vastly more interesting than anything actually presented on screen.

Suspect Zero - Even when I started marathon-ing early seasons of Dexter years ago, I was sort of aware there was a movie about "a serial killer who kills other killers" that came out before season 1 of the show did. I told myself I'd watch the flick eventually, reasonably confident I'd enjoy it even though its IMDB rating isn't so great.

I was wrong. The movie's pretty weak. Like, even weaker than the season with Julia Stiles and RoboCop. Gotta go into spoiler territory right away: I had no idea the plot would involve


type stuff. Maybe if I'd known that ahead of time, it wouldn't have seemed so bizarre, but I didn't think it was handled well in any case.

And you know how in every Final Destination sequel, we (the audience) have to watch the characters slowly figure out what we already know ("Death has a list!")? Suspect Zero felt a little like that. It seemed pretty clear from the beginning the killer was consciously going after "bad guys," but our FBI agent heroes have to do a bunch of legwork for the first hour or so to get up to speed on that important fact. I don't know, maybe it would have been better for Ben Kingsley to be the main character, with 80% of the movie from his perspective, and the FBI people just doing their thing in the background?

Suspect Zero was utter trash. Just nothing good about it.

Watching Nic Cage's "Joe" later...been told it's good so I'm looking forward to it!

Watching that IT clip is the first time I have ever seen something from the miniseries. I am glad I've never bothered to watch it. So bad and un-frightening. It's his best book too.

I bought Suspect Zero for 3 bucks somewhere like a decade ago. I knew it was by E. Elias Merhige, and I enjoyed his films "Shadow of the Vampire" and "Begotten," so I figured it would be great. I shut it off half-way and never looked bad. Awful movie.

It looks like the Deadpool movie has a release date. Sadly, it's 12th February 2016. This could perhaps be the only Marvel movie with a rating higher than a PG-13. Not sure what's happening on that front though.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/18/64351 ... -12th-2016

It's about time. Deadpool is one of my favorite comic superheroes of all time. I'm expecting this to be one of the best mixes of ridiculous and awesome.

I think they need to quit doing superhero movies announced for several years away - fucking ridiculous now.

As Above So Below - 3/5

Any new horror movie that isn't some ghost/possession/exorcism/revenge story is fine by me and worth a chance. Unfortunately this isn't a great flick, but it has its moments. The atmosphere is good and at times the setting of the catacombs becomes legitimately scary. There isn't much of the usual horror cliche at work here; instead we just get a plot that makes no sense and characters that are pretty interchangeable. The visuals are interesting, though too much of the time we see close-ups of the characters' faces and nothing else because this is a shaky cam movie - and like many of them it would've been fine as a regular movie without the found footage shit. Despite its flaws I didn't regret seeing this, so hopefully the makers can come up with something better next time.

Mud - 4/5

Matthew McConaghuey and two young boys in basically a modern version of a Mark Twain-style story. Much like a somber country song, this is stripped down, raw and emotional, and works because of the interactions between the characters, which you believe and are invested in. There aren't a lot of things wrong with this, and maybe its only flaw is that it doesn't really jump out and wow you either. But then, a quiet, subtle sort of ride with a mostly easygoing temperament is fine by me too.

Joe - 4.5/5

This might be Nicolas Cage's best acting performance, as he completely sinks into his character - you don't even see Cage anymore; just the character of Joe. The story about violence and redemption, told through Cage's interactions with a troubled young man, is very good and the darkness and seediness of the southern setting makes this movie really effective. I couldn't take my eyes away from the screen.

In the Bedroom - 4.5/5

This was apparently an Oscar-nominated film that I somehow wasn't familiar with at all before this. Like American Beauty, it gets a bit heavy handed at times and there are ways the story probably could've been more intricate and better told - maybe if we knew the two central romantic characters from the film's first act, the young college grad and the single mother, better than we do. But the movie spirals in a different direction and tells a powerful story about vigilantism and grief that I was completely captivated by. I guess some people who knew about this movie's hype and reputation may have been let down, but I was enthralled.

The new V/H/S movie looks like a fucking joke.

Don't see what everyone sees in Deadpool. I never read the comics mind you but Ryan Reynolds just comes off as obnoxiously annoying in the test footage, if that's 'the point' I want nothing to do with it.

They made a third V/H/S?

Kink (2013) - Average porn documentary that in the hands of a better director may have been interesting. I didn't dislike it as I thought I might because there was enough reasoning on the parts of the crew and filmmakers for what they do and why, one particular crew member said some intelligent words and some questions posed to Felony stood out, it just got it's direction and became self aware too late in the film, it needed more confronting questions because it offered little than on the surface. Thankfully James Franco doesn't talk and is never seen, perhaps he was an after thought as I don't get the impression he was there during filming. As far as documentaries go you could do worse but Louis Theroux two part documentary is a better overall study.

i wonder if 'Tusk' will be worth a shot.. they even grew bud specifically for the film..

Tusk is about turning a person into a walrus, right? I could make fun of what a dumb premise that is, but then again I thought The Human Centipede was OK (first one only; hated the sequel) so maybe I shouldn't talk.


V/H/S 1 and 2 were both pretty uneven, I thought. I like the idea of anthology horror, but between those and The ABCs of Death I haven't been impressed by much lately.

In even more upcoming horror news, supposedly the guy who made Oculus is involved with rebooting I Know What You Did Last Summer?!

It's hard to make fun of it when Kevin Smith directed it. It'll always come to down to 'but he meant to make it that way' and 'that's the joke'. Justin Long is an okay actor as evidenced by Jeepers Creepers, he's the only possible incentive to see it.

Really wish Kevin Smith would stop promising movies he will never make, such as Clerks 3, which I was excited for (I haven't liked anything he's done outside the Askew universe) but with each passing year feel relieved hasn't come to fruition. And maybe wear something different than a blue and orange hockey jersey. That thing must be molded to his skin by now.

trailer for Tusk-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCQJnOn0 ... ata_player

seems rather interesting.. pretty strange that Smith came up with this, i just can not picture it well.. i really do hope it is worthwhile, not many great horror/thriller films have surfaced.
too much hype for everything sort of drowned me alive.

"From writer, director and podcaster..."

Alright. That kind of self-effacing takes balls. Might actually be willing to give this one a shot, even though it's still probably going to be terrible.

Well I dunno if I'd exaggerate like that...

Kevin Smith is such a chode.

Being a horror / anything supernatural junkie....and since the quality of those films have significantly gone up since James Wan & the Blumhouse Co. have been bringing the heat the last few years....I'm stoked for a few:

-Annabelle (October)
-Housebound (October)
-Ouija (October)
-The Pyramid (As Above, So Below kinda stole it's thunder though) (December)
-Demonic (December)
-Insidious 3 (May)
-Poltergeist (July)
-Sinister 2
-The Conjuring 2
-Paranormal Activity V

Can't wait!

I'm kind of a sucker for the Paranormal series - the first two were decent, the third was garbage, but the 4th kinda picked back up because they just went, "fuck it, fill it with witches and shit". I like cult movies, so I dig it.

I'd like to see how Sinister turns out. I was really fond of the first one, the soundtrack was really amazing, and those 8mm shots were incredibly unnerving, even if the story wasn't.

James Wan is the worst. Such dull movies and they all look and feel exactly the same. Everything wrong with modern horror right there. I'll be fucked if I even go near a theater playing The Conjuring 2, Annabelle, Insidious 3, etc. Ouija looks like garbage too.

The Pyramid might have potential though. Maybe.

My friend is wanting to see Ouija, but horror + pg-13 is a movie for teens screaming at everything. Pyramid couldve easily been out around halloween. I gave up on Paranormal Activity. I saw part of 4 on youtube and it was retarded and Marked Ones was the same.