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Post by Miranda on Nov 3, 2020 23:58:23 GMT
The original film was one of the scariest films I've ever watched. I had to go and wake up my flatmate to talk to me so I could calm down enough to sleep the first time I watched it.
The remake from about 10 years ago was a pile of crap.
And now Netflix have remade it as a series. It is slow, trope-ridden and dull.
I really wish that film and TV companies would leave this title alone.
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Post by yankee on Nov 5, 2020 15:10:15 GMT
Hear Hear When Hammer Films remade all of the classic Universal Studio horror films of the 30s and 40s they didnt just toss out updated versions of the same thing. They actually remade them with purpose and respect. They replaced the screen charisma of Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney with the screen charisma, chemistry and polished acting of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. They also amped up the sex and gore that were both merely implied in the earlier versions because of their time. We saw Dracula's fangs for the first time. The bite marks. The blood. The glorious technicolor, the women with bosoms bursting out of their frilly frocks. BUT they stayed true to the story and were proper scary as well. THAT is how you do a remake.  |
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Post by Miranda on Nov 5, 2020 17:38:17 GMT
Filmmakers now seem to have lost the ability to make scary movies. I can't remember the last time I saw a film so scary it kept me awake. Especially without any blood and gore. That doesn't scare me, it just makes me feel sick
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Post by yankee on Nov 5, 2020 18:55:44 GMT
I found "Blair Witch Project" pretty scary.
That was one of those marmite films that people either felt was scary and brilliant or silly and not scary at all.
But films like following are amongst my favorite - and proper scary - films from 1970 till today.
"Rosemary's Baby"
"The Exorcist"
"The Omen"
"Candyman"
"The Serpent & the Rainbow"
"Angel Heart"
"The Believers"
And I am drawing a blank on the name, but the film with Anthony Hopkins as the ventriloquist with the evil doll. I think it might have been called "Magic."
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Post by Miranda on Nov 5, 2020 19:11:23 GMT
I found Candyman and Angel Heart quite scary but too bloody. Rosemary's Baby I saw a few years ago and found it more cheesy than scary. Sorry. I don't watch any films with vent dummies in them as they are scary. Not the films, the dummies. I have a very low tolerance for the Uncanny Valley. Blair Witch is possibly the last time I found a film proper scary.
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Post by Miranda on Nov 5, 2020 19:12:15 GMT
Although..... Frank in Donnie Darko gave me a few uneasy nights.
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Post by yankee on Nov 5, 2020 20:52:37 GMT
With Candyman I knew the urban legend as it was based in the Cabrini Green housing projects here in Chicago. Some people believe it to be VERY real, others said it was an urban legend black parents in the projects used to keep their kids behaving. "Be good or the Candyman will get you!"
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Post by yankee on Nov 5, 2020 20:55:40 GMT
Although..... Frank in Donnie Darko gave me a few uneasy nights. Haven't seen that. I will keep an eye out. Thanks! |
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Post by Miranda on Nov 5, 2020 21:25:18 GMT
It's a brilliant film! Especially if you are interested in quantum physics. But you don't have to be.
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Post by Miranda on Nov 6, 2020 21:22:54 GMT
Britbox have got all the HHH films! By crikey, Lee is a scary fella. And that bit where the wife was about to suck the blood from his chest was surprisingly sexy.
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Anymore to come?
