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- Hometown:
- Montreal
- About Me:
- I love movies. Particularly horror movies. That is all.
- All Time Favorite Movies:
- The Exorcist, Session 9, Spoorloos (The Vanishing), The Mist, Candyman, Alien(s), The Fly, The Dead Zone, Pumpkinhead, Cube, Peeping Tom, Nightmare on Elm St, Memento, The Shawshank Redemption, The Thing, Demon Knight, Fight Club, Evil Dead 2, The Fountain, Wall-E, Goodfellas, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Audition, Henry: Portait of a Serial Killer, Tales from the Darkside, etc.
- All Time Worst Movies:
- I can only name the most recent movie that I hated because I try to block those things out: Funny Games (1997).
- Favorite Directors:
- Darren Aronofsky, Christopher Nolan, Frank Darabont, Martin Scorcese, Takashi Miike, Wes Craven, David Lynch, etc.
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So, to answer your question: yay on Exorcist 3, nay on the prequels. Loved the atmosphere of Exorcist 3 and George C. Scott's quick delivery and dry humor (I enjoyed his entire performance but those things about it particularly). I'm not a fan of Blatty's humorous writing in The Exorcist book but said by Scott, it was entertaining and not annoying as hell. Plus, that is the movie that truly made me a fan of Brad Dourif. He gives one of the creepiest, most disturbing performances I've seen to this day. He's just hypnotizing. I so rarely hear people talk about it, yet it is so brilliant. But I guess that's a tribute to the actor that he has so many other great things in his career to talk about (One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest and the Chucky movies, among my favorites).
As far as the prequels go, I only saw each of them only once and I remember enjoying the Paul Schrader version more than the Lenny Harlin one. I found the latter one predictable and overly cheesy, not at all consistent with the tone of the other movies. The Schrader version was, though, although it had A LOT of problems. And in that movie, the weird bald kid kinda freaked me out to no end for some reason. But I wouldn't really recommend either of these movies, and I refuse to even acknowledge Exorcist 2. What did you think about the whole series?
I would luv to hear your thoughts on Exorcist #3 and the the two prequels, yay or nay?
Perhaps a better example is the king of all scare films, "The Excorist. The flashing of a demonic face, the eerie dream sequences and the sound. No music to blare out to scare the audience. ( I found that to be the biggest cheat to make someone jump--see "A haunting in Connecticut") The sound was an added key to the film's success, subtle and very low keyed, if anything more like a screeching low hum.
Didn't care much for Kubrick's version of the Shining, (much better than the Tv version though) But Kubrick did tapped into a foreboding dread of the Overlook Hotel. My favorite scene was Danny riding his big wheel bike around the floors of the hotel, again sound is the key here. The plastic wheels moving across the floor between wood and carpet and the repetitive routine, created a sleight sense of discomfort, as if something was about to happen..and of course it did.
Now don't get me wrong, I like my shlock horror films as well, (Reanimator being my favorite in the 80's) But the bottom line of it all I rather be creeped rather than grossed out.
Good to hear from you.
I would agree that recent remakes are not up to the original standards, these remakes/prequels are really lame excuses to turn something into a franchise. It's about fast money with little effort, based on a commercial name.
I would luv to compare notes on horror films, i'm quite interested on what you have to say. How far back in horror films do you watch, I'm ol'e school myself--40's ,50's, 60's all the way to today.
Do you prefer atmosphere (Rosemary's Baby) or a bit of comic gore (The Evil Dead)?
As for your jukebox, I like the diversity--Barry White --Sinatra, works for me.
Oh by the way your jukebox is rockin'!!
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