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DLeonard

post #21 on October 24, 2008 - 7:11 PM PDT

> On October 24, 2008 - 3:31 AM PDT Battie wrote:
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> Critters is awesome. I love old 80's horror. It can be creepy and funny at the same time. Slither also gave a nod to Troma. I might watch Class of Nuke 'Em High 3 for Halloween, if I don't go to Thrillvania that night.
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> Leprechaun in Space is a flick I've seen before. I still say the Leprchaun movies rock. They're so ridiculous and yet...he still makes me flinch.
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One of these days I gotta watch those Leprechaun movies.

So, on the subject of Troma and 80's greatness, ever see "Chopper Chicks in Zombietown"? The title pretty much says it all. And it features a young Billy Bob Thornton.

Cinenaut

post #22 on October 24, 2008 - 9:43 PM PDT
I don't know that I have ever seen Burnt Offerings. I should queue that one up, too. What a cast: Karen Black, Oliver Reed and Burgess Meredith. > On October 22, 2008 - 10:49 AM PDT underdog wrote: > --------------------------------- > Ever seen Burnt Offerings? That's in my queue. > --------------------------------- I haven't seen any Leprechaun or Troll movies.

Vanamonde

post #23 on October 26, 2008 - 7:24 PM PDT

A good Halloween in front of the tube:

Descent
John Carpenter's "The Thing"
Young Frankstein for some much needed comic relief!

then after the kid's are asleep

Videodrome

and then top it off with Todd Solondz's "Happiness".

I was at a film festival where this was showing before release and I boasted, "It never got weird enough for me" (quoting Dr. Hunter S. Thompson). I was wrong. It got WAY toooo weird.

Like Lynch's, "Blue Velvet" or Water's "Pink Flamingos", it is a film that I am glad that I saw but I never, never what to see again.

[shudder]

ABernstineIII

post #24 on October 27, 2008 - 4:32 PM PDT

> On October 22, 2008 - 8:49 AM PDT Cinenaut wrote:
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> What spooky scary movies are you queuing up this Halloween?
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> I've got The Mist, Diabolique, The Ruins and The Living and the Dead queued up so far.
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A few movies I've decided to revisit to help me get into the "spirit" are:

The Signal
The Descent
The Thing
Them
Inside
Feast
Evil Dead II
Final Destination I & II
The Car
30 Days of Night
Scream I & III
Dead Alive
Nightmare On Elm Street
The Cube
Re-Animator
The Devils Rejects
The Fog (original)

weezy

post #25 on October 27, 2008 - 8:38 PM PDT
On the spookier side of my queue sits Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, the uber-popular web series Prom Queen, and Ten Nights of Dreams, probably more spooky/surreal than scary. I still haven't seen The Nightmare Before Christmas (blasphemy! i know), so I'm hopefully watching it 3-D in the movie theaters this week.

Battie

post #26 on October 27, 2008 - 8:47 PM PDT

> On October 27, 2008 - 8:38 PM PDT weezy wrote:
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> On the spookier side of my queue sits Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, the uber-popular web series Prom Queen, and Ten Nights of Dreams, probably more spooky/surreal than scary. I still haven't seen The Nightmare Before Christmas (blasphemy! i know), so I'm hopefully watching it 3-D in the movie theaters this week.
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I've seen parts of Poultygeist. Let me say this...if you liked the gross and insulting sexual humor of the 80's Troma...they've brought it to a whole new level. Mind, some parts were genuinely funny. Others, such as the bathroom scene were just...horrifyingly disgusting.

Battie

post #27 on October 27, 2008 - 8:52 PM PDT

Things I learned from Critters:

Farmers apparently don't care when their cattle is eaten by an unknown thing. Just so long as the wife don't find out.

Farmers' wives are incapable of dealing with a crisis with anything but hysterical screaming and crying.

Cats outwit evil furball aliens better than people.

All boyfriends who touch their teenaged girlfriend's breasts will die. Even if she started it.

Furball aliens are vengeful with an evil sense of humor. They are also as captivated by ET as everyone else on earth.

Psuedo-rock stars are hot.

Sheriffs can't shoot.

Chickens are yummy to all species.

Firecrackers have the power of many barrells of TNT.

Aliens do not know what a fire suppression system is.

Cats ultimately belong in mailboxes.

doozer

post #28 on October 27, 2008 - 10:04 PM PDT
Poultrygeist is a must see for any Troma fan. I didn't think it was any worse than any other production. It takes a lot to make me squeamish though. Oooooh flavorpods!

Cinenaut

post #29 on October 28, 2008 - 9:34 AM PDT

Things I learned from The Living and the Dead:

Trusting your hyperactively insane man-boy son to take his own meds is not a good idea.

Installing just one telephone in your massive, decaying English estate might not be a good idea.

Think twice about leaving your son and invalid wife home alone and embarking on a business trip before the nurse arrives.

Approaching a person who is off his meds while brandishing a large syringe is not necessarily a bright idea.

Saying "put the knife down" doesn't always work.

Cinenaut

post #30 on October 31, 2008 - 7:09 PM PDT
Happy Halloween, everybody!

underdog

post #31 on October 31, 2008 - 10:56 PM PDT

Happy Halloweenie!

After the evening festivities and candy-eating, I watched the new MST3K disc of their Laserblast episode, a terrible movie done up just right.

And then watched some of the bad but watchable House on Haunted Hill remake on TV.

I was surprised to see Poltergeist was on the Family channel tonight too. That movie still scares the bejeezus out of me, not sure how it works in Family-style edits.

weezy

post #32 on December 31, 2008 - 11:09 AM PST
I know it was mentioned somewhere else on the boards, but since I can't find that post, I thought I'd mention here, GreenCine now has Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog for rent, for those who are less inclined to keep up online!

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