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Post by Patrick on Aug 16, 2010 11:19:52 GMT
I was about 12 when I saw 'Jaws', and it scared me. On TV? If so I bet I saw the same broadcast. I was sitting on my chair, my face behind a cushion, with my legs pulled up (out of the sea, you see, so the shark couldn't bite me) and too scared to run out of the room to safety (because the shark would bite me if I did, for sure). David Attenborough's Wildlife on One about the frogs gave me nightmares like that. I woke up in the middle of the night petrified that my bedroom floor was covered in a blanket of frogs!! |
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Post by Patrick on Aug 16, 2010 11:22:59 GMT
Did you ever see Eric Sykes talking about a two-hander play he was in once where he couldn't wear his hearing aids and took all his cues from lip reading and his fellow actor's stage movements? Each night, his fellow actor would throw in something to put him off, from turning his back on Eric while he spoke his lines, I forget the specifics, to things like deliberately giving him the wrong arm signal, to miming his lines... eventually this got to be known and the audiences would come to see what jape would be thrown that night and how Eric would deal with it. I think this is a very famous story. I just forget all the pertinent details. ;D I'll hazard a guess that that was the one Nicole Kidman saw him in that got him suggested for "The Others". I've heard it was on her idea. |
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Post by everso on Aug 16, 2010 11:24:19 GMT
Did you ever see Eric Sykes talking about a two-hander play he was in once where he couldn't wear his hearing aids and took all his cues from lip reading and his fellow actor's stage movements? Each night, his fellow actor would throw in something to put him off, from turning his back on Eric while he spoke his lines, I forget the specifics, to things like deliberately giving him the wrong arm signal, to miming his lines... eventually this got to be known and the audiences would come to see what jape would be thrown that night and how Eric would deal with it. I think this is a very famous story. I just forget all the pertinent details. ;D That would be "Big Bad Mouse" which was in London's West End during the late 60s. Mr. E. and I went to see it and it was hilarious. Eric Sykes and Jimmy Edwards. I remember at one point just crying with laughter. Eric Sykes is 87 - the same age as my dad would have been. |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Aug 16, 2010 11:38:42 GMT
Films like "Texas Chainsaw Masacre" & "Wolf Creek" had a really sadistic nastiness about them also. AH Yes, I remember we talked about it before - but Wolf Creek is a horrible movie - It didn't dawn on me at first but the more I thought about the way it was done the more it just seemed like 'horror porn'. I'm surprised they even show it on telly. <shivers> I find things like that more scary because humans are far more evil and threatening than any of that "super natural" BS. Wolf Creek was a good movie and far above the standard level of "torture porn" that we see these days. It shined for me because we spent a while getting to know the victims and they were likable kids, usually when you watch a slasher movie, you can't wait to see the annoying cast get butchered up quick style...not so with Wolf Creek IMO. As for "Blair Witch" I just found it silly. AH |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2010 11:43:59 GMT
Films like "Texas Chainsaw Masacre" & "Wolf Creek" had a really sadistic nastiness about them also. AH Yes, I remember we talked about it before - but Wolf Creek is a horrible movie - It didn't dawn on me at first but the more I thought about the way it was done the more it just seemed like 'horror porn'. I'm surprised they even show it on telly. <shivers> Agreed. i am not averse to horror films in the slightest, but i remember they showed it on telly one christmas eve, the first time i'd ever seen it. i thought it was qwuite an orrible, nasty piece of work. Didn't qwuite get me in that festive frame of mind at all, neither.  |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Aug 16, 2010 11:47:38 GMT
I'm alone in my appreciation for Wolf Creek then.  Or am I? I think you folks didn't like it for the reasons I've pointed out, the victims were objects of sympathy, nice folks who didn't deserve their fate...unlike most slasher victims who we can't wait to see getting chopped. Hence, Wolf Creek worked as a really upsetting horror movie. AH |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2010 11:54:26 GMT
I'm alone in my appreciation for Wolf Creek then. Or am I? I think you folks didn't like it for the reasons I've pointed out, the victims were objects of sympathy, nice folks who didn't deserve their fate...unlike most slasher victims who we can't wait to see getting chopped. Hence, Wolf Creek worked as a really upsetting horror movie. AH yep i just didn't like it at all.. ok, it started off reasonably well, i guess i was a bit shocked by the level of nastiness it went to.. and it was not what i wanted to watch on christmas eve. I don't like films with horrible vibes/tone/atmosphere.. like clockwork orange.. i appreciate it as a great film, but i cant watch it again because it depresses me.. the look of it, the music.. all good, but the overall tone and vibe of it mean i cant watch it cos it gets me down. Nil by mouth is another one i'll never watch again. i know theyre all very different films, but the common factor is they all have a bleak unrelenting nasty vibe flowing through them, i think. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2010 11:57:33 GMT
 Have you watched it yet? I really enjoyed it. nope not seen it yet. Harrison Ford is always pretty good so i thought it would be worth a look.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2010 11:58:17 GMT
i didnt put that girl power smiley in there i swear ... :/
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Aug 16, 2010 12:01:23 GMT
i didnt put that girl power smiley in there i swear ... :/  AH |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Aug 16, 2010 12:04:58 GMT
I'm alone in my appreciation for Wolf Creek then. Or am I? I think you folks didn't like it for the reasons I've pointed out, the victims were objects of sympathy, nice folks who didn't deserve their fate...unlike most slasher victims who we can't wait to see getting chopped. Hence, Wolf Creek worked as a really upsetting horror movie. AH yep i just didn't like it at all.. ok, it started off reasonably well, i guess i was a bit shocked by the level of nastiness it went to.. and it was not what i wanted to watch on christmas eve. I don't like films with horrible vibes/tone/atmosphere.. like clockwork orange.. i appreciate it as a great film, but i cant watch it again because it depresses me.. the look of it, the music.. all good, but the overall tone and vibe of it mean i cant watch it cos it gets me down. Nil by mouth is another one i'll never watch again. i know theyre all very different films, but the common factor is they all have a bleak unrelenting nasty vibe flowing through them, i think. I see where you are coming from, it is a nasty movie, and hardly something I'd watch on Christmas Eve (I'm more inclined to watch "Jason and the Argonauts" or "Journey to the Center of the Earth" around crimbo time).  I was just impressed with the fact that I felt really horrible for the victims and the film was very well done. Like I say, most slashers are full of people who are stupid, annoying and deserve to get minced by Jason Voorhis and his ilk. AH |
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Post by Patrick on Aug 16, 2010 12:58:32 GMT
There's the rub though - innit (as Shakespeare once penned) How good, how "realistic" does a horror/slasher have to be before it becomes uncomfortable. You are right to an extent that W/C must be good to garner such a reaction. It just seems a bit too lascivious with the torture scenes.
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Post by everso on Aug 16, 2010 13:45:46 GMT
yep i just didn't like it at all.. ok, it started off reasonably well, i guess i was a bit shocked by the level of nastiness it went to.. and it was not what i wanted to watch on christmas eve. I don't like films with horrible vibes/tone/atmosphere.. like clockwork orange.. i appreciate it as a great film, but i cant watch it again because it depresses me.. the look of it, the music.. all good, but the overall tone and vibe of it mean i cant watch it cos it gets me down. Nil by mouth is another one i'll never watch again. i know theyre all very different films, but the common factor is they all have a bleak unrelenting nasty vibe flowing through them, i think. I see where you are coming from, it is a nasty movie, and hardly something I'd watch on Christmas Eve (I'm more inclined to watch " Jason and the Argonauts" or "Journey to the Center of the Earth" around crimbo time). I was just impressed with the fact that I felt really horrible for the victims and the film was very well done. Like I say, most slashers are full of people who are stupid, annoying and deserve to get minced by Jason Voorhis and his ilk. AH Ah now THAT is a good film. I saw it at the cinema when I was a girl. You know that bit when the bronze statue of Talos comes to life? That scared the life out of me and, even today, when I watch it on t.v. a shiver still goes through me. It's the creaky noise that gets to me. About 3 minutes in. Brrrrrr! |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Aug 16, 2010 14:42:36 GMT
I love all those flicks, Jason, Sinbad, At the Earths Core, First Men in the Moon, etc etc etc. The Talos scene is especially awesome, as are all the scenes with "Minaton" in the Sinbad film. AH |
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Post by everso on Aug 16, 2010 14:52:04 GMT
Ohhh, those creaks! They get me every time.
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Post by motorist on Aug 16, 2010 15:17:37 GMT
Jason and the Argonauts was fucking cracking! I remember a two-part remake made for television, where the Argonauts had muller hairstyles. That version was so shit it would take a full pack of bog roll to clean the telly
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Aug 16, 2010 15:23:00 GMT
Jason and the Argonauts was fucking cracking! I remember a two-part remake made for television, where the Argonauts had muller hairstyles. That version was so shit it would take a full pack of bog roll to clean the telly You mean the remake with "Jason London" in it that hides on my DVD shelf reserved for piss poor remakes what I can't help buying sometimes.  It did have some nice warrior women in that though...one particularly tasty "archer chick" stood out for me. Also had the legendary "Dennis Hopper" (may God rest his soul) being a cool baddy. AH |
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Post by motorist on Aug 16, 2010 15:26:47 GMT
I have the original Jason, Clash of the Titans, all Sinbad films in my collection. Remakes are no substitute for those puppies  |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Aug 16, 2010 15:31:27 GMT
I have the original Jason, Clash of the Titans, all Sinbad films in my collection. Remakes are no substitute for those puppies Naturally, I have the originals...but I have this weak spot for some remakes...it's not really the "remake" that sells me, it's the genre (which is why I also have a remake of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and "The Time Machine"). I'll also be grabbing the "Clash of the Titans" remake sooner or later. AH |
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Post by motorist on Aug 16, 2010 16:30:24 GMT
The CoT remake wasn't bad for me. I hear they're doing a sequel, so at least that should be all new |
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