Guest Low Roller Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 Although Halloween is a relatively uncelebrated holiday in the UK, I got together with a few fellow expats to watch some scary movies... OOooOoOooOooo....We started by watching the classic Tim Burton film Sleepy Hollow. Mildly scary, definitely creepy (it's Tim Burton afterall), it made for a fun start to the evening.Now the main event was supposed to be The Exorcist, but some girls we were with were too scared to watch the movie. We instead rented a flick called The Hostel.Pros: The first half of the movie is essentially a softcore porn, some entertaining gore.Cons: The second half of the movie is lame, ending comes out of nowhere like they ran out of budget or something.Definite boo.Then the original Nightmare on Elm Street came on TV, which would make it two movies with Johnny Depp on Halloween... Scary.After all this Andrea and I had to walk to the train station through a foggy fall night, eerily reminiscent of the Thriller video. Good times! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djmelbatoast Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 I watched the first 4 edisodes of the Twin Peaks first season and a couple of episodes of the first season of Carnival, while my next door neihbour (who I'm assumming is a drug dealing gangster) had a raging party till 5 in the morning and set off 30 firecrackers in the driveway, on a Tuesday, in a 4-plex, in Nanaimo... If that isn't scary I don't know what is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 Carnivale is a fantastic and fantastically creepy series. I love Clancy Brown's Brother Justin character. Adrienne Barbeau still has 'it' too. Gotta love Toby Huss (voice of Cotton Hill and Kahn from King Of The Hill) as Felix 'Stumpy' Dreifuss - the girly show ring master. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djmelbatoast Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 The lead character "kid" was he in "Katz and Dog" or somesuchshit in the 80's or am I way off base? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 (edited) The lead character "kid" was he in "Katz and Dog" or somesuchshit in the 80's or am I way off base?Who? Nick Stahl who plays Ben Hawkins? I don't think so. He'd be too young to be in that movie and I just did quick IMDb check and his first movie came out in 1991. Stahl was in Sin City and was the lead character in Terminator III. Edited November 2, 2006 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djmelbatoast Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 No this was a Canadian TV show about a cop named Katz and his police Dog and his son. I thought he was the son. He's damn familiar looking anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 We started by watching the classic Tim Burton film Sleepy Hollow. Mildly scary, definitely creepy (it's Tim Burton afterall), it made for a fun start to the evening.We instead rented a flick called The Hostel.Pros: The first half of the movie is essentially a softcore porn, some entertaining gore.Cons: The second half of the movie is lame, ending comes out of nowhere like they ran out of budget or something.Definite boo. I've heard that Hostel is dreadful. Too bad because I really liked Eli Roth's first film Cabin Fever. Tim Burton is a great flawed director. For every masterpiece like Big Fish and Ed Wood, he puts out a Planet Of The Apes and the terribly disappointing and predictable Sleepy Hollow. Note to Burton: DO NOT cast famous actors for every crucial part because you know that they will surface at key moments later on - see Miranda Richardson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 No this was a Canadian TV show about a cop named Katz and his police Dog and his son. I thought he was the son. He's damn familiar looking anyways.Go nuts: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094491/#comment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djmelbatoast Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 I just checked out Nick Stahl's filography and I must know him from In the Bedroom. It's gotten kind of off topic of scary movies now eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 (edited) I actually re-watched Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban on Halloween night. My friend is hooked on the books and wanted to watch the film for the first time. I think that particular interpretation is the most interesting and entertaining of the films so far - especially when compared to the excellent books. Edited November 2, 2006 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bONES Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 The Haunting w/ Liam Neeson, Owen Wilson, Katherine Zeta-Jones1 star out of 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayr Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 Halloween Town IV on Family Channel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 Saw 3.Meh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottieking Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 The Original Halloween and The Shining because my girlfriend had seen neither.Halloween wasn't as scary as I remember but one has to remember it is the original slasher flick and better than the 100's that would follow.The Shining is still incredible. Jack is awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalacePrincess Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 i saw the first half of dawn of the dead (circa 2004) on the teevee. it was effin' scary. and sarah polley is awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SevenSeasJim Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 I watched the original and the remake of Dawn of the Dead. As a kid I always thought it would be cool to live in a mall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chameleon Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatpatguy Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 I watched Hostel, and yeah.. I was expecting more exploitation level violence and gore, so I was disappointed. Saw (the first film) is a much better torture movie in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 Freddy vs. Jason. Same problem with almost every other modern day horror flick -- uninspired, paint by numbers script. I mean, if you're going to go to the trouble of producing a film then why not make it the best it can possibly be? Especially with two franchise characters like Freddy and Jason.In the end it wasn't the worst horror movie I'd seen but could and should have been ten times better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdy Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 i watched a little bit of Beetlejuice on tv... and "The Libertine" with Johnny Depp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms.Huxtable Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 We watched The Butterfly Effect. I don't think it was meant as a horror flick or anything but it was frightening in a lot of ways. We really enjoyed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backbacon Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 Hostel. Not nearly as good as expected. Amateur, low budget. I like the idea of it but they could have done a better job. Now I hear there's a Hostel 2 coming out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Boy 2.0 Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 Gotta love Toby Huss (voice of Cotton Hill and Kahn from King Of The Hill) as Felix 'Stumpy' Dreifuss - the girly show ring master.aaahhhhhhhhhhhh, that makes sense to me now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booche Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 The Butterfly Effect.More people should rent that movie. Its far more entertaining than people assume it will be, simply because Kelso is in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau. Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 Four of us drank three cases of beer. Never once turned on a television. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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