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Re: Horror 2010 Group Marathon
« Reply #20 on: October 02, 2010, 05:50:21 PM »
I recommend My Little Eye to all of you. Nasty stuff, but really effective. There's an early role for Bradley Cooper, too.

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Re: Horror 2010 Group Marathon
« Reply #21 on: October 02, 2010, 06:17:57 PM »
I recommend My Little Eye to all of you. Nasty stuff, but really effective. There's an early role for Bradley Cooper, too.
He's also in Midnight Meat Train which was decent.

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Re: Horror 2010 Group Marathon
« Reply #22 on: October 02, 2010, 06:19:03 PM »
"I'm sort of my own Mafia, you know, breaking my own knees" - John Cassavetes

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Re: Horror 2010 Group Marathon
« Reply #23 on: October 02, 2010, 07:14:23 PM »
I recommend My Little Eye to all of you. Nasty stuff, but really effective. There's an early role for Bradley Cooper, too.
Saw it a couple of years ago.  It really scared me the first time, but I saw a lot of plot holes on a rewatch.

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Re: Horror 2010 Group Marathon
« Reply #24 on: October 03, 2010, 06:51:28 PM »
Latest entry in Splatter Time Fun Fest 2010 is up with, Sleepaway Camp (1983).

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Re: Horror 2010 Group Marathon
« Reply #25 on: October 03, 2010, 06:54:58 PM »
Latest entry in Splatter Time Fun Fest 2010 is up with, Sleepaway Camp (1983).

Why'd you have to use that pic. :(
*childhood trauma*

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Re: Horror 2010 Group Marathon
« Reply #26 on: October 03, 2010, 06:57:58 PM »
Latest entry in Splatter Time Fun Fest 2010 is up with, Sleepaway Camp (1983).

Why'd you have to use that pic. :(
*childhood trauma*

Ha, it's better than what I was originally going to use, the full on body shot that followed.  :)

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Re: Horror 2010 Group Marathon
« Reply #27 on: October 03, 2010, 09:06:28 PM »


That one?  :P
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Re: Horror 2010 Group Marathon
« Reply #28 on: October 03, 2010, 09:44:34 PM »
Cube

I had heard about Cube here and there in the past (before hearing about it a ton in the leadup to Splice) and that led me to watch Cube 2 a couple years ago because it was free on demand. That is probably not ideal because in many ways that film is exactly the same as this one (without any acknowledgment). There is one major difference between the two but at the end of the day it isn't a major one.

What is major is the difference between whatever person they got to make a sequel and Vincenzo Natali directing here from a concept he helped bring about. It isn't the most complex concept, you've got a bunch of people and they are stuck in cubes that have doors on each wall attached to other cube rooms of the same nature. You've got booby traps that kill people. The group wants to find their way out and thus need to figure out how to avoid the traps and get an idea of where they are in the broader array. There is just something naturally tense about this set-up.

You've got some good use of mathematical concepts. Of course you've also got fairly marginal acting and a pretty terrible script that is pretty heavy handed with exposition laying out the social and psychological implications. But what made the sequel barely tolerable also makes this one passable (and better for Natali's better ability to visually draw out the tension). Whatever, not a bad time.

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Re: Horror 2010 Group Marathon
« Reply #29 on: October 03, 2010, 09:49:16 PM »
I saw Cube 2 (HYPERCUBE!) first, too. It's probably not better but I found it less annoying than Cube 1 (NORMALCUBE!). Cube Zero is kind of cool, though it probably doesn't make any sense. So, tada!
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