BrokenArts on 12/10/2009 at 01:52
Did you even look at the trailer, read anything about this flick CCC? You'd have your answer, and Scotts summed up my feeling as well.
fett on 12/10/2009 at 02:48
Your link is broken and you're starting to irritate me. :erg:
Gingerbread Man on 12/10/2009 at 03:05
Quote Posted by CCCToad
I've been skimming a bit around the web, and haven't found a good answer to my question.
Is there anything that separates this film from the typical gimmicky gorefest flicks that dominate the horror genre?
Quoting this because
it is the most goddamned retarded thing anyone could possibly say on PAGE TWO OF THIS THREADoh my stars and garters
do they speak english in what?
Gingerbread Man on 12/10/2009 at 03:13
Oh, okay. Sorry, then.
Yeah, basically this is one of those ultra-low budget home-video kinda things. Mostly focussed on creep factor, implied things, and just good old-fashioned spookiness.
In fact, comparing it to Blair Witch is a bit of a miss, I think... Paranormal Activity doesn't have the "make you sick because they're running" cam, the focus is a LOT tighter in terms of character and setting, and the main drive of the horror (which is closer to terror, I think) is that you are sucked right into this film. And when that happens you don't need special effects souting blood everywhere, chainsaws and frenetic direction, eyeballs and screaming and gruseome deathtraps wtf.
People are saying "omg so amazing" because it's not the bullshit gruesome neuvo-splatter nonsense, but it's also not the self-satisfied smugness that comes with things like that "Funny Games" movie or whatever the hell.
It's definitely a movie to see if you like to be afraid rather than scared. If that makes sense.
Starrfall on 12/10/2009 at 03:27
hahah dethtoll is cool again
Ko0K on 12/10/2009 at 04:06
Personally, the thought that came immediately to my mind as I watched this movie was Blair Witch, and I think the comparison between the two movies is more than justified. Anyway, there are a few cliches, such as one character not taking it as seriously as the other and the rather predictable ending, but I thought they were handled well so as not distract from the suspense.
I'd recommend waiting for the DVD to come out so that it can be watched alone in a dark living room, unless you don't mind sharing the experience with a bunch of retards who decided to bring little kids along with them.
Tocky on 12/10/2009 at 05:08
Quote Posted by Ko0K
Anyway, there are a few cliches, such as one character not taking it as seriously as the other and the rather predictable ending,
Doesn't it pretty much have to be that way? If the curtain of believability isn't made of the lead of rationality then any gust could blow it aside and you just have insane which is terrifying for the person insane but fully explainable for everyone else. What frightens the rest of us is when our own sanity doesn't win against our senses either. Validation through others is unsettling for the person who is certain they must be experiencing mental malfunction as well because it takes away the sanctuary of a sane world that they may one day make it back to.
Does she have the delusion of granduer (in the psyche term sense) that seems hinted at in one sequence where she thinks she has brought it into being somehow? Or perhaps that she has drawn it to her by peeking through the curtain thus allowing something which otherwise would not exist? I'm definitly intrigued if it explores all the avenues of psychology and tries to maintain disbelief... and loses. And I hope it isn't as cliche as you make it sound.
Renzatic on 12/10/2009 at 06:12
I don't think it's anything so deep, Tocky. Just a good old fashioned scare the shit out of you type flick with a modern bent. I expect nothing more of it, and nothing less.
Also, I found a (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXkMo092Uug&feature=player_embedded) better trailer here. This is all movie *SHHKT*, no crowd reactions *BRAPP* .
henke on 12/10/2009 at 06:15
Quote Posted by fett
Yeah, that's the problem - I can't name any movies like that. I wrongly assumed that was the idea with Saw and some of the Rob Zombie stuff.
Oh yeah, The Devil's Rejects, as suliman pointed out, tries very hard to make you sympathize with the killers(mostly by making the sheriff hunting them as psychopathic as they are, something that NBK also did). It doesn't quite pull it of though, after a scene in the middle of the movie where the killers murder a whole family it's hard to root for them again. And when they finally meet their demise at the end of the film, it's an ambivalent send of. Actually, (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WrXbd56h_c) the final scene probably wouldn't be such a thing of beauty as it is if the viewer didn't kinda wish the death of the protagonists of the film. Really, check that scene out. It does comit the error of using "Freebird" as the backing song, but redeems itself for being the best use of the song "Freebird" in a filmscene, ever.
