Franchises in which the Good Guy is the Icon?

That was hard to state clearly in the title field... I was just thinking about the collages and montages of horror icons, and how almost all of the icons are the villains. Some of the only exceptions that occur to me are Ash (from Evil Dead (obv)), and arguably Herbert West from Re-Animator. If you can think of any other horror franchises in which the person who fights againts the main villain becomes the most iconic figure in the franchise, please share.

Bob Iger on why The Marvels failed

To paraphrase some recent news, the Disney CEO believes the movie failed because there was...

...Not enough studio and executive interference.

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Furiosa Timeline

There's a new Mad Max spin-off coming out. A prequel to Fury Road about Furiosa when she was younger, but here's what I don't get...

The trailer has the text, "45 YEARS AFTER THE COLLAPSE". What exactly are they talking about? Society was still around in the first movie when Max was a cop. I guess he'd be about 23 in the first movie, so if society collapses shortly after that, say at age 25... 45 years after that places him at age 70 at the time of this movie? So if Fury Road is set after this... is Max supposed to be like 90 years old in Fury Road?
Am I overthinking this, or did George Miller underthink it? As much as I want to believe that Gibson/Hardy play the same character, I'm leaning more toward separate continuities.

Unbreakable Split Glass

I like what M. Night did there, with those titles. This is a pretty interesting trilogy in a weird sequel/spin-off/tie-in kind of way.

Unbreakable came out in 2000. Apparently, nobody knows about this movie. I've come across a lot of movie-goers who expressed interest in seeing 'Glass', and upon my questioning them, "Have you seen 'Unbreakable'?", they often say no. I feel that we have too many people going into this without knowing the original film in the trilogy, and that bothers me. Ignorance.

Well, Unbreakable was a cool fuckin' movie. I watched it back in the day when it came to video and I quite enjoyed it. I'd easily say it's my favorite M. Night movie. He had a trilogy planned, but things didn't work out, and boom. A great thing never was... until a newfound interest in 2017, when Split came out!

Now mind you, I had no interest in M. Night's new movie. Plot didn't intrigue me much, but a co-worker came out of it enthused, and told me the twist, and then I had to watch it. That twist got me very excited for something I'd been waiting so many years for, because seriously... It's been almost TWENTY FUCKING YEARS for this thing to happen, and how is it going to turn out?

So what happens with Glass? Obviously, M. Night is all about the twists, so you can't really say anything about this movie, other than whether you like it or you don't. Me? I feel satisfied with the final product.

Despite the title, Sam Jackson isn't in that much of the movie. He definitely plays an integral part, but don't expect him to be in it much. He isn't even the first credited cast member. McAvoy is, because he plays a lot of different characters in this movie. 😉

Personally, I was more big on Unbreakable than I was on Split, which was still good. McAvoy definitely put a lot of effort into the role(s), but I was more into the Bruce Willis storyline. I wish there was more of it in the movie, but either way, the pacing is pretty sly. What I definitely liked was the cut scenes from Unbreakable, as well as some alternate angled scenes.

The movie handled all the characters really well, and I can't complain. It made my inner-nerd really happy. Good stuff.

Thanksgiving 2023

We all know the story. It was a Grindhouse trailer that's been in limbo for about 15 years, and just when we had lost all hope... this movie suddenly and actually exists. Thanksgiving has been pretty scarce on horror, so Eli Roth decided to step up and finally give the holiday a worthwhile slasher flick, and he's still got it.

A year after a Black Friday mishap, a target group of the teen variety get picked off in thanksgiving-esque ways. Meanwhile, the police investigate the whodunnit which takes some cues/scenes from the original trailer, but adds a tech angle with social media. I guess slasher flicks have finally mastered how to keep cell phones from ruining the magic of the formula. These days, you simply need to integrate cell phones into the plot, because they're not going anywhere.


Honestly, I never had really high hopes for the movie, so I went in with low expectations. It was fun. I laughed a lot, particularly at the opening Black Friday havoc, because I think of how stupid that shit is. Stupid because people used to get trampled for real, and stupid because it's barely relevant today with online shopping and cheap/free deliveries.

I'm happy that a horror fan like Eli Roth finally made a slasher movie. You would think that would have been a thing years ago, but nope. I'm a box of hair, and I approve of this movie.

#Review

Suspiria Remake

Hey guys I last watched the remake of Suspiria.

I don't know what the general consensus is but I actually thought this was quite good.

They made a pretty interesting decision here since the original Suspiria is pretty well known for Dario Argento's color palette and with this movie they decided to go with a stripped down color style. Probably a good decision in hindsight since any attempt to imitate the original cinematography might have come off as a second best imitation.

Anyway they still manage to do a great job of having fairly shocking and gripping horror scenes and the movie stands on it's own quite well from the original.

They done quite well to shoot the architecture of the dance company in a monolithic and gothic manner.

I would say this and Werner Herzog's Nosferatu The Vampyre are my favorite horror remakes.

Most watched actor?

Who's the actor you've seen the most films of? (i.e. not counting TV episode stuff)

I guess mine is Jackie Chan (though according to IMDB I've only rated 55 films of his, though I do remember at one stage having seen over 100 of his films, though this was in the days before I rated things on IMDB)

Christopher Lee 81 films
John Carradine 71 films
Peter Cushing 57 films

Head of the Family (1996)

Everyone who comes to this board would LOVE this movie. I don't know how to talk about it, exactly. It's sort of like if the characters from Killer Joe, or from Flesh and Bone, were brought into a sci-fi comedy, but it is set in Florida instead of Texas. It might have also borrowed some ideas from Baby Is Three, AKA More Than Human, by Theodore Sturgeon. Also also, it has quite a bit of prolonged, completely gratuitous nudity by Jacqueline Lovell, God bless her.

The dialog is really pretty clever, I thought. If you listen to it, you will frequently be like "wait a sec, this is actually pretty well written. How is that possible, in a ridiculous movie like this?!?" I can't explain it, but it's true.

Anyway, it is on Tubi for free right now, as I just mentioned in the Shout Box. Just a heads up.

Important Poll

When you think of weasels and flesh tearing do you think of the film or the album?

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