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Post by Evil Dave on Aug 11, 2007 21:42:55 GMT -5
Monster-on-the-midway flick will be showing @ 7am central time tomorrow on the UHD network. Don't know how many of you have seen it, but it's worth a watch if you haven't. Directed by Tobe Hooper.
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Post by tsmooth31 on Aug 11, 2007 22:04:04 GMT -5
not a bad movie...but i felt leftdown after i watched it for the first time last year
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Post by piggsy on Aug 11, 2007 23:37:23 GMT -5
The Funhouse is a classic, definitely one of Hooper's best.
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Post by lazario on Aug 12, 2007 8:50:52 GMT -5
I remember recently saying I believe Hell Night is extremely similar and definitely better. Give that a watch instead.
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Post by Evil Dave on Aug 12, 2007 9:23:00 GMT -5
Yeah, i have to agree with tsmooth and Laz on this one. It's decent enough, but nothing to write home about. if tobe hooper wasn't the director i'm not sure many people would care an awful lot about this movie....................
oh yeah, and one more thing.................i thought they chose to show the son's "deformed" face way too early. ok that's all.
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Post by lazario on Aug 12, 2007 9:51:48 GMT -5
I think it was like Tobe Hooper trying to make a more mainstream theatrical feature film. My biggest problem was the opening. It had a tiny bit of atmosphere as soon as they got to the carnival, but it didn't actually get good until after the fortune-teller was killed. But the scenes with the teens/20-somethings being stalked inside the Spookhouse/Horror-house ride were excellent. But that opening scene was like a direct Halloween rip-off and was bad all around. I've never seen a more inept scene directed by Tobe Hooper; though I refuse to watch Crocodile- even several shots of attractive, athletically-amply built young men running around with their shorts falling down (it was in the Lions Gate trailer ((I'm going to use that smiley whenever I coyly make a veiled Lions Gate inference))) couldn't make want to see a Lake Placid rip-off.
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Post by Evil Dave on Aug 12, 2007 10:10:20 GMT -5
i'd definitely agree with you about the points you made about the beginning and it taking too long to get going. I'm all for establishing a setting and atmosphere. And Tobe Hooper films generally tend to start out slow, and crescendo after the halfway point, but I think he drug it out too long in this movie. a lot of the first half of the movie was just fluff. Especially the "nudie-girl" strip tent scene. Felt completely out of place and unnecessary. This movie could actually have been trimmed to just 60-70 minutes long, and wouldn't have lost anything of importance.
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Post by lazario on Aug 12, 2007 10:12:51 GMT -5
I agree - and that's when you know the movie has bigtime problems. If it stays in it's 90-minute incarnation. I think they should revive the 75-minute horror movie.
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Post by Evil Dave on Aug 12, 2007 10:28:04 GMT -5
^^^^Lol! with our A.D.D. society the return of the 75 min. horror film would be a smash hit!
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Post by lazario on Aug 12, 2007 10:33:04 GMT -5
Or it could inspire theaters to drop Admission prices... just a thought.
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Post by Evil Dave on Aug 12, 2007 10:45:00 GMT -5
Or it could inspire theaters to drop Admission prices... just a thought. It'd be nice wouldn't it................ I also wish the drive-in movie theaters could make a comeback. I always thought that would be a great way to experience a horror flick............
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Post by lazario on Aug 12, 2007 10:57:30 GMT -5
But you've never gone? I haven't either. They say now though, drive-ins show mostly family oriented films.
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Post by Evil Dave on Aug 12, 2007 11:41:36 GMT -5
Nope, never been to one..................And what a waste only showing family films. You'd think most parents spend too much time with their bratty kids in the car already..............
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Post by lazario on Aug 12, 2007 12:17:55 GMT -5
Good one. But I think those days of parents&kids' car trips are pretty much over. That Simpsons' joke where Bart slaps the back of the head of a guy with a family in the car next to them, making the father/driver yell at his own kids thinking it was them... probably doesn't work as well today as it did in the '90s.
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Post by Evil Dave on Aug 12, 2007 23:32:08 GMT -5
Yeah you're right about the long family road trip vacations. Poor Chevy Chase, no more family adventures in the family Truckster...................I was eluding more to soccer moms that spend half their life carting their offspring to and from school/activities.
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