That's a fair point about Texas chainsaw massacre. I remember watching it when I was younger and when I watched it again as an adult I was taken back by how tame it was compared to my memory.
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The new Black Christmas movie is rated PG13
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The sound of the hammer coming down on the first victim, then the metal sliding door slamming shut haunts me to this day.
It's nearing 5am here so my brain is to mushy to poke at!
Movie got banned on VHS in sweden since a christian tv-channel got kids in front of a camera to say they saw the film and they described how bloody and gory the kills where. So yeah, urban legend indeed.
Same with Halloween. Not the ban, the execution. It's my all time favourite horror movie.
Funnily enough, Hooper was hoping TCM would be rated PG which is why he limited the violence onscreen
Yes! Leather face entrance into the film was burned into my young mind for a long time just like Pennywise was.
Wes was so good at the meta stuff. It's a shame they're doing this at all.
I still maintain that New Nightmare is his meta masterpiece. Scream being more successful of course, but New Nightmare was so much more insane. Easily the best Elm Street movie too
New Nightmare is great! I always saw it as Scream's big brother
new nightmare is by far his most underrated movie -such a good meta horror movie
I mean... I can't fault them if we're clearly not the target audience. Their target audience is young, teenage girls - and that's not to say that it still couldn't have been Rated R but I guess test screenings speak volumes. It does suck though if they originally wrote/shot it with Rated R in mind.
If it wasn't made to be PG-13 the edits will likely show. Which is a shame. I love the original and I thought the trailer for this looked good.
Krampus was PG-13 and it was brilliant. Same with Gremlins, so there's a market for PG-13 level Christmas horror but I suspect this is going to hurt. Not The Fog bad (the worst pg-13 remake of an R rated movie I know of), but this definitely cools my hopes.
Krampus was PG-13 and it was brilliant. Same with Gremlins, so there's a market for PG-13 level Christmas horror but I suspect this is going to hurt. Not The Fog bad (the worst pg-13 remake of an R rated movie I know of), but this definitely cools my hopes.
I adore Krampus. Such an under rated movie. Feels like if it came out in the 80s it would be labeled a classic.
Happy DD2U bombed because it lost the horror and went dumb.
its more of a comedy tbh
I actually actively dislike Krampus as it felt like it pulled its punches. Was so underwhelmed at how it seemed like a made for tv horror movie.
I saw this tonight and it's honestly one of the worst films I've seen all year. Tries to be a horror film about trauma/toxic masculinity/rape culture but is so extremely clumsy in treating all of them I was frequently embarrassed to be watching. Awfully edited "suspense" sequences, crappy jump scares, trailer spoiled almost everything. Only positive was the performances were decent. Shockingly inept otherwise.
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Well that's kind of what everyone was expecting. A shame though. We will always have the 70s version.
Honestly I thought it would be a fine 5/10. But this is like a 3/10. I'm shocked at just how incompetent it is as even a piece of basic schlock filmmaking.
I knew it was terrible just looking at the trailer, but wow this sounds even worse that no expected. What a shame this series deserves better.
Welp, that's disappointing. Looks like the 2006 version will continue to be my favorite
My expectations are high but it seems like most horror movies are PG13 right? I wish they weren't, but I think it inherently devalues a horror movie - especially one that doesn't need to be ultra violent like Black Christmas. Hopefully it surprises everybody and turns out to be really good.
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From The Guardian review
Made in less than 6 months? Yikes. 2006 a masterpiece by comparison? Oof.
Made in less than 6 months? Yikes. 2006 a masterpiece by comparison? Oof.
This is unequivocally one of the worst theatrically released films of the decade. A joyless, passionless and absurd disaster that punches far above its class and winds up insulting and demeaning the very victims that it claims to be representing. It fails on nearly every conceivable level both artistically and technically and frankly deserves to be lost to time in gas station bargain bins if not a landfill. Fuck this movie to death and beyond.
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I rate the original as being scarier than the original Halloween. The first remake is very poor and only has some gory moments to take notice. I won't even going to bother with this one.
I actually prefer the remake to the original because it's so fucking ridiculous. Rape revenge slasher and his one eyed sister murder everyone. The color saturation and camera angles really work for what it's doing.
Going to see the new one Saturday. Mildly excited for new holiday trash.
Going to see the new one Saturday. Mildly excited for new holiday trash.
These reviews sound just like the ones I read for the first remake minus the ultra violence. I at least hope that none of the cast from the original showed up for this shit.
To those who've seen it, was it obvious that it wasn't shot in America? (it was shot in New Zealand, without real snow as far as I know)
PG-13 horror can be fine and I think their reasoning makes sense, even if it probably wont end up that way. Not everything needs to be Cannibal Holocaust.
Edit: Looking at the reviews I'm thinking PG-13 is the least of their problems. Why are they pushing this movie so hard? I see so many trailers.
Edit: Looking at the reviews I'm thinking PG-13 is the least of their problems. Why are they pushing this movie so hard? I see so many trailers.
The Jeremy Jahns reveiw was pretty savage. He's called it dogshit and said its more of a thriller than a slasher.
gonna wait for streaming.
gonna wait for streaming.
There is an additional twist which is only vaguely implied in the trailers. But it's so fucking stupid I just couldn't get on with it
the statue of the college's founder leaks a black goo which turns the frat boys into zombies who can be controlled to murder "troublesome" women
Honestly not really. Though there is an obvious bit in the opening scene where a woman is dragged through "snow" that blatantly doesn't have the texture or granularity of real snow lmao
Oh lord, I cannot wait for the Double Toasted review on this one. It sounds like a glorious clusterfuck.
Oh lord, I cannot wait for the Double Toasted review on this one. It sounds like a glorious clusterfuck.
Yeah this was my reaction in the cinema. It comes totally out of nowhere:
I want you all to know that this film
This also has one of the shittiest recreations of that jump scare from The Exorcist III which made me say "oh, fuck off" out loud in the empty theater that I saw this dogshit in.
really implies that we can maybe end toxic masculinity, sexual abuse and violence against women if we just break a couple of statues.
This also has one of the shittiest recreations of that jump scare from The Exorcist III which made me say "oh, fuck off" out loud in the empty theater that I saw this dogshit in.
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Margot Kidder is rolling in her grave. And that 37 year old who played a college student in the original.
Holy shit that was bad. It's very hard to not be patronizing, but its heart was clearly in the right place and it just couldn't do anything with it. There's definitely a movie out there to play off the modern feminist dread, but this ain't it. Not by a long shot.
5 out of 10 for me, saw it this morning, I've never seen the other versions or original. I also didn't see a single trailer.
Black Christmas?
More like Beta Cuckmas amirite lol
This fucking sucked my god. And could you ever tell they hacked this to shit to get down to PG 13 including a cut so obvious it even cuts off a music cue before it's finished
It preaches the importance of Trans and other LGBT voices but everyone in this movie is aggressively heteronormative.
It's preachy as fuck but backs up absolutely none of it.
Do as I say not as I do.
Just an honest to god insult to feminism and the fight for equality.
More like Beta Cuckmas amirite lol
This fucking sucked my god. And could you ever tell they hacked this to shit to get down to PG 13 including a cut so obvious it even cuts off a music cue before it's finished
It preaches the importance of Trans and other LGBT voices but everyone in this movie is aggressively heteronormative.
It's preachy as fuck but backs up absolutely none of it.
Do as I say not as I do.
Just an honest to god insult to feminism and the fight for equality.
Oh lord, I cannot wait for the Double Toasted review on this one. It sounds like a glorious clusterfuck.
It's not even, it's really boring on top of it.
Saw a commercial of it a few weeks back and was surprised, this is the second time they remade that movie. The first remake went full crazy and a bit disgusting.
I would have loved to have seen what this could have been if it 1) actually committed to any of the messages it preached, 2) didn't have a shoddy slowmotion climax that completely diluted even the potential that the landing could have at least been stuck, and 3) was R-rated
Best part of this was getting to see the Invisible Man trailer on the big screen. Elisabeth Moss won't let me down this bad
Best part of this was getting to see the Invisible Man trailer on the big screen. Elisabeth Moss won't let me down this bad
Yikes at the reactions here. I'm guess it was rushed because of the "timely" subject matter the screenwriter's tweets mentioned?