Sure, you’ve seen just about everything in Sam’s Lake (2005) in previous “spam in a cabin” slasher flicks, but at least it all seems sincere. That counts for something, right? Right?
FROM THE VAULT
- Like I said, Lyz– right under the wire. — posted by El Santo on February 29, 2008
- Uh-oh – Theremin! — posted by lyzard on June 18, 2011
- Semi-Live from the New York Asian Film Festival — posted by KeithA on June 27, 2010
- Legend of Suram Fortress — posted by KeithA on December 18, 2014
- Devilish dealings — posted by lyzard on September 22, 2014
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- 63: The Forgotten Dawn Of Horror
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- 70: The China Anniversary Syndrome: Part 4
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#1 by Blake on July 16, 2010 - 4:34 am
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Nate, have you ever seen a slasher film that wrote Final Girl all over one of the actresses, only to kill her off at the climax and leave the promiscuous girl or another girl alive?
#2 by Nathan Shumate on July 16, 2010 - 5:48 am
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Well, there was Psycho…
#3 by El Santo on July 16, 2010 - 8:00 am
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Blake, have a look at an early Canadian slasher called [i]Humongous[/i]. It’s not especially good (coming across like a hastily performed Incredible Two-Headed Transplant of [i]Friday the 13th, Part 2[/i] and [i]The Grim Reaper[/i]), but it is one of the more striking illustrations of how Canada routinely did things a little differently in the slasher subgenre.
#4 by Blake on July 16, 2010 - 10:51 am
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Thanks, Santo. I’ll see if I can catch it on YouTube…I mean through legal means.
#5 by lyzard on July 17, 2010 - 3:49 pm
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That’s rather interesting: we all routinely mention Black Christmas as “the first slasher fim” while pointing out how much it differs from its progeny, but it’s never occurred to me before that treating Canadian slashers as a separate entity might be a worthwhile study. (I’m actually a little behind the pace on those films, tho’ I’ve been meaning to get to them.)
#6 by The Beeerman on July 18, 2010 - 1:52 am
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From the glacial pacing of “Happy Birthday to Me” to the borderline intelligence and nasty streak of “My Bloody Valentine” I always referred to them seperately as “Canuxploitation.”
#7 by The Beeerman on July 18, 2010 - 1:54 am
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…Not to mention the whole can of WTF that is “The Clown Murders.”
#8 by Mr. Rational on July 18, 2010 - 8:00 am
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The Beeerman: I assume you mean the ORIGINAL “My Bloody Valentine.” I took two friends to see the remake, but insisted we watch the original first — I’d seen it, they hadn’t. I was so glad I insisted. One of them realized how bad a movie it was in comparison. The other, God bless him, raved about the awesome 3-D special effects.
And now I know who goes to see those movies…
#9 by Nathan Shumate on July 18, 2010 - 2:07 pm
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Mr. Rational, I feel your pain. I used tp have two roommates who insisted that Highlander II was better than the original.
#10 by Blake on July 18, 2010 - 3:51 pm
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I had a cousin who spent otherwise good money on three different versions of Highlander II.
#11 by Mr. Rational on July 19, 2010 - 12:55 am
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Nathan: I knew one of those too. Scary, innit?
Blake: THREE?!?!?! Hold on…just a sec, there…
:::runs to get popcorn:::
:::settles in, starts to munch:::
Okay, GO. This oughta be good.
#12 by Blake on July 19, 2010 - 4:46 am
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Yeah. First he bought the theatrical cut. And there was a director’s cut that, if I remember correctly, featured a lot of gore in the subway sequence (and probably some other things that I don’t care about). And finally, in 1997, there was a Renegade Edition that was released. I don’t want to fathom what they think they could’ve added to make that film better.
#13 by Not-So-Great Cthulhu on July 19, 2010 - 1:18 pm
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I confess to having seen the Renegade Edition. It doesn’t change the plot (that I recall), so most of the same silliness is there. The biggest thing I remember it doing is putting a few scenes in what was apparently the right order. One thing I remember it fixing was when MacLeod started a fight with one sword and by the end of it he was using a different one (without any inkling of how he’d changed swords). Turned out that it was two different fight scenes that were originally edited into one fight for the theatrical release.
Overall, I thought it did make Highlander 2 into a better movie, but not enough that I’d recommend it.
#14 by Twitch14 on July 21, 2010 - 1:38 pm
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The biggest thing the Renegade Version did was remove all references to, and I quote, “the dreaded planet Zeist.” This is a good thing, even if one of my favorite B-movie memories was 500 die-hard Highlander fans, seeing Highlander II on opening night, and responding to the revelation that the immortals are aliens with a resounding “What THE @#$@!!!!!!”
#15 by MatthewF on July 22, 2010 - 6:38 am
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Ah the Highlander franchise, how to go straight from Star Wars to the Phantom Menace in one easy step.
It’s amazing how many owners of big ‘properties’ like these show such little understanding of what it was the fans liked in the first place. It’s clear that whatever it was that made highlander such a fun movie was a fluke and the producers had (and have) no idea how to replicate it.
#16 by Nathan Shumate on July 22, 2010 - 7:25 am
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Nor did director Russell Mulcahy. I won’t blame him specifically for H2 — he was probably roped in by contract and had to film the script they shoved in front of him — but when the highlights of your post-Highlander career are 1994’s The Shadow and 2007’s Resident Evil: Extinction, well…
#17 by lyzard on July 22, 2010 - 4:17 pm
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Yeah, but let’s face it: when you start your film career with a giant rampaging killer boar, there’s nowhere to go but down, is there?
#18 by Nathan Shumate on July 22, 2010 - 5:44 pm
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True, true.
#19 by MatthewF on July 23, 2010 - 7:03 am
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You could make a bunch of Duran Duran videos. Oh, wait.
#20 by Blake on July 23, 2010 - 11:03 am
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Does that mean you’re going to watch and review the recent South Korean horror film “Chaw”, which is also about a rampaging killer boar? *hint hint wink wink*