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Intriguing premise. I wonder how the execution will end up going. I'll probably imagine and wish for a version directed by John Schlesinger akin to Midnight Cowboy and Marathon Man in terms of mental association flashbacks. Though I feel like movies that try to do that these days, feel the need to do full on flashbacks and lack the deftness of flashes of memory association.
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Real Cases of Shadow People: The Sarah McCormick Story (F)
This movie straight up has the worst plot to filler ratio I've ever seen in a movie. Literally 1:10 or worse. Almost the entire run is people talking about farting in a tent, a guy doing impressions in the car, obnoxious banter that lasts soooooo much longer than you thought it would. The cuts almost never come and, when they do, it's just more filler! The plot itself isn't just undercooked, it's frozen. Zero tension anywhere, zero atmosphere, and nothing from the plot, which is largely asking 3 or 4 questions to 3 or 4 people, matters outside of the short scenes where that happens.
This movie straight up has the worst plot to filler ratio I've ever seen in a movie. Literally 1:10 or worse. Almost the entire run is people talking about farting in a tent, a guy doing impressions in the car, obnoxious banter that lasts soooooo much longer than you thought it would. The cuts almost never come and, when they do, it's just more filler! The plot itself isn't just undercooked, it's frozen. Zero tension anywhere, zero atmosphere, and nothing from the plot, which is largely asking 3 or 4 questions to 3 or 4 people, matters outside of the short scenes where that happens.
The Mcpherson Tape (D-)
Found footage from 1989 about a family finding itself beset by guys in black clothing and gray alien masks.
This one is tedious something fierce. Just unscripted talking over each other for almost the whole time. Indiscernible complaining and yelling and panicking for what, 20-30 straight minutes? The only good scene was the door scene, but that's one short moment in this whole mess.
Found footage from 1989 about a family finding itself beset by guys in black clothing and gray alien masks.
This one is tedious something fierce. Just unscripted talking over each other for almost the whole time. Indiscernible complaining and yelling and panicking for what, 20-30 straight minutes? The only good scene was the door scene, but that's one short moment in this whole mess.
Just wrote a little about this in “What are you watching tonight?” thread, but I’m planning on seeing In A Violent Nature, which is a Canadian slasher film described as an “ambient slasher”, and compares to slow cinema.
It’s unique where it’s told from the pov of the slasher
It’s unique where it’s told from the pov of the slasher
Recent Horror Film Watches :
S&man (doc - 2006) - 4/10
The Empty Man (2020) - 6/10
Haunt (2019) - 7/10
The Ruins (2008) - 5/10
The Phantom Carriage (1921) - 8/10
Bird Box (2018) - 6/10
Nothing Bad Can Happen (2013) - 7/10
Terrifier 2 (2022) - 7/10
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) - 8/10
Scream VI (2023) - 6/10
Late Night With the Devil - 8/10
Scream 4 - 7/10
Scream (2022) - 6/10
Atrocious (2015) - 3/10
All About Evil (2010) - 6/10
The First Omen (2024) - 7/10
Enys Men (2022) - 8/10
The Exorcist : Believer (2023) - 5/10
The Old Dark House (1932) - 8/10
Knock at the Cabin (2023) - 6/10
Dawn of the Dead (2004) - 6/10
Session 9 (2001) - 4/10
The Ghost (2004) - 5/10
Urban Legend (1998) - 4/10
S&man (doc - 2006) - 4/10
The Empty Man (2020) - 6/10
Haunt (2019) - 7/10
The Ruins (2008) - 5/10
The Phantom Carriage (1921) - 8/10
Bird Box (2018) - 6/10
Nothing Bad Can Happen (2013) - 7/10
Terrifier 2 (2022) - 7/10
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) - 8/10
Scream VI (2023) - 6/10
Late Night With the Devil - 8/10
Scream 4 - 7/10
Scream (2022) - 6/10
Atrocious (2015) - 3/10
All About Evil (2010) - 6/10
The First Omen (2024) - 7/10
Enys Men (2022) - 8/10
The Exorcist : Believer (2023) - 5/10
The Old Dark House (1932) - 8/10
Knock at the Cabin (2023) - 6/10
Dawn of the Dead (2004) - 6/10
Session 9 (2001) - 4/10
The Ghost (2004) - 5/10
Urban Legend (1998) - 4/10
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Horror movies watched from the month of May onward:
Livescream
Maniac Cop
Maniac Cop 2
Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence
The Jester
Abigail
This Never Happened
The Bridge Curse
The Bridge Curse; Ritual
The Pope's Exorcist
Countdown
Thanksgiving
The Banishing
Bodies Bodies Bodies
Tarot
Killer Book Club
Spiral: From The Book of Saw
Slotherhouse
Livescream
Maniac Cop
Maniac Cop 2
Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence
The Jester
Abigail
This Never Happened
The Bridge Curse
The Bridge Curse; Ritual
The Pope's Exorcist
Countdown
Thanksgiving
The Banishing
Bodies Bodies Bodies
Tarot
Killer Book Club
Spiral: From The Book of Saw
Slotherhouse
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FWIW, a Horror fan I generally really have a good opinion of really liked the film a lot.
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Recent Horror Film Watches :
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) - 8/10
The Old Dark House (1932) - 8/10
Session 9 (2001) - 4/10
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) - 8/10
The Old Dark House (1932) - 8/10
Session 9 (2001) - 4/10
Nice.
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New Predator, Prey sequel in development
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Hostel tv show in the works
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Hostel tv show in the works
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Recent Horror Film Watches :
The Empty Man (2020) - 6/10
Scream VI (2023) - 6/10
Scream 4 - 7/10
Scream (2022) - 6/10
The Empty Man (2020) - 6/10
Scream VI (2023) - 6/10
Scream 4 - 7/10
Scream (2022) - 6/10
The Old Dark House is such a riot. I loved it too. Slightly miffed about the Empty Man rating. Just slightly.
Also I wonder how well I'd rate the new Scream movies if I spaced them out more. I watched them all in one week or something, and the 30 minute confrontations at the end get absolutely exhausting.
Things Unknown (or Unknown Project) 2015 or 2013 (B)
A crew of three in an RV, travelling around places like Burning Man and such, stumble upon an odd scene while going to the location of one of the three's fond childhood memories. Alien hijinks ensue.
The annoying over-editing from the first third, from the whole doing a wacky travel show, subsides in the latter part when the stuff starts happening, and then you get some good UFO stuff. Nothing groundbreaking, but nothing too shabby either.
Leaving D.C (B+)
A man from D.C decides to leave the hustle and bustle of the city to go to a house in the woods in West Virginia. Paranormal hijinks ensue.
Now this is a nice little movie. Very little. It's one guy with a camera, one guy on the phone and one lady who shows up for less than 5 minutes. It's very much Blair Witchy, but much quieter and more tame. Great unseen scares, and does not drag on for too long at all.
A crew of three in an RV, travelling around places like Burning Man and such, stumble upon an odd scene while going to the location of one of the three's fond childhood memories. Alien hijinks ensue.
The annoying over-editing from the first third, from the whole doing a wacky travel show, subsides in the latter part when the stuff starts happening, and then you get some good UFO stuff. Nothing groundbreaking, but nothing too shabby either.
Leaving D.C (B+)
A man from D.C decides to leave the hustle and bustle of the city to go to a house in the woods in West Virginia. Paranormal hijinks ensue.
Now this is a nice little movie. Very little. It's one guy with a camera, one guy on the phone and one lady who shows up for less than 5 minutes. It's very much Blair Witchy, but much quieter and more tame. Great unseen scares, and does not drag on for too long at all.
The Green Slime -
Few things are scarier than an unstoppable force that cannot be reckoned or reasoned with. This isn't the best sci-fi horror movie to use this trope, but the important thing is that it's never not fun. It's definitely cheesy fun, especially since it's very much a product of its era. It recalls The Simpsons episode where we see a flashback to the Radioactive Man episode where everyone starts go-go dancing for no reason (which happens in this movie, and coincidentally, Batman creator Bill Finger, who Radioactive Man parodies, is a co-writer). That does not mean it's dumb, mind you. For instance, from the rocketships to champagne bottles to a, umm...shapely detonation device, the commentary that the invasion of the green slime monsters is a consequence of the unchecked hubris inherent in space travel is on display for the observant, thoughtful and/or perverted viewer. What's more, there's the beef between officers Rankin (Horton) and Elliott (Jaeckel) over who is really in charge and over the affections of the beautiful Dr. Benson (Thunderball's Paluzzi), which may be cliched, but it adds much-needed gravitas and substance to the main conflict. As for the monsters, their terrifying abilities to spray electricty from their hands and multiply The Thing-style more than overcome their budget appearances.
Again, this is no The Thing or Horror Express. Also, its ending is so pat that it's bound to make you laugh. When it comes to a lighter, more fun and cheesier alternative to such classics, though, I could not think of a better example. Just don't be surprised if you find yourself wanting to collect retro toys or model kits afterwards, and I say that with no disrespect towards the movie at all. Oh, and you may not look at your pants the same way again (you will see what I mean).
Few things are scarier than an unstoppable force that cannot be reckoned or reasoned with. This isn't the best sci-fi horror movie to use this trope, but the important thing is that it's never not fun. It's definitely cheesy fun, especially since it's very much a product of its era. It recalls The Simpsons episode where we see a flashback to the Radioactive Man episode where everyone starts go-go dancing for no reason (which happens in this movie, and coincidentally, Batman creator Bill Finger, who Radioactive Man parodies, is a co-writer). That does not mean it's dumb, mind you. For instance, from the rocketships to champagne bottles to a, umm...shapely detonation device, the commentary that the invasion of the green slime monsters is a consequence of the unchecked hubris inherent in space travel is on display for the observant, thoughtful and/or perverted viewer. What's more, there's the beef between officers Rankin (Horton) and Elliott (Jaeckel) over who is really in charge and over the affections of the beautiful Dr. Benson (Thunderball's Paluzzi), which may be cliched, but it adds much-needed gravitas and substance to the main conflict. As for the monsters, their terrifying abilities to spray electricty from their hands and multiply The Thing-style more than overcome their budget appearances.
Again, this is no The Thing or Horror Express. Also, its ending is so pat that it's bound to make you laugh. When it comes to a lighter, more fun and cheesier alternative to such classics, though, I could not think of a better example. Just don't be surprised if you find yourself wanting to collect retro toys or model kits afterwards, and I say that with no disrespect towards the movie at all. Oh, and you may not look at your pants the same way again (you will see what I mean).
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Super miffed at the lack of actual slime in The Green Slime. That's all I remember. That and the super annoying high pitched noise they made. I think it was that one.
Super miffed at the lack of actual slime in The Green Slime. That's all I remember. That and the super annoying high pitched noise they made. I think it was that one.
Oh, and how could I forget mentioning how awesome the theme song is? Sorry, Burt Bacharach, but I'm afraid it surpasses your The Blob song:
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The Green Slime -
Few things are scarier than an unstoppable force that cannot be reckoned or reasoned with. This isn't the best sci-fi horror movie to use this trope, but the important thing is that it's never not fun. It's definitely cheesy fun, especially since it's very much a product of its era. It recalls The Simpsons episode where we see a flashback to the Radioactive Man episode where everyone starts go-go dancing for no reason (which happens in this movie, and coincidentally, Batman creator Bill Finger, who Radioactive Man parodies, is a co-writer). That does not mean it's dumb, mind you. For instance, from the rocketships to champagne bottles to a, umm...shapely detonation device, the commentary that the invasion of the green slime monsters is a consequence of the unchecked hubris inherent in space travel is on display for the observant, thoughtful and/or perverted viewer. What's more, there's the beef between officers Rankin (Horton) and Elliott (Jaeckel) over who is really in charge and over the affections of the beautiful Dr. Benson (Thunderball's Paluzzi), which may be cliched, but it adds much-needed gravitas and substance to the main conflict. As for the monsters, their terrifying abilities to spray electricty from their hands and multiply The Thing-style more than overcome their budget appearances.
Again, this is no The Thing or Horror Express. Also, its ending is so pat that it's bound to make you laugh. When it comes to a lighter, more fun and cheesier alternative to such classics, though, I could not think of a better example. Just don't be surprised if you find yourself wanting to collect retro toys or model kits afterwards, and I say that with no disrespect towards the movie at all. Oh, and you may not look at your pants the same way again (you will see what I mean).
Few things are scarier than an unstoppable force that cannot be reckoned or reasoned with. This isn't the best sci-fi horror movie to use this trope, but the important thing is that it's never not fun. It's definitely cheesy fun, especially since it's very much a product of its era. It recalls The Simpsons episode where we see a flashback to the Radioactive Man episode where everyone starts go-go dancing for no reason (which happens in this movie, and coincidentally, Batman creator Bill Finger, who Radioactive Man parodies, is a co-writer). That does not mean it's dumb, mind you. For instance, from the rocketships to champagne bottles to a, umm...shapely detonation device, the commentary that the invasion of the green slime monsters is a consequence of the unchecked hubris inherent in space travel is on display for the observant, thoughtful and/or perverted viewer. What's more, there's the beef between officers Rankin (Horton) and Elliott (Jaeckel) over who is really in charge and over the affections of the beautiful Dr. Benson (Thunderball's Paluzzi), which may be cliched, but it adds much-needed gravitas and substance to the main conflict. As for the monsters, their terrifying abilities to spray electricty from their hands and multiply The Thing-style more than overcome their budget appearances.
Again, this is no The Thing or Horror Express. Also, its ending is so pat that it's bound to make you laugh. When it comes to a lighter, more fun and cheesier alternative to such classics, though, I could not think of a better example. Just don't be surprised if you find yourself wanting to collect retro toys or model kits afterwards, and I say that with no disrespect towards the movie at all. Oh, and you may not look at your pants the same way again (you will see what I mean).
I hope it will not be too self-centered to re-post my write-up of it here, so that we may compare notes.
https://www.movieforums.com/communit...89#post2336689
Oh yeah. It's The Green Slime, bitches!
A wonderful thing happened one night in the early 1980s, when Young Wooley was a wee lad of, say, eleven. He turned on his TV one night, about two years after his parents had given up on silly notions like "bed-times" and "age-appropriateness", and there was a pale, curvaceous, awkward, funny, cleavage-spilling vamp pouring out of the TV and into his nascent sexuality and young Horror and Fantasy-afflicted mind.
Elvira had arrived.
And young Wooley was transfixed and forever changed.
And as he sat glued to the television that night and watched, stunned, as this siren faded to black with the words, "Unpleasant dreams...", he was assaulted by this:
... and another wonder was forever burned into his soul.
I believe I liked the movie, I certainly never forgot it, but I can tell you that I was still able to sing the theme song 20, 30, almost 40 years later. And I think I re-watched it even, like 15 years ago or something, though after revisiting it the other night, I cannot swear that that had actually ever happened.
Could The Green Slime hold up? Gather' round I will tell you now of my experience.
First of all, what is The Green Slime? Well, imagine if Armageddon and Aliens were the offspring (conjoined twins?) of an hermaphrodite that is half each of those films. Which is to say that an asteroid is hurtling toward Earth and a crew is sent up to land on the asteroid and blow it up with a nuclear bomb. No joke, that is the plot of this movie, 30 years before Armageddon. But also the whole ship gets infiltrated by unstoppable aliens who creep around the ducts and kill people. Of course, they start out as... well, Green Slime, but quickly build up into huge invincible alien-monsters who, silly as they may look, are also cool in my extremely stoned opinion...
This movie opens with some of the most obvious, hilarious miniatures in science fiction history. Here are some comments I made in my notes about them...
"Holy shit, some of these wide shots look like a picture of a child’s erector set on Christmas morning after dad spent the whole night putting it together."
"I would swear there were just Legos on the screen a moment ago."
"I am literally watching children’s toys fly and roll around on the screen."
"The “air tanks” slightly out of focus in the foreground are actually the nitrous oxide cartridges better known as Whippets."
... and yet… I’m not mad about it. There’s something really enjoyable about 1960s ultra-low-budget sci-fi aesthetic and, as cheap as this is, it’s just got some odd charm that I found endearing. Perhaps this would not be true if the movie were worse, but... there's actually a lot to like here. And I mean a lot. I think if you only watched the indoor/on-set scenes of this movie, you would think it was actually a pretty good movie.
For starters, the two main characters (male) are just way more interesting than they ought to or need to be. One of them I will simply refer to as The Jaw. Like this was the conversation:
Director to Casting Director: “Go out and get me a JAW!”
But The Jaw is actually kinda convincing.
And I was really digging this very adult, mature behavior and complex personal relationship between the two male leads... until it totally devolves into alpha-male dominance and beta-male failure, which I thought was actually a pretty neat subversion of my expectations, but also totally how it probably happens in real-life instead of the movies. The Jaw seems kinda heroic and selfless and maybe even misunderstood early on when there's a setup that there's some reason people actually don't want him for this mission. And it turns out, as the movie unfolds, that it's because The Jaw is just a straight-up alpha-male dick. The more pressure put on, the more he reverts to being a domineering jerk. But then his sort of second-in-command-by-default seems like a guy who has gotten an unfair rap as a beta-male and will obviously end up being heroic and shine and save the day in the end... except that he doesn't he goes into total beta-male fail. He even loses the girl and gets himself killed!
I found all of this rather clever honestly. The writers obviously never saw Pretty In Pink. And It is so obvious that the actors, at least the two leads, think they’re making a much better movie than they are… so they do.
A few other notes:
I resent that the Scientist is the stupidest person in this movie. This motherf*cker insists on playing with the damn Green Slime on the asteroid and he inadvertently brings it back onto the ship... but worst of all, he's one of these no-don't-kill-it-we-must-study-it idiots that ends up getting himself and everybody else killed. I mean, I am a scientist and I was not mad when this scientist got demolished by The Green Slime.
Neat use of reversing the film (several times but always effective) so The Green Slime looks like it’s climbing up.
Rotoscoping! Woot!
I dig that the reaction of the doctors to the threat is to protect their patients. Cuz I went through Katrina AND COVID and that’s what doctors do. I think twice in the movie, the injured in the sick bays are threatened and the doctors refuse to leave and stay by their patients and even get between their patients and The Green Slime. Because that's how we do it.
All of these things are great and I found myself really, really enjoying The Green Slime. At one point I wondered, “Is this going on too long” but then I realized it was kinda perfect. But finally, and most importantly, I had to ask myself, "Does the movie work as a Sci-Fi/Horror Adventure?" Which, if you're high enough, it totally does.
My final position is that The Green Slime may be the best movie ever made.
I recommend everyone watch The Green Slime immediately.
Gonna try and watch the Strangers sometime this week. Got the AMC Stubs thing so might as well make the most of it.
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A few other notes:
I resent that the Scientist is the stupidest person in this movie. This motherf*cker insists on playing with the damn Green Slime on the asteroid and he inadvertently brings it back onto the ship... but worst of all, he's one of these no-don't-kill-it-we-must-study-it idiots that ends up getting himself and everybody else killed. I mean, I am a scientist and I was not mad when this scientist got demolished by The Green Slime.
I resent that the Scientist is the stupidest person in this movie. This motherf*cker insists on playing with the damn Green Slime on the asteroid and he inadvertently brings it back onto the ship... but worst of all, he's one of these no-don't-kill-it-we-must-study-it idiots that ends up getting himself and everybody else killed. I mean, I am a scientist and I was not mad when this scientist got demolished by The Green Slime.
I have yet to be let down by an Exciteorama movie I had never seen before. I also dug Trancers.
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