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Oh crap, and you can't forget Freaks, directed by Tod Browning in 1932.

It was originally 90 minutes long, but a half an hour was scrapped and lost forever because it was too freaky for us. NOW WE'LL NEVER SEE IT.

It was banned in the UK for 30 years. One woman tried to sue MGM, claiming the film forced her to have a miscarriage! Hahahaha, I wish I was making this up.

The film destroyed Tod Browning's career, even after he just made the super successful Dracula with Bela Lagosi in 1931.






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akuma587 said:
28 Days Later tanked as soon as they reached the mansion/complex with all the military people. I hated the last half of that movie so much...at least the first part was awesome.

Are you serious?  That's what made the film so good!  It wasn't your typical "run from zombies for the whole plot," but instead focused on the horrors of the people who can sieze power in an apocalyptic scenario as crazy as a zombie uprising.



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Generic Username 01 said:
The Evil Dead

Only watch this if you're a fan of watching a tree rape some chick. 

Evil Dead is the most over-hyped horror film of all time.

 

 

It's also amazing. But the second film is by far the best.

 

It's hard to give you some recommendations just based on Halloween 2 and Thriller, but might I suggest Sunshine? It's not a monster movie, but it's quite disturbing.



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What?!? 28 Weeks Later was shit. There were gaping plot holes, the acting sucked, and it lacked all of the suspense of the original. When Carlyle's zombie showed signs of intelligence, I knew Boyle had just stopped trying.

The concept was interesting. Too bad that every bit of execution past the first fifteen minutes was all wrong.




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Ah, I misread that post. I thought Rubang was defending the sequel. It seemed uncharacteristic of him to defend a shit movie like that.

28 Days Later kicked ass. One of the best horror movies in years.




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rocketpig said:
What?!? 28 Weeks Later was shit. There were gaping plot holes, the acting sucked, and it lacked all of the suspense of the original. When Carlyle's zombie showed signs of intelligence, I knew Boyle had just stopped trying.

The concept was interesting. Too bad that every bit of execution past the first fifteen minutes was all wrong.

Danny Boyle didn't write it or direct it.  He produced it with 4 others, and he did some second-unit shooting, but let them do whatever they wanted for the most part.  he was busy making Sunshine at the time.

It was directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, who I've never heard of until now.



I am all for social commentary in my horror movies, but I just didn't enjoy the last half of 28 Days Later. I just feel like it drags the rest of the movie down. If I don't enjoy what I am watching, then I am automatically less interested in what it has to say.



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Hm... I thought Boyle co-wrote it. I knew he didn't direct it.

Still, even as producer, he had to have seen that shitfest coming a mile away and let it continue.




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@rocketpig, I guess Boyle didn't expect 28 Days Later to be so successful in America, so his plan was to sell the rights to a sequel that would be made "for an American audience" which meant dumbing it down and making it suck. So yeah, we should still blame him. I really don't get the logic. He said he wanted to make a film for the American fans of the original. So... why is it nothing like the original? And I love how he gets all pissy when you call it a zombie movie. Dickhead thinks he's above "the zombie genre."


@akuma, Ah I see. Can't argue your tastes then. Even though they're wrong. Hahaha, ::runs::

Romero said all his zombie films are social commentary. Having zombies wander around a mall lusting for flesh might be the simplest metaphor ever made. The only metaphor I could think of that would be more obvious would be a zombie traffic jam. But I guess that's a completely different kind of commentary, since it's the premise and not the "twist" or the boring second half. I think 28 Days Later isn't even about the zombies. I think the zombies are kinda the setting for the film, but the story is actually about the military duders. One man's good story is another man's bad plot twist.



Nice pick with Argento



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