Worldsfinest wrote:
Not Worldsfinest and I thought of an idea of a sequel thon...where you play the first of one movie, then a sequel of several others...for example...
Night of the Living Dead (Romero)
Halloween 2
Nightmare on Elm Street 3
Friday the 13th Part IV
and so on and so forth...the problem we came up with was that, it would be incredibly limited because I think the only movie with 12 sequels is Puppet Master!! haha
Great idea! Okay, I have waited long enough for this and am excited to finally post my review of the 2015 Shock Around The Clock 24 Hour Horror Marathon! First, I absolutely must thank Bruce Bartoo, Joe Neff, the entire staff and management of the Drexel Theater, every single person responsible for running the website and/or forums and all of the volunteers who helped out in ANY WAY at all (and I mean ANY way, even telling others about the marathon online or etc.) You all ROCK. I love you guys (and gals?). The Drexel Theater is my second home, and the theater attendees that regularly attend the Sci Fi and/or Horror marathons are not my friends. They are my family, so you all can think of me as your brother. LOL As you know, families don't always get along. True to form, I was sitting on the left side of the theater in one of the back rows, maybe the 3rd or 4th row? And some semi famous person who shall go unnamed as well as his family/friends kept getting up during movies, over and over and over and over. It got to the point of sheer annoyance. Some advice: PLEASE make sure that anything you have to do is done BETWEEN movies, NOT DURING if you can help it. There's lots of breaks in between all the movies, yet, these people waited until DURING the movies to get up. It drove me nuts. THIS is why I always sit at the very edge of a movie aisle at the Ohio movie marathons from now on, so that IF I have to get up during a movie, I do not walk in anyone's way, or have to step over their feet, or bump into their knees! I mention this to allow for a better movie watching experience to all. And now for my thoughts on the films:
THE KEEP:I really wanted to see this, but unfortunately, for some weird reason, I COULD NOT STAY WIDE AWAKE! I didn't full on 'sleep', but I bobbed my head up and down and FOUGHT to stay awake VERY, VERY HARD! From what I was able to see and hear of the movie, it looked great, but it is hard to follow the story line of a movie when you are fighting sleep worse than any characters are fighting evil monsters in a movie.
IT FOLLOWS:This was my FAVORITE of the marathon, and I probably love this movie more than anyone else that attended the event! I've spoken about it on the thread for it, so I'll save you all from having to read it again. If you haven't read it, please go read it.
The soundtrack is the best thing about the movie, but I also love the simplicity of the story. It's not a crazy, drawn out plot. It is simple, and I also disagree with a previous poster that the rules of the villain "changed". I don't see how they changed. The villain is like a virus. It's coming for you, but if you have sex with someone, it has to kill them BEFORE it kills you, in order. No one can see, hear or smell it but you, but ANYONE can touch and be touched by it.
SHOCK VALUE: THE MOVIE:An okay movie, not great, but definitely interesting given that it came from Horror masters to be. I probably would have enjoyed it more if it were not for the TERRIBLE back pain and headache I was suffering through. During this movie, I had to step outside for some reason. I can't remember why. I think to pick up my Donatos sub?
TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME:Okay, I feel it is only fair to give you all a warning:
This review will NOT BE POSITIVE, and I have VERY little good to say about this movie, so if you love this movie or the series and are easily offended, you may not want to read below.
Okay, so......WHAT THE F&%K WAS THIS!!!????? This is by far the worst movie I have ever seen at ANY marathon of any kind at any theater, for all time!!! First, it's not even a Horror film in any way, shape or form, and trust me, I was wide awake through out the entire thing. The only thing "Horror" related about this piece of garbage was the horrible acting! Please bear in mind that I have never (and will never, ever) watch any episodes of the show or the reboot show, nor do I care for David Lynch. Is there a single scene in the movie in which the lead character is NOT screaming or crying? This movie is just weird and stupid. Why should I care about any of the characters, especially the one who is killed at the end? I really do not understand why whoever decided to book this film booked it. There was a similar incident where a Peter Jackson movie screened at a previous, 12 hour Horror marathon by the name of "MEET THE FEEBLES". Even though I did enjoy that movie, it was NOT Horror and never should have been screened at a Horror marathon. I am a dedicated, lifelong fan and attendee to the marathons and rarely complain about anything. My ONLY complaint about the marathons is that Joe and Bruce please stick to the genre of films they are hosting a marathon for. I just don't see this as Horror, even if I LOVED this movie.
Now for the good things (and there aren't many):
* I LOVE the music. It is very beautiful.
* A lot of the actresses in this movie are very sexy, especially Laura's friend in the club scene (MEEOWW!!!!!!!!!!)
* Ray Wise is such an over the top actor. Love that guy. Great performance.....even if I DIDN'T understand what the hell the movie was about.
DEATHGASM:LOVE this movie!!! It reminded me of the animated series on [adult swim] called "Metalocalypse". It was uber violent, bloody, gory, loaded with sex jokes and was WICKED awesome, but think it is stupid for me to care about a guy who betrays his "friend", lies to his love interest, then insults and beats the holy crap out of his "friend". What a JERK!
GERMAN ANGST:I love this movie more than most people did. Maybe because I have German in me and feel honored to have a movie coming from mother Germany screen at my favorite event all year. The second story could have been better, like if the formerly deaf mute man turned bald leader had used the device to switch his dying girlfriend with the loud mouthed blonde girl, THAT would have made the movie a QUINTILLION times better!!! What the heck WERE those things in the third story? Vampires? I seriously don't remember!
DAWN OF THE DEAD:There is probably some confusion over comments I made about the remake in that I don't care for the original Dawn Of The Dead. That is totally not true. I LOVE this movie dearly. It is a timeless classic. I just think the remake is better. That doesn't make me less of a Horror fan to appreciate a remake. Everyone has their own tastes. Likewise, I absolutely do not have any negative feelings towards the man who said he doesn't like It Follows. I respect his opinion. I DISAGREE with it lol but I respect that he offered it. That being said, this is one of the few films that exist where you see child zombies. An interesting bit of trivia about this, is that the mall jingle IS IN FACT the closing theme song for the show "Robot Chicken", despite who disagrees!
THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MISS OSBOURNE:This movie was okay, but for whatever reason, I couldn't stay fully awake. I fought sleep HARD. This seemed to be a "Bride Of Dr. Jekyll". Holy GOSH was the brunette in this HOT!!! YOWZA!
HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY:Another movie that I fought to stay awake during. It was one of the better movies that screened, but yes, I agree also. "BOB"!?? Lady, call him "BOBBY", not Bob, at least until he turns 13. Bob is so....adult.
THE DEVIL RIDES OUT:There was no reason for me to stay awake, so this is the only film that I decided to catch a little shut eye during zzzzz zzzzz
KILLER SHREWS:I agree with another poster. I liked this more than I thought I would, given its silly premise.
"OH GOD, EVERYONE!!! RUN!!!! IT'S THE......shrews...." HAHAHA!!!!!
I recognize the main actor in this film from an episode of The Twilight Zone. It's nice to see him portray a more confident, tougher character than the patsy he portrayed in The Twilight Zone.
NIGHT OF THE CREEPS:Okay, everyone. You all know how this works. I'm going to tell some corny jokes, and your job is to boo me or throw tomatoes accordingly, and......(blows whistle):
(gets up on stage)
- THIS MOVIE GIVES NEW MEANING TO THE TERM "GRABBING A COLD ONE"!
- THEY GOT A "STIFFY"!
- THAT GIRL'S DATE WAS "DEAD ON HIS FEET"!
Okay, I'm done.
How can ANYONE hate the 80's??? I LOVE 80's Horror and Sci Fi films (except for a few). Also, I disagree that Jason Lively should never be a hero. I think he did an AMAZING job! His character wasn't supposed to be a "bad ass" Arnold Schwarzenegger type. He was merely a college student that got caught up in a crapstorm of apocalyptic proportions. How the HELL did at least one of the alien parasites dig underground underneath a damn building, getting into that corpse? Those alien parasites are slippery flesh. The ground is hard packed dirt. Did it/they EAT the dirt to dig down into it? Concerning the original ending:
Farva wrote:
**I forgot to mention, glad Night of the Creeps shown with the director's cut. The original ending....
shows the dog that caused the bus to crash, show up on the sidewalk after the sorority had exploded. Cynthia Cronenberg sees the dog, bends down to pet it & then it shoots a worm into her mouth, roll credits.
I much prefer the director's cut alternate ending showing Detective Cameron as a zombie ending with his head exploding by the cemetery & the alien ship trying to locate their lost cargo.
In all fairness, we don't actually see the alien parasite go into her mouth. I would like to think that either
A. She grabbed it AS SOON AS it came near her, like the cop did
or
B. The lead character shot it AS SOON AS it came near her.
I really love this character. She was beautiful and sweet. I don't want her to be dead lol
Lastly, just before the Costume Contest, I stepped out to go to Starbucks to buy a Caramel Machiatto, and then to CVS to buy a small bottle of Advil to take care of my RAGING headache!!! I completely missed it, so I was wondering if anyone has posted a video of it that I can watch?