Comments on: Review: THE STRANGERS

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:05:26 +0000

Not to turn this blog into the Black Pearl, but there is a very good DVD quality treasure of [REC] available through the regular shipping channels.

That was the most awesome thing I’ve ever typed.

By: Annushka Valkovich

Annushka Valkovich — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:00:18 +0000

I hope this one is good. I’m planning on seeing it this weekend. Of course, I have to see every horror movie that comes out just to nourish my dark soul, feeding off of human terror and bloodlust…but I want to make sure it’s worth it.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:35:35 +0000

I think Peter did some ARRRRing to see REC. I’ve never seen it anywhere around here.

By: Matt W

Matt W — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:16:19 +0000

Ah. I read part of the review for REC. I saw that it was foreign and I thought that killed any chance I had of seeing it. NOT that I don’t like foreign films (for any genre), it just meant that theaters around me would more than likely not get it. The Orphanage went to my local theater at the very end of January for 2 weeks and then it was gone. I’m glad I got the chance to see it before it went goodbye.

Oh well, at least I officially live in Herndon now (well, I will on Saturday) so I can finally have a big cinema and maybe see some of these fancy movies that you city folk watch.

Although, I guess I’m the only one who thought Quarantine looked semi-decent. I guess cause of the lack of seeing REC and knowing it was a remake. I just thought the female zombie in the movie looked pretty bad-ass. I’ll have to check out REC.

By: R.J. Sayer

R.J. Sayer — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:22:05 +0000

Fuck.

you know, i left the theatre when that trailer came on, specifically to avoid having [REC] ruined for me.

and now i know Jennifer Carpenter dies in it. thanks, man.

oh wait… Jennifer Carpenter isn’t in [REC]… looks like i’m still good.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:22:51 +0000

Hah, what a shitty trailer it is. QUARANTINE is actually a remake of a Spanish flick called [REC] which came out last year that I like quite a bit. I really have little faith in QUARANTINE, though, especially since the trailer ruins the entire movie.

By: Matt W

Matt W — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:40:49 +0000

Well, glad my disappointment was shared. I figured that the whole, “they are normal, so why show their faces” point that Sayer made was what they were going for, but I still feel let down. But I always liked it when the killers had normal faces over the horribly burnt/disfigured/etc faces. I mean I totally bought into Halloween 5’s selling point of Myers being unmasked, but also…I watched every Friday the 13th wondering how fucked up Jason’s face was going to be when he would (probably) be unmasked in that one.

By the way, they had a trailer for a movie called Quarantine; looked like Cloverfield meets zombies. It had Jennifer Carpenter (Exorcism of Emily Rose, and Dexter’s sister in Dexter) but she dies in it at the end. Have you heard anything on that?

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:13:38 +0000

And, the not showing the faces bit is irritating. You always get to see the face of evil. That’s the point in the mask, building up the suspense of what they look like.

Bluh, HND isn’t letting my comments go through apparently. /fail

I think it’s http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497432/

and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411267/

I was going to get 13 Beloved, but it was 10 dollars, which I didn’t have. Which is really sad.