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Post by criterionmaster on Jul 6, 2006 3:36:41 GMT -5
This film has been discussed a lot elsewhere so I figured it would be nice to have a thread to discuss it.
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Post by captainofbeef on Jul 6, 2006 10:17:48 GMT -5
The best horror film of all time. I may like Halloween better, but I acknowledge that TCM is probably the better film.
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Post by mixed on Jul 6, 2006 12:57:18 GMT -5
As a horror film its truly great. I'm just not sure horror films can be considered 'great' films in a general way though.
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Post by criterionmaster on Jul 6, 2006 13:40:56 GMT -5
I disagree completly. Psycho is a horror film, are you saying that is not great my non-horror film standards?
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Post by mixed on Jul 6, 2006 16:12:31 GMT -5
I would say Touche  I think that psycho is very overrated though, despite the painstaking powerful performance from Anthony Perkins and of course the famous kill the main character thing. I quite like it but its not a great classic to me. Although in the can horror movies be seen as classics you would be correct. Though saying that I was currently thinking of eighties horror like Halloween and others. |
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Post by slapshot63 on Jul 16, 2006 21:58:34 GMT -5
I really like this movie. It isn't my favorite horror movie but it is very enjoyable. Very gritty, dark and realistic feeling.
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Post by blackmoses on Aug 4, 2006 19:06:33 GMT -5
Love this film one of the best horror films ever!
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Post by kiddo on Aug 28, 2006 4:52:17 GMT -5
Oh, so overrated it hurts. I just cant see what makes it a masterpiece. Yes, of course its a "living nightmare", stuffed with horror all the way along, but that has been done so much better so many times before. Halloween is in many ways a similar movie, but that film scores higher thanks to Carpenters brilliant direction. Not to mention the music, which is superior to Hooper`s Chainsaw Massacre. I can see why the film has many fans, but how can one say it is a masterpiece?
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Post by kiddo on Dec 26, 2006 7:38:15 GMT -5
Ok, so I watched this for the third time some days ago, and I have changed my opinion a bit. I still don't think it's a masterpiece, but a very good horror film it is. An effective one, at least, something that we don't get too often.
It could be that the first time I watched it, it was broad daylight and I wasn't that into films as I am now. The second time I watched it, was four o'clock in the morning, after drinking and stuff. So...
I saw it with my sister this time around, in the dark, with not much talking. We absorbed the horror in the film, and I let myself just be taken away by the pure nightmarish atmosphere... Good film.
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Post by lordofdance on Dec 26, 2006 17:22:24 GMT -5
Part of the appeal for me is that the movie is so relentlless once it gets going that it seems bloodier and more violent than it really is. The first time I saw it, I was almost pissed that it wasn't filled with gore. After watching many times since then, I realized that it doesn't need blood and guts. It succeeds on intensity alone.
I agree that watching it late at night improves the experience, though.
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