Attention VOTE: Battle of the Films

[captainofbeef]

I love Jaws, but I am gonna give some love to the Dead Zone here.

[criterionmaster]

Never seen Dead Zone!

[satantangofan]

Jaws.

[misterbalco]

Jaws

Although I contribute Jaws to the downfall of Hollywood (with Star Wars), its still a classic. Dead Zone is a Stephen King movie, self explanitory. Only exceptions are Misery and The Shining.

[captainofbeef]

I think The Dead Zone is an exception too. Extremely well done with an excellent performance by Walken.

[PTAhole]

You must be fucking crazy, BeeD! Jaws smokes the Dead Zone in every way possible.

[captainofbeef]

Jaws wins 3-1. Next one up soon.

[captainofbeef]

Round 1
Battle 12
Northwest region
6 seed
Alien (R. Scott, 1979)

When commercial towing vehicle Nostromo, heading back to Earth, intercepts an SoS signal from a nearby planet, the crew are under obligation to investigate. After a bad landing on the planet, some crew members leave the ship to explore the area. At the same time as they discover a hive colony of some unknown creature, the ship's computer deciphers the message to be a warning, not a call for help. When one of the eggs is disturbed, the crew do not know the danger they are in until it is too late.

vs
11 seed
Nosferatu (Murnau, 1922)

Count Orlok's move to Bremen brings the plague traceable to his dealings with the realtor Thomas Hutter, and the Count's obsession with Hutter's wife, Ellen the only one with the power to end the evil

[captainofbeef]

Nosferatu is classic, but Alien is a better film. I go for Alien.

[satantangofan]

Love them both but vote Alien.

[PTAhole]

Like Nosferatu, but Alien is masterful.

[criterionmaster]

Alien

[captainofbeef]

Alien wins 4-0, next one up soon.

[captainofbeef]

Round 1
Battle 13
Southwest region
6 seed
Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn (Raimi, 1987)

A young man named Ash takes his girlfriend Linda to a secluded cabin, and plays back a professor's tape recorded recitation of passages from the Book of the Dead. The spell calls up an evil force from the woods which turns Linda into a monstrous Deadite, and threatens to do the same to Ash. When the professor's daughter and her entourage show up at the cabin, the night turns into a non-stop, grotesquely comic battle with chainsaw and shotgun on one side, demon horde and flying eyeball on the other.

vs
11 seed
Friday the 13th (Cunningham, 1980)

In 1957, A young boy named Jason Voorhees drowned. In 1958, two camp counselors were murdered, in 1962, the fires and bad water thwarted to reopen the Crystal Lake Camp. Now in 1979, Crystal Lake was finally reopened by Steve Christy, with the help of a few new counselors. Ignoring the warnings from a local wacko, the murders start once again by a mysterious stalker. It is Revenge what the killer is looking for? Who will survive the nightmare and live to tell the story?

[captainofbeef]

Evil Dead II. Never been that big of a fan of Friday the 13th. I kind of look upon it as the downfall of good horror movies.

[PTAhole]

EASILY Evil Dead 2.

[satantangofan]

Don't rate either. Decline to vote.

[misterbalco]

Friday the 13th

[captainofbeef]

Evil Dead II wins 2-1.

[captainofbeef]

Round 1
Battle 14
Northwest region
7 seed
Evil Dead (Raimi, 1981)

Five friends go up to a cabin in the woods where they find unspeakable evil lurking in the forest. They find the Necronomicon and the taped translation of the text. Once the tape is played, the evil is released. One by one, the teens become deadly zombies. With only one remaining, it is up to him to survive the night and battle the evil dead.

vs
10 seed
A Nightmare on Elm Street (Craven, 1984)

Nancy is having nightmares about a frightening, badly-scarred figure who wears a glove with razor-sharp "finger knives". She soon discovers that her friends are having similar dreams. When the kids begin to die, Nancy realizes that she must stay awake to survive. Uncovering the secret identity of the dream killer and his connection with the children of Elm Street, the girl plots to draw him out into the real world.

[captainofbeef]

Both are classics, but I like Evil Dead just a little bit better.

[PTAhole]

Evil Dead.

[criterionmaster]

UGH! NoES is great but I will have to go Evil Dead!

[satantangofan]

Evil Dead

[captainofbeef]

Evil Dead wins 4-0. Next one up soon.

[captainofbeef]

Round 1
Battle 15
Southwest region
7 seed
The Thing (Carpenter, 1982)

An American scientific expedition to the frozen wastes of the Antarctic is interrupted by a group of seemingly mad Norwegians pursuing and shooting a dog. The helicopter pursuing the dog crashes leaving no explanation for the chase. During the night, the dog mutates and attacks other dogs in the cage and members of the team that investigate. The team soon realises that an alien life-form with the ability to take over other bodies is on the loose and they don't know who may already have been taken over.

vs
10 seed
Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004)

Shaun isn't having the greatest of times: the staff at the appliance store he works in doesn't take him very seriously as temporary boss; his girlfriend Liz has had enough of always meeting at the Winchester Arms along with his best mate; and his relationship with his dad--sorry, stepdad--remains heavily fraught. And now the living dead have risen and are spreading their zombie curse to everyone into which they can get their teeth. Just doesn't seem worth getting out of bed some days.

[captainofbeef]

The Thing. Loved Shaun though.

[Clark Nova]

The Thing. It's one of the greatest psychological thrillers ever made. Meanwhile, Shaun's got some really funny points, but it can't decide whether it's a comedy or horror film by the end. My vote's with The Thing.

[satantangofan]

John Carpenter's Thing is one of the loveliest i've ever seen...

[criterionmaster]

Da Thing!