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Post by Leatherface on May 23, 2011 8:13:29 GMT -5
I love this little gem, too bad JGTH ripped it off. Anyone else see this?
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Post by Teenage Frankenstein on May 26, 2011 17:05:21 GMT -5
I absolutely love this film.Horace Pinker is one of my favourite horror villains,and it has the best soundtrack ever.
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Post by Leatherface on May 26, 2011 17:20:07 GMT -5
Pinker is very underrated and forgotten.
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Post by Zombified Jeremy on May 26, 2011 18:04:15 GMT -5
It is a fun B-movie and pulls off the body switching idea way better then JGTH.
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Post by Leatherface on May 26, 2011 18:15:53 GMT -5
I totally agree. It did it in a more logical way than JGTH ( regardless of the person being Jason)
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Post by Rebel on May 27, 2011 17:00:56 GMT -5
So this is the movie that other movie ripped off? I never bothered to check which movie was the rip off. I may have to check it out if its any good
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Post by Leatherface on May 27, 2011 17:05:29 GMT -5
JGTH ripped off Shocker.
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Post by Zombified Jeremy on May 27, 2011 22:00:39 GMT -5
At the time, all of the franchises were explaining why their respective killer wanted to murder people. Halloween went with Thorn, NOES went with the dream demons and F13 went with a worm. Note that none of these movies were well received.
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Post by Leatherface on May 27, 2011 22:03:58 GMT -5
Wait this was 88 jer, none of those came yet, the demons came in 91, the worm in 93 and Thorn in 96.
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Post by Teenage Frankenstein on May 28, 2011 5:15:11 GMT -5
To clarify,Shocker was actually '89.
There was a film from 1987,The Hidden that pioneered the body hopping idea.It was directed by Jack Sholder who did the 2nd Nightmare film.New Line released it.
There was also a trend from about '86 through '90 of prison horror,and several of these had the executed killer back for revenge plot.
But the true origin of Shocker was Wes Craven and Sean Cunningham's attempt to launch a TV show called Dreamstalker,which would have had Pinker as it's villain.When this failed, Craven developed Shocker as a feature and Cunningham produced The Horror Show,or as it's known in Australia - House III.
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Post by Zombified Jeremy on May 28, 2011 9:48:08 GMT -5
Wait this was 88 jer, none of those came yet, the demons came in 91, the worm in 93 and Thorn in 96. I was referring to the 90's, as all three "explanation" movies came out within a few years of each other. Halloween has been about following trends since 1981 anyways.
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Post by Leatherface on May 28, 2011 12:35:38 GMT -5
Ohhh I see.
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Post by Rebel on May 28, 2011 14:32:51 GMT -5
I am not particularly fond of movies having to "explain" the movie for me. I believe my brain likes to create its own explanations, its funner that way.
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Post by Stinger on Jun 12, 2012 14:27:48 GMT -5
I really like Peter Berg as an actor/director. I will never understand how Battleship flopped at the box office. It was a great movie experience and a fun popcorn flick. Anyways, I remember when my cousin and I watched this when we were little. He got so scared he jumped in bed with my grandma in the middle of the night.
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Post by Drayton Sawyer on Jun 12, 2012 14:38:47 GMT -5
I need to watch this again. I remember liking it quite a bit.
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Post by fridayfan1979 on Jun 12, 2012 22:37:18 GMT -5
If i'm not mistaken Horace Pinker was supposed to be the next big horror vilian, but the movie didn't do that well at the box office so it never happened. I thought it was pretty good.
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