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Frank (Frank)
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Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 213.158.199.87
Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 12:52 pm:   

Craig - has this been released in the States yet? It's by the director of Creep, which I'm not a fan of, and Severance, which I'm a big fan of. The trailer looks great. I've heard good things about it, albeit that it may or may not be the horror film of the year. It apparently has something of a solid traditionalism about it, but that it has one or two unique variants on the tired and test twist revelation.
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.179.61.66
Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 02:40 pm:   

I still can't see the interest in ferries though.
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Craig (Craig)
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Posted From: 75.4.230.246
Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 04:25 pm:   

Is this the old sc-fi flick? 50's or 60's, British? I"ve heard of it, I have even seen it available to rent, but being unsure, never did... same one you're talking about, Frank?...
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Frank (Frank)
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Posted From: 213.158.199.67
Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 04:33 pm:   

No, mate. It's brand spanking new.
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Craig (Craig)
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Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 04:35 pm:   

Hmmm... I will investigate....
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Ian Alexander Martin (Iam)
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Posted From: 99.199.107.118
Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 04:51 pm:   

Triangle? Isn't that a 3-sided thing? Get a few of them together and make a pyramid? Yeah?
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Craig (Craig)
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Posted From: 75.4.250.204
Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 05:16 pm:   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA6NR5-qCsQ

Too much is revealed in this trailer, warning. It looks like it could go either way - it might be great, it might be stinky. Only one way to find out....
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Posted From: 81.96.240.106
Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 05:23 pm:   

Melissa George in little denim cut-offs? I'm there.
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Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
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Posted From: 194.176.105.47
Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 06:00 pm:   

Is that what Craig meant by too much revealed? are they very small denim cutoffs?
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Craig (Craig)
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Posted From: 75.4.233.108
Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 06:08 pm:   

Is that what Craig meant by too much revealed? are they very small denim cutoffs?

It's how the film got its name.
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Chris_morris (Chris_morris)
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Posted From: 12.165.240.116
Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 07:26 pm:   

Frank, I've just checked and TRIANGLE is not yet out on DVD in the US.
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John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert)
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Posted From: 88.202.211.71
Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 08:32 pm:   

It's got very good reviews and comes out here this Friday. Like Frank I loved Severance but didn't really like Creep but I have high hopes for this one.
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Gcw (Gcw)
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Posted From: 86.170.202.57
Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 08:34 pm:   

"I still can't see the interest in ferries though."

sterrraaaiiiight over their heads matey!

gcw
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Posted From: 81.96.240.106
Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 08:48 pm:   

It wasn't over my head - I just tried to block out all memories of that hideous show!
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
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Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 82.38.75.85
Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 09:26 pm:   

I have to confess, the dreadful opening sequence of the ferry-related "Triangle" was the first thing that entered my head when I read the thread title. I mean, who, in their right mind, is going to be lazing about semi-naked on the deck of a ferry in THAT weather?
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Gcw (Gcw)
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Posted From: 86.170.202.57
Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 10:00 pm:   

Kate O'Mara that's who!

gcw
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Stephen Walsh (Stephenw)
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Posted From: 194.32.31.1
Posted on Friday, October 16, 2009 - 12:37 pm:   

Strange, I really liked 'Creep'. A great monster lurking in the London Underground and Franka Potente = excellence in my book!

But was disappointed with 'Severance'. A long way behind 'Shaun Of The Dead' which it tried too hard to emulate.

Might just give 'Triangle' a whirl...
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
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Posted From: 217.171.129.68
Posted on Friday, October 16, 2009 - 03:22 pm:   

The bbc show was wonderfully dire. Kate O'Mara sunbathing in a force eight gale, it looked like.

As for the movie, unless it's got Marilyn Manson singing 'Bermuda Triangle', it's not even worth thinking about...
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John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert)
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Posted From: 88.202.207.22
Posted on Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 09:14 am:   

Triangle is a superb example of its type. I'm not going to say much more because it will spoil things, but Lady P & I went to see it last night and we both loved it. It's as different from Severence as Severance was from Creep but I'd venture to say it's just as good as his last film. Go and see it everyone - here's a modern British film director who seems to want to stick with horror and is that incredibly rare thing - actually good. Mr Smith deserves your wholehearted support.
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Kate (Kathleen)
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Registered: 09-2009
Posted From: 88.202.207.22
Posted on Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 09:26 am:   

Absolutely! I can't stop thinking about it and I want to see it again knowing what I know now. I'd better not say anything else or I'll give something away. But do go see this one - it's excellent!
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 86.156.205.23
Posted on Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 05:17 pm:   

D'oh! I did a walk-out on this one. It just felt like someone walking around corridors for ages. Could have been a half-hourer, I felt. And it could have been easily solved if only...



SPOILY!:



... the woman had been more up-front in coming forward.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 86.156.205.23
Posted on Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 05:18 pm:   

I do like the director, though, and would see his films again. The first half hour of this was very good.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Posted From: 78.152.204.69
Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009 - 10:18 am:   

I'm in the pro-CREEP/anti-SEVERANCE camp. CREEP had a lyricism and poignancy that's often missing from horror. He's doing something right if people have polarised opinions about his filmography like that.

I could only stand about 10 minutes of SAW III on Channel 4 last night. Not because of the gore so much as the poor film-making. Ugh.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 86.156.205.23
Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009 - 10:26 am:   

I loved Creep, liked Severance (as a comedy). He has a good eye.
I don't get the Saw films, and wish they weren't associated with halloween; halloween is about ghosts.
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Stephen Walsh (Stephenw)
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Posted From: 194.32.31.1
Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009 - 10:51 am:   

'Creep' was a revelation for me when it first came out. Has anyone else noticed the startling similarity between the Underground haunting monster and the cave dwelling things in Neil Marshall's 'The Descent'?

I found 'Severance' fairly entertaining at the time but ultimately uninspired and rather forgettable. I actually preferred 'The Cottage'.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Posted From: 78.152.204.69
Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009 - 11:00 am:   

SAW gives horror a bad name. But even those films are less objectionable than some of the slick American crime shows that are utterly ghoulish and exploitative about genuine human issues, yet somehow accepted by mainstream folk.

Yes, Hallowe'en is about the supernatural.
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Huw (Huw)
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Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009 - 11:26 am:   

"Has anyone else noticed the startling similarity between the Underground haunting monster and the cave dwelling things in Neil Marshall's 'The Descent'?"

They turn up in the horrendously bad American remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Kairo (aka Pulse) and other films too. Barely glimpsed pallid snarling baldies seem to be the in-thing in unimaginative horror films today. Personally, I don't find them the least bit frightening.
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Stephen Walsh (Stephenw)
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Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009 - 12:02 pm:   

'Pulse' is one of the best, and certainly the most original, of the recent Asian horrors for me.
Another movie that doesn't follow any set formula.

But are you saying you didn't like 'Creep' or 'The Descent' Huw? I thought both were excellent.

While the worst example of unscary baldy monsters has to be the atrocious Will Smith version of 'I Am Legend'.
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009 - 12:12 pm:   

Creep: very good
Severance: not bad
I Am Legend: pretty good (particularly with the director's original ending). There was a great, scary scene with the creatures standing ina circle shuddering in that warehouse near the beginning of the film.
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Stephen Walsh (Stephenw)
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Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009 - 12:33 pm:   

'I Am Legend' started off well but then it would take a pretty monumental cock-up to mishandle the ever entertaining "last man on Earth" scenario (best example = the stunning 'The World, The Flesh And The Devil (1959)).

But as soon as those rubbish CGI monsters appeared, looking as flat as paper cutouts, the whole movie went straight down the plughole imho.
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009 - 12:35 pm:   

In conmtext (ie. as a commercial, mainstream Hollywood production), I rather enjoyed it.
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009 - 12:35 pm:   

CONTEXT! Fucking typos...
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Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
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Posted From: 86.12.129.226
Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009 - 12:46 pm:   

I like the SAW films. Still not caught up with number 5 yet, but any series of films that catch me out with the twist at the end 4 times in a row has to have something going for it.

The descent is one of the most genuinely scary films I've seen in recent years. The half glimpsed bones and creatures were brilliantly done.
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Stephen Walsh (Stephenw)
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Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009 - 12:48 pm:   

In what order would you rank the three versions?

I'd have:
'The Omega Man' - classic!
'The Last Man On Earth' - very good.
'I Am Legend' - terribly disappointing apart from the long opening sequence and the scene with the dog.
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Stephen Walsh (Stephenw)
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Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009 - 12:57 pm:   

Weber, I've only seen the first 'Saw' which I enjoyed but don't really have any inclination to watch the rest of them as I tend to hate long-runnig horror franchises. If I were bored some night and one of them came on the telly I'd watch but not otherwise.

E.G.
Only liked the first two Halloweens, the first two Friday The 13ths, the first Nightmare On Elm Street, the first Scream and wasn't fussed on any of the Final Destinations. Any I've missed?
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009 - 01:02 pm:   

'The Omega Man' - very good for its time, but takes ill-advised liberties with the story
'I Am Legend' - not a bad effort, but compromsied by Hollywood Blockbuster status
'The Last Man On Earth' - great atmosphere; grim modd; but truly pathetic in parts
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Posted From: 213.219.8.243
Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009 - 01:03 pm:   

mood
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009 - 01:04 pm:   

I think the SAW films are great grand guignol fun. Ditto the FINAL DESTINATION films. Basically, entertaining drivel.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009 - 01:30 pm:   

Final Destination is a comedy, though, it has some wit. I don't see that in SAW.

As soon as those pallid creatures attacked in THE DESCENT and they changed the shutter angle to create the stuttering, strobing effect seen on SAVING PRIVATE RYAN the film died for me.
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Huw (Huw)
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Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009 - 06:53 pm:   

Stephen, I quite liked Creep (although the similarly-themed 1970s film Death Line, aka Raw Meat was much better, I thought) and The Descent, but I thought the creatures were disappointing. Like Proto, I was more impressed with the film before their arrival. It was vastly preferable to the majority of recent horror films, though.
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Stephen Walsh (Stephenw)
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Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009 - 07:10 pm:   

'Death Line' is an absolute classic!
One of the best British horror films of the 70s for me.
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Hubert (Hubert)
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Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009 - 09:22 pm:   

There was a great, scary scene with the creatures standing ina circle shuddering in that warehouse near the beginning of the film.

Yes, that one got to me too. A delightfully creepy moment.
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Huw (Huw)
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Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009 - 09:24 pm:   

Zed and Hubert, I agree - that scene was highly effective, and probably the best in the film for me.
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Stephen Walsh (Stephenw)
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Posted on Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 09:46 am:   

Yes, but what about that sinking feeling when the baldy vampires emerged into full view.
If ever a film imploded instantly, negating whatever atmospheric scene-setting had gone before, it was then.

Tragic really...
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Posted on Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 04:00 pm:   

The Descent is one of the best horror films of the decade for me. Flawless.

Why do people always mention Death Line when Creep comes up? Aaargh! Completely different films, the only similarity being the London Underground setting. The former is a very British black-comedy horror (almost a satire), the latter is a gritty, modern urban horror.
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Stephen Walsh (Stephenw)
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Posted on Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 04:21 pm:   

'Creep' and 'Death Line' both involve the inspired idea (based on a real urban myth that still crops up every now and again in 'Fortean Times') that the London Underground is haunted by a race of in-bred cannibals, usually from some cave-in in Victorian times.

Of course there are incidental differences in the plots of both films but the theme is the same and a particularly resonant one for inhabitants of the capital.

You're right though - 'Creep' goes unrelentingly for the jugular while 'Death Line' is the subtler, more thoughtful treatment and laced with delicious black humour. One is very good indeed, the other is an all-time classic.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Posted From: 78.152.212.75
Posted on Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 12:33 am:   

Just back from TRIANGLE. Not many horror films try to use the colour white (Vampyr and Hellraiser spring to mind) but it works very well here. It kept my interest - Smith (or his DP) has a terrific eye. It featured some startling images, one in particular on the deck of a ship which I'm fairly sure we've never seen before in a film. (I'm happy to be corrected, though. I thought that the only unique contribution LAND OF THE DEAD made to cinema was Dennis Hopper picking his nose, but it turns out it had been done before.)

I don't think it exalts Chrisopher Smith from the "one-to-watch" category just yet, though. I suspect the re-watch value will be low for this one.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 81.131.110.25
Posted on Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 08:42 am:   

Oh, yes - the bit on the deck, and the seagulls. That was great.
But so much running about! And why didn't she -
Oh, never mind.
Creep and Death Line are alike as any random couple of zombie apocalypse movies; spins on a given situation.
Someone should work the premise of Pelham 123 but then slowly reveal there to be crazed cannibals just along the track... Craig! Call those agents!
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Posted From: 78.152.222.72
Posted on Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 02:09 pm:   

Just before TRIANGLE, I saw Ken Foree from DAWN OF THE DEAD. He's a big guy. Looks like a special effect.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 86.140.191.76
Posted on Monday, October 26, 2009 - 09:50 am:   

What - does he live in Ireland?
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Posted From: 78.152.197.227
Posted on Monday, October 26, 2009 - 10:13 am:   

No, he's over for a horror film convention. He's in a Serbian zombie film.
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Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
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Posted From: 195.93.21.74
Posted on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 02:31 pm:   

Jenny and I very much liked Triangle. We found some of the images towards the end genuinely nightmarish. I'm inclined to regard it as Smith's best so far. I did quite like Creep, which struck me as a witty series of variations on Gary Sherman's film, although it lacks the compassion - indeed, sense of tragedy - of the original (which is certainly present in Smith's latest). I wasn't so taken with Severance, but now I plan to see it again.
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Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
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Posted on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 03:26 pm:   

Well, it seems I was wrong to assume (as I always did) that Creep was a conscious tribute to Deathline.

http://www.iofilm.co.uk/feats/interviews/c/creep_2005.php

They do have quite a lot in common, not least the underground creature's penchant for imitating an overheard voice.
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Stephen Walsh (Stephenw)
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Posted From: 194.32.31.1
Posted on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 05:04 pm:   

I'm surprised you liked 'Triangle' as much Ramsey as I found it Smith's least good, though by no means bad.

Maybe that's the sign of a good genre director? His three films to date have all been markedly different types of horror that no two fans, it seems, can agree which they liked best while none can call any of them truly bad.

For me 'Creep' was great, 'Severance' was entertaining and 'Triangle' was worth watching.
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
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Posted From: 86.181.11.80
Posted on Saturday, November 28, 2009 - 03:11 am:   

Well, to resurrect this thread - I watched TRIANGLE this evening - so much better than PARANORMAL ACTIVITY which, although a very different film, was also highly spoken of here. TRIANGLE was intriguing, unsettling, sad... Great feeling of unease in the first half hour when you knew something wasn't quite right but unsure exactly what.
Two thumbs up. :-)
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Hubert (Hubert)
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Posted on Saturday, November 28, 2009 - 11:45 am:   

The trailer reminds me of Ghost Ship.
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John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert)
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Posted From: 195.10.250.234
Posted on Saturday, November 28, 2009 - 02:02 pm:   

Good man Mick! It's excellent isn't it?
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Posted From: 81.96.240.106
Posted on Friday, December 04, 2009 - 12:40 am:   

I've just seen TRIANGLE, and thought it was absolutely brilliant - my favourite film of the year. Clever, imaginative, genuinely unnerving, and utterly, utterly heartbreaking. And Melissa George (oh, what a wonderful actress she is) totally sells it: I believed every second of her nightmarish ordeal.

This film made me suddenly realise what PARANORMAL ACTIVITY is lacking: soul.

If I wasn't so exhausted at this semi late hour, I'd watch the whole thing again. In fact, I can't wait to do so.
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
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Posted From: 86.176.178.116
Posted on Friday, December 04, 2009 - 09:57 am:   

Knew you'd like it!
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Posted From: 213.219.8.243
Posted on Friday, December 04, 2009 - 10:23 am:   

Did you get my email, Mick? I have two addys for you...it's a bit confusing. :-/
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
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Posted From: 194.106.220.83
Posted on Friday, December 04, 2009 - 12:24 pm:   

Yep, got it on my Hotmail one - I'll reply later when I get home.
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Karim Ghahwagi (Karim)
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Posted From: 80.196.50.16
Posted on Saturday, December 05, 2009 - 01:24 am:   

I just saw 'Triangle' and liked it very much. I preferred this to 'Creep' which I also liked however, and I have not seen 'Severence'. I have to agree that one scene in particular really stayed with me. I thought it was going to loose its intensity and coherence towards the middle of the story, but then the excellent screenplay did a remarkable job of making the latter half of the picture work very well, especially the final act. And there were some very carefully chosen moments in which reflections in mirrors were used to great effect. The colours on the deck were just lovely and haunting at all times.
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Karim Ghahwagi (Karim)
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Posted on Saturday, December 05, 2009 - 01:44 am:   

I loved her first moment of panic where we see the bowels of the ship for the first time BTW, for a moment there, it seemed like an homage to Ripley I thought. I also thought that he did an excellent job of using the means he had available to him to tell the story, but they could have given him a higher budget with a screenplay like that. It frustrated me actually, I didn't think the picture seemed to be lacking in any way, but he definatly had to use everything at his disposal budget-wise to tell this story.
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Craig (Craig)
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Posted From: 75.4.244.182
Posted on Friday, February 05, 2010 - 08:17 am:   

(some SPOILERS) Okay, now me resurrecting this thread, having just caught up with TRIANGLE. A movie that if you really think about it, falls apart under the weight of logic and contrivance... BUT, it didn't matter, by the end. As the movie progresses, it takes upon itself more of the matter of a dream, which works retrospectively. So that, say, you wonder, gee, why didn't she just knock off the hook coming out of the side of the wall so the guy doesn't get his head bashed in? - but then, later, you just accept this lack of foresight as part of "dream logic." In dreams, we all do things that we know don't make sense, or that defy any kind of logic; oddly, it becomes almost more of a dream/nightmare, when our heroine finally reaches land.

Again, I shouldn't let the logic get in the way, but... here's the question: when DID it (i.e., the whole cycle) all really begin? That old puzzle joke, what would happen if you could go back in time and hand Shakespeare Hamlet before he wrote it - I mean, okay, if once everyone on the ship dies, then the others come back... wouldn't they all have had to die of old age, before figuring anything out to begin with? And why did they come back when only the other crew members died, but not our heroine - why was she so special?

Ugh - I said I wasn't going to question the logic of this - too late. But yes, quite an excellent film, for its photography and its moments of (alas, so rare for film) sanity-mashing horror - the best, of course, being when the wounded wife crawls out onto the upper deck... *shudder*....
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 109.79.95.107
Posted on Saturday, February 06, 2010 - 02:59 am:   

And for his next trick, Christopher Smith has David Warner playing a Dark Ages monk. It's out in a couple of weeks in Britain:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death_%28film%29
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 109.79.95.107
Posted on Saturday, February 06, 2010 - 03:06 am:   

Feast your optics (as Dan O'Bannon might write):

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/film/2123/gallery
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.4.241.203
Posted on Saturday, February 06, 2010 - 04:36 am:   

The return of David Warner?! One of the world's greatest screen villains?! Indeed, reason to celebrate!

This BLACK DEATH movie sounds an awful lot like SEASON OF THE WITCH: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479997/ (btw, bit of trivia: SOOTW was a Nicholl-winning screenplay, launching screenwriter Braghi Schut from nobody to instant "hot" writer status; the Nicholl Fellowship is the most prestigious screenwriting contest in the world. At the time he sold this script, Bragi sold another called THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER, the whole movie of which takes place [bringing this back tangentially to TRIANGLE] during Dracula's voyage on the Demeter from Transylvania to England, as the vampire systematically kills everyone on board... a clever idea for a movie....)
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 109.79.31.100
Posted on Saturday, February 06, 2010 - 05:07 pm:   

There are just three font options for film posters now.

Comedy:
NORBIT

Drama:
thelovelybones

or comedy-drama:
LOVEActually

Thank God we're streamlining art.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 109.79.25.221
Posted on Sunday, February 07, 2010 - 01:28 am:   

More release news:

George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead...

"... will be released on DVD on March 15, 2010 in the United Kingdom. In the United States will released on 30 April 2010 at Video on Demand and in a limited theatrical release on 28 May."

Suggested font:

survivalofthedead
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.5.13.68
Posted on Sunday, February 07, 2010 - 04:02 am:   

One more bit of a criticism about TRIANGLE:

Okay, it's okay to withhold information from the audience, if there is a consistent POV to support the reason for withholding it. As we follow Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep, we don't see who killed the corpses he stumbles across... the director is not being coy in hiding this from us; rather, he's following Marlowe's POV, and his discovery of the crime/criminals is part of the storyline - it makes sense why we wouldn't see the murderers, but we're privy in seeing everything else that's vital (e.g., we don't have to see Philip Marlowe taking a shit, that's not relevant to the storyline).

(some SPOILERS)

I have a problem with TRIANGLE, because - in the opening, we DON'T get to follow our lead heroine's POV consistently, from the opening during the credits, where she's at home, to when she arrives at the boat. Instead, we get chopped up bits of the at home sequence, and then cut to the boat.

Why? Well, sure, we'd get a big chunk of mystery about the movie, before we should; some things would be spoiled. I get that. But there is no internal story-based reason why we should be denied this information, beyond the director's simply not wanting to spoil the surprise, and sorry, however much this might be a reasonable excuse, it's not a valid story reason to do this. It's sloppy, and unfair, and sneaky, and too-clever, and cheating, and awkward, and a rotten thing to do. Figure out another way to do this, or don't fucking do it at all. I guess I'm waxing pretty annoyed about this all of a sudden....
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Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 124.180.227.217
Posted on Sunday, May 09, 2010 - 04:14 pm:   

Just watched this - thought it was great. All those corridor shots, and the message on the mirror, reminded me of The Shining.
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Frank (Frank)
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Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 188.146.99.117
Posted on Sunday, May 09, 2010 - 05:04 pm:   

Got this for tonight, so will be raring to go now (:

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