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     David Lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 2.219.133.41 |
Yeah, they're going to franchise it. I've not seen the new version yet but I'm still sure this is a bad idea. http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3270529/the-woman-in-black-resurrected-for-mul tiple-sequels | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 94.118.38.40 |
Bad idea doesn't even begin to describe it, David. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.185.26.10 |
Did anyone SEE number 2? | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 84.13.78.128 |
Well, I bought number 2 today. Hope it's good. As an aside, I dipped into the tie in and thought it looked quite well written. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.131.98.247 |
Excellent. I prefer this to Babbadook. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 93.97.135.22 |
Sorry, Tony, but I couldn't disagree more. 'The Babadook' is one of the few films this decade that still gives me hope that the horror genre, at its most intelligent, subtle and disturbing, is still alive and well. Overblown CGI has no place in a ghost story. 'Crimson Peak' - criminally disappointing - is possibly the ultimate proof of that, imho. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 93.97.135.22 |
And 'Crimson Peak' pisses all over the 'Woman In Black' debacles... for all its multitudinous flaws and lack of anything remotely unsettling. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.153.254.41 |
I too, Stevie, hate CGI in horror. One of the reasons I think I do love American Horror Story and especially Scream Queens, their almost nil use of it. I fear CGI will become the stop-motion animation of future generations, looking back.... | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 2.121.67.181 |
I just recently finished watching Season 1 of 'American Horror Story' with the missus, Craig, and we thoroughly enjoyed it - though not quite in the way I had expected to. I found it extremely funny and with more than a touch of David Lynch in its twisted surreality. Yeah, it reminded me quite a bit of the weird soap operatics of 'Twin Peaks'. Was it scary? In parts. But mostly it was just a ridiculously entertaining and unpredictable ride with its tongue firmly in its cheek throughout. We plan to order Season 2 for Christmas. Actually, I've been catching up on quite a lot of recent box sets over the past few months and been having a ball with them. Currently just finished Season 4 of 'The Walking Dead' (our favourite and the best genre TV show ever made!!), Season 3 of 'Game Of Thrones' (a very close second), halfway through Seasons 2 of 'Breaking Bad' and 'Boardwalk Empire' (both sublime television) and about to start Seasons 1 of 'True Detective' and 'The Sopranos' (at long last I'll get to see what all the fuss was about).  | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 2.121.67.181 |
Let me explain a bit more... I see films like 'The Woman In Black' and, sadly, 'Crimson Peak' as horror films for the mass populace with very little horror sensibility and thus off-putting to a hardened and demanding horror fan like myself. They may work as passable entertainment for non-horror fans but I find them unsatisfying and often crassly unsubtle. Now, independent well crafted and intelligent films like; 'The Babadook', 'It Follows', 'Absentia', 'Martha Marcy May Marlene', 'The Pact', etc, etc, are the real deal, imho. There are just too damn few of them being made every year. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.153.254.41 |
Oh, S2 of American Horror Story is the best one, Stevie. After that... frankly, it became a guilty pleasure (not even watching the current season, but that's mainly because I don't get that channel in anymore!). I think you will appreciate Scream Queens: it's AHS, but with really no horror at all - it's 100% satire on horror/horror films and pop culture and, well, just bonkers comedy. Indescribable. Brilliant, though. But nothing beats Breaking Bad. I have to see Walking Dead - I know no one personally who has seen it and any less than LOVES, I mean LOVES LOVES LOVES, it. Either I know people who LOVE it, or people like me who have never seen it. So... there's that on my plate. I really dug Boardwalk Empire, too! Tore through S1, then just got distracted starting S2, and lost track. Game of Thrones is on my list of should see - loved the pilot, saw that. Same with True Detective - loved S1 episode 1, then again didn't finish it. I have a real problem with that! Oh - if you get a chance - tune into Penny Dreadful. Only two seasons in, first one was abridged anyway. Wonderful stuff. Highly recommended. | ||
| Lincoln (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 120.21.207.126 |
"Let me explain a bit more... I see films like 'The Woman In Black' and, sadly, 'Crimson Peak' as horror films for the mass populace with very little horror sensibility and thus off-putting to a hardened and demanding horror fan like myself" Totally agree with this...but, it's also how I felt about AHS. I really, really disliked that show. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 2.121.67.181 |
I know where you're coming from, Lincoln, but I think you have approached 'American Horror Story' with expectations of a straight horror show, as I did, and weren't prepared to accept it for what it is... a very clever black comedy satire on everything the horror genre has come to make us expect - as Craig stated. Once I got over my initial sense of disappointment/dislocation I came to love the show - and that's only going by the first and least critically liked of the series, going by everything I've heard. |