Has anyone else seen this yet? It’s the first horror film to use RealD. It wasn’t as gorey as I expected. The reveal of the killer wasn’t that big a surprise. Alot of minor plot holes. One really annoying thing was we had several scenes of the blond girl running around completely naked (including frontal shots), and Jensen Ackles didn’t even take his fucking shirt off :mad:. Sure a full frontol shot of him in 3D is a bit too daring for American cinema, but they could’ve at least showed us his ass!
I caught it on opening night because I’d never seen a 3D and, sadly as I usually am, was disappointed. I loved the original, so I don’t know why they had to dick with the story. I thought the acting (and I typically like Kerr Smith and was surprised to remember that was Jaime King) was beyond pedestrian and the twist wasn’t. I chuckled at the naked run though, which upped the ante of the whole 'Let’s show as much skin as possible on the hottie chick!" scene.
The murders weren’t nearly as gruesome as you’d believe given the particular medium and my biggest issue was that if you didn’t sit directly in front of whatever object was supposed to come flying at you, then the effect was pretty much lost. Overall, very forgettable and not even a stop-gap for my waiting on The Unborn. With all its various homages, I’m on pins and needles in anticipation.
Oh, faithfool, I am afraid one of us is very wrong about this movie. Either you didn’t get it or I am giving it far more credit than it deserves. I am very afraid that it is me.
I thought the movie was brilliant. A freaking masterpiece of a shlock horror parody. The fact that it is in 3-D. The opening with the news clippings “filling you in” on the backstory. The first real scene which starts with an improbably grousome escape from a hospital. The first redshirt death cause by a pickaxe going through the back of the skull an popping the eye out to the audience.
The entire scene where the girl decides to run around totally naked, but remembers to put on her high heels which she was very much not wearing durring the sex scene that lead to her being nude.
The over the top bad acting and dialogue.
Hell I would go back to watch it again just for the scene where the sheriff, Axle (that’s right) pops out from behind a hospital curtan (dramatically) to confront Tom about staying in town, saying something like:
“Why are you going to stay Tom? Is it because of [I forget the wife’s name]? My WIFE? Mother of my children? Who I share a bed with? Who I HAVE SEX WITH!!!”
Freakin’ brilliant.
I could go on, but I don’t want to give anything away. I very much recommend it, and think that it really should be seen in theaters for the full effect.
This overtakes High Tension as my favorite bad horror flick, mostly because I am convinced that they ment it to be just this bad, where as I am pretty sure High Tension was an accident. Though it’s fairly brilliant in it’s awefullness as well.*
*The print of High Tension that I saw was at a midnight showing at a discount movie theater. So about 50% of it had subtitles, 40% or so was dubbed and 10% wasn’t translated in any way at all. I would love to be able to put my own print together like that.
Aw, that sucks. If only you’d waited for Coraline…
Oh NAF, it really probably is me. 
I’m not big on slasher flicks just for blood’s sake or movies that are so bad their good, so I have no doubt I wasn’t the audience this was looking for. If I were more into, say, Mystery Science Theater, I bet this would be in my Top 100. So yeah, I’m sorry I suck at this. I wanted to love it, but I failed. Next time I promise to try harder. 
And Larry, that was one of the previews for this. I’d really like to see it, but after an experience like this, I feel it’s best reserved for my at-home viewing pleasure. Heh.
I want to see it, 'cause I loves me some bad horror, but I can’t see it in 3D. I’m nearly blind in my right eye, and my wife is completely blind in hers, so 3D movies are just an expensive, two-hour eyestrain-induced headache for both of us.
I’m very unhappy with this 3D trend.
Well now I am jealous that you got to see a Coraline preview, faithfool. I got the Unborn and the new Friday the 13th*, but not Coraline. That sucks.
*which looks very disapointing since it is clear that Jason is actually the killer. I was ok with the hockey mask as long as it wasn’t going to be Jason, but I don’t know if I can get behind a Friday the 13th remake that doesn’t have Mrs. Voorhees as the killer.
Also, way off topic, but while I was looking up the spelling for Voorhees I found this, which I now want to track down.
All prints of “High Tension” were like that. I remember Ebert complaining about it, and I saw it like that as well.
“MBV3D” was the kind of movie where, when someone asks you how it was, you say, “absolutely fucking terrible,” but you grin when you say it. Of course, it helped that it knew it was terrible, and was terrible on purpose, but not in a self-referential parody way. Instead, it was a loving tribute to the crappy slasher flicks of the 80s. The 3D was great too. I thought it would be a flat movie where things occasionally came out of the screen at you, but the whole thing was actually in 3D. It gave the effect of being a very grizzly pop up book.
I’m not a slasher flick fan, but I had a blast. It was worth all of the 10(!) dollars I paid to see it.
Really? Interesting. I know that when I told my friend about it and he rented a copy it wasn’t strangely put together like that. I had assumed that the discount theater I went to had a crappy copy. “High Tension” may have just taken over the #1 slot in my heart again if that was intentional.
Lightnin’, I know I’m going against the comments here, but I really don’t think you’ll miss much not seeing the 3D. However, I’m apparently the wrong person for the job of reviewer.
Hey NAF, perhaps there’s a twist in the new FtT. Maybe it’s not even mama! < da da da duuuuuum! > I will say that it at least looked interesting enough to me though. Of course, I’m usually so desperate for horror related stuff that I’ll even watch Lifetime movies with somewhat scary themes, so what do I know?
And Small Hen, you only had to pay 10 bucks!?! Mine was almost 12 (to cover the glasses) and that was for a matinee! :eek: Probably never again then…
ETA: I don’t remember there being that issue on the DVD I saw of High Tension. But I am getting old. 
Is the new Friday the 13th an actual remake? I thought they were just calling it Friday the 13th since it was kind of a series reboot and “Friday the 13th Part Twelve Billion” is a little too much. If it is a remake and Jason is the killer…laaaaaaame.
(Although I’m kind of excited that Jason seems a lot more mobile.)
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To make my post not a complete hijack, I haven’t seen this yet because I thought it was going to be a bad-but-not-intentionally-bad horror flick. But I’m more interested if it’s an intentional campyfest.
I love 3D movies, but hate the horror genre. So I guess I’ll miss it.
I work at a movie theatre and got to see it for free. So there!
It was pretty cheesy but awesome. I, too, wanted Tom to remove various articles of clothing or at least get some with Sarah (the whole smashing-the-light-bulbs scene was pretty hot, though). Why, oh, why does she end up again with Mr. I-Knocked-Up-Your-Best-Friend-Slash-Coworker Dickbag? I mean, sure, Tom’s a psychotic mass murderer and all, but really now!
The girl who saw it with me is convinced Tom was possessed by Harry Warden; I thought he just snapped (hence seven years in the mental institution). Anybody?
I don’t think Tom was possessed. Granted, there’s not been a lot of real life research in it, but I’m pretty sure hallusinations are more a sign of insanity than possession.
No love for how hot Kerr can be? Aww, c’mon.
Anyway, I agree with your interpretation Kythereia. Tom snapped for feeling responsible about the whole damn thing (“I forgot to bleed the lines!” read the newspaper titles) and then coming back to sell it off. And as someone whose been on the inside, it takes a lot less than seven years to push one over the edge.
ETA: Pollux, I believe that is correct in the fact that it’s being tauted as a remake. I suppose we’ll all have to see it to know who the real killer is though. Heh.
tips you a big drink of your choice (Seriously, what does ‘bleeding the lines’ even mean? The closest thing I can find on Wikipedia is brake bleeding.)
This was a point of minor confusion to me; I was thinking “wait, if Warden was just a hallucination, then how come the police were firing at him when he chased Tom out of the mine at the big keg party?” Then I realized, the police are assuming the guy’s right behind Tom if Tom’s running like a bat out of hell, so they’re just firing in that direction, which… waste of ammo, but okay. Then I realized: it’s still the real Harry Warden at this point. Tom doesn’t actually lose it until later. :smack:
Um. Coraline is coming out yay!
So… did they do the whole clever self-referential thing and include music by My Bloody Valentine in the soundtrack? I don’t like them nearly as much as the similarly named Bullet For My Valentine, but it would still be kind of neat if they followed through on the obvious joke.