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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:22 PM
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If you like horror films, seek out "Three...Extremes"
http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/threeextremes/

It's an anthology film, a collection of three shorts.

The first one, Box, directed by Takashi Miike is one of the best, creepiest, most beautifully surreal horror films I've ever seen.

The second one, Dumplings, directed by Fruit Chan, has some REALLY nasty subject matter, and is creepy on almost too many levels, haha.

The third one, Cut, directed by Park Chan-wook, is actually kinda funny (intentionally), yet sad and disturbing at the same time.

Nice to see horror done right for a change, in three very different styles.
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:34 PM
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1. out in theaters or dvd?
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:37 PM
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2. Theatres in North America, I'm pretty sure...
But a dvd rip is easily available online.
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:50 PM
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5. i love horror movies
you should still see haute tension... it's very campy in retrospect... very bad, but in a camp sense

it's the only "horror" flick that roused my interest in recent memory
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:52 PM
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6. I've heard it's pretty gory...true?
I can't handle too much gore.

Hostel looks like it might have potential as well, I think. At least, I hope. http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/hostel/
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:00 PM
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9. these are all lions gate
as was the one i mentioned

so was "saw" right?

i think they have the market cornered at this point
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:04 PM
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11. Yeah, Saw is Lion's Gate, and I think The Devil's Rejects is too...
Which was quite badass. I never even noticed they were all Lions Gate. That's pretty cool.
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:07 PM
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13. oh good idea... is rejects on dvd now?
i should go rent it
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:50 PM
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19. I think it is.
It's worth checking out.
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:53 PM
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21. and i noticed eli roth directs hostel
and god pray it is anything better than that piece of shite called cabin fever

the worst... THHHEEE worst
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:55 PM
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22. Haha, yeah, the tiny bit of Cabin Fever that I bothered to watch was weak
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:56 PM
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23. save yourself the pain
so bad

so very very bad

and not in the camp sense either... just bad
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 12:24 AM
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24. ok man... just watched it
bloody. fucking. brilliant.
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 12:26 AM
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25. which one? nt
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 12:31 AM
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27. devil's rejects
Edited on Tue Dec-13-05 12:32 AM by sundog
high high 70s camp tribute

cinematography... music... everything was spot on

strange part is i haven't seen 1000 corpses yet, to which this was the sequel... so i guess that's my project for tomorrow

seriously good stuff... there is some genre redefinition here, but i have to see the other flick before i can dissect & analyze it completely

hey ya jonny :hi:
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 12:36 AM
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29. House of 1,000 Corpses wasn't as good
Decent mind you, but nowhere near as good as The Devil's Rejects.
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 12:43 AM
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32. is karen black in "The Devil's Rejects"?
She is the main reason I liked 1000 Corpses. "Three...Extremes" is on the way. *wink*
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 12:52 AM
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34. no, just a lookalike
it would have been off the radar if she was, but alas... she was probably busy with other stuff...

there are some excellent cameos with priscilla barnes (of all people!), geoffrey lewis & pj soles
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 12:54 AM
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36. rejects was so highly stylized
that was its greatest strength...

and the excellent good/bad play wrangling back & forth... the protagonists & antagonists are ever-shifting
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 12:43 AM
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33. I will have to watch it now. I liked House of 1000 Corpses more
than most, because of Karen Black.
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 12:26 AM
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26. The Devil's Rejects or Three...Extremes?
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 12:32 AM
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28. see above
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:40 PM
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3. Takashi Miike is always good.
Edited on Mon Dec-12-05 08:40 PM by jonnyblitz
you should see "the audition" by him. creepy as shit. I will look for this. thanks for mentioning it.
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:42 PM
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4. I've seen it, and I love it, haha.
:thumbsup:
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:59 PM
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7. i just checked for the hell of it and
the movie you mentioned is available on torrent sites. :evilgrin:
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:00 PM
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8. Haha, yes, I discovered that fact last night...
Which is why I am recommending it tonight, haha.

If you need english subtitles for it, go here: http://subscene.com/
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:03 PM
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10. thanks.,...
there are a few subtitle sites i use but never knew of this one. it's always nice when they are hardcoded into the movie already but i have learned where to find them and how to add them since i prefer foreign movies..
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:06 PM
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12. Yeah, I find it's rare for them to be actually burned into the movie
I've gotten to the point where I'm so used to downloading subs that I don't even bother to watch the movie until I find subs, sometimes not finding any, thinking I'm screwed, then discovering the movie had the subs burned in, haha.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:07 PM
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14. Japanese. What a surprise.
:eyes:

:D
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Monkey see Monkey Do Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:16 PM
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16. Well Japanese, Korean & Chinese :)
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:51 PM
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20. Actually only Box is Japanese.
Dumplings is Chinese and Cut is Korean.
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Monkey see Monkey Do Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:15 PM
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15. Sweet. I'm dying to see this & "Lady Vengeance"
I wish I had broadband :) I think this may have played in the UK once at a horror-con, but no news whatsoever of a larger release yet.

Did you know that Miike has done one of the "Masters of Horror" for Showtime (the series that had the Joe Dante "Homecoming" zombie satire, that everyone's raved about). We're still about 2 years behind Miike film releases (Zebraman & Izo haven't come out; the last release was the absolutely bat-shit crazy & highly recommended TV series "MPD-Psycho" - a scanlation of the original manga are available here: http://www.omanga.net/?cid=b_mpd_psycho )
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:20 PM
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17. I just watched an older non-horror Miike movie called
"the bird people in china" (well it was about a month ago i watched it) It was odd but I really liked it. nice scenery.

i will have to find out what masters of horror he did.
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:29 PM
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18. his "Masters of Horror" episode is called "Imprint" and will air
on January 1st

http://www.tv.com/masters-of-horror/imprint/episode/552218/summary.html
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 12:40 AM
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30. well now that's freaky = i like it...
thanks for the link...i think :scared:
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 12:42 AM
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31. Haha...
:evilgrin:
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 12:54 AM
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35. i sent the link to Betsy she'll like it too...
:scared: :scared:
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