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Last post by M.10rda - Today at 07:41:11 AMGOESI aka A MONSTROUS CORPSE (1981):
I am now 0-for-3 with 20th century Korean horror I've most recently watched, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to stick to the current millennium in the future per SK horror. At least it isn't a soap operatic melodrama with no genre elements for the majority of its run-time, but it's much more technically inept and every bit as slooooooow.
It does have some historical cache, as it appears to be South Korea's first "modern" zombie film. Of course one might debate this, as these zombies are so retrograde they might not even scare Mantan Moreland.
Off the bat it seems like GOEJI is remaking NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD in slow motion: a man and a woman drive (then walk) aimlessly around the countryside as a pale undead shambles about in and around their general vicinity. But Johnny from NOTLD gets attacked in under 10 minutes and then all heck breaks loose, whereas in GOESI it take twenty-five whole minutes for that zombie to actually catch up to a victim... and when he does, it's offscreen.
This made me think that the Youtube copy I was watching was maybe cut/censored, but nope. Once more zombie shenanigans (very gradually) ensue, it's clear that these zombies have no interest in biting nor eating human flesh... they just like to strangle their victims. 
#Thrillsville'81!
Fortunately - for the zombies, not the viewer - the victims put up very little fight. This is one of those classically lousy zombie flicks where victims stand facing one direction, motionless and spacially unaware, while zombies waltz right up behind them; or worse, where victims face the zombie in uncomprehending shock, at arms length, and make no attempt to stop the zombie from choking them out. The female lead, particularly, is perhaps the most profoundly imbecilic character I've ever seen in a Bad horror Movie - which is saying a lot. She can't fight, can't run, can often barely walk, and never behaves appropriately within any context. She is literally hopeless... and yet (through sheer luck or bad filmmaking) she manages to survive to the credits, so I guess that speaks rather poorly of the zombies' efficiency or the filmmakers ability to stage convincing action.
As GOESI lumbers laboriously towards its conclusion, it occurred to me that it was intended as a remake not of NOTLD but of the deeper cut BREAKFAST AT MANCHESTER MORGUE. The internet confirms this, but the similarities are so superficial that one could suspect GOESI's makers never actually watched BAMM and instead just read brief descriptions of a handful of scenes and maybe saw a few stills from the earlier film (and none of those stills contained any gore whatsoever). Thus GOESI staggers aimlessly around a general idea of a zombie movie for 80-ish minutes, mostly killing time with exterior landscapes and wideshots of people walking at mid-tempo. Although it's a laughably Bad film, it wouldn't cut muster for a Rifftrax because of the low density of actual content. I suppose you could put it on while you drift off to sleep though, like those Sleepcore videos, and it wouldn't give you nightmares!
1.5/5
The 4 most amusing or noteworthy things about GOESI, so you never have to watch it:
1.) The quarrelsome homicide detective (played by Arthur Kennedy in BAMM) looks and acts like Kojak here - because 1981, I guess.
2.) One of the zombies looks a lot like Matt Berry in some shots, including close-ups, which made me chuckle.
3.) There is a long, senseless sequence where Zombie Matt Berry tires to climb in the female lead's car window while she repeatedly accelerates, reverses, accelerates, reverses, accelerates, and reverses to shake him off.
4.) Zombie Matt Berry's zombie wife (not Nadja, alas) actually lays down and plays possum at one point, prompting a character to pick her up, put her in the back of a car, and start driving... at which point of course she sits up in the back seat and does exactly what you'd expect her to do.
This is an incredibly cheap and ludicrous death, of course, but at least it's one novel trick in GOEJI's threadbare bag...
I am now 0-for-3 with 20th century Korean horror I've most recently watched, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to stick to the current millennium in the future per SK horror. At least it isn't a soap operatic melodrama with no genre elements for the majority of its run-time, but it's much more technically inept and every bit as slooooooow.
It does have some historical cache, as it appears to be South Korea's first "modern" zombie film. Of course one might debate this, as these zombies are so retrograde they might not even scare Mantan Moreland.Off the bat it seems like GOEJI is remaking NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD in slow motion: a man and a woman drive (then walk) aimlessly around the countryside as a pale undead shambles about in and around their general vicinity. But Johnny from NOTLD gets attacked in under 10 minutes and then all heck breaks loose, whereas in GOESI it take twenty-five whole minutes for that zombie to actually catch up to a victim... and when he does, it's offscreen.
This made me think that the Youtube copy I was watching was maybe cut/censored, but nope. Once more zombie shenanigans (very gradually) ensue, it's clear that these zombies have no interest in biting nor eating human flesh... they just like to strangle their victims. #Thrillsville'81!Fortunately - for the zombies, not the viewer - the victims put up very little fight. This is one of those classically lousy zombie flicks where victims stand facing one direction, motionless and spacially unaware, while zombies waltz right up behind them; or worse, where victims face the zombie in uncomprehending shock, at arms length, and make no attempt to stop the zombie from choking them out. The female lead, particularly, is perhaps the most profoundly imbecilic character I've ever seen in a Bad horror Movie - which is saying a lot. She can't fight, can't run, can often barely walk, and never behaves appropriately within any context. She is literally hopeless... and yet (through sheer luck or bad filmmaking) she manages to survive to the credits, so I guess that speaks rather poorly of the zombies' efficiency or the filmmakers ability to stage convincing action.
As GOESI lumbers laboriously towards its conclusion, it occurred to me that it was intended as a remake not of NOTLD but of the deeper cut BREAKFAST AT MANCHESTER MORGUE. The internet confirms this, but the similarities are so superficial that one could suspect GOESI's makers never actually watched BAMM and instead just read brief descriptions of a handful of scenes and maybe saw a few stills from the earlier film (and none of those stills contained any gore whatsoever). Thus GOESI staggers aimlessly around a general idea of a zombie movie for 80-ish minutes, mostly killing time with exterior landscapes and wideshots of people walking at mid-tempo. Although it's a laughably Bad film, it wouldn't cut muster for a Rifftrax because of the low density of actual content. I suppose you could put it on while you drift off to sleep though, like those Sleepcore videos, and it wouldn't give you nightmares!
1.5/5
The 4 most amusing or noteworthy things about GOESI, so you never have to watch it:
1.) The quarrelsome homicide detective (played by Arthur Kennedy in BAMM) looks and acts like Kojak here - because 1981, I guess.
2.) One of the zombies looks a lot like Matt Berry in some shots, including close-ups, which made me chuckle.
3.) There is a long, senseless sequence where Zombie Matt Berry tires to climb in the female lead's car window while she repeatedly accelerates, reverses, accelerates, reverses, accelerates, and reverses to shake him off.
4.) Zombie Matt Berry's zombie wife (not Nadja, alas) actually lays down and plays possum at one point, prompting a character to pick her up, put her in the back of a car, and start driving... at which point of course she sits up in the back seat and does exactly what you'd expect her to do.
This is an incredibly cheap and ludicrous death, of course, but at least it's one novel trick in GOEJI's threadbare bag... #12
Good Movies / Re: What is your first Horror ...
Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 06:50:14 AMmy older cousin showed me AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON when I must've been about 7 or 8...
Quote from: claws on November 19, 2025, 11:47:23 PMLet's Scare Jessica to Death (1971). Not during its original run; this was again years later when I was about 6 or 7 years old. And yes, the film gave me nightmares. The ending was too intense for me, so we had to leave the theater.I only saw that this year and it freaked me out!
#13
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by claws - Today at 01:55:50 AMThe copilot version was better but misspelled "Mississippi". When I asked to fix it I got an alternative version I didn't like. ChatGPT came with correct spelling, but the version is oddly off, the small three image montage should be bigger.
It's always like a compromise or something, sigh.
It's always like a compromise or something, sigh.
ChatGPT
Copilot
Copilot
#14
Good Movies / Re: What is your first Horror ...
Last post by Trevor - Today at 01:09:17 AMHORROR EXPRESS and the TV movie BAFFLED with Leonard Nimoy on television.
In cinemas I think it was THE SHINING and you all know how I feel about that one 😳😉🐢
In cinemas I think it was THE SHINING and you all know how I feel about that one 😳😉🐢
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Good Movies / Re: What is your first Horror ...
Last post by claws - November 19, 2025, 11:47:23 PMThe Last Man on Earth (1964)
I didn't see this at the theater, but years later on TV. I was about 3 or 4 years old. The film traumatized me and gave me nightmares.
Theater:
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971). Not during its original run; this was again years later when I was about 6 or 7 years old. And yes, the film gave me nightmares. The ending was too intense for me, so we had to leave the theater.
I didn't see this at the theater, but years later on TV. I was about 3 or 4 years old. The film traumatized me and gave me nightmares.
Theater:
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971). Not during its original run; this was again years later when I was about 6 or 7 years old. And yes, the film gave me nightmares. The ending was too intense for me, so we had to leave the theater.
#16
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Picture of the day, part I...
Last post by LilCerberus - November 19, 2025, 11:20:57 PM
#17
Games / Re: Movie Title Chains
Last post by RCMerchant - November 19, 2025, 10:41:16 PM
JOURNEY TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE SUN (1969)
#18
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Picture of the day, part I...
Last post by RCMerchant - November 19, 2025, 10:29:29 PM^ WTF? Is she the P Diddy of Gravy?
#19
Bad Movies / Re: Invent A Bad Movie Title P...
Last post by LilCerberus - November 19, 2025, 10:14:52 PMMermaids With Machetes and Machine Guns
#20
Good Movies / What is your first Horror Film...
Last post by RCMerchant - November 19, 2025, 10:13:13 PM...that you ever seen?
Mine-
I saw FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLFMAN on TV in 1967. I was 5.
At a theater- PLANET OF THE APES (1968). Unless you don't consider that horror and more sci-fi. Then it would be WILLARD (1971) at the Strand in Paw Paw, Mich. I was 9.
Mine-
I saw FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLFMAN on TV in 1967. I was 5.
At a theater- PLANET OF THE APES (1968). Unless you don't consider that horror and more sci-fi. Then it would be WILLARD (1971) at the Strand in Paw Paw, Mich. I was 9.