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#31
Good Movies / Re: Jason Statham Stole My Bik...
Last post by Rev. Powell - July 27, 2026, 08:14:40 AMHow about a remake of the Italian neorealist film THE BICYCLE THIEF done as gritty action film?
#32
Bad Movies / Re: 100 Historical Movies in O...
Last post by Rev. Powell - July 27, 2026, 08:12:30 AMI'll do my best, M.10orda!
63. Downfall (1945, last days of Hitler)
63. Downfall (1945, last days of Hitler)
#33
Good Movies / Re: Unofficial Horror Movie Un...
Last post by M.10rda - July 27, 2026, 05:41:51 AMIf by "universe" we mean simply "genre", then all of these are fine.
ZNO, you are correct, GATES OF HELL does seem related to THE BEYOND and the other films, though a little more uncertainly. (I only watched it once and it made little sense to me.) In spite of it being seen as part of the trilogy, HOUSE BY THE CEMETARY has no, no relationship to THE BEYOND or GATES OF HELL - it's about an undead mutant mad scientist hiding in a basement. There is communication between the worlds of the living and the dead (ghosts) and a character crosses over at the end, but there's no hidden portal to aitch-ee-double-hockey sticks.
SUSPIRIA, INFERNO, and MOTHER OF TEARS are an Official trilogy - nominally about a coven of immortal witches (or something). That concept introduced in SUSPIRIA (which has no portal to the underworld) is referred to sort of indirectly in INFERNO (which has a portal to the underworld but no witches, really - I mean I dunno exactly what's going on in INFERNO, it is bloody wicked cool, though). I cringe to admit I never watched MOTHER OF TEARS, so I'll trust you on that.
ZNO, you are correct, GATES OF HELL does seem related to THE BEYOND and the other films, though a little more uncertainly. (I only watched it once and it made little sense to me.) In spite of it being seen as part of the trilogy, HOUSE BY THE CEMETARY has no, no relationship to THE BEYOND or GATES OF HELL - it's about an undead mutant mad scientist hiding in a basement. There is communication between the worlds of the living and the dead (ghosts) and a character crosses over at the end, but there's no hidden portal to aitch-ee-double-hockey sticks.
SUSPIRIA, INFERNO, and MOTHER OF TEARS are an Official trilogy - nominally about a coven of immortal witches (or something). That concept introduced in SUSPIRIA (which has no portal to the underworld) is referred to sort of indirectly in INFERNO (which has a portal to the underworld but no witches, really - I mean I dunno exactly what's going on in INFERNO, it is bloody wicked cool, though). I cringe to admit I never watched MOTHER OF TEARS, so I'll trust you on that.
#34
Good Movies / Re: Unofficial Horror Movie Un...
Last post by zombie no.one - July 27, 2026, 01:50:28 AMQuote from: claws on July 27, 2026, 12:38:31 AM^ The Initiation (1984)
ah, that one did cross my mind... then I decided I was probably confusing it with THE INITIATION OF SARAH
jogging my memory. I've seen it. not one of the better horrors of that era
#35
Off Topic Discussion / Re: How's everyone doing?
Last post by Trevor - July 27, 2026, 12:45:47 AMQuote from: Zapranoth on July 26, 2026, 11:03:31 PMBeen a while since I posted.
Who's still around? What's up in everyone's world?
Brother Zap, welcome.
I'm doing OK thanks, still trying to cope with my mentor and friends passing and my book is in final edit.
Doing OK.
☺️🐢
#36
Good Movies / Re: Unofficial Horror Movie Un...
Last post by claws - July 27, 2026, 12:38:31 AM^ The Initiation (1984)
#37
Off Topic Discussion / How's everyone doing?
Last post by Zapranoth - July 26, 2026, 11:03:31 PMBeen a while since I posted.
Who's still around? What's up in everyone's world?
Who's still around? What's up in everyone's world?
#38
Good Movies / Re: Great movies with bad sequ...
Last post by zombie no.one - July 26, 2026, 08:21:25 PMQuote from: M.10rda on July 26, 2026, 06:04:42 PMROBOCOP 2
totally. how to drop the ball. 3 is even worse, like a kids movie.
Quote from: FatFreddysCat on July 26, 2026, 06:06:43 PMThe JAWS sequels are the textbook example of the Law of Diminishing Returns.
Jaws 2 was passible, in a cheap B-Movie sort of way.
Jaws 3-D was terrible.
Jaws: The Revenge was an abomination.
The HALLOWEEN series is another example. I'll go as far as "4" in that franchise (and I'll admit that 1998's "H20" has its charms), but everything that came after has been either "meh" or "suck."
I have a lot of time for JAWS 2.
and hot take but I actually prefer HALLOWEEN 2 to the original, as a straight watch. obviously the original was more erm original.
EXCORCIST 2 gets dumped on by everyone but I prefer it to the first one. the first one is a clunky snoozefest, the 2nd is a mad trip albeit flawed
OMEN 2 is not a total failure but just seems kind of arbitrary and 'well I guess it has to go like this now because he's growing up, yeah?', to me... demonic baby scary, demonic schoolboy not so much.
#39
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by LilCerberus - July 26, 2026, 08:21:18 PMTonight's Stinker
His Name Was King(1971)
https://youtu.be/e-W0QTHs_-c?si=mY7VBokVmVf-o6SZ
A group of wagons is rolling through the desert, when they come to an army checkpoint.... When one of the soldiers tries to investigate, he gets a pistol in the face, while another man offers him money... Smooth sailing, but the next checkpoint is a little more hard nosed with more men, but one of the wagons has a Gatlin gun....
Then roll opening credits, Where we're introduced to the protagonist, King.... King is a bounty hunter, who corners & dispatches four fugitives..... The brothers of one of the men swear vengeance, & start by killing King's brother & attacking his new wife.... So King swears revenge....
He rides off to the next town, where he gets in a gunfight with the brothers & their gang, then rides off to the next town, where an army officer gives him a heliograph, which he uses to report a stagecoach robbery to passing army patrols....
King gets captured while investigating, & learns the brothers are selling guns to Mexican bandits...
Meanwhile, back at the local army headquarters, King is being framed for stealing the guns & leading the patrol into an ambush.....
Drags most of the time, but the gunfights are okay.....
His Name Was King(1971)
https://youtu.be/e-W0QTHs_-c?si=mY7VBokVmVf-o6SZ
A group of wagons is rolling through the desert, when they come to an army checkpoint.... When one of the soldiers tries to investigate, he gets a pistol in the face, while another man offers him money... Smooth sailing, but the next checkpoint is a little more hard nosed with more men, but one of the wagons has a Gatlin gun....
Then roll opening credits, Where we're introduced to the protagonist, King.... King is a bounty hunter, who corners & dispatches four fugitives..... The brothers of one of the men swear vengeance, & start by killing King's brother & attacking his new wife.... So King swears revenge....
He rides off to the next town, where he gets in a gunfight with the brothers & their gang, then rides off to the next town, where an army officer gives him a heliograph, which he uses to report a stagecoach robbery to passing army patrols....
King gets captured while investigating, & learns the brothers are selling guns to Mexican bandits...
Meanwhile, back at the local army headquarters, King is being framed for stealing the guns & leading the patrol into an ambush.....
Drags most of the time, but the gunfights are okay.....
#40
Good Movies / Re: Great movies with bad sequ...
Last post by M.10rda - July 26, 2026, 07:43:10 PM
It's all subjective (though we can probably agree on "inferior to the original" statements). Again, from childhood, I saw JAWS 3-D before I saw the original - in the theater on opening weekend during a hot summer. We went directly from the movie theater to our local swimming pool and I refused to get in the pool. I was 6. So JAWS 3-D had the identical effect on six year old me that the original had on everyone else - and I distinctly remember thinking the ending (grenade stuck in the Jaws) was cool, too. Never revisited that one either. I saw JAWS a few years later and of course it's better. I didn't dislike JAWS 2 either though.Having rewatched HALLOWEENs 4 + 5 less than a decade ago - I do insist 5 is a more interesting thus better movie. In spite of a couple cool bits, Part 4 is a terribly stupid film. Neither of course are remotely as good as the first two.
