The Strangers (1 Viewer)

[Arkie]

Going to see it tonight
wnt to know what peoples thoughts on it was

 

[hiphophooray123]

going to see it in 30 mins will post in thread when i get back

 

[hiphophooray123]

ummmm, i guess see it if there's nothing else on and you feel like being a tiny bit scared.

I mean some moments are actually genuinely scary, i was suprised at that.

The whole feel of the movie is SO DAMN BORING though. I mean yeah it helps it achieve it's purpose, but GOD DAMNNNNNNNNNNNN we need at least some entertainment don't we?

The very very end of the movie did make me jump. props to the director for that.

but fuck




my friend was shit scared though, she thought they were ghosts


they are just some fucked up psycho cunts in masks.

but seriously, a liv tyler sex scene would have made the movie THAT much better, it started off hot, but then they fkn ruined it.

lot of 'cheap scares' like knock knocks on doors and windows and glass breaking and all that jazz etc so if you love a movie like that, worth seeing. If you don't....well what i rate it will speak volumes


4/10



I read a review criticisising the movie for being too predictable. OF COURSE ITS FUCKING PREDICTABLE ITS BASED ON A TRUE STORY AND ITS MEANT TO BE PREDICTABLE THEY EVEN ALLUDE TO THE ENDING AT THE VERY START OF THE MOVIE. It's like watching texas chainsaw massacre and not knowing whether or not they kids are going to be killed, retarded movie critics

 

[Pain]

Actually when critics refer to predictability of so-called Horror films, they mean the very points you stated : cheap scares, the cliche scenarios and plot points etc. And please, find me the true story for the strangers...I'd love to see it.
Oh and this is a cheap sellout film which again is another lovely pile of shit thrown onto the accumulating mountain of horror-faeces. When will there be a genuinly good and powerful Horror movie?? Or are we lost to the myriad of gore-porn and amplified sound shock you tube shit ?

 

[hiphophooray123]

It drew it's inspiration from the murder of Sharon Tate mixed with a childhood experience the director. If it's based on a murder, the 'lonely couple' are obviously murdered..

 

[all.time.fiend]

When will there be a genuinly good and powerful Horror movie?? Or are we lost to the myriad of gore-porn and amplified sound shock you tube shit ?

i honestly doubt one will ever come along. desensitization has killed the genre.

 

[xeuyrawp]

When will there be a genuinly good and powerful Horror movie??

28 Days Later... Undoubtedly one of my favourite horror films.

Although it depends on what you mean by genuinely good and powerful. 28 Days is my favourite because of its combination of all that lofty psychological/sociological crap with a good plot/story, music, acting, effects, and most importantly for me, cinematography. I liked it for the same reasons I liked Children of Men (but not to the same extent), so perhaps I don't really like it as a horror film at all.

If you want something that's just disturbing, get your hands on the Guinea Pig films - easily some of the most gruesome films I've ever seen. I'm not really disturbed by that kind of shit, though. Hitchcock films are the most disturbing for me, and do much more for me than any horror film. I've basically come to the conclusion that horror films can't be decent unless they massively borrow from or delve into other genres.

Edit:

lot of 'cheap scares' like knock knocks on doors and windows and glass breaking and all that jazz etc so if you love a movie like that, worth seeing. If you don't....well what i rate it will speak volumes


4/10

Thanks man, will see it if I have nothing else to watch.

 

[hiphophooray123]

28 days later, and weeks later were brilliant, i agree. i really want another one. 28 years later would be great lol.

 

[xeuyrawp]

28 days later, and weeks later were brilliant, i agree. i really want another one. 28 years later would be great lol.

28 Months Later... is apparently in discussion!

 

[wrong_turn]

haha 28 days later was awesome....i guess you could say that cloverfield was in the same sort of genre but was shot with different techniques...pretty artistic...

but hey i think the slasher films are now overdone.

 

[scarybunny]

Cloverfield was excellent. I don't know if it counts as horror, but it was very good.

Slasher films can only do so much.

 

[xeuyrawp]

haha 28 days later was awesome....i guess you could say that cloverfield was in the same sort of genre but was shot with different techniques...pretty artistic...

but hey i think the slasher films are now overdone.

Weh, all three of those are different.

 

[wixxy2348]

yeahh want to see it
might save it for when im super bored.

 

[Pain]

Cloverfield works in some areas but it fails in others. We are denied that very important omniscient view. I mean how boring was the final helicopter segment when we were stuck inside? Totally killed the mood. And it gets tiresome too, i mean there are bits where you wonder...WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU STILL HOLDING THE DAMN CAMERA..

 

[hiphophooray123]

im fucking bored i wish a cloverfield-esque event would happen in sydney like right now.

 

[scarybunny]

im fucking bored i wish a cloverfield-esque event would happen in sydney like right now.

Depends on the event, right.

You want something you could live through, but that would still provide the excitement. I think a godzilla-esque event is preferable, because it's relatively easy to live through. The cloverfield monster had those lice things which made people esplode.

Although godzilla had baby godzillas. Hmmmm.

 

[hiphophooray123]

yehhhh id like um like a giant godzilla but without the godzilla babies


ya know i really enjoyed the whole sequence in jurassic park II when the t-rex came into the city. they should have done a whole movie of that.

 

[scarybunny]

Yeah therein lies the problem.


Escaping one big thing is pretty easy. So there always has to be little things.

 

[hiphophooray123]

Yeah therein lies the problem.


Escaping one big thing is pretty easy. So there always has to be little things.

like my penis!!!!! OHHHH SNAPPPPPPPP

 

[scarybunny]

Sometimes I think a massive disaster would be fun. Chaos and survival and all that jazz.

But then I might die, so that's less fun.