Want so incredibly much!

[zouzounaki]

Okay, here's something you may not know about me: While I do adore horror, I simply cannot stand Wes Craven. Not only do I think he's the worst for women by far of the biggies (Carpenter, romero, etc.), while the others apologize for it, he gets away with saying how edgy his treatment of the fairer sex is because he's a slick talker. So imagine my surprise when I actually found myself almost spraining something squeeing over the trailer for the Nightmare on Elm Street remake. Come on, Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy?! Can it get any freaking better?! I think he's about the only person in existence I'd accept replacing Robert England. And there's Katie Cassidy (wall and ceiling death! Kick ass!), Kyle Gallner (Johnny Depp's part!) and Rooney Mara (Kate's little sister) to sweeten the deal. Oh yeah, I'm excited!

Peace, Ghani

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[may-child.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see. I haven't watched Last House on the Left or The Hills Have Eyes. I've seen the Nightmare films he's directed (the first, and the last, where the cast of the original was brought back to play themselves and Freddy enters "the real world"), and the Scream films, a couple of the flicks on which he was the "executive producer," plus his foray into non-horror, Red Eye.

When I saw him in interviews and the like, it quite honestly stunned me that he was the exact opposite of what you'd expect a guy who made so many gory, violent movies to be: soft-spoken, erudite, and gentle-natured. He has kind of "lost it"; methinks it would be wise for him to step away from filmmaking.

I didn't know about him getting a pass on his treatment of women, whereas other horrormeisters repented for it; I did watch one of the specials you spoke of, but I was pretty tipsy at the time. (I had to be. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre played immediately after the special, and no way was I going to watch that sober.)

John Carpenter...I thought Halloween was good, and combined with Halloween II and Halloween H20, ignoring all the crappy quasi-sequels in between, makes a pretty decent horror trilogy. But then Rob Zombie had to go and shit all over it.

[ghanistarkiller.livejournal.com]

You know, I always forget Scream is him--I just watched Scream 2 the other day, one of my absolute favorites and what made me love Liev Schreiber! Me being fair I'll admit that, thinking about and remembering all he's done, he actually kept his "it" a lot longer than any of his contemporaries, or spread it out over a greater period of time.

I think both he and Romero really are the most intelligent, well and soft spoken of the horrormesiters--not at all like today's brash, in your face, obnoxious little twits (yeah, I'm looking at you, Roth!) who think they're as erudite and speak as if they were, but show off their own inadequacies because of it. Of course, with that type of personality being the in thing now, everyone has to insist that Last House on the Left is really Craven's best film, and was so revolutionary and amazing when it just kind of makes me want to vomit.

Shudders at the mere mention of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. You are a braver woman than I, because I watched it just that once and got such a case of the jitters that I've never been able to sit through it again. I don't blame you if you got totally plastered beforehand, lol! Tobe Hooper wins the crown for grossness with female characters for that movie; some of it just made me dry heave, I have to be honest, and not necessarily the gory parts but the just primal fear of it.

The Fog is one of my absolute favorites and it's always delighted me how the characters seem to almost be taking on the stereotypes Carpenter created with Halloween, of the virgin surviving, etc. Plus, it's about zombies from a shipwreck--now you know that's going to appeal to me. So, combined with the Halloween movies you mentioned, I have a soft spot for Carpenter, even if he is an old crep, to use one of my parents' expression! xP

Oh, don't even get me started on Rob Zombie! Now him I really hate!

[may-child.livejournal.com]

What makes The Texas Chainsaw Massacre hard to watch -- sober, that is, heh -- is not so much gore, because it has surprisingly little of that, but the general creepiness of it, and the perverseness of it, like the sicko "dinner" scene. Leatherface may have been the chainsaw-wielding killer, but his "family" was, in a way, just as frightening. Watching the flick was like stumbling into some sadistic freak show.

LOL, I echo your opinion of that punk-ass bitch Rob Zombie. One of the things that especially ticks me off about him is that he thinks he is just so clever, and he added "depth" to Halloween with his remake.

[ghanistarkiller.livejournal.com]

It's funny because I don't think anyone would accuse Texas Chainsaw Massacre of being psychological, but that is mostly it's scare factor. Ann always refers to the scene, because it's the one that horrified her most, where it's just a close up of the girl's eye, the pupil dilating with fear.

Yes, oh my God, Zombie's so pretentious and so full of himself! I remember my review of House of 1000 Corpses on Amazon is about the nastiest thing I've ever written (and I've written a review for Courtship of Princess Leia! 0_0) because I banged it out the day after I'd watched and and was still reeling. On the one hand, if I didn't know better, I'd have genuinely thought it was a real snuff movie with the least sympathetic "heroes" known to film. On the other, he insists on including trick shots or flashes of older exploitation films out of freaking nowhere, which obviously makes him "artsy!" Snort!

And Halloween, sighs. Did I learn my lesson from House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects? Alas, I did not, because I was curious. Wow, I could never have guessed he'd be able to shoehorn his wife pole dancing into even that! But he managed it! Even managed to get her into the sequel (and if she doesn't strip there, too, I'll eat my shoe!) Two-thirds of the movie is literally about Michael Myers, his childhood and time in the institution--seriously, aren't we over the fascination of why killers do what they do yet?!

It's amazing, too, that he almost singehandedly ruins the Grindhouse experience with his totally inappropriate trailer--in tone and style. More people walked out during that than any other part of that movie--seriously! Which leads me to believe that the genius of Nic Cage as Fu Manchu was someone else's idea because it could not possibly have been Zombie's!

On a totally personal note, Peter ran into him when he was living out in California and he was a complete tool! Pneh!