Skeleton Key

krakenten · Post by **krakenten** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 11:55 am

I just watched "Skeleton Key"
Does anyone else detect a resemblance to "The Mephisto Waltz"?
Doesn't really matter, it's a very good spookaroo, and the 'twist' ending isn't telegraphed a'tall.
Good acting, good writing, good production values, and the ghoulish thrill or realizing that many of the locations may have been destroyed in the Great Storm.
They don't make them like they used to-sometimes, they make them better.

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:11 pm

That movie blew the hole! I was drunk at the time and I still thought it sucked balls...I wanted to vomit in disguest, or because I had too much cheap liquor in me

krakenten · Post by **krakenten** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:26 pm

Have you ever seen a movie you liked?

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 1:40 pm

Sure, not to be so negitive, but you gotta admit that the newage horror scene is just a bunch of overpriced B movies, most of which are produced by Stan Rainny...poor bastard

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 4:46 pm

Has there ever been a horror scene not dominated by B-movies?

krakenten · Post by **krakenten** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 6:49 pm

Big budget horror flicks are rare-the genre lends itself to the smaller budget, and the larger budget is usually spent on talent-which is a good thing, as a rule.
However, not every movie and piece of music can "suck major monkey balls".
You have achieved some degree of expertise in a field when you can honestly say,"It's very good, but I don't like it, personally."
Think about it?

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:13 am

"Overpriced B movies" is an oxymoron.

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:18 pm

E.A. Lovecraft wrote:"Overpriced B movies" is an oxymoron.

OK, overpriced pieces of crap then

But yah, I suppose horror movie genre has always been domiated by lame ass plots and bad story telling...so this is nothing new I guess

Hodgson · Post by **Hodgson** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:26 pm

Watch Primer. I'm not sure I can call it a horror movie but I'm going to keep saying it until everyone complies. Resistance is futile.

krakenten · Post by **krakenten** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:37 pm

I have to do that, it sounds like a good story.

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:39 pm

Sounds good.

krakenten · Post by **krakenten** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:47 pm

From classic scifi-the spindizzy.
A device that allows you to get more energy out than you put in(in the first story, a small spaceship travels to Mars on a dry-cell battery).
This enables whole cities to fly into space and travel arouind the galaxy.
They were still good stories.

Hodgson · Post by **Hodgson** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:51 pm

The premise of Primer is somewhat similar to that, but the handling is very noir and verges on horror. It's a very difficult movie to describe--a simple presentation combined with a complex ongong background that doesn't need to be unraveled to be followed.

krakenten · Post by **krakenten** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:54 pm

Scifi is returning to it's roots.
About damn time!

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:55 pm

E.A. Lovecraft wrote:"Overpriced B movies" is an oxymoron.

Not really, since very few of them are worth even the tiny amounts put into them.