Comments on: Southern Fried Scary Stuff

By: Tanya

Tanya — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:39:38 +0000

What did you see? The Stepfather remake?

You know, I’m getting kind of tired of them graverobbing movies. Why can’t they come up with new stuff?

By: Amie Stuart

Amie Stuart — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:06:00 +0000

Tanya I saw that!!!
Looks like they’re redoing CHILDS PLAY, also POLTERGEIST, which feels almost sacrilegious, another Mummy movie and THE WOLFMAN? 28 MONTHS LATER–WTF? Another POC movie, another Rambo movie–basically all remake/spinoffs

By: Tanya

Tanya — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:35:26 +0000

Yeah, the PN heroine was TSTL. I kept hoping she’d be next.

Speaking of remakes, they’re re-doing The Stepfather. If you ask me they shouldn’t have bothered. Nobody can top Terry O’Quinn. He’s Da Man.

By: Raine

Raine — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:40:33 +0000

Durn good point.
“Shawshank Redemption”, one of my all-time fav films, also comes to mind.

By: Raine

Raine — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:37:04 +0000

“Candyman” didn’t do it for me, but it held my interest.

“The Ring” was possibly the only recent movie that REALLY gave me a good chill (though I’ve probably missed a lot). Again–the suspense of it.

By: Raine

Raine — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:32:49 +0000

I remember Serpent and the Rainbow. It was very good. Hard to beat the fear of being buried alive, lol.

Also love What Lies Beneath with Harrison Ford.

Oh, I loved that one too! Ghosts, possession, and Ford as a (spoiler ahead!)~~~~~~bad guy? Squeee!
(haven’t seen Mr. Brooks, and have wanted to very much!).

By: Amie Stuart

Amie Stuart — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:37:52 +0000

Also liked 28 days later. Despite the gore it had a good suspense quotient!

By: Amie Stuart

Amie Stuart — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:35:25 +0000

>>Basically, I see it as lazy screenwriting.

I totally agree! And my son LOVES that stuff. I can’t get through to him that it’s just basically PAP! It’s CRAP! THat what you can’t see is scarier.

BTW when I watched the remake of Prom Night–I thought the heroine deserved to die. She was TSTL to the extreme!
And the remake of Last House on the Left while good, and suspenseful just kinda missed the mark (not sure how. I can’t put my finger on it because I was pleasantly surprised at the LACK of gore but something about it really bugged me). Maybe it was just slow pacing?

By: Amie Stuart

Amie Stuart — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:33:18 +0000

Interestingly enough, I think it’s Kings NON-Scary movies that have translated best to the big/small screen: The Green Mile comes to mind. One of my fave King books and movies.

By: Amie Stuart

Amie Stuart — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:30:19 +0000

Boring….THE GRUDGE. I shut it off halfway through.

Movies I’ll never watch again because they scared me so bad:
Candyman (we were actually talking about this on twitter–I was preggers w/#1 at the time. Freaked my shit out)
The Ring…couldn’t look into a mirror for weeks.
Children of the Corn–I was like 12 when I saw it. Now I know why movies have ratings on them.

I think that’s it. LOL