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by AdeBrown
Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:49 am
Forum: FF2007
Topic: Doomsday preview
Replies: 11
Views: 21878

Glad to see this yesterday as I'd missed the original attempted showing.

Mad Max in Scotland !

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by AdeBrown
Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:45 am
Forum: FF2007
Topic: Storm Warning
Replies: 22
Views: 53667

Storm Warning

Started slowly, and the first third seemed like we were going to get more of the Black Water (in fact when their boat arrived in the swamps, I wondered if it was the same boat that the sisters saw half way through Black Water) but the rest of the film was more like Devil's Rejects. Despite towering ...
by AdeBrown
Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:44 am
Forum: FF2007
Topic: Short Film showcase
Replies: 10
Views: 19201

Short Film showcase

Of these I was anticipating Dead@17 because I have read an issue of the comic. Sadly this looked like some kids who liked the comic had made a fan film. Not low fi enough to amuse and not acted well at all. We're Ready For You Now was the annual David McGillvray treat. I missed the intro, where he a...
by AdeBrown
Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:43 am
Forum: FF2007
Topic: Joshua
Replies: 15
Views: 31243

Joshua

A film of two halves, neither of them all that pleasing. As the jealous older child, Joshua is a bit too precocious a child prodigy. This could have been much scarier with a normal child. Besides the fact that they told us they loved each other, I dunno why the parents were together. And how they en...
by AdeBrown
Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:42 am
Forum: FF2007
Topic: Cold Prey
Replies: 17
Views: 34148

Cold Prey

Put aside any thoughts of "oh look, some kids going off the beaten track and getting murdered one by one" being a very familiar story. Even if it was scripted by set pieces, this was a nice film. Engaging cast, generally resourceful characters. I've been known to say that there are those s...
by AdeBrown
Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:32 am
Forum: FF2007
Topic: Black Water
Replies: 23
Views: 41914

Black Water, Aussie horror film of the kind where some people get isolated somewhere and something happens. I must admit to trepidation when they went into the wilds of swampdom so early in the film, but you know what? This really worked for me. Agree with ghouldrool that it's preferable to many of ...
by AdeBrown
Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:28 am
Forum: FF2007
Topic: Black Sheep
Replies: 18
Views: 36175

There was a trailer for 30 Days of Night by the way. That looks like a good un. I like the graphic novel a lot (although the later follow ups don't add much). Black Sheep, a kiwi horror film of the kind Peter Jackson used to make before he went all fairy on us. Ingredients: Mutant killer sheep, muta...
by AdeBrown
Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:26 am
Forum: FF2007
Topic: Shrooms
Replies: 9
Views: 20580

Shrooms was my first disappointing film of FF2007. What I've jusst said about (college) kid casts goes wrong here. The establishing scene brings us a jock, his stoner mate, two best friend chicks and Tara. They are off to meet "irish" boy Jake (played by John Huston's grandson who has a ve...
by AdeBrown
Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:24 am
Forum: FF2007
Topic: All The Boys Love Mandy Lane
Replies: 15
Views: 32303

All The Boys Love Mandy Lane is currently my fave film of the weekend. A good double bill with the previous film. In some ways it had less of the things that make me immediately like a film - college kids are often good fodder for a horror. If you hate them you want them killed, if you like them the...
by AdeBrown
Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:23 am
Forum: FF2007
Topic: Teeth
Replies: 18
Views: 35156

p2 was cancelled, and to my initial dismay we were told its replacement was Teeth - a story about a girl with vagina dentata. This could have been awful. It was in fact aa pretty good satire on you politics from that abstinence/virginity thing "We're waiting" via censored biology books to ...
by AdeBrown
Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:22 am
Forum: FF2007
Topic: 1408
Replies: 14
Views: 24201

1408 (remember there is NO Thirteenth Floor!) was a very nice big budget one, but I cannot understand why it is the biggest grossing Stephen King film. John Cusack is really good in a one man show for 75% of the film, as the writer of Haunted House guides who does not believe in that sort of stuff. ...
by AdeBrown
Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:21 am
Forum: FF2007
Topic: The Signal
Replies: 17
Views: 33208

The SIgnal is great. Just VERY GOOD. Our heroine, Mya, goes home after a bit of infidelity and notices people in her block are acting strangely - pointless rage causing violent bloody murders. This is triggered by a transmission from every TV and phone and radio. Of course her husband, Lewis has rea...
by AdeBrown
Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:20 am
Forum: FF2007
Topic: The Sword Bearer
Replies: 17
Views: 33915

Firstly I had to work this morning and so miss the Hatchet commentary by Alan Jones and Adam Green. Top fun by all accounts. So work was very busy - of course - and I just got to the OWE in time for Sword Bearer. Clearly the (russian) director has some great ideas, but the story and editing needed w...