Wolf Creek

[cains]

:p i didnt find this film scarey but i did find it very disturbing and some of the graphic violence was uncalled for.
in the classic horror films like Nightmare on Elm Street there was violence but alot of it was more comic book violence than any thing else

[Ryebeach]

I went with Wolf Creek too. It was such an "in-your-face" type of violence where the killer showed zero remorse. I don't find that type of graphic horror to be scary, mostly I just find it to be disturbing and unnecessary. I prefer good old fashion horror movies that scare with quick filming cuts, slamming doors, creaking stairs and noises from the attic, lol. :o :D

[cains]

I went with Wolf Creek too. It was such an "in-your-face" type of violence where the killer showed zero remorse. I don't find that type of graphic horror to be scary, mostly I just find it to be disturbing and unnecessary. I prefer good old fashion horror movies that scare with quick filming cuts, slamming doors, creaking stairs and noises from the attic, lol. :o :D

Just what i thou:cool: ght when i saw Wolf Creek,like when he stabbed the girl in the back and chopped off her fingers,i thought is this really nessessary..
i love the old hammer horror films with the bad sets,poor special effects and the heaving bosoms.
The scariest film i have ever seen was "The Haunting-1963"forget the awful remake:eek: .
you never saw anything ,it was all left to the imagination,very scary
rupert

[Trader47]

Ohhh...I guess I am in a mood tonight, LOL...but after the review I just wrote, there's no way I can resist saying that I just found everything about Wolf Creek to be completely unnecessary. :D

I LOVE The Haunting, though...and I'm referring tothe original too...that remake was yet another crime against humanity, LOL. But the original was one of those rare movies that took a classically scary and disturbing novel and visualized it PERFECTLY...it's every bit as good and effective as the novel is, and that's a true rarity. And for me at least, this film has held up real well...anyone interested in this genre that hasn't seen it definitely should imo.

[cains]

Ohhh...I guess I am in a mood tonight, LOL...but after the review I just wrote, there's no way I can resist saying that I just found everything about Wolf Creek to be completely unnecessary. :D

I LOVE The Haunting, though...and I'm referring tothe original too...that remake was yet another crime against humanity, LOL. But the original was one of those rare movies that took a classically scary and disturbing novel and visualized it PERFECTLY...it's every bit as good and effective as the novel is, and that's a true rarity. And for me at least, this film has held up real well...anyone interested in this genre that hasn't seen it definitely should imo.

Wow ,another Haunting fan.the remake was as you say a crime against humanity and alot of other things hehe.
even tho the film is older than I am it stills sends shivers down my spine and i doubt wether ppl will be saying That about "Wolf Creek"in 40+years lol.
i also think it is film that is as good if not better than the book which is really rare and i think the book is also one of the scariest books ever written
Ps Stephen King and Steven Spielberg say say they use the book and film respectivly as inspiration for ther work-and coming from 2 of the modern masters of their respective crafts this is high praise indeed
Rupert:D

[Trader47]

even tho the film is older than I am it stills sends shivers down my spine and i doubt wether ppl will be saying That about "Wolf Creek"in 40+years lol.


LOL, I very much doubt that, too...I know this one won't be anyway, even if he's still around. I had just about completely forgotten that film about an hour after leaving the theater, LOL.

Ps Stephen King and Steven Spielberg say say they use the book and film respectivly as inspiration for ther work-and coming from 2 of the modern masters of their respective crafts this is high praise indeed


Yeah, Shirley Jackson's work had a huge influence on contemporary horror, and actually on mainstream literature as well...if you like to read and haven't read these, both The Sundial and We Have Always Lived In The Castle are extremely strange and disquieting masterpieces too...never made into films as far as I know, but great reads.

It is real nice to see someone else here mention this film as a great one though...another one you might enjoy from around the same era is The Innocents...it's a film version of Henry James classic short novel The Turn Of The Screw, which has been filmed many times under a variety of titles...this is by far the best version though, and it has some things in common with The Haunting. It's also shot in great looking b&w, which is the only way the mood could have been established well, I think. And it also follows James' complex and tricky novelette faithfully...the story is one of those that hides it's most ominous implications beneath the surface appearances, and you have to catch it's imagery and structure to really get it...if you don't, all you'll see is an interesting sort of ghost story. And the film, amazingly, does exactly the same thing...it manages to put all the clues you need right in front of you, but like The Haunting, it never insults your intelligence by trying to spoonfeed you easy answers...if you miss what's there, you'll still have enjoyed a quietly creepy ghost story...but if you dig beneath the surface and see what's there, you'll have one of those "OH WOW" moments and feel a real chill along your backside, LOL. This film has been mostly forgotten these days I think, completely unfairly...like The Haunting, it's a major classic of quietly creepy, extremely disturbing horror, that actually sticks with you...and since you can clearly appreciate older films of this sort, I'd really recommend seeking this one out if you haven't seen it. :D

love the old hammer horror films with the bad sets,poor special effects and the heaving bosoms.


And, I got so charged up last night seeing The Haunting mentioned fondly, that I forgot to even respond to this part, LOL. I actually grew up with those films...usually catching them at Saturday matinees in old theaters with gargoyles on the walls and the whole works, LOL. All those Poe adaptations that borrowed nothing from Poe beyond a title, LOL, but were great in their own right...and the Dracula stuff...and besides the features you mention, you get to see all the old greats...Karloff, Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Lorre...and when watching them now, you come across a few big surprises that meant nothing at the time, like a real young Jack Nicholson running around in The Raven (second version) and The Terror...LOL, what a trip that is. But those are still mega-fun to me...we have a theater that still has revival nights where they show stuff like that every once in awhile...pretty rundown these days, but on nights when they show some of those, I always do my best to make it. :D

[Lisalou]

I went with Wolf Creek too. It was such an "in-your-face" type of violence where the killer showed zero remorse. I don't find that type of graphic horror to be scary, mostly I just find it to be disturbing and unnecessary. I prefer good old fashion horror movies that scare with quick filming cuts, slamming doors, creaking stairs and noises from the attic, lol. :o :D

Your new banner is awesome rye!!!!

[cains]

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{It is real nice to see someone else here mention this film as a great one though...another one you might enjoy from around the same era is The Innocents...it's a film version of Henry James classic short novel The Turn Of The Screw, which has been filmed many times under a variety of titles...this is by far the best version though, and it has some things in common with The Haunting.}
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i have seen the Innocents and like the haunting it creeped me out, i had ,i had forgotten all about that one ty for rminding me

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both The Sundial and We Have Always Lived In The Castle are extremely strange and disquieting masterpieces too...never made into films as far as I know, but great reads.

I hve read the sundial and tho it didnt affect me as much as The Haunting it was still strange and
i found it a little disturbing.

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All those Poe adaptations that borrowed nothing from Poe beyond a title, LOL, but were great in their own right...and the Dracula stuff...and besides the features you mention, you get to see all the old greats...Karloff, Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Lorre...


Iam not old enough to hve seen these films first time they came out of course but i always try and catch thse films when they are on the TV
Hey i actually used to live near the big house where alot of the Hammar movies were filmed and once i even went there for a wedding reception.it was kinda stange standing in a hallway or courtyard and thinking wow Peter Cushing might have stood right where I am standing now-beleive me it felt kinda awe inspiring and scary,kinda like standing b4 God lol
Rupert

[Trader47]

i have seen the Innocents and like the haunting it creeped me out, i had ,i had forgotten all about that one ty for rminding me

LOL, cool, I thought you might have seen that one. :D OK, well, just one more concerning variations of Turn Of The Screw, then, (this'll be it, I promise, LOL.) There was a really bizarre curiousity of a film made in the seventies called The Nightcomers...it's essentially a prequel, taking the story to a time when Quint & Miss Jessel were alive and engaging in the sorts of shenanigans the author of this film figured they might have I guess, LOL...it's not really a horror film, though fairly horrific in certain ways, and only works sporadically, but it's a pretty bizarre experience, and real interesting I think to most people who like this story...it also features Marlon Brando as Quint...a little known film from a great time in his career, and has to rank up there with his strangest performances, LOL...don't know if this one would interest you or not, but as much as I like babbling, figured mentioning it couldn't hurt, LOL.

I hve read the sundial and tho it didnt affect me as much as The Haunting it was still strange and
i found it a little disturbing.


I think the sense of doom and decay you feel in that novel is so opressive, you can almost actually feel it all around you while you're reading...like a forlorn requiem for a world that's passed...agh, LOL, I can still get a certain kind of shudder thinking about that book, and have to admit it probably creeped me out the most of any of them.... but overall, I'd still probably agree with you that Haunting of Hill House was her best, and probably most influential, novel...and of course, it also inspired that great film, which would still definitely make any list of best ever horror movies that I could come up with. :D

Hey i actually used to live near the big house where alot of the Hammar movies were filmed and once i even went there for a wedding reception.it was kinda stange standing in a hallway or courtyard and thinking wow Peter Cushing might have stood right where I am standing now-beleive me it felt kinda awe inspiring and scary,kinda like standing b4 God lol


Now THAT is COOL, LOL...you know, I usually will go to every creative length I can conjure up to try and get out of going to weddings, LMAO....that's one I sure would have loved to have an invitation to, though. :D

[cains]

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There was a really bizarre curiousity of a film made in the seventies called The Nightcomers...it's essentially a prequel, taking the story to a time when Quint & Miss Jessel were alive and engaging in the sorts of shenanigans the author of this film figured they might have I guess, LOL...it's not really a horror film, though fairly horrific in certain ways, and only works sporadically, but it's a pretty bizarre experience, and real interesting I think to most people who like this story...it also features Marlon Brando as Quint...a little known film from a great time in his career,

Wow ,i saw that film recently.i agree that you cant really call it a horror film but it was still kinda creepy

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but overall, I'd still probably agree with you that Haunting of Hill House was her best, and probably most influential, novel...and of course, it also inspired that great film, which would still definitely make any list of best ever horror movies that I could come up with.

It is certainly top of my best horror movie list.Films like "Wolf Creek" shouldn't even be spoken of in the same breath as the Haunting. I think the scary thing about the Haunting is the feeling that you are actually there and that something terrifying is waiting to leap out at out from some hidden corner

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Now THAT is COOL, LOL...you know, I usually will go to every creative length I can conjure up to try and get out of going to weddings, LMAO....that's one I sure would have loved to have an invitation to, though.

It wasntthe most memorable wedding reception i went to,cant even really remember whose it was but by some twisted sense of logic it was actually the most memorable LOL



Dedicated to all fans of "THe Haunting-truely the most terrifying movie i have ever seen:D

[Trader47]

Wow ,i saw that film recently.i agree that you cant really call it a horror film but it was still kinda creepy


LOL...well, I'm truly amazed...I mention that movie to people every now and then when certain kinds of things come up....I really don't think I've ever brought it up to anyone who's even heard of it before though, much less seen it. That HAS to mean, at the least, that you're willing to venture off the beaten path...and anyone who does that just about always ends up with the best movie experiences to be had...or so I've always thought anyway. :D

It wasntthe most memorable wedding reception i went to,cant even really remember whose it was but by some twisted sense of logic it was actually the most memorable LOl

Hm...well, I WAS at one once where the bride knocked over some candles and started a small fire...that one has stuck with me, ROFL...I think yours would have topped it in the memorable category though. :D

[cains]

yeah,i always like watching the little un knownfilms ,you get alot of them on Tcm and i do get some amazing movie watching expieriences

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Hm...well, I WAS at one once where the bride knocked over some candles and started a small fire...that one has stuck with me, ROFL...I think yours would have topped it in the memorable category though.

IO dunno urs sounds like a wedding of the comical memorable catagory where mine was more of the mystical sort:D

[Trader47]

yeah,i always like watching the little un knownfilms ,you get alot of them on Tcm and i do get some amazing movie watching expieriences


Definitely...TCM has become one of the best movie networks around for older films...just glad someone convinced Ted that colorizing the old b&w ones was a bad idea, LOL.

IO dunno urs sounds like a wedding of the comical memorable catagory where mine was more of the mystical sort:D

Yeah...although the bride sure didn't think it was comical at the time, ROFL...she had to come around on it later, though. :D

[cains]

Definitely...TCM has become one of the best movie networks around for older films...just glad someone convinced Ted that colorizing the old b&w ones was a bad idea, LOL.



Yeah...although the bride sure didn't think it was comical at the time, ROFL...she had to come around on it later, though. :D

Colurising old b/w moves makes me quote ill -the worst case of this is the colourising of of my fave all time film-"Its a wonderful Life" blasphemy in my book arrrrgh

Yeah ur wedding expierience was probably awful at the time,especially for the bride but sort of thing she would probably tell her children years later and have a good laugh about it

[Trader47]

Colurising old b/w moves makes me quote ill -the worst case of this is the colourising of of my fave all time film-"Its a wonderful Life" blasphemy in my book arrrrgh


MAN, blasphemy is right, LOL...I only ever saw one of the finished products, but it was one of the old classic film noirs, The Big Sleep...it was the most ridiculous looking thing I'd ever seen, and completely ruined the film...Can you imagine if he'd gotten a hold of Psycho or The Haunting? Or MANHATTAN? ROFLMAO, Woody would have had kittens. :D

[cains]

there was an old British film about Scott of the Antartic,with John Mills.
I saw it in colour recently but am pretty sure i saw it when i was 10 and i distinctly remember it being in B/W

[Trader47]

Hmm...well, I'm not familiar with that film, but I do know that some of those colorized things are still floating around out there being shown on some tv networks. If the one I saw was any indication though, you should easily be able to tell...it really didn't look good at all. Of course, it was so completely inappropriate for that film, and I also think it was one of the first ones they did, so they might have at least gotten a little better at it...anyway, let's hope all of those just disappear and are completely forgotten...definitely the fate they deserve.

[cains]

Hmm...well, I'm not familiar with that film, but I do know that some of those colorized things are still floating around out there being shown on some tv networks. If the one I saw was any indication though, you should easily be able to tell...it really didn't look good at all. Of course, it was so completely inappropriate for that film, and I also think it was one of the first ones they did, so they might have at least gotten a little better at it...anyway, let's hope all of those just disappear and are completely forgotten...definitely the fate they deserve.


You are right ,this film looked totally false.when it was b/w it captured the grimness of Scotts situation bt seeing it in coulor took away that edge

[Trader47]

Yeah, that whole idea was yet another one of those crimes against humanity, LOL. ;) At least the original prints weren't destroyed in the process so they're still around in their original states...and thankfully, the trend of showing the colorized ones seems to have just about run its course...knock on wood, LOL.

[cains]

i certainly hope so,b/w should stay b/w. those all fims are part of movie history and history should be left as just that history
rupert

[eilz7]

nightmare in elm street *shivers* i hate it! havent seen wolf creek
alee
xxx

[cains]

stay away from .Wolf Creek it is the worst case of graphic uncalled for violence i have ever seen in a movie.i have quite a strong stomuch but WC made me sick to the stomuch:eek: .if you want the advice of a long time horror film fan,if u ever get the chance to see,walk inthe opposite direction as fast as u possibly can