... and thats what we knew him for when it was announced Peter Jackson would be doing the Lord of the Ring movies. I can't actually sit through some of the scenes due to the sheer gore content (Its not a scary movie, just disgusting, but highly hilarious and as such awesome.)cheez.wiz wrote:Dead alive.
Probably the goriest movie i've seen. Ever. My impressions were that it's so bad that it's good, then bad again, then good again, then bad, then horrible, then good, and then completely made of awesome and gore. In the end, i'd say it's easily one of the best completely gory, low budget but filled with special effects, old horror movie i've ever seen.
Only movie that ever gave me nightmares was Creature from Hell and the Baily Sisters, I'm still not sure, but that thing left me twitchy for months. I did see it while highly sleep deprived, I assume thats why. In general I love horror movies of lower quality, aka B-Movies. Zombie Strippers for instance is just a classic of the genre, with only one of the strippers even knowing how to dance.
I normally prefer suspense films far over gore/slasher flicks. Think Alien v. Alien v. Predator. In the original Alien you don't even see more then a glimpse of the monster until near the end, much more about the anticipation and emphasizing the unknown. Slasher flicks it seems like are just an excuse for graphic nasty special effects. The saw series is actually another good example, the original was much closer to a true suspense flick even with the graphic traps used, it focused on two men in a dire situation in a room not the traps but the actors were the focus. After that it was purely how disturbing/disgusting can we make this trap, surely we can make some vague semblance of a plot to string together these kick ass buckets of blood right?
I also -love- Zombie movies, my favorite being an Australian number "Undead" if only for zombie fish! I don't really consider 28 days later a zombie flick, I know its one technically but damnit those aren't zombies. The best part of the zombie was the inevitability, eventually whatever you do is going to fail you, death will claim you in its now quite literal claws. The whole Fast Zombie concept just makes the genre into a gorefest, true a normally extra hilarious one (Return of the Living Dead 4:Rave), but not true horror potential. Add in the fact that movies like 28 days/weeks the zombies are still living, breaking down quickly from starvation they get even further.
