Please do take the time. You have a lot of interesting experiences, and a way with words.
-------------- Original message -------------- From: "Martin Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Like you, my friend, there have been events in my life that I *know* I need to commit to paper before I or the memories wander away, but time, as always, puts herself in the way. ---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : Re: [RE][scifinoir2] Horror Marathons on Cable Date : Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:47:26 +0000 >From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com I can relate to that. As long as the concept and execution is original and clever it's fine. the first "Friday the 13th" was okay because it was new in a way. The problem comes when the inevitable sequels and clones dispense with the suspense and intelligence, and just take out the overt parts in order for each new release to out gross the ones that came before. Seen worse in real life? You must write about that... -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Martin Baxter" Keith, I'll give the first one some points for originality. Putting two people in circumstances that demand that they either hurt themselves or those they care for had a neat psychological edge. For me, that's where the better part of horror kicks in. The gore didn't bother me at all because, at the risk of freaking people out, I have seen worse in real life. ---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : Re: [RE][scifinoir2] Horror Marathons on Cable Date : Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:52:44 +0000 >From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com What is so good about "Saw"? Never seen any of the eps... -------------- Original message -------------- From: Grayson Reyes-Cole Just for the record :) though my pleasure with the series may say something different, I am not a gan of "torture porn" either. Grayson Reyes-Cole http://www.graysonreyescole.com Facebook Bright Star When evil is done for the greater good, a price must always be paid... Lyrical Press October 2008 --- On Mon, 11/3/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RE][scifinoir2] Horror Marathons on Cable To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, November 3, 2008, 3:21 AM "Psycho" is a classic, no doubt. So is the original "Halloween", for that matter. As for the "Saw" torture porn stuff, yeah, it doesn't exactly thrill me. ------------ -- Original message ------------ -- From: "Martin Baxter" Precisely. The newer batch of filmmakers have lost sight of what real horror is. All week long, we've been innundated with all of the classic horror flicks, but the one horror movie that managed to scare me, "Psycho" wasn't shown. TCM's going to show it on Tuesday at 6:00. And let us *never* mention the series of movies named after an implement used to cut down trees... 8-O ---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : Re: [RE][scifinoir2] Horror Marathons on Cable Date : Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:06:36 +0000 >From : KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Yes it did. Part of the unfortunate modern trend toward minimizing suspense, and increasing FX and cheap shot thrills. If anyone had known that the seminal "Friday the 13th" and even "Halloween" would start a slide toward this...everything that came after took the grossest, least creative parts of those films and made it the standard for what's called "horror". I was reading a review of a horror film on cable tonight ,and the blurb noted the number and variety of grisly deaths the cast faced, as if that's the point of horror. ------------ -- Original message ------------ -- From: "Martin Baxter" Man, that "House on Haunted Hill" remake redefined bad, didn't it? ---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : Re: [RE][scifinoir2] Horror Marathons on Cable Date : Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:34:30 +0000 >From : KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com I agree! And I have to say, on further viewing, that TCM is superiour to AMC because the latter's bringing in some fairly modern and mediocre stuff that we've all seen --or avoided--before. AMC is doing a big block of all the substandard Halloween movies today, followed, I believe by stuff like Jeepers Creepers and Resident Evil. And FX is also doing a horror marathon, but they do are doing a lot of more modern junk. I'm not sure which of those two is doing which movies, but I remember seeing things like the Resident Evil, the horrible modern remake of "House on Haunted Hill" (the original is still a classic), etc. Maybe TCM owns more of the classics. And even though some of the old B&W films aren't that scary to me now, they somehow bring me more joy than a lot of the FX- and gore-heavy over-adrenalized films that pass for horror nowadasy. "House on Haunted Hill", for example, is an embarrassment in its lack of true chills. So TCM for me, baby! ------------ -- Original message ------------ -- From: "Martin Baxter" I've been watching TCM's offerings all night long. So far, "Tales of the Dead" has been tops, because of that cool French existentialistic angle. And Cartoon Network is apparently cranking up "Goosebumps" all day long, for those interested. ---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : [scifinoir2] Horror Marathons on Cable Date : Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:36:19 +0000 >From : KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Meant to drop this yesterday. Both cable channels AMC and TCM are showing horror movies all day. They started at least yesterday, th ough I've been watching stuff on TCM in the evenings all week. Since they have so many hours to fill, movies are going all the way back to B&W classics starting the likes of Karloff and Chaney (so funny to watch the villagers with their pitchforks and torches coming after the monster!) to more modern fare like "The Fly" remake. It's reall enjoyable, especially checking out the old classics. Now I see why SciFi doens't show more of the classic stuff--the other stations own it.
