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Haha yeh he was so menacing and his understated glint of dark humour:)..I watched 'Theatre of Blood' and 'Masque of the Red Death' again recently, great films. Yeh, the most scary films are always the psychological ones to me. Stuff like 'When a Stranger Calls' with the weird phone calls and stuff freaks me out ..!

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I want to see that! Watched the Fifth Element last night, that was a pretty good film, also saw the Penguins Of Madagascar recently, and I loved it xD
Once I got that the Fifth Element was supposed to be a goofy, fun movie, and not the sweeping sci-fi epic that it was made out to be on release, I really did enjoy it. Always liked the Madagascar films. I can't say I'm bummed, but we didn't get in to see Mad Max last night - it was sold out by the time we got to the theater. So we saw the new Avengers movie instead. I've enjoyed most of the recent comic book movies; this was no exception, it was certainly entertaining. Still really want to catch Mad Max. Hopefully next week!
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Once I got that the Fifth Element was supposed to be a goofy, fun movie, and not the sweeping sci-fi epic that it was made out to be on release, I really did enjoy it. Always liked the Madagascar films. I can't say I'm bummed, but we didn't get in to see Mad Max last night - it was sold out by the time we got to the theater. So we saw the new Avengers movie instead. I've enjoyed most of the recent comic book movies; this was no exception, it was certainly entertaining. Still really want to catch Mad Max. Hopefully next week!
Age Of Ultron was awesome! :D shame about Mad Max though :/
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Why do remakes almost always suck? Is it really that hard to modernise something like Halloween' date=' Friday the 13th, Nightmare On Elm Street, or Predator without losing the elements which made them classics?[/quote'] Im not disagreeing with you, but I actually really liked the Elm street remake, and this is coming from a die-fucking-hard Freddy fan. I could argue that the writing was on-par if not better than the original film, and there were plenty of neat throwbacks for the old school fans. Plus I like Jackie Earl Haley alot, and I thought going in-depth with Freddy's origin while even using his trademark deceptiveness was a fantastic touch. I actually dug the Rob Zombie Halloween movie for what it was as well, didnt see the second though. But you're right, remakes for the most part, suck. Especially in horror, an incredibly niche genre. I'm a little late to the race (no pun intended) but I watched Rush last night, the one about James Hunt and Nikki Lauda, really enjoyed it even though I've never been too familiar with the story, just heard about it from my dad.
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I liked the backstory elements in Halloween and Elm Street but the films overall didn't do much for me. Elm Street was more faithful to the source material and kept more of the classic elements without blatantly copying original scenes like Halloween so that's a plus. The two best remakes I've seen in horror were The Ring (remake of Ringu which is terrifying in it's own way but surpassed in every way by the Westernised version) and Let Me In...creepy kids man it's hard to go wrong there.

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Have you watched the Babadook? Its an australian film that's been getting a lot of press and I've been meaning to watch it but havent yet edit: and btw, if you've already mentioned it in this thread, sue me. I'm like the real milkman that your mother will tell you about. I only come once a week, sometimes not at all.

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