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[-Gozer-]

Makes even less sense when you realize that it isn't even the same shark. Either this shark has acquired the collective memories of every Jaws or personally witnessed at least one of the sharks who died and understood enough to swear revenge on the bloodline of the one who killed it.

I remember hearing that the novelizations explain that the Brody family has a voodoo curse on them or some such nonsense.

 

[zeemumu]

Yea, I really enjoyed this new Blair Witch.

It wasn't anything mind blowing but I thought it was filmed really well and it had a great vibe, I thought the reviews were unnecessary. I don't think any sequel to the Blair Witch can capture what the original managed to do. Outside of 1 or 2 movies, nothing like it had even been done and it turned into a pop-culture phenomenon. All you can really expect at this point is kids getting lost in the woods and creepy things happening, which I thought this new one pulled off in spades. My only complaint is that the drone aspect was sorely under utilized, total missed opportunity but the one shot of it really drove home just how massive those woods are.

I wish they had expanded on

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what the hell was in her leg. She didn't really look at it long enough for me to get a clear look. Was it a stick? Were her bones becoming sticks and that's why her leg violently snapped with every step?

Also,

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supposedly that creature pursuing them wasn't the witch. I guess it was like a proxy or something. Or Heather.

I remember hearing that the novelizations explain that the Brody family has a voodoo curse on them or some such nonsense.

But the rules of voodoo dictate that it only works on people who believe in it. I mean, the Brody's lived in a seaside town so they might be superstitious but either way, adding a supernatural element to Jaws removes the fear of this being a random 25 foot shark attack that could happen to anyone.

 

[retroman]

Child's Play or the Chucky movies got weirder and weirder as they kept making them, the last ones were pretty much comedies.

The last Child's Play movie went back to its horror roots. I thought it was pretty clever that Curse Of Chucky

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was a sequel disguised as a reboot

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[Chuckie]

I'd love see a modern take of the Hellraiser franchise in the proper hands. The thing that I enjoy about the series is the universe and lore is surprisingly deep.

But if it would ever happen I would like it to have an actual budget that way we can have a proper portrayal of the cenobite realm.

I'm actually surprised no ones touched it though with all the reboots and remakes these days.

The reboot has already been planned since 2006, Clive Barker himself has been working on the script. Even the original Pinhead would come back. But there hasn't been any news about it since 2014.

We'll have to do with Hellraiser Judgment which will probably be a piece of shit again

 

[retroman]

How about those Basket Case movies? The first one was already a bit odd, but the sequels turned the insanity up to eleven!

 

[SomTervo]

Evil Dead 2 and, subsequently, Army of Darkness. But in a good way.

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Psycho 2 is basically centered around Norman Bates being released into the public after he is deemed to no longer be insane, so the heroine from the first film and her daughter try and drive him insane again by trolling him with messages and things to make him think his "mother" personality has resurfaced.

The movie then swerves by having Bates's "real" mother return, claiming the woman who raised Normal was actually her sister from whom Normal was stolen as an infant, and she starts murdering people before Norman kills her because he was driven insane by the afformentioned plot to troll him back to insanity.

This is wild. I need to watch this.

 

[zeemumu]

Psycho 2 is basically centered around Norman Bates being released into the public after he is deemed to no longer be insane, so the heroine from the first film and her daughter try and drive him insane again by trolling him with messages and things to make him think his "mother" personality has resurfaced.

The movie then swerves by having Bates's "real" mother return, claiming the woman who raised Normal was actually her sister from whom Normal was stolen as an infant, and she starts murdering people before Norman kills her because he was driven insane by the afformentioned plot to troll him back to insanity.

So every major female charcter in the first two films had committed some form of crime?

 

[mariachi507]

I've got one that hasn't been mentioned yet and it's probably the first "weird" horror sequel. The original Frankenstein has a serious tone along with a classic gothic atmosphere. Then all of a sudden Bride comes out and it's this insane horror comedy with almost every other genre thrown in as well. Between Karloff's revamped role, comedic relief characters, Dr. Pretorious, the religious symbolism, and the bottle experiment scene, it's interesting to me that Universal allowed James Whale to go in the direction he did. I'm glad they did though.

 

[Infernostew]

This is the right answer and it's an awesome film.

 

[AppleSeason]

/edited. Oh, wait, sequels. nevermind.

 

[KiKaL]

Yea, Halloween 3 is awesome.

Insidious 2 was an absolute letdown. First was a slow burn, really tense. 2nd was complete camp.

Insidious 2 is what made me actually like Insidious.