What's The Latest Film You Have Seen?

jackhammer · 05-01-2009, 03:49 AM

It wasn't quite as bad as I thought it would be but it seemed to me as if the budget was a lot lower than previous installments. It all gets convoluted but it's just an excuse to see people getting tortured really isn't it? As horror franchises go I have seen far far worse.

adidasss · 05-01-2009, 04:35 PM

7/10

6/10

Didn't finish it. It was too boring. No wonder Gere played in the remake...:\

NSW · 05-02-2009, 04:06 PM

Saw this last night, and I actually really liked it. It far exceeded my expectations after that disaster that was X-Men: Last Stand. From what I hear though, it may stray a little too far from the original story for some of you comic book junkies.

Guybrush · 05-02-2009, 04:45 PM

Hellraiser II : Hellbound .. I'd seen this movie before although it was many, many years ago. The quality is not remarkable, but the story and the visuals are so outlandish that I wanted to watch it again.

The main character in both the first and second movies is the young woman Kirsty. In the first, her evil uncle Frank solved the lament configuration, a puzzle box that if solved correctly opens a portal to hell. The cenobites, I guess you could call them demons, then came and took him away. Frank escapes hell and slowly returns to life when a drop of blood is spilled in the attic of the house where Kirsty lives with her father and evil step-mother Julia. At first, Frank is just a lump of organs and needs to "consume" other people in order to fully turn back into his own self. Kirsty's step mother is Frank's ex-lover and she's the one getting the victims for him .. a bunch of murders down the line, Frank is pretty much back to his old self.

Of course, evil uncle Frank is a problem and Kirsty gets a hold of the box. She solves it, opening a portal to hell and when the cenobites come to take her, she bargains with them, trading them the life of Frank for her own. The cenobites then take evil uncle Frank and evil step-mom Julia back to hell but Kirsty's own father also gets killed in the process.

Hellbound starts pretty much where the first movie left off. Kirsty is in an insanse asylum. However, one of the neurologists working there has a secret obsession with the box and the hedonistic pleasures it promises and so he knows Kirsty's experiences are in fact real. He's able to bring back her evil step-mother and then gets another patient, a girl who never talks but is extremely good at solving riddles, to solve the box and open a portal to hell.

I won't tell you everything that happens, but the movie is extremely outlandish. The second half pretty much takes place in hell as that's where all the main characters eventually end up. The movie's horror is extremely visual and disturbing for such a "mainstream" or at least well-known film series. Much more visual than psychological.

If you like horror extravaganza of the visual kind and plots that are about as outlandish as they can get in a movie which is still supposed to be serious, watch this one. It's too weird to immerse yet still manages to be unsettling now and then. It does not have quite the quality of the first one, but I think the entertainment value is at least as high. My GF can't watch it because the visuals give her nightmares. They don't scare me and so it's not such a scary movie .. but it doesn't really rely on spooks to work, so that's alright with me.

jackhammer · 05-02-2009, 07:09 PM

Two is an absolute mess with Barker Directing and then handing over the reins half way through. As you say there are some great visuals but it's an incoherent mess. The day some hollywood dolt decides to film Imajica is the day the world ends!

sweet_nothing · 05-02-2009, 09:30 PM

After re-reading the book these past couple of days it only makes sense to watch the movie again and yeh I love it. I still cant believe a film this good failed at the box office when it came out.

Awesome zombie movie, a wood splinter going through a woman's eye, love it.

gunnels · 05-02-2009, 09:35 PM

That's a god-awful poster, though.

sweet_nothing · 05-02-2009, 09:38 PM

I think he's sexy

sleepy jack · 05-02-2009, 09:41 PM

I just saw Wolverine. 10/10 for Hugh Jackman's naked ass.

khfreek · 05-02-2009, 09:45 PM

Great film. The two lead actors are fantastic.

05-01-2009, 03:49 AM	#3221 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	It wasn't quite as bad as I thought it would be but it seemed to me as if the budget was a lot lower than previous installments. It all gets convoluted but it's just an excuse to see people getting tortured really isn't it? As horror franchises go I have seen far far worse. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

05-01-2009, 04:35 PM	#3222 (permalink)
adidasss Slavic gay sauce Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Abu Dhabi Posts: 7,993	7/10 6/10 Didn't finish it. It was too boring. No wonder Gere played in the remake...:\ __________________ “Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle. Last.fm

05-02-2009, 04:06 PM	#3223 (permalink)
NSW Bigger and Better Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Texas girl living in the UK Posts: 2,596	Saw this last night, and I actually really liked it. It far exceeded my expectations after that disaster that was X-Men: Last Stand. From what I hear though, it may stray a little too far from the original story for some of you comic book junkies. __________________ Hi.

05-02-2009, 04:45 PM	#3224 (permalink)
Guybrush Juicious Maximus III Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Scabb Island Posts: 6,525	Hellraiser II : Hellbound .. I'd seen this movie before although it was many, many years ago. The quality is not remarkable, but the story and the visuals are so outlandish that I wanted to watch it again. The main character in both the first and second movies is the young woman Kirsty. In the first, her evil uncle Frank solved the lament configuration, a puzzle box that if solved correctly opens a portal to hell. The cenobites, I guess you could call them demons, then came and took him away. Frank escapes hell and slowly returns to life when a drop of blood is spilled in the attic of the house where Kirsty lives with her father and evil step-mother Julia. At first, Frank is just a lump of organs and needs to "consume" other people in order to fully turn back into his own self. Kirsty's step mother is Frank's ex-lover and she's the one getting the victims for him .. a bunch of murders down the line, Frank is pretty much back to his old self. Of course, evil uncle Frank is a problem and Kirsty gets a hold of the box. She solves it, opening a portal to hell and when the cenobites come to take her, she bargains with them, trading them the life of Frank for her own. The cenobites then take evil uncle Frank and evil step-mom Julia back to hell but Kirsty's own father also gets killed in the process. Hellbound starts pretty much where the first movie left off. Kirsty is in an insanse asylum. However, one of the neurologists working there has a secret obsession with the box and the hedonistic pleasures it promises and so he knows Kirsty's experiences are in fact real. He's able to bring back her evil step-mother and then gets another patient, a girl who never talks but is extremely good at solving riddles, to solve the box and open a portal to hell. I won't tell you everything that happens, but the movie is extremely outlandish. The second half pretty much takes place in hell as that's where all the main characters eventually end up. The movie's horror is extremely visual and disturbing for such a "mainstream" or at least well-known film series. Much more visual than psychological. If you like horror extravaganza of the visual kind and plots that are about as outlandish as they can get in a movie which is still supposed to be serious, watch this one. It's too weird to immerse yet still manages to be unsettling now and then. It does not have quite the quality of the first one, but I think the entertainment value is at least as high. My GF can't watch it because the visuals give her nightmares. They don't scare me and so it's not such a scary movie .. but it doesn't really rely on spooks to work, so that's alright with me. __________________ Something Completely Different

05-02-2009, 07:09 PM	#3225 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Two is an absolute mess with Barker Directing and then handing over the reins half way through. As you say there are some great visuals but it's an incoherent mess. The day some hollywood dolt decides to film Imajica is the day the world ends! __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

05-02-2009, 09:45 PM	#3230 (permalink)
khfreek What a guy Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Brentwood, TN Posts: 2,123	Great film. The two lead actors are fantastic. __________________ last.fm