'Lifeforce' really is a criminally underrated horror flick. The end set of a post-apocalyptic London is fantastic...I think only the movie 'Split Second' has a better version of a post-apocalyptic London (slowly sinking into the Thames). Also, Toby Hooper directed the video for Billy Idol's "Dancing With Myself."
Listening to interviews with Zombie from the last 5-8 years or so is highly recommended, the guy breaks down how the Hollywood sausage is made and how idiot executive fuck everything up, and how the buying and selling of the rights to franchises degrades the product. The dudes “heavy metal” career was an embarrassing joke, but anyone interested in how Hollywood works now and why everything is fucked up should absolutely listen to what he has to say
O Bannon directed one of my favorite zombie movies, Return of the living dead. Honestly, one should just google his name and watch everything he’s worked on, all of it is good. he even comes up in "Jodorowskys Dune" he worked with john carpenter on Dark Star and really those two in the late 70s and the 80s were just churning out some of the best stuff the era produced. i always wished Hooper was more up in the mix too….
Haven't seen the new ones. My issue with Rob Zombie in general is his tendency to slip into that weird carnivalesque music video camera style. The scene in Halloween ii where Michael kills the strippers was also too much for me. Turned it off after that
'Lifeforce' really is a criminally underrated horror flick. The end set of a post-apocalyptic London is fantastic...I think only the movie 'Split Second' has a better version of a post-apocalyptic London (slowly sinking into the Thames). Also, Toby Hooper directed the video for Billy Idol's "Dancing With Myself."
Just finished watching Hooper’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Good stuff
Invaders from Mars gets under your skin. The whole feel of that movie, its... texture is pure menace.
Can't trust anyone but pretty teacher lady and you see what happens to her!
Listening to interviews with Zombie from the last 5-8 years or so is highly recommended, the guy breaks down how the Hollywood sausage is made and how idiot executive fuck everything up, and how the buying and selling of the rights to franchises degrades the product. The dudes “heavy metal” career was an embarrassing joke, but anyone interested in how Hollywood works now and why everything is fucked up should absolutely listen to what he has to say
O Bannon directed one of my favorite zombie movies, Return of the living dead. Honestly, one should just google his name and watch everything he’s worked on, all of it is good. he even comes up in "Jodorowskys Dune" he worked with john carpenter on Dark Star and really those two in the late 70s and the 80s were just churning out some of the best stuff the era produced. i always wished Hooper was more up in the mix too….
DEFINITELY!
I was an OG Hater on the Zombie Halloween remake. But my tastes have changed so much since then, I'm willing to give it another shot.
I have a long love/hate relationship with a lot of the famous horror franchises. I may love it the first time, then do a savage turn on the rewatch.
LIFEFORCE has always been great, tho. I never understood why it bombed...who wouldn't want to watch this type of shit?
The second Rob Zombie Halloween was so nasty and bad that it kinda ruined his pretty good first effort for me
I LIKED it. The callback/shoutout to ORIGINAL Halloween II was DOPE.
And compared to these ridiculous/bizarre, ''HALLOWEEN KILLS'' movies? Shit is like CITIZEN KANE.
Haven't seen the new ones. My issue with Rob Zombie in general is his tendency to slip into that weird carnivalesque music video camera style. The scene in Halloween ii where Michael kills the strippers was also too much for me. Turned it off after that