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Movies and TV series have all sorts of unusual origins, but the anthology MASTERS OF HORROR may be the first born of a dinner party.

"Well, it kind of was and kind of wasn't," says Mick Garris, the driving force behind the anthology series that will debut in the U.S. on Showtime, followed by Anchor Bay DVD releases. The installments will be directed by horrormeisters including Dario Argento, John Carpenter, Larry Cohen, Roger Corman, Don Coscarelli (pictured on our front page), Joe Dante, Stuart Gordon, Tobe Hooper, John Landis, George Romero and Garris himself; writers include Garris, David J. Schow (adapting his short story "Pick Me Up") and Richard Christian Matheson (adapting his father's tale "Dance of the Dead").

"So many of us know each other," Garris continues, "and we would always say, 'Oh, wouldn't it be fun to get a bunch of us together and have a dinner or a lunch or something.' I decided to take it in hand and organize [a dinner] a couple of years ago. It took me several weeks to get everybody's schedules together to where we could agree on a night and meet at a restaurant out in the [San Fernando] Valley. There were 12 of us at that first one: Landis, Guillermo [del Toro], Carpenter, Hooper, Stuart Gordon, Bill Malone. When we did our second one, it took me a couple of hours to arrange it rather than several weeks, because everybody had a really great time."

Cohen says that he never imagined the camaraderie of the dinner parties would become the basis for a work situation. "The whole idea of it was just low-key," the IT'S ALIVE creator recalls. "Nobody brought any wives or girlfriends, there was no press; it was all just done to have a good time and revel in each other's company. It became a Frankenstein monster—look what happened!"

"We certainly realized the value in all of us getting together and sharing our ideas and feelings and seeing each other's new works," adds Hooper. "But now there's a reality to it."

"I was invited to one of those dinners, and it was quite an eye-opener," Coscarelli recalls, "because these guys were all such nice, kind, intelligent gentlemen. I hadn't met a lot of them [previously]. We always had a great time hanging out, and one day Mick came to us with this plan and everybody liked it."

"A lot of us had thought about doing an anthology before," Garris recalls. "We kind of got close to raising interest now and then. It was when everybody started talking about the idea of it and I actually spoke about it to the guys at [Garris' agents] CAA and at Industry [Garris' managers] that I made it official. You can't ask people to commit to a project unless there's a project to commit to, and you can't ask anybody to commit financing to a project unless you have the project. So this is not the kind of thing you could do a pilot for. But I just went boldly ahead and said, 'Do you guys want to do it?' I didn't do it at the dinners; I talked to each of them individually about it, so that nobody had any kind of pressure."

Showtime president Bob Greenblatt sounds stoked about the project: "Keith Addis [executive producer on MASTERS with Garris and Andrew Deane] called and told me he had put together all the filmmakers with Mick Garris, and he said, 'I have the perfect series for Showtime. It's going to be an amazing show, and do you guys want to do it?' We said, 'Absolutely.' It's great, because we get to have a group of filmmakers making their [individual] one-hour movies. You can't do something that unique on [an episodic] series, so it's exciting. These guys truly are the masters of horror."

Some directors are more candid than others about what they'll be doing. "Mine is based on a short story, 'Incident On and Off a Mountain Road,' by Texas writer Joe Lansdale," says Coscarelli, whose cult hit BUBBA HO-TEP was inspired by Lansdale's work. "I collaborated with another Texas writer, Stephen Romano [also attached to Coscarelli's new PHANTASM films for New Line], adapting Joe's story." The project will reunite Coscarelli with PHANTASM star Angus Scrimm: "We're lucky to have Angus included in a very cool role that's very different from the Tall Man character," the director says. "It's something the fans are really going to like, because it's really bizarre and out there." Scrimm says he's delighted to be involved: "It's a perfect role. Don's idea is that my character might offer some light comedy relief to what is a very frightening story."

Hooper won't offer specifics on what he'll be doing, other than to promise, "It's going to be scary as hell, and it's going to be fun having the kind of freedom you have with cable television," an environment in which he previously helmed the likes of TALES FROM THE CRYPT and BODY BAGS. "I'm going to definitely push the limit on what I can do—and that doesn't mean gore, it means psychological manipulation."

Don't worry, there will be plenty of grue too, says KNB's Greg Nicotero, who will supervise the makeup FX. "It's a lot of fun," he says, "because I've [previously] worked with every single director, except for Larry Cohen. To me, it's really delightful to get to talk to these guys whom I've sort of built my career working with. Don Coscarelli's episode is very detailed, very in-depth, a lot of effects. Mick's episode is very minimal, barely has [any special makeup], and then you have John Landis', which has kind of a comic slant to it. So each segment is different, which creates challenges for us, because the themes for each show are very different."

KNB is a choice that makes Garris especially happy: "I've known Greg for over 10 years, just as a friend, and I'd never worked with KNB until RIDING THE BULLET. They did a great job on that, and I knew they could do all of what we needed [on MASTERS] and that they could do it on a budget that would be tight, because it's television. They were excited about doing it, and so many of the filmmakers had worked with them before that it was an easy fit."

Garris, who is adapting his own short story "Chocolate" for the series, reports that the MASTERS directors will have almost entirely free rein: "The guidelines are, 10 days of shooting, smart and scary, and we don't want them at all alike. We want John Carpenter's episode to look like a John Carpenter film; we want Joe Dante's episode to look like a Joe Dante film; [we want] everyone to just work within their own style and make the movie they want. This is, more than any show I've ever seen, director-driven. The series exists because of the filmmakers, and so we want them to have as much freedom as possible.

"My greatest fear is, how could it possibly live up to expectations when you've got the greatest directors in the world?" Garris continues with a laugh. "I hope it's going to be the greatest horror series ever. It's certainly got the potential of being a horror geek's greatest wet dream. I know it's mine."

Ovo bi moglo da uspe...
...kada bi  navedeni imali po 30 godina i 2-3 filma iza sebe!

Ovako: 'em je to previse mali format za tako velike autore (TV serija?! Wtf?) 'em je cela koncepcija verovatno isuvise neobavezna da bi mi ocekivali neka velika ostvarenja...

So, ...  :roll:

PS

Obozavam ove topike bazirane na copy/paste tehnici...
Vrlo kreativno...
Nesumnjivo!

Masters of Horror creator Mick Garris told Fango at the Weekend of Horrors that Rutger Hauer will star in Takashi Miike's entry in the IDT Entertainment horror series.

The Audition bad boy's tale will be an 18th-century ghost story filmed in Japan. Aside from Hauer, the cast will be all-Japanese (though the episode will be shot in English). Garris also reports that he recently spoke to Lucky (The Woods) McKee and that he's the happiest director alive, shooting his segment Sick Girl.

Mark, pa ti si se vratio! :!:

Sweet jeebus...

Joco, je l' gledaš ti datume postova? Imaš gore pri vrhu.

:(
Sad si mi pokvario veče. :cry:

Ne boj se vratice se :wink: mozda su ga negde pojeli kanibali :arrow:

хауер ипак неће играти код миикеа, али зато предивна скрајнута дива, ФАИРУЗА БАЛК, игра код ларија коена, у истом овом серијалз мајстора орора.

ево:

Fairuza Balk, the bitch witch from THE CRAFT, will be starring in Larry Cohen's segment PICK ME UP.

Written by David J. Schow (THE CROW), Balk plays this young chick who's caught between a competition of two battling seriel killers.

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first still from John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns. Brutal, ain't it? Once again we're back to bring you a series of exclusive stills from Showtime's Masters of Horror (airdate: October 28th).

Scripted by Drew McWeeny and Scott Swan, Burns is a twisted investigative thriller in the vein of Chinatown. The story concerns Jimmy Sweetman, a fella known for tracking down obscure film prints, who is one day hired by an employer to find a reel of celluloid called Le Fin du Monde. The one and only audience to have seen this film was driven into a murderous rage.

UH! koja dobra fotka  :D

OBAVEZNO VIDITE TREJLERE! samo tri komada. http://www.mastersofhorror.net/  kliknite na movies,malo je zeznuto puno flesha lakse je ako imate brzi iternet.
Konacno videh Argenta "Jenifer" sjajno! odusevljen sam!sumnjam da mu je najludji Argentov freak film,zatim"Deerwoman"konacno John Landisa :D ,deluje nesto poput Gingera :!:uauuuu! dok budemo gledali picemo jelen pivo..:lol:
"incident on and off a mountain road"ovo je najbolje sto sam video od Dona Coscarelija ako volite Jeepersa creepersa i teksaskog masakra. :evil:
Ovo najbolje od svega sto sam video nestrpljivo cekam :!:

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Fair Haired Child, u reziji Vilijama Malouna. Izgldea interesantno. Mogu da se kladim da ce Karpentera i Hupera ostaviti za kraj.

Damn, you folks are fucking harsh! When I sent in my review of 'Cigarette Burns' the other day, I made a point of saying I really wasn't familiar with AICN bigwig Moriarty's work. Honest guys, I don't know the man, never met him, not even sure if I've ever had an e-mail from Mister M. At the moment, he's not even on my good side, after I sent in an interview with Corpse Bride co-director Mike Johnson and he never even bothered to post it. So when I claim a tiny speck of objectivity, please don't waste endless bandwidth talking about how we're all best buds. Obviously I can't speak for the other contributors to this site, but I only check in once in a while I've got something that I think you guys might be interested in.

Like today for example. Having just come back from another day covering the Chiller Theatre convention here in New Jersey, I was fortunate enough to sit in on a Masters of Horror panel, as well as a special night-time screening of 'Dreams in the Witch House,' hosted by the master of Lovecraftian creepitude himself, Stuart Gordon. I'll get to my review of the episode shortly, as well as a few highlights from the post-screening Q&A, but first, a few highlights from the MOH panel.

The Masters of Horror

While several thousand die-hard horror fans eagerly lined up at this year's Chiller Theatre convention to plunk down twenty bucks for George Romero's autograph, not to mention that of several dozen minor celebrities, pro wrestlers and c-list reality bottom-feeders like Tonya Harding and Jerri Manthey, the best-kept secret of the weekend was that Anchor Bay was sponsoring a panel to unveil Showtime's new Masters of Horror series. On hand were directors John Landis (American Werewolf in London), Stuart Gordon (Re-animator, Dagon), Gordon's frequent writing collaborator Dennis Paoli, and new kid on the block, Lucky McKee (May, The Woods). Despite some audio-visual problems, and the fact that Chiller hadn't done all that much to publicize the event, for the small group of fans that attended (which included Raiders of the Lost Ark actress Karen Allen and Animal House's Mark Metcalf), it was a highlight of the weekend.

The panel opened with a clip from each director's contribution, starting with McKee's 'Sick Girl.' "My episode is about two girls that fall in love," he explained cryptically, "and a bug that gets in-between them." Unfortunately, the director proved to be anything but Lucky, as the clip came up in black and white, followed by an on-screen menu as the AV guys struggled to fix it, accompanied by a few sardonic comments from Landis. "This is Lucky's first experience watching his stuff fucked up!" he joked. "William Friedkin said, 'The projectionist is the only one with final cut.'

As the DVD projector was getting fixed, the subject moved on to casting, with Landis pointing out that he had cast former 'Dream On' star Brian Benben as the lead in his episode, 'Deer Woman. "And a drop-dead gorgeous Brazilian model named Cynthia Mora who plays the Deer Woman. She's one-quarter Amazonian Indian and gorgeous!"

Gordon was able to bring in 'Dagon's Ezra Godden to star in 'Dreams in the Witch House,' which is based on another H.P. Lovecraft story. "It was a story we had trouble doing before," adds Paoli, "because of the subject matter, so it was great that they let us do it. That was the other thing: they us say what we wanted to say and do the stories we wanted to do, so that was pretty amazing."

Regarding the show's Vancouver shoot, Landis refuted a rumor that Dario Argento's episode had gone way over budget. "No, that's John Carpenter causing trouble! It's not true. Everyone did fine. All the FX work id done by a CG guy in Toronto, who did really interesting stuff, and KNB (Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger) did the prosthetic FX, and there are lots of them!"

In terms of securing the rights for various stories, Gordon pointed out that Lovecraft was in the public domain. "But I know they got the rights to Joe Lansdale's story for Don Coscarelli."

"And Dario's is based on an EC Comic," adds Landis.

Although the directors were pretty much able to make their episodes as graphic as they wanted (thank you Showtime!), Landis noted that there is one notable cut in Argento's episode 'Jenifer,' which will eventually be restored for the DVD. "It involves some cannibalism of a phallus that is a little severe. I remember when I saw it, Dario is a very sweet guy and we were all watching it on the AVID going, 'Jesus Christ!' So it will be implied on Showtime but it will be explicit on the DVD."

Landis also explained that McKee joined the roster of MOH directors after Roger Corman had to drop out to health reasons and Romero had a last-minute conflict and were replaced by McKee and John McNaughton. "They gave me three scripts," recalls McKee, "and I thought I could take that one in a direction that fit my sensibility and just rewrote the thing like crazy for a month and a half before storyboarding it and tried to make it fit my style. The original script was about a guy and a girl that fall in love, and I changed it to two girls because I wanted Angela [Bettis] to be my lead again. Anyway, two girls is much better!"

Each of the panelists went on to point out how different each episode was in terms of style and story. Landis expressed some jealousy for Joe Dante's episode 'Homecoming,' which is outrageously pointed and topical. "It's about the war in Iraq and our president, and it's excellent. I think the wackiest one is probably Dario's. it's the one that you watch and think, 'What the fuck am I seeing?' McKee said Tobe Hooper's episode 'Dance of the Dead' blew his mind. "It's like, made by a kid that's not even born yet; it's so visually breathtaking."

"Tobe was so excited," continues Landis, "because they used this new kind of gel for the first time, that does flame FX, so you have a burning person, but it does it on your skin in a way that can't burn you, so of course Tobe put it on three naked girls being thrown into a dumpster! Now that I think about this show, we're in deep shit!"

With that, the AV guys finally had the projector up and running, so they ran McKee's clip again, this time in color, followed by Landis' and Gordon's. "When you see on TV," promised Landis, "it will be in focus." Another quick round of questioning followed, with McKee talking about how excited (and overwhelmed) he was to be joining this group of directors, Gordon talked about the baby in jeopardy from his episode (which we'll get to in the review), and Landis confirmed that a second season is already in the works. And asked about any films in their career that they regretted turning down, Landis cited Men in Black, which he originally considered 'Ghostbusters dressed as the Blues Brothers,' and Gordon revealed that he had passed on In the Mouth of Madness,' which had been sent to him by a young writer named Michael DeLuca. "And he ended up running New Line, so big mistake!"

That wrapped up the Masters of Horror panel. Obviously not an awful lot revealed in terms of news and information, but I hope I was able to give you a sense of the easy give and take between the four of them. And now onward to our second event... -------------------------------------------------------------------------

'Dreams in the Witch House'
Written by Dennis Paoli
Directed by Stuart Gordon
(Spoilers follow: don't say I didn't warn you!)

There is a scene in the movie Crazy People where Dudley Moore's stressed-out advertising executive describes an upcoming horror film with a tagline that goes something like 'This movie will not just scare you; it will fuck you up for life!' I couldn't help thinking about that warning during the screening of 'Dreams in the Witch House,' adapted from a story by H.P. Lovecraft. There are a few images in the episode that are not only extremely disturbing, but they will also linger in your subconscious long after the closing credits roll.

Gordon and Paoli have collaborated on Lovecraft adaptations several times in the past, including Re-Animator (1985), From Beyond (1986) and Dagon (2001). Although they've often taken liberties with the original source material, they've have more success in bringing Lovecraft to the big screen than just about anybody else I can think of.

It seems hard to believe though, that Paoli and Gordon's best adaptation to date may be 'Dreams in the Witch House,' which airs as the second episode in Showtime's Masters of Horror series. Although there are some key differences with the original 1933 story published in Weird Tales, the spirit of Lovecraft come through in delightfully chilling fashion.

Walter Gilman (played by Dagon's Ezra Godden) is a grad student at Miskatonic University, where he's studying 'string theory,' which is based on the theory that different universes intersect at certain points, and by finding the places where the inter-dimensional membranes are thinnest, one can pass back and forth between them. Strapped for cash, Walter moves into a fleabag apartment, which isn't all that pleasant. There are strange noises in the walls, the chanting derelict downstairs keeps giving him the skunk eye, and Frankie (Chelah Horsdal), the single mom down the hall and her infant son Danny are attacked by an overly-aggressive rat looking for- quite literally- a late night snack of baby food. Even stranger, Walter begins to notice that the configuration of his bedroom walls is looking suspiciously like some of the physical structures in his string theory research.

When the downstairs neighbor hears about the rat, he buttonholes Walter in the hallway and asks if the rat had a human face. Just a crazy drunk, Walter thinks, until he wakes up one night to find the rat sitting on his chest, and sure enough, his face looks like an even nastier version of Tim Spall's character in the Harry Potter films. 'Walter, she's coming for you!' the rat warns, before scurrying back into the wall.

It turns out that a witch has her eye on Walter, and she's using the inter-dimensional membrane to cross between her world and the apartment. One night she appears to Walter as Frankie (in a wonderfully gratuitous moment of full-frontal nudity) and when he begins to make love to her, 'Frankie' turns back into the witch, clawing bloody furrows into Walter's back. Thank God it's only a dream- except for those nasty back wounds.

Waking up from another dream a few days later, Walter finds himself half-dressed in the rare book department of the Miskatonic University library, where he discovers a book called (you guessed it!) The Necronomicon. It reveals that the witch is planning on sacrificing baby Danny, using Walter as the instrument of sacrifice. Needless to say, when Walter tries to get Frankie to pack up her baby and move out, she thinks he's some sort of lunatic child molester and refuses to leave. Honestly, why doesn't anybody ever believe crazy student dressed in bloodstained clothing? Are the witch and her nasty-ass rat familiar just figments of Walter's fevered imagination? Not according to the neighbor downstairs, who crossed paths with the witch decades earlier and has the scars on his back to prove it. Instead of moving out, he spends all of his time trying to keep her at bay with prayer and a wall covered with crucifix.

When Walter finally tears through the wall of his room, he discovers the nexus between dimensions is even close than he thought, and fighting his way through a nightmarish crawlspace filled with tiny moldering skeletons. When he emerges in the witch's workshop, he discovers that sure enough, she's already got baby Danny caged and ready for sacrificing. And guess who's going to do the honors?

I don't want to spoil the final ten minutes or so of the episode, but they are easily as chilling as just about anything that Gordon has ever put on film. And while the disturbing coda may not fuck you up for life, you probably won't forget it any time soon.

'Dreams in the Witch House' is a thoroughly chilling piece of work. There were a number of times when I thought, 'There's no way that Gordon is going to go through with it!' but thankfully, he never wimps out. There are a couple of sequences that rival the decapitated head molestation scene in Re-Animator or half a dozen scenes in From Beyond, but I'd rather let all of you discover them for yourselves.

Performance-wise, Ezra Godden does a capable job of playing the grad student slowly dragged into a world of madness. Like his character in Dagon, he could probably haul ass out of town just about any time and the story would be over, but he's trapped like a deer in the headlights of a fast-approaching 18-wheeler. More importantly, he really doesn't want to leave, because he wants to know all the answers, however horrific they are in the end.

After the lights came up at the Chiller Theatre screening, Gordon grinned at the enthusiastic crowd. 'Happy Halloween!' he dead-panned, sitting down with Paoli to answer a few questions. The biggest change they made in Lovecraft's original story was to change the Frank the neighbor into Frankie the single mom, giving more immediacy to the baby-in-jeopardy storyline. And one of the highlights for both Gordon and Paoli was the opportunity to create the human-faced rat Brown Jenkins, one of their favorite Lovecraft characters. As Gordon recalls, Showtime had been pressuring them to lose the rat, figuring the creature would have to be done using expensive digital technology. Instead, the director decided to use an old-school approach, enlisting a Ukrainian magician/mime friend and putting him in a surprisingly simple KNB makeup. "One of the reasons we always wanted to do the story," notes Paoli, "was to bring Brown Jenkins into it."

So that's our visit with the Masters of Horror. Hope it whets your appetite for some of the upcoming episodes, particularly 'Dreams in the Witch House,' which airs this coming weekend. Thanks to the good folks at Anchor Bay for arranging the event, and to Paoli, Landis, Gordon and McKee for being so generous with their time.

Submitted with even more plant-like enthusiasm by
Gaspode
(Who still doesn't know Moriarty, or Brown Jenkins for that matter)

Masters of Horror: 'Cigarette Burns'
Written by Drew McWeeny and Scott Swan
Directed by John Carpenter

While Showtime was debuting their Masters of Horrors series with 'Incident on and off a Mountain Road,' a small group of diehard fans at New Jersey's Chiller Theatre convention. The folks at Anchor Bay screened a copy of John Carpenter's 'Cigarette Burns,' apparently the first time the finished episode had been seen anywhere. Whether or not this is true I have no idea, but my curiosity had already been piqued by the fact that I don't get Showtime and would probably have to wait months to see it on DVD; and AICN's own Moriarty had already reported on the making of 'Cigarette Burns' a couple of months ago, so I was interested to see what he had been fussing about.

Before I go any further, I have to make a couple of admissions here. Number one, even though I know this is Mori's baby, I really wasn't hadn't seen any of the work he'd done with Scott Swan in the past. So I honestly couldn't care less if the episode was any good or not. In fact, if 'Cigarette Burns' sucked big-time, I would have happily cut it to pieces and dared AICN to print the review. After all, the name of this series was MASTERS of Horror and if Mori/Drew couldn't run with the big dogs, he really should have known better than to try.

Secondly, although I'm a long-time John Carpenter fan, I haven't been all that impressed by his work in recent years, such as Ghosts of Mars, Vampires or Escape from LA. Was his latest effort going to be just as underwhelming?

I needn't have worried. 'Cigarette Burns' is a stunning piece of television, Carpenter's best work in years. The direction is slick and atmospheric, the music is moody but never intrusive, and the script is well-paced, always moving towards a chilling conclusion. There are lots of genre references scattered throughout the episode, but never in a beat-you-over-the-head, aren't-we-cleverer-than-all-of you self-referential way. The structure is so nicely laid out that 'Cigarette Burns' could easily have worked as a full length feature, albeit with a few extra character beats and maybe an extended first act.

For those who aren't familiar with the episode yet, Kirby Sweetman (Norman Reedus) is the kind of guy who can track down even the most difficult-to-find films for collectors. He runs an aging revival house theater, but he's in hock up to his eyeballs, and his father-in law, a nasty son-of bitch is waiting for the $200,000 he's still owed and would happily tear the place down given the chance. You see, Kirby's wife Annie committed suicide in the bathtub under circumstances that we're not told, but there's obviously bad blood between the two men.

Enter Ballinger (Udo Kier) an obsessive film collector, who hires Kirby to track down the holy grail of avant garde cinema, La Fin Absolue Du Monde (translation: The Absolute End of the World). Only shown once at a festival 30 years earlier, the film sparked an orgy of death and destruction in the theater where it aired. The projectionist, now a film archivist acquaintance of Kirby, barely survived, but his left hand is now a fused lump of flesh. Virtually everybody who worked on the film is now dead, as is just about everybody who's tried to track down the single existing print.

Are all of these stories merely some kind of cinematic urban legend? Not according to Ballinger, whose mansion houses the biggest collection of La Fin Absolue Du Monde memorabilia in the world, including an emaciated angel that he keeps chained in the study (the pitiful creature's wings have been chopped off and are proudly displayed on the wall behind Ballinger's desk). And when the collector offers Kirby- wait for it- two hundred grand to find the print and bring it back, the offer is too good to turn down.

But as Kirby begins to discover, there's a reason that La Fin Absolue Du Monde has remained in hiding all these years. Nasty things have happened to all who come in contact with the film. The only critic at that original screening has spent the past three decades trying to write the perfect review. A French filmmaker influenced by the film hogties Kirby and decapitates an unfortunate female cab driver in front of his eyes, all in the name of art. The director's widow, who watched her husband go insane, unsuccessfully cutting her throat and his own successfully, is glad to hand the print over to Kirby, who's been experiencing some nasty hallucinations of his own. And when Kirby finally hands the film over to an anxious Ballinger, La Fin Absolue Du Monde is finally screened again, with quite literally gut-wrenching results.

As an episode, 'Cigarette Burns' references everything from classic noir, to Argento, to the new wave of Japanese horror. Reedus does a great job of playing the hapless Kirby, who appears to start out with the best of intentions, but finds himself getting caught up in Ballinger's obsession. Udo Kier is as creepy as I've ever seen him, with those watery eyes that remind you of a latter-day Peter Lorre as much as anyone else. And I'm afraid I didn't catch the name of the actor who plays the fallen angel (listed in the credits as a 'willowy being') but every moment he's on screen is mesmerizing, particularly his final line to Kirby at the end.

Finally, I have to mention the work on KNB, who contributed the makeup FX for the episode. The series is called Masters of Horror, and KNB's work is certainly that. I don't want to give too much away, but gore-hounds won't be disappointed by the graphic decapitations, gouging, gashing and assorted nastiness, all accompanied by appropriately squelchy sound effects. My personal favorite is a scene in which Kirby confronts Ballinger after the collector has just screened the film for himself. Half-hidden behind a projection booth, it's obvious by the horrible sounds that something fairly disgusting has happened to the collector but we still can't see what it is. The scene goes on and on, with Carpenter ratcheting up the suspense, and when he finally pays it off, it's a gruesome shot to the guts.

In the end, 'Cigarette Burns' is an amazing achievement. If the episode had aired first in the Masters of Horror line-up, I suspect it would have set the bar awfully high for installments to follow. As it is, Carpenter fans have something to look forward to in a few month's time, because the director has more than lived up to the show's title.

Oh, and on Saturday, Anchor Bay is hosting a panel at Chiller with Masters of Horror directors John Landis, Stuart Gordon and Lucky McKee, screening Gordon's episode 'Dreams in the Witch House.' Should be interesting to see what he comes up with.

Submitted with plant-like enthusiasm by
Gaspode

Hello, saw the interest in Masters of Horror at Coax and thought I'd share my thoughts on the Dario Argento episode "Jenifer", which I saw tonight instead of the Gordon piece (which i really wanted to see). I was out when it aired, so I watched it On Demand when I got home. Somehow, I didn't get Witch House unlocked, I got Jenifer. I don't know if everyone with On Demand can watch it as well, or for how long, or what the deal is. For all I know, the Gordon one didn't air and everyone saw the Argento piece, but it feels like a mistake, so I thought I'd run the risk of being redundant and give you my opinion.

I am a big horror movie fan, and it therefore pains me to admit I have ony seen the second half of Suspiria and no other Argento anything. I know his reputation, but despite knowing I would probably really dig him, I haven't taken the initiative to watch anything he made. I see now I am pretty much gonna have to watch as much as I can find, becase, goddamn, he made one fucked up little film here.

On the Showtime website, the description makes it sound like some sort of Body Heat/femme fatale thing, with a supernatural twist. Not quite. It's more like the Jodie Foster movie Nell directed by Satan. The basic plot is this: A cop played by Steven Weber sees a man dragging a woman in the woods by rope while brandishing a butcher knife. Weber saves her by shooting the killer (who lingers, and gets to scream "You don't know what she is!" before expiring), only to discover she is hideously deformed, and mute. Argento doesn't let us see what's wrong with her face for a little while, giving just tantalizing glimpses off eyes that are too big and too deep, or fucked up teeth, and this is effective. It sets up some pretty high expectations. The makeup, when you finally see it, looks kind of like makeup, but this is not to say it isn't a creepy and unsettling design. I'm getting ahead of myself. Weber becomes fixated on this "poor retarded woman" and allows his desire to protect (and fuck) her control (and ruin) his life.

That's the short version. The truth is, the plot is fairly silly, with a weak narrative that kind of fails with one central conceit. The woman looks like a fucking demon, and yet the Weber character is obsessed with her above all other things. Some attention is given to a cut she gives him at the rescue, and I guess the inference is that he is now cursed to protect her or something, but that is inconsistant as well. The alternative is that he's simply the stupidest idiot on the face of the earth. I mean, she is CLEARLY not just retarded. She has enormous black demon eyes, for christ's sake. She looks about as human as Pumpkinhead. Eventually, we kind of just assume he's cursed, as the alternative would be a deal breaker. That's about the twenty-five minute mark.

However--none of that matters ultimately, because the approach to the material is so good and so unexpected. It's scary. It's very unpleasant. Horrific violence springs forth out of nowhere. Every time you think Argento wouldn't do something, he does, as graphically as possible. It may be the recent glut of PG-13 horror films out there, but the willingness to just pour the buckets of blood really stands out here. There are lots of intestines. There's about six or so red money shots. I think I know where the excised penis bit referred to in your recent MoH coverage would have gone, and if it was meant to go where I think it was, it would have been quite the coup-de-gras, making an already horrific moment damn nea unbearable. Speaking of which, there is also a whole lot of sex, shot graphically, like you might see in porn. Except the nudity is that unsettling and uncomfortable kind, like Jennifer Connelly in Requiem For a Dream, perhaps, in that Jenifer might have a killer body, but she retains her retarded gargoyle's face. And worse. The actress playing Jenifer is pretty good too, creating a fairly believable feral creature, and Weber is surpisingly decent, especially considering the character's lack of development. The score is great, with a scary singing child theme song, and weird electronica in some scenes. And even though the plot is odd and meandering, it isn't predictable.

Well, until the end. The end is disappointing, as it is EXACTLY, down to the last word, what I guessed it would be from the beginning. And in addition, it's completely at logical odds with the entire episode up until that point. It's a typical Tales From the Crypt ending, and if you are even a slight fan of the genre, you'll see it coming. So know now that Argento isn't going to blow your minds with the last 60 seconds and enjoy the weird and nonsensical turns, the sex, the gore, and the craftsmanship, because what this episode ultimately does is display a director doing everything he can to get under your skin, and in this, he succeeds. What I remember of Suspiria-from the blood to the performances to the music, feels very much like the same artist. I'm loving MoH so far. Can't wait for the next one (and Witch House, damn it).

Call me Harris K Telemacher, if you use this.

PREDIVNO!

TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE!

Upravo sam pogledao 'Incident On and Off a Mountain Road' i prilično sam zadovoljan. Good shit! Imam zamerki, naravno, ali u celini - veoma solidna horor priča, zapravo - jedna produžena scena potere u trajanju od 50ak minuta (sa kraćim, ali veoma važnim, flashback pauzama). Angus Scrimm je odličan: uloga je mala, ali se matori dobro snašao.

Jedva čekam Arđenta i Karpentera!

Veceras - druga MoH epizoda - Stu Gordon u akciji! Upravo se spremam da sednem i odgledam...

Gordonova epizoda mi je bas legla. Kratko ali jebitacno!

gledali ste epizode :!: ,ako je toliko kratak nadam se da ce da izbace na dvd-u duzu verziju..

Quote from: "Plissken"Gordonova epizoda mi je bas legla. Kratko ali jebitacno!

e bote koja par stravicnih scena,kako to su usudili da nesto tako urade :evil: , ali kad bi bilo duze,voleo bi da su uneli vise price u film,na pr. sta se dogadjalo u proslosti..Nisam citao tu Lavkraftovu pricu.. :oops:

Pa pročitaj je onda... Požuri!!!

Jel neko mozda nasao engleske titlove za prve tri epizode.

U petak je Argentova "Jenifer"!!!!

jel se pojavila treca,gde?
Gledo sam Koskarelija svidja mi se,super!
Titlovi makar nashi prevodi sumnjam da ce brzo pojaviti kod nas..Mozda krene serija na pinku hihi :arrow: ,mozda ce pre otkupiti Robert Nemecek za rts., zamislite da krene serija na tv-u.. :!:

...za RTS jos postoji i nada u ovom sluchaju jer je Nemechek nedavno potpisao ugovor sa SHOWTIME,koji distribuira MOH serijal...there is hope,we are hope!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quote from: "WARLOCK"jel se pojavila treca,gde?

Vec u subotu ujutru imas na torent sajtovima epizodu koja se prethodni dan emitovala u americi.

Treca epizoda moze da se skine u dve varijante:

- sa 5.1 zvukom i ta je oko 700 mb

- sa 2.1 zvukom i ta je oko 350 mb

Veoma sam zadovoljan sa kvalitetom prve 4 epizode - nije bilo kolosalnih promasaja, svi filmovi se lepo uklapaju u opus reditelja koji su ih potpisali... Huperova & Gordonova epizoda su nesto slabije, ali je zato Ardjento isporucio fenomenalnih sat vremena horor zabave + Koskareli me je prijatno iznenadio: Incident je najbolja stvar koju ima u svom dosadasnjem rezimeu.

"jenifer" najbolje do sada koji sam video,previshe creva i seksa,zavolecete Dzenifer :!:  konacno Argento u dobroj formi  :!:

odakle ih skidate...imal neki spefcijalizirani toprent kao za simsone

evo ja skidam jeniferku  :arrow:  ali ide sporo iako je verzija od 350 MB

Trubo, zar u Federaciji Dzenifer nije musko ime?

pojma nemam ali znam da nema torrenta tojest nema seedova za 2 epizodu  :(  :cry:

hm... naložio sam se na ovu seriju odmah poslije prve epizode  :?  :!:  :!:  hoćemo još

inače ne mogu ući na oficijelnu stranicu  :x  fali mi neki mali programčić  :x

Kako ne mozes? moze svako ako koristish iternet mozzilu,u isto vreme koristim burst i bittorent programcic..joj nikako da stignem da odgledam"cigarete" Tobyja Hupera,jel jos neko gledao?? :!:

Quote from: "WARLOCK"Kako ne mozes? moze svako ako koristish iternet mozzilu,u isto vreme koristim burst i bittorent programcic..joj nikako da stignem da odgledam"cigarete" Tobyja Hupera,jel jos neko gledao?? :!:

Cigare su karpenterove – misliš na DANCE OF THE DEAD?

ILI SU SE MOŽDA I CIGARE POJAVILE? NJEGA JEDVA ČEKAM, TAJ BI MOGAO DA ISPADNE NAJBOLJI, uz Dantea koga takođe mnogo hvale...

Verovatno ostavljaju najbolje za kraj.

Hooperova epizoda je odlicna i bolja je od prve dve. Aegenta jos nisam pogledao, ali sam cuo od nekoga ko je epizodu gledao tri (i vise puta) da je sjajna. Kako god, cuvena scena odsecanja i konzumiranja muskog polnog organa nas ocekuje na dvdu.

Quote from: "Plissken"Verovatno ostavljaju najbolje za kraj.

U petak je bila epizoda "Chocolate" koju je rezirao Mick Garris. Pogledacu je u toku danasnjeg dana. Vec je skinuta.

Quote from: "Plissken"...cuvena scena odsecanja i konzumiranja muskog polnog organa nas ocekuje na dvdu.

Mislim da m.p.o. u pitanju nije bio odsečen, vec odgrižen tokom čina oralnog seksa. I pored cenzorskog reza, ta sporna scena je i dalje veoma eksplicitna.

Quote from: "Pennywise"U petak je bila epizoda "Chocolate" koju je rezirao Mick Garris.

Ova epizoda je dobila sjane kritike. Ipak ja se penalim na ono što dolazi...

Rapored preostalih epizoda:

06 - Homecoming - Joe Dante
07 - Deer Woman - John Landis
08 - Cigarette Burns - John Carpenter
09 - Fair Haired Child - William Malone
10 - Pick me Up! - Larry Cohen
11 - Haeckel's Tale - John McNaughton
12 - Imprint - Takashi Miike
13 - Sick Girl - Lucky McKee

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Quote from: "WARLOCK"Kako ne mozes? moze svako ako koristish iternet mozzilu,u isto vreme koristim burst i bittorent programcic..joj nikako da stignem da odgledam"cigarete" Tobyja Hupera,jel jos neko gledao?? :!:

Cigare su karpenterove – misliš na DANCE OF THE DEAD?

ILI SU SE MOŽDA I CIGARE POJAVILE? NJEGA JEDVA ČEKAM, TAJ BI MOGAO DA ISPADNE NAJBOLJI, uz Dantea koga takođe mnogo hvale...

Jeste "Dance of dead" Huperova nesto sam zbrko :x  :x
cekamo cigarete dok nam se upale :!:

Fala Kuncu, odgledah prve 4 epizode: sve u svemu, prilično dobro je to sve, a konkretno - ovako (in order of goodness):

DANCE OF THE DEAD (3+)
Od ove sam najmanje očekivao, a ono... ispade najbolja, za sada.
Najpametniji scenario, najživahnija režija (Hooper ubedljivo glumi napaljenog angry young debutanta – mada malkice preteruje sa strobovima i zumovima i udvajanjima slike, ali OK, u kontextu ove priče ne smeta mnogo), najbolja gluma, Englund u možda najboljoj svojoj ulozi posle Freddyja, najbolji soundtrack, najviše različitih parova sisa (odličnog kvaliteta, iako većina pripada mrtvim curama)... Super uhvaćena dekadencija sjebane Amerike – postapokaliptične, kad bi se zezali, a zapravo vrlo današnje, kurentne.
Ako bi cepidlačili, ovo je mnogo više SF nego horror – ali dobar film u svakom slučaju.
Znači, Hooper još ima dobrih filmova u sebi... Bring 'em on!

INCIDENT (3)
Zabavan horror rollercoaster, sa solidnim flashbackovima. Rudimentarna priča, ali efektno odrađena. Možda malkice staromodno (naročito sa svim tim grmljavinama i sevanjem po potrebi), ali u ovom slučaju, to je cepidlačenje. Recimo da je i Moonface mogao da bude malo opakiji: cura ga šamara od samog starta pa je osećaj pretnje bitno umanjen. Takođe, nemam pojma čemu je služio čiča u podrumu, sem da Koska nepotizuje 'posao' svom starom Tall Manu.
Prijatan tek – za fanove.

DREAMS IN WITCH HOUSE (3-)
Ehhh... Gordon je uzeo samo najkonvencionalnije deonice iz inače odlične i groundbreaking HPL priče, i onda ih nakitio sa još više klišea, a izbacio ono najbolje – međudimenzionalna putovanja i bizarne pre-LSD kosmičke vizije i glimpseve neslućenih svetova koje niko pre Lavkrafta nije ni sanjao – za razliku od veštica i banalnih žrtvovanja, koja su opšta mesta žanra. E, sad – kad izbaciš skoro sve te momente vezane za modernu fiziku i baciš se samo na uprošćenu žvaku o veštici – oseti se poveća rupa... Lepo je sve ovo odrađeno, ali previše konvencionalno ne samo za HPL-a nego i za Gordona. Lepo je što beba najebe na kraju, ali to nije dovoljno: od Gordona, naročito posle KING OF THE ANTS, očekivao sam više edge-a, više smelosti, najzad – više Lavkrafta...

JENIFER (3-)
Posle KARTAŠA sve je uspon i napredak, pa tako i ova napadno besmislena i neubedljiva pričica, sa više rupa u zapletu i nemotivisanih, nelogičnih postupaka i preokreta nego u bilo koja 3 nasumice odabrana giallo filma. Ne znam kako Argentu uvek uspeva, ko god mu bio scenarista, da zaplet bude detinjasto neubedljiv i pun besmislica. Pa opet, ako nekako uspemo da pobedimo suspension of disbelief (a to će trebati na svakih 10 minuta, ili češće), ovo je sasvim enjoyable, nasty, gooey, sexy (in a perverted way).

Inače, soundtrack je apsolutno odvratan, sa hordom anonimnih would-be-metal, would-be-rock, would-be-grunge bendova.
Buka, ali prazna, površna, zaslađena, kao sa fabričke trake, sve liči jedno na drugo, a sve zajedno – ništavilo.

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Inače, soundtrack je apsolutno odvratan, sa hordom anonimnih would-be-metal, would-be-rock, would-be-grunge bendova.
Buka, ali prazna, površna, zaslađena, kao sa fabričke trake, sve liči jedno na drugo, a sve zajedno – ništavilo.

Da li muzika makar ide uz scene, ili je opet napravio papazjaniju kao sa Phenomenom?[/i]

meni muzika klasika je bila ok! bas sam se pitao da nisu radili "Goblini"??

na svu sreću, ta (pretežno) bezvezna muzika se čuje kao 'dijegetska muzika', dakle, kao muzika koju čuju i likovi u filmu (pajkan sluša u autu, sin sluša u svojoj sobi, bend svira u living-dead klubu...);
kao što rekoh, najbolje stvari se čuju u Huperovoj epizodi.

Quote from: "WARLOCK"meni muzika klasika je bila ok! bas sam se pitao da nisu radili "Goblini"??

Za Jenifer muziku je radio Claudio Simonetti stari Argentov saradnik i jedan od članova Goblina.
Ghoul je mislio na OST čitave serije koji se sastoji od 20-ak vrištećih hard rock/HM pesama koje, tako na gomili, zaista zvuče uznemirujuće.

mda.
što se tiče filmske muzike, ona drži vodu ali nije preterano upečatljiva – izuzev u Arđentovom filmu, gde oscilira između morikoneovskih 'uspavanki' i hermanovskih hičkokizama...

Quote from: "Ghoul"mda.
što se tiče filmske muzike, ona drži vodu ali nije preterano upečatljiva – izuzev u Arđentovom filmu, gde oscilira između morikoneovskih 'uspavanki' i hermanovskih hičkokizama...

Muzika u Arđentovom filmu je odlična... Kao, uostalom, i film u celini.

Pogledao sam ČOKOLADU večeras. Definitivno najlošija epizoda GOSPODARA do sada.

Gledljiva je, ali to je sve.

Geris je, u inače veoma beskrvnu (u svakom smislu) epizodu, uspeo da ubaci jednu izuzetno eksplicitnu trbosek scenu (verujte mi: izuuuzeeetno eksplicitnu) i nešto golotinje, ali to nije znatno popravilo utisak.

Šteta. Osnovna ideja nije bila loša.

P.S. Konačno jedna epizoda da prođe bez mrtvog deteta!

Ko je to pa Geris, pa da se od njega ocekuje nesto posebno dobro? Najslabiji reditelj iz cele postave.

džennifer je solidna priča  :lol:  he he postao sam veliki obažavatelj ovog serijala  :lol:

elem oćel mi ko dati link na nešto na stranici masters of horor da preskočim to uvodno njesra što mi se neće učitati   :(  :cry:

uh jedva upadoh na sajt  :idea:  sajt je odlično urađen ali
fali mi neki programčić...flash il neki slični fol sigurno

elem najviše očekujem od onih autostopera  :!:  he he

...dupli post...

šesta epizoda je solidna
podržanr horrora  :arrow:  politički horror  :!:  :!:

This Friday's episode is John Landis' DEER WOMAN,
followed by John Carpenter's CIGARETTE BURNSon December 16 :!:  :!:  :!:  (I want to believe!)

onda pauza, pa u januaru:

• January 6: William Malone's FAIR-HAIRED CHILD
• January 13: Lucky McKee's SICK GIRL
• January 20: Larry Cohen's PICK ME UP
• January 27: John McNaughton's HAECKEL'S TALE

Pogledao sam i ja prve četiri epizode i nisam oduševljen. Suviše je to obično.
Epizoda Stjuarta Gordona prosto boli koliki je kliše. Koliko se sećam, istoimena priča HPL-a je najbolja priča u zbirci 'S Onu Stranu Sna', koja i funkcioniše zbog Lavkraftove vizije onostranog, dok je Gordonova ekranizacija zagrebla samo površinu, a sok je ostao netaknut. Jebiga. Loše je to. Par scena je dosta dobro postavljeno, vidi se da Gordon zna da režira, ali su u pitanju isuviše opšta mesta. I gluma glavnog lika, studenta, je prosečna i ne uspeva da me uvuče, što je, čini mi se, trebalo da bude jedan od glavnih fokusa ove minijature.

'Dance Of The Dead' je priča koja ima sjajnu premisu, ali, rekao bih, lošu realizaciju, i to pre svega zbog malo vremena i loše strukture priče. Jako je lepo odrađena atmosfera budućnosti i to je utoliko značajno jer je za tako malo vremana koliko traje epizoda uspelo da se ispriča priča, razviju jako simpatični likovi i opiše mračna budućnost Amerike. Jako su mi smetali oni čudni kadrovi i prelamanja istih i to je značajno uticalo da ovaj film, meni bar, ne bude zanimljiv. Iako je ovde ideja najzrelija, realizacija iste u nekim segmentima nije funkcionisala za moj ukus. Za mene najlošija epizoda.

Prva epizoda je prilično dobra, iako je previše obična. Oni flešbekovi su mi jebeno smetali i non stop sam imao utisak kao da gledam dečiji film iz nekog razloga. Totalno su postavljeni na imbecilan način - kao da nam bukvalno crtaju i objašnjavaju šta će da se desi i zašto. Isuviše infantilno za moj ukus. Takođe, previše nepotrebnih detalja i scena koje ne produbljuju priču, već je samo razvodnjavaju i čine, samo naizgled, interesantnijom, iako je cela priča prilično besmislena.

I na kraju epizoda Daria Arđenta ('Dženifer') koja je na mene ostavila najbolji utisak - pre svega mislim na ritam, atmosferu, horroričnost, vizuelno. Jasno je da ovde ima mnogo rupa i nelogičnosti u priči i motivaciji likova, ali oni meni nisu smetali toliko zbog sjajne 'glume' lepotice. Vidi se da Arđento još uvek ima 'ono nešto' što ga izdvaja! Nekoliko scena su sjajno koncipirane i uspevaju da pritisnu sva prava mesta kako bi postigla željeni efekat. Lepotica se sjajno kreće i fizički je ulogu odradila sjajno! Glavni glumac je slab, ali on je i ovako samo lutak u celoj priči. Arđento je uspeo da me uvuče u film, što je, priznaćete, više nego što smo očekivali nakon neshvatljivog Card Playera. Dakle, Dženifer je najbolja epizoda za sada.

Quote from: "Mickey Mouse"
Dženifer je najbolja epizoda za sada.

:D  :!:  :D  :!:  :D

ljudi
ja ne mogu nigdje naći ovu novu epizodu  :shock:  :shock:  :shock:

pomagajte  :roll:

Quote from: "Truba"ljudi
ja ne mogu nigdje naći ovu novu epizodu  :shock:  :shock:  :shock:

pomagajte  :roll:

pihh bre trubo, emitovanje je bilo danas te se Loki i drugari upravo sada bave konvertovanjem HDTV snimka u XviD/DivX, pa onda ide na irc i nakon toga na nama dragi torrent.

strpi se do sutra (znam da je teshko  :x )

:!:  :!:  :!:

ups, my fault :oops:  (nisam gledao na datum :x )

probaj (ako vec nisi nasao) www.mininova.org  

cya around

p.s. koliko josh dana do razmene ;)

Ja ga vec naso jos od vikenda 7 epizodu preko emule,mislio sam da ce vec neko pre da skine :cry: ,ispalo je da svi cekamo :(

a jeste sedma epizoda krenula da nam kida pomalo zivce...

koliko sam primetio nema nigde "Loki"-jevog hdtv ripa pa je zato to malo duze trajalo nego obicno.

Mozda je covek otputovao negde ili nasao ribu

Quote from: "caligari"a jeste sedma epizoda krenula da nam kida pomalo zivce...

koliko sam primetio nema nigde "Loki"-jevog hdtv ripa pa je zato to malo duze trajalo nego obicno.

Mozda je covek otputovao negde ili nasao ribu

Nije mi jasno kako jos niste skinuli sedmu epizodu. Ja je imam jos od nedelje?

I zasto se drzite samo Loki-jevog HDTV ripa? I eztv ili neki drugi je apsolutno istog kvaliteta.

pa šta šutiš pičko  :x
daj nam adresu torenta
ja sam sedmu skinuo jučer sa demonoida....

pogledao danas

ja sranja tito dragi
kako me nervira...i gluma...i radnja...i scenarij...pogotovo ono cajkanovo razmišljanje kako se desio prvi zločin  

ni sise više ne mogu pomoći da se spasi sranje  :x  :x  :x  a ovdje su savršene  :!:  :!:

elem znaksagitovci su pičke neviđene

imate fajl a nećete da kažete odakle ste ga downloadirali
nemate bre ni dušu... sitne ste ribe  :(  :cry:

evo vam
http://www.mininova.org/

osma epizoda je tu  :!:  :!:  već je downloadirana... negdje oko sredine je išlo brzinom od 120 Kbs  :arrow:  a tamo pred kraj 2 Kbs  :arrow:  prokleti leechersi  :x

kratko i jebitačno

do sada najbolja epizoda  :!:  8

ko će sada čekati januar  :?  :P  :x

veoma mi je prijao karpenter – najbolja MASTERS epizoda do sada – spoj genijalnih romana kakvi su FLICKER ili NAŽIVO sa filmskim delima a la RING ili 8MM – istina, exekucija ima premalo carpenter touch-a, svaki kompetentniji hack a nekmoli 'master' mogao je ovo da odradi kako valja, ali ipak lepo je videti mr c-a kako za promenu potpisuje nešto vrrrlo dobro – scenario solidan, ako se ne ulazi u detalje koje bih secirao da je bioskopski, ali za made for tv recimo da se može progedati kroz prste (usput, šteta što od ovoga ipak nije urađen pravi feature film – vidi se da mu fali malo 'mesa') – gluma je povremeno slaba, uključujući i glavnog reedusa, ali barem car udo kier vadi stvar (čak i bukvalno, iz stomaka, na kraju filma). prijatno iznenađenje – jedno rezanje vrata kakvo bih pre očekivao kod miikea nego kod mr c-a.
sve u svemu, 3+

HOMECOMING, s druge strane, meni je najgora od viđenih do sada 'mastera' (čekaju me ČOKOLADA i JELENA) – jeftina, neinspirisana dnevnopolitička liberalna propaganda usred koje su siroti zombiji zbrkaniji i izgubljeniji no inače. nazvati ovo jednodimenzionalnim bio bi preteran kompliment. scena ustajanja zombija iz sanduka pod usa zastavama je otprilike jedini nadahnut momenat u filmu – ali čak i kada ustanu, ovi zombiji ne rade ništa vredno pomena – uglavnom isto kao i srpski, tj. idu na glasanje.
bullshit. 2-

JELENA je odlična - vintage landis humor + horor, božanstveno bizarno, opičeno, apsurdno, gnusno, i vrrlo sexy (ovoj jeleni predviđam svijetlu budućnost! srneće okice i srneći but, al grudi baš kako treba!) - pravo je osveženje kad režiser radi po SVOM scenariju (kao ovde, gde nastupaju landis & sin inc.) - ovo je možda najbesprekornija epizoda mastera do sada ' i scenario, i gluma, i humor, i horor, i gnusnost, i ritam, i sve je super - do kraja koji je zbrzan (da ne kažem - kao da je prekinut)! ovo poslednje mi je malkice zagorčalo užitak, ali samo malo - sad se dvoumim da li da primat dam karpenteru ili lendisu, ali obojica su u samom vrhu, dlaka razlike gore dole nije bitna - gledajte JELENU i pazite kad pušite CIGARETE, super su oba!

Ghoul vidim da si se zaljubio u Jelenu ali ti je ipak najbolja :wink: Odgledo sam Karpentera ala je efektna ona scena sa klanjem ne pamtim kad sam video ovako dobro u filmu,nije los film ali ipak sam  dalje zaljubljen u Jenifer :D  a i sad me ceka "Jelena"..

Quote from: "WARLOCK"ne pamtim kad sam video ovako dobro u filmu,

ja pamtim - poslednje ovako dobro klanje video sam u ICHI DA KILLER.

inače, ČOKOLADA je toliko tipično garisovska šupljina i budalaština da nije ni vredna mog osvrta - ovo ne da nije čokolada, nego jedva da je šećerna tabla! bezukusna, bljutava, zaboravljiva... tim bezveznije što je garris samog sebe udenuo među 'majstore'... još je on mali - a u ovom životu neće ni da poraste do tog statusa.

ocena: 2-

:idea:  prodajem uncut verziju "Le Fin Absolue du Monde"

pa ko voli nek izvoli .... aukcija je otvorena

gledo li neko jos "deerwoman" meni je sjajan najbolji do sada.. :!:

Quote from: "caligari":idea:  prodajem uncut verziju "Le Fin Absolue du Monde"

pa ko voli nek izvoli .... aukcija je otvorena

Pošalji je Ghoulu.  :wink:

Koga bi od reditelja voleli da vidite u eventualnoj drugoj sezoni?

moj izbor:

David Cronenberg
George A. Romero
Brian Yuzna
Wes Craven
Guillermo Del Toro
Chuck Russell
Jeff Lieberman
Richard Stanley
Ryuhei Kitamura
Eric Red
Neil Marshall
Frank Henenlotter
Gary Sherman

...a može i Uwe Boll.  :evil:

Jeff Lieberman, William Lustig, Jack Sholder i Frank Henenlotter.

Mary Lambert i Kathryn Bigelow

Milosh je naveo neka imena koja su i moji favoriti: ipak, kad bih se ja pitao, evo im odmah plan za iduće DVE sezone:

David Cronenberg
Alex della Iglesia
Agustin Villaronga
Guillermo Del Toro
David Lynch
Richard Stanley
Frank Henenlotter
Michele Soavi
Pupi Avati
Chan-Wook Park

Kim Ki-Duk
Gaspar Noe
Michael Haneke
Rob Zombie
Shozun Fukui
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Jeff Lieberman
Wes Craven
Ruggero Deodato
Neil Marshall

Jedva sam ih sveo na ovoliko sa mnogo šire liste: uže od ovoga ne mogu!

Nego, dal je neko skinuo plavokoso detence?
Ili ga možda već i overio?

Le Fin Absolue du Monde mi je najvece razocaranje u MASTERS OF HORROR, odlomci koje smo videli izgledaju kao Elias Merhige, u kratkometraznoj fazi, bolje da je film ili potpuno smesten u off-prostor ili da je uradjen kao nesto od cega se ne bi ocekivalo da bude satanski celuloid...

Kad je rec o lineupu potpisujem Ghoulov, moze, ali bih ga eventualno korigovao na sledeci nacin:

David Cronenberg
Alex della Iglesia
Agustin Villaronga
Guillermo Del Toro
David Lynch
Richard Stanley
Frank Henenlotter
Michele Soavi
Pupi Avati
Chan-Wook Park

umesto Kim Ki-Duka - Robert Zemeckis
Gaspar Noe
Michael Haneke
umesto Rob Zombiea - Brian De Palma
Shozun Fukui
umesto Kiyoshi Kurosawa - Kathryn Bigelow
Jeff Lieberman
umesto Wes Cravena - Kathryn Bigelow
Ruggero Deodato
Neil Marshall

Izbacio sam one za koje mi se cini da bi mogli biti klisetizirani i predvidljivi...

Krip, ajde da se nađemo na pola: dajem zombija za de palmu (any time!) i krejvena za katarinu, al da ostanu ki-duk i kyoshi, OK?  :wink:

Kim i Kiyoshi meandriraju, nekako mi se cini da lako mogu da zamislim kako bi njihova epizoda izgledala, no ukoliko si ti napravio kompromis, moram i ja, mada mislim da bi nas Bob Z mogao iznenaditi...

Bob Z umesto Kiyoshija?

come on Ghoulinskie?

Bob Z for old times` sake (sucke), for TALES FROM THE CRYPT`s sake?

Quote from: "Ghoul"Nego, dal je neko skinuo plavokoso detence?

Valjda svetlokoso dete?

suicidegirls.com

DRE: What directors do you think will come back for season two?

Garris: I'm hoping that most of them will, but we hope to have some others who we weren't able to work it into their schedules. I'm hopeful that we'll have Hooper, Carpenter and Landis and a bunch of the guys back. I'm hoping this time we'll be able to get Guillermo Del Toro, George Romero, Roger Corman and people like that.

DRE: Will you ask another Asian director like Park Chan-Wook or someone like that?

Garris: The Pang Brothers is somebody I'd love to have. There would be a bunch of people who would be great for us.

Krip, for fuck's sake (as in: sake= rakija od pirinča):
Kyoshi ima veći range nego što ti misliš – dozvoli da posumnjam da si gledao SEANCE, ili DOPPELGANGER, ili CHARISMA- od kojih se svaki razlikuje od prethodnog, kao i od (uzajamno razlicitih) CURE i PULSE...
S druge strane, KIM se još nije ni okušao u full-fledged horroru (u žanrovskom smislu; dakle THE ISLE još uvek najbliže nešto što je hororu uradio, a to je ipak nekakva drama) pa ni ja, koji sam odgledo skoro sve njegove filmove, ili bar 4/5 njih, ne bih mogao da se kladim u to na šta bi njegova epizoda ličila.
Najzad, Zemekis je jedno od retkih imena oko kojih se nikad necemo složiti – izuzev ALL THROUGH THE HOUSE sve ostale njegove horor epizode u CRYPT su mi bile ispodprosečne i nezanimljive, a i ostatak nj. opusa me ostavlja hladnim (uključujući banalno nebitni WHAT LIES BENEATH). Što je još gore, sve i ako bih bio voljan da žrtvujem nekoga da oslobodim mesto za Z-a – ne vidim koga bih.
Razmisli...

inače, garis je retard, što je dokazao svaki put kad se uhvatio kamere, ni rezon koji ovde ispoljava ne ukazuje na preteranu istančanost ukusa - iako je hvale vredno što je izgurao ovo, čak i ovakvo.
pang bros su školski primeri površnih i šupljih azijata koji to uspevaju -za poneke- da prikriju svojim napadnim 'stilom'...

kunac: iz meni nejasnih razloga, u srpskom jeziku se za osobe svetle kose kaže da im je kosa 'plava'. iako je za mene plava boja - boja neba u leto, ili vene koja čeka iglu... povukla me konvencija. oprosti.

Ghoul ce se sloziti da najdivnije osobe imaju iskljucivo plavu kosu.

pa mislim da Bob Za zestoko ignorises. ALL THROUGH THE HOUSE je odlicna a i YOU, MURDERER je vrhunski komad. nazalost, on van TALES nikada nije ni pokusavao da radi straight macabre a kamoli horor i MASTERS je prava prilika da se okusa.

Kim bi kao i inace snimio nesto sto nije hotblooded horror, znas ga, znam ga...

Kiyoshi bi snimio nesto kako zna i ume a to je ipak drugoligaski Japan, pa da je jos toliki...

zbogom moja konkubino,  i svi tuzni filmovi...

Hm, ja ne bih voleo da se ponavljaju s rediteljima.

Quote from: "crippled_avenger"Le Fin Absolue du Monde mi je najvece razocaranje u MASTERS OF HORROR, odlomci koje smo videli izgledaju kao Elias Merhige, u kratkometraznoj fazi, bolje da je film ili potpuno smesten u off-prostor ili da je uradjen kao nesto od cega se ne bi ocekivalo da bude satanski celuloid...

Karpenter me je (prvi put!) odusevio, ali mislim da je veliki promasaj prikazivanje makar i jednog frejma "Le Fin Absolue du Monde".

Word up, Kastor

vala, ja s kakvim sam strahovima ušao u tu epizodu - super je to sve! naravno, već su me usa rivjueri spremili na činjenicu da se taj snimak prikazuje, da izgleda kao sirovija verzija onog ionako imbecilnog curse snimka iz USA ringa... tako da taj detalj nije bitnije ulazio u opštu ocenu.

a kad sam kod ocene, već sam napomenuo da sam pristrasan prema ovakvim scenarijima, i uopšte takvoj tematici... strogo gledano, mogle bi se naći mnoge rupe u CIGARETTE priči, i još strože gledano, koncept DEER WOMAN je mnogo otvoreniji za proizvoljnosti kojih tamo ima, te je u krajnjem saldu BOLJA epizoda od karpenterove.

Quote from: "Ghoul"... strogo gledano, mogle bi se naći mnoge rupe u CIGARETTE priči

,

Yap. Mislim da je to rezultat preobimne price za tako kratku filmsku formu.

Quote from: "Ghoul"koncept DEER WOMAN je mnogo otvoreniji za proizvoljnosti kojih tamo ima, te je u krajnjem saldu BOLJA epizoda od karpenterove.

Svidela mi se "Jeca" (a kojoj muskinji ne bi :-p) ali cini mi se da je iskliznula iz zanra; ako ne potpuno iz zanra - jeste iz serijala koji se, *ebi ga, zove Masters of Horror. Landis je mogao bar da pokusa da se kontrolise...:-)

tačno: vidi se da je originalni scenario pisan za dugometražni film – junak prebrzo i previše lako dolazi do filma, a ima i krupnih rupa na tom putu.

za JELENU se ne slažem da je iskliznula: to ti je vintage landis – horor + humor, baš kao u filmovima kojima je ZARADIO svoje mesto u ovoj seriji (vukodlak i nedužna krv) – zapravo, ono što je stvarno vredno poštovanja jeste da je u njegovoj epizodi NAJVIDLJIVIJI njegov autorski rukopis.
karpenterova, kao što već rekoh gore, jedva da ima neke naznake da je karp bio iza kamere- ovaj scenario je OVAKO mogao i mik garis da odradi.

kad sam već kod rukopisa, jedino se još kod arđenta i gordona može primetiti da su baš oni bili iza kamere – sve ovo ostalo, moraćemo da garisu verujemo na reč!

sta je ovo... lezbo drama s elementima horor komedije
pravi bućkuriš  :x
a ja očekivao da sam skinuo PIK MI AP kad ono SIK GRL

:oops:  :arrow:

Quote from: "Ghoul"Nego, dal je neko skinuo plavokoso detence?
Ili ga možda već i overio?

Pa, dete i nije tako malo... Bolje da su epizodu naslovili Fair Haired Teenager. No, da se osvrenem (bez gneva) na samu epizodu. Ono što sam video mi se uglavnom veoma dopalo. Ako se izuzme par nezgrapno izvedenih flashback sekvenci koje su poslužile da se popuni vreme, FHC je odlična horor priča, svakako jedna od najboljih MoH dostignuća. Kao što je jedan rivjuista napisao: mračna bajka. Lori Petty je solidna, ali njena uloga nije noseća. Scenario je mogao biti i izbrušeniji, određene "tajne" nije teško pogoditi, ali mi to nije smetalo. Čudovište je veoma veoma groteskno (sliku ste videli, Pliss ju je okačio na ovaj topik pre izvesnog vremena) i efektno bez obzira na određeni čovek u gumenom kostimu vajb.

P.S.

William Malone je moja tiha patnja (potpuno nekritički obožavam njegov Alien/Planet of the Vampires rip-off: Creature; a nisam ravnodušan ni prema FeardotCom & House on Haunted Hill).

Pogledao sam prvih 8 epizoda...

Ako bi ih rangirao to bi bilo ovako:

najbolji...

DEER WOMAN, ubedljivo najbolji scenario, režija, odlični i inspirisani dijalozi, vrhunska gluma gl. glumca, pametni omaži, humor... Skoro savršeno, na par mesta sam se glasno smejao. Landis je u punoj formi i to me raduje. Ovo je neka vrsta parodije na "X-Files" snimljena u maniru "Američkog vukodlaka u Londonu". Jedina mana je malko zbrzana završnica, i nekome će možda faliti horora, ali ja se ne bunim.

CIGARETTE BURNS, u totalu utisak je vrlo pozitivan, ali kad se krene u analizu iskaču tu brojne sitnice koje smetaju kao što su: povremeni slabi dijalozi praćeni lošom glumom, opšta zbrzanost dešavanja, ne previše ubedljivi (i predvidivi) podzaplet u vezi s devojkom gl. junaka, i, naravno, prikazivanje delića famoznog filma koji je, po meni, trebao da bude mistifikovan do samog kraja. Kad ostavimo to po strani, ovo je beskompromisan, efektan, gnusan, i povremeno jeziv kratki film koji zaslužuje dužu verziju (uz ozbiljno poliranje scenarija). Kad smo već kod Carpentera, podseća tematski, a malo i po atmosferi, na "U ustima ludila". Udo Kier je fenomenalan!

dve vrlo dobre adaptacije...

INCIDENT ON AND OFF A MOUNTAIN ROAD, trijumf minimalizma, što se mene tiče. Priča koja se savršeno uklapa u svojih 50 minuta ispričana baš kako treba (vrlo funkcionalni flešbekovi). Ima nešto tenzije, i atmosfera je sjajna, gluma dobra, ali ono što kvari utisak je nedovoljno eksploatisan glavni zlikovac koji je isuviše u funkciji katarze gl. junakinje, a premalo u funkciji čiste, sirove pretnje. Inače, ovo je jedina epizoda bez minuta manjka.

DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE, mislim da je ovo trebalo da bude regularni film od sat i po, i mislim da bi u tom slučaju bio na nivou jednog "Dagona". Tada bi sve ono što je iz priče izbačeno (valjda) zbog budžeta i trajanja, uz dodatno vreme posvećeno likovima, došlo na svoje mesto i ovo bi bio savršeno gnusni i jezivi film; mada ima toga i u ovoj verziji, samo šteta što je ekspozicija previše štura. I pored toga ovo je jedna od hororičnijih priča, potpuno beskompromisna. Gordon se oseća u svakom kadru, a atmosfera je skoro savršena.

solidni...

JENIFER, opet minimalizam koji (povremeno) funkcioniše. Priča o jednoj opsesiji, a tu se opet javlja problem predvidivosti. Drugi problem je konstanta za Arđenta kad je reč o rupama u zapletu i nelogičnim postupcima junaka, a to je ovde, čini mi se, još potencirano time što je scenario izgleda pisan specijalno za njega imajući u vidu brojne omaže već u prvih par kadrova (muva, ubica sa satarom...). Ali, sve je do te mere bolesno, mučni i perverzno da pažnja ne popušta sve do očekivane završnice. Režija je na nivou, a devojka koja glumi Dženifer je vrhunski odigrala ulogu baziranu samo na pokretima, ograničenoj mimici i ispušatanju zvukova. Očekivao sam više, ali i ovako solidni Argento je prijatno iznenađenje ovih dana.

CHOCOLATE, po meni pomalo potcenjena epizoda ovde na forumu, a ja bih rekao solidna. Simpatična varijacija na "Oči (ili bolje reći uho, grlo, nos...) Laure Mars". Gl. junak je zanimljiv (dobra gluma), a priča do te mere protkana patetično-komičnim momentima (ovo mislim u najboljem mogućem smislu), i fatalistička da mi nedostatak konkretnih dešavanja nije previše smetao. Glavni problem je predvidivost, kao i kod prethodnog naslova, koja je još dodatno potencirana groznim kliše početkom sa policajcem u stanici. Ipak, očekivao sam znatno lošije, i nekako sam prijatno iznenađen.

a sad one najslabiji...

DANCE OF THE DEAD, za razliku od većine vas ovde mene je Hooper razočarao. Ideja je dobra, a ne sumnjam da je i priča takva (Matheson), ali ova adaptacija (Matheson mlađi) mi deluje prilično promašeno. Radnja je na momente konfuzna, a na momente se vuče, a sve vreme su u centru pažnje nezanimljivi i iritantni junaci. Režija konačno ubija sve potencijale. Ne znam na čemu je Hooper bio dok je snimao, ali deluje prokleto diletantski i iritira. Zapravo, da nema prilično pametnog obrta na kraju i fenomenalnog Roberta Englunda ovo bi, po meni, bila i najslabija od svih epizoda.

HOMECOMING, tja. Puno potencijala za inteligentnu satiru koji je ubijen Danteovim pristupom koji insistira na "poruci" na štetu priče i likova, i što je još gore, izlaže je do te mere usiljeno potcrtano s glupavom naracijom da time ubija premisu koja je u osnovi dobro zamišljena. Ima zanimljivih likova i par komično-jezivih momenata, ali šta to vredi... Dantea kod Romera na časova da ga pouči kako se pravi odlična zombi-satira, a njegovu epizodu najbolje što pre zaboraviti kao nešto što je interesantnije kao puki kuriozitet nego za gledanje.

William Malone zaista jeste Master of Horror.

Celjade svetle kose mi se izuzetno dopalo. Prica je vrlo interesantna, i sto je najbitnije, lepo je zaokruzena, tj sve je ubudzeno na pravi nacin, i to u sat vremena. Likovi, atmosfrera, tenzija...grozno stvotrenje u podrumu koje izgleda fenomenalno! Jedna od tri najbolje eopizode!

January 18: MASTERS OF HORROR season two update

We all knew it was inevitable that there would be a season two of IDT Entertainment's MASTERS OF HORROR, following its successful debut run on Showtime. But who will the next round of MASTERS be? A mix of the old and new, Fango has learned. Creator/executive producer Mick Garris confirms that John Landis, Stuart Gordon, Joe Dante, Tobe Hooper, John Carpenter and himself will be back to helm more segments of the critically praised anthology.

Regarding directorial newcomers, "Brad Anderson [pictured] is one of the new faces on board this time," Garris reveals. "I'm a huge fan of his SESSION 9 and THE MACHINIST. We're trying to lock up several others, but schedules this year are increasingly difficult to coordinate. We hope to have Guillermo del Toro and Rob Zombie on board as well." Both del Toro and Zombie could not squeeze in MASTERS gigs last time.

Of season two's writers, PICK ME UP's David J. Schow just completed his adaptation of the John Farris story "I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream," while CIGARETTE BURNS' Drew McWeeny and Scott Swan will collaborate on a new teleplay for Carpenter again. Horror author Graham (THE MANITOU) Masterton's "Anti-Claus" has also been optioned (see previous item here), while DREAMS IN THE WITCH-HOUSE's Stuart Gordon and fellow H.P. Lovecraft scholar/co-author Dennis Paoli have another classic author in mind for their MASTERS follow-up. "We are doing THE BLACK CAT," Gordon tells Fango, "ideally with Jeffrey Combs playing Poe! We are excited to be back, as MASTERS OF HORROR is a groundbreaking show."

And the news gets even better. "Clive Barker is writing an original screen treatment, which I will adapt and possibly direct," adds Garris, who tackled Barker's "Haeckel's Tale" to close out the first batch of MASTERS episodes. "I also wrote another script called THE V WORD, which is an original." Regarding MASTERS OF HORROR's future, Garris concludes, "All we really want to do is give voice to the best people in the horror genre and make the best fright films possible. We truly want to continue to stretch the envelope and do the kinds of things that go beyond the commonplace mall-cinema fare."

Check out FANGORIA's ongoing MASTERS OF HORROR coverage in issues #249-251 (on sale through March), and watch this site for exclusive chats with Schow and HAECKEL'S TALE director John (HENRY) McNaughton soon. —Tony Timpone

MIIKE 2 HOT 4 SHOWTIME!
Imprint nece biti prikazan na TV-u!

http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4150[/i]

kaže Garis:

"I think it's amazing, but it's even hard for me to watch," series creator Mick Garris told the Times. "It's definitely the most disturbing film I've ever seen."


HA!
KAKAV JE CAR TAJ MIIKE!

CUNT WAIT, SUCH A HUGE FAN! :!:

Ma odmah je bilo jasno da ce Takashi da rasturi ko zvechke sve te Carpentere i Ardjentoe, ali ne i da najbolji Masters nece biti prikazan na TV  :(

Sick Girl was sweet...

BOLESNA CURA je bezveze, trapav pokušaj da se uradi nešto što bi beskrajno simpatičnije, romantičnije, i mračnije odradio Burton. Anđela suviše šmira, previše je ovo all over the place, niti strašno niti smešno niti dirljivo - ukratko, (skoro) ništa.
**

PLAVOKOSI TINEJDŽER je vrlo dobar, najbolje što je Maloun potpisao do sada, simpatična i zabavna i creepy pričica. Ipak, mnogo više horora ima u 5-minutnom spotu RUBBER JOHNNY, koji je inspirisao imidž ovog momka.
jaka ***

POKUPI ME je jedna od najzabavnijih epizoda, okrepljenje od majstora, Koena - vickast scenario i odlični glumci (posebno nezaobilazni Moriarti), na žalost Fairuza je skoro protraćena, njen lik je jedva skiciran. Ipak, vintage Cohen.
*** 1/2

Fair Haired Child 4
Jenifer 4-
Cigarette Burns 4-
Deer Woman 3+
Incident On and Off Mountaon Road 3+
Sick Girl 3
Dance of the Dead 3
Dreams in the Witch-House 3-
Pick Me Up! 2+
Homecoming 2
Chocolate 1+

Za sada nema odlikaša... Miike je otpao (4 now), a  ne verujem da će McNoughtonova epizoda (Haeckel's Tale)  poremetiti redosled među prvih 5 (mada, nikad se ne zna - pogledajte samo iznenađenje koje je priredio Malone).

ja bik to ovako poređo:

Deer Woman 3+
Cigarette Burns 3+
Fair Haired Child 3+
Pick Me Up! 3+
Jenifer 3
Dance of the Dead  3
Incident On and Off Mountaon Road 3
Dreams in the Witch-House 3-
Sick Girl 2+
Homecoming 2
Chocolate 1+

(može se zapaziti da sam sa izvesnom distancom malkice promenio ocenu pojedinima...)

Quote from: "Ghoul"ja bik to ovako poređo...

Dajesh ocene u rasponu 1-4 ili 1-5?

Quote from: "Dr Kunac"

Quote from: "Ghoul"ja bik to ovako poređo...

Dajesh ocene u rasponu 1-4 ili 1-5?

zapravo, od 1-5, ali pošto kod mene 5 znači 'timeless classic/masterpiece' to je besmisleno očekivati od made-for-TV-produkta (makar ga odradio i 'master' - osim kad se radi o AUTORSKIM projektima, poput TWIN PEAKS, RIGET ili MPD PSYCHO) - stoga se ove ocene mogu posmatrati kao da je 4 maximum, t.j. da je raspon 1-4.

Ako mogu da se umešam:

03. Dance of the dead (*)        1-
06. Homecoming (*)        1
10. Sick girl     (**)       2
05. Chocolate (**)       2+
02. Dreams in the wich house(***)     3
01. Incident  (***)     3
11. Pick me up                                     (***)     3+
09. Fair haired child                             (****)   4-
04. Jenifer                                            (****)   4-
07. Deer woman                                  (****)   4
08. Cigarette burns                             (****)   4+

WoW! Možda ipak bude talasanja pri vrhu!

http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/index.php?name=Reviews&req=showcontent&id=744

Početak priče obećava - nisam hteo da čitam dalje...
Sutra će se već pojaviti na torrentu.

Da li neko ima konačnu informaciju o Imprintu?
Zvučaće pomalo glupavo ako emituju samo 12 epizoda.
Možda postavljaju nove standarde u hororu?
Četvrtak 12'ti!  :shock:

Quote from: "Kastor"Da li neko ima konačnu informaciju o Imprintu?
:shock:

Anchor Bay će na jesen plasirati DVD.

Odgledao Haeckel's Tale. Priča je odlična, ali (za moj ukus) loše realizovana.

Kostim i scenografija su vrlo dobri, gluma nije loša (iako je u pojedinim delovima neuverljiva - Haeckel), izbor sisa - vrlo dobar, ali nije Deer woman (uvek me je interesovalo kako izgledaju audicije za sise u hororima).  :lol:

Nisam čitao originalnu Barkerovu priču, ali sam stekao utisak da je loše iskasapljena, u smislu da su horor sekvence prekratke a delovi bez suspenzije predugi. Ipak, ova epizoda je bolja od mnogih ali mi je teško da je ocenim.

Konačno, nakon 12 epizoda, utisak o serijalu:
Dobre epizode:
Haeckel's Tale, Fair haired child,  Jenifer,  Deer woman, Cigarette burns.
Gledljive:
Dreams in the wich house, Incident, Pick me up
Ubijanje vremena:
Dance of the dead, Homecoming, Sick girl, Chocolate

Sick Girl i Pick me Up su fenomenalni!

Ubedljivo najbolje epizode su:

Dance of the Dead, Homecoming, Sick Girl, Pick Me Up, Fair Haired Child, Incident.

A nejgore epizode su:

Deer Woman i Chocolate.

Quote from: "Plissken"Sick Girl i Pick me Up su fenomenalni!

:shock:

Šta je fenomenalno kod Sick Girl?

Ja, ako se napregnem, mogu da kažem da je ta epizoda tek simpatična. Dakle, šta vidiš u njoj što mi ostali (Ghoul, Dr.) ne vidimo?

Jel' ti Deer woman nije dovoljno horror ili ti je dosadna?

Moj opšti utisak, za prvih osam, je hmmm, mislim... ovaj... je l' to to?!?
Nadala sam se, očekivala sam da je sve znatno bolje. Svuda imam zamerke, čak i na zvuk po epizodama. Jasno se čuju delovi gde je sniman napolju a gde u studiju (chocolate) ili skroz na skroz ubačena scena u dijalogu koja vrišti k'o siroče (Cigarette Burns).
Najbolje mi je legla epizoda Cigarette Burns. A onda i tu velika greška, prikazao nam je film. :roll:

Quote from: "Morticia"skroz na skroz ubačena scena u dijalogu koja vrišti k'o siroče (Cigarette Burns).

Koja scena?

Cujem lepe vesti,Tuck planira da izbaci na dvd-u sve epizode "masters of horror"  :D jedva cekam na nasem prevodu :!:

BANNED IN THE USA! But not in Blighty. Takashi Miike's Imprint WILL be aired on Bravo. Tune in on April 7 at 11pm. to see the uncut, chaos of this Japanese brothel-based horror-fest.

TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Uh! - olakšanje. Jesen je predaleko...


P.S. Morao sam da editujem post jer je u prvoj (uncut) verziji imao toliko slova O da se protezao 7 ekrana udesno.

Showtime's Masters of Horror anthology series has firmed up the list of guest stars for the upcoming second season, including Jason Priestley, Elliott Gould and Christopher Lloyd, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The series also has added helmers Peter Medak, Rob Schmidt, Norio Tsuruta, Brad Anderson, Ernest Dickerson and Todd Holland, who will each direct an episode.

Priestley and Gould star in the episode "The Screwfly Solution," about a deadly virus that transforms men into psychotic killers. Joe Dante is directing from a script by Sam Hamm.

Lloyd co-stars in the episode "Valerie on the Stairs," which centers on an aspiring novelist (Tyron Leitso) who is visited by a muse-like ethereal creature with dark powers. Masters of Horror creator Mick Garris is directing the episode, based on a story by Clive Barker.

Medak is directing "The Washingtonians." Written by Richard Chizmar and Jonathan Schaech, the episode, based on a short story by Bentley Little, is a horrific tale of patriotism, revisionist history and cannibalism.

Schmidt is directing "Right to Die," written by John Esposito, which is a ghostly take on the right-to-life debate.

Tsuruta is directing "Dream Cruise," a Japanese ghost story.

Holland is directing "We All Scream for Ice Cream," which centers on a guy who must face his childhood fears in order to save his family as local children are mystically being turned against their parents. Lee Tergesen and William Forsythe star in the episode, which writer David J. Schow adapted from John Farris' short story.

Anderson is directing "Sounds Like," a psychological thriller based on Mike O'Driscoll's short story, about a man with extraordinary hearing who takes violent action to silence the horrific cacophony in his head. Chris Bauer and Laura Margolis star.

Dickerson is directing "The V Word," about the dire consequences of two teenage boys' decision to break into a mortuary. Michael Ironside stars in the episode, written by Garris. Masters of Horror's second season premieres Oct. 27.

Kocka je bačena... Nema više laži, nema prevare... Spisak emitovanja epizoda druge sezone MoH-a je obelodanjen! Izaberite svoje favorite - šou samo što nije počeo!

10/27/06
Tobe Hooper's "The Damned Thing"

An unknown monstrous force descends upon a small Texas town, turning husband against wife, brother against sister, parent against child. Tortured by his own tragic past, Sheriff Kevin Reddle (Sean Patrick Flannery) must overcome his horrific rage if he is to restore order. Marisa Coughland and Ted Raimi also star in this apocalyptic tale of terror.

11/3/06
John Landis' "Family"

The Fullers (Meredith Monroe and Matt Keeslar), a young married couple, move to a new town and discovers that their neighbor, Harold Thompson (George Wendt), is not what he seems. He putters away at his hobbies; however, his passion is anything but innocent. The Fullers will soon know what evil lurks in the depth of suburban basements.

11/10/06
Ernest Dickerson's "The V Word"

When two teenage boys break into a mortuary in hope of seeing a dead body, the macabre punishment visited upon them will far outweigh their crime. Instead of fulfilling their morbid curiosity, the boys are attacked by a rampaging vampire (Michael Ironiside) and must ultimately decide whether to sacrifice themselves or survive as blood-thirsty killers.

11/17/06
Brad Anderson's "Sounds Like"

Quality control supervisor Larry Pearce (Chris Bauer) spends his days monitoring the nuances of his tech support staff's telephone conversations ... listening is his life. However, when grief over his son's death leads to a supernaturally heightened sense of sound, Larry is forced to take violent action to silence the horrific cacophony in his head. Its "The Tell-Tale Heart" meets "The Conversation" in this tale of psychological terror based on Mike O'Driscoll's short story. Laura Margolis also stars.

11/24/06
John Carpenter's "Pro-Life"

A near-accident on an isolated mountain road lands young Angelique (Caitlin Wachs) in a nearby women's health clinic. As her fervently anti-abortion father Dwayne (Ron Perlman) and his well-armed three sons attempt to "liberate" Angelique, she discovers that the only thing more dangerous than her would-be saviors is the demonic seed growing within her. Mark Feurerstein and Emmanuelle Vaugier also star.

12/1/06
Dario Argento's "Pelts"

Fur trader Jake Feldman (Meatloaf) knows that you can't make a coat without breaking a few animals' necks. In his pursuit to make the perfect fur coat to win over a woman, Feldman steals supernatural raccoon pelts that violently turn against those that covet them. "The skin trade" gets a whole new twist in this Giallo-style adaptation of F. Paul Wilson's short story. John Saxon also stars.

12/8/06
Joe Dante's "The Screwfly Solution"

Based on the short story by Raccoona Sheldon, a deadly virus infects the nation, transforming men into psychotic killers who attack every woman that crosses their paths. A suburban housewife and her teenage daughter embark on a treacherous journey to survive, but how can they protect themselves from an entire gender gone mad? Jason Preistly and Elliot Gould.


12/29/06
Mick Garris' "Valerie on the Stairs"

At a commune for aspiring novelists, Rob Hanisee (Tyron Leitso) discovers that there are fates worse than literary anonymity when he is visited by a strange apparition. Beautiful, naked and covered with supernatural ooze, Valerie might be the muse that Rob has always searched for -- or the manifestation of a much darker force. Blood and death follow Rob across the tenuous line between life and art. Christopher Lloyd also stars in this adaptation of Clive Barker's original screen story.

Sledećim epizodama još nisu dodeljeni termini - ali i to će uskoro biti ispravljeno:

Stuart Gordon's "The Black Cat"

Edgar Allan Poe (Jeffredy Combs), out of ideas and short of cash, is tormented by a black cat that will either destroy his life or inspire him to write one of his most famous stories.

Tom Holland's "We All Scream For Ice Cream"

Years ago, a youthful prank by a gang of kids known as the West End Bunch went seriously wrong. Now grown up and a parent himself, former West-Ender Layne Banixter (Lee Tergeson) witnesses the friends of his youth systematically murdered by their own children, who have inexplicably turned against them. In order to save his family, Layne must face long-buried fears and the realization that sometimes the sins of the fathers are visited upon the son. William Forsythe also stars in this adaptation of John Farris' short story.

Peter Medak's "The Washingtonians"

After his grandmother's funeral, Mike (Jonathon Schaech) discovers an artifact in her basement could re-write the history of our nation. Interpreting clues that suggest George Washington was in fact an insatiable cannibal, Mike must protect his family and escape from a band of loyal Washingtonians, hungry for human flesh and willing to protect our founding father's secrets at any cost. Saul Rubinek also stars in this adaptation of Bentley Little's short story.

Rob Schmidt's "Right to Die"

Her flesh has been charred and her body remains comatose, but from a strict medical perspective, Abby is still alive. Beset by guilt, her conflicted husband Cliff (Martin Donovan) is determined to get a court order to cease her pain. Her condition worsening, she repeatedly flat-lines and is revived. But each time Abby's body dies, her apparition grows stronger, violently attacking those that have taken advantage of her plight. If Cliff pulls the plug, he's next on the list. This topical horror story takes a supernatural stand on the right-to-life debate. Corbin Bersen also stars.

Norio Tsuruta's "Dream Cruise"

Jack (Daniel Gillies), an American lawyer working in Tokyo, has fallen in love with the wife of his most valued client, Eiji. Despite Jack's deep-rooted fear of the sea, he reluctantly accepts Eiji's invitation to join the couple for a day trip on the Tokyo Bay. Pleasure turns to terror as they discover the watery destiny in store for each of them. Ryo Ishibashi and Yoshino Kimura also star in this adaptation of Koji Suzuki's short story.

Obećava, zar ne?

Prva epizoda druge sezone je dobila solidne kritike... Iskreno, jedva čekam!

Skinuto!

Prokletinja ceka da je overim...

Skinuto! xchain

I ja sam skinuo. Izgleda opako!

Ja sam se shalio haha! :!:  :evil:

Ja nisam. Epizoda se pojavila u nedelju i već čuči u mom računaru i čeka  da bude odgledana. Mislim da ću sačekati so sutra - ipak je sutra Noć veštica...
Kao što sam već napomenuo  - deluje OPAKO! Pogledao sam par sekundi i sudeći po njima biće krvi do kolena.

Ajd da se organizujemo za halloween,ceka nas i novi
pumpkinhead 3 :D  :!:  :D  xjump

Priča se da jenovi Pumpkinhead shit...

Quote from: "Dr Kunac"Priča se da jenovi Pumpkinhead shit...

NEMA ŠANSE!  :?

gde si to čuo?  :cry:

Quote from: "Ghoul"

Quote from: "Dr Kunac"Priča se da jenovi Pumpkinhead shit...

NEMA ŠANSE!  :?

gde si to čuo?  :cry:

Javili mi oni s Dread Cenrala...

..reeks of direct-to-video cheapness.. its Sci-Fi Channel premiere is sadly fitting... decision to shoot the sequel in Romania (an obvious budget issue) completely robs Pumpkinhead of its most vital ingredient: atmosphere...West films everything in such a sterile TV-movie fashion that he gives Pumpkinhead the look and feel of a guy in a rubber suit...the monster is replaced by the world's cheapest CG double... the computer work here is so bad it recalls something out of the pre-Lawnmower Man days, making this once great monster lurch across the screen with the veracity of a stick figure.

itd...

a ja mislio da si to smislio da bi sekirao warlocka!  :cry:

ponekad zaboravim da ti nisi ja.

:)

nego, da se vratimo na MoH

na ovoj adresi možete pronaći fenomenalno dizajniran sajt za sezonu II:

http://www.mastersofhorror.net/

Odgledah Prokletinju.

Sjajna tehnicka forma iz koje prica i likovi jednostavno ne mogu da disu punim plucima. Sve deluje nekako prekratko, zbrzano, zbudzeno. No, kao sto rekoh, tehnicki deo je besprekoran, epizoda je fluidna, dinamicna, sadrzi par vrlo brutalnih, efektnih scena.

Spremam se da je repriziram vrlo uskoro, hladne glave, i da ponovo uzivam u kraju koji je bas po mom ukusu.

(https://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg250.imageshack.us%2Fimg250%2F4556%2Fsdogyw5.jpg&hash=f3e056031718d50b18e4cc668cf5d21a4bf9e51d)
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!

Kako dodjavola doci do ovoga?????????????????
Hocu i ja da gledam!

Pokvari mi Hooper Noć veštica! Užasna epizoda! Najgora od svih do sada. Ne mogu da verujem da je izabrana da otvori sezonu. Hooper je pukao k'o lubenica bačena sa sedmog sprata. Prosto nisam mogao da verujem svojim očima koliko je bilo loše ono što sam gledao. U poređenju s ovim kršem, DANCE of the DEAd je remek-delo.

Odgledana druga epizoda.

Za razliku od ogavne Deer Woman, Family je maksimalno simpaticna i duhovita epizoda u kojoj sam uzivao.

Treca epizoda je maksimalno neoriginalna bezvezshtina.

daklem instant sranje?... da ne gubim vrijeme na downloadu  8)

Bred Andersonova epizoda je gledljiva, i bolja od Ernestove u svakom slucaju.

Pro-Life ima OZBILJNE probleme. Ide rame uz rame sa Damned Thing-om.

Quote from: "Plissken"Pro-Life ima OZBILJNE probleme. Ide rame uz rame sa Damned Thing-om.

e jbg, samo sto sam je skinuo... ajd' videcemo.

Zna li neko od vas hoce li biti trece sezone MoH?Novu sam na forumu,pa se izvinjavam ukoliko je vec bilo ovakvih pitanja

pozdrav

Quote from: "Alexdelarge"Zna li neko od vas hoce li biti trece sezone MoH?Novu sam na forumu,pa se izvinjavam ukoliko je vec bilo ovakvih pitanja

pozdrav

Dobrodošao!

Što se treće sezone tiče, još uvek se ne zna. Čini mi se da druga sezona nije najbolje prošla, ali je moguće da će biti još jedna sa manjim budžetom i minornijim "gospodarima".

videh da je za na trafiku izašo CIGARETE BURNS/ WITCH-HOUSE.

ja to slabo pratim pa je možda ovo stara vest al ja tek sad zapazih.
cijena: 150 din.
no extras.
za malo da kupim, al kad videh da nema baš ništa extra, reših da piracki skinem usa dvd izdanje...

Pogledala nekoliko epizoda koje sam skinula sa neta.

Nije bas ono sto sam mislila, iskreno receno, i vecina epizoda nije nista narocito.
Right to Die, kao i Pelts imaju prilicno snazne gore scene koje nije lako gledati, iako Right to die ide pomalo u sprdnju, mada ja volim neozbiljne horore pa to nije lose. Obe epizode su so-so, RTD se moze gledati iako nije lako za stomak, narocito poslednje scene, a Pelts takodje, ali su mi isto tako malo teze pale za stomak neke scene.
Jenifer mi je katastrofalno los, odmah sam znala kraj cim sam videla prvih 10 minuta, uzasno predvidivo. Osim toga, bolje bi bilo da nisu prikazali lice od Jenifer nego da su nas samo pustili da nagadjamo, sam lik je iritantan sa onom neprekidnom kuknjavom ide na zivce, njeno lice i nije tako strasno, a i nisu morali da naprave onako eksplicitne kanibalisticke scene. MOglo je bar nesto da se ostavi masti.
Pick me up kao i RTD vuce na sprdnju, u principu nije los, moze se gledati, mada je prilicno zbrkano reziran.
Sick Girl uopste nije strasan, Lucky ponovo pokusava sa svojom heroinom iz filma May ali ovog puta zaista nema niceg hororicnog u ovoj epizodi. Moze da se gleda i nema nekih preterano gore scena ali nije nista narocito.
Fair Hair child nije tako los, gledljivo, prilicno dobra prica, uspesno smisljena ideja i uglavnom, solidan mali filmic. Isto vazi i za Black Cat koji je meni sasvim dobar i ima solidnu pricu iako zbog nedostatka prevoda nikako nisam shvatila zasto on svoju zenu uporno zove "Sis" (iako se mislim zove Virginia). nije mu valjda zena istovremeno i sestra????
Cigarette burns moze da prodje, ima interesantnu pricu i dobar razvoj, a kraj je bas u gore stilu, iako ne tako opako kao Pelts, ili RTD ili Jenifer.
Valerie on The stairs se odmah vidi da je po prici Klajva Barkera, malo zbrkano, ali pre svega veoma romanticno i poeticno. Od horora jedva da ima naznaka ali podseca na Barkerov fazon i to poprilicno.
Hackel Tale mi je bezveze, nista narocito, potpuno zaboravljivo.
Dream Cruise takodje. Jos jedan od milijardu i po japanskih filmova o duhovima koji imaju veze sa vodom. Jaka stvar...

O Biljio, nadji Incident On And Off The Mountain Road, We All Scream For Ice Cream, Sounds Like i Deer Woman. Mislim da ce ti prilicno lechi.  :lol:

Ja sam nedavno počeo ovo da gledam, zahvaljujući Miloshu koji mi je narezao sve epizode. Za sada sam pogledao Koskarelijev Incident na i pored puta i Snove u kući vještice. Incident je OK, mada sam prespavao pola onih laprdanja Angusa Skrima. Glavna glumica nema skoro nikakvu harizmu, a mogao je malo i da se doradi njen odnos s mužem (mislim na onaj dio kad stvari krenu naopako). S druge strane, akcioni dijelovi su prilično zanimljivi.

Što se tiče Stjuarta Gordona, zabavna epizodica sa simpatičnom vješticom i pacovima sa ljudskim licem, a nije za baciti ni onaj full frontal (nadam se ne i posljednji u seriji).

Incident vec polako skidam, a imam negde i linkove za Sounds like i Deer Woman, pa cemo videti.  :lol:

Quote from: "Alexdelarge"Zna li neko od vas hoce li biti trece sezone MoH?Novu sam na forumu,pa se izvinjavam ukoliko je vec bilo ovakvih pitanja

pozdrav

sto sam bio fin kad sam se pojavio na forumu...a sad me lose drustvo uzelo pod svoje.

Quote from: "Alexdelarge"

Quote from: "Alexdelarge"Zna li neko od vas hoce li biti trece sezone MoH?Novu sam na forumu,pa se izvinjavam ukoliko je vec bilo ovakvih pitanja

pozdrav

sto sam bio fin kad sam se pojavio na forumu...a sad me lose drustvo uzelo pod svoje.

Eh, oće to tako...  :(  I ja sam bio dobar dječak kad sam se pojavio, ali naravno da u društvu Ghoula, Komija, Spajdera i ostalih to nisam mogao dugo da ostanem. A boraveći ovde skoro sam dogurao i do tridesete  :cry:

Quote from: "Harvester"

Quote from: "Alexdelarge"

Quote from: "Alexdelarge"Zna li neko od vas hoce li biti trece sezone MoH?Novu sam na forumu,pa se izvinjavam ukoliko je vec bilo ovakvih pitanja

pozdrav

sto sam bio fin kad sam se pojavio na forumu...a sad me lose drustvo uzelo pod svoje.

Eh, oće to tako...  :(  I ja sam bio dobar dječak kad sam se pojavio, ali naravno da u društvu Ghoula, Komija, Spajdera i ostalih to nisam mogao dugo da ostanem. A boraveći ovde skoro sam dogurao i do tridesete  :cry:

Harvi, to su ti muke odrastanja...videces da ce sve doci na svoje mesto kroz koju deceniju kad vise ne budemo mladi  i perspektivni vec ozbiljni i zreli ljudi.

Pogledao sam Hooperov (i Mathesonov) DANCE OF THE DEAD. Ovo je strašno. Imbecilno napisano, imbecilno režirano, sa imbecilnim likovima među kojima se ističe lik što ga glumi Robert Englund. Ako je Ghoul Krispina Glovera iz Wizard of Gore nazvao negledljivim, šta li bi tek rekao za ovu nakazu.  Nadam se da su sljedeće epizode bolje.

DŽENIFER - bez ikakve sumnje, ubjedljivo najbolja/najgora epizoda do sada. Ovo je konačno nešto što je pravi horor (nakon prve tri epizode koje su ni tamo ni ovamo), ta Dženifer je jedna opako gadna gadura i nije vam svejedno kad vidite kako nekog jede. Doduše, valja joj priznati da se ispod one ogavne maske nalazi jedno fantastično tijelo.
Unfortunately, podloga za ove silne kanibalističke scene je najgluplje napisan scenario po vjerovatno najglupljoj priči svih vremena. Vjerujem da horor da bi funkcionisao kako treba mora da ima bar nekog dodira sa realnim svijetom, bar nešto suvislo u sebi. Ovde se i posljednja trunka uvjerljivosti gubi u apsolutno i potpuno neobjašnjivo retardiranim postupcima retardiranog glavnog junaka. Ovo bi eventualno donekle moglo da se opravda/objasni nekakvom supernaturalnošću priče (čemu inače eksplicitno skretanje pažnje na ogrebotinu na početku?), ali i to je previše nategnuto, tako da nam ostaje samo da se pomirimo sa tim da gledamo srljanje u smrt jednog leminga koji nema apsolutno nikakve šanse jer je obična marioneta u rukama nevidljivog scenariste koji mu je namijenio jezivu sudbinu. A gle čuda - upravo je on scenarista!  :x  Još jednom da ponovim - ovako debilnu priču odavno nisam gledao. However, mora se priznati da je smisao zajedno sa pričom žrtvovan zbog prilično dobre atmosfere i da pojedine scene umiju dobro da prodrmaju. Moglo bi se reći da je Dženiferino lice prikazano koji put previše te da se tako jezivost malčice smanjila, ali ipak ostaje fakat da je ovo jedna opako bolesna boleština i prvi put u ove četiri epizode da se vidi da je, uprkos svim manjkavostima, iza kamere jedan stvarni Master of Horror (pa taman to bio i režiser najgoreg trilera s manijakom EVER).

CHOCOLATE

Jedva podnošljivo i to je to otprilike. Ne pamtim kad sam vidio manje harizmatičnog lika od onog Henrija Tomasa, a i fantastičan potencijal za režiserske egzibicije načisto proćerdan. Simpatična je scena pred kraj kad Henri Tomas posmatra curin atak na sebe kroz njen POV.


HOMECOMING

Neko je Džona Dantea zeznuo te je pomislio da se serija zove Masters of Cheesy Attempts at Satire that Try to Be Intelligent and Humorous but Fail Spectacularly on Every Possible Level and End Up Being Only Lame, Crappy and Boring a ne Masters of Horror. Jedino vrijedno spomena u ovoj epizodi, pored odlične performanse Roberta Pikarda, jeste da se iz ko zna kog bizarnog razloga NE pojavljuje Dik Miler. Svaki fan Džona Dantea ovo može da smatra samo veleizdajom.
Dakle - ovo nema apsolutno nikakve veze sa hororom i da se kojim slučajem nalazi u nekoj drugoj seriji, možda bismo mogli i da pričamo o nekom eventualnom pokušaju da se zarad "dubljeg značenja" (fuj!) proguta imbecilna premisa o američkim vojnicima koji ustaju iz grobova ne da bi otkidali komade glave i jeli utrobe nego da bi - glasali  :x  Ovako, nema nam druge nego da ovo proglasimo do sada najgorom epizodom serijala, gorom čak i od Dance of the Dead. Jadni zombiji...

QuoteDakle - ovo nema apsolutno nikakve veze sa hororom i da se kojim slučajem nalazi u nekoj drugoj seriji, možda bismo mogli i da pričamo o nekom eventualnom pokušaju da se zarad "dubljeg značenja" (fuj!) proguta imbecilna premisa o američkim vojnicima koji ustaju iz grobova ne da bi otkidali komade glave i jeli utrobe nego da bi - glasali  Ovako, nema nam druge nego da ovo proglasimo do sada najgorom epizodom serijala, gorom čak i od Dance of the Dead. Jadni zombiji...

Zasto bre? Ja se zalazem da i mrtvaci imaju prava da izrazavaju sopstveno misljenje, a mrtvaci su u ovom slucaju disciplinovano glasacko telo. Doduse, ne razumem ljude koji ne mogu ni nekoliko godina da izdrze da budu mrtvi, nego zure da se vrate medju zive. :evil:

DEER WOMAN

E TAKO se to radi! Najbolja epizoda do sada, superduhovita i odlično napisana, snimljena i odglumljena. Ovo čak spada među najbolja Lendisova ostvarenja.

CIGARETTE BURNS

Meh. Ovo može da prođe, ali je vrlo daleko od dobrog. Jedino valja prilično jeziva atmosfera, a ostalo je prc - subplot sa pokojnom curom/ženom/šta li je već je tu čisto onako, lik njenog ćaće je čist višak i ne samo to - dovodi do budalaštine katastrofalnih razmjera na kraju, naime kad naš heroj konačno treba da pogleda film u jezivoj otherworldly atmosferi, pojavljuje se taj imbecil i vitla pištoljem, ko da je sad pobjegao iz nekakvog krimića iz pedesetih i pomenuta atmosfera odlazi u materinu. Dalje, nalaženje filma je čist kretenizam. "Hej, treba da nađem misteriozni film koji je prikazan samo jednom, prije trideset godina, svi koji su ga vidjeli otišli su u materinu, ne zna se više ni da li taj film postoji. What should I do? Why, pa otići do režiserove ŽENE u ogromnu zgradurinu u Kanadi i uzeti film, naravno!"  :x  Nešto tako demonski jezivo kao taj film bi valjda trebalo, ako uopšte postoji, da bude pronađeno zakopano u nekoj šumetini ili u nečijem grobu or something. Talk about banalnost. Dalje, sve u vezi sa sudbinama ljudi vezanim za film je nekako isforsirano. Bla bla, nemoj ni slučajno da gledaš taj film, bla bla, taj film je KLOAKA, čisto zlo, bla bla, svi koji su ga vidjeli loše su se proveli, bla bla i tako u nedogled. I sve je to dopunjeno random masakriranjem svakoga ko je vidio film. Ovo podsjeća na onaj skeč sa najsmješnijim vicem na svijetu. Osim toga, montaža je krkanska i seljačka. Svako malo nas trzaju nekakvim debilnim krugovima i facom onog bijelog čudovišta, koji se pojavljuju na potpuno proizvoljnim mjestima iz čista mira. Takve džamp skerove mogu i ja da napravim. I na kraju krajeva, sam film je truba. Very film school. Ako je ONO izazvalo onakav haos, kako bi tek oni paćenici reagovali da su vidjeli nešto istinski strašno, npr. [REC]?
Osim tih nekoliko sitnih mana, ostalo mi se sviđa.

THE FAIR HAIRED CHILD

Dobar ovaj Meloun! Nakon Deer Woman, evo još jedne epizode na koju nemam (većih) zamjerki. Solidna (if a bit predictable) ljubavna pričica zamaskirana u horor sa čudovištem koje ždere ljude, vrlo dobri glumci i odličan (if a bit predictable) twist na kraju. Meloun je fino ovo snimio, vrlo je zanimljivo i povremeno prilično napeto za nešto što podsjeća na horore iz osamdesetih. Lijepo bi bilo da čudovište manje zvecka dok se kreće, ali dobro. Za sada drugo mjesto po kvalitetu, odmah poslije Jelene.

(Naravno, monstrum u ovoj priči ni izbliza nije onako dominantan kao Dženifer u istoimenoj priči, ali ova je bolja od Dženifer jer nema tako retardiran scenario koji efikasno ubija svu stravu i napetost.)

Meni je Fair Haired Child No1 u prvoj sezoni.

Quote from: "Harvester"Osim tih nekoliko sitnih mana, ostalo mi se sviđa.

xrofl  xjump  xjestera  :|

Malo sam zapustio raporte o ovom serijalu. U međuvremenu sam pogledao SICK GIRL, PICK ME UP i HAECKEL'S TALE.

Sick Girl je odlična epizoda sa klasičnom lakimekkijevskom atmosferom (rekoh ja, iako sam gledao samo jedan njegov film). Duhovita je, ima odličnu Anđelu Beset u glavnoj ulozi, lezbo tematiku i nekoliko solidnih džamp skerova pred kraj. Ovo vuče i na ranog Kronenberga (sve što podsjeća na ranog Kronenberga pozdravljam po definiciji, jer kasni Kronenberg je previše... običan). Not bad at all.

Pick Me Up ima solidnu ideju, mada scenario nije pretjerano inspirativan. However, ipak je ovo režirao Leri Koen, tako da u jednoj od glavnih uloga možemo da vidimo sada već vremešnog, ali i dalje sjajnog i harizmatičnog, Majkla Moriartija.

Što se tiče Haeckel's Tale, sve do pred kraj odlična epizoda, sa lijepom periodskom atmosferom, nekromanserima, simpatičnim periodskim dijalozima i finom fotografijom. Na kraju postaje malo previše blesava, ali ipak je fakat da se neke od najboljih stvari u čitavom serijalu nalaze upravo u ovoj epizodi - mislim na zombi psa i na seks sa zombijima na groblju, tokom kojeg možemo da vidimo so far najljepše grudi u serijalu. I to baš mogu natenane da se razgledaju, za razliku od nekih drugih epizoda. Inače, ovo je epizoda koju je trebalo da režira Romero, ali nije imao vremena pa su zaposlili nestašnog McNaughtona (srećom). Scenario je pisao Mik Geris lično, po priči Klajva Barkera. Doduše, još jedna od potencijalnih mana je iritantan glavni junak.

Primjećujemo da su, počev od Deer Woman (sa izuzetkom Cigarette Burns), nastupile sve same vrlo dobre do odlične epizode i ovu prvu sezonu mislim da možemo da ocijenimo vrlo dobrom ocjenom (dobro, ostaje mi još jedna epizoda, ali to vjerovatno neće bitnije promijeniti dobar opšti utisak).

IMPRINT - Ovo je moj prvi susret sa ostvarenjima Takašija Mike(a?). Vidim na Internetu da su komentari većinom prepuni "hvalospjeva" na račun šokantnosti i globalne odurnosti koja vlada epizodom. Uistinu, što se tiče nasilja, ovo jede za doručak sve prethodne epizode i uistinu je briljantno režirano. Nažalost, ja nisam mogao dovoljno da se šokiram jezivim scenama mučenja, kasapljenja, abortusa i čega sve ne jer sam konstantno bio u napetosti hoće li odnekud iz mraka da se pojavi kakva dugokosa prikaza. To se srećom nije desilo, mada je jedan trenutak bio opako blizu. Kompletna atmosfera je potpuno suluda - kao miks Shyamalana, Kurosave i Henenlottera (ali bez humora ovog posljednjeg). Minusi su vrlo loše napisani dijalozi, prilično neuvjerljiva performansa Bilija Draga (vjerovatno prvenstveno zbog samih dijaloga, ali u svakom slučaju DRAGO mi je da vidim ovog glumca u jednom majornijem projektu) i idiotska odluka da svi likovi pričaju engleski - sa japanskim akcentom to tjera čovjeka da se hvata za glavu. Suma sumarum - vrlo odlična epizoda, ali po mom mišljenju ne i najbolja.

Evo dakle i neke moje konačne liste za prvu sezonu:

1. DEER WOMAN
2-4. SICK GIRL, THE FAIR HAIRED CHILD, IMPRINT
5-6. JENIFER (zbog jezivih kanibalskih scena i same pojave Dženifer, uprkos potpuno retardiranom scenariju), HAECKEL'S TALE (prvenstveno zbog atraktivnih scena seksa sa zombijima, uprkos vrlo neupečatljivim glumcima)
7. INCIDENT ON AND OFF THE MOUNTAIN ROAD
8. DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE
9. PICK ME UP (pa ovo nije horor?!?!)
10. CIGARETTE BURNS
11. CHOCOLATE
12. DANCE OF THE DEAD
13. HOMECOMING

Naravno, kad bi se gledao suvi kvalitet, Dženifer bi potonula i to dobro.

Takođe, prešao sam na drugu sezonu i pogledao THE DAMNED THING - utisak je povoljan (imajte u vidu da je ovo režirao Huper, čiji je posljednji venture bila ona užasna epizoda Dance of the Dead). Huper se malo smirio, te se više ne iživljava sa režijom kao kakav moderni idiot. Šon Patrik Flaneri u glavnoj ulozi je izvanredan - najbolja uloga do sada u serijalu. Nema mnogo patetike, izmotavanja, plakanja i sl., pa je njegov portret psihički tormentovanog šerifa vrlo uvjerljiv. Nažalost, priča nije baš neka  :(  Zanimljivo, ali sigurno se očekuju i bolje epizode u drugoj sezoni.

A sad ću da batalim ovo besmisleno piskaranje po forumu i odoh da se priključim svom televizoru i DVD-u jer me čeka Džon Lendis!

Pogledao sam PORODICU. Još jedna odlična Lendisova epizoda, ali ne i savršena, za razliku od Deer Woman. Fatalne greške su:
1) Plot twist na kraju kojeg uopšte nije trebalo da bude (ovo je jedna od onih epizoda gdje easily navijate za negativca)
2) NEMA golotinje (!). Znam, dešavalo se to i u nekim drugim epizodama, ali ako možemo da oprostimo npr. Koskareliju ili Melounu, kod Lendisa je to malo teže. Porodica je imala potencijala za najmanje dva razgolićavanja glavne glumice, a od svega smo dobili samo jednu kratku scenu u donjem vešu. Bummer.
Izuzimajući ovo, ostatak je briljantan. Ovo je nekakva uvrnutopsihopatska inverzna varijanta The 'burbs gdje je glavni lik psihopata a došljaci prijete da ga razotkriju. Dijalozi su odlični, sa nekoliko sjajnih one-linera ("You're nuts!" na primjer, ili "Sorry, Dad, time for lunch!"), George Wendt je apsolutni car a i režija je bogme dobra jer sve teče kao podmazano. Na samom početku Džon Lendis proziva samog sebe prikazujući trofej na zidu u vidu jelenske glave. Sve u svemu - da nije one dvije mane, ovo bih već sad proglasio najboljom epizodom druge sezone, ovako - moraćemo da sačekamo da vidimo šta su nam spremili ostali tzv. "masteri". Očekujem mnogo od Pro Life, koja sudeći po sinopsisu sa IMDb-a zvuči vrlo zanimljivo.

Uh, tek sad vidjeh, pa ovo je pisao scenarista Frailtyja! Nije ni čudo što je 'vako dobro!

Quote from: "Harvester"IMPRINT - Ovo je moj prvi susret sa ostvarenjima Takašija Mike(a?)

I'm willing to help you. :evil:

Zaboravio sam da spomenem da sam u međuvremenu pogledao treću epizodu druge sezone MoH, pod nazivom THE V WORD. Moja inicijalna reakcija (prije gledanja) bila je "Uh-oh, ovo neće biti dobro... Who the hell is Ernest Dickerson???" Kad sam još vidio na IMDb-u da je u pitanju neki crnac, već sam se potpuno pomirio s tim da je u pitanju vrlo loša epizoda.
However, prva polovina je zapravo odlična. Ispostavilo se da je crnac sjajno snimio lutanje dvojice balavaca (bijelac i crnac) kroz seemingly napuštenu mrtvačnicu i da je vrlo lijepo izbaratao svim onim klišeima koji se inače koriste u ovakvim situacijama. A onda se pojavljuje i vampir i to mi se još dodatno svidi - ne samo da je u pitanju Majkl Ajronsajd, nego još izgleda kao zombi - krv oko usta, staklast pogled, ne progovara ni riječi, samo kolje. Odličnost epizode se nastavila i nakon što je bijelac uspio da zdimi a crnca pojeo Majkl Ajronsajd. Odmah zatim imamo još jedan vrlo napet dio u kome bijelca spopada njegov bivši drug crnac.
I zatim, umjesto da se tu respektabilno završi, na scenu stupa tupav scenario Mika Gerisa, koji očigledno nije znao kako da ispuni sat vremena epizode, pa je konstruisao bezveznu pričicu o tome kako se bijelac bori protiv svog vampirizma i trudi da ne nanese zlo vlastitoj porodici. A još kad se pojavi Majkl Ajronsajd sa kišobranom i počne nešto da kenja kao iz najboljih dana kad je igrao harizmatične negativce po B filmovima, sve i apsolutno odlazi dođavola. Posljednja scena je donekle solidna, sa besmrtnom vampirskom rečenicom "I never drink... wine." Solidno je i pojavljivanje sjajne igre Doom 3.
Suma sumarum - do pola odlična epizoda, od pola loša, dakle na osnovu trajanja procijenite gdje je polovina i otprilike tu prekinite sa gledanjem.

SOUNDS LIKE
Odlična epizoda, so far najbolja u drugoj sezoni! Lijepo je što imamo jednu epizodu gdje zvuk izbija u prvi plan, a bogme i pančlajn sa posljednjom scenom je sjajan.

PRO-LIFE
Hm, hm, mora se priznati da je ovo prilično zanimljivo. Umjesto generičke priče o curici koju siluje ljigavi demon iz podzemnog svijeta da bi ona rodila njegovo demonsko dijete, ovde imamo fin tvist u tome da se radi o curici koju siluje ljigavi demon STRAŠNO NALIK NA POSLJEDNJE ČUDOVIŠTE IZ IGRE DOOM (!).
Priča o religioznim fanaticima na čelu sa sjajnim Ronom Perlmanom i njihovim bolesnim pokušajima da spriječe čedomorstvo, only to discover da to "čedo" liči na paukoliko stvorenje iz filma The Thing i ima ćaću koji liči na finalnog demona iz Dooma, dakle ta priča može da se posmatra kao odvratna proabortus propaganda, ali ipak se čini da stvari nisu tako jednostavne. Ron Perlman abortus-doktoru kaže nekoliko stvari koje su iz perspektive prosječnog abortus-lovera gomila religioznofanatičnih budalaština, ali iz moje perspektive abortus-hejtera imaju veliku težinu. Ne znam koja je perspektiva scenarista ove epizode, ali to nije toliko ni bitno. Ono što mi se nije svidjelo jeste dakle taj stereotipan prikaz religioznog fanatika (koji mrzi abortus, ali mu ne smeta da pobije sto ljudi da bi pomenuto abortiranje spriječio, a takođe, iako je brzina od esencijalnog značaja, on umjesto da leti po svoju kćer, zaustavlja se da monstruozno torčeruje gazdu abortus-klinike). Nije mi se svidjela ni pojava čudovišta, nekako je previše blesavo. Mislim da je ova epizoda, umjesto eksplicitnih monstruma, više trebalo da ide na atmosferu tipa Rozmarina beba. However, ni ovako nije loše. Ono što mi se jeste svidjelo jeste postnatalni abortus paukolikog djeteta i posljednja rečenica "God's will is done!" Drew McWeeny, SRBINE!  :!:

Elem, kvalitativni raspored epizoda druge sezone so far:

1. SOUNDS LIKE
2. FAMILY
3. PRO-LIFE
4. THE DAMNED THING
5. THE V WORD

(mada su sve epizode solidne, za sada nema katastrofa kao što su Dance of the Dead i Chocolate iz prve sezone)

Ono što nije dobro u svemu tome je da u dosadašnjih pet epizoda NEMA golotinje  :?

Quote from: "Harvester"Ono što mi se nije svidjelo jeste dakle taj tačan prikaz religioznog fanatika (koji mrzi abortus, ali mu ne smeta da pobije sto ljudi da bi pomenuto abortiranje spriječio...

Ispravljeno. :wink:

Quote from: "Harvester"Nije mi se svidjela ni pojava čudovišta, nekako je previše blesavo. Mislim da je ova epizoda, umjesto eksplicitnih monstruma, više trebalo da ide na atmosferu tipa Rozmarina beba.

Takođe. Mada, zar ti nije smetala Carpenterova prilično traljava režija? I pored dobre premise, i pored odličnog Perlmana, meni je ovo među najgorim epizodama...

Quote from: "Harvester"Ono što nije dobro u svemu tome je da u dosadašnjih pet epizoda NEMA golotinje  :?

Cenim da će ti se onda u tom smislu prilično svideti Garrisova epizoda, meni jeste...

QuoteMada, zar ti nije smetala Carpenterova prilično traljava režija?

Ne. "Karpenter" i "traljava režija" su već odavno momak i cura.

PELTS
Kako li je ikome moglo pasti na pamet da snimi nešto OVAKO nezanimljivo is beyond me. Uklete rakunske kože - taman je onoliko dosadno koliko zvuči. Nekoliko interesantnih smrti ne može da odagna čemer ove epizode. Ipak, da ne bude baš potpuna propast kao neke epizode prve sezone, redeeming faktori su glavna glumica koja je neprekidno toples i totalno blesava završna scena kad Meat Loaf proganja pomenutu crnkinju u namjeri da je ubijedi da obuče njegovu posljednju kreaciju. Still, ovo je ubjedljivo najslabija epizoda druge sezone do sada.
Ova priča sa ukletim kaputom mi je dala ideju - ukleti TOPLES! Odmah se bacam na pisanje.

THE SCREWFLY SOLUTION
Počinje kao interesantna apokaliptična pričica, a onda postaje dosadno i bezveze. Mislim da bi Džo Dante trebalo da šutne ovog scenaristu.
(However, konačno jedna scena seksa bez odjeće!)

VALERIE ON THE STAIRS

Mik Geris ovom epizodom uspijeva da okaje grijehe iz prve sezone (šifra: Čokolada). Nije naravno u pitanju ništa spektakularno, ali ovo je sasvim solidno snimljena pričica o osvetničkom duhu lika iz knjige koji kreće u pohod protiv ljudi koji su ga stvorili. Povremeno dosta napeto (uglavnom na početku), pokoji fin plot tvist, dvije legende (Kristofer Lojd i Toni Tod) u sporednim ulogama i tako dalje. Nećemo zamjeriti ni što je pomenuti duh zapravo mlada djevojka koja se u nekoliko scena pojavljuje gola. Bravo, Miče!
Inače, ovo je već drugi put u ovoj seriji da Mik Geris svoj scenario zasniva na priči Klajva Barkera. Zašto se nije pozabavio svojim najboljim drugom Stivenom Kingom, nije baš najjasnije. Uopšte, mislim da je čitava serija prošla bez Stivena Kinga, što je neoprostivo za nešto što se zove Masters of Horror.


RIGHT TO DIE

Moja prva reakcija nakon izlistanih kredita bila je "Who THE F*** is Rob Schmidt???". Ipak, nije me mnogo pogodilo što ovu epizodu nije režirala neka od horor legendi, znajući kakve papazjanije znaju da naprave te legende (kahkahdžonkarpenterkahkah), kao i da anonimusi tipa Ernesta Dikersona znaju solidno da urade posao (tek sad vidjeh da je Šmit režirao Wrong Turn, a pretpostavljam da nije u rodu sa Brankom Šmitom, poznatim hrvatskim režiserom). Elem, suma sumarum - ako ovo nije najbolja epizoda druge sezone, onda je sigurno prokleto blizu. Bar među prve tri. Još jedna priča o osvetničkom duhu, ali sa nekoliko vrlo simpatičnih scenarističkih dodira - naime, radi se o ženi koja poslije saobraćajne nesreće ostaje potpuno spaljena i nepokretna i u komi. Povremeno je spopadne klinička smrt i onda je ljekari vrate u život. Trik je u tome da njen duh u tim "mrtvim" trenucima vršlja okolo i pravi belaj (u principu, opravdano se sveti pojedinim gadovima). Njen siroti muž (inače jedan veliki gad) u početku namjerava da je isključi sa aparata za održavanje života, ali kad shvati da je duh prilično nasty i da će krvi da mu se napije, onda prevrne ćurak i počne svim silama da traži donatora za tijelo, da bi se njegova žena potpuno vratila u život. Problem je što za to ima svega nekoliko sati.
Priča počinje pomenutom saobraćajnom nesrećom, a poslije smo čašćeni sa pokojim flešbekom koji upotpunjuje i objašnjava stvari. Na kraju nas naravno čeka nekoliko plot tvistova, ništa nepredvidljivo, naravno, ali vrlo simpatično i duhovito. Posljednja scena je naprosto BRILJANTNA i sve u svemu, neizmjerno sam uživao u ovoj epizodi navijajući za osvetničkog duha protiv ljigavaca iz svijeta živih.
I kao da sve to nije dosta, ovo je epizoda sa najboljom golotinjom u drugoj sezoni, a vjerovatno i u čitavoj seriji. Pomenuti duh, kad se pojavi u svom originalnom ženskom izdanju a ne u izgorenom, ima apsolutno fenomenalne (i prilično velike!) grudi koje obilato stavlja na displej u sceni u kadi (Plissken je svojevremeno postavio skrinšot negdje na forumu). Osim nje, pojavljuje se još i ljubavnica glavnog lika, koja je pravi avion (naravno i ona se skida).
Tako, potpuno neočekivano, neki tamo mrljavi Rob Šmit pravi najbolju epizodu i lagano preslišava Arđenta, Karpentera i ostale.

Moje gledanje Masters of Horror serijala bliži se kraju. Ostala mi je još samo posljednja i najjezivija epizoda, Dream Cruise, a to ću da pogledam večeras. Što se tiče prethodnih epizoda...

WE ALL SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM -mildly interesantno, ali potpuno nepotrebno. Čak i fakat da klovn duh ubija ljude sladoledom mnogo bolje zvuči na papiru nego na ekranu. Kraj je nezadovoljavajući - trebalo je da pobijedi klovn (ne računajući ultrastupidnu posljednju scenu nalik na prvi Nightmare on Elm Street). Obratimo pažnju na činjenicu da je ovo već treća uzastopna epizoda sa osvetničkim duhom, a slijedi odmah poslije fantastične Right to Die, što je nesretan splet okolnosti.

THE BLACK CAT je za Poa što je Finding Neverland za J.M. Berija. OK, nije baš tako crna situacija. Dok je Finding Neverland superdavežni davež od dosade od patnje od napornog filma, Black Cat je fina pričica kojom dominira lijep (mračan) vizuelni izgled i Džefri Kombs. Atmosfera je naravno mračna i turobna i od svih epizoda serije ova vjerovatno ima najmanje humora. Scenario je u suštini dobar, ali je osnovna ideja kako je priča Crni mačak nastala isključivo zbog Poovog alkoholizma i nesposobnosti da razdvoji stvarnost od mašte pomalo stupidna.

THE WASHINGTONIANS - Now that's more like it! Pokazuje se da su najbolje epizode ujedno i one najduhovitije (The Deer Woman u prvoj i Right to Die, Sounds Like i Washingtonians u drugoj sezoni). Ovde imamo posla s nekim likom koji u kući svojih babe i dede otkrije bizarnu poruku koju je napisao Džordž Vašington, a koja se odnosi na klanje djece i konzumaciju njihovog mesa (!) Ispostavlja se da je poruka autentična i da je lokalno stanovništvo vrlo zainteresovano da ona ne dospije na uvid javnosti. Nastupa proganjanje i nekoliko ekstremno gnusnih kanibalskih scena (mora da je ideja za sve ovo potekla od nekog iskompleksiranog vegetarijanca). Na kraju dolazi sjajan pančlajn sa novčanicom od jednog dolara, a interesantno je da u epizodi nedostaje onaj potpuno klasični i generički plot tvist (spoiler: većina drugih scenarista bi vjerovatno napisala plot twist u kome se ispostavlja da je Saul Rubinek negativac i našu familiju bi pojeli).

Mik Geris je posle Masters of Horrora (posto je finansiski prso) napravio seriju sa istim konceptom, ma kad se nema ideja - nema se! THE WASHINGTONIANS - najbolja definitivno epizoda!

DREAM CRUISE

Vrlo slabo. Nije katastrofalno samo zbog toga što da bi neki film bio katastrofalan, on mora nešto da pokuša i pri tome spektakularno ne uspije. Dream Cruise ne pokušava apsolutno ništa. Opet su u pitanju osvetnički duhovi u vidu dugokosih japanskih prikaza (epizoda je snimljena po priči Kodžija Suzukija, koji očigledno konstantno piše jednu te istu stvar već godinama). Sama priča je potpuno prizemna i neinspirisana, čak ni sama prikaza nije strašna (zapravo više iznervira nego što prepada, tako da poželite da joj opalite dva-tri šamara da umukne sa svojim prokletim cerekanjem), režija potpuno kretenska (oslanjanje isključivo na džamp-skerove, plus što je u dva navrata bezobrazno pokradena legendarna scena iz Ringua, naravno vrlo loše).

Dakle, opet se sezona završava japanskom pričom, s tim da, dok je Miike snimio apsolutno beskompromisnu stvar, koja je po krvavosti i bizarnosti sve prethodnike ostavila daleko iza (ako već ne po suvom kvalitetu, jer ipak je scenario malo budalast a gluma prilično loša), Tsurutin Dream Cruise je jedna od najslabijih i najbeznačajnijih epizoda u drugoj sezoni.