Monster Sqad and Moments - dvd vs theatre??

[CarolinePar]

I haven't seen House in a very long time but I think House is slightly more ridiculous than Fright Night, mainly because of that scene with the Swordfish and those little kid demons. Still, it has its moments.

Has anyone had a *momen* in a film that you thought was worth watching over and over?

I thought of this when I saw the dvd of Monster Sqad was called the "Wolfman gots Nads" edition (?)

what was it and did you wait to get on video/dvd or sit through the film in theatres to watch it and leave...? :jester:

[FreddysFingers]

There is a scene in the indie Swedish movie EVIL ED where Ed *SPOILER ALERT* gets his head blown off with a shotgun! As a kid, I loved watching this. It was so awesome and so bloody… it satisfied my fragile mind.

[CarolinePar]

niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice exdev:
I'm going to go look that one up now!
Anyone else?

[Dr. Briggs]

I got one of my favorite horror films, Pet Sematary, on DVD a month or so back. First thing I did was skip right to the part where the mother returns to the house at night and imagines her insane (and long dead) twist-backed sister greeting her there, and instead finding her resurrected son dressed in some fancy bib and holding a scalpel saying he "has something for her" - CHILLS!

[FreddysFingers]

Wow. I would have totally fast-forward to the first time we actually see Zelda. She gave me a near-heart attack when she first appeared.

[CarolinePar]

wow...I don't know about the rest of you but for the longest time I didn't understand the *need* for having the flashback for the sister in the film at all

but then I rewatch the film -

maybe if I read the book :reading:

[Dr. Briggs]

Well the scene I'm talking about (just the part with Zelda being there, not the rest) is actually exclusive to the film, but I personally think it adds to it.

A major theme of both book and film is coping with death. I think it's sort of darkly poetic in that Rachel basically "plays favorites" in handling the death of two relations, both dependent on her and neither of which did her real harm: where she is horrified of the thought of Zelda coming back to life, she is overjoyed to see Gage walking again. It's the sort of double standard that she takes to the matter of unnatural resurrection which highlights the whole "sometimes, dead is better" theme, and gives Gage turning rotten on her (despite her thinking his coming back could only bring good) an ironic angle.

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Back on topic, there are a couple endings to horror films I find the right combination of chilling and beautifully-made to watch again and again; the ones I'm thinking of at the moment are Tourist Trap and Phantasm. A BIG part of that are the scores, although the emotional factor in general is a pretty big part of it as well. I think I have a thing for horror that turns out genuinely tragic in the end >.>

[CarolinePar]

I didn't even think of that ...

wow

[FreddysFingers]

Briggs, I gotta admit that I thought I was the only one who kinda saw the bittersweet pros and cons of coping with death. We all experienced it one way or the other and we all wish that the person would come back and if they do we'd be overjoyed… but at the same time it could be horrifying. I think you nailed the tack on the head with your analysis.

[CarolinePar]

and all the more reason to want my own TH shirt!

[Imeeh]

The Brain Dead/Dead Alive 'I Kick arse for the Lord' scene never gets old.

[CarolinePar]

The Brain Dead/Dead Alive 'I Kick arse for the Lord' scene never gets old.

forgive my dumb question here but...

was that the name of the movie(s) said scene(s) occur in?

[Imeeh]

forgive my dumb question here but...

was that the name of the movie(s) said scene(s) occur in?

It was in Brain Dead, which I think is called Dead Alive over there, where the priest kicks some zombie ass. Here's the scene:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7xN3Z7890o"]YouTube - ‪"I kick arse for the Lord!"‬‏[/ame]

[CarolinePar]

that was AWESOME!

thank you so much