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I think it was a pretty good group of films this week;
DR. IN-LAW: Kind of a quiet humor in this film, but I liked it. Not great, not bad, but pretty good. Shalini has some really weird facial expressions, though.
DISCOVERING THE WHEELS: Didn't like this one that much. The only part that I laughed at was where the caveman was comparing the horse drawing to the Mustang logo. Aside from that I thought Peanut Head made this just mediocre at best.
NERVE ENDINGS: Like this one alot, though as with Will's last film, something in the beginning really bugged me. If this doctor is performing brain surgery, why would they call him out for a 2 minute emergency? I think he could have come up with something better, but I liked this film alot.
UNDER THE GUN: I liked this one alot, too. Good direction, clever storyline. Hilary definitely did redeem herself.
HOW TO HAVE A GIRL: The worst of the bunch IMO. It had a good concept but the execution wasn't great. I think David's going home.
DIE HARDLY WORKING: What a surprise, they had Zach last. Yeah it was a really good film, blah blah blah.
I'm in awe of Zach. He's winning this competition, for sure. He's got commercial appeal and genuine artistic merit.
I thought the others were pretty good as well. I don't think there were any 'stinkers' this time around, even if the "to have a Girl" film wasn't funny.
I thought the one thing funny about the Caveman film was the caveman calling shotgun!
There were a lot of good concepts this time around. The execution varied, I think.
"The Flux capacitor. It's what makes time travel possible."
While I don't like Jason very much, I thought his piece was probably the best tonight. Second best was Open House. The other two just didn't seem like horror to me.
This was probably the most difficult challenge for them. They had to set up a scary scenario and execute it in a minute. IMHO, it's easy to set up a funny or a dramatic situation. Horror is another thing entirely.
My major beef with this episode was Eli Roth. Why the hell didn't they have Wes Craven for this show? Roth's a hack. Bah.
THE MALIBU MYTH: By far this was Kenny's best film, but that's really not saying much. The dialogue sucked, the acting wasn't great, but I thought when they went out to the dead body, for those 20 seconds, it was good, but then the zombie dude typing on the computer kind of ruined it for me.
ANKLEBITERS: This one was so-so. I thought with the prologue that this would be a humorous horror film, but...it wasn't much of anything. Looking under the table with all the intense music only to have nothing there is very cliche IMO.
MIDNIGHT SNACK: It was a clever piece, kind of chilling at times, gave me a smile at the end. Good flick overall.
ETERNAL WATERS: Jason really stepped up his game with this one. This piece along with Open House proved that you can deliver horror without gallons of gore. I thought this was very well put together, great acting ALL AROUND(stfu Eli), and it left you with a happy feeling at the end. Good stuff.
OPEN HOUSE: This one actually gave me butterflies after the door slammed shut and the woman appeared. It's simple, but it's very effective, and the acting by both ladies in the room was top notch. In regards to Eli's retarded comment(Well...she just said "let's get outta here!" and they left! No conflict! durr!")...yeah, the door only slammed shut with the guy's 9-month pregnant wife locked inside and he's unable to get it open. Yeah, no conflict at all, jerk. My favorite out of my love for the beautiful filmmaker.
PROFILE: This one was hard to watch. The thing is that it's horrifying, yes, but it's not horror. I mean this just makes you feel bad. A good horror film gets your adrenaline pumping but in a good way. This just depressed me. More solid performances for a Mateen film, but it just wasn't horror for me.
I think the best movie this time around was probably "Midnight Snack", but it wasn't the best horror.
Open House wins by default in the horror department. It wasn't that scary but it was the only one that had real ambience, IMO.
The Malibu Myth was okay. Kenny's best work, but still way under par to be competing with these filmmakers. The ending was terrible.
Anklebiters was okay too, but there was no real climax. It was just boys get bitten and screams for help, CUT TO boy gets rushed to the hospital.
Eternal Waters was probably Jason's best film, even though he lacks subtlety in horror. Why did he have to show the kid standing there all ghost-like? He had a lot of props to work with, the water, the photograph and shadows, so I thought it was a cop out actually showing ghost-boy in the end. What we don't see is always more scary than what we do. Editing was good, acting so-so.
Profile. Well, it wasn't horror. Mateen talks a lot about being more mature than the other filmmakers, but I think he's just kinda pretentious. He cares more about the message than about the means, and that's a death sentence in cinema.
I hope Kenny goes. Again.
"The Flux capacitor. It's what makes time travel possible."
I just caught the actual episode. Man, Mateens bugs me. He needs to realize there's a difference between horrible and horror. Horrible stuff happens everyday to a lot of people. that doesn't make it horror. It's not clever, it's semantics.
Eli Roth bugged me too. And I hope Kenny never gets together with Adriana Costa!
"The Flux capacitor. It's what makes time travel possible."
Wow. I gotta say I'm very disappointed to read that even though parts of it have been leaked the past few weeks.
So were these horror films made months ago? Cause I know the set before these and last week's were made back in February, but I was under the impressions that the recent horror and comedies were just filmed this past week.
I've been a regular on the OTL site and what this guy is saying is wrong. There are a lot of negative threads about the show posted, mostly about how bad the hostess and judges are. Some threads have been deleted because they're pure bullshit. A lot of deleted threads are just contestants whining about how their work is so much better than what is shown. One site member would start ten threads about silly nonsense and reply to himself ad nauseum.
The site needs a little work, but it's not like what this guy is talking about.
Well that makes me mad. I enjoyed this show for what it was worth. I *really* enjoyed it when they showed the people making the films. But I imagine that's why they switched to the format they did...so they could pull this off.
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