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In A Glass Cage.

Best seen on a double with a Carry On film.

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I remember Dr Who being scary as a kid. The goofy killer doll and the squashy treacle chair that consumes a no-longer-useful minion in Terror of the Autons especially. Tom Baker grinning is always a little scary. I think the cheapness and shoddy editing help too.

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I was trying to explain to Alison last night that Dr. Who scared the shit out of me as a kid on a regular basis, sometimes with just the theme music.

I can still remember a nightmare I had as a kid when I saw the first Tom Baker episode 'Robot'. I was trapped in my bedroom and the robot was going up and down the hallway preventing me from getting to the living room with the rest of my family. It was terrifying.

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I was trying to explain to Alison last night that Dr. Who scared the shit out of me as a kid on a regular basis, sometimes with just the theme music.

I can still remember a nightmare I had as a kid when I saw the first Tom Baker episode 'Robot'. I was trapped in my bedroom and the robot was going up and down the hallway preventing me from getting to the living room with the rest of my family. It was terrifying.

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If that scared you, maybe Toyboy will post the Star Wars DVD cover he cheekied up a while back. It has all kinds off goodness, but also THAT goodness.

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Client 9 - The Rise And Fall Of Elliot Spitzer - interesting stuff if you're a politcal junkie, though it probably helps if you lean a bit left with this one (Republicans might not like what is inferred, but facts are facts).

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Saw 3D (2010) (aka: Saw: The Final Chapter) -- I know, that for some odd reason, the series isn't well-loved around the cult communities, but I have thoroughly enjoyed the whole series and number seven sent it all out on a very high note. Everything wraps up perfectly (the appearance of Cary Elwes early on instantly gets the brain ticking) and it's even been left just open-ended enough to revive at a later date should that temptation of even more money become irresistable. I'm as close to a massive fan of this series as I will allow myself to be a "massive" fan of anything these days, but this was an awesome final (?) bow to it all. Colour me extremely impressed, as well as still more than a little horrified at some of this entry's traps -- boy, did this one set my teeth on edge more than ever.

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Consider me a fan too. And the hatred this series gets baffles me. Sure it's a big horror franchise - but it has no right to be. There's not really any dumb teenagers as you'd expect - the majority of characters are fully-fledged adults, and sure it comes around like clockwork every year, but it makes absolutely no concession to anyone who hasn't seen all the earlier films - you're pretty much fucked at trying to understand the labyrinthine plotting.

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I liked the first one but haven't enjoyed the sequels nearly as much (though thought that 6 was a good return to form).

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...the hatred this series gets baffles me.

Got me confounded too! They're gory as hell (even gorier when they hit BD & DVD in their "unrated" cuts), and actually have a complex/labyrinthine plot focus, which is almost as rare as hen's teeth when it comes to modern (or any, to be honest) horror. As you said, all the characters are adults too. For seven years, they've been the only big mainstream films besides the Bond movies that I've actually looked forward to seeing. Oh well, each to their own I guess -- but I love 'em! Only wish I had a 3D-HDTV and 3D Blu-ray so I could have got the best out of it (mind you, the guys who do the sound design on the Saws deserve a medal, as they always sound incredible and make the most of full home theatre surround)! I guess that'll come in time... ;)

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Count me as someone who HATES HATES HATES HATES HATES this series... I sat there in the theater years back on opening night for the first film and as the lights went up and I heard the enthusiastic applause of everyone around me I sat there completely pissed off (mostly because the film is set up for a pointless "twist" that is utterly impossible for the audience to guess since the killer is a fucking EXTRA... the camera pans through a room in one shot and we see a guy for a fraction of a second... someone explain to me how is this a clever twist?!?).

But the inane plot contrivances are not really why I hate these films... I hate them for their "vomit aesthetic," which means that they are completely ugly looking films, shot in snot-greens and shit browns, as if the filmmakers have thrown up onto the screen and then wallowed in their gross and murky bodily fluids. The tone is somber and too serious so there's no sense of fun, just a really depressing experience that makes me feel like crap.

I hate these movies (and I've seen most of them, although I did not see the last two). They have consistently occupied my spot for the "worst film" in their respective years that I suffered through them, which I suppose is something of an accomplishment. Fuck these movies.

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Ashes of Time: Redux (1994, 2008) -- so, Wong Kar Wai finally finished the film as he intended. It's still a totally amazing existential martial arts drama, just a slightly different one now. Plus, it looks brilliant on Blu-ray. However...those accustomed to the 98m theatrical version from original release (as opposed to the 94m Redux) might be forewarned that the score has been rearranged and reorchestrated, and two of the signature swordfighting sequences (choreographed by Sammo Hung) are now gone. I kinda miss the opening establishing footage of Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Kar Fei's characters, as well as the rooftop sequence from Tony Leung Chiu Wai's episode. But it really still stands as cinema as high art. A mesmerising film.

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I'd be interested in seeing his Redux version.

This weekend so far?

Oldboy - It holds up really well.

36th Chamber of Shaolin - It also holds up really well.

A Bittersweet Life - Surprisingly it too holds up really well.

Grindhouse Universe - I love trailer comps and this is a good one.

42nd Street Forever - ditto.

Night Of The Living Dead Reanimated - better than I expected, very creative. Full review in the works...

The Guy From Harlem - he's a mean dude and a bad cat and his name is Al and he lives in Florida. But he was in Harlem once so it still counts.

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This weekend I watched

-Two Amber Lynn pornos (review soon)
-Unstoppable (review soon)
-Some Film Movement disc (review soon)
- Shock Festival trailers
- MST3K (couple of different ones)
- Avatar. Blech. I could have lived my life never having seen it. Pretty movie.

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The True History Of Wrestlemania - not a half bad documentary on this WWF's annual big deal. I enjoyed it.