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Post by endo on Oct 17, 2018 18:00:57 GMT -5
"In All the Creatures Were Stirring, an awkward date on Christmas Eve leads a couple into a strange theater, where they’re treated to a bizarre and frightening collection of Christmas stories, featuring a wide ensemble of characters doing their best to avoid the horrors of the holidays. From boring office parties and last-minute shopping, to vengeful stalkers and immortal demons, there’s plenty out there to fear this holiday season." VOD and DVD December 4th.
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Post by MacReadyOrNot on Jan 22, 2020 5:42:01 GMT -5
This is just a horrible anthology movie. Stupid from beginning to end. Not worth seeing. Not even for free.
A lot of problems I'm finding with horror anthologies, at least these modern ones, is that no one knows how to film/video the stories they're telling in a way, say, Romero did with Creepshow, or Bava did with Black Sabbath. Every description or background a director of these new horror anthology movies gives talks about how those movies and other classic anthology flicks inspired them and are cherished by them when in fact, as their own movie shows, they actually took nothing to heart. Those same filmmakers can complain about budget or time constraints, but Romero made Night of the Living Dead on a shoestring budget. Granted his later Dead movies pale in comparison to his earlier work, but that happens sometimes. You lose your touch in some regards, whether we want to admit it or not. Anyway, it's not the size of the budget or how much time you have, it's what you do within those confines that proves who you are. Now, I don't hate every modern horror anthology coming out these days. Field Guide to Evil wasn't bad, and XX was likeable enough. I just wish people actually saw how shots were set-up and tried to mimic them and actually coach their actors to deliver better performances. Not performances that scream we're just doing this for money and an acting reel, if you can call it that. Also, most stories need way more drafts than they get. It wouldn't hurt if one director directed all the segments themselves too, as well as one writer or set of writers wrote all the segments themselves, so the whole anthology movie as a whole felt more cohesive.
Okay. Done with my rant
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