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Topic	Gauntlet Crew Ranks 90s Horror Films - Do you like ranking scary movies?
Snake5555555555 06/28/19 8:00:37 PM #167:	Snake - Why I Chose It - Between its cast of fresh faces and experienced veterans alike (including horror mainstays Brad Dourif and Robert Englund), and the way this film reintroduced urban legends into the public conscious, Urban Legend was a box office hit and produced a small franchise of two sequels. My Thoughts - This film has potential in its concept, but fails utterly in scripting, characters, and performances. This film has a strange midnight movie feel but without the curiosity or realistic constraints of one, creating a mood that never really feels right or in-line with what the film really wants the tone to be. Of all the Scream-inspired films on this list, I also think this feels the most like a straight-rip of that formula, replacing horror films with the titular urban legends instead. Johnbobb - This was... something? I was intrigued by the idea of Urban Legends manifesting in reality, created and made true by the collective conscious of the public. But that's not what it is, of course. In the end, it's a forgettable slasher where nobody is really worth caring about and where the urban legends come across as serving less as inspiration and more as easy screenwriting. KBM - Another example of what went horribly wrong with the slasher genre in the late '90s. What a weird era it was when someone like Tara Reid could be taken seriously as a Hollywood actress. Bland, mindless, and annoying, with a bunch of teenagers who are stupid even by horror movie standards, this is a movie that's shamelessly trying to copy other movies that weren't even that good to begin with. None of the characters are interesting (with the exception of one somewhat likable security guard who isn't in enough of the movie), the kills are too self-consciously referential to be any fun, and even Robert Englund is wasted in a too-obvious red herring of a role. Brad Dourif is here too, and he also gets next to nothing to do (a travesty in any situation where an over the top Dourif performance might partially redeem a schlocky movie). The movie finally doubles down on its stupidity when the killer is revealed and literally starts playing a slide show to demonstrate how and why they did the things they did. --- Listen, suffering is a fact of life. Either you learn how to deal with that or you go under. https://i.imgtc.ws/2Q88rI4.gif <cite>Snake5555555555 posted [p:923987990] in Gauntlet C... [t:77812973]...</cite> <quote>Snake - Why I Chose It - Between its cast of fresh faces and experienced veterans alike (including horror mainstays Brad Dourif and Robert Englund), and the way this film reintroduced urban legends into the public conscious, Urban Legend was a box office hit and produced a small franchise of two sequels. My Thoughts - This film has potential in its concept, but fails utterly in scripting, characters, and performances. This film has a strange midnight movie feel but without the curiosity or realistic constraints of one, creating a mood that never really feels right or in-line with what the film really wants the tone to be. Of all the Scream-inspired films on this list, I also think this feels the most like a straight-rip of that formula, replacing horror films with the titular urban legends instead. Johnbobb - This was... something? I was intrigued by the idea of Urban Legends manifesting in reality, created and made true by the collective conscious of the public. But that's not what it is, of course. In the end, it's a forgettable slasher where nobody is really worth caring about and where the urban legends come across as serving less as inspiration and more as easy screenwriting. KBM - Another example of what went horribly wrong with the slasher genre in the late '90s. What a weird era it was when someone like Tara Reid could be taken seriously as a Hollywood actress. Bland, mindless, and annoying, with a bunch of teenagers who are stupid even by horror movie standards, this is a movie that's shamelessly trying to copy other movies that weren't even that good to begin with. None of the characters are interesting (with the exception of one somewhat likable security guard who isn't in enough of the movie), the kills are too self-consciously referential to be any fun, and even Robert Englund is wasted in a too-obvious red herring of a role. Brad Dourif is here too, and he also gets next to nothing to do (a travesty in any situation where an over the top Dourif performance might partially redeem a schlocky movie). The movie finally doubles down on its stupidity when the killer is revealed and literally starts playing a slide show to demonstrate how and why they did the things they did. --- Listen, suffering is a fact of life. Either you learn how to deal with that or you go under. https://i.imgtc.ws/2Q88rI4.gif</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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