CGI should bugger off and die.
Just keep it for computer games and cartoons.
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Quote: youngian @ October 27 2010, 5:48 PM BSTSetting the bar real low bar for a back-of-a-fag packet horror flick check out Shrooms. Only frightening in the fact that the idiots who made this piece of crap actually got their film distributed.
Shrooms isn't too bad a film actually. Too much of the tension is undercut with psychedelic acid flashes, but there are some creepy moments and the pay off is pretty good. Plus it's got John Huston's grandson in, who's actually pretty good.
I want to see that Martin film he was on about.
Quote: zooo @ October 27 2010, 6:53 PM BSTI want to see that Martin film he was on about.
Yes, I saw it ages ago. It's pretty good. Surprised it hasn't been remade what with the recent vampire film fad.
I couldn't agree more, Cheese, CGI has taken over many a movie and has completely changed how viewers watch horror films, making horror films really horror-fantasy films now. I don't mind the odd touch of it if a story requires it but CGI has become the driving force in so many of them and it has changed the genre, not for the better at all imoo.
That's why I liked Blair Witch so much, it couldn't afford CGI and it brought us back to scary tension filled psychological horror . 
Quote: chipolata @ October 27 2010, 6:57 PM BSTYes, I saw it ages ago. It's pretty good. Surprised it hasn't been remade what with the recent vampire film fad.
I've never even heard of it, so am intrigued.
Maybe this is why the Ring was not my thing, I cannot change my viewing style to accommodate the jarring nature of CGI led films, for me it is an impurity in horror films, the way it is overused anyway. If the film had not have been built around the CGI effects then yes I may have been able to see any supposed poetry. Poetry died in horror movies the day The Excorcist introduced the new in yer face special effects.
As cheese intimates, and as Blair Witch proved, ditch CGI and really any blatant visual effect usage and you will reinvigorate the terribly tired looking horror genre. imo.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ October 27 2010, 7:17 PM BSTMaybe this is why the Ring was not my thing, I cannot change my viewing style to accommodate the jarring nature of CGI led films, for me it is an impurity in horror films, the way it is overused anyway. If the film had not have been built around the CGI effects then yes I may have been able to see any supposed poetry. Poetry died in horror movies the day The Excorcist introduced the new in yer face special effects. As cheese intimates, and as Blair Witch proved, ditch CGI and really any blatant visual effect usage and you will reinvigorate the terribly tired looking horror genre. imo.
Great. Except Ring has no CGI in at all.
Well it was some other Japanese thing made in the last ten years, if not Ring itself. It had someone in a yellow coat on the cover. I was lent Ring as well, I may have been put off watching it by this CGI filled mess, perhaps I should have watched Ring first if that wasn't what I saw.
Quote: Cheesehoven @ October 27 2010, 6:40 PM BSTCGI has been the ruination of many a film. AHOH reminded us that the impalement of Patrick Troughton was done with an almost Blue Peter-esque way.
There is no substitute for imagination and sometimes having a small budget forces its makers to be more inventive.
CGI has been positive for imagiantive low budget Sci Fi and horror andismuch better when it is used sparingly as in Dr Who or 28 Weeks later
Yes, when used sparingly I don't mind it, when it doesn't engulf the story. But I've seen too many films of all genres that OVER USE it, this is my key point. Reduce all films' budgets and everyone will be forced not to over use it and may get back to being more creative, proper film makers.
People here seen Night Of The Demon? (the 1958 British film of the title) One of the best 'horrors' (supernatural horror) ever made and yet the special effects scene used in the climax of the film is still a bone of contention today among critics and movie makers, some saying it was nearly ruined by it! There is a very strong argument for showing as little horror as possible, as Alfred J Hitchcock believed and perfectly demonstrated.
The film with somebody with a yellow coat on the cover is Dark Water. A very good film. Yes, Night of the Demon is a classic and I could have done without seeing the demon at the end. And although less is often more it's sometimes fun and scary to see more, as with The Fly or The Thing remakes.
The US let the right one in is called Let ME In. Not him. That makes no sense. I thought Shrooms was pretty good but they didn't use the 'is it just the trip' idea as well as they could have.
The Ring remake was pretty good, but not as good as The Grudge one (which I actually prefer to the original despite the inclusion of Buffy). The scene with the stairs had me genuinely crying with fear, much like the 'bed' scene in Tale of Two Sisters.
Let The Right One In is a reference to a Morrisey song. But it makes sense to change the name of the remake just to help give it its own identity.
