Paid Members BomberPat Posted November 4, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted November 4, 2019 Ah, you're right - I think both may have had the "On Earth" tagline at some point? I was sure I'd seen Contamination with the Alien 2 title, but I've obviously just conflated the two. Contamination has music by Goblin, while Alien 2 has music by Oliver Onions, so they're both hitting all the right notes for bonkers derivative Italian cinema, anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted November 4, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted November 4, 2019 Imagine a film trilogy that includes House of 1000 Corpses and the latest film is considered "the weakest of the three." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted November 4, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted November 4, 2019 22 minutes ago, BomberPat said: Ah, you're right - I think both may have had the "On Earth" tagline at some point? I was sure I'd seen Contamination with the Alien 2 title, but I've obviously just conflated the two. It's entirely possible, Italian horror films and the naming of them has always been a fascinatingly confusing subject. Even George Romero's zombie films used to get roped into the confusion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted November 4, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted November 4, 2019 Just now, Devon Malcolm said: It's entirely possible, Italian horror films and the naming of them has always been a fascinatingly confusing subject. Even George Romero's zombie films used to get roped into the confusion. Oh God, yeah. If I remember correctly, it's because Dawn Of The Dead was released in Italy as "Zombi", then Lucio Fulci (who, along with Bruno Mattei, pretty much created a cottage industry of Italian faux-sequels) retitled an unrelated zombie move as "Zombi 2", to cash in on Romero's movie. To confuse things more, that movie was released as "Zombie" in the US, but Zombi 3 was Zombie 3 in the US. Various American distributors then packaged entirely unrelated international movies as "Zombie" sequels, so it becomes completely impossible to follow pretty quickly. I think there's an edition of Night Of The Living Dead out there somewhere called "Zombi 0". I can't remember the specific set of circumstances that led to this being the norm, but it basically comes down to lax copyright laws in Italy in the '70s and '80s, and a slow release time for US films to make it the Italian market, so unscrupulous directors would try and capitalise on big names. Bruno Mattei even made a film called Terminator 2 in 1989, which is actually an Alien rip-off, confusingly...and, just to muddle things more, it was also released as Alien 2, and Contaminator. Moving away from horror, but I actually unironically love a specific sub-set of these Italian knock-offs that just mash up Mad Max, The Warriors and Escape From New York. There's a ton of them, and all wonderful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSurgeon Posted November 4, 2019 Author Share Posted November 4, 2019 (edited) 39 minutes ago, IANdrewDiceClay said: Imagine a film trilogy that includes House of 1000 Corpses and the latest film is considered "the weakest of the three." Not a fan then? In fact staying with 'House Of 1000 Corpses', I only realized earlier this year that one of the victims is Chris Hardwick (of Talking Dead / Talking Saul) 😧 Edited November 4, 2019 by TheSurgeon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted November 4, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted November 4, 2019 2 hours ago, TheSurgeon said: Not a fan then? Not really, which is a shame considering BIll Mosley and Sid Haig are great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Sergio Mendacious Posted November 5, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted November 5, 2019 23 hours ago, BomberPat said: Oh God, yeah. If I remember correctly, it's because Dawn Of The Dead was released in Italy as "Zombi", then Lucio Fulci (who, along with Bruno Mattei, pretty much created a cottage industry of Italian faux-sequels) retitled an unrelated zombie move as "Zombi 2", to cash in on Romero's movie. To confuse things more, that movie was released as "Zombie" in the US, but Zombi 3 was Zombie 3 in the US. Various American distributors then packaged entirely unrelated international movies as "Zombie" sequels, so it becomes completely impossible to follow pretty quickly. I think there's an edition of Night Of The Living Dead out there somewhere called "Zombi 0". Some of the later Zombi “sequels” aren’t even zombie films. Apparently, Calamity of Snakes was released as Zombi 9. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSurgeon Posted November 7, 2019 Author Share Posted November 7, 2019 Has anyone stuck with The Walking Dead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 7 hours ago, TheSurgeon said: Has anyone stuck with The Walking Dead? Yeah, I'm still watching it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members DEF Posted November 7, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted November 7, 2019 Yarp, I still love it despite it some times making me wonder why. Episode 2 this season was so utterly shite I even considered giving up for a second. Then episode 3 was ace and I remembered it's the Walking Dead, it's like watching RAW except more consistent. I also love Fear Of The Walking Dead but I'm always a year behind on that because I watch it on Amazon Prime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted November 7, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted November 7, 2019 (edited) Anyone ever been to Horror-on-Sea? Fancy the idea of a horror festival but no idea of what it's actually like. Don't wanna spend 3 days in a 3/4 empty cinema with a small handful of unwashed neck beards watching terrible films if I can avoid it. Edited November 7, 2019 by LaGoosh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSurgeon Posted November 8, 2019 Author Share Posted November 8, 2019 14 hours ago, DEF said: Yarp, I still love it despite it some times making me wonder why. Episode 2 this season was so utterly shite I even considered giving up for a second. Then episode 3 was ace and I remembered it's the Walking Dead, it's like watching RAW except more consistent. I also love Fear Of The Walking Dead but I'm always a year behind on that because I watch it on Amazon Prime. I didn't hate the second episode, but did wonder why they'd put a backstory episode so close to the start of the season. Things should pick up a bit now with the Negan/Whisperers story. I watched about 1 1/2 season of Fear The Walking Dead, then gave up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members DEF Posted November 8, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted November 8, 2019 24 minutes ago, TheSurgeon said: I didn't hate the second episode, but did wonder why they'd put a backstory episode so close to the start of the season. Things should pick up a bit now with the Negan/Whisperers story. I watched about 1 1/2 season of Fear The Walking Dead, then gave up. Yeah I struggled quite alot with the first season of Fear but really started to dig it somewhere in the 2nd. It helps that by and large the main threat is still Zombies/dealing with the zombie apocalypse and not the Walking Dead formula of which new heel faction will invade this season? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted November 8, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted November 8, 2019 I watched one episode of The Walking Dead and that was more than enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members DEF Posted November 8, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted November 8, 2019 8 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said: I watched one episode of The Walking Dead and that was more than enough. Yeah but you openly have stated a million times you rather never see another zombie film again than another generic one. Let alone one as badly written as The Walking Dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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