i actually saw Dead Birds when it was first screened at SXSW in Austin several years ago. i'd forgotten about it.
the premise is great, the creepy-factor is excellent, and it is genuinely scary in some parts. unfortunately it suffers from a plot that doesn't hold together and gets so convoluted that it winds up just being a frustrating mess. the history angle isn't exploited as well as it could have been ~ it almost seems like it was set in the Civil War simply because it might make the budget easier to manage ~ hahahahaha.
it does, however, have an exploded horse that was well worth the price of admission and some other seriously freaky things. definitely check it out.
Lost Boys is definitely my favorite vampire movie (i like Dracula because i love everyone in the cast ~ 'cept keanu maybe, but Lost Boys is the more original of the two).
and i didn't include Shymalalalalala because i guess i don't think of his movies as belonging to the "horror" genre.
and oh, the memories of Children of the Corn ~ "shut your mouth isaac" has to be one of my all-time favorite movie lines and my brother and i still kid each other about the Corn God and "the blue man!"
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Date: 2006-10-31 09:35 pm (UTC)i actually saw Dead Birds when it was first screened at SXSW in Austin several years ago. i'd forgotten about it.
the premise is great, the creepy-factor is excellent, and it is genuinely scary in some parts. unfortunately it suffers from a plot that doesn't hold together and gets so convoluted that it winds up just being a frustrating mess. the history angle isn't exploited as well as it could have been ~ it almost seems like it was set in the Civil War simply because it might make the budget easier to manage ~ hahahahaha.
it does, however, have an exploded horse that was well worth the price of admission and some other seriously freaky things. definitely check it out.
Lost Boys is definitely my favorite vampire movie (i like Dracula because i love everyone in the cast ~ 'cept keanu maybe, but Lost Boys is the more original of the two).
and i didn't include Shymalalalalala because i guess i don't think of his movies as belonging to the "horror" genre.
and oh, the memories of Children of the Corn ~ "shut your mouth isaac" has to be one of my all-time favorite movie lines and my brother and i still kid each other about the Corn God and "the blue man!"
: D