Interested in:
No particular genre
Phantasma-gore-ia's movie tags
Talk
Re:Membership styles, what work ...
By
Phantasma-gore-ia
in
Spout Moderators
"It's been maybe a year, perhaps year and a half, and I'm in the process of relocating my site to new servers so I can restore the images, links, update new movies and so forth. Now that aneurysm in your brain can relax. :) " [More]
Re:Membership styles, what work ...
By
Phantasma-gore-ia
in
Spout Moderators
"Since I typically tend to be quite remiss in my communication, to constrain someone to dependency on me to get involved in a group is irresponsible on my part and people should be absolutely free to come and go as they please. Besides, as Risselada pointed out, any other way besides open is just that - more work for the moderator and a rankling hindrance to potential members. Can't we all just get along? ;) " [More]
Re:Zombie Critters
By
Phantasma-gore-ia
in
Zombie Obsession
"The sheep in the aforementioned flick are merely infected, bloodthirsty, slavering, murderous wool-bearers :). The only zombie animal I can think of after Dr. Gor took the cat from Pet Sematary was the split dog from Return of the Living Dead, the campy spoof of the unending spate of Dead this and Dead that movies that persists to this day. There was an anatomical model of a dog made by splitting it vertically and preserving it with formaldehyde. When the synthetic chemical crap splashes on it and revivifies it, it starts barking and squealing, which draws two men's attention. They don't know what's going on or where it's coming from, but they're pretty sure they hear a dog. Stepping lightly toward it, they see it is a dog but also that something is wrong. One of them picks it up, sees it's only half a dog (he couldn't see that before?) and rightly screams bloody murder, heading for the hills. 8) " [More]
Re:The Gates Of Hell
By
Phantasma-gore-ia
in
Zombie Obsession
"For one thing Dr. Gor, nobody cares if you have a cold. Second, whether or not the undead in the movies concerned are zombies comes down to what it means to be a zombie. All this is is a semantic concern, the issue of the definition of a word. What does "zombie" mean? Literally it's a dead being that has been reanimated.Go to Haiti and ask anybody you come across if zombies exist. They'll tell you that sure as they exist, zombies do too. Down there, people are almost routinely "killed" by a poison called tetrodotoxin (among other potent chemicals) and brought back through other concoctions to serve their new life to their medicinal masters. So, strictly speaking, anything that has come back from the dead is a zombie, even if they have no active concern for the consumption or even the death of the people around them. " [More]
Re:H. H. Holmes and serial killers
By
Phantasma-gore-ia
in
HORROR MOVIES 101
"Offhand I can think of Speck, Starkweather, BTK Killer, Green River Killer, Zodiac Killer, Dahmer and Ted Bundy. There are many more, including of course those so far mentioned, but this will be a sufficiently sick start to your serial killer library.They, like any genre of film, vary in quality, accuracy and levels of violence, so be prepared in going through them to take the best with the worst. :) " [More]
Re:In Memorium...
By
Phantasma-gore-ia
in
HORROR MOVIES 101
"One can tell how much of a latter-day, modern movie watcher I mostly am because of how few of his films I'm familiar with and how well I know them. I know him best from Jaws (which I haven't even seen!) and Blue Thunder, but I've also seen Naked Lunch, Marathon Man and the French Connection. I think it's fairly clear how fickle and indescriminate the entertainment world and popular culture can be in that I hadn't even heard about it until yesterday, that it didn't seem to be a big news item and that only devoted fans of either Scheider or the film world in general would have known. " [More]
Re:Re:Re:Violence in movies...
By
Phantasma-gore-ia
in
Violence on film
"I hope this is not but it seems to be saying that movies contain no purpose and have no function other than to line pockets and distract people from their lives for a little while. The necessary implication of that is there's no passion, creativity or destination in films but merely something to do for a while with no message or other intention. I do hope I misconstrued something and this was not what you wanted to convey. " [More]
Re:Violence in movies...
By
Phantasma-gore-ia
in
Violence on film
"*flexes fingers, cracks knuckles, starts typing with wild-eyed, manic fever*There are, as the good doctor pointed out, movies that exist for no other specific reason than to portray, not necessarily encourage or glamorize, violence. Some necessarily contain it as a requisite for the story and not so much to pander to the baser of viewer instincts; others subsist on it as the basis of their storylines but only as a contrivance designed to justify the creation and depiction of violent acts.The Last Horror Movie - Max, a wedding photographer, moonlights as a wickedly off-the-hook, random serial killer. He beats their heads in with baseball bats and meat tenderizers, stabs them with knives twenty or thirty times, this, that and all sorts of sundry savage violence and furious anger.It features almost a dozen direct episodes of physical and mental brutality exacted under no guises and with no ulterior motives but graphic intensity of horrifying violence. It's played up as a docume ... " [More]
Re:Re:Re:Re:'Tis the season...
By
Phantasma-gore-ia
in
HORROR MOVIES 101
"Maybe this says something about me, but I've seen just about every bloody (ahem) movie linked in this discussion. But anyhow, I just couldn't even start on top horror, my favorites and like ideas. I would just as soon refer people to my crippled website (half of the *%@#! images don't seem to work, but the links and the material is still present) http://www.bloodgutsandgore.co m and urge readers to knock themselves out on the mesmerizing terror, violence, savagery and of course, well, blood and guts. Yes, again, half the images are red Xs and that irritates me in ways the human mind cannot comprehend, but the words depicting what movie it referred to are still there as are the links and the relevant entries. Check it out and please abide wtih the technical glitches, to be fixed when I achieve a faster internet connection and can tool around with it as needed. ;) " [More]
Re:Re:Here's Your Chance...
By
Phantasma-gore-ia
in
HORROR MOVIES 101
"Dr. Gor bases all of his threats of violence on the fact that something as such would intimidate me, but he has no idea that I in fact get off on it. Anyhow, I'm coming out of "retirement" as it were and getting back into the bleeding hearts, chopped limbs and tortured screams of the dead and dying. Mwahahahaha! " [More]
Re: hard to scare
By
Phantasma-gore-ia
in
HORROR MOVIES 101
"I believe you said "go easy on me," but if that's not what you want...Dr. Gor is a complete jackass and can be as bullheadead as a, well, bull. He's prurient, bloodthirsty, defensive and unscrupulous. He's very outspoken, highly unashamed of pretty much everything, a dangerous wild card whose family I pity and as degenerate a ball of scum as I've ever seen. He's violent, deranged, unpredictable, underhanded, devious and conniving.If you want more, you know where to get it. :) " [More]
Re: hard to scare
By
Phantasma-gore-ia
in
HORROR MOVIES 101
"Dr. Gor, it must be pointed out, is an acquired taste. I still haven't acquired him and I've known him for several months now. He, like me, can be a major trial to put up with, a real pebble in one's shoe. In these situations, however, our motivation for being difficult is our drive for quality movies, our appreciation for filmdom in general and our insatiable desire to get out of our own lives for a while and enjoy the misery and suffering of someone else's.O.K., so it's not always that dire, but film is escapism and always has been. Sometimes, I know I have, we (film fans) get worked up about what means the most to us and occasionally we take it too far. We don't mean any harm, but it can certainly come off that way for people who either aren't used to us, don't see things exactly as we do, or perhaps both. " [More]