Last film you saw, vol. 6

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Hotel Transylvania (2012)

"Thank you, monster nerd."

My thoughts exactly. If she wasn't going to be fighting the Cenobites, they should have left her out of the story.

I don't like when the survivor of a horror movie is killed in the sequel, but I hate it when they make her/him crazy, morally ambiguous, or evil.

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

Yes, in the film, it wasn't a controlled environment like inside an auditorium; he was outside with the elements, and although he had rainmaker water hoses as part of the illusion, he made the rain slow down, then stop and hover in mid-air, then reverse. There's no way to account for constantly-changing wind speeds in that type of setting. It still didn't detract from the film, though.

Well, if the drops from the hoses are big enough (likely larger than actual raindrops, to increase visibility), it would take significant wind to mess up the illusion. From your description, I'm convinced that the strobe effect was what he was SUPPOSED to be pulling off, because that's EXACTLY what it looks like when we do it at the science museum. By changing the speed of the strobe, the water does seem to slow, then stop, then reverse.

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Just Before Dawn (1981)

"Oh come on Dan you were more freaked out than the girls.
-I just wasn't sure it was you.
So you peed your pants to play it safe, huh?"

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Well, if the drops from the hoses are big enough (likely larger than actual raindrops, to increase visibility), it would take significant wind to mess up the illusion. From your description, I'm convinced that the strobe effect was what he was SUPPOSED to be pulling off, because that's EXACTLY what it looks like when we do it at the science museum. By changing the speed of the strobe, the water does seem to slow, then stop, then reverse.

I'll let you be the judge. Here's the scene:

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I'd love to see an illusion on this grand of a scale done in person. Unfortunately, there are no magicians or museums anywhere around where I live. I did see Copperfield live once (who, incidentally, is the magic consultant for this film), but this wasn't part of his act.

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I don't like when the survivor of a horror movie is killed in the sequel, but I hate it when they make her/him crazy, morally ambiguous, or evil.

This sounds almost as bad as when they turned Freddy's daughter evil and I'm pretty sure they kind of implied her and Freddy bone in the sequel before she gets run over by a tank in the sequel to the Freddy vs Jason vs Ash comic book. They kill Alice also.

It was baaaaaaad

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I'll let you be the judge. Here's the scene:

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I'd love to see an illusion on this grand of a scale done in person. Unfortunately, there are no magicians or museums anywhere around where I live. I did see Copperfield live once (who, incidentally, is the magic consultant for this film), but this wasn't part of his act.

Yeah, I can even see the strobes there in the footage, but I doubt you could really pull those effects off that way, since it LOOKED to me like he actually had the rain going SIDEWAYS at some points. (Also, there can't be anything between the strobes and the water. With all those people around and the strobes apparently at ground level, the shadows cast by the people would ruin the effect, I think.) I think they took the strobe effect thing and said, "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if we had a magician use this on a large scale for his act!" and then didn't worry much about whether it would be practical.

EDIT: On second look, there are apparently strobing lights on the tops of nearby buildings as well, so he isn't just depending on the ground level ones. I'm still skeptical that the effect could be pulled off that well under those conditions, and have no idea how he would make it move sideways at all (maybe I'm just seeing that bit wrong).

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Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005)

"Like a bad horror movie, isn't it?"

I wonder how Henry Cavill would react to signing this DVD nowadays.

Now you see me 2 - I've actually really enjoyed these films. I'd like to know the explanation of how the one magician made it reverse rain, though.

I know in the first one I felt like there were a few tricks never really explained, but maybe I didn't pay enough attention. Haven't seen #2 yet.

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Here's David Copperfield explaining it. It is what I thought it was, but I don't have sound, so I don't know if he comments on the fact that the simple trick he uses for demonstration is far different than the problems that would be posed by pulling it off on the scale seen in the film.

http://www.today.com/video/david-cop...n-700552259975

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Final Exam (1981)

"Being brilliant has its drawbacks."

Just Before Dawn (1981)

"Oh come on Dan you were more freaked out than the girls.
-I just wasn't sure it was you.
So you peed your pants to play it safe, huh?"

The slasher genre: the beginning (after the doors were blown wide open by Halloween) Do either of these movies have a supernatural element to them?

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From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a f**k how crazy they are!"

Ghostkeeper (1981)

"I ask the questions, girlie."

The slasher genre: the beginning (after the doors were blown wide open by Halloween) Do either of these movies have a supernatural element to them?

Nope, but it looks like the one I'm watching now (1981's Ghostkeeper) has elements of Wendigo stories.

Final Exam was so obvious a cash-in on Halloween. Some of the music cues would've sounded right in place in Carpenter's flick and they also did a bunch of POV driving shots and such.

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Nope, but it looks like the one I'm watching now (1981's Ghostkeeper) has elements of Wendigo stories.

Final Exam was so obvious a cash-in on Halloween. Some of the music cues would've sounded right in place in Carpenter's flick and they also did a bunch of POV driving shots and such.

See, that's what kind of turns me off to the cash ins on the genre. Basic premise: CRAZY guy kills people, then someone kills him. If I chose to, I could watch that every night on the evening news. I need a taste of something other worldly to keep my interest and make it worth watching.

In that sense, Ghostkeeper sounds interesting.

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You could watch Death Bed: The Bed That Eats.

It has a killer mattress. Inside a haunted house.

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)

"Keep your swords as sharp as your wit."

Hellraiser: Revelations (2011)

"A monastic community?"

Now, I'm caught up again and have watched every Hellraiser movie at least twice.

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How was that? The book was as hilarious as the vanilla Pride.

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Wishmaster (1997)

"To you, I am this: The cry of the abandoned child. The whimper of the whipped beast. I am the face that stares back at you from the shadows of your mirror. The hollowness at the heart of all your hopes, Alexandra. I am despair."

Love this movie. First saw it late at night at a convention with a bunch of horror fans, which was the perfect intro.

The Mummy (1959)

"I've seen the likes tonight that mortal eyes shouldn't look at.
-You've been around to Molly Grady's again."

How was that? The book was as hilarious as the vanilla Pride.

It was worth the watch (I assume even more so if you already liked the book) and had some clever bits, but the whole family felt the climax was stretching credibility as to how the heroes could get away.

I read P&P only about a year ago, so a lot of the details were still fresh to me and besides the basic outline of the romances/events, they incorporated several of the famous lines with zombies added in.