Recently, a very cool horror fan named Vince had me on his show Rabbit in Red Radio. We talked about Good Bad Flicks, remakes, and rambled like a couple of geeks. It’s about 80 minutes, you should give it a listen.
Thanks again to Vince for having me on the show, I had a really good time.
http://www.thedevilseyes.com/2013/02/rir-106-its-good-bad-time.html
The first fond footage film I saw was Alien Abduction: The McPherson Tape (1998) that claimed to be a real video tape of an alien abduction of a family on Thanksgiving who documented everything on their video camera the night they disappeared.
http://youtu.be/mUgRCPKP1jg
Although not scary at all I thought The Blair Witch Project was a pretty good entry into the found footage genre.
I think you can blame the success of Paranormal activity for the rash of found footage films who showed the original independent made version to a test audience that they were going to make into a bigger budgeted movie but were impressed by the test audience reaction they decided to just release the original version.
I remember not liking A New Nightmare at the time although an interesting concept I thought it was pretty boring and just an excuse to make a new Freddy film after promising us Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare was going to be the final film.
Inside Out was a good Triple H movie.
Agree with Surviving the Game that I bought on DVD at full price a couple of years ago after I looking for it.
Sudden Death was a good action film better than the crap action films they are producing now with films with action stars that are to old to star in them and are mindless explosion set piece action films with little to no plot like Expendables 2 the recent Schwarzenegger and Stallone films that bombed (no pun intended) and Die Hard 4 and 5.
The straight to DVD films including Van Dammes films when he was still able to perform all his moves are the best action films with some good action stars like Scott Atkins that only get relatively small side roles if they feature in theatrical releases like The Expendables movies.
I don’t hate found footage films, I hate the laziness it brings. All too often the studio does it as a way to cut costs. They don’t have to hire any name actors (because that would immediately remove the “reality” of it) and they can shot it on the cheap. Then they slap it together in editing and it is this hodge podge of stuff. I always laugh when a found footage movie is supposed to be someone who edited all this important film together and yet they still leave in the color bars, video screens, audio drops, etc. Any normal editor would take out all that nonsense but the studio has them insert that stuff for dramatic effect.
When done right we get The Blair Witch Project, Cloverfield, V/H/S, and Paranormal Activity. When done wrong we get Apollo 18.
I never really got into New Nightmare. I liked what they were trying to do but it just didn’t work for me.
Surviving the Game is awesome. It will always have a special place in my heart.
The old action movies of the 80s and 90s are a dying breed. Even though we still get action movies, we just don’t get them like we used to. The new ones just don’t have the magic. Although, I did like both Expendables movies. They for me were the closest thing to the old guard.
Oh, and Scott Atkins is AWESOME. Between him and Michael Jai White, they are keeping the action genre alive.