Watched the 1997 comic book movie Spawn. I can see why it has a minor cult status.
John Leguizamo absolutely kills it as Violator / Clown and is easily the best part of the movie, just incredibly entertaining, and his performance could easily carry a whole series of trashy horror films.
There's some good cinematography going on, the character has a lot visual potential even if it's not well used, the world is kind of entertaining, but other than that, can't recommend.
It's fun enough as trash entertainment, but the script is a mess, dialogue isn't great, directing isn't great, special effects are in some ways actually great for the era, but are used in a way which makes them look much worse than necessary (which is of course in large part a directing problem). The biggest problem is however is that the main actor is the worst actor in the movie. (Obviously not helped by being stuck behind heavy prosthetics and doing a weird voice for the whole movie.)
This has all the pieces to be another Blade, but there's a good reason that ones a classic and this one is largely forgotten. Not the worst B-movie I've seen, but not one of the good ones either.
Todd McFarlane has been talking about another spawn movie for years but nothing has ever materialized. I always thought a Sam and twitch movie with spawn as a secondary character would be even better.
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I watched Fantatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara on Disney+ last night.
It's wild. And really puts into perspective how many of us in a certain generation had no idea what the internet would be like when we first started using it in the early days of social media.
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Nosferatu the Vampyre, from 1979. It's slow and atmospheric (almost dream-like. Or nightmare-like), a strong homage to the 1922 version. Interesting watch to prep for the Eggers film.
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Okay, I'm not a big horror movie guy, but this movie always freaked me out. Similar to my favorite all time horror film The Thing, this film has a similar concept but it's less violent and more insidious in tone. Invasion of the Body Snatchers. That last shot with Donald Sutherland will haunt my dreams forever.
Don't click the spoiler unless you've already seen the movie.
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Donald Sutherland appears to be hiding in plain sight by acting like one of the bodysnatchers...until.
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I recently re-watched the original Fright Night it's still a masterpiece. It's both a love letter to 50s horror and a modern (at the time) update to the vampire lore.
I still go back and forth between Fright Night, Lost Boys and Near Dark as to what's the best vampire movie of all time. No coincidence they all were released in the 80s
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Fright Night and The Lost Boys are perennial favourites of mine. I can even find some semblance of joy watching the Yelchin/Farrell Fright Night remake from a few years back. I don't think I've seen Near Dark, but I'd add Bram Stoker's Dracula to the list of vampire favs.
I just read the next Christopher Nolan film slated for 2026 is set to be a vampire film to take place in the '20s. Sign me up.
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May have been mentioned, but 299 Queen Street West is a must watch if you have any found memories of Much Music at all.
It is a documentary, creates using the epic footage Muchusic xompiled at the height of the music video era. Think footage of an interview with U2 when the group was still nee enough to "hope we get famous." Also, interviews/commentary about how many famous black artists debuted their videos on Much while MTV refused to show them in order to cater to white America.
Saw at in a screening last year. Monica Deol and Paul the Inter. were there to take questions after to boot! Sadly, it is currently unavailable due to legal issues around licensing some of the music therein. Wrong kind of scary, I know.
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Interview with a vampire needs to be in the convo for best vampire movie.
Other than that, yeah Bram Stoker's Dracula, 30 days of night, Blades 1 and 2, From Dusk til Dawn, Underworld, Vampires (James Woods 90s film, excellent, excellent movie), OG Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
I'll watch em all on rotation come Halloween.
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There is only one vampire film that anyone should ever watch. This is the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end of the list.
Vampire's Kiss.
I #### you not, it's an epic film hinged entirely on the performance of Nic Cage. He plays an executive who is slowly having a psychotic break after he does some drugs and imagines (or not?) a vampire woman biting him. He slowly begins to believe he is becoming a vampire and behaves in increasingly erratic ways.
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