Why living here bites...

koneko

Land of the Dead - release date in the US? 24th of June (this friday! w00t!)

Land of the Dead - release date in the UK (Ireland is usually roughly the same)? 9th of SEPTEMBER

http://www.imdb.com/Recent/UK

Kill me now
(And helloooo torrents!)

Creature

Ahhh man that sucks balls! I was looking forward to that film too!

Karl Hungus

Saw the trailer for it, and damned if I'm not anticipating it muchly. I think the film deserves to be pirated if the company isn't arsed with a worldwide release.

Tusky

Im a pirate.

koneko

Tusky wrote:

Im a pirate.

YAARRRRRR!

Creature

Avast!

Mr E

There are some reviews up on Aint It Cool News.... Can't wait for this one!

Xcom2

The US DVD will probably be out before it open's here!

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Maynard.

Yea, but we got intermission WAY before the US..
...
Yea, living here sucks hard.

Necronomicon

Yep, thank God for multi-regional dvd-players

Maynard.

Shhhh the "MAN" will hear you.

spooky donkey

Well the only thing im waiting for in September is the start of the school year. A mate of mine tells me he has it already. I dont know how, why or what format. I`ll have to wait till the weekend to hook up with him and find out.

koneko

Yeah, it's out in the US, so it'll be "out" in other ways. No way in hell am I waiting till September! (Though it would have been nice to finally see a Romero film on the big screen)

spooky donkey

Well i never got that film in the end. Did any one else see it yet?

koneko

I got a "version" but the quality was so awful I didn't bother watching it, you could hardly make out what was happening. So I'm still waiting...

Devil's Rejects is out soon too, any sign of it coming out here? I doubt it. Looking forward to that too.

koneko

SWEET
UGC website, Coming Soon section:

THE DEVIL'S REJECTS (TBC)
Directed by: Rob Zombie

Starring: Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon
Released: 05/08/2005

garred

Agree, it is a pain in the nuts when its over in the States first. Think especially horrors because you begin to hear all reviews and opinions before it gets here and this can affect your viewing of a film. The best films I've seen have been ones I've heard nothing about (don't even watch trailers). There are a lot upcoming over the next year, here's just some:

BloodRayne
Skeleton Key
The Cave
The Fog - Remake
Saw 2
The Gathering
Undead
Underworld - Evolution
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - The Origin
Silent Hill
Final Destination 3
Resident Evil - Afterlife

Karl Hungus

garred wrote:

BloodRayne
Skeleton Key
The Cave
The Fog - Remake
Saw 2
The Gathering
Undead
Underworld - Evolution
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - The Origin
Silent Hill
Final Destination 3
Resident Evil - Afterlife

A sadder bunch of movies I have not seen. Aside from Silent Hill and The Skeleton Key, they all look absolutely horrible.

koneko

Haha, indeed. What a woeful pile of horsepoo. Bloodrayne? I'd rather poke my eyes out with a rusty fork than sit through another Uwe Boll trainwreck.

I noticed the ad for Skeleton Key says "from the writer of The Ring"

I don't know, but when I think writer, I think creator, the person that came up with the story and wrote it. Not the guy that took an existing film and made a poor script out of it for American audiences. At best, he adapted the screenplay, that doesn't make him the writer. I guess that might just be my interpretation of it, but people will watch that ad and think the same guy that created Ring originally wrote this, when that is nowhere near true.

Karl Hungus

Indeed, but "From the writer who adapted Ring" doesn't have the same... erm, ring to it. No pun intended.

garred

Karl Hungus wrote:

A sadder bunch of movies I have not seen. Aside from Silent Hill and The Skeleton Key, they all look absolutely horrible.

Granted they are no where near as good as The Relic but at least there is something for everyone.

Rew

Karl Hungus wrote:

A sadder bunch of movies I have not seen. Aside from Silent Hill and The Skeleton Key, they all look absolutely horrible.

At least there is no Ring 3 or Ring 0 on that list :cool:

garred

Rew wrote:

At least there is no Ring 3 or Ring 0 on that list :cool:

Was reading that they are working on "I know what you did.." Part 3 :eek:

Rew

garred wrote:

Was reading that they are working on "I know what you did.." Part 3 :eek:

Dear god is there no end to the madness!

spooky donkey

Well I have high hopes for Underworkd 2. I was a bit let down by the first one. Then im not used to the hero of a film running away most of the way through the film. Oh wait Tom Cruise does that a lot also.

Maynard.

No1 is excited about the fog remake?, I loved the original..

Other than that, Ive been playing the silent hill games for years and recently shed tears of joy after hearing pyramid head would b making an appearance.

"I'll always know what you did last summer" Will be as pityful as ever, but yet I know I'll find myself watching it at some stage.. :rolleyes:

spooky donkey

OK my mate that was getting Land of the dead only got half of the film. So I watched half of it. It was only OK but I really need to see it all to have a proper opinion. I like what he has done with his zombies, slightly new idea. I think i`ll wait till september and go see the whole thing in the cinema. Thats if it even gets a cinema release. I think the likes of the UCI`s will only give this film a week if even that.

Creature

Maynard. wrote:

No1 is excited about the fog remake?, I loved the original..

No. The original was great it doesn't need to be remade.

spooky donkey

It does if some lazzy hollywood film director cant think of a decent film concept to make. Then do a remake. Its happing way too much these days.

Fysh

spooky donkey wrote:

OK my mate that was getting Land of the dead only got half of the film. So I watched half of it. It was only OK but I really need to see it all to have a proper opinion. I like what he has done with his zombies, slightly new idea. I think i`ll wait till september and go see the whole thing in the cinema. Thats if it even gets a cinema release. I think the likes of the UCI`s will only give this film a week if even that.

Heh, I too crumbled to the temptation of watching it early over the weekend (I was off sick and had nothing interesting to watch, damnit). So I duly set about "obtaining" a copy, only to find after god knows how many hours that in fact the copy of "land of the dead" that I'd set about procuring was in fact some random porn film. Could've been worse, I suppose, but it was rather annoying...

I'm still surprised they're holding the release back until september and not doing the obvious - delay it until october and make it a halloween movie...

Maynard.

Creature wrote:

No. The original was great it doesn't need to be remade.

True, But thats not going to stop me getting excited about it.
I couldnt wait to see the TCM remake, even tho I knew it would pale in comparison to the original, I guess I just like to think theres a chance it will improve.. :rolleyes:

seamus

Any idea if/when Dark Water will be released here? The gf is mad to see it. Was released in the UK on Friday, but I gather it hasn't be rated here, so it's not been released.

spooky donkey

Maynard. wrote:

True, But thats not going to stop me getting excited about it.
I couldnt wait to see the TCM remake, even tho I knew it would pale in comparison to the original, I guess I just like to think theres a chance it will improve.. :rolleyes:

After seeing the first half im not too excited about seeing the rest of it. It only looked OK nothing special. Dont get yer hopes up too high lads.

Id say dark water will get a general release here it looks kinda main stream enough with jenifer connolly in it. And im sure it will have a " form the XXXXXXer of the ring" tag attacked to it to give people some frame of reference. This one looks good, I havent seen the orignal but im sure they will all say its better.

Fysh

spooky donkey wrote:

Id say dark water will get a general release here it looks kinda main stream enough with jenifer connolly in it. And im sure it will have a " form the XXXXXXer of the ring" tag attacked to it to give people some frame of reference. This one looks good, I havent seen the orignal but im sure they will all say its better.

I've seen the original and quite enjoyed it because it was all about atmosphere. I will keep an eye out for the remake, but I don't expect to enjoy it quite as much as the original. Mind you, that could be just pickyness on my part

Morrigan

koneko wrote:

Haha, indeed. What a woeful pile of horsepoo. Bloodrayne? I'd rather poke my eyes out with a rusty fork than sit through another Uwe Boll trainwreck.

I agree... and I'm not the only one....
http://www.uweboll.com/

garred

I can't understand it lads. How can you say the films are crap and you hav'nt even seen them. Personally I'll probably end up watching the whole lot of them. There's never enough horror

Karl Hungus

seamus wrote:

Any idea if/when Dark Water will be released here? The gf is mad to see it. Was released in the UK on Friday, but I gather it hasn't be rated here, so it's not been released.

See the original tbh!

Fysh

garred wrote:

I can't understand it lads. How can you say the films are crap and you hav'nt even seen them. Personally I'll probably end up watching the whole lot of them. There's never enough horror

This is true, but on the other hand you can make an educated guess about their likely quality judging from their predecessors in the "american remake" genre and the people involved in making them.

I may end up watching some of them, but given my limited enjoyment of The Ring and The Grudge, I don't hold out much hope of really liking any of them.

Screw it, I'm going to watch that copy of the Fog that I got recently (12 euro for the 2disc edition - woot!).

TCamen

Saturday 20 August: SHAUN OF THE DEAD 15 / LAND OF THE DEAD 15 Special Preview @ Somerset House
A double-bill of ‘Dead’: Simon Pegg protects loved ones – and London – in a romantic-comedy with corpses, while zombie maestro George A. Romero reanimates his legendary ‘Living Dead’ series with a new flesh-munching masterpiece.
Tickets: £12.50
Ticketmaster: 0870 4000 603 / On-line www.somerset-house.org.uk/summer www.filmfour.com
Doors open 6.30pm, DJs from 7.30pm, Film 9pm for 9.15pm start
NO glass or bottles allowed on site
Somerset House, Strand, London WC2

Oh to be in London this w/e

Xcom2

From http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=58228

Universal Studios Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of George A. Romero's Land of the Dead for 18th October 2005. The long-awaited fourth instalment in George A Romero's ‘Dead’ series, set in a walled city, which is mankind's last refuge against an army of evolving zombies.

Available in separate Unrated Director's Cut (97mins) and Theatrical Cut (93mins) editions (separate Widescreen and Full Screen versions on the former, Full Screen only the latter) both present the film with English DD5.1 & DTS 5.1 Surround audio options and English SDH, French and Spanish subtitles. The Theatrical Cut edition also features a French DD5.1 Surround audio track.

Bonus features on both Theatrical and Unrated Edition DVDs include:

* Feature commentary with George A. Romero, Producer Peter Grunwald and Editor Michael Doherty
* Undead Again: The Making of Land of the Dead
* A Day with the Living Dead
* The Remaining Bits
* When Shaun Met George


Exclusive Unrated Edition bonus features include:

* Bringing the Dead to Life
* Scenes of Carnage
* Zombie Effects: From Green Screen to Finished Scene
* Bringing the Storyboards to Life
* Scream Tests: Zombie Casting Call

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Rew

Pitty the movie isn't great...

Fysh

Vaguely off topic but since I saw the Dark Water remake at the weekend....was reasonably pleased with it, they did make a good effort at keeping the atmosphere. They still went for jumpy bits though, and some of the changes made (including an irritatingly condescending final exposition scene) dumb it down. To be expected, but anyway....close enough to the original to render it almost pointless viewing, but it could've been a lot worse..