Comments on: Blood and Donuts: 10 Canadian Halloween Horrors http://www.rowthree.com/2009/10/28/blood-and-donuts/ Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:49:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shannon the Movie Moxie http://www.rowthree.com/2009/10/28/blood-and-donuts/#comment-36509 Shannon the Movie Moxie Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:34:07 +0000 http://www.rowthree.com/?p=20433#comment-36509 Wow, great list! Bunch of here I've not seen no heard of! Love Ginger Snaps, it's so brilliant and so Canadian. The Changeling is one of the scariest films I've even seen. So much so that I actually won't likely re-watch it because it's just too scary! Wow, great list! Bunch of here I’ve not seen no heard of! Love Ginger Snaps, it’s so brilliant and so Canadian.

The Changeling is one of the scariest films I’ve even seen. So much so that I actually won’t likely re-watch it because it’s just too scary!

]]> By: Goon http://www.rowthree.com/2009/10/28/blood-and-donuts/#comment-36478 Goon Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:13:40 +0000 http://www.rowthree.com/?p=20433#comment-36478 My childhood babysitter was in the Gate. I think she may have been killed in it. Dunno, never saw it. My childhood babysitter was in the Gate. I think she may have been killed in it. Dunno, never saw it.

]]> By: Kurt Halfyard http://www.rowthree.com/2009/10/28/blood-and-donuts/#comment-36476 Kurt Halfyard Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:31:43 +0000 http://www.rowthree.com/?p=20433#comment-36476 On the 'Snaps sequels, I thing the first sequel is a dynamite movie that amps up the energy and hits some raw new places. The third one not so much, it looked good enough and had some interesting character actors, but really, fell flat for me. It felt like the franchise had run out of juice when they had to go 'into the past' to continue the story. On the ‘Snaps sequels, I thing the first sequel is a dynamite movie that amps up the energy and hits some raw new places. The third one not so much, it looked good enough and had some interesting character actors, but really, fell flat for me. It felt like the franchise had run out of juice when they had to go ‘into the past’ to continue the story.

]]> By: Kurt Halfyard http://www.rowthree.com/2009/10/28/blood-and-donuts/#comment-36475 Kurt Halfyard Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:29:15 +0000 http://www.rowthree.com/?p=20433#comment-36475 *FIXED* and I'm surrendering my Canadian Citizen ship for the error! (At least Arnaud Desplechin is French though!) *FIXED* and I’m surrendering my Canadian Citizen ship for the error! (At least Arnaud Desplechin is French though!)

]]> By: Bob Turnbull http://www.rowthree.com/2009/10/28/blood-and-donuts/#comment-36474 Bob Turnbull Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:05:32 +0000 http://www.rowthree.com/?p=20433#comment-36474 Oh, and I think you meant "A Christmas Story", not "A Christmas Tale" in the "Deathdream" write-up. Unless of course Bob Clark did a Christmas movie with a dysfunctional, estranged and mentally ill family set in 1940s middle America...B-) Oh, and I think you meant “A Christmas Story”, not “A Christmas Tale” in the “Deathdream” write-up. Unless of course Bob Clark did a Christmas movie with a dysfunctional, estranged and mentally ill family set in 1940s middle America…B-)

]]> By: Bob Turnbull http://www.rowthree.com/2009/10/28/blood-and-donuts/#comment-36464 Bob Turnbull Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:29:36 +0000 http://www.rowthree.com/?p=20433#comment-36464 "The Changeling" is terrific. A spooky ghost story that ratchets up the tension. You may never look at a red bouncy ball the same way again. "Ginger Snaps" is one of those rare films that really does work on many different levels and occasionally at the same time. Very funny, good scares, superior special effects and it's all wrapped in tasty metaphor...I quite liked the two sequels as well - each one taking a bit of a different path. And "The Brood" is a helluva interesting one...It works on you slowly, delivers some creepiness and then has that reveal near the end which, well, let's just say I won't forget it anytime soon. I was never a fan of "Black Christmas" - I understand its early link in the slasher genre, so I guess it deserves credit for inspiring others, but it was terribly uneven. "Death Dream" is one I haven't tracked down yet, though I've been curious. It's in my zip.ca list. I just watched "Eyes Of Laura Mars" last night and I like your comparison to giallos. It's not quite as technicolor as the Italian films, but it mixes the stabbings with the trashy photo shoot scenes in equal number. I thought it could have handled the final scene much better and drawn it out from her point of view, but it was still an good 70s horror/thriller. And it has Faye Dunaway. “The Changeling” is terrific. A spooky ghost story that ratchets up the tension. You may never look at a red bouncy ball the same way again.

“Ginger Snaps” is one of those rare films that really does work on many different levels and occasionally at the same time. Very funny, good scares, superior special effects and it’s all wrapped in tasty metaphor…I quite liked the two sequels as well – each one taking a bit of a different path.

And “The Brood” is a helluva interesting one…It works on you slowly, delivers some creepiness and then has that reveal near the end which, well, let’s just say I won’t forget it anytime soon.

I was never a fan of “Black Christmas” – I understand its early link in the slasher genre, so I guess it deserves credit for inspiring others, but it was terribly uneven. “Death Dream” is one I haven’t tracked down yet, though I’ve been curious. It’s in my zip.ca list.

I just watched “Eyes Of Laura Mars” last night and I like your comparison to giallos. It’s not quite as technicolor as the Italian films, but it mixes the stabbings with the trashy photo shoot scenes in equal number. I thought it could have handled the final scene much better and drawn it out from her point of view, but it was still an good 70s horror/thriller. And it has Faye Dunaway.

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