bias update

At the very least how can you not be psyched for Watchmen? Sure, it's ages away but better than nothing right?

I'm psyched for Pineapple Express, but I can understand why you wouldn't be.

Any thoughts on the imminent arrival of the pop fabricated junk called 'Twilight' that apparently has captured the attention of a young and woefully under-read generation?

(not that I'm biased)

"The Midnight Meat Train", which I saw at the Fantasia Festival last week, is opening in limited release on August 1st, and I'm hoping it will play here so I can see it again because I loved it. I don't think you're too enthusiastic about horror films, though, right?

I second "Midnight Meat Train" I need something to hold me over till the Saw 5

The Saw franchise utterly bores me.

oh, well they always have the Hostel films to fall back on, if the Saw films come to a end.

There's a chance you might like it, then. It's dark and gory, and very violent, but it isn't torture porn. Although, heh, it's odd that the meaning generally associated to the torture porn label is not quite fitting for some Clive Barker-related works like the early Hellraiser films, which associate torture and pleasure.

Hdj: I have no interest in the Hostel films, either.

What dont you like about the Hostel films? I'm really hoping for a 3rd one. I really like how the Hostels are filmed in Europe and have extreme gore that really push the envelope on what they can get away with.
I do remember hearing Clive Barker had something to do with Meat train. A short story right? I mainly want to see what kinda of scare factor it goes for. Not so much the Hellraiser feel Barker puts in to his movies. I also want to see how good Vinnie Jones can pull off the part of unstoppable maniac killer.

I didn't say I didn't like the Hostel films, but that I am not interested in them, and thus have no wish to see them, nor do I want to be sold on their merits. Having "extreme gore that really push[es] the envelope on what they can get away with" is not to me an attraction in and of itself; it's not even original: generations of small-minded sadists embrace that kind of reactionary, alleged taboo-busting all the same, and the only measure they're up against is their own dulled senses, like a certain Frank Cotton. And I don't hate Americans enough to want to see them tortured for being American, and I don't identify with them enough to want to espouse the stereotypical preconceptions of Europe that the films apparently use to appeal to, and horrify, an American audience. (I have seen a fair amount of the Saw films, and am therefore quite informed enough to find the franchise boring.)

Also, "unstoppable maniac killer" -- sorry to disappoint you -- is not entirely accurate as a description of Vinnie Jones's character in "The Midnight Meat Train", which is indeed based on the Clive Barker short story of the same title.