Have you seen Pacific Rim? What did you think of it?

[new6ton]

Doom: Annihilation 2019 has just been released October 1, 2019 and I just watched it.

I think it is better than the Original Doom flick by the Rock. What is your thought?

This is the synopsis (it's not a spoiler): "Follows a group of UAC Marines as they respond to a distress call from a top secret scientific base on Phobos, a Martian moon, only to discover it's been overrun by demons who threaten to create Hell on Earth."

While watching it. I was thinking of the movie Event Horizon and feel the horror what if Area 51 was experimenting on something similar which open dimensional gateways that let in the hellish creatures reported all over the world (greys, insectoids, reptoids, etc. Try to imagine the movie HellRaiser too and it will make feel the fright). So instead thinking of ET ships crash landing and Area 51 reverse engineering the technology. Try to think instead Area 51 as opening doing experiments that opened some portals or dimensional gateways (or interbrane passage ways) which let in what we thought were ETs but not actually. Any novel or movies along this thought?

Do you know of other flicks about experiments that open dimensional gateways to Hell or braneworld with hellish creatures (like Hellraiser)? Hellboy is one, Event Horizon, what else is there? This is what can scare me. I'm tired of Halloween killers, What You Did Last Summer thing, and ordinary horrors.

 

[jedishrfu]

Well Stargate had one episode where they opened a gate to world that was being sucked into a black hole. IT was quite cool as they added relativistic time dilation to the plot.

Quite implausible but fun to watch.

https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/A_Matter_of_Time

 

[jedishrfu]

How about the Alien movies? They were quite scary in their time. No portal though.

Oh how about Buckaroo Banzai, the lectoids came from another dimension into our world. Its a quirky movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Buckaroo_Banzai_Across_the_8th_Dimension

 

[AlexQW]

It's a beautiful movie everyone should watch

 

[phinds]

 

[jim mcnamara]

@phinds - do those graphics mean good, bad or indifferent?? 15% trash?

 

[phinds]

43% of critics liked it enough not to pan it. 15% of audience members liked it enough not to trash it (the implication being that 85% of folks who watched it didn't like it). It's from Rotten Tomatoes. The graphic seems backwards to me, but that's what it means.

EDIT: OK, I had forgotten. Mostly good reviews get "fresh" (tomato) as below and lots of bad reviews and the graphic is a rotten tomato as above. For audience reviews, lots of bad ones and the grapic is a trash can and lots of good ones get a full popcorn bag.

I've seen movies w/ an even lower score, but 15% audience is really bad. Usually the audience reviews are better than the critical reviews.

 

[Bandersnatch]

Lopsided critic/audience scores tend to indicate a high-brow, ambitious, auteurish flick. Likely French, definitely subtitled. The kind that wins high accolades at Cannes, and takes 40k on the opening weekend in the US.
I mean, I haven't watched Doom: Annihilation, but I'm just saying. :P

 

[pbuk]

The books by Clive Barker on which Hellraiser was based, (The Hellbound Heart, The Scarlet Gospels and Hellraiser: The Toll) were better than the film I thought.

No dimensional portal, but in some ways an even more unsettling concept underlies The Descent which is a pretty scary film. I haven't read the book of the same name which seems to be very similar, although I understand it is not connected to the film. On similar lines of course are the Morlocks in The Time Machine, the 1960 version of which certainly scared me although I must have been about 10 years old when I first saw it (no that was not on first release).

 

[DennisN]

I've seen movies w/ an even lower score

Oh, there's definitely movies with lower scores...
Here's one which has not got any "Tomatometer score" at all (though it does have a 19% audience score): http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/highlander_the_source

 

[DennisN]

Do you know of other flicks about experiments that open dimensional gateways to Hell or braneworld with hellish creatures (like Hellraiser)?

Yes I do. I saw one a couple of years ago. Why, oh, why? The horror, the horror, not from becoming afraid from watching the movie, but the horror of wasting my time. It was so bad and forgettable, that I regrettably do not remember the name of the movie. It was something about a research site where they could open portals to summon demons or something. 99% of the movie was filmed in really boring underground locations, the acting was non-present and the story was thin like a paper and quickly forgotten.

 

[DennisN]

Do you know of other flicks about experiments that open dimensional gateways to Hell or braneworld with hellish creatures (like Hellraiser)?

On a more positive note than my previous post, there is actually one movie of this type (sort of) I quite liked, though it's not about experiments, but an existing gateway from which monsters come. I was very surprised that I liked it, because it's not really my kind of movie: Pacific Rim (2013). I found it very entertaining, it had a certain charm and was apparently made by people that were very enthusiastic about "Godzilla/Transformers" kinds of movies.

In short: it's not the story or setting that caught me, it was how the movie was delivered. And it's not a horror movie, it's a massive large scale SF action movie.

Trailer: