SHERDOG MOVIE CLUB: Let's pick the Week 212 movie!

[europe1]

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Here's a quick list of all movies watched by the SMC. Or if you prefer, here's a more detailed examination.

After MusterX tried rocking the boat, FrontNakedChoke returns us to one of our most tried-and-true themes.
Horror!
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Candidates:

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)

Director: Scott Glosserman

Stars: Nathan Baesel, Angela Goethals, Zelda Rubinstein

Premise: The next great psycho horror slasher has given a documentary crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the sleepy town of Glen Echo.




The Collector (2009)

Director: Marcus Dunstan

Stars: Josh Stewart, Andrea Roth, Juan Fernández

Premise: Desperate for money to pay off a debt, a man targets a wealthy family's home and plans to break in and steal a valuable gem. He soon learns that he picked the wrong night to carry out his plans, for a masked madman has gotten there first, imprisoned the family, and lined the mansion with deadly traps.




The Platform (2019)

Director: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia

Stars: Ivan Massagué, Zorion Eguileor, Antonia San Juan

Premise: A pit with hundreds of levels, a platform that comes down full of food, two people per level.
Are you one of those who jump when they are up or one of those who are gutless when they are down below?




Wolf Creek (2005)

Director: Greg McLean

Stars: Nathan Phillips, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi

Premise: Three backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are plunged in a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture by a sadistic psychopathic local.



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[Sonny Qc]

Just saw the platform, one weird ass movie.

 

[HenryFlower]

 

[Bullitt68]

The Collector. As Clarence Worley would say: That's a movie. I still remember randomly deciding to watch that at midnight one night on FearNet on Comcast OnDemand. Absolutely blew me away. Brilliant premise, just one of my favorite plots ever conceived, but it's also executed so cleverly.

You guys got it right with The Dead Zone a few rounds back. I hope you get it right again with The Collector. And don't let the "torture porn" shit turn you off. It's more than just the violence. This movie is operating on the same level as the original Saw in terms of the inventiveness of the script and the filmmaking ingenuity (IMO it's superior to Saw, though it obviously owes its existence to it).

Nice pick, @FrontNakedChoke.

 

[FadeLess]

i havent watched none of the above, thanks for the heads up.

 

[DC23]

4 good picks. I like this week. Whichever wins, I'm in.

 

[europe1]

Tie-Breaker!

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A three-way tie! I don't think this has ever happened outside a Battle Royale!

Part of this is my fault. I just realized that I forgot to add the membership-list to the OP so none of you guys got the alerts...... sorry.

Members: @europe1 @SwampThing @MusterX @FrontNakedChoke @chickenluver @Scott Parker 27 @Yotsuya @jei @cheesus @HARRISON_3 @Bubzeh @the ambush @SalvadorAllende @moreorless87 @EL CORINTHIAN @HenryFlower @Zer

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[europe1]

Collector

 

[HenryFlower]

Wolf Creek

 

[Zer]

Wolf Creek

 

[FrontNakedChoke]

Ahhhhhhh, just depends.

I'll go Collector.

 

[FrontNakedChoke]

The Collector. As Clarence Worley would say: That's a movie.
Nice pick, @FrontNakedChoke.

4 good picks. I like this week. Whichever wins, I'm in.

 

[DC23]

Collector

 

[HARRISON_3]

The Platform

 

[Scott Parker 27]

Platform

 

[the ambush]

Wolf Creek

Wolf Creek

It will probably not win the poll this week yet Wolf Creek's a very enjoyable movie.

 

[cheesus]

The Platform. That's been on my list for a while anyway

 

[MusterX]

What in the actual fuck have you done @FrontNakedChoke ? I've seen two of these films and of the three that tied I've seen one of them. That leaves me with gross food and viscera or torture porn that somehow @Bullitt68 admired even though it scored a 29 on Meta, a 29 on RT, and a 6.4 on IMDb. Meanwhile, @europe1 doesn't even send out the bat-signal so I forgot to vote which would have prevented this 3 way tie.

I demand an explanation from everyone involved!

 

[FrontNakedChoke]

What in the actual fuck have you done @FrontNakedChoke ? I've seen two of these films and of the three that tied I've seen one of them. That leaves me with gross food and viscera or torture porn that somehow @Bullitt68 admired even though it scored a 29 on Meta, a 29 on RT, and a 6.4 on IMDb. Meanwhile, @europe1 doesn't even send out the bat-signal so I forgot to vote which would have prevented this 3 way tie.

I demand an explanation from everyone involved!

First of all, fook your imdb ratings

second of all, yes. i am conspiring with @europe1 . it's a conspiracy. we aren't even hiding it anymore.

 

[HenryFlower]

Meanwhile, @europe1 doesn't even send out the bat-signal so I forgot to vote which would have prevented this 3 way tie

so minus the whinging, you’re saying you would have voted for one of the three that have tied? or am i missing something?