if i see two girls on a couch making out to techno/metal music in a horror movie and trying to pass itself off as COOL and HOT, im gonna drink a 2 litre Pepsi Cola (im not that extreme). Wait.. that was the word.. EXTREME! *beep* Extreme..
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I'm with nunojason, the party was lame. Roaming camera stopping at various points to show people "trying" to act cool and extreme. "Dis partay be thumpin', bitches!".
But seriously, I think the original's party was more effective. For one, it was a more intimate gathering. You didn't need anybody who wasn't going to be a central character showing up just to make the party more "thumpin". It was JUST between Angela and her friends(and the few party crashers, like Sal).
Second, it was in the middle of nowhere. Add on top of that that Hull House was far more creepier than the mansion in the remake. I mean, sorry, it's no contest. Hull House is more heinous a location. What's more creepier, a mansion where a woman invoked demons who possessed her wealthy friends in the early 1900s, or an old funeral home, laying on cursed Indian land, where the owner killed his wife and children, which echoed the events that occurred centuries before where an Indian killed his wife and child, using their skin as a tent and dressing in their entrails. Sorry, the mansion was Disneyland compared to Hull House.
Third, no bullshots trying to make the party look more cooler than it actually is. That was super lame in the remake. In the original, the party was what it was, and didn't try to present itself as being anything other than that.
I'll agree with the OP - as a party scene, it just seemed to be trying too hard. Girls making out? Ooh, shocking. People...... SMOKING?? Dealing DRUGS??! Dancing sexily, wearing very little and heading upstairs to have sex?? Oh my GOD!!!
Seriously, it's all been done before in many films. After Shannon's speech about letting yourself go and doing what the **** you felt like, I was half expecting to see some kind of ritualistic animal slaughter or blood-orgy. Not EVERY SINGLE "hardcore" party scene from every horror/teen film EVER.
"A day without laughter is a day wasted" - Charlie Chaplin
The party scene did have too many cliches but what did you expect? Shannon Elizabeth's speech was lame as hell. She sounded like a DJ at a boring dance club who keeps shouting, "I want everyone to get crazier than they've ever been in their entire lives!" But if a party like that existed with open bar for only $10, I would definitely be there.
shareyes everything at that party had been done before in horror but it still was fun
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