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They Need More Movies Like This


Finally, someone got it right.

I'll be keeping my eye on the director and writer of this film.


I've been scouring the internet movie databases for a horror/thriller where there's like a killer/monster/whatever versus a band of bad@sses or hardened criminals. Only a few of these kind of movies seem to be made and they're really hard to find.

There was a terrible flick with Michael Biehn (spelling?) and his wife that was similar to this, and of course, there was Predators where a group of bad@sses were pitted against hunting space aliens but Predators sucked monkey butt.

Anyway, No One Lives was a little overly gory for my tastes (yeah, I'm a noob who would prefer cutaway scenes, so what?) and the movie (especially at the end) reeked of low-budgetness, but man was Luke Evans awesome and so was the premise.

I just wish there were more movies where the psycho-killer is challenged by other hardened criminal types as opposed to always preying on school girls or whatever.

Definitely recommended for anyone looking for something different in a horror movie that isn't a typical Cabin in the Woods trope (no offense to the original Evil Dead movies).

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Interesting topic.

I think it was mentioned earlier, but Versus by the same director as No One Lives does this trope well: gangsters vs escaped prisoners vs corrupt cops vs zombies vs supernatural entities! At the end there's even a nice little twist just adding to the confusion between what we interpret as "good" and "evil".

Not horror, but personally I think the evil vs evil trope has never been done better than in the original Get Carter from 1971. Saw it again recently and got impressed by how relentlessly bleak that movie is. Even in No One Lives there's at least signs of sympathetic characters (Amber, which was even pointed out by Emma). In Get Carter there's no one. Not a single one. Everyone's a backstabbing gangster, pornographer, drunk, killer, assassin or plain bastard. Carter himself is set up as this vigilante who's supposed to get revenge for his brother, but after a while you realize he's possibly the worst scumbag of them all. It's really impossible to sympathise with anyone in GC, which I guess was the entire point of the movie.

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I've heard rumblings about Get Carter (the original, not the Stallone remake) and I never bothered to check it out. But after your description I'm going to check that film out.

Also I forgot to add No Tears For Dead to the list. Recently saw that film and it's pretty intense... a sort of hitman vs gangsters kind of movie.

The shootouts in that movie are expertly filmed and they really pay respects to the weapon usage in that film (squibbing overload FTW!).

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Yeah, I want to check out the original GC now too. Also Versus.

No One Lives was terrific.

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