Buffyesque horror movies

[Dingleberry]

Shaun of the Dead

 

[trancejeremy]

Vampire Effect.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0351887/

Not great, but decent. And the 2 stars are cute.

 

[takyris]

Van Helsing was atrocious. I'd be happy to get into detailed reasons why it was atrocious, but for my money, if you liked Buffy and Angel, you would likely be disappointed in Van Helsing -- but then, that puts my reasons for liking Whedon's stuff onto your reasons. So... what are your reasons?

If you want fight scenes with vampires and werewolves, and that's your only standard of judgment, then yeah, VH has got that going. So do the Blade movies, for that matter. So does Captain Kronos, Vampire Slayer. None of which I recommend. (Okay, the first Blade movie. Sure.)

If it's attitude and a modern approach to supernatural terror, why not go with Army of Darkness or the Evil Dead movies? Or Vampries, based on the back cover of the book Vampire$ by John Steakley? (John Carpenter's Vampires, maybe? Dunno. It has a few Sci-Fi channel sequels, I think, and doesn't even remotely relate to the book anymore.)

If it's moodiness and vampires, you could see if Forever Knight is available on DVD, although I never thought it lived up to the original NIck Knight TV-movie the series was based on.

If it's playful riffs on the popular tropes of SF/F and a healthy dose of screwing over your hero, you could try Farscape.

If it's just humorous SF/F writing, you could try Wonderfalls, which I think is out on DVD now. (?)

If it's the teen-drama-thriller angle, you could try The Faculty, in which a hobbit faces off against Dark Phoenix and the T-1000, or, when it comes out (in the fall), the DVD-season-set of Veronica Mars, which gets a lot of "people who like Buffy like this as well" crossover even though it's not a genre show per se (well, it's a mystery show and not a procedural, which makes it genre in my book, but primarily I like it because it also has good fast writing).

 

[Morpheus]

Of course, there's Tru Calling with Eliza Dushku in it. Not too bad...

 

[warlord]

Well since you asked I'll you why I like Buffy/Angel

1. Pimped out plotlines
2. a certain angsty vampire(coolest guy ever)
3. Hottest cast EVAR!!!
4. Faith(one of the best written characters I've seen)
5. It always keeps you guessing(Like anyone expected Dawn to shoiw up.)
6. Whole supernatural thing
7. Michelle Trachtenberg(She's HOT!! at least in seasons 6 & 7)

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

In any case have you ever seen Army of Darkness or Evil Dead 2? It's the model for Buffy and Angel. Also check out any of the NIght of the living dead series. If you like the writing style of Buffy and Angel, well you probably already know to check out Firefly.

Do you mean "Return of the Living Dead" movies? Those are more comedic the ones with sequels. I remember the 2nd one, with

Spoiler

the screwdriver in the ear (I think).....or maybe it was a nail gun to the forehead

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And agreed on Shaun of the Dead.

 

[takyris]

Well since you asked I'll you why I like Buffy/Angel

1. Pimped out plotlines
2. a certain angsty vampire(coolest guy ever)
3. Hottest cast EVAR!!!
4. Faith(one of the best written characters I've seen)
5. It always keeps you guessing(Like anyone expected Dawn to shoiw up.)
6. Whole supernatural thing
7. Michelle Trachtenberg(She's HOT!! at least in seasons 6 & 7)

Okay, yeah, Van Helsing should actually work for you, then.

Underworld, too, although they're not as hot.

 

[ShaggySpellsword]

Other than a total lack of a pimped put plotline, our characters as well written as Faith.

 

[warlord]

Originally posted by takyris

Okay, yeah, Van Helsing should actually work for you, then.

Interesting that you say that because it has none of the reasons I like Buffy in it. There are no plotlines or angsty vampires. It most certainly didn't keep me guessing. And last time I checked neither characters as well written as Faith or Michelle Trachtenberg was in that movie.

But I did actually like Underworld up until that stupid werewolf/vampire hybrid.

 

[takyris]

Interesting that you say that because it has none of the reasons I like Buffy in it. There are no plotlines or angsty vampires. It most certainly didn't keep me guessing. And last time I checked neither characters as well written as Faith or Michelle Trachtenberg was in that movie.

But I did actually like Underworld up until that stupid werewolf/vampire hybrid.

Heh. While I didn't like Van Helsing except as MST3k fodder, it did have a fairly pimped-out plotline -- Dracula using Frankenstein's body as a catalyst to produce a legion of undead children, with a guy who hates supernatural monsters slowly turning into a werewolf while trying to stop Dracula and the woman he likes angry at him because he killed her brother after he turned into a werewolf? C'mon. It's not a good plot, but it's pimped out enough to walk around in a pink fur coat and enormous floppy hat.

And c'mon, the Dracster was totally angsty. The guy has three (oops, two, oops, one) wives, and they're all hanging around wailing because they can't have kids and dressed like extras in a Meatloaf video. If I had that kind of frustration going on, I'd be pretty angsty myself.

No argument about badly written characters, although that was just a subset of "badly written movie", right there next to "woman slams headfirst into wall and facefirst into stone column and gets blasted across the room by vampire chick with no ill effects, but dies when knocked onto a big plush couch."