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Posted by Ryan Adams On August - 13 - 2008

When stalked in the woods by shadowy maniacs, do NOT hide under the only street light.

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    14 Responses for "AD Safety Tip"

    1. Kristopher Tapley August 13th, 2008 at 12:16 pm 1

      Brilliant.

    2. Kholby August 13th, 2008 at 12:30 pm 2

      I love the Tag Ryan…ahhh humour!

    3. RichardA August 13th, 2008 at 1:22 pm 3

      True. Also, don’t do the basement.

      Speaking of thrillers, I cannot wait to see Tell No One. They loved it in France! I’m hoping I’d love it too. Thrillers are so … thrilling?

    4. noor August 13th, 2008 at 1:40 pm 4

      RichardA you will love Tell No One, it is one of the best thrillers I have ever seen.

      Eden Lake seems to have taken the concept from the French thriller Them (which was very terrifying), which was loosely based on a real story.

    5. Dorothy Porker August 13th, 2008 at 1:59 pm 5

      Man, that’s awesome. Much better tag line than the one on the poster.

    6. Ryan Adams August 13th, 2008 at 3:41 pm 6

      Alternate tag line:

      Momma told her if she left the house wearing that dress she’d be asking for trouble.

    7. kholby August 13th, 2008 at 3:43 pm 7

      the tagline reminds me of funny games… Man that movie angered me. All the super long unending completely still camera scenes. I had seen other hanake movies… Well, cache, so I sort of new what to expect stylistically, but it was infuriating… That being said I sort of kinda liked it.

    8. McAllister August 13th, 2008 at 3:46 pm 8

      She should probably check for ticks.

    9. RichardA August 13th, 2008 at 6:02 pm 9

      The print on her dress? Moss camouflage. I hope it works.

    10. RRA skinny dipped in Eden Lake August 13th, 2008 at 10:20 pm 10

      Off topic, but I rented THE RUINS, and I tell ya I’m goddamn sick and tired of Hollywood Horror continuously letting me down like my Miami Dolphins yearly.

      I mean what pisses me off even more about RUINS is that like last year’s 30 DAYS OF NIGHT, there is a good movie to be made from this material, but Jesus Titty Fucking Cadillac-Driving Christ, they’re both directed by unconfident uninspired hacks.

      Seriously, imagine either shot by say John Carpenter in the 80s, as both books seem suited for. Both would have been surely good, right?

      But alas, Hollywood Horror strikes out again, and their last movie that intrigued me was Gore Verbinski’s RINGU remake….

      They have some serious problems.

    11. rm August 14th, 2008 at 1:20 am 11

      Veribinski’s Ring was horrible. It misunderstood everything that made the original a masterpiece. Everything they changed, they changed for the worse.

      But you can thank Ehren Krueger for that. Every script he ever wrote has been horrible. Yet, they keep letting him write them… It’s a joke.

      The Ring was terrifying because of all the answers it didn’t give, because you never saw Sadako’s face, because a real girl came out of the TV. In the American version, they flaunt her face, they try to answer everything AND they let a CG woman crawl out of the TV in broad daylight in a big, open studio (that scene was one of the creepiest scenes ever put on film in the original because it took place in a small appartment AT NIGHT with the young girl herself actually crawling out of the TV – WHAT’S UP WITH THAT CG WOMAN IN BROAD DAYLIGHT THAT SHOWS HER ROTTEN FACE!!!?)

      Bad, bad, bad… And don’t get me started on the sequel…

    12. RRA paid $300 for his college RING August 14th, 2008 at 2:40 pm 12

      rm, yeah I do agree with you that RINGU is a superior version, and I think most viewers who’ve seen both versions would agree with you….

      But I think there is some merit to Verbinski’s remake, even if it may have suffered for trying to make a giant-ass mystery out of nothing.

      Plus, that CGI climax was hokey, and I don’t mean “hokey 50s monster movie good” but “just fucking hokey.”

      But that one shot in the closet in the remake did make me jump, and horror movies don’t make me jump in nature. So I give it credit there.

      So yeah, I’m with rm: If you have to see one version of RINGU, see the goddamn original.

    13. Daniel August 14th, 2008 at 4:05 pm 13

      Re noor and the French movie “Them”:
      That’s exactly what was said about the recent movie “The Strangers” (Which, incidentally, wasn’t bad for a Hollywood horror movie, but wasn’t all that good either; worth seeing, though). How many times are we going to see the same concept?

      One thing I did recently that I should never, ever, EVER have done to myself is rent “Shutter.” Why did I do it? I cannot say. Needless to say it was just as bad, if not worse than, all the other recent remakes of asian horror movies. I did think “The Ring” had some merits, enough for me to enjoy it. It wasn’t all that bad. The first “Grudge” movie also wasn’t as bad as I assumed it would be, though nowhere near the original “Ju-on” movies. Though, if you want to learn how to climax a horror movie, The Grude is the one to see.

      Whatever happened to horror movies that are actually scary and of good (award-worthy) quality at the same time like The Exorcist, The Shining or Psycho?

    14. rm August 14th, 2008 at 6:25 pm 14

      I actually think the original Ringu is up there with Psycho, The Exorcist and The Shining… Best horror movie of the last two decades.


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      Star Trek
      District 9
      Bright Star
      Where the Wild Things Are
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      Best Actor
      Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
      Colin Firth, A Single Man
      George Clooney, Up in the Air
      Matt Damon, The Informant!
      Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
      Viggo Mortensen, The Road
      Ben Foster, The Messenger
      Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man
      Michael Sheen, The Damned United

      Best Actress
      Gabby Sidibe, Precious
      Carey Mulligan, An Education
      Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
      Abbie Cornish, Bright Star
      Helen Mirren, The Last Station
      Michelle Monaghan, Trucker

      Best Supporting Actor
      Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
      Alfred Molina, An Education
      Stanley Tucci, Julie & Julia
      Peter Sarsgaard, An Education
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      Peter Capaldi, In the Loop
      Zach Galifianakis, The Hangover
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      Mo'Nique,Precious
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      Julianne Moore, A Single Man
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      Jason Reitman, Up in the Air
      Lee Daniels, Precious
      Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
      Lone Scherfig, An Education
      Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
      Joel and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man
      Neill Blomkamp, District 9
      Spike Jonze, Where the Wild Things Are
      Tom Ford, A Single Man
      Jane Campion, Bright Star

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      Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker
      Joel and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man
      Jane Campion, Bright Star
      Quentin Tarantino,Inglourious Basterds
      Michael Haneke,White Ribbon
      Bob Peterson, Pete Docter,Up
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      Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air
      Nick Hornby, An Education
      Spike Jonze, Dave Eggars, Where the Wild Things Are
      Peter Morgan, The Damned United
      Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
      Scott Burns, The Informant!
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      Chris Innis, Bob Murawski, The Hurt Locker
      Sally Menke, Inglourious Basterds
      Dana E. Glauberman,, Up in the Air
      Joel and Ethan Coen,, A Serious Man

      Best Cinematography
      Greig Fraser,Bright Star
      Robert Richardson,Inglourious Basterds
      Roger Deakins, A Serious Man
      Christian Berger, White Ribbon
      Bruno Delbonnel,Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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      Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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      The Hurt Locker
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      Best Sound Editing

      District 9
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      Jany Temime,Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
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      Mary Zophre, A Serious Man
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      White Wedding, South Africa
      A Prophet, France
      Dawson, Isla 10, Chile
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      Best Song

      Best Live Action Short

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      China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
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