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The power went out right before we left for the movie, and didn't come back on til this morning. So I saw this movie then came back to a pitch black apartment. Fun!  It was a lot of fun. I generally hate slashers and much prefer ghosts, but it was entertaining as hell. People were screaming and then laughing, and the 3-d was fun (even though I got a headache.) How did the killer get from inside the supermarket to outside the back alley in the space of like 3 seconds? Whispering Machines fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Jan 19, 2009 |
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What are peoples thoughts on The Strangers? A couple months ago I went home for a night and my mum had rented it from Blockbuster Online (she pretty much just rents all the new releases without really looking at the titles... we get some strange movies) and I didn't think it was too bad. Not incredible or anything, but I liked the two actors in it and the isolation creeped me out. I don't like being in an empty house/apartment because I like having some activity and noise around so the parts when Liv Tyler was alone and wondering when her boyfriend would get back and hearing noises were pretty creepy. I give it points for being the only movie that I have seen (there's probably others, I just haven't seen them) where, once she realized that something wasn't right, she slipped out of the slinky nighty and actually put some drat jeans and a tshirt on.
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InfiniteZero posted:You watch slasher films hoping to see realistic character motivation? Haha. Nah. I was just more surprised than anything that that happened.
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I think that the school gets its water from the contaminated resevoir from the first movie. And maybe Ryder Strong is in it.
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Feb 15, 2010 21:01
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[rec], [rec]2 is the same style but not as good/more gorey, and Noroi is creepy as well. That Human Centipede poster is super creepy- although I don't really see it as three separate people, more just one person with several attached torsos. Not that that would even work but thats just what I see v:)v I'm still torn over whether I want to see it. One one hand, it sounds really twisted and worth seeing just for being so drat unusual. On the other hand, its about people connected rear end to mouth
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Here's BD's review of Serbian Film. Honestly I was kind of expecting a GO SEE IT ITS TOTALLY INTENSE because some of (a lot of) the reviews are like that, but he's really, really adamant that no one go see it. In other news, I got [rec] for my birthday :3 That was an awful RE trailer. And where is she finding all these really videogamey-heroine-badass outfits like five years after the world has ended?
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Oh, I will be absolutely seeing the new Resident Evil movie. I enjoyed MBV3-D even though I'm not really a slasher fan, just because the gore was really silly in 3-D. I've seen all the other movies, I can't miss this one  I did like Oded Fehr though.I'm really interested in this Dead Set show, but I can't find it on Netflix  V thanks! Whispering Machines fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Apr 5, 2010 |
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What part are they claiming is medically accurate, that this could happen TO YOU and you could spend the rest of your life in a centipede chain? I don't know, I'm not a surgeon, maybe the way that they are grafted together is physically possible. But the second and third links would die from malnutrition, and then there's the issue of waste passing through the mouth with recently stitched wounds... If they're playing the medical accuracy bit for laughs then thats one thing, but if they're trying to convince people that this is possible that's just ridiculous. Anyway, new vampire movie this fall! No sparkling. They look weird and kind of sharky, sort of like the 30DoN ones do.
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Apr 11, 2010 23:26
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Well, that would suck. And what happens if they vomit, Mr Smarty Director?  Actually no I don't want to know the answer to these things.
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foodfight posted:Ring 3-D Ring 2 was absolutely awful. I'm usually a fan of J-Horror but did find the American remake of the Ring to be better than the original (and the only good remake), but Ring 2 was just a weird mess. Samara was scary enough in 2D, we don't need to bring that crawling out of the TV illusion to life  Slasherfan posted:laser surgery I don't know, now that we've got weird Serbian torture porn and movies of people being turned into centipedes anything they put in those movies just doesn't seem like it could be that shocking anymore, but there's something that really bothers a lot of people about touching eyeballs. I could see (no pun intended) this being really uncomfortable to watch, especially in 3D.
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I didn't get all the hype for TrT, although I did find it fairly enjoyable. The principal guy was great. REC2 did feature a lot of idiocy, and it wasn't as memorable as the first. A couple parts I do remember very vividly though were when the SWAT guy was crawling around in the vent and OH poo poo WHAT IS THAT AFHARHAEUIAHEUIGHG (I'm claustrophobic, and getting an MRI in an hour- fun! I'll have zombie visions now), and I seem to recall when the idiot teenager got infected/possessed that he was pretty drat creepy with the movements/drooling blood/etc.
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Does anyone have any recommendations for horror in Netflix's instant viewing? I've already seen a bunch of them, ie. Grace, Thirst, A Tale of Two Sisters, Orphanage, etc.
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Thanks guys. Scanners is where that gif of the exploding glasses guys head came from right? Seen Teeth, Quarantine, LtROI, The Signal, Ghost Ship (that whole... montage with the people dying and the electronic/trip hopy song was unusual), Nightmare on Elm Street, and a handful more. Don't know if they're still up on instant, but has anyone seen Deadgirl or Splinter? Splinter was more B-movie killer creature, Deadgirl was incredibly hosed up and icky. I really should give Audition a go, considering I had the ending spoiled for me ages ago, though I'm not really much for torture horror.
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There needs to be a vampire break. I'm excited about Stakeland because it's going to be gross violent vampires (more feral/rabid/I am Legend-y) and I enjoyed Daybreakers and True Blood, but it needs to go back into its coffin for a while (bad pun intended.) I think 2-3 new vampire shows have popped up in the past couple of years since the whole Twilight thing. I'd like to see more ghosts and more sort of disaster/plague stuff. There haven't been too many (American, at least) ghost movies the past 2 or 3 years have there? Paranormal Activity, The Unborn, The Uninvited are all I can think of off the top of my head.  No idea how the movie will turn out, but I LOVE this poster. The trailer looked like Emily Rose x REC.
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I posted JT in the villains thread and some goon decided to watch the movie based on that and now he hates me  I just watched Repo! The Genetic Opera because its horror opera and that might be interesting right? Maybe if I was 15 again. :/
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Oh God I just started watching Hard Candy and Ellen Page looks just like my sister in it This is so creepy.
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The Ring was loving awesome. Ringu was good and I love Hiroyuki Sanada and all that, but the remake was really good and none of the other remakes have come close in level of quality. The remake had a couple of strong actors (I like NW, and all of Brian Cox's scenes were great) and the makeup design was really well done. Most kids in movies are annoying and Aidan didn't really do much to disprove that, but he was still a creepy little fucker. Ring 2 was just awful and I pretend it doesn't exist. Visually, it was less subtle/"quiet" than the original but the imagery was really memorable- the suicide, the horse scene, HOLY poo poo THE CLOSET, etc etc. And then the remake train pulled in and things went downhill Sadly most of the remakes I've seen, regardless of whether I've seen the source material and can compare them, have been blah, with maybe a handful of memorable bits. Oh, and there's going to be a Ring 3D. While that was traumatic enough in 2D, I don't know if I could take 3D horror seriously- I definitely couldn't with MBV3D. Entertaining, yes, but not scary. Aaaand to backtrack a bit: I don't really know anything about Grand Guignol beyond what I just read about it, but how could a horror movie be described that way? Some elaborate/theatrical way of murdering someone?
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Whoa, opens her own throat? What? Like some kind of weird supernatural gaping void in her neck thing, or a gory Mirrors-esque ripping it open?
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Boring posted:id be interested to hear what the people who didnt find PA scary consider a 'scary' movie in their eyes. i saw both PA and BWP in the cinema (essential) and rank them both as some of the scariest movies i ever saw, and i've seen a fuckload of scary movies. Hrrmmm. 28 Days Later I would say was the scariest for me. I find plagues/pandemics to be fascinating, but very scary. The eerie silence and complete loneliness of walking through plague-ravaged streets, knowing everyone around you is dead or worse, having to worry if the few remaining survivors will want to help/join you or hurt you, and knowing that if your loved ones aren't dead, they could not even know or care who you are and just want to rip you to pieces. This is the happy stuff my nightmares are made of I really liked Carriers as well. The paranoia of disease, people you have known your whole life terrified of you because you are sick and then ultimately leaving you, etc. And I guess [rec] fits in the plague-y category, but throws in a few more things that I like in horror (meaning, that frighten me), such as zombies, claustrophobia, and possession! I think stuff like Alien and Cloverfield were cool, but they didn't scare me. I love finding movies that really, really scare me, so then I can make my friends watch them. I think it's interesting, learning what frightens some people while another thing doesn't bother them at all.
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Ooh, I forgot about Monsters. I love me some apocalyptic movies, so I'm excited for that and Stake Land. I haven't like any of Shyamalans recent movies, but this one does give me some hope, if only because I don't like elevators/closed spaces so even if the supernatural-ish stuff sucks I'll still be freaked out by the stuck/dark elevators bit! Trailer is here. Nice poster too. 
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Oh my God. I'm somewhere between being disgusted and giggling. That was disgusting. But incredibly absurd. Might have to see it just for the sheriff ripping a motor off of a boat and using it as a chainsaw
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After a movie I'm generally either happy or bored/indifferent, but I am actually annoyed after Last Exorcism. I think it had the potential to be really awesome, but it got hosed up, which is why I'm disappointed with it. I think that the "oh, she's just pregnant and traumatized" thing could have worked, but honestly, I think it would have to be a lot creepier and hosed up so as to not be a let down. Or even just a slightly lame twist like they find out she's pregnant, leave, then go back and discover she actually IS possessed would have been better than preachers in robes borrowed from The Village tossing demon babies made out of glowing gummy bears into bonfires. Or maybe it was the baby Heather from my userpic barfed up in Silent Hill 3, I don't know. And they killed a kitty  I did like the shots of them heading into the town, where everything was all decrepit and spooky, and I liked Cotton and Nell. And I am glad I'm not the only one who thought she looks like Michael Cera. Maybe it is him, and he finally broke out of his awkward teenage virgin shell and went for something completely different Edit: What was the name of the demon that possessed Nell/the cultists summoned? Was it an actual biblical demon name or something made up? I can't remember, I think it started with an "A". Whispering Machines fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Aug 30, 2010 |
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I'm still confused as to what the hell is gonna happen with Human Centipede 2. Josef Mengele Jr. is dead, and the remaining protagonist is either rotting in that house or was picked up when the cops/detectives realized they were missing two of their cops/detectives. Although if the first one was "100% medically accurate", I'm kind of terrified as to what will happen in a 100% medically INaccurate movie. Maybe they'll finally make this (nswf?)Eh. Well, at least The Black Swan looks good, and I'm hopeful because Aronofsky made it, but I get excited about movies and then they're almost never as good as I hope they will be
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I don't know if scariness necessarily has anything to do with rating- does it? Fear is very subjective- whether people are scared of ghosts, killers, zombies, monsters, aliens, whatever, but things like gore, torture, graphic murder etc are generally considered pretty disturbing overall. I don't know much about ratings so if anyone knows if "terror" is a qualifier for any specific rating then feel free to correct me. Had they shown more cursing and weird pervy possession stuff and maybe a more graphic birth or some demon baby-eatin' then maybe it would have been R, but overall it was tame. Really, really tame. I love horror specifically BECAUSE I love being scared and nothing did it for me. Don't get me wrong, I still think the original premise of a guy losing his faith and filming his "last exorcism" to prove its all a hoax is an awesome idea, and it was going well, but I think it even lost some of its steam even before the ending. I thought the anarchy A's and 666's and inverted pentagrams and poo poo scrawled all over the house was hilarious, it looked like a bunch of 14 year old angry kids vandalized their grandparents' house And altogether more horrifying than any of that is that Uwe Boll is making a movie about Auschwitz. There's a thread about it here and in GBS. Maybe he heard about Serbian Film and decided he just could NOT be outdone in the tasteless explotative film category. Whispering Machines fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Sep 17, 2010 |
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"A nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails." Are their nails somehow very important to the movie? That just seems strange to mention in a one line summary. The Devil's Backbone is up on Netflix Instant view, and I thought that was a really loving creepy movie. Spooky little black eyed ghost kid. Plus Eduardo Noriega is a total rear end in a top hat but still really hot.  In the same vein as The Orphanage and Pan's Labyrinth, it's creepy and weird AND sad!
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The Burrowers I liked it. It has Clancy Brown in it! And like 2-3 guys from Lost. I thought the monster design was kind of meh, but overall I enjoyed it. I wish the monsters looked more like mutated creepy humans than what they did
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a life less posted:Maybe my poor opinion of it puts me in the minority? Nah, I agree with you. And I fuckin love plague/epidemic themed movies and books. 28DL, Carriers, The Stand, etc. This should have been awesome because Sean Bean is awesome and the Black Death is a horrifying/fascinating topic, but it was just boring. I hope someday someone makes an awesome The Road-esque movie about the black plague. With more doctors and streets filled with wailing and terrible medicine and flagellants. I, uh, swear I'm really pretty normal in real life  The overall atmosphere in the marsh reminded me a lot of Sauna, but not as creepy and weird.
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I like Asian ghosts... when they're in Asian movies. I took a semester of Japanese art history and chose my topic last minute (something to do with the history of ghosts in Japan/stories that were translated to film, whatever I had poo poo to do and I got an A on the paper ) and it was fun reading up on the weird legends and poo poo that inspired some of the stories. I think they're called yurei. One was thrown down a well for breaking some plates, another one was poisoned (unsuccessfully) and then murdered and came back to haunt her husband, etc etc. I remember hating that toothfairy movie when it came out (save for the opening), but holy crap I like the Doug Jones design. Slasher, have you seen those movies or are you getting them and hoping to be surprised?
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I saw Lake Mungo last week. I liked it better than Paranormal because I didn't hate the protagonists. I'm still not entirely sure what the gently caress happened did she drown herself over guilt of what happened with the neighbors? what? but the one jump scene at the end with the footage did make me jump a bit. Speaking of, Paranormal Activity is now up on Netflix instant, as well as House of the Devil. I just watched the Human Centipede 2 teaser on some site where on the sidebar was a link about Serbian Film and another on how to make a human centipede halloween costume! I'm sure we'll be seeing lots of those along with Snooki and Buzz Lightyear and Lady Gaga.
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^ I was cackling pretty hard when he sat in the car sobbing over the picture of his failed rottweiler centipede. Well, there's really only so much an actor can do when their face is taped to anothers butt. Other than sob and wonder if they're being paid enough to star in A2M: The Movie. The reveal of "oh hey, a human centipede!" is pretty shocking, but then it's just kind of like watching a really boring and whiny mutant shuffle around for another hour while an insane German man yells at them. This would be kinda interesting though. Anyone know anything about Insidious/The Further? I like Patrick Wilson/Rose Byrne and weird creepy looking ghosty movies, so this looks like it could be interesting.
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Haha. I also saw La Horde. I love zombies as much as the next horror fan, and had been reading for a while various comments from people who thought the genre needed to be put to rest (pun not really intended) for a bit. After watching this movie I agreed. I wouldn't say it was bad, it was just... "meh." Characters weren't all that interesting, the action/fight scenese had some kind of weird speed effect on them, and it just didn't add anything unique or horrifying to the zombie subgenre. I watched Paranormal Activity again. I spent the entire movie wishing a swift death upon Micah because he was such a dickhead.
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Strontosaurus posted:So I saw Season of the Witch and it was really bad. Surprise! But was it like "Oh haha Nic Cage!" funny bad or like "Why did I even bother paying for this" bad?
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I really liked it! I was watching it in an empty house in my room, with big windows behind me that lead to a porch where PEOPLE IN MASKS COULD BE STANDING OH GOD, and it made me really uncomfortable, in a good scary movie way. I gave Liv bonus points for putting on a loving shirt and pants and not just wandering around the creepy house all alone in a nightie. When I saw the trailer in theatres, people screamed at the bit where the masked guy stands in the doorway (first screenshot jeremy posted). The trailer. And it was before a horror movie too, so it's not like they showed it before some rom-com. It was kind of amusing, but its a very creepy image. Frozen is up on Netflix, and I thought it was pretty good. I cringed when the girl lifted her hand off of the safety bar and half the skin was torn off of her palms D:
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Just watched Buried. I'm mildly claustrophobic, mainly in crowds in confined spaces, and I think he got the anxiety/claustrophobia/frustration down well. I'm a sucker for happy endings (unless the characters a dick. I dunno, I guess after people have to deal with ghosts or zombies or demons or torture or whatever I want them to survive) so I was like awww man That said, I liked it. I kept thinking "how could it get worse than being buried in a box under sand in the desert in a hostile country" and then murdering friends, loving cobras crawling down your pant legs, and cave ins. gently caress. Sorry. Super tired. Whispering Machines fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Feb 3, 2011 |
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....that is an actual movie? HAH ......is it black? Well, points for an original villain.
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Awww, I would never be that mean to Blinky He's like a, erm, special version of Wall-E! That was fantastic. I knew what was coming, but I didn't know HOW it would happen. As for a terrible movie, Paranormal Activity 2. I can't help it, I just need to watch sequels to movies. It was even more boring than the first.
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I didn't like the movie, but I thought they did a fantastic job with the makeup, choreography and set. SH3 was the first game I played, so I'll probably end up seeing the movie, but I don't have high hopes for it. Especially if its 3d. Fuckin' 3d.
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I really want to see Insidious. I've learned to be hesitantly hopefully about 99% of horror movies these days, but I really like Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne so I'm at least a bit optimistic I read the wikipedia summary of Serbian Film because while I have no desire to ever see it (although I was subjected to some gifs on tumblr, ugh) I was curious what happened. What the gently caress? What the gently caress? I understand Serbia has had some pretty hosed up times but ugh. I want to scrub my brain with some steel wool. Want to see: Atrocious Another found footage movie. I hated the Paranormal Activity movies, but loved REC and liked REC2 and Last Exorcism, so I'm looking forward to this. The screenshot they use makes it look like they found a cross eyed ghost (I think its just the brother holding his hand over the sisters mouth to keep her quiet)Stake Land I just finished this epically huge book called The Passage by Justin Cronin, about life in the US after a vampire plague, so I'm looking forward to this. I think it was supposed to be released last fall, but I don't remember. Hurrah for scary gross vampires! Super 8 Aliens?
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I'm seeing Insidious tomorrow! Alone. Can't get a hold of my friend. When I saw the trailer for Insidious I was positive that the demon thingy behind Patrick Wilson was Darth Maul
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I saw Insidious with a couple of friends and we really liked it. It was certainly very strange, with the Red Faced Man in his little room sharpening his nails, and the smiley faced people (what was the significance of the twins/family?. Lots of WHAT THE gently caress moments. It was really loud, and I normally hate that but I liked it in this movie.
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