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Anyone have any recommendations on horror films? I've watched plenty on Netflix and I feel like I've gone dry on streamable horror films that are enjoyable to watch. Not necessarily good films, but solid films that aren't too low-budget or campy. Speaking of which, check out Doghouse.
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| # ¿ Dec 15, 2011 06:44 |
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| # ¿ May 19, 2013 23:55 |
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MrGreenShirt posted:Give Dagon a try. It's a surprisingly good adaptation of The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Really, I thought it was going to be just another horrible low-budget horror flick and I walked away pleasantly surprised. I've seen it and you're absolutely right; the beginning had some low-budget CGI that almost turned me away from it but I'm glad I stuck with it. Awesome film. Also, more great horror, The Ward a newer John Carpenter film about a girl admitted to an insane asylum for women who comes to learn about a malicious ghost that starts messing with them. Seems like the typical set-up but it's a good watch.
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| # ¿ Dec 21, 2011 15:10 |
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I don't know if this was a recent addition but check out Senna, it's a film about F1 racing driver Ayrton Senna's life. The whole thing is composed of archival footage and edited beautifully. If you're not into F1 it's still an amazing watch because of Senna was an amazing and humble person and his life is a touching story in itself. Also on the horror front, watch Dead and Buried. It's from the 80s, about a small town where people are getting murdered and come back as residents of the town. The local sheriff investigates and tries figuring out what the gently caress is up. It's not scary but has good atmosphere and the story is decent.
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| # ¿ Jan 2, 2012 04:56 |
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Captain Stinkybutt posted:Agreed. I was incredibly underwhelmed with it. I also got pretty confused when I had my horror buff friends arguing me on it and trying to insist that it was good. It wasn't the worst thing I've ever watched but it was incredibly mediocre. I'm surprised a bunch of people didn't like it on here, I think it's enjoyable for people who just watch a lot of horror because most of it tends to be below mediocrity and I found The Ward to at least be enjoyable. Nothing great, but definitely fun to watch. Anyway, another horror/thriller suggestion, The Perfect Host. A guy commits a bank job and heads to a suburban neighborhood to try and hide away. He stumbles upon a bachelor and fools him into thinking he's a friend of a friend and let's him into the house. Said resident, played by David Hyde Pierce (of Frasier fame) is a tiny bit batshit and things take some strange twists. Also, the old Sean Connery James Bond films are up again for instant watch but I tried watching Diamonds are Forever and the framerate is absolutely loving horrid. So bad I couldn't keep watching because it was headache inducing. I remember the same thing happening with another old Bond film and I don't know what it is about them. I'm pretty sure the films aren't supposed to be like that, right?
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| # ¿ Jan 3, 2012 20:42 |
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TheBigAristotle posted:On the advice of my brother I checked out The Troll Hunter and I really enjoyed it. Going to second this, great film. If you're into shows like Survivorman and Man vs. Wild, check out Dual Survival. The first season is up so far and it's pretty good; it stars a former military Sniper, Dave, who's kinda gung-ho but can hunt well and his inverse, Cody, who's a ecofriendly survivalist built like a god drat linebacker and can build great shelters. They make a pretty good team and interesting watch.
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| # ¿ Jan 13, 2012 08:21 |
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MAJOR STRYkER posted:Awesome, I've heard nothing but good things about this show but I checked the other day and it wasn't on there. It's up for me? Are you not in the US? That could be the issue.
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| # ¿ Jan 17, 2012 22:33 |
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FizzyJuffoWup posted:Two words, Gentlemen. Street Sharks. No loving way. Hell yes. Also, Reboot is up. Don't know if that's old news or not but I just saw it.
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| # ¿ Jan 28, 2012 15:37 |
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If you're in the mood for a solid horror film, check out Atrocious, a Spanish film about two siblings that go to a vacation home with their parents. The house has a sort of hedgemaze/tree maze on the property that's chained off, the kids are inquisitive and recently heard a horror story about a ghost of a woman that'll lead those lost in the maze out so they go and check it out. They also film everything, so the whole film is from the view point of their camera, "home-movie" style. There's some great tension throughout but sometimes it's so dark it's impossible to see what the hell is going on but that's not too frequent.
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| # ¿ Feb 7, 2012 10:29 |
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User-Friendly posted:So, I went in search of some good documentaries and stumbled upon A Complete History of My Sexual Failures, which is about a guy who tries to interview all his ex-girlfriends about why they dumped him. They pretty much all just poo poo on his personality, and it really shows why in a lot of his talking heads. So this is Goon: The Movie?
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| # ¿ Feb 16, 2012 18:39 |
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The Dregs posted:I just tried watching High School of the Dead and it made me realize that never getting into anime was a good decision. It would actually be a decent horror show if every scene didn't have an obligatory teen girl upskirt shot or bouncing set of tits. Every damned scene. Well, that's the point. It's a fan service anime, 100%.
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| # ¿ Feb 29, 2012 09:23 |
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SKEET SKEET posted:Harry Brown is pretty awesome. I am a HUGE Michael Caine fan though, so I may be biased, but he is pretty great in this one. Going to second this, awesome film. And the original Italian Job is up for viewing for more Michael Caine goodness, it's been up for a while but drat if it doesn't have a sweet chase through Italy.
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| # ¿ Mar 3, 2012 10:33 |
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The Wild Hunt is a strange film, it's about a guy who's girlfriend is getting tired of the situation and just wants out, so she breaks up with him and stays with her LARPing community. His brother is a major player among the LARPers but he doesn't do it himself, yet he somewhat has to in order to enter and find her. At first the film feels like a drama due to the situation and cinematography, but it also has some funny dialogue with some of the characters, along with the "referees" who state the rules during battle and such make it seem a bit goofy (because hey, it's LARPing). But then it starts turning to a pretty dark film and by the end you kinda go "how the gently caress did I get here?" It's a bit slow in the beginning but it's a loving awesome film. Watch this poo poo.
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| # ¿ Mar 4, 2012 17:26 |
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Ccs posted:What in the what. I just watched this movie on your recommendation and goddamn is the last 15 minutes f-ed up. There's a building sense of unease in the movie, but it really crests near the end. It's loving fantastic, I'm making all my friends watch this now.
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| # ¿ Mar 5, 2012 09:28 |
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Season 5 of Man vs. Wild is up.
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| # ¿ Mar 5, 2012 13:21 |
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Eh, I didn't like the Host much and I tend to like the shittiest of Monster flicks. But I think it was also 2~ hours and just really dragged on and never picked up enough for me.
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| # ¿ Mar 6, 2012 04:49 |
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:I watched the most recent show available on Netflix and was horrified to discover that this dude is still doing that single act that he came up with in the early nineties. He's obviously a talented performer; I wish he'd have spent the last two decades coming up with new material. I said the same thing when I watched this, what I really want to find is his Lounge Lizards set I saw on Comedy Central once, he had some different material and one bit I really liked with a knife that he'd cut himself with to freak the audience out and it looked disturbingly real. I can't find that special anywhere. Just watched Darkon, meh, the production quality was pretty mediocre and some of the people in the game have serious god drat issues. It's a good insight into LARPing but it really just makes it look goofy and laughable.
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| # ¿ Mar 6, 2012 16:43 |
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cornface posted:Yes, those are all the things that make the movie good. I was expecting the film to play out like the beginning sequence which was shot to look like a film. That would have been neat, keep all of the roleplaying stuff well filmed and movie-esque and make the interviews look like the documentary that it actually is. It's the lovely production of the film that kills it for me the most, everything is terribly shot.
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| # ¿ Mar 6, 2012 18:10 |
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Quick question; when you're viewing a season of a series each episode has a progress bar (if you've watched them), sometimes the progress bar is red instead of gray, is there a reason behind this?
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| # ¿ Mar 12, 2012 01:21 |
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That's what I thought it was too, but all of the episodes with gray bars aren't fully watched because I stopped at the start of the credits, same goes for the episode with the red bar. 
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| # ¿ Mar 12, 2012 05:07 |
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Lincoln`s Wax posted:I looked through them to see if it was on Netflix and it's not- not a big shocker because he talks a lot about his Dirty Jobs show but it's on the actual TED website. Is it the same for the Adam Savage talk? I can't find that one either.
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| # ¿ Apr 10, 2012 01:11 |
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Inzombiac posted:Based on this thread, I watched Flash Point (Not the TV show, Flashpoint) and I was pretty underwhelmed. It wasn't until about half-way through the movie that I had any idea what was going on BUT the last fight scene was pretty stellar. Watched it due to the .gif thread last night, eh, some good action but other than that a pretty dull movie with a terrible plot.
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| # ¿ Apr 23, 2012 09:04 |
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Sizzler Manager posted:If you're watching a Donnie Yen movie for the plot, you're doing it wrong. Well when more than half the film is dialogue trying to sell you on any sort of plot it's a tad hard to ignore. They should really just make films like these hour long action scenes with a little plot as possible, like "Cop is chasing a dude through a building" and the action just takes off from there. No bullshit development or anything, just rear end kicking the whole way through. Saint Sputnik posted:Rammbock, a zombie flick that mostly takes place around one apartment building. Stars an atypical hero and it's more 28 Days Later than Dawn of the Dead. I don't think they kill a single zombie in the whole film. Going to second this, it's a drat fine film about two strangers trying to survive in a building and escape safely.
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| # ¿ Apr 23, 2012 22:14 |
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I'm watching it right now and it's pretty good, it's basically a love letter to all Star Wars fans that hate what Lucas after the original trilogy.
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| # ¿ May 7, 2012 21:05 |
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The jacket is ugly as loving poo poo, but the movie is amazing. Watch it.
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| # ¿ May 18, 2012 23:55 |
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raven77 posted:I didn't see Don't Be Afraid of the Dark mentioned yet. It was ok, but kind of disappointing when you see "them" (trying to avoid spoilers, referring to what hangs out "in the dark"). I didn't feel like it was a waste of an hour and a half, but I am glad I didn't spend money on it in the theater. Going to agree on both of these accounts. The Caller, pretty decent horror/thriller about a woman that moves into an apartment and starts getting pestering phone calls from an old woman looking for someone. Eventually the old woman starts getting creepy and forceful. It's not the greatest horror film but it's pretty well written and a really fun watch.
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| # ¿ May 19, 2012 21:09 |
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El Diente posted:A bunch of Friday the 13th movies are up. Pretty much 1 thru 9 except 5 for some reason. The sixth and seventh installments are easily my favorites and are worth a watch if you like campy 80's slasher flicks. And there goes my day tomorrow.
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| # ¿ Jul 20, 2012 08:37 |
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Just finished up The Hunter, and god drat it's really good. Willem Dafoe is a hunter/tracker sent to Tazmania to find the now extinct Tasmanian Tiger, for a company wanting it's organs and such for study. The plot makes it sound like a bad sci-fi or action film, but it's a really good drama film.
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| # ¿ Aug 20, 2012 07:14 |
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It's subbed on my end. 
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| # ¿ Aug 30, 2012 05:22 |
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No, you got it, it's just horrible.
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| # ¿ Oct 1, 2012 02:21 |
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| # ¿ May 19, 2013 23:55 |
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Volume posted:Really? I rather enjoyed the movie. I thought it did a great job of building tension and paranoia. When every one else started going crazy I was genuinely scared and in awe. It doesn't explain anything which is a downside to it but I think everything else was just great. It starts off pretty good and the photography is nice, but I stopped really caring when the Corridor literally turns out to be some "box of energy" from someone's first rendering project and the plot just kinda goes to poo poo after that. I just completely lost interest a little bit in.
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| # ¿ Oct 3, 2012 06:22 |
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