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Scissorfighter posted:Anyone else see The Revenant? Haven't seen any discussion on it but I can't recommend it enough. It's not exactly a horror movie even if it heavily features a zombie who consumes human blood. Every time I thought I knew where the movie was going it threw another curve ball into some weird and fantastic direction. It also has some really impressive special effects, considering the relatively tiny budget. I think it's one of those movies that's better the less you know about it so consider going in blind if you're interested. I watched it based on your review - it was awesome. The plot seemed to gloss over a few things like the Mexican gangbanger guy not coming back into the story after cutting up Joey, which I was sure he would (which would have been interesting) and it ended a little abruptly but I enjoyed it all the way through and it did a lot with what I assume was a low budget. Once it got over having the characters say 'gently caress' every other word it settled into a really fun groove and never let up. 8/10 [edit] Since it's a new page - what did people make of The Woman In Black? I just got back from seeing it and thought it was pretty poor. I never empathised with Daniel Radcliffe's character, the story never picked up and it kept kept kept falling back on peekaBOOs which got old really fast. 4/10 Silver Newt fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Feb 11, 2012 |
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User-Friendly posted:Sort-of question about We Need to Talk About Kevin: There was a drama called Beautiful Boy about the parents dealing with their son shooting up a school. I don't know why we're spoilering this.
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Feb 11, 2012 21:17
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Topper Harley posted:There was a drama called Beautiful Boy about the parents dealing with their son shooting up a school.
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Feb 11, 2012 21:19
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jeremy oval office posted:Because it's a plot point the film deliberately avoids revealing for a good half hour? Then again, IMDb spoils it in its plot summary, so... Every plot point, review, and description I've read about that movie discusses that aspect of it right up front. I haven't seen the movie yet, so I didn't know it was a "turning point" or key element of the flick. My bad.
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Feb 11, 2012 21:26
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When I saw the movie, I would have preferred not knowing it ahead of time as the first part is based around not knowing what happens. It wouldn't ruin the movie, but I figured it would be courteous.
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Feb 11, 2012 21:28
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User-Friendly posted:When I saw the movie, I would have preferred not knowing it ahead of time as the first part is based around not knowing what happens. It wouldn't ruin the movie, but I figured it would be courteous.
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Feb 11, 2012 21:41
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So I just finished watching Dario Argento's The Church through Netflix DVD and I'm having mixed feelings. It's the story of a gothic cathedral built on a pile of corpses of suspected witches in the 12th century, and now in the modern day a stupid librarian goes and breaks the seal and releases evil and yada yada. On the one hand the acting was really lousy and the story was fairly drawn out and nonsensical, yet on the other hand the movie had some great set pieces that I just cannot get out of my head afterward. This in particular kinda sticks with you.  Linked for end movie spoilers, gore and naked bodies
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Feb 11, 2012 22:18
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MrGreenShirt posted:This in particular kinda sticks with you. That looks exactly like something I've featured in a World of Darkness game.
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Feb 11, 2012 22:31
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Just watched Grave Encounters and it scared the living poo poo out of me. Am I a baby or was it like this for everyone else 
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Feb 11, 2012 23:49
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frozenpeas posted:Also Dellamorte Dellamore Such a great movie. I went into it without knowing about it being weird, expecting a cheesy gorefest in the style of Evil Dead, so the gradual shift into Lynchian territory took me completely by surprise. Easily one of my favorite horror movies.
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Feb 12, 2012 11:37
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Scariest thing in the movie is that lady's 90's style breast surgery! Brought back memories of, ahem, my youth.
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Feb 12, 2012 12:04
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Eox posted:Just watched Grave Encounters and it scared the living poo poo out of me. Am I a baby or was it like this for everyone else No, that movie's scary as poo poo. 
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Feb 12, 2012 17:52
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New upcoming Norwegian horror called Thale: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4XoSmUoZIY&feature=related (kinda nws). It's based on this bit of folklore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huldra
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Grave Encounters is just a bunch of jump scares and distorted CGI faces for shame horror thread FOR SHAMEAlhazred posted:New upcoming Norwegian horror called Thale: Just from the trailer I can tell this is going to be the kind of horror that starts off really good and then falls apart once the writer/director don't know where to take it. weekly font fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Feb 12, 2012 |
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Eox posted:Just watched Grave Encounters and it scared the living poo poo out of me. Am I a baby or was it like this for everyone else I'd had this movie queued up for a while and your post spurred me to watch it and I gotta say that, while it was pretty well acted and had a dreadful atmosphere, not even the jump scares spooked me. Maybe we've all just watched enough found footage movies to know the rhythm and timing of peekaBOOs. The ending was kind of horrifying but it was just the same thing we already saw in Session 9 v  vweekly font posted:Grave Encounters is just a bunch of jump scares and distorted CGI faces for shame horror thread FOR SHAME
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Feb 12, 2012 22:16
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frozenpeas posted:I think I was initially confused between this and Night of The Creeps, which I've also never seen. Night of the Creeps is a great film. It will THRILL you. I just got back from The Woman In Black, which I'd like to contextualize with old-school Hammer films to reach a score. I'll start at 5/10 and add pluses and minuses depending on how it fits in the canon (for fun - don't get your panties in a bunch over this): Gothic Horror - check! (+1) Cleavage - nowhere to be seen. (-2) Period Dress - yup. (+1) Evil woman in all black - obviously. (+1) Blood, buckets of blood (even if it looks more like paint) - none. (-2) Screaming women - lots. (+1) Mood lighting - yeah, but there's a distinct lack of coloured light. (0) Horse drawn carriage of doom - yup, complete with creepy horseman (+1) Remake - yup (most of the classic films were remakes, suck on that) (+1) Cushing/Lee/Gough/Reed - well that's a bit of a problem in almost every case. (0) Lead actor channeling Cushing a bit - YES! (+1) I think that leaves me with an 8/10. It's a good film and succeeds at what it tries to do: provide a fan friendly and PG13 creep-fest. In the context of other Hammer films, it actually fits quite nicely. Was I scared? Not really, but I've seen a huge number of horror films and I'm over the whole dumbass "this better scare me" attitude. I just expect some fun, which this film provided.
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Dead & Buried is on Netflix Instant and is a fun 80s movie that doesn't take too long to get going and has some good Stan Winston effects.
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Strontosaurus posted:I'd had this movie queued up for a while and your post spurred me to watch it and I gotta say that, while it was pretty well acted and had a dreadful atmosphere, not even the jump scares spooked me. Maybe we've all just watched enough found footage movies to know the rhythm and timing of peekaBOOs. The ending was kind of horrifying but it was just the same thing we already saw in Session 9 v Ah, I knew I had seen that ending before! Okay I totally jumped when they find the tongue and blood starts dripping on the floor and AHHHHHH. I also thought the first time they opened the doors and realized it was the doors from outside/the building was changing was very House of Leaves.
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Whispering Machines posted:Ah, I knew I had seen that ending before! Yeah we mentioned thsi I think in the Netflix thread? It's the closest thing we'll probably ever see to a movie of that.
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Feb 13, 2012 03:17
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weekly font posted:Yeah we mentioned thsi I think in the Netflix thread? It's the closest thing we'll probably ever see to a movie of that. Which is too bad, because a pretty straightforward presentation of The Navidson Record would be one of the few found-footage movies I'd be excited to see.
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Feb 13, 2012 16:06
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Craig Spradlin posted:Which is too bad, because a pretty straightforward presentation of The Navidson Record would be one of the few found-footage movies I'd be excited to see. Seriously. Even though a lot of its appeal is tied to the book format, nearly everything about that book is screaming for some kind of film interpretation. It'd be a hell of a project, though. Up there with Watchmen in terms of things that seem almost impossible to translate to film properly. Then again, we got a Watchmen movie and it wasn't godawful, so ...
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Toaster Beef posted:Seriously. Even though a lot of its (House of Leaves) appeal is tied to the book format, nearly everything about that book is screaming for some kind of film interpretation. It'd be a hell of a project, though. Up there with Watchmen in terms of things that seem almost impossible to translate to film properly. I think you could scrap all of the extraneous narrative around the footage of the house and the expeditions into it and just focus on the footage itself. In fact, the less narrative, the better. Just present the footage as filmed, with title cards introducing each one. That'd be scarier than anything else, I think, especially as expectations around found-footage films begin to crystallize. Just strip away all of the emerging conventions and freak people the gently caress out.
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Craig Spradlin posted:I think you could scrap all of the extraneous narrative around the footage of the house and the expeditions into it and just focus on the footage itself. In fact, the less narrative, the better. Just present the footage as filmed, with title cards introducing each one. That'd be scarier than anything else, I think, especially as expectations around found-footage films begin to crystallize. Just strip away all of the emerging conventions and freak people the gently caress out. What? No no no no. Put it in, put it all in. Make the movie just as convoluted as the book! "Missing" reels, narration from more than one person, always have the word "house" in blue (even if it's in the newspaper, a street sign, etc), subtitles for references and architectural terms, cut aways to the producers and director discussing the making of, splice in some softcore porn near the end, and in the bottom right corner have a tiny drawing of a red minotaur chasing a little man on a bicycle. God I love that book 
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The first time I read the book I was a bit overwhelmed but enjoyed it. Now if I go back to it I skip everything Johnny Truant related and just read the Navidson Record.
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weekly font posted:The first time I read the book I was a bit overwhelmed but enjoyed it. Now if I go back to it I skip everything Johnny Truant related and just read the Navidson Record. This is what I'm saying. That footage offered with minimal explanation would be scary as gently caress.
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weekly font posted:The first time I read the book I was a bit overwhelmed but enjoyed it. Now if I go back to it I skip everything Johnny Truant related and just read the Navidson Record. Yeah, I think the book would have been better off without the framing story, I kind of found that part to be pretty cliche.
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Can't deny that We Need To Talk About Kevin is a good movie, but drat was it unrelentingly unpleasant. I would have liked it more if we had a reason to be even a little sympathetic to Kevin, instead of him being a monster from year 1. It was also frustrating seeing the mother do nothing despite knowing he was a dangerous sociopath. I guess it is a success of the film that every time Kevin was in frame it made my skin crawl and my stomach revulse.
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Feb 14, 2012 12:12
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Just finished Grave Encounters. It was alright. Doesn't start getting interesting until all the weird poo poo starts, like all the anomalous temporal/spacial stuff with exits just leading to hallways and stairwells leading to blank walls. The more subtle stuff like that is done well, and there are some pretty good jump-scares as well. A little disappointing that it ended without any sort of closing statement from the producer guy at the beginning and it really stretches the plausibility of the whole found footage concept with some of the crazier poo poo in the third act, but I enjoyed it overall. The constant swearing was a bit much, though. I've got a pretty filthy mouth and even I thought they went overboard, practically every other word was gently caress. Horns fucked around with this message at 12:22 on Feb 14, 2012 |
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Scissorfighter posted:Can't deny that We Need To Talk About Kevin is a good movie, but drat was it unrelentingly unpleasant. I would have liked it more if we had a reason to be even a little sympathetic to Kevin, instead of him being a monster from year 1. It was also frustrating seeing the mother do nothing despite knowing he was a dangerous sociopath. I guess it is a success of the film that every time Kevin was in frame it made my skin crawl and my stomach revulse. The scene where Swinton reads to him during a fever is interesting, kind of a cessation in his psychopathy, a glimpse into possible what-ifs. I think there's actually a lot of confusion and despair glimpsed from Kevin throughout the movie (the restaurant scene is another that I recall). Dunno how far we want to stretch the definition of sympathy, but there's definitely more one dimension to him.
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weekly font posted:The first time I read the book I was a bit overwhelmed but enjoyed it. Now if I go back to it I skip everything Johnny Truant related and just read the Navidson Record. I agree with this. The film just needs to focus on The Navidson Record and there could be an amazing buildup as they discover the door and start measuring
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So I just read a couple spoilers on Human Centipede 2 and it seems pretty god drat terrible. Is it worth a watch or is it just trying to be as offensive as possible? I'm not easily offended at all but there's a reason I didn't watch Serbian Film and this seems to be nearly as bad with the whole baby crushing thing.
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spixxor posted:So I just read a couple spoilers on Human Centipede 2 and it seems pretty god drat terrible. Is it worth a watch or is it just trying to be as offensive as possible? I'm not easily offended at all but there's a reason I didn't watch Serbian Film and this seems to be nearly as bad with the whole baby crushing thing. If you can handle pitch-black deadpan humor, lots of poop and butt jokes, plenty of downtime between kills, and rather awkward rubbery special effects on the baby crushing scene then go right ahead. I think it was less lighthearted than the first HC but more lighthearted than Srpski Film. The scene you're referencing is very brief but is wrapped up in a montage of "ewww." It doesn't bring much new to the table beyond gleefully rolling about in its own filth, but I think it made a nice contrast to the first HC. There is a lot of ~so edgy~ button pushing in both movies, but I consider them to be gross horror-comedies more than anything else. I saw The Woman In Black last night and was pretty bored with the whole thing. The high points included the costumes and set dressing, the unintentionally hilarious room full of dancing toys, and the downer ending; the low points include cliché spooky children, overdone "face morphs into a CGI shitshow while suddenly screaming" jump scares, jump scares in general, and the fact that the dog must have decided to bail halfway through the movie because he just disappears when the ghosts start showing up. It still made for a great date movie because nothing beats laughing while all the teenagers in the theater scream in terror at every loud noise. InfiniteZero posted:Lead actor channeling Cushing a bit - YES! (+1) Yes, this! And Ciarán Hinds, who will always be Julius Caesar to me. 
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I thought the ghost makeup was really effective. I think it could have been a genuinely scary movie if they had just let the creepy ghost face sell the scares and done away with the huge "BE SCARED NOW PLEASE!" music cues every time it showed up. Yes, there's a face in the window, we see it. We don't need an orchestra to tell us to look at it. In fact, that huge noise you made just blew off all the tension you were building.
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Just got done watching The Devil's Rock and I liked the generous usage of real/non-cgi gore effects, although there was a bit of cgi in a couple spots, too. I thought it was a pretty good movie considering that there's only four actors and they were probably working with a limited budget. Also, demon summoning Nazis..
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I was thinking about watching either the halloween remake or the Friday the 13th remake soon. Are both worth checking out? I'm actually interested in the Halloween remake because I haven't seen a Rob Zombie movie before.
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foodfight posted:I was thinking about watching either the halloween remake or the Friday the 13th remake soon. Are both worth checking out? I'm actually interested in the Halloween remake because I haven't seen a Rob Zombie movie before. I know many hated it but I had fun with the F13 remake. The Halloween remake was OK but avoid the sequel. I found it so bland.
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foodfight posted:I was thinking about watching either the halloween remake or the Friday the 13th remake soon. Are both worth checking out? I'm actually interested in the Halloween remake because I haven't seen a Rob Zombie movie before. I've seen both and I think the Friday the 13th remake is better. It's more fun, at any rate. The Halloween remake isn't bad but it's definitely more serious in tone. I'd say both are worth a watch if you're a horror nut like me. Don't bother with the godawful Nightmare remake, though.
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Frankly, it's not hard at all to make the argument that the remake is the best film in the F13 franchise, so yeah, check it out. The Halloween remake has an excellent first half and a pretty lame second half, but I find it an interesting curiosity so I'd say check that out too. And yeah, don't watch the Nightmare remake, it's loving terrible.
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F13 is a great movie, probably the best of the horror remakes. Nightmare is horrible, it's probably the most boring horror film I've seen in some time. Halloween is alright (don't bother with the sequel), if you want some Rob Zombie at the peak his film making I'd recommend The Devil's Rejects over Halloween any day. You don't even have to watch House of 1000 Corpses to get what's going on.
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Has anyone here seen The Dead yet? It's a DTV zombie film set in Africa. It looks kind of cool, but I'm kind of skeptical about any zombie movie due to the oversaturation of that market.
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