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Kvlt! posted:You're wrong because mimic kicks rear end and is dope as gently caress. LMAO-ing at this poser. I like Mimic but I can't love it just because of how bad it got hosed by the studio. Even the DC, from what I gather, is more of an Alien 3-ish "as close as possible" approximation of GDT's vision than the real deal.
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I was disappointed Shudder had the theatrical version. Don’t streaming services sometimes get alternate cuts? I swear the DC of Kingdom of Heaven has cropped up on Netflix. Just like with Lord of Illusions I can’t imagine a recut would make me want to own Mimic but I would be interested in seeing if it’s appreciably better. Now I feel compelled to dig out my copy of Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities and see what he had to say about it.
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Dec 17, 2018 04:08
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Lake Mungo was creepy up until THAT scene and then I was like  Good watch.
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Dec 17, 2018 05:57
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that scene is arguably the single freakiest moment in horror its NUTS, so well-done
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Dec 17, 2018 05:59
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The best part is even with all the hype and knowledge that there's a big scene, there was no way to see it coming while watching. Genuinely scary as gently caress.
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Dec 17, 2018 06:01
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You're not making a strong case here. Kvlt! posted:that scene is arguably the single freakiest moment in horror its NUTS, so well-done Hell yeah.
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Dec 17, 2018 06:39
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What scene from Lake Mungo are we talking about? I saw it a while back but I don’t remember anything from it that I’d consider That Scene.
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Dec 17, 2018 07:05
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Today I sat through Savageland and Cute Little Buggers. As much as the thread's talked about how good Savageland was, it really was that drat good. The scenes where you see the aftermath at the preschool hit me pretty hard, so I'm not sure where this film's going to be on the rewatchability scale unless I skip that bit. Cute Little Buggers...well, I went in expecting something cheesy campy but drat it felt like they didn't have the confidence to stick with a tangent and roll with it. The storyline has potential but it just came across like they weren't sure if they were going the serious dryness like Hot Fuzz or something not taking itself seriously at all. The CGI was all over the place with some bits looking good, some looking like it was an amateur at the keyboard, and others looking like it was swiped from one of those high end computer animation animal films. I don't regret sitting through it but doubt I'll sit through it again.
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Dec 17, 2018 08:00
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Doctor Faustine posted:What scene from Lake Mungo are we talking about? I saw it a while back but I don’t remember anything from it that I’d consider That Scene. That's surprising. It's not a moment easily forgotten. It's when she's confronted by her dead self through her cell phone camera.
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Dec 17, 2018 11:20
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Doctor Faustine posted:What scene from Lake Mungo are we talking about? I saw it a while back but I don’t remember anything from it that I’d consider That Scene. Dissapointed Owl posted:That's surprising. It's not a moment easily forgotten. I’m going to have to commiserate with Doctor Faustine on this one. I liked Lake Mungo well enough but it didn’t make a huge impression on me, not like it did to a lot of other people in this thread anyway.
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Dec 17, 2018 13:53
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I keep trying to start Lake Mungo but it's so slow for the first bit and I watch something else. I don't know why it's like that. I don't mind slow-burn horror at all but I just can't get into the Mungo.
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Dec 17, 2018 14:47
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Drunkboxer posted:I’m going to have to commiserate with Doctor Faustine on this one. I liked Lake Mungo well enough but it didn’t make a huge impression on me, not like it did to a lot of other people in this thread anyway. Ditto. Everytime it's brought up, I struggle to remember what scene everybody talks about.
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Hollismason posted:The House That Jack Built is overrated. I watched it last night. It was ok. I will say that I don't think the talk about the disturbing content is overrated, I mean Von Trier definitely is willing to go places that most others aren't. But other than that, as a movie, there's just not a whole lot there. And I actually think that's part of the point, Dillon is portraying an empty husk of a person and you really don't gain any real understanding of him by the end of the film. He has these compulsions and he doesn't fight them or really even care to examine them. Bruno Ganz is in the movie I guess to serve that purpose, to challenge Jack's perception of himself, but that part never really lands imo. It's an excellent performance by Dillon though, probably worth watching just for him. The nothingness is definitely impressive just in how consistent he is with it, although I suppose you could argue it's a somewhat shallowly written character. A bit one-note, but he does it well.
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Kvlt! posted:that scene is arguably the single freakiest moment in horror its NUTS, so well-done See this is why I don't disagree with you on much.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:You're not making a strong case here. People in lovely monkey suits clearly jumping instead of tumbling down in bad cgi-lava.
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Basebf555 posted:It was ok. I will say that I don't think the talk about the disturbing content is overrated, I mean Von Trier definitely is willing to go places that most others aren't. But other than that, as a movie, there's just not a whole lot there. And I actually think that's part of the point, Dillon is portraying an empty husk of a person and you really don't gain any real understanding of him by the end of the film. He has these compulsions and he doesn't fight them or really even care to examine them. Bruno Ganz is in the movie I guess to serve that purpose, to challenge Jack's perception of himself, but that part never really lands imo. Well yeah, the whole movie is about a man with literally nothing inside him trying to call up some creative "spark" that just isn't in him. He takes no feeling in, and puts no feeling out and yet he keeps trying to create something.
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Alhazred posted:People in lovely monkey suits clearly jumping instead of tumbling down in bad cgi-lava. They're jumping because their homes are engulfed in flames, they're leaping to escape the flames. Anyway you clearly hate fun.
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Anyone who’s actually thrown an ape in to lava knows that they don’t sink in real fast like that. They kind of land on it almost like it’s a solid surface, then burst into flames (screaming horribly all the while, of course).
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Whether you like Congo or not, you have to respect successfully pulling off “third act laser/ape battle.” The only other movie to even attempt such a thing? Steel Magnolias.
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Fart City posted:Whether you like Congo or not, you have to respect successfully pulling off “third act laser/ape battle.” Look, around here we don't poo poo killer apes, lasers, Tim Curry, animatronic main characters, Ernie Hudson, volcanic eruptions, dudes dropping dead "of fright", Bruce Campbell, hippo attacks, gorilla skydiving, and Laura Linney badass one-liners. We celebrate these things.
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If you ever question why Congo rules remember that “skydiving gorilla” doesn’t break the top five most insane things in the movie.
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Untrustable posted:I keep trying to start Lake Mungo but it's so slow for the first bit and I watch something else. I don't know why it's like that. I don't mind slow-burn horror at all but I just can't get into the Mungo. I don't mind a slow start to a movie or a nicely done slow burn but I agree that Lake Mungo was really slow out the gate. If it wasn't for hearing it does pick up, I probably wouldn't've given it a second chance.
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I actually didn’t really like lake Mungo because I found it slow and sad and not scary at all for like 99% of it, but I’m not gonna lie the big scene still got me pretty good it’s a very well done scare. One scare doesn’t make a movie for me though
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Tolkien minority posted:I actually didn’t really like lake Mungo because I found it slow and sad and not scary at all for like 99% of it, but I’m not gonna lie the big scene still got me pretty good it’s a very well done scare. One scare doesn’t make a movie for me though Yea if I were recommending Lake Mungo to someone I'd try to warn them in advance that like 90% of it is a slow-burn faux documentary, it's not the kind of thing that I'm always in the mood for. The payoff is an all-time great horror scene but you have to make it there fully invested and if you're just sitting there bored waiting for it to happen it probably won't land nearly as hard.
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I've seen Lake Mungo and have no idea what scene is being referenced.
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Stink Billyums posted:I've seen Lake Mungo and have no idea what scene is being referenced. There's a scene towards the end that shows you what the daughter had been freaked out about before her death and it's extremely well done. Not even putting specifics under the spoiler tags just to be safe. Basebf555 fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Dec 17, 2018 |
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King Vidiot posted:Well yeah, the whole movie is about a man with literally nothing inside him trying to call up some creative "spark" that just isn't in him. He takes no feeling in, and puts no feeling out and yet he keeps trying to create something. Yup. I found it fascinating in an American Psycho way, like it's an exploration of emptiness while also being really funny in the absolute darkest way. I will say, though, that I did miss what was cut out of the directors cut after watching the theatrical version this weekend, and the Kvlt!'s of the world should probably skip right to the DC if you can get your hands on it.
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I watched Mausoleum (Vinegar Syndrome's black friday release) yesterday and it was pretty fun. Surprisingly good makeup and gore effects for a low budget film like this. The rest of the film has some bad acting and writing and some very dull cinematography, but the supernatural/creepy stuff is a blast and looks really good. I think it is aware of this and doesn't waste much time on the boring stuff. If you like schlock and cheesy '80s horror, I'd recommend it.
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Stink Billyums posted:I've seen Lake Mungo and have no idea what scene is being referenced.
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Lake Mungo is barely a horror movie. It's a supernaturally laced rumination on grief. It just happens to have one of the best scares ever. Additionally, to this day after seeing it upwards of ten times, the Ken Burns zooms on the photos at the end showing that she's been there the entire time but the family isn't capable of seeing it, gives me chills every time including right now as I type this.
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Lake Mungo's scare works so amazingly well because the movie just swells with this feeling of grief but also this deep undercurrent of dread. It reminds me of The Ring remake. They both feel like having your arm in one of those blood pressure things that just slowly and slowly gets more and more tight. The Ring though has scares peppered throughout until the big scare at the end, Lake Mungo though compresses all it's scares into one singular moment and that's why it hits so loving hard. I can't think of another horror movie moment that burrowed into me as hard as Lake Mungo's ending did. It's like having a gallon of ice cold water poured on you. You spend the whole movie feeling like this might be a murder mystery somehow. Or at least some deep mystery and some secret life. Then you get to the tape. That eerie, almost industrial music swells as we hear her theapy session. Then the slow move in on that figure and at the final second an almost crash zoom. That loving face and the slow zoom and then you get punched in the loving gut with the shot of her body. Holy poo poo that scene is a masterpiece. The only movie of it's kind that I think hits close to Lake Mungo is, like I said before, Savageland. Savageland's acting is not as good, but holy gently caress the scares almost all have that eerie, deeply unsettling feel as the Mungo scare did. The very nature of how they are done keeps that horrible icy feeling perfectly done. OldTennisCourt fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Dec 17, 2018 |
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Not sure how to say this without risking spoilers, but the scene in Lake Mungo was so memorable that years later it kinda ruined a similar but also well done twist in another piece of horror media that I watched because I saw it coming way too far in advance. I guess if you've seen both you'll probably be able to guess what I'm talking about.
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Watched Ghost Stories. Hmm pretty good movie, all the stories were pretty creep. The ending was surprising but seen done before so it wasn't anything special. Really liked the atmosphere in this movie.
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Checking out Screamers since it was added to Shudder and so far someone's had his head ripped off in gory detail, another had their throat slapped away, and another disemboweled. All by fish men! Loving the gently caress out of this one.
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s.i.r.e. posted:Checking out Screamers since it was added to Shudder and so far someone's had his head ripped off in gory detail, another had their throat slapped away, and another disemboweled. All by fish men! Loving the gently caress out of this one. Ha I just made a post about this, it seems that that entire opening sequence was made for when it was released in the US. But it's so freaking good I wish they just made an original movie of fishmen owning people. It was originally "Island of the Fishmen" in Italy, then it had the the opening scene shot for it for the US and was released similarly flowery title like "Something Is In the Dark" or something" but it flopped. So they then made footage of an inside out person and tried again a year later with the Screamers title.  Corman was notoriously good at budgeting stuff but they must have lost a lot of money acquiring the film or something because they sure put a ton of work into that opening.Anyway I still like the movie itself but drat that opening scene owns. Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Dec 18, 2018 |
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