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OldTennisCourt posted:This raises a question for a good discussion tbh
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david_a posted:Wasn’t someone just talking about a fish monster horror movie where the opening scene was filmed after everything else and is way better than the rest of the movie Yeah Screamers. It still owns though. Its a great B Movie and The idiot hero gently caress up saving the earth from global warming
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Jan 7, 2019 04:52
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It's not the opening, but after the dude's head explodes in Scanners, the film goes down hill p hard imo.
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Jan 7, 2019 04:53
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James Woods Fan posted:Watched Noroi, The Borderlands (Last Prayer) and The Last Broadcast. Loved the first, really liked the second and enjoyed the third until the ending. loving loved The Borderlands. Weirdly, for years I literally thought that it was A Field in England (not remotely similar), and always assumed that's what people were talking about when mentioning AFiE. It's probably because I saw Kill List the same week. The ending of that movie is so dope.
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Jan 7, 2019 04:57
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Null of Undefined posted:In not so great movies, I watched Project Europa yesterday, and it was really bad. It tried to toe the line between realistic and ridiculous, but the result of that was just that it was boring, and then stupid stuff happened. Like my previous post on The Borderlands, I also loved this movie mostly because of the ending. That said, I watched it the day after doing a ton if mdma and really just wanted to chill with my wife. So maybe boring was what I wanted that day. Might deserve a rewatch. That ending scene though.
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I saw the ending and I don’t want to watch that movie. That kind of thing is the one thing that I cannot handle in any film.
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CelticPredator posted:I saw the ending and I don’t want to watch that movie. That kind of thing is the one thing that I cannot handle in any film. Dont't know if you mean Borderlands or Europa Report, but yes. Both stuck with me as being very... Shudder causing.
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Jan 7, 2019 05:12
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CelticPredator posted:Its this one. I miss having stores like that around me. When I was a kid I used to love going to Suncoast and looking at all the weird horror poo poo. Anyone know of a place like that in New York?
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Jan 7, 2019 07:05
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In Syracuse they had an FYE which is basically that. They got a ton of Arrow and Scream factory stuff.
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Jan 7, 2019 07:10
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Just watched the Korean horror The Mimic on Shudder. Not a bad little movie. Sometimes picking random poo poo pays off.
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Jan 7, 2019 08:41
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I actually really like Europa Report its just a really solid Science Fiction horror film.
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Jan 7, 2019 13:34
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That’s a dope one. Anything about contact is really interesting to me. I’m more open with it than Alien abduction stuff. Like Contact is such a great film with some interesting themes, so kind of any real spin you can do with that story just rocks it for me.
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Jan 7, 2019 14:21
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david_a posted:Not technically horror, but you should maybe check out the Russian film Gruz 200 (Cargo 200) as well. It has more than a few similarities to William Faulkner's Sanctuary if that tells you anything. Yeah, Gruz 200 is great. It's Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer if Henry was an entire nation.
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Jan 7, 2019 14:48
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Europa Report is great. The scene where one of them falls through the ice is pure nightmare fuel. The ending isn't very popular but I like it.
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Jan 7, 2019 15:11
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Null of Undefined posted:I watched Escape Room yesterday and I was surprised at how much I liked it. I knew it was going to be super campy, and it was, but it was also weirdly compelling. It was basically a hybrid between would you rather and saw. Specifically the Saw where it’s a group of people going room to room and there’s some sacrifice that has to be made, and people die 1 by 1. I absolutely hated the trailer but I'm a sucker for those kinds of movies, so I'll give it a watch.
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Jan 7, 2019 16:03
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CelticPredator posted:It's not the opening, but after the dude's head explodes in Scanners, the film goes down hill p hard imo. I enjoyed the climatic brain fight as well. I mean nothing tops the head explosion but what could?
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Jan 7, 2019 17:09
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Escape Room was good, and the set pieces were fun. I thought it did a little too much to set up a sequel though.
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Jan 7, 2019 18:02
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A Scanners remake/reboot/sequel would need to have at least one exploding head per scene to live up to its legacy. Preferably having the very first shot be s head exploding and then exponentially increasing the number of exploding heads per scene until until it ends in a psychedelic orgy of combusting craniums.
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Jan 7, 2019 18:07
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FreudianSlippers posted:A Scanners remake/reboot/sequel would need to have at least one exploding head per scene to live up to its legacy. Preferably having the very first shot be s head exploding and then exponentially increasing the number of exploding heads per scene until until it ends in a psychedelic orgy of combusting craniums. They'd all be CG so it would be devoid of any merit.
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Jan 7, 2019 18:16
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Scanners is actually really good all the way through
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Jan 7, 2019 18:23
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Scanners suffers from having a great character actor as the villain, Michael Ironside, and then completely forgettable nothing as the lead. Cronenberg's great films all have much better leads than that; Goldblum, Irons, Woods, Walken, Vigo, etc.
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Jan 7, 2019 18:26
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Scanners is fun but it feels like a short story expanded to a feature length runtime.
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Jan 7, 2019 18:34
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What’s the best exploding head in movie history? I vote Dawn of the Dead, which they actually shot with a shotgun.
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The Scanners head pop was done with a shotgun irl too
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Jan 7, 2019 18:35
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Coffee And Pie posted:What’s the best exploding head in movie history? I vote Dawn of the Dead, which they actually shot with a shotgun. It's Scanners, sorry. You can't really debate that one.
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Jan 7, 2019 18:38
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Coffee And Pie posted:What’s the best exploding head in movie history? I vote Dawn of the Dead, which they actually shot with a shotgun. The Prowler has a really good one.
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Jan 7, 2019 18:38
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Coffee And Pie posted:What’s the best exploding head in movie history? I vote Dawn of the Dead, which they actually shot with a shotgun. Franchescanado posted:The Prowler has a really good one. These was going to be my picks. LOL I forget which cut but one version of Dawn of the Dead, when they first burst into the room the manakin is in full view and everything. 
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Jan 7, 2019 18:40
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OG Maniac has the Savini headshot scene. But yeah, it’s Scanners.
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Jan 7, 2019 18:41
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Speaking of Dawn of the Dead, it's today's January Horror Essential. It's not too late to join in and start filling the gaps in your watch history, horror goons! Start the new year off right.
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Jan 7, 2019 18:43
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Tolkien minority posted:Scanners is actually really good all the way through It really is.
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Jan 7, 2019 18:44
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Lurdiak posted:They'd all be CG so it would be devoid of any merit. Not if the film goes wildly over budget!
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Jan 7, 2019 18:48
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FreudianSlippers posted:Not if the film goes wildly over budget! The most expensive, meticulously rendered CG head explosion isn't worth a 15 dollar dummy with a ziploc bag of fake blood in its head blown up with a firecracker.
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Jan 7, 2019 18:53
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Fart City posted:OG Maniac has the Savini headshot scene. I was going to bring that up and maybe also the one in Drive because I didn’t expect that to happen to a character played by Christina Hendricks. It’s still Scanners though. Wasn’t there a late Kurosawa movie that had a good one or am I losing my mind?
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Jan 7, 2019 18:58
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Lurdiak posted:The most expensive, meticulously rendered CG head explosion isn't worth a 15 dollar dummy with a ziploc bag of fake blood in its head blown up with a firecracker. I meant by going full on practical which is far more expensive than CG these days.
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Jan 7, 2019 18:59
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Drunkboxer posted:I was going to bring that up and maybe also the one in Drive because I didn’t expect that to happen to a character played by Christina Hendricks. It’s still Scanners though. If there was it was probably Kagemusha. Been a long time since I saw it, though.
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Jan 7, 2019 19:12
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Jedit posted:If there was it was probably Kagemusha. Been a long time since I saw it, though. Kagemusha and Ran are masterpieces, and Dreams is the kind of film that I think would've found a much bigger audience if it were made today. He really didn't make any bad films. I need to see Dersu Uzala though.
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Jan 7, 2019 19:16
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Jedit posted:If there was it was probably Kagemusha. Been a long time since I saw it, though. Yeah I think I’m blending that movie with something else from around the same time period.
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Jan 7, 2019 19:29
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Drunkboxer posted:Yeah I think I’m blending that movie with something else from around the same time period. Almost definitely Ran because they're both period epics that star Nakadai instead of Mifune. Nakadai is the man though, just slightly less so than Mifune.
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Jan 7, 2019 19:32
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OldTennisCourt posted:This raises a question for a good discussion tbh I remember getting really pumped up by the title cards in Freddy's Dead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLjAIn1u5fY And it's not horror, but Brother's Bloom was a terrible long con movie that couldn't live up to its excellent opening bit.
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Wait a loving minute Did you motherfuckers just talk about loving head explosions and then leave out the best mother loving head explosion in all of loving cinema? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9pgWPsUeTU
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