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Basebf555 posted: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. Dersu Uzala is legit, it's crazy how good his movies are. Even the stuff he just wrote/worked on but ended up not being involved in the production of is pretty good like Runaway Train. Tora! Tora! Tora! is probably the only not great thing he was involved in, and even then the only good things about it were stuff leftover from when he was involved. I sometimes do wish we could have gotten the timeline where his original concept for what became Seven Samurai got made. The entire movie was going to take place over just several hours and be about a single samurai who hosed up a something minor first thing in the morning. But then for reasons still has to go through the rest of his day like normal, but the action and how he thinks it will be perceived and his attempts to correct it all unravel in his head to the point where when he returns home at the end of the day he kills himself. They scrapped the idea because at the time Kurosawa felt the historical information wasn't available to actually support a super detailed and accurate daily routine for a samurai.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark and Evil Dead also both used shotguns, so I think "just shoot the drat thing with a shotgun" was a pretty common effects trick of the time. Evil Dead just went whole hog by firing live ammo every time they needed buckshot impacts and hoping nobody got accidentally shot.
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God bless Sam “it’s not like we killed anybody” Raimi. Now start running Bruce. I’ve got a camera strapped to this dirt bike and we’ve got a chase scene to film.
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"Bruce, get on this frame. We're going to strap you down, then drive you through the woods. Now somebody hand me the remote to spin him."
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Tolkien minority posted:Occult is IMO as good as Noroii, but is more blackly comic and less of a straight horror movie. His others are varying levels of decent to good but not up to the same level Occult is better than Noroi, specifically because it has the deadpan sense of humor to match the way he portrays the supernatural
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Burkion posted:Wait a loving minute This outrage will not be buried!
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Burkion posted:This outrage will not be buried! Yeah this one is quality.
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Neo Rasa posted:Tora! Tora! Tora! is probably the only not great thing he was involved in, and even then the only good things about it were stuff leftover from when he was involved. His WW2 propaganda films are pretty dire, but then no one watches those these days anyway.
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The Prowler is easily one of the best head explosions in film history. It's Tom Savini perfecting his work from Maniac. Like Prowler legit has some of the best gore you're gonna see Compared to the Maniac Version  Compared to Scanners  I have to go with Prowler because there's just something about that last piece of jaw that's left. Scanners is ridiculously over the top but for me Prowler is gruesomely realistic. All of those were done with actual shotguns by the way. Scanners , Maniac, and Prowler. The thing with Prowler was that the head was not just one piece but multiple pieces. Scanners they made a cast of the guys head and filled it with blood and sheeps brains if I am remembering correctly. Maniac was done the same way. What made Prowler different really was they made the cast but also put in pieces of eyes etc.. tongue just more complete and designed it to "break". Where as the others were just solid casts filled with stuff. You can see the prosthetic tongue along with teeth they made for the head for Prowler. Hollismason fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Jan 8, 2019 |
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Burkion posted:Wait a loving minute I completely forgot about this, but it still isn't the best.
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What makes Prowler really so good is that Savini basically designed everything and was really involved ( he is on all his films) but he really pushed the limits and it really just builds on his other films. Here is a cool video of behind the scenes gore effects from The Prowler and some other films i think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhd2pO887kg 8Minutes in is where you see the head explosion stuff. The Prowler to me is when Savini became a master of gore and special effects. Like all his other films jut build up to that film and it's still some of the best gore he's ever made. Hollismason fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Jan 8, 2019 |
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Hollismason posted:Many awesome words about heads blowing up. Also for me the Scanners explosion doesn't even seem like there's a skull in there.
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speaking of which, I always thought it was funny that The Power (basically depalmas proto scanners) ends with a guy getting his entire body telepathically blown up except for his head
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 Monster from Bird Box that was cut from the film
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Windows 98 posted:
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Some more good 'uns. Chopping Mall  Scanners 2  Scanner Cop II  and of course Dawn of the Dead 
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Windows 98 posted:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l0bvgpg7yig&t=7s
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Dude how can you forget:
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Bird Box sucks rear end
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Whats everyones favorite cosmic horror movie? Still looking for some Lovecraftian film that i love.
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From Beyond is to me the best cosmic horror film ever made.
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OldTennisCourt posted:This raises a question for a good discussion tbh Santa's Slay wins for me. That opening scene is incredible and the rest of it very much isn't.
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Gejimayu posted:Whats everyones favorite cosmic horror movie? Still looking for some Lovecraftian film that i love. The Mist
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Gejimayu posted:Whats everyones favorite cosmic horror movie? Still looking for some Lovecraftian film that i love. Alien.
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Gejimayu posted:Whats everyones favorite cosmic horror movie? Still looking for some Lovecraftian film that i love. Re-animator, From Beyond, In the Mouth of Madness, Dagon.
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CelticPredator posted:Bird Box sucks rear end
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Gejimayu posted:Whats everyones favorite cosmic horror movie? Still looking for some Lovecraftian film that i love. no country for old men no wait come back
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I have to rewatch Dagon. I rented it like almost 20 years ago/whenever it came out on video and disliked it but I see so much praise for it here.
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I watched the stuff, the dogs were very good actors, what was the lead even trying to do
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Neo Rasa posted:I have to rewatch Dagon. I rented it like almost 20 years ago/whenever it came out on video and disliked it but I see so much praise for it here. It suffers from some very bad CGI but overall I think it's definitely one of the Stuart Gordon's best pictures. Hollismason fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Jan 8, 2019 |
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Neo Rasa posted:I have to rewatch Dagon. I rented it like almost 20 years ago/whenever it came out on video and disliked it but I see so much praise for it here. Dagon is good you will probably enjoy it on a rewatch while you are older and wiser
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are you guys not counting The Beyond because the entire head doesn't explode? I feel like it deserves an honorable mention at least. The glob of brains flying forward when the head snaps back is pretty great
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david_a posted:are you guys not counting The Beyond because the entire head doesn't explode? I'm pretty sure that's flying back And to the left
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david_a posted:are you guys not counting The Beyond because the entire head doesn't explode? Yeah, Fulci's always good for some head (especially eye) trauma.
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Horror is the best genre.
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I didn't like the ending to Bodom. The girls getting revenge on the boys that violated one of them is cool. Erasing that by injecting the "crazy lesbian" trope after? Miss me with that bullshit
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Yeah, Fulci's always good for some head (especially eye) trauma. Fulci seems have a rule that is "if there's a sharp object, it must go through someone's head."
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Almost Blue posted:Fulci seems have a rule that is "if there's a sharp object, it must go through someone's head." I go back on forth on whether or not I'm amused at how gratuitous it is, he'll stop an otherwise pretty normal movie just to throw that in there.
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I rented Halloween III: Season of the Witch off itunes the other night, but annoyingly, it was in a cropped 16:9 presentation (instead of 2:35:1). Thought I might buy it but the blu is quite expensive, and the DVD is also apparently in a cropped 16:9. Does anyone know if it's available legally online anywhere in its proper ratio? I suppose I could bite the bullet and just purchase the blu, but I've not seen it for years and was pretty high when I did so I'm not sure how much I actually like it.
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