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The Perfection was rad! The cool thing about it is that at any particular point in the film it can unfold in a dozen different predictable ways, so it ends up being genuinely surprising, even though if you just explained the plot it would be kind of bland. Definitely go in blind!
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May 26, 2019 02:23
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Tart Kitty posted:My standard metric for horror is be anything, but don't be boring. As long as its not a slog, I'll give it a shot. Even if it's utter dreck. This is mine for all movies, not just Horror. The worst thing a movie can be is boring.
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May 26, 2019 02:30
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for those posers earlier who said "all thrillers are horrors" I just watched Not Grow Old and it's a perfect example of a thriller thats not a horror
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May 26, 2019 02:56
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Rageaholic posted:Yooooooo, Brightburn was really fun. I knew it was gonna be a Superman but evil movie from the trailer, but it went in an even darker direction than I anticipated. It had several crazy kills and some gory-rear end gore. I was laughing during all the kills because of how absurdly violent they were. Just a joy to watch Superman but evil would have been better. As it stands the kid is basically evil because alien mind control (but he’s also a born psychopath!?!) and kills people out of horniness/self preservation. The self preservation kills being particularly stupid because he does them in ways that basically guarantee he’ll get caught and then proceeds to blow up buildings in broad daylight anyways. It would have been SO much better to have a Superman story where the kid is genuinely trying to do good things but goes about doing them in increasingly violent ways. Also, gently caress this movie’s subtext on adopted kids. It basically says (albeit unintentionally) that people are justified in being wary of adopted children because YOU JUST DON’T KNOW WHERE THEY CAME FROM.
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The ReZort What is it with pedestrian zombie movies and absolutely lights-out first ten minutes? The Rezort takes place 7 years after "the war" and the entire 90 minutes it's playing, I found myself wanting more of the human story - more support groups, more people talking about their feelings being out of the conscripted armies that fought, more about the art and games that were made post-war, how a 16 year old at the Rezort feels since he was 9 during the outbreak. These are people who literally lived through the apocalypse seven years ago, no poo poo they're broken and strange and ready to try anything, including shooting-gallery therapy, to move past that sort of trauma where 33% of the world is just loving dead and we all fought for our lives and now we go back to... what? Money? Jobs? Social structures? There's a movie about the post-Zombie rebuilding - World War Z should have been it, like J. Michael Stracyzski's original script was - that will connect with us and use the Zombie Apocalypse as a filter to us dealing with our poo poo as Americans who lost their mind after the War on Terror and elected Trump. The ReZort is not that movie - it's utterly pedestrian and rote - but for ten glorious minutes, I allowed myself to believe it was. And for those ten minutes, I award two stars.
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May 26, 2019 03:09
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readingatwork posted:Superman but evil would have been better. As it stands the kid is basically evil because alien mind control (but he’s also a born psychopath!?!) and kills people out of horniness/self preservation. The self preservation kills being particularly stupid because he does them in ways that basically guarantee he’ll get caught and then proceeds to blow up buildings in broad daylight anyways. Yeah I didn’t like this movie because I think a bullied 12 year old discovering that he has godlike powers would be a very interesting concept to explore, but instead the kid is just inherantly evil and is implied to be creepy even before he discovers his powers. Because he’s an alien or something. He doesn’t have any moral depth whatsoever. None of the characters do. Also it didn’t help that I watched in the middle of the day but I didn’t find the movie scary at all.
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May 26, 2019 03:15
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readingatwork posted:Also, gently caress this movie’s subtext on adopted kids. It basically says (albeit unintentionally) that people are justified in being wary of adopted children because YOU JUST DON’T KNOW WHERE THEY CAME FROM. If you find a baby in a glowing spaceship that crash-landed in a forest, do not adopt it, call the SPC foundation or something. But yeah, there’s one line where the father says something like “He’s not our son, he’s a thing we found in the woods!” and the movie essentially agrees with him.
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May 26, 2019 03:26
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Sucrose posted:Yeah I didn’t like this movie because I think a bullied 12 year old discovering that he has godlike powers would be a very interesting concept to explore, but instead the kid is just inherantly evil and is implied to be creepy even before he discovers his powers. Because he’s an alien or something. He doesn’t have any moral depth whatsoever. None of the characters do.
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May 26, 2019 03:42
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Rageaholic posted:I read it as the kid being a nonhuman evil sociopath. He was probably programmed to be that way by whoever created him. His adopted mom wanted him to feel like a normal human being, but he's not. It just took him some time to find that out. But he was apparently a perfectly or mostly normal kid prior to that? 
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May 26, 2019 04:46
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Sucrose posted:But he was apparently a perfectly or mostly normal kid prior to that? It awakened in puberty. Also, plenty of 12 year old boys would turn out like that with that power without being an alien programmed to do so. PLENTY. That's whats "scary" about it.
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May 26, 2019 04:53
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Rageaholic posted:I read it as the kid being a nonhuman evil sociopath. He was probably programmed to be that way by whoever created him. His adopted mom wanted him to feel like a normal human being, but he's not. It just took him some time to find that out. Yeah this is what I got. The ship is activating his "programing". Lots of talk about him being evil Superman but he is more like a Saiyan sent to conquer Earth.
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May 26, 2019 06:00
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I will say this for Brightburn at least: It was better than Dragonball Evolution
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I went in to Brightburn already expecting the concept to be played fairly straightforward and for focus to be on Elizabeth Banks, so I enjoyed it. The kid isn't a character so much as he's a scenario. He's a thought experiment for us to wonder how those around him would react to such a force. And we don't get enough of that for sure. I think if anyone was underdeveloped it was the mother. But even then I think her motivation was set up reasonably well. Still, it was pretty alright! Wasn't expecting the gore
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Zero One posted:Yeah this is what I got. The ship is activating his "programing". Yeah it seems like some people were expecting a super villain origin story. Instead BB is "What if Goku and The Iron Giant actually carried out their intended programming?"
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May 26, 2019 12:58
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The Perfection is an interesting beast, and I'm still not sure what I think of it. I've been sitting on it for like 2 days. On the one hand, it's a fun ride and really tense - but, I don't think it would hold up to multiple viewings after the gimmicks and twists are known. It's a shame because it was such a cool premise and I DID enjoy it... Hm. What other movies are like that? Where you liked it but were still disappointed?
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I just realized the Hammer House of Horror series is getting ready to leave Shudder. Any must watch episodes?
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Zwabu posted:I just realized the Hammer House of Horror series is getting ready to leave Shudder. Any must watch episodes? Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (Obviously) 
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May 26, 2019 15:24
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Darko posted:It awakened in puberty. They wouldn’t just start randomly killing their own relatives, etc, though. They’d start out by killing their bullies and people they thought deserved it. That’s what I thought was disappointing about the movie. There’s no descent to evil, he just turns psychopathically evil, seemingly overnight. Alternately if he’s some sort of alien cuckoo deliberately sent to be raised in and then destroy humanity I would have liked more focus on that.
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May 26, 2019 15:29
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sean10mm posted:Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (Obviously) Naw this is an actual TV series they had. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080231/episodes?season=1
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May 26, 2019 15:51
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I know there's some crossover between spook-a-doodles and video game spook-a-doodles so I'm here to tell you that you should all play Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice and A Plague Tale. k see ya
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May 26, 2019 17:38
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Zwabu posted:I just realized the Hammer House of Horror series is getting ready to leave Shudder. Any must watch episodes? Definitely watch 'The Silent Scream'. I wasn't impressed with most of the episodes, but that one is brilliant. If you have time 'Witching Time', 'Rude Awakening', 'The House That Bled to Death' and 'The Mark of Satan' are worth a watch too, but 'The Silent Scream' is the only one I'd call a must-see.
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Fluffy the Cat posted:Definitely watch 'The Silent Scream'. I wasn't impressed with most of the episodes, but that one is brilliant. If you have time 'Witching Time', 'Rude Awakening', 'The House That Bled to Death' and 'The Mark of Satan' are worth a watch too, but 'The Silent Scream' is the only one I'd call a must-see. Thanks for this, friend.
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May 26, 2019 18:20
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Sucrose posted:They wouldn’t just start randomly killing their own relatives, etc, though. They’d start out by killing their bullies and people they thought deserved it. That’s what I thought was disappointing about the movie. There’s no descent to evil, he just turns psychopathically evil, seemingly overnight. Aw gently caress I totally forgot about the scene where he rattles off trivia in class about the difference between bees and wasps (wasps are predators, bees aren’t) and how some wasps are brood parasites. So yeah, that’s definitely what they were going for.
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May 26, 2019 19:47
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Just thinking about Tina's death scene in Nightmare on Elm Street and how they filmed it.
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This popped on my Twitter and I'm already intrigued. https://horrornews.net/141971/monster-squad-meets-clerks-for-the-blockbuster-video-generation-in-the-last-blockbuster/
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May 26, 2019 21:53
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Sucrose posted:They wouldn’t just start randomly killing their own relatives, etc, though. They’d start out by killing their bullies and people they thought deserved it. That’s what I thought was disappointing about the movie. There’s no descent to evil, he just turns psychopathically evil, seemingly overnight. He didn't start off killing his family, and only started because his position was specifically threatened by an extended family member. He didn't do anything to his parents until they specifically tried to kill him. The progression was basically the same as The Bad Seed and owes a lot to it.
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May 26, 2019 22:12
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I'm looking for recommendations of films with a specific similarity to Hereditary - specifically, I'm looking for movies with heavy occultism, "the occult is real," and/or the cult wins in the end. I'm already familiar with and a fan of The VVitch, and I'm eagerly awaiting Midsommar. Been playing a lot of Cult Simulator recently as well. New or old. Modern or period. Cheesy and fun or serious and slow-burning. Let me have them! 
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May 26, 2019 22:25
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Alehkhs posted:I'm looking for recommendations of films with a specific similarity to Hereditary - specifically, I'm looking for movies with heavy occultism, "the occult is real," and/or the cult wins in the end. I'm already familiar with and a fan of The VVitch, and I'm eagerly awaiting Midsommar. Been playing a lot of Cult Simulator recently as well. Rosemary's Baby is the immediate obvious one I think
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May 26, 2019 22:30
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Alehkhs posted:I'm looking for recommendations of films with a specific similarity to Hereditary - specifically, I'm looking for movies with heavy occultism, "the occult is real," and/or the cult wins in the end. I'm already familiar with and a fan of The VVitch, and I'm eagerly awaiting Midsommar. Been playing a lot of Cult Simulator recently as well. We were just talking about it a couple of days ago itt but watch A Dark Song. I think it’s exactly what your are looking for and you won’t be disappointed.
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Alehkhs posted:I'm looking for recommendations of films with a specific similarity to Hereditary - specifically, I'm looking for movies with heavy occultism, "the occult is real," and/or the cult wins in the end. I'm already familiar with and a fan of The VVitch, and I'm eagerly awaiting Midsommar. Been playing a lot of Cult Simulator recently as well. The Lords of Salem Rosemary's Baby come to mind
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Kill List, The House of the Devil, and Martyrs come to mind. However, in naming these films, I feel like I have spoiled something. Sorry, you bums. I have (sadly) never seen the Wicker Man (well, the original -- I have seen the remake which is great), but that probably fits the bill, too.
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The original Wicker Man is both great and fits the poster's needs. Why you would have seen the remake and not the original I.. (shakes head sadly)
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Thanks for the suggestions. Keep 'em coming! To answer my own question a bit - Angel Heart just popped back into my mind.
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Zwabu posted:The original Wicker Man is both great and fits the poster's needs. Why you would have seen the remake and not the original I.. (shakes head sadly) Do I have to post the video about the bees?
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Twin Cinema posted:I have (sadly) never seen the Wicker Man (well, the original -- I have seen the remake which is great), but that probably fits the bill, too. I don't know whether to call this a bad opinion, a poseur's opinion or just yell 'Heretic!' and get the torches going.
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May 26, 2019 23:22
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Zwabu posted:The original Wicker Man is both great and fits the poster's needs. Why you would have seen the remake and not the original I.. (shakes head sadly) I imagine there are a lot of people out there who have done this, for no reason other than a simple love of Nicolas Cage.
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Alehkhs posted:I'm looking for recommendations of films with a specific similarity to Hereditary - specifically, I'm looking for movies with heavy occultism, "the occult is real," and/or the cult wins in the end. I'm already familiar with and a fan of The VVitch, and I'm eagerly awaiting Midsommar. Been playing a lot of Cult Simulator recently as well. Also Suspiria.
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Alehkhs posted:I'm looking for recommendations of films with a specific similarity to Hereditary - specifically, I'm looking for movies with heavy occultism, "the occult is real," and/or the cult wins in the end. I'm already familiar with and a fan of The VVitch, and I'm eagerly awaiting Midsommar. Been playing a lot of Cult Simulator recently as well. The Omen, also.
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Everything about new Wicker Man except for Nicolas Cage's performance and the egregious misogyny is extremely forgettable, while the old one still packs a punch and is really fun and sexy even during the slow parts. I think the version I watched was unfortunately one of the shorter cuts, but it was still really good.
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