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King Vidiot posted:The best being Lexx, obviously Wake The Dead in S2. One of the best eps of Lexx, and on VHS it shared a tape with the equally (if differently) great 791. Lexx is remembered as the crazy sex SF show, but there's actually a fair amount of horror comedy in there. Most of the latter half of S2 is existential dread.
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King Vidiot posted:Was it just extra title cards or something? Because the home video version still showed Lisa Zane gratuitously putting on a pair of 3D glasses for the final sequence. Actually, it looks like I was wrong, and full scenes were just excised from the US home release. Apparently they're still available on the German release, though? https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=1301
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The german cut includes some but not all of the extra scenes, so it's actually a third cut.
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Weird. Then I legit have no idea what the content discrepancy would be.
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I saw Freddy's Dead theatrically when it first came out and don't remember any extra footage. drat.
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That's probably why out of those lines from the nursery rhyme written in various places in the movie, "7, 8, better stay up late" is missing on home video.
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Saw Child's Play. Thought it was fun. My only real complaint is I thought the end sequence could have went more bonkers. Was kinda let down after the build up. He should have shut the doors first!
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Midsommar embargo is up. 94% after 34 reviews https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/midsommarAV Club posted:At two hours and 20 minutes, Midsommar is the kind of swing-for-the-fences passion project, the kind of operatic opus, you make when you’re fresh off a runaway success. The cult ceremonies, drug-enhanced pagan reveries conducted under the endlessly beating sun, seem to unfurl in real time; they threaten, occasionally, to push past hypnotic and into tedious. This is, in other words, a less perfectly crafted nightmare than Aster’s last one. But there’s a deranged integrity to its sprawl, and to the filmmaker’s willingness to embrace the darkest, most unsparing aspects of human desire. In its closing stretch, Midsommar achieves a terrible, apocalyptic transcendence, through an ending that’s frankly stunning in where it’s willing to go—and where its characters are willing to go—in search of catharsis. Madness, we’re reminded, can look like wisdom through the right eyes, or like liberation in the wrong (blinding day)light. Collider posted:Midsommar presents a ruthless take on the rituals of processing grief and letting go, excavating the caverns of broken relationships and the nauseous truths of why we stay in them. It doesn’t always work and there are some dead-end subplots that could use trimming, but the overall effect lands with an impressive punch. Like any great heartbreak, Midsommar takes some time to process. Indiewire posted:It’s the kind of mad science filmmaking worth rooting for: Aster refashions “The Wicker Man” as a perverse breakup movie, douses Swedish mythology in Bergmanesque despair, and sets the epic collage ablaze. He may not land every big swing, but the underlying vision is hard to shake even when it falters.
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https://twitter.com/A24/status/1143626760346591232 Already got my ticket to see it on my birthday next Tuesday 
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Who was disputing whether tweets count as marketing? Because.. I'm so fuckin hype though King of Bleh fucked around with this message at 04:21 on Jun 26, 2019 |
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Finally sitting through Brain Damage on Shudder since it's been a long while since I sat through it. Pleasantly surprised it's the unedited version.
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For anyone who has been procrastinating on checking out Us like I have, it's a $3 rental for Prime members right now.
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Basebf555 posted:For anyone who has been procrastinating on checking out Us like I have, it's a $3 rental for Prime members right now. Us is good.
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I got halfway through Knife + Heart last night before I fell asleep (bc I was tired not bc the movie was bad). So far its one of the best neo-giallos I've seen, which imo is a very hard genre to pull off. It felt like a giallo made in 2018 rather than a pastiche movie. I was really very impressed. Excited to finish it, definitely check it out if you haven't yet.
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Kvlt! posted:I got halfway through Knife + Heart last night before I fell asleep (bc I was tired not bc the movie was bad). So far its one of the best neo-giallos I've seen, which imo is a very hard genre to pull off. It felt like a giallo made in 2018 rather than a pastiche movie. I was really very impressed. Excited to finish it, definitely check it out if you haven't yet. Yea I'm hoping for something a little less like The Editor and a little more on the side of like Cold Hell, which was definitely giallo influenced but doesn't just come across as a pastiche.
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Rageaholic posted:https://twitter.com/A24/status/1143626760346591232 Man, I was not expecting A24 to try to pull off some William Castle-lite advertising, ever.
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I have a hot take and that is that Wes Craven's New Nightmare is a better meta-horror than Scream
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COOL CORN posted:I have a hot take and that is that Wes Craven's New Nightmare is a better meta-horror than Scream I was just arguing this as a guest on a podcast this past weekend, I agree with this take.
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COOL CORN posted:I have a hot take and that is that Wes Craven's New Nightmare is a better meta-horror than Scream Agreed. NN is my favorite Nightmare movie period tbh. I think it’s wonderful, and has a rad score.
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Too bad!!!! I remember watching it for the first time and feeling like I uncovered a hidden film that should not exist. It was a strange feeling but a rewarding one. Although tbh I haven’t seen scream in a real long time so I honestly could change my mind. But I adore New Nightmare a whole lot.
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The thing with Scream is that people mostly remember Jamie Kennedy as the meta aspect, i.e. all that stuff he says about the "rules" of slasher movies. But really the best meta aspect of it is how the killers model their crimes after slasher movies in an attempt to throw the police off their trail.
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Jun 26, 2019 18:03
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I enjoyed Us but until I read that post I forgot about the movie completely. It didn't stick with me the same way Get Out did. Will watch it again though to see if I appreciate it on second viewing.
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Jun 26, 2019 18:10
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New Nightmare was disappointing for me the last time I re-watched it (it's been a few years so I couldn't tell you exactly why), but Scream gets better every time. I don't think it's even close between the two.
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I watched Us a few days ago. It’s weird because it feels like a throwback to something but I don’t know what. It felt very familiar, I guess is what I’m saying. I liked that it didn’t quite make sense and that it slowly goes from pretty grounded and mundane to surreal. I didn’t read much of what was being said when it came out but I’m guessing a lot of people got annoyed trying figure out exactly what was going on.
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Drunkboxer posted:I watched Us a few days ago. It’s weird because it feels like a throwback to something but I don’t know what. It felt very familiar, I guess is what I’m saying. I liked that it didn’t quite make sense and that it slowly goes from pretty grounded and mundane to surreal. I didn’t read much of what was being said when it came out but I’m guessing a lot of people got annoyed trying figure out exactly what was going on. I haven't seen it yet so I avoided a lot of spoilers, but I actually got the sense that most complaints were more the opposite, that people thought it was a little too on-the-nose and predictable.
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Basebf555 posted:I haven't seen it yet so I avoided a lot of spoilers, but I actually got the sense that most complaints were more the opposite, that people thought it was a little too on-the-nose and predictable. Some aspects of it are definitely predictable, but I think they still work. The concept was a lot bigger than what I expected and I think the nuts and bolts of that only work if you just accept it.
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People were mad they didn’t explain everything.
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CelticPredator posted:People were mad they didn’t explain everything. People in the thread "beating" the movie with "how did they feed the rabbits?!" got me laughing pretty good. New Nightmare owns, Scream owns. I'll take NN since I'm a big Freddy fan.
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MacheteZombie posted:People in the thread "beating" the movie with "how did they feed the rabbits?!" got me laughing pretty good. That’s actually a very important question that helps us understand Red’s monologue
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Watching Scream rn. “The first one was, but the rest sucked” lmao Wes throwing shade. I forgot about that line.
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DeimosRising posted:That’s actually a very important question that helps us understand Red’s monologue I must have missed it, what do you mean? CelticPredator posted:Watching Scream rn. “The first one was, but the rest sucked” lmao Wes throwing shade. I forgot about that line. She deserves everything she got for missing that F13 trivia Drunkboxer fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Jun 26, 2019 |
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Real quick but drat scary movie has ruined this movie for me. I have both films running in my head at the same time. Every joke is so fresh in my brain. Drunkboxer posted:
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Drunkboxer posted:Some aspects of it are definitely predictable, but I think they still work. The concept was a lot bigger than what I expected and I think the nuts and bolts of that only work if you just accept it. The thing is most horror doesn't hold up under scrutiny, and you have to accept it. It's perfectly fine to have some aspects remain a mystery, I think it actually helps a lot in some cases
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DeimosRising posted:That’s actually a very important question that helps us understand Red’s monologue Yeah, I'm at a loss for this too.
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Drunkboxer posted:I must have missed it, what do you mean? I mean there are lots of ways to pick up that her “government experiment” story is wrong, but the impossibility of the scenario is the most obvious. She has a first grade education and fell into Evil Wonderland, the world reflects her anxieties literally. So the rabbits don’t eat, they don’t poo poo, clothes and scissors just appear, etc. Which, to the extent that the movie is about the exported violence that supports American lifestyles, is also also a literalization of this bewildering separation from the means of production not just individually but geographically and conceptually
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oh, I thought you had been agreeing with the critique of the question, not that the existence of the question elucidates the film itself also, Scream over NN
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Alright, so it looks like they're starting to take orders for the second run of the Babadook book:quote:Dear Babadookers,
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DeimosRising posted:I mean there are lots of ways to pick up that her “government experiment” story is wrong, but the impossibility of the scenario is the most obvious. She has a first grade education and fell into Evil Wonderland, the world reflects her anxieties literally. So the rabbits don’t eat, they don’t poo poo, clothes and scissors just appear, etc. Which, to the extent that the movie is about the exported violence that supports American lifestyles, is also also a literalization of this bewildering separation from the means of production not just individually but geographically and conceptually That is definitely not what those posts were driving at
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