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T3hRen3gade posted:Random question, but does anyone have any Australian-made horror recommendations? After I saw "The Babadook" I found another Australian gem in "The Loved Ones," which I also thought was great and never see anyone really talk about. A few years later I found the dark apocalyptic thriller "These Final Hours" on Netflix, and for some reason that hit me pretty hard. It was not an easy watch (none of these movies are), but it felt very poignant and original. I realized I haven't paid much attention to Australian horror and maybe I should, because based on those movies it seems like a lot of talented people are making great things out there. Anyone have any other recommendations? It's a bit older than those, but Next of Kin is drat good and should be much better known than it is. I think it's on Shudder now too. Strange Behavior is also good fun.
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I haven't seen Dude Bro Party Massacre III since it first came out and it is still fantastic. The whole bit about the paddle boat owner who had his entire family killed by a college prank making the frat brothers take pictures with his family's graves had me crying laughing. Also "My bang bus! My Dreeeeaaaammm!" It's the most childish dumb humor but it's so good. Also Andrew WK is in the movie. Edit: Also the genius of a scene where the frat Bros and Andrew WK decide to start partying and they pull out a tape labelled "party hard" and you expect the AWK song but it's just generic 80s muzak. Untrustable fucked around with this message at 07:33 on Sep 25, 2019 |
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Sep 25, 2019 07:30
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Timeless Appeal posted:Just rewatched Little Shop of Horrors for the first time in decades, and man it's good. There are a few jokes I never got like Seymour apparently having taken the dentist's body back to the plant shop via subway. Now do yourself a big, big favor and watch the original ending.
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T3hRen3gade posted:Random question, but does anyone have any Australian-made horror recommendations? I thought Roadgames was just okay, but a lot of people swear by it. It is one of Tarantino's favorites and inspired Wolf Creek. The poster is great too. 
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Finished out my night with Threads. Fuckin hell people aren't kidding when they say it's one of the bleakest movies. I'm all hosed up from that last scene. So tonight I watched, in order: One Cut of the Dead Dude Bro Party Massacre III Threads I am experiencing tonal whiplash which might tear my body asunder.
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Sep 25, 2019 10:52
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Snack Bitch posted:Where did you see it at? You at Fantastic Fest too? I don't want to spoil too much but The Lighthouse may have the best scenes ever of grim dudes getting drunk as hell.
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Sep 25, 2019 10:54
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feedmyleg posted:Now do yourself a big, big favor and watch the original ending. But I'll be honest, I think I prefer the original happy but still foreboding ending. I do feel like there must have been some way to have that ending and still incorporate "Don't Feed the Plants."
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Sep 25, 2019 11:09
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Anonymous Robot posted:Anyone have recommendations for slightly below-radar horror anthologies? There’s a billion of these on Tubi and I don’t know which to watch. Necronomicon (1993), Tales of Terror, Dead of Night (1945), The Vault of Horror, Tales from the Hood, Minutes Past Midnight, Kwaidan, Spirits of the Dead, Creeptales.
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BioTech posted:I thought Roadgames was just okay, but a lot of people swear by it. Road Games is excellent. T3hRen3gade posted:Random question, but does anyone have any Australian-made horror recommendations?Anyone have any other recommendations? The recent film The Nightingale will count for the October Challenge, by the way. It's a rape revenge thriller, but it's basically a modernized Witchfinder General with Vincent Price. It's set in Tasmania, but it's an Australian film, and it's Jennifer Kent, the same director as The Babadook. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 12:41 on Sep 25, 2019 |
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Sep 25, 2019 12:38
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Franchescanado posted:Road Games is excellent. So, how did they bring Vincent Price back from the dead?
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Iron Crowned posted:So, how did they bring Vincent Price back from the dead? You know, the film's villain, Sam Claflin, isn't as charismatically menacing as Vincent Price playing Hopkins, but he's arguably a bigger piece of poo poo of a character whose face you wanna cave in with a rock for being so vile. He really did a great job. Mild spoiler about The Nightingale--(it's literally the premise)--but it has the worst baby death since mother!. It's not as grotesque as the latter, but it's also not softened by absurdity. Both friends who saw it with me said they liked it but will absolutely never watch it again. I loved it.
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Sep 25, 2019 12:49
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Anyone know of good shorts featuring vampires?
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Sep 25, 2019 14:23
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Megasabin posted:Anyone know of good shorts featuring vampires? Not technically a short I guess, but the segment "Midnight Mess" from the anthology The Vault of Horror is a vampire story that I like.
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Sep 25, 2019 14:28
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Franchescanado posted:It's set in Tasmania, but it's an Australian film Owned There's a great and odd backwoods horror called Night of Fear from 1972 that's hard to imagine didn't have any influence on Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which is like a dollar on YouTube
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Sep 25, 2019 14:29
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has anyone seen Larry Fessenden's new movie Depraved? I've read some reviews that make it sound interesting.
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The Peccadillo posted:There's a great and odd backwoods horror called Night of Fear from 1972 that's hard to imagine didn't have any influence on Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which is like a dollar on YouTube see this is why i love this thread
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Untrustable posted:One Cut of The Dead is amazing. Just go in blind. I ended up pausing it at the (first) credit scroll to ask the thread what was so good about it. It is the feel-good hit of the summer. Seriously great movie. I think that's what's throwing people off when they're saying it's a crap film. I'd been looking at the runtime and wasn't sure what was up with the first credits rolling at something like a half hour in. I kept watching since the thread's yet to steer me wrong on a recommendation.
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gey muckle mowser posted:has anyone seen Larry Fessenden's new movie Depraved? I've read some reviews that make it sound interesting. Always down for a good wendigo movie
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T3hRen3gade posted:I didn't know any of this, and it just made Skyrim that much more awesome. Lake Mungo is one of the best horror movies I've seen
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Sep 25, 2019 18:56
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STAC Goat posted:A year later and I'm still completely weirded out by the bizarre tone of that movie and the ending where she just jumps in a stranger's car and drives off to the apocalypse while her sister happily waves. She was horny, what more do you want?
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Sep 25, 2019 19:14
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Drunkboxer posted:She was horny, what more do you want? And nobody would ever say she can't take care of herself. 
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Sep 25, 2019 19:20
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Regina's cute, but her hair is amazing.
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Sep 25, 2019 19:22
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Basebf555 posted:And nobody would ever say she can't take care of herself. I heard an interview with the actress and she said that the “Daddy would’ve gotten us uzis” line was made up on the spot because the cheapo guns they had kept jamming. They were actually supposed to have uzis in that scene and had trained at a gun range with uzis to prepare.
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Casimir Radon posted:It's an incredibly fun movie. Agreed. I agree with all of the complaints about it too, but it still works despite them, and isn’t close to being the worst Godzilla movie.
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damnit now that midsommar's out on VOD i no longer have an excuse not to watch it i didnt even like hereditary  why is it so long why couldn't 3 from hell have been 2 and a half hours instead
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I've never really seen a lot of chatter about Dead Set. My friends and I loved it when it aired back in '08ish. Looks like it's on Netflix now (https://www.netflix.com/title/70229514), so for anyone that needs a zombie fix, I recommend it. It's a fast watch, only 5 episodes. It has loads of good gore with fun and also annoying characters that you want to hate, and it's set against a more unique backdrop for a zombie apocalypse than usual. A+ series, about as good as the first season of Walking Dead, but with some comedic beats.Kvlt! posted:damnit now that midsommar's out on VOD i no longer have an excuse not to watch it I didn't care for Hereditary, but I thought Midsommar was good.
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teagone posted:I've never really seen a lot of chatter about Dead Set. My friends and I loved it when it aired back in '08ish. Looks like it's on Netflix now (https://www.netflix.com/title/70229514), so for anyone that needs a zombie fix, I recommend it. It's a fast watch, only 5 episodes. It has loads of good gore with fun and also annoying characters that you want to hate, and it's set against a more unique backdrop for a zombie apocalypse than usual. A+ series, about as good as the first season of Walking Dead, but with some comedic beats. It might be up on Youtube as well. For as much as I'm not into shows like Big Brother, Dead Set was really good and engaging. I will admit I was a bit surprised that it was aired on TV considering the gore.
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I hate reality TV shows like Big Brother. I think that's part of the reason I love Dead Set so much lmao.
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Finally caught Midsommar last night and found it to be a cerebral, flawed, but ultimately worthwhile entry into the criminally small genre of folk horror. With all movies I'm interested in, I shield myself from ads, trailers, promotional material so I can go into a movie pure and innocent, absent of expectations. I thought it shared a LOT of DNA with Hereditary, and was 100% not suprised to discover the same guy directed the two. Had I known that going in, I think I wouldn't have enjoyed the film as much as I did. It was the remake The Wicker man should have received. It was more faithful to the spirit of the original than the boring transitivity Nic Cage prostituted himself for. TheOmegaWalrus fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Sep 25, 2019 |
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Franchescanado posted:The recent film The Nightingale will count for the October Challenge, by the way. It's a rape revenge thriller, but it's basically a modernized Witchfinder General with Vincent Price. It's set in Tasmania, but it's an Australian film, and it's Jennifer Kent, the same director as The Babadook. It's an intense movie that features a rape as an inciting incident, but calling it a "rape revenge thriller" is terribly reductive. It's ultimately an anti-revenge movie.
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Don't most revenge movies at the very least gesture towards the idea that revenge is bad?
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Revenge never even vaguely hinted at revenge being bad. Nevertheless, Revenge is a loving awesome movie.
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I don't watch a lot of "revenge films" since I just don't really like that thing, but I feel like the ones that do edge towards "revenge is bad, you're becoming a monster" usually do so by having another person there to go from sympathetic ally to reluctant hero so just don't get categorized as "revenge films". But again, I'm not a connoisseur of the sub genre so I could be way off.
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Sep 26, 2019 01:13
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The best anti-revenge story is No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.
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Megasabin posted:Anyone know of good shorts featuring vampires? Are You Afraid Of The Dark had a couple good ones. The Tale of Midnight Madness, The Tale Of the Night Shift, and The Tale Of The Vampire Town. Yeah they're campy, but also fun.
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Lurdiak posted:The best anti-revenge story is No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle. You think seeking revenge makes you cool? No, no it doesn't It turns you into a giant goofy loving parade float and gets you killed
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Help me out here thread. I vaguely recall a horror movie where the masked killer finishes up killing all the teens at the beginning of the movie and then goes back to his unassuming normal life. The twist is one of the teens survived and starts to hunt the killer, his friends, and family, to get revenge and becoming a masked horror movie killer himself. That's all I remember about it.
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Gripweed posted:Don't most revenge movies at the very least gesture towards the idea that revenge is bad? It's also just not what the movie is about. It's not a story about someone realizing that revenge has made them a monster or anything trite like that.
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TheOmegaWalrus posted:It was the remake The Wicker man should have received. It was more faithful to the spirit of the original than the boring transitivity Nic Cage prostituted himself for. I really want to see Midsommar now. I love the original Wicker Man, and if it's channeling that kind of vibe minus the weird naked musical bits I'm guessing, but then again maybe not lol then I'm excited. Also, thanks for all the Australian movie suggestions, I'm adding most if not all of them on my to-watch list. I'm still trying to decide what to do about the October Challenge, because I can't realistically do all 31 movies due to time constraints, but I'm definitely building a list of stuff I can watch and do a write up on.
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I've decided that X-Cross will be the first movie I watch for the October Challenge because A: I want to watch X-Cross again, and B: I hope that by talking about X-Cross I can get someone else to watch it, thus making me no longer literally the only human on earth to have seen X-Cross
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