The Horror Thread: Did the whole US throw up?

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Burkion: May 10, 2012; by Fluffdaddy

Look into the series Monsters

Tehre's some fun poo poo there

Also Are You Afraid of the Dark has a few good episodes for visuals

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# ? Apr 25, 2024 06:37

Conrad_Birdie: Jul 10, 2009; I WAS THERE
WHEN CODY RHODES
FINISHED THE STORY

Burkion posted:

Look into the series Monsters

Tehre's some fun poo poo there

Also Are You Afraid of the Dark has a few good episodes for visuals

I don�t have any Are You Afraid of the Dark on VHS and I�m trying to draw from my personal collection (no other reason other than it�s fun), but I do have some eps of Goosebumps that are neat. The Haunted Mask is honestly a pretty spooky visual. Great design.

# ? Sep 30, 2019 19:40

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

Conrad_Birdie posted:

Hey horror movie thread friends. Mainly a thread lurker here, but had a question I wanted y�alls� opinion on. For my Halloween party this year I�m digitizing clips and segments from my horror VHS tapes to play as a Halloween �mood piece� throughout the evening and I thought anthology movies would work perfectly for this. I have Tales from the Darkside, Creepshow and Creepshow 2 on VHS. What is the best segment from each to digitize and include on this playlist?

Don�t show the segments, just digitize the wraparound stories/scenes from each one.

# ? Sep 30, 2019 19:48

Conrad_Birdie: Jul 10, 2009; I WAS THERE
WHEN CODY RHODES
FINISHED THE STORY

ruddiger posted:

Don�t show the segments, just digitize the wraparound stories/scenes from each one.

Ha this is actually a fun idea

# ? Sep 30, 2019 20:07

OpenSourceBurger: Sep 25, 2019

You guys think we're ever going to get a JAWS remake? Hollywood has already shown it's willing to remake anything these days, and with Meg and both 42 Meters Down movies you'd think they'd go for the big name sooner or later.

# ? Sep 30, 2019 20:18

Timeless Appeal: May 28, 2006

Nah, just because you'll just get bad press and you can just as easily make a sequel that is basically a remake.

ruddiger posted:

Don�t show the segments, just digitize the wraparound stories/scenes from each one.

I agree with this if only because showing full shorts can fall into the trap of people just watching the movie which can kill the party.

You also find VHS transfers of stuff already online that you can slide in.

I was curious if you could still get the VHS copy of V/H/S, but apparently it is now rare and I really should not have gifted it to my ex.

Timeless Appeal fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Sep 30, 2019

# ? Sep 30, 2019 20:21

Lil Mama Im Sorry: Oct 14, 2012; I'M BACK AND I'M SCARIN' WHITE FOLKS

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

This sounds incredible.

i did have a giant smile for the last 5 mins cause i couldnt believe they did not just a happy ending, but the happiest ending you could have to that entire franchise. but just because i was smiling doesnt mean i was enjoying myself.

# ? Sep 30, 2019 20:25

veni veni veni: Jun 5, 2005

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

Shoulda stuck with it, it's a nice, low key, moody flick.

So I went back and watched it and yeah , it was actually pretty enjoyable. I kind of wish it was a little more stylish. It sort of had a network TV vibe to me but the premise was more original than I expected and it had a good pace to it. I feel like the scares could have been a lot better if the movie didn't show so much.

Most of the spooky moments had me armchair directing it. Just a little more subtlety and weirdness could have made it creepy as hell. Small things like when the corpse first moves they show it front and center. Just to cut to the main character with the corpse slightly out of focus, doing nothing. Have it move in the background while it's out of focus! there was a lot of moments like this. Also, the corpse comes in with her head half cut off as well as her torso. And the makeup on that was actually really good! It was unsettling. I was like "oh man, this thing is gonna start walking around with it's head dangling and it's gonna be so hosed up". But instead they just had her crawl around on all fours like every other exorcism movie. :sigh:

# ? Sep 30, 2019 21:13

feedmyleg: Dec 25, 2004

OpenSourceBurger posted:

You guys think we're ever going to get a JAWS remake? Hollywood has already shown it's willing to remake anything these days, and with Meg and both 42 Meters Down movies you'd think they'd go for the big name sooner or later.

Yeah, but only after everyone involved is dead.

# ? Sep 30, 2019 21:27

Drunkboxer: Jun 30, 2007

feedmyleg posted:

Yeah, but only after everyone involved is dead.

Getting pretty close. Stay safe Carl Gottlieb :ohdear:

# ? Sep 30, 2019 21:33

Franchescanado: Feb 23, 2013; If it wasn't for disappointment
I wouldn't have any appointment; Grimey Drawer

OpenSourceBurger posted:

You guys think we're ever going to get a JAWS remake? Hollywood has already shown it's willing to remake anything these days, and with Meg and both 42 Meters Down movies you'd think they'd go for the big name sooner or later.

Every shark remake has been a secret remake of Deep Blue Sea.

As it should be.

Except for The Shallows. That's kinda like the stranded boat story from Jaws 2.

# ? Sep 30, 2019 21:50

Splint Chesthair: Dec 27, 2004

Deep Blue Sea is Jaws 5. This is my headcanon, I will not be reading replies.

# ? Sep 30, 2019 22:09

veni veni veni: Jun 5, 2005

I don't even know what a Jaws remake would even have to offer? There's already a million Jaws ripoffs so it would just be another one on the pile. I guess the name would probably sell tickets.

Franchescanado posted:

Except for The Shallows. That's kinda like the stranded boat story from Jaws 2.

The Shallows kicked rear end. Definitely my favorite shark movie since Jaws.

# ? Sep 30, 2019 22:19

Human Tornada: Mar 4, 2005; I been wantin to see a honkey dance.

I watched The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) for the first time last night and wow, I never realized how much House of 1000 Corpses directly steals from that movie.

# ? Sep 30, 2019 22:25

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

The only way I could see a Jaws remake being made is if they either did it all practical, or all natural, Roar-style, and only used real sharks.

There�s no way a studio would go for either.

# ? Sep 30, 2019 22:27

Drunkboxer: Jun 30, 2007

One of these days I�m going to go to one of those Jaws screenings where you float around on a lake during.

# ? Sep 30, 2019 22:30

Franchescanado: Feb 23, 2013; If it wasn't for disappointment
I wouldn't have any appointment; Grimey Drawer

Drunkboxer posted:

One of these days I�m going to go to one of those Jaws screenings where you float around on a lake during.

See this is how you do a Piranha 3.

edit: I guess we'd be on Piranha 5 now, huh?

Piranha5, with the five styled like an S.

Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Sep 30, 2019

# ? Sep 30, 2019 22:47

Lumbermouth: Mar 6, 2008; GREG IS BIG NOW

Basebf555, thank you so much for recommending Night of the Comet, it was such a fun and genuinely good movie.

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TheLoneStar: Feb 9, 2017

veni veni veni posted:

I don't even know what a Jaws remake would even have to offer?

Since when has that stopped the needlessly high amount of horror remakes?

# ? Oct 1, 2019 01:05

Kvlt!: May 19, 2012

bill mosely is so good in tcm2 also it might be a giallo

also its the best in the franchise

its not a giallo

Kvlt! fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Oct 1, 2019

# ? Oct 1, 2019 01:14

Timeless Appeal: May 28, 2006

TheLoneStar posted:

Since when has that stopped the needlessly high amount of horror remakes?

...is there a needlessly high amount of horror remakes?

I mean all the big ones you can probably list have come out over the course of like fifteen years, and have mostly died down.There a few good to great ones in there: Suspiria, Evil Dead, Fright Night, and Dawn of the Dead. Even stuff that I don't love like Zombie's Halloweens or The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake are either interesting failures or fine. Obviously there is tons of poo poo in there like A Nightmare on Elm Street or the downright insulting Poltergeist. But it feels like it's an exaggerated trend that isn't as prevalent and ignores the high success rate of a good amount of the remakes.

# ? Oct 1, 2019 01:36

Tart Kitty: Dec 17, 2016; Oh, well, that's all water under the bridge, as I always say. Water under the bridge!

Tonight's sketchbook fun: a couple of loving hoedown, podunk, well them there motherfuckers

# ? Oct 1, 2019 01:55

Neo Rasa: Mar 8, 2007; Everyone should play DUKE games.

Franchescanado posted:

Every shark remake has been a secret remake of Deep Blue Sea.

As it should be.

Except for The Shallows. That's kinda like the stranded boat story from Jaws 2.

The only one that wasn't was, shamefully, that mega dogshit Deep Blue Sea "sequel." I still can't believe that happened when the first one ended with the perfect sequel setup of LL Cool J and Thomas Jane swimming the earth to combat intelligent shark crimes.

# ? Oct 1, 2019 02:00

Kvlt!: May 19, 2012

Tart Kitty posted:

Tonight's sketchbook fun: a couple of loving hoedown, podunk, well them there motherfuckers

love this can u draw me

# ? Oct 1, 2019 02:02

Tart Kitty: Dec 17, 2016; Oh, well, that's all water under the bridge, as I always say. Water under the bridge!

Kvlt! posted:

love this can u draw me

# ? Oct 1, 2019 02:14

Basebf555: Feb 29, 2008; The greatest sensual pleasure there is is to know the desires of another!; Fun Shoe

Lumbermouth posted:

Basebf555, thank you so much for recommending Night of the Comet, it was such a fun and genuinely good movie.

Glad you enjoyed it! I had a similar experience last year, saw it for the first time and it immediately became a new favorite. I'll definitely be rewatching it soon.

# ? Oct 1, 2019 02:33

Neo Rasa: Mar 8, 2007; Everyone should play DUKE games.

Tart Kitty posted:

lol at Kvlt! ever being old enough to have body hair

# ? Oct 1, 2019 03:18

Neo Rasa: Mar 8, 2007; Everyone should play DUKE games.

Tart Kitty posted:

This masterwork has only existed for a short time but I'm already angry that it's not the official Evil Bong blu-ray cover.

# ? Oct 1, 2019 03:19

MacheteZombie: Feb 4, 2007

Tart Kitty posted:

# ? Oct 1, 2019 03:28

Neo Rasa: Mar 8, 2007; Everyone should play DUKE games.

We watched Cult of Chucky, great premise that deserved a bigger budget honestly. I do wish they made like, one more pass with the script because it was in that choppy/half-baked kind of place where you could sees snippets of some really cool stuff in there that they didn't take the time to develop. Still not as good as Child's Play 2 but fun stuff.

# ? Oct 1, 2019 03:29