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I can't believe there's been no mention of Doom House ITT.
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Oct 9, 2019 20:01
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I don't want to be a Carpenter Fanboy, but I watched Christine for the first time last year and really enjoyed it. It's not a scary movie, but it was really fun to watch a sentient car go on a murder spree. I really enjoyed some of the car crumpling/regenerating effects too.
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Oct 9, 2019 20:21
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Goldreallas XXX posted:I can't believe there's been no mention of Doom House ITT. A doom house?!?
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Oct 10, 2019 00:29
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Goldreallas XXX posted:I can't believe there's been no mention of Doom House ITT. I always get a kick out of the IMDB reviews
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Oct 10, 2019 01:36
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As long as we're talking about Doom House and Mood House, I like to go back and read this analysis every few years: https://bigother.com/2011/05/18/from-doom-house-to-mood-house-how-simple-aesthetic-strategies-can-create-experimental-films-part-1/
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Oct 10, 2019 01:55
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Oct 10, 2019 02:58
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Not necessarily a Halloween movie, but I found a movie on Prime one night a couple of years ago and was pleasantly surprised with all the bad horror movies I've seen. Intruder (1989) is a good, claustrophobic slasher that takes place almost solely in a grocery store. The Prowler is another one I stumbled across and while it's not a great story, Tom Savini's special effects are top notch.
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Oct 10, 2019 05:29
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Growing up as a kid I watched a movie as a kid that scared the poo poo out of me that I don't see mentioned much, Prophecy from 1979. The premise is "A log company's waste mutates the environment, creating a giant killer bear-monster." I haven't seen the movie in decades at this point but as a kid that bear scared the poo poo out of. Especially watching the movie living in mountains of North Georgia in a rickety house. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKvruwE6P1k
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Oct 11, 2019 06:00
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Did Chopping Mall get brought up? If you're a fan of 80s vibe it's dripping with it, and as a bonus also fuckin owns.
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Oct 11, 2019 06:35
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We watched Chopping Mall on the Scream Stream one night and it was a hit. So ridiculous. I watched Near Dark last night but I was quite drunk so I don't remember most of it. I'll have to watch it again. It was not quite what I expected.
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Oct 11, 2019 06:40
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Ravenous also has the best soundtrack.
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Oct 11, 2019 13:47
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We watched Us last night, the second time after having seen it in theaters when it first came out. I still really like this movie, but after having seen it a second time, there were a few things I didn't like. And I fully admit this might just be because I'm overthinking things or just being stupid and missing things. The overall story hook is amazing and creepy and weird. The concept of the doppelgangers is interesting and every single actor does an amazing job of portraying their "normal" character and the doppelganger. The music is great and there are some really great memorable scenes. But: I don't fully understand Red's plan. So they're going to come up and kill everybody? Then just stand there? Are they taking over the US after that? I'm fine if there's no real plan beyond that, but it felt weird to portray her as a mastermind that organized the Tethered, but her big plan was just "kill everybody and then we'll figure it out" Other than that it's the best movie about spooky underground events since CHUD.
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Oct 11, 2019 15:12
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A Fancy Hat posted:We watched Us last night, the second time after having seen it in theaters when it first came out. she was a child when she got locked underground and probably just thought hands across america was the be all end all solution
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Oct 11, 2019 16:21
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Mordor She Wrote posted:she was a child when she got locked underground and probably just thought hands across america was the be all end all solution I'm cool with that. Especially since it continues the theme of "the oppressed can actually do things if you let them". In reality we kinda/sorta pulled off hands across America. The tethered actually did it. So it's a childish plan but at the same time, they loving showed us who's boss.
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Oct 11, 2019 18:06
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I watched The Autopsy of Jane Doe the other night. I didn't care for it but I still think it's a worthwhile watch. My problem is that the movie establishes a reason for the characters to be isolated and also trapped but then has an outside character show up. The ending also did a thing that I personally didn't like*. Movie fits in the "is this person crazy or is something spooky going on" genre from this post Facebook Aunt posted:I like the "is this person crazy or is something spooky going on" genre of horror movies. The isolation comes from not being able to ask for help, not from everyone else in the world being incompetent. Ending Spoilers *Everybody Dies
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Oct 11, 2019 21:16
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Drunken Baker posted:Ravenous also has the best soundtrack. Yeah, 'the cave' does such a great job of contributing to the tension of the sequence and I'm a huge fan of the banjos and other rustic instruments used in most of the soundtrack. Here's the creepy track without the scene it's from. https://youtu.be/yy5xlq5lKKE
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Oct 11, 2019 21:37
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"Fractured" just came out on Netflix today. Same director as Session 9 and The Machinist. In fact, one might think of Fractured as The Machinist 2.
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Oct 12, 2019 09:27
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Don’t be a Halloweenie. Pete & Pete S02 Ep06 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6qbf70
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Oct 12, 2019 09:58
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Is In the Tall Grass as bad as I assume it is?
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Oct 12, 2019 17:11
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I watched it and ya it was bad, but that's to be expected for anything based on a Stephen King story
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Oct 12, 2019 17:28
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Oldstench posted:Is In the Tall Grass as bad as I assume it is? don't worry, professor oak comes out and saves you
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Oct 12, 2019 17:48
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Traxis posted:I watched it and ya it was bad, but that's to be expected for anything based on a Stephen King story Misery, Salem's Lot, Shawshank Redemption, Needful Things...all good to great. e: gently caress I forgot Running Man?!
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Oct 12, 2019 18:51
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Oldstench posted:Misery, Salem's Lot, Shawshank Redemption, Needful Things...all good to great. Stand By Me, The Green Mile, The Shining arguably The Mist, Pet Sematary, Carrie, Cujo, Christine, and Children of the Corn I've never seen Firestarter but my mom liked it
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Oct 12, 2019 18:56
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Most Stephen King stuff is at least slightly entertaining besides bottom tier awful garbage like Cell, Dolan's Cadillac (lol this movie is so drat bad so maybe it is worth watching), or The Mangler. Stand by Me, Carrie (the original only, stay as far away as possible from the recent remake), Shawshank Redemption, and Christine are easily the standout Stephen King adaptations. Also really like The Dead Zone and the recent 11/22/63 TV series where James Franco absolutely kills it as the lead character. Then there's excellent films like The Green Mile and The Shining that are awesome movies... but can't really be called Stephen King adaptations because they're such stark departures from the original novels.
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Oct 13, 2019 00:41
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The movie version of Salem's Lot was probably very scary when it first came out, but now it's just MST3K fodder.
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Oct 13, 2019 01:40
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Oldstench posted:Is In the Tall Grass as bad as I assume it is? Directed by Vincenzo Natali (Cube, Cypher, Splice, Haunter). It's good. Not really great, but it holds your attention.
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Oct 13, 2019 03:09
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ultrafilter posted:The movie version of Salem's Lot was probably very scary when it first came out, but now it's just MST3K fodder. Yeah, that movie is comically bad. Way too slow for its own good with a setup that takes forever and ultimately goes nowhere, horribly cheesy acting, hilariously dumb "action" scenes, and a wet fart of an ending. The scene where the dude gets impaled by antlers is cool as hell though, but nothing else holds up compared to iconic horror movies from that era like Alien, Nightmare on Elm Street, Rosemary's Baby, etc.
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Oct 13, 2019 03:42
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On the topic of Netflix movies based on King stuff, 1922 ain't bad. It's not great and more of a tension kind of thing that big jump scares, but that's to be expected of a flashback style movie. It's a farmer writing his last will and testament about mistakes he made and mosfortunes he brought upon himself when he murdered his wife in 1922. Most of the movie is more about how he conceals the crime and what other sins he has to commit to keep things going.
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Oct 13, 2019 04:30
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Sorry, but Salem's Lot owns.
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Oct 13, 2019 05:30
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From Netflix, "the boys in the trees" is a good Halloween movie, though it's not especially spooky. Two boys in their last year of high school reunite on Halloween, one a social outcast and the other one of the cool crowd, their childhood friendship separated by their peer groups. Less a horror film and more a meditation on growing up and growing apart, it has some good moments and is worth the watch. To chime in on the Feast series, the first was solid for a low-budget garbofest, but the sequels are pretty naff. The second one features a pretty great scene subverting your expectations of self-sacrifice in the face of danger, and the ending of the third is hilarious because the writer clearly stopped giving a poo poo and just needed a way to finish the thing DJ Fuckboy Supreme fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Oct 13, 2019 |
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Oct 13, 2019 07:37
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bitterandtwisted posted:It's best to go in knowing as little as possible so I'll just say it's on Shudder and you should all watch it because it deserved to make literally 1000x its budget Speaking of Shudder, check out Incident in a Ghostland if you're a subscriber.
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Oct 13, 2019 10:14
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This was the only good story in V/H/S
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Oct 14, 2019 04:33
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b mad at me posted:This was the only good story in V/H/S It's interesting that the one guy she doesn't like is the guy who stops the date rape. She only likes bad guys maybe?
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Oct 14, 2019 04:53
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b mad at me posted:This was the only good story in V/H/S It was legit creepy though,the panicked ending is intense.
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Oct 14, 2019 06:19
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I just saw Annabelle Comes Home. I liked it! It's pretty standard stuff really, but still I enjoyed the movie. It was better than the La Lorena one at least. And it was fun to see the Conjuring actors again in this Conjuring Universe movie. It wasn't very scary sadly. Also, it had a lot of material for more potential spin-offs. I liked the Ferryman and the TV that showed you a couple of minutes of the future
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Oct 14, 2019 10:16
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b mad at me posted:This was the only good story in V/H/S It's probably my favorite one, but I also really like the one with the guys going through a "haunted house" that turns out be a real haunted house. The couple on their honeymoon one is also incredibly creepy. I also really enjoyed V/H/S 2 - specifically the alien one. I watched that by myself at like 1 in the morning and it really freaked me out, mostly the sound design. V/H/S: Viral is so bad though. I hated it when it first came out and recently rewatched it on Shudder to see if I was being unfair to it. No, it still sucks and actually sucks worse than I remembered.
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Oct 14, 2019 14:58
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I watched The Sixth Sense last night and it's overall good but lol at the twist being that Bruce Willis is dead. He gets shot at the beginning, then the story advances a year and never mentions him getting shot again. He doesn't ever interact directly with anyone except his widowed wife who is supposed to look like she's mad at him for prioritizing his job over her. It's the most obvious thing ever that she is remembering him by going places they shared and watching wedding videos constantly. Also M Night Shyamalan loving loves making cameos in his own movies.
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Oct 14, 2019 15:18
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b mad at me posted:This was the only good story in V/H/S Nah man that thing was pretty solid, had some interesting ideas for each film. None of them hold a candle to Safe Haven from the sequel, that one was bananas 
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Oct 14, 2019 15:56
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I remember thinking 2 sucked rear end, I'll have to give it another chance.
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Oct 14, 2019 17:23
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Parrotine posted:Nah man that thing was pretty solid, had some interesting ideas for each film. Yes, Safe Haven is INSANE. Once it gets going (and it gets going very quickly) you have no idea what the gently caress is going on, just that it's very bad and very weird. On the anthology kick - if you have Shudder you NEED to check out the new Creepshow TV show. It's amazing. Nothing will ever match the original movie, but holy poo poo is this a fun and spooky tribute to one of the best horror movies ever made. So far I'd rank the segments as such: 1) All Hallow's Eve (kids go trick or treating, but there's something sinister going on) 2) The House of the Head (a little girl finds out her dollhouse is haunted and tries to help the doll family deal with it) 3) The Finger (DJ Qualls finds a finger which quickly grows into a little pet/murder machine) 4) The Man in the Suitcase (a stoner kid gets the wrong suitcase from the airport - and there's a guy inside) 5) Bad Wolf Down (US soldiers in WW2 get trapped behind enemy lines and find a gruesome scene in a prison) 6) Gray Matter (a terrified son tells the story of his dad turning into.... something) They've all been good, but All Hallow's Eve and House of the Head are absolute classics. Bad Wolf Down isn't great but gets major points for having 3 different kinds of werewolves (Howling, American Werewolf, and The Wolfman styled) all in one short. Jeffrey Combs probably could have been used more but he's still great. and Gray Matter is perfectly fine, but weak when compared to everything else the show's presented so far.
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