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final conflict (the omen part 3) was loving awesome screw the critics. i seriously cant find any strong coherent criticism against the movie other than that nobody wanted another omen movie  and critics in the 80s were dumb as gently caress and tried to be pretentious and crap over many many awesome moviesthe antichrist is the protagonist and hes played by sam neil and its amazing i hereby declare final conflict my lock of the week 
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What really got me in GREEN ROOM was when Chekov goes to pass his gun (lol) through the door and starts screaming. You think he's just screaming as they try and pry the empty gun from his hand but you find out they were holding his arm and just loving slashing it to ribbons with box cutters. loving harrowing.
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Oct 23, 2019 11:53
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Drunken Baker posted:What really got me in GREEN ROOM was when Chekov goes to pass his gun (lol) through the door and starts screaming. You think he's just screaming as they try and pry the empty gun from his hand but you find out they were holding his arm and just loving slashing it to ribbons with box cutters. My favourite line in that film is “Oh dear!”
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Oct 23, 2019 13:28
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A recommendation and a request: The Terror is an awesome TV show. Loosely based on the semi mystery of what happened to 2 missing British ice breaker ships trying to find the arctic passage sometime round 1850. There is a supernatural threat out there but it does a good job of making the environment seem just as hostile and deadly. A second season has come out recently but I don't like it as much despite the interesting setting (internment camp for Japanese in ww2 america gets stalked by an evil spirit). Which brings me to ask for recommendations. I used to not bother with horror much but I'm starting to come around to it. I really like stuff like the above where its not just the monster but the setting - watched The Ritual on the threads suggestion and loved it. Kind of hard describe what I'm after really. Haunted house stuff is not really my jam, I guess I like a general unease and sense of dread rather than ooo spooky ghost
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el dingo posted:Which brings me to ask for recommendations. I used to not bother with horror much but I'm starting to come around to it. I really like stuff like the above where its not just the monster but the setting - watched The Ritual on the threads suggestion and loved it. Kind of hard describe what I'm after really. Haunted house stuff is not really my jam, I guess I like a general unease and sense of dread rather than ooo spooky ghost If you're up for some TV shows that are kind of in the vein of the Terror: Channel Zero. There are 4 seasons, each one is based on an internet creepypasta. It's "based' in that it takes the basic concept and expands it into a full blown 6 episode season with twists, turns, character development, and wonderfully weird and memorable imagery. There are 4 seasons, I'll give you a quick rundown of them: 1) Candle Cove. Based off that story we all know, a guy goes back to his hometown and discoveries the mysterious history of a weird TV show. Very good if you're into creepy kids, creepy puppets, and an overall sense of dread. 2) No-End House. Teens go into a haunted house attraction only to discover it contains an entire world inside of it. John Carroll Lynch loving steals the show as one girl's dad, seemingly brought back from the dead by the No-End House. 3) Butcher's Block. Two sisters move to a new city that's seemingly haunted by a serial killer and is definitely preyed upon by a rich upper-crust family. This is my favorite one by far with some amazing visuals, good gore, and Rutger Hauer as the leader of the weird rich family. 4) Dream Door. A couple moves into a new house and they discover a weird door in their basement. Probably the weakest season overall in terms of plot, but Troy James plays the weird "imaginary friend" Pretzel Jack and is constantly twisting himself up into knots, crawling through vents, and all kinds of crazy stuff. I'd say start with season 2 or 3 to find out if it's right for you, but then check out all of them.
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el dingo posted:A recommendation and a request: Read the book! Simmons builds and maintains that atmosphere for like a thousand pages or something. It's great. Ditto his book Abominable.
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A Fancy Hat posted:
Thank you for this. Mostly. I started season 3 to check it out and it's pretty good so far, but I'm sad to find out that it's been canceled by SyFy. I'm hoping Amazon or Netflix saves it because it sounds like they didn't shy away from going in freaky directions with it.
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I'm way behind on my horror movie schedule this month, but here are a few more we watched over the last week: Paranormal Activity Yeah, they bled this thing dry and by the end of the franchise it's insanely predictable and filled with bizarre and contradictory lore that does nothing except overexplain stuff and make it dumb as hell. But man, this first movie is GOOD. There's a lot of jump scares, but they're set up well and the movie builds tension in a lot of clever ways. You'll see the timestamp in the corner go zipping by for a while, then it slows down. And you *know* something is about to happen. They also do a great job of showing the same hallway or room multiple times, training you to look in every corner and dark doorway to try and see something. The first time I watched this was on TV with my dad. My dad had never heard of the movie and thought it was a documentary. When we got to the Ouija board catching on fire he paused the TV, stood up, and said "So this loving proved ghosts are real? How did I not know this?". I had to explain then it was a found footage film, but I can't even imagine how terrifying this was to my Dad, thinking it was all real. Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension What a huge piece of poo poo movie. All that scary stuff in the first movie? Who gives a poo poo, it's all some demon's evil plot and there's time travel or maybe I'm remember that little kid wrong? I tried looking at Wikipedia to explain it and just ended up more confused. Anyway the big gimmick of this one is a camera that lets you see the ghosts. So again, you're taking a spooky premise and turning it into a gimmick at a crappy haunted house. "Welcome to the ghost dimension, a 4-d experience" and a fan blows some cold air on you while a guy in a crappy costume walks around the room. I think that someone mentions that the camera has "extra tubes" in it or something? I guess that lets you see ghosts. But if you're taking a plot point (spooky camera) from Goosebumps you know you're in trouble. I don't know why so many movies seem to think we need 100% of a spooky thing explained. If you hear a knocking at your front door, open it, and nobody's there? That's spooky. If you find out that an evil demon named Tobi was standing there (while invisible) and knocking on the door to distract you so a witch could cast a spell on your camera and then your daughter would get a crappy CGI demon face and run at you? That's not spooky, that's just stupid.
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If you're into the more grindhouse 70 - 80's themed gory horror, check out Found. It has a "movie within a movie," where the characters watch a movie called "Headless", which was actually filmed as a 24 minute short film, but it's represented as a feature length movie in Found. It proved popular enough that they actually did later on make "Headless" as a feature length 85 minute movie. Headless is on Screambox.
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Dementropy posted:
I got to see this a few weeks ago in the actual church they originally filmed it in. It was converted into a theater center during the 90s but the outside is still distinctly recognizable.
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Oct 24, 2019 21:48
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Hello? Hello? Hello? I have a message for you. And you are not going to like it.
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Another "movie within a movie"... Anguish! From 1987, with Zelda Rubinstein and Michael Lerner. I remember I got a French Blu-Ray which looked great but it had forced French subtitles when the original English audio was selected; I had to use AnyDVD to make a copy where the user can switch the subs off.
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I know this probably belongs in the hills you're willing to die on thread but the first paranormal activity sucks loving balls and nothing "happens" or "goes down" until the literal last scene in the movie which, if you've ever seen a preview for, you've already seen because that's the payoff for an hour and a half of nothing and nothing else happens so they had to use it. My partner and I have been getting through a lot of movies recommended in this thread and I'd rather watch under the skin again or the surprisingly wet fart hereditary than sit through the most boring "horror" movie ever made, garbage rear end paranormal activity. Watch Eyes of My Mother, a horror movie so loving tense you'll swear it's a 3 hour movie even though it's like an hour 20. Do not bother seeing the director's following movie Pierce as it is poo poo. But Eyes of My Mother is super good. If you liked the vuhvitch or get out you'll like this.
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OxMan posted:I know this probably belongs in the hills you're willing to die on thread but the first paranormal activity sucks loving balls and nothing "happens" or "goes down" until the literal last scene in the movie which, if you've ever seen a preview for, you've already seen because that's the payoff for an hour and a half of nothing and nothing else happens so they had to use it. My partner and I have been getting through a lot of movies recommended in this thread and I'd rather watch under the skin again or the surprisingly wet fart hereditary than sit through the most boring "horror" movie ever made, garbage rear end paranormal activity. I was going to say something but figured, eh not worth it. But those are my thoughts exactly. It's not even a slow buildup. There is no build. Just minor things barely happening at a constant pace and then something happens at the very end which wasn't scary. Like Blair Witch.
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Oct 25, 2019 01:58
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ive yet to see anything better than pumpkinhead, a puppet designed to skare and eat children
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Drunken Baker posted:For a real scare turn your monitor... to whatever program you use to watch films and watch The Borderlands sometimes known as "Final Prayer". The Vatican send a priest and a tech-guy to a small church in the middle of nowhere Scotland in order to verify (but more likely to debunk) a haunting. From way back on the second page, but I ended up coming across this (listed as "Final Prayer") on Tubi of all things, and pretty much agree with all of this. The found footage aspect is barely noticeable, and the one noted jump scare gave me the impression it was included just to mock the trope a bit. If I had to nitpick I thought the acting from the tech guy was a little weak here and there in the first half, but the last act is incredibly intense and just does not let up until the credits roll.
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I really enjoyed the first Paranormal Activity. I've even seen it 3 times! Imagine that! But I really love the found footage genre. My favorite FF's are 'As Above, So Below' and 'Grave Encounters'. Highly recommended!
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Oct 25, 2019 08:44
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The genre youre gonna want is Horror, you thank me later.
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That song from under the skin is legitimately creepy. e: https://youtu.be/c7rY10hY8Cw It has one of the scarier scenes I've ever seen in a horror movie, definitely worth watching even if I'd say the entire thing is more of a 3/5. SilvergunSuperman fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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potee posted:From way back on the second page, but I ended up coming across this (listed as "Final Prayer") on Tubi of all things, and pretty much agree with all of this. The found footage aspect is barely noticeable, and the one noted jump scare gave me the impression it was included just to mock the trope a bit. I'm made up people are watching and liking the film. It's can be such a hard sell at times and I fear I come off like a weirdo when I endorse it so much.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:That song from under the skin is legitimately creepy.
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Drunken Baker posted:I'm made up people are watching and liking the film. It's can be such a hard sell at times and I fear I come off like a weirdo when I endorse it so much. You were right about the ending sticking with you.
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Oct 25, 2019 11:32
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This is probably more a thriller than a horror movie, but I saw Crawl yesterday and it was pretty good. Synopsis: some people are menaced/killed by huge killer alligators in Florida during a cat 5 hurricane and flooding. I liked that it was really well built. All the tools the survivors use to survive are seen in the background before they are needed, nothing just appears. They establish in the beginning that the pretty girl is a swim champ, so it's plausible that she is very strong for her frame and also has a chance the times she needs to swim in the floodwaters. All the people are acting like people (or at least like Florida Man). People do some dumb things, but they are things that really happen during hurricanes. Nobody is doing completely senseless things just to advance the plot or set up a cool death. Content warning: There is a little dog which is used to increase tension for people who don't care about humans being eaten by monsters/wildlife. The dog lives.
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OxMan posted:I know this probably belongs in the hills you're willing to die on thread but the first paranormal activity sucks loving balls quote:Watch Eyes of My Mother, a horror movie so loving tense you'll swear it's a 3 hour movie even though it's like an hour 20. Do not bother seeing the director's following movie Pierce as it is poo poo. But Eyes of My Mother is super good. If you liked the vuhvitch or get out you'll like this. Possum - written and directed by Matthew Holness, the guy behind Garth Marenghi's Dark Place. Not necessarily a horror but creepy as hell and guaranteed to ruin your evening.
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toiletbrush posted:I hate black and white movies but I'm gonna give this a go.
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I saw Hausu in the Scream Stream last night. That's uh... well that movie sure is something. It's a Japanese movie made in 1977. I don't know about everyone else but I saw some huge precursors to anime. I really don't know how to describe this movie. It's so over the top and insane. Basically a bunch of school girls go to a house and it's sort of haunted. I guess. I don't know. It was really fun though even though my brain couldn't process a lot of what was happening. I don't know if I can recommend smoking weed before watching it. I did, but I really could have used all of my mental faculties to try to understand wtf is happening. It really isn't my style and I don't know why I like it but I actually recommend this movie. 
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I don't know if I can recommend smoking weed before watching it. I did, but I really could have used all of my mental faculties to try to understand wtf is happening. i fully recommend smoking weed before watching this movie.
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toiletbrush posted:It was not a film I liked either. I hate black and white as a stylistic choice and I literally forgot it's even a thing with eyes of my mother because it's just that good. Like I couldn't imagine it in color because it feels so drab and dreary it belongs in B&W and again... I usually hate movies that are B&W on purpose. Shame it's a total fluke since the next movie by the dude is such (color) poo poo.
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John F Bennett posted:I really enjoyed the first Paranormal Activity. I've even seen it 3 times! Imagine that! You are a man of refined class and taste 
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Terrified is a funky little Argentinian spookfest with lots of verve. I don’t normally seek out slick-looking, modern haunting movies but this one has a creepy mean streak and I’ve already watched it multiple times.
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Last page, Cubone posted one of Keith Thompson's amazing works of art, the Pripyat Beast. For those who have never checked out his website, there are short paragraphs that accompany most of his works, and they really do an amazing job of stimulating the imagination. Here's the bit that goes with the Pripyat Beast:  Anyway, they aren't horror movies, but a lot of these pieces have established creepy and unsettling settings that beat out a lot of books and movies in the genre. Also, he's done Alternate Timeline History stuff, with World War 2 mechs, so there's that, if you're on the fence.
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Just saw Devil's Pass aka The Dyatlov Pass Incident. It was good! Another great entry in the found footage genre. It can probably best be described as Blair Witch but in the snow.
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The Devil's Candy is a fun - its about a struggling painter who maybe kinda might be possessed by the devil or perhaps the power of heavy metal itself Fucken rules, and has the wobbly eyed fella from Constantine in it. Great soundtrack, cool visuals, no characters that poo poo me. Th Kirlian Frequency is an animated fictional radio series from Argentina, if you like spooky animated weirdness. Apparently if you like Welcome to the Night Vale you'll like this, but I have no idea.
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Finally watched Candyman since it's on Netflix and loved it. The scene where Helen meets Candyman and is entranced by him, only to wake up in Ann Marie's apartment covered in blood with a decapitated dog and a bloody crib in the next room was disorienting as hell and probably my favorite scene in the movie. The Philip Glass score and the urban decay really added a lot. I know Jordan Peele is doing a remake and it'll be interesting to see what he does with the material. There are class and race disparity undercurrents throughout, from Candyman being the ghost of an educated son of a slave who is killed in a spectacle lynching to some really subtle (and maybe unintentional) colorism stuff involving the main character's friend and research partner.
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It's not a whole movie, but this scared the dickens out of me when I was 10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkf4Cmv0-c0
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Sign me up. She saw “Aliens reunion” and thought it said,”illegal Aliens reunion” and signed up.
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Watched a bunch of movies recommended in this thread, and it was good. Thanks, thread!
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Can we talk about spooky movies more now?
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I like spooky movies.
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