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Untrustable posted:Just watched The Head Hunter on Shudder and what a good movie marred by a poo poo ending. Thanks for the heads(ha!) up, I've been meaning to check that out and didn't realize it was about to show up on Shudder.
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Any of you guys ever see Braid (also called Nobody Leaves in the UK)? I loved the premise, but ultimately found it incoherent, unoriginal and wayyyy pretentious. Gorgeous cinematography, though. I was looking up reviews and found that most critics thought it was amazing, so I was just wondering where horror fans with taste landed on it. Maybe I missed something on the first watch.
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Dec 6, 2019 15:09
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M_Sinistrari posted:I read it before it was changed to part of a series. It was very good. Same, I didn't know it had become a series and now I'm very excited to look into this.
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Crosspost.Lurdiak posted:So you guys probably know that the toughest poster in CD, Timby, had to go back to the hospital after they cut the cancer out because that rat bastard we call fate gave him complications. He's going back home again, but sadly all that time in the hospital means he's in the hole again. Therefore, I'm back with
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Untrustable posted:Just watched The Head Hunter on Shudder and what a good movie marred by a poo poo ending. What didn't you like about the ending?
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Dec 7, 2019 04:56
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Midsommar was wicked.
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MacheteZombie posted:Midsommar was wicked. It definitely had some beats that hit real hard.
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Dec 7, 2019 05:36
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Midsommar is a movie I enjoyed watching, it captivated me, but I will likely never watch it again. 5 bags of popcorn.
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Dec 7, 2019 05:50
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Should I watch that extended edition if I saw the theatrical version twice and loved it?
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Dec 7, 2019 06:11
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I’ve only seen the extended, and people seemed to like the extra stuff that was added so sure.
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Dec 7, 2019 07:03
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I really enjoyed the visuals. Having a swimming feel to a lot of the scenes really amped up the unease.
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Dec 7, 2019 08:05
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I imagine I'll see Midsommar more times before I see Hereditary again and that's coming from someone who loved both.
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Dec 7, 2019 08:30
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sigher posted:What didn't you like about the ending? Well I'm a child who likes happy endings and the father putting his daughter (back) to rest and successfully killing the monster would have been fine. The head somehow using it's spinal cord to decapitate and then take the father's body before slamming his head onto a spike seems like a "live by the sword" kind of thing but it comes off as a "all horror movies need bummer endings" thing.
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Dec 7, 2019 08:51
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I finally got some lights up yesterday so it finally started to feel like Christmas to me so I started my 12 Days or Horror project. I considered being cute and waiting until Friday the 13th but there's no way I watch 12 horror movies in 12 days leading up to Christmas. Plus I never found the time/patience to make cutesy horror advent calendar images. Up first was Black Christmas and while I can kind of see why people like it I wasn't into it. I get it. That grimey, mean, slasher thing. Its not really my thing but I went in prepared. It was actually a lot tamer than I was expecting and to be honest I just kind of felt like it was dull in the middle. It picked up well in the last act and woke me up a bit but its probably not becoming a Christmas regular. Fun to see Margot Kidder and Olivia Hussey and they probably carry the film for me. And good to see John Saxon once again as the sole hope of competence in an incompetent horror film police force. I can definitely see all the elements that make this a cult classic, so if nothing else I'm glad I finally saw it. Tonight I changed pace with Anna and the Apocalypse. I was expecting Shaun of the Dead meets High School Musical but its way more of the latter than the former. It took its musical stuff very seriously, which shocked the hell out of me. I was fully expecting that to be silly, and there were elements of it but someone really set out to make some angsty musical numbers, huh? And the movie was way darker than I was expecting. And sad. I got kind of sad. But still mostly fun I guess. As for as zombie teen melodrama musicals with a dry wit go. Very Christmasy though. So feeling good about things even if nothings been a HR yet.
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Dec 7, 2019 10:19
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All of the songs on my Spotify decade list are about monsters. Draculas have the top two places but wolfmen, zombies, and Frankensteins also make an appearance. Note that "Roots Radic" IS Scientist.
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Dec 7, 2019 10:37
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Species is really way better than I remembered, although I'm not sure I ever really saw it before. Every single part of it is terrible on paper, but the amount of talent involved makes it almost good, and certainly worth watching. H.R. Giger spent 100k of his own money to have an absolutely ludicrous skull train built for a complete non-sequitur scene that lasts 5 seconds. And really, given it's premise and reputation, it's far less sleazy than I expected too.
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married but discreet posted:Species is really way better than I remembered, although I'm not sure I ever really saw it before. Every single part of it is terrible on paper, but the amount of talent involved makes it almost good, and certainly worth watching. If you want sleaze check out the sequels, which are both complete trash and deviantart porn.
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Dec 7, 2019 16:29
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Species 2 has a really cool elaborate puppet monster at the end. The movie itself is terrible though
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My favourite Species fact is that the description of El Chubacabra is identical to Sils monster form due to an eye witness having seen Species shortly before the alleged encounter.
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Dec 7, 2019 18:02
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Species is one of those movies that would've been complete trash except somehow they got Ben Kingsley, Forest Whittaker, and Michael Madsen to do it, plus they hit a home run with Natasha Henstridge. Alfred Molina and Marg Helgenberger are good in it too. Definitely a cast driven movie.
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Dec 7, 2019 18:40
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david_a posted:Species 2 has a really cool elaborate puppet monster at the end. The movie itself is terrible though The shotgun to the skull is great too.
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Dec 7, 2019 19:23
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moths posted:As good as The Keep is, its Tangerine Dream OST is better. It's unfortunately also what's keeping it off bluray. That sucks because every time I have seen it the transfer was awful, even on the big screen. I really would like to see this cleaned up.
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Dec 7, 2019 19:47
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The version I saw was so blurry and grainy that a lot of times you could barely make out what was happening. Which in a few moments added to the eerie atmosphere but I would love to see how it looks when given the proper restoration.
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Dec 7, 2019 20:03
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In Fabric (the killer dress movie from the director of Duke of Burgundy) is so loving good
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Dec 7, 2019 20:19
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Barry Convex posted:In Fabric (the killer dress movie from the director of Duke of Burgundy) is so loving good Going to see it tonight, very excited!
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In Fabric should have been 100% my poo poo but for whatever reason it didn’t click with me as much as I expected. The lead actress is excellent and I give it a lot of credit for being bizarre as hell and truly unique. Often quite funny too. I thought it was too long though and it loses steam when it moves the focus away from Marianne in the second half Absolutely worth checking out though and I did enjoy it overall. I will probably give it another chance, it’s possible I just wasn’t in the right mood.
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So, Rawhead Rex was A Hell of A Thing. Did not expect to see a priest getting peed on by a demon in a graveyard.
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egon_beeblebrox posted:So, Rawhead Rex was A Hell of A Thing. Did not expect to see a priest getting peed on by a demon in a graveyard. One thing to note is they changed his appearance quite a bit for the movie, Rex's head is basically described as looking like a giant dick with teeth. Clive ain't subtle. Stink Billyums fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Dec 7, 2019 |
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I love when Rawhead Rex gets to the trailer camp full of irishmen, their first instinct is to fist fight it.
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Was not expecting to see a demon fetus puppet crawl up inside a lady in To the Devil a Daughter.
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Untrustable posted:Well I'm a child who likes happy endings and the father putting his daughter (back) to rest and successfully killing the monster would have been fine. The head somehow using it's spinal cord to decapitate and then take the father's body before slamming his head onto a spike seems like a "live by the sword" kind of thing but it comes off as a "all horror movies need bummer endings" thing. I get you, I wish it ended happier but I don't think that it did was terrible or ruined the movie, not preferred yes but not terrible I wouldn't say.
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Tonight's Christmas horror was Better Watch Out. Woah. Definitely the first HR of this thing for me and probably the first one I can see rewatching next Christmas. Really good. Really tense. Darkly funny in places. Completely unsettling and attention grabbing in others. Strong performances. Really twisted Home Alone parallels. Caught me completely off guard and wasn't at all what I was expecting and had me hooked from that point on. I enjoyed how it subverted expectations, not just in the one way but in the whole "cute kid has a crush on his pretty babysitter, she kind of knowingly lets it happen, its so cute... oh the gently caress its not!" thing. Like that was feeling wrong to me and then, yep. Its wrong. Man, adolescent boys are the loving worst. Also its amusing that two of the main characters are the brother and sister from The Visit. I knew I recognized both and I had a laugh when I discovered it was from the same movie. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Dec 8, 2019 |
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Saw In Fabric. That was great! I know this is a completely different movie but it gave me some serious Beyond the Black Rainbow vibes.
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Ready or Not is a fun 90 minutes. That's it. The platonic ideal of a good way to waste some time that I probably won't think about until one day I'm high and in the shower and get mad that they blew up those little poo poo kids off camera. Put Adrien Brody in more things.
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sigher posted:I get you, I wish it ended happier but I don't think that it did was terrible or ruined the movie, not preferred yes but not terrible I wouldn't say. It might've been my Indonesian revenge movie binge beforehand. I expected a good revenge story, tho the point of revenge movies is generally "revenge is bad for you"
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FreudianSlippers posted:The version I saw was so blurry and grainy that a lot of times you could barely make out what was happening. Whole thing is draped in fog anyway but yeah.
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Rageaholic posted:Saw In Fabric. That was great! I know this is a completely different movie but it gave me some serious Beyond the Black Rainbow vibes. It’s an incomprehensible mess? That’s a shame.
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Dec 8, 2019 18:54
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In Fabric was awesome, be prepared to surrender yourself to the wierdness.
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Finally saw The Dead Don’t Die today. For the first hour or so I was really digging it and wondering why it got panned, but man does it poo poo the bed towards the end. Tilda Swindon playing a katana-wielding Scottish coroner should’ve been an easy A, but her scenes were actually some of the worst. Absolutely stacked cast though. I like Adam Driver more and more every time I see him in something, and he has a lot of the best lines.
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Lurdiak posted:
Thanks to everyone who donated. If you have the christmas spirit and some money to spare, while the emergency has passed, a few more dollars Timby's way would still make his life easier.
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We did it again, goons!