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FordCQC posted:Having seen neither, which should I watch tonight? Midsommar or Hereditary? Hereditary is a good movie. Not my horror cup of tea but it's extremely well made, has some great horror moments and the performances are excellent. I'm not a big "A24orror" guy but I enjoyed Hereditary. Midsommar I didn't really like. I don't think Florence Pugh was a good enough actress to hold the movie up, it drags because it's long as hell and nothing interesting happens. The cult's activities are never explained, it's never explained what they're about or why they do the things they do so the entire movie is just them doing weird poo poo and the Americans going WOOOAAAHH DUDE THAT WASN'T COOL".
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I love Hereditary but thought that Midsommar was a safer and more derivative film made by a young talent who was perhaps scared to experiment and take risks with a bigger budget. e: The psilocybin scenes are really, really well done and very accurate to the actual effects of a trip. It's probably the closest depiction I've ever seen on film to be honest. TheOmegaWalrus fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Feb 7, 2020 |
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Halloween Jack posted:I'm gonna say that Hereditary is the most creepy and bone-chilling, whereas Midsommar is crazy and gory and fun. What are your favourite horror movies? Mine is The Wicker Man, so of course I'm going to lean Midsommar. The Thing is my #1 favorite. I like a lot of horror-adjacent stuff just as much too like Frailty and Ravenous. We could round out a list with Event Horizon, Halloween 2018, and It Chapter 1.
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If I didn't know, I would've thought Midsommar would've been made before Hereditary just because it's such a step down in quality.
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Kvlt! posted:If I didn't know, I would've thought Midsommar would've been made before Hereditary just because it's such a step down in quality. It's the difficult sophomore album of horror, then?
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FordCQC posted:The Thing is my #1 favorite. I like a lot of horror-adjacent stuff just as much too like Frailty and Ravenous. We could round out a list with Event Horizon, Halloween 2018, and It Chapter 1.
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Jedit posted:It's the difficult sophomore album of horror, then? actually thats a perfect metaphor, hopefully his next movie will be a return to good form
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this has me thinking, name your top THREE horror DIRECTORS 1. Rob Zombie 2. Lucio Fulci 3. Stuart Gordon Honestly Stuart might get replaced with Roger Corman
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 20:19 |
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I'll admit to preferring Midsommar to Hereditary overall, but calling Florence Pugh's performance one of the film's weakpoints is hard for me to understand. I thought she was fantastic and worth watching for her alone.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 20:29 |
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Might just be a personal preference tbh. I didn't think any of the performances in Midsommar were particularly good to be fair. ESPECIALLY compared to Toni Collette's powerhouse performance in Hereditary (and honestly Hereditary was the opposite of Midsommar, the whole cast was EXCELLENT)
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1. John 2. Carpenter 3. gently caress You
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 20:32 |
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I don’t know, that’s really hard actually. Mine seem really basic but it’s what’s in my heart: 1. Carpenter 2. Cronenberg 3. Raimi
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Midsommar is fantastic, not quite as good as Hereditary but that's a very high bar. It was my fourth favorite horror film of last year behind Knife+Heart, Climax, and The Lighthouse.Kvlt! posted:this has me thinking, name your top THREE horror DIRECTORS that's easy: 1. James Wan 2. Mike Flanagan 3. whoever did Annabelle
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gey muckle mowser posted:Midsommar is fantastic, not quite as good as Hereditary but that's a very high bar. It was my fourth favorite horror film of last year behind Knife+Heart, Climax, and The Lighthouse. You said fourth fav horror movie of the year, but only mentioned three horror movies? Surely you don't think The Lighthouse is a horror movie as opposed to the black comedy it truly is, because only a POSER would think that. (SIDEBAR: Knife + Heart and Climax were two of my favs too)
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gey muckle mowser posted:
Thought about saying this, but if you want to troll this thread I think the third one should be Joss Whedon. It works on multiple levels.
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Kvlt! posted:Might just be a personal preference tbh. I didn't think any of the performances in Midsommar were particularly good to be fair. I agree I thought the acting in Hereditary was a step above Midsommar as a whole. Although I think people are throwing a bit more shade it's way than warranted, it's a really pretty looking movie. Drunkboxer posted:I dont know, thats really hard actually. Mine seem really basic but its whats in my heart: That's basically mine only replace Raimi with Gordon. I also think it's a hard list to argue with qualitatively (unless you consider Hitchcock a horror director).
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 20:40 |
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1. Carpenter 2. Bava 3. Gordon 4. Fisher 5. Argento 6. Cronenberg 7. Corman 8. Fulci 9. Zombie 10. Hooper My wildcard is Hitchcock because I don't really know where to rank him. I love Psycho, but most of my other favorite films of his aren't horror, like The Trouble With Harry and Foreign Correspondent. And as much as I'm a strong supporter of Rob Zombie, he only makes my top-3 list when we're talking about living/active directors. Edit: and yes I'm aware I left Craven off. Deal with it. Basebf555 fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Feb 7, 2020 |
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gey muckle mowser posted:
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Kvlt! posted:You said fourth fav horror movie of the year, but only mentioned three horror movies? it's both black comedy AND horror. I agree leans more towards comedy but I don't think it's wrong to count it as horror as well. Drunkboxer posted:Thought about saying this, but if you want to troll this thread I think the third one should be Joss Whedon. It works on multiple levels. you're right that would've been better. real top 3: 1. John Carpenter 2. Stuart Gordon 3. Terence Fisher Alhazred posted:James Wan is a great director stuck with mediocre scripts. yeah I agree, and I actually like Flanagan a lot, I was just trying to rile up Kvlt!
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1. David Cronenberg 2. Kiyoshi Kurosawa 3. Koji Shiraishi Almost went with Romero for #3, but couldn't keep pushing The Dark Half out of my mind.
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1. James Whale 2. John Carpenter 3. George Romero Honorable mentions to Sam Raimi, Rob Zombie and Frank Henenlotter
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Romero for me just isn't a top guy overall, as much as Night of the Living Dead casts a shadow over the entire genre. I never really find myself in the mood to watch a Romero film other than the original Dead trilogy. The usual Mount Rushmore of American horror directors is always kinda off for me because I just don't really love Craven or Romero.
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Kvlt! posted:The cult's activities are never explained, it's never explained what they're about or why they do the things they do so the entire movie is just them doing weird poo poo and the Americans going WOOOAAAHH DUDE THAT WASN'T COOL". It's Midsommar. The solstice. This is just the sort of shenanigans we Nordics get up to at that time again.
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Basebf555 posted:Romero for me just isn't a top guy overall, as much as Night of the Living Dead casts a shadow over the entire genre. I never really find myself in the mood to watch a Romero film other than the original Dead trilogy. I feel the same about Craven and it always makes me feel guilty a little because he’s so universally loved by genre fans. I still love a few of his movies though.
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Drunkboxer posted:I feel the same about Craven and it always makes me feel guilty a little because he’s so universally loved by genre fans. I still love a few of his movies though. Oh yea I mean the guy was just too prolific to not love a few of them. The People Under the Stairs is fantastic but most of his stuff falls into the "enjoyed it but didn't love it" category for me.
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1. George A. Romero 2. Lucio Fulci 3. John Carpenter
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Carpenter Romero Cronenberg easy peasy.
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Takashi Miike belongs somewhere in my top 3 but I don't know where. Ok my new top 3 is 1. Rob Zombie 2. Lucio Fulci 3. Takashi Miike
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Corman Whales Carpenter
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Holy poo poo Truth or Die can loving eat a bag of dicks. What a garbage, hateful, awful movie. Also one of the most despicable endings I've seen in a long time.
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Miike is definitely worthy of a spot but he's made a 100+ films and only a small portion of them are horror. I've heard that in Japan he's even better known for his crime films than his horror stuff. Which raises the question of whether he's a horror director. Is Robert Altman a horror director because he made Images? Is Kathryn Bigelow a horror director for Near Dark? Is any director who has made a horror film a horror director or does it need to be their main thing?
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FreudianSlippers posted:Miike is definitely worthy of a spot but he's made a 100+ films and only a small portion of them are horror. I've heard that in Japan he's even better known for his crime films than his horror stuff. Or better yet Friedkin, who made one of the most praised horror movies of all time but refuses to call it horror
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Basebf555 posted:Romero for me just isn't a top guy overall, as much as Night of the Living Dead casts a shadow over the entire genre. I never really find myself in the mood to watch a Romero film other than the original Dead trilogy. I agree he's not top 3 material but really you never feel like watching Martin? It's so good. e: gently caress top 3 is really hard, I'm gonna say 1. Cronenberg 2. Miike 3. Soavi but it loving kills me to only have one of the Italian crew there e2: I can't believe I forgot Gordon, he gets Miike's spot if we say Miike doesn't count. Irony.or.Death fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Feb 7, 2020 |
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FreudianSlippers posted:I've heard that in Japan he's even better known for his crime films than his horror stuff.
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dorium posted:Carpenter Same but I’d list them Carpenter Cronenberg Romero so I can abbreviate it to CCR. It’s crazy that Romero isn’t on more lists. The Dead trilogy can’t be beat, and even if you remove them from his filmography, you still have Martin, The Crazies, and Creepshow, and that’s not even touching his really out there stuff like Knightriders and Season of the Witch.
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Halloween Jack posted:Hell, it raises the question of whether he's secretly Italian. Japan was Italy all along.
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Kvlt! posted:uk i kinda wondered about that too like how does the PG-13 version even make sense as a movie with so much stuff cut As someone who grew up watching the TV edited version, it's totally nonsensical.
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Irony.or.Death posted:I agree he's not top 3 material but really you never feel like watching Martin? It's so good. Not really. It's undeniably good but I've never felt much of a draw to rewatch it. Creepshow is probably enough along with the Dead movies to put him on the list though. For some reason I always forget he directed that.
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Drunkboxer posted:Or better yet Friedkin, who made one of the most praised horror movies of all time but refuses to call it horror Cronenberg’s last few movies were more psychological horror than the body horror he was famous for. Carpenter even remarked upon it in a more recent interview, talking about how Cronenberg used to be considered a horror director but now he’s considered more prestige after History of Violence and Eastern Promises.
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It's a loving crime to not include Corman and I'm sentencing you all to posting jail now hit the showers.
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