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Just saw Gretel and Hansel. It was OK, the visuals were great, and the music. Did anyone else get the impression that it took place in a post apocalyptic world? The clothing, hair styles, and architecture seemed all over the place. The rich guy Gretel tried to get a job from alluded to some sort of devastating event going on, which could be anything from a famine, disease, or war. I kind of imagined it as taking place in a time after a particularly devastating 20th century world war.
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shadowvine118 posted:Just saw Gretel and Hansel. It was OK, the visuals were great, and the music. I thought they said it was during the time of the Black Plague?
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Feb 9, 2020 00:50
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The_Doctor posted:I thought they said it was during the time of the Black Plague? I doubt they had wallpaper with circus tents and rocking horses on them back then.
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DeimosRising posted:Btw for those of you who haven’t seen it, which is probably most people cause it’s been kind of a hassle to find, The Tenant is streaming on prime now. The third of Polanski’s “apartment trilogy” of horror movies and every bit as good as repulsion and rosemary Just watched this. I really enjoyed it, but the third act seemed a little weak. They did a good job up until that point of demonstrating that the main character was an unreliable narrator, but also maintaining a sense of threat, and I think that balance was thrown out of the window in the car accident scene. I really love how moody and paranoid the film feels though, and the one practical effect as he moves towards the window was excellent. It sort of reminds me of Pi The ending also reminded me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SqHtWudI24
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Feb 9, 2020 01:38
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married but discreet posted:What are you talking about, Dracula fucks (obviously) It's been a while since I sat through it but Dracula Sucks can be cited as evidence. shadowvine118 posted:Just saw Gretel and Hansel. It was OK, the visuals were great, and the music. I had to do a couple refunds for this movie today. Was too scary for the children brought in to see it.
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Feb 9, 2020 02:42
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M_Sinistrari posted:It's been a while since I sat through it but Dracula Sucks can be cited as evidence. I can think of maybe one or two scenes at the end that would be a bit much for little kids, but for the most part it's not scary at all.
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Feb 9, 2020 03:19
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shadowvine118 posted:I can think of maybe one or two scenes at the end that would be a bit much for little kids, but for the most part it's not scary at all. there’s plenty of stuff that would be scary and disturbing for little kids... besides the generally unsettling tone, in the first like 20 minutes alone you have a creepy old man asking a young girl about her virginity, a mother attacking and threatening her daughter, and the zombie thing that the huntsman kills with an arrow through the eye
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Feb 9, 2020 03:49
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gey muckle mowser posted:there’s plenty of stuff that would be scary and disturbing for little kids... besides the generally unsettling tone, in the first like 20 minutes alone you have a creepy old man asking a young girl about her virginity, a mother attacking and threatening her daughter, and the zombie thing that the huntsman kills with an arrow through the eye I know I'm definitely not the best judge when it comes to what might be too scary for kids considering what movies my parents took me to when I was little. What I've seen of the movie when I sneak in during my lunch looks great, but I accept not everyone's quite like me with being able to sit through The Exorcist when I was little and still wanting to go home during Bambi because his mom got shot.
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Feb 9, 2020 04:22
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Honestly, it's really hard to know what is or isn't too scary for kids because every child is different in how they'll react to things.
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Feb 9, 2020 04:43
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We established Dracula fucks last time. Dude's typically got a whole stable of hot as hell she-vamps. I assume he's at least hit this,
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Feb 9, 2020 06:03
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Honestly, it's really hard to know what is or isn't too scary for kids because every child is different in how they'll react to things. Too true. I started out my kids with the classic Universals and went off from there so I had a pretty good grasp on what they could handle since we'd also do 'home science' with making our version of the makeup effects with what we had in the house and filming on the camcorder we had. In comparison, my fiance's nieces and nephews were only allowed educational or Disney films. When we'd babysit them, I'd always get the instruction of 'No Horror Movies' which also included the classic Universals. How someone can deprive another of experiencing Frankenstein/Bride of Frankenstein still throws me for a loop.
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Feb 9, 2020 07:16
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A kid will giggle their way through a Jason movie but start bawling in terror watching the muppets because Gorgon Heap is terrifying. There's no logic to it.
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Feb 9, 2020 07:23
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I'd watch slashers as a kid like it was nothing, Carpenter, Craven, Romero's zombie poo poo, Troma, whatever. Horror was always more fascinating than scary to me. But for some drat reason, I was scared to death by these weird rear end disturbing moments in non horror films, like Large Marge and that fuckin cyborg lady from Superman 3.
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Feb 9, 2020 07:32
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Lurdiak posted:A kid will giggle their way through a Jason movie but start bawling in terror watching the muppets because Gorgon Heap is terrifying. There's no logic to it. Now, to be fair, Gorgon Heap does seem like something that might have scared me as a kid too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYdRb2Sh5y8 He just freaking ate that guy! And Vincent Price was LOVING it!
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Feb 9, 2020 07:37
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The Newborn from Alien Resurrection freaked me out more than any horror movie I ever saw as a kid.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Now, to be fair, Gorgon Heap does seem like something that might have scared me as a kid too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYdRb2Sh5y8 I mean yeah it is scary but a horror movie is scarier, at least in theory. I remember my neighbour wasn't scared at all by the Thriller video but flipped his poo poo watching Willy Wonka when the little girl turns into a blueberry.
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Feb 9, 2020 07:46
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The best Creepshow segment is the one with the half yeti.
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Feb 9, 2020 07:49
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Origami Dali posted:I'd watch slashers as a kid like it was nothing, Carpenter, Craven, Romero's zombie poo poo, Troma, whatever. Horror was always more fascinating than scary to me. But for some drat reason, I was scared to death by these weird rear end disturbing moments in non horror films, like Large Marge and that fuckin cyborg lady from Superman 3. Lurdiak posted:I mean yeah it is scary but a horror movie is scarier, at least in theory. I remember my neighbour wasn't scared at all by the Thriller video but flipped his poo poo watching Willy Wonka when the little girl turns into a blueberry. Maybe it has something to do with expectations, like when you watch a horror movie even as a kid you know it's going to be scary and you can prepare yourself for that mentally. But when you're watching something like The Muppets or PeeWees Playhouse you're not expecting anything frightening to happen so things like someone getting eaten or their face tearing apart comes out of nowhere and your child mind doesn't know how to process that and is taken off guard. Speaking of things that you're not able to expect, Come to Daddy is an insane movie and definitely worth seeing. Elijah Wood is always great in every horror related thing he does.
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Feb 9, 2020 07:50
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Finally caught Color Out of Space. Minus the accent choices and even they weren’t so bad, the movie was awesome. I liked the concessions to making a movie regarding what was cut from/added to the story, and the visuals were incredible. I want to see it again in the theater, but we’ll see if I can catch it- it’s gone from my local indie theater in like two days 
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Feb 9, 2020 09:27
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No joke, as a little kid this movie scared the poo poo out of me more than anything else for some reason. I still have no idea why to this day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzZ0XO4ly1g
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Feb 9, 2020 10:05
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The only film which really scared me as a kid was The Lady in White, and it actually holds up pretty well today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAgGmUAk2X0
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Feb 9, 2020 13:07
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i had no limits on what i could watch as a kid, I remember being 8 years old home sick and watching Saw II with my mom the only thing that scared me was edward scissorhands
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Feb 9, 2020 17:10
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My mom let me watch anything that didn't have coded child molestation.I remember being ten and my mom being direct that I couldn't watch Nightmare on Elm Street because he was a rapist. Then I grew up and found out that my mom is just really sensitive to subtext. Exorcist and Hellraiser were also no-gos. I really fondly remember just running through franchises with her though: Halloween, Friday, and Child's Play in particular. I also have really distinct memories of watching It when I was really young, and possibly during the original airing? I would have been three.
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Feb 9, 2020 18:09
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Your mom was correct. Freddy raped children.
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Feb 9, 2020 18:14
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Have we all reevaluated Savageland (2015) yet?
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Feb 9, 2020 18:47
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I watched it maybe 6 months ago and didn't love it tbh.
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Feb 9, 2020 18:53
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I finally got around to buying my tickets for Horror Hound. http://www.horrorhoundweekend.com/
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Feb 9, 2020 19:36
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I just watched whatever I wanted and my mom said "Just remember that none of it is real". She can't actually stomach any horror herself. Even just watching the bad guys beat up the hero in a action film or thriller is a bit too much for her. She gets upset and loudly curses them out and calls them disgusting scum.
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Feb 9, 2020 20:23
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My parents basically handled it like booze. "Don't drink... but you know, if you do don't be a stupid rear end in a top hat." At least that's how I interpreted it. So they weren't showing me slashers or anything but they also weren't analyzing my video rentals after a time because they trusted me. Howard the Duck, Labyrinth, and that beast thing from the Never Ending Story scared the living poo poo out of me before that.
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Feb 9, 2020 20:28
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veni veni veni posted:I watched it maybe 6 months ago and didn't love it tbh. I think the central performance is very strong.
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Feb 9, 2020 20:31
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STAC Goat posted:My parents basically handled it like booze. "Don't drink... but you know, if you do don't be a stupid rear end in a top hat." At least that's how I interpreted it. So they weren't showing me slashers or anything but they also weren't analyzing my video rentals after a time because they trusted me. It's an incredibly effective jump scare. I saw it when I was like five with my little sister and when it happened we both ran upstairs screaming, it was great. pospysyl fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Feb 9, 2020 |
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Feb 9, 2020 20:41
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My mum actively made me watch Alien and sold it to me with the line “the cat survives” I hid behind the sofa and occasionally peaked at the screen, I have memory’s of what I saw on that screen and none of those memories actually appear in the film, imagination is a wonderful thing.
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Feb 9, 2020 20:47
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STAC Goat posted:Howard the Duck, Labyrinth, and that beast thing from the Never Ending Story scared the living poo poo out of me before that. In a way, you can tell the children of the 80's because of the specific trigger that bulge created. It's a mark.
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Feb 9, 2020 20:53
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My mom actively hates both horror and sci-fi of any kind, and my brother always got nightmares, so it was always my dad and me. Really the only movie that got to me as a kid was Cat's Eye. Alien, Poltergeist, Hellraiser, no problem!
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Feb 9, 2020 20:56
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My father really likes Sigourney Weaver so it was easy access to the Alien movies.
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Feb 9, 2020 21:05
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the bug corridor and the dude ripping out a guys beating heart in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom were probably the two first horror scenes I saw? both lingered with me essentially forever
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Feb 9, 2020 21:52
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I'm a little surprised nobody's mentioning Arachnophobia as a childhood scar. That movie made me incredibly skittish around spiders from elementary school into my early teens.
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Feb 9, 2020 22:49
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Which is a shame, because spiders are awesome
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Feb 10, 2020 00:14
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I like the idea of spiders. But if fuckers come within arms reach of my head they get whacked without thinking. I'm sorry, its instinctual. Maybe from watching Arachnophobia.
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The end part of Little Monsters. gently caress that creepy little kid.
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