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aware of dog posted:On the topic of slashers, are any of the Sleepaway Camp sequels worth watching? 2 and 3 absolutely are.
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aware of dog posted:On the topic of slashers, are any of the Sleepaway Camp sequels worth watching? Hell yeah, I wish there were more Pamela Springsteen Sleepaway Camps
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Feb 19, 2020 18:15
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Debbie Does Dagon posted:I remember being very pleasantly surprised by The Slumber Party Massacre franchise, so who knows SPM owns because it was written and directed by women and is feminist as hell
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Feb 19, 2020 18:18
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I saw Fantasy Island! It is Not Good. The beginning scenes of the torture room make no sense when the twist is revealed at the end, and the whole story really just falls apart. Michael Peña glowering all the time got old really fast, when he’s much better being cheeky smiley chap (à la Antman/The Martian). Also the Tattoo reveal made me cringe so hard. So, UK goons will (hopefully) know of the BBC drama Ghostwatch, which severely scared the hell out of me watching live as a kid, and is a legit classic. But have people in this thread from other parts of the world seen it? And if so, what’s your take?
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Feb 19, 2020 18:31
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I'm so happy you read this too. I got a big laugh from it. aware of dog posted:On the topic of slashers, are any of the Sleepaway Camp sequels worth watching? Absolutely. 2 is great, Pamela Springsteen is adorable and charming. 3 is still fun, despite being a rehashing of 2 with more meta jokes.
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Feb 19, 2020 18:31
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COOL CORN posted:SPM owns because it was written and directed by women and is feminist as hell I just watched it in the last year and was immediately turned off by the early killer reveal. The mystery of the killer is always one of my favorite parts of slashers as it keeps you engaged between kills and you can count on a big payoff in the final moments. But once I realized that the killer and his overtly phallic weapon were a statement on the genre I got over that and relished in it. Not sure how I missed it looking back, the cover literally has a giant auger drill hanging down between his legs and terrified teens looking up at it from the floor.
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Feb 19, 2020 18:32
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The_Doctor posted:I saw Fantasy Island! It is Not Good. The beginning scenes of the torture room make no sense when the twist is revealed at the end, and the whole story really just falls apart. Michael Peña glowering all the time got old really fast, when he’s much better being cheeky smiley chap (à la Antman/The Martian). Also the Tattoo reveal made me cringe so hard. Yeah, Ghost Watch is a classic and a thread favorite. The first page of this thread is the Horror Thread Staff Picks and it's been on the list in every variation. Such a fun experience.
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Feb 19, 2020 18:35
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COOL CORN posted:SPM owns because it was written and directed by women and is feminist as hell Hell yeah! I couldn't tell you who the killer was in the first film, beyond "creepy guy with a huge drill", but I can vividly remember the movie stomping all over the Bechdel test e: what tonedef131 said e: And holy poo poo, the director went on to write Beethoven (1992) Debbie Does Dagon fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Feb 19, 2020 |
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Feb 19, 2020 18:35
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Franchescanado posted:Absolutely. 2 is great, Pamela Springsteen is adorable and charming. 3 is still fun, despite being a rehashing of 2 with more meta jokes. I watched all 3 Sleepway Camps last year, and for some reason I didn't think I had ever seen the sequels, but as soon as the twins got barbecued I knew for a fact I had seen it before.
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Feb 19, 2020 18:41
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The best kill in any Sleepaway Camp isn’t even a kill. Watching Artie get that 5 foot tall pot of boiling water dumped all over him is satisfying as hell every time.
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Feb 19, 2020 18:49
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I root for Jason because he’s the only one really thinking things through in those films. Party horn kill is inspired lmao. Jason is powerful and my friend
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Feb 19, 2020 18:51
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aware of dog posted:On the topic of slashers, are any of the Sleepaway Camp sequels worth watching? Part II is fantastic, it's literally one of my go-to movies. Part III is sort of directionless and soft-core porny (not in a fun way) - I especially take umbrage with the totally nonsensical sexual relationship that Pollard has with one of the campers (of course, the original had the weird relationship between Meg and the camp director, which didn't make sense either). I dunno, watch em!
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Feb 19, 2020 18:59
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What are Scream/Shout Factory’s shipping turnaround times like? I ordered a bunch of movies from them last Wednesday on that sale they did and I haven’t even gotten a shipping notification.
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Feb 19, 2020 19:17
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tonedef131 posted:The best kill in any Sleepaway Camp isn’t even a kill. Watching Artie get that 5 foot tall pot of boiling water dumped all over him is satisfying as hell every time. That corn pot was just too tall. Why would you need a corn pot so tall?
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Feb 19, 2020 19:49
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Drunkboxer posted:That corn pot was just too tall. Why would you need a corn pot so tall? Kitchens that do large scale cooking for like a whole summer camp typically have comically large pots because there's no way to crank everything out otherwise.
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Feb 19, 2020 20:03
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The_Doctor posted:
I first heard of it either here or on some other forums where we were discussing shows/movies that took the 'could be real' angle, and tracked down an upload on Youtube. It's definitely one of the top entries in the subgenre. Granted, it didn't scare me but had I seen it when it first aired, I would've been glued to the TV. Looking at it as a piece of TV Horror history, I'm really interested in the afterreactions since what I've read sounds like the Orson Wells War of the Worlds broadcast hysteria. I've yet to find a copy of the Behind the Curtains documentary that I'm curious about. And if anyone didn't know, the writer wrote a sequel to Ghostwatch and has it up on his website for download. http://www.stephenvolk.net/31-10.pdf PDF file of '31/10' – the sequel to Ghostwatch
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So I saw there was 50 new posts and wondered whyDebbie Does Dagon posted:I've only seen one Freddy movie, and one Jason movie, and they're both Freddy Vs Jason. So don't worry, there's always someone even more shameful out there. Oh
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Feb 19, 2020 20:33
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I can't believe I spent the morning in a derail defending Jason and slashers. What has this thread made me?Basebf555 posted:Kitchens that do large scale cooking for like a whole summer camp typically have comically large pots because there's no way to crank everything out otherwise. I have cooked in kitchens with comically large pots for camp kids and that was still an irrationally comically large pot.
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Feb 19, 2020 20:35
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Yeah it seems too tall, that pot. I have a 7.5 gallon pot and it’s like half as tall.
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Feb 19, 2020 20:39
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Xenomrph posted:What are Scream/Shout Factory’s shipping turnaround times like? I ordered a bunch of movies from them last Wednesday on that sale they did and I haven’t even gotten a shipping notification. Pretty long, you'll probably get it sometime before the end of March. Kino Lorber tends to be the fastest, followed closely by Vinegar Syndrome (if it's not a sale).
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Feb 19, 2020 20:42
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Like, how was he gonna get the corn out of the pot? Was there a crank and a 6 ft wide colander over a kiddie pool?
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Feb 19, 2020 20:43
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STAC Goat posted:Like, how was he gonna get the corn out of the pot? Was there a crank and a 6 ft wide colander over a kiddie pool? And what kind of BTUs is that range cranking out to boil a pot that big? Too many if you ask me
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Feb 19, 2020 20:50
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STAC Goat posted:I can't believe I spent the morning in a derail defending Jason and slashers. What has this thread made me? The pot I make spaghetti gravy in is large enough to hold a couple toddlers in it. When I first saw that corn pot, I wondered how many gallons of gravy I could make in it.
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Feb 19, 2020 20:59
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Horror Thread: I came in for a movie recommendation, I stayed for the cookware hot tips.
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Feb 19, 2020 21:04
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Wouldn’t you want a big wide crawfish boil style pot and not a step ladder requiring, super tall, murder pot?
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Feb 19, 2020 21:08
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I need the tall pot to fit my
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Feb 19, 2020 21:08
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M_Sinistrari posted:The pot I make spaghetti gravy in is large enough to hold a couple toddlers in it. When I first saw that corn pot, I wondered how many gallons of gravy I could make in it. My roommate once told me that she found her cat napping in a spaghetti pot once.
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Feb 19, 2020 21:08
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The king of oversized cookware is possibly the mincer in Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaitQnEg43A&t=145s
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Feb 19, 2020 21:11
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Franchescanado posted:Watching a Friday the 13th movie after seeing Freddy vs Jason is kinda nuts, too, because all of the characterization of Jason comes from, like, Part 7 through X. Aesthetically, it's nothing like a Friday the 13th movie, which tend to feature the outdoors and woods and cabins, so you get these warm muddy earthtones instead of FvJ's cold palette of blue and green, with some of the dream sequences heavily filtered through red. Basebf555 posted:Yea Ronny Yu famously had never seen a Freddy or Jason movie when he was hired, and what he ended up doing was basically an early 2000s music video featuring the two characters. Which actually turned out pretty well, I can't really argue with the results. Have to hard disagree with the early 2000s music video evaluation of Freddy vs. Jason. IMO What you both need to do since I think you both have Prime is stop what you're doing and watch Ronny Yu's early 90s romantic tragedy, The Bride with White Hair. It's a fairy tale wuxia kind of movie, and yet it's also where Freddy vs. Jason's aesthetic (AND EVEN SOME OF FREDDY VS. JASON'S ACTION SCENES!) come from. Plus it stars Leslie Cheung and Brigitte Linn so like why is anyone even still reading this. Fuckin' gorgeous flick and it's even thread appropriate since it has a brief but great body horror moment as we learn more about one of the film's antagonists. There's a sequel that's not horrible but Leslie Cheung and Brigitte Linn's characters are sidelined for a much less interesting cast so it's kind of bullshit imo.
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Feb 19, 2020 21:55
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Why hasn’t there been a horror movie with both Pamela Springsteen and Felissa Rose? Put them both in a remake of Switchblade Sisters.
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Feb 19, 2020 21:57
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M_Sinistrari posted:The pot I make spaghetti gravy in is large enough to hold a couple toddlers in it.
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Feb 19, 2020 22:04
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Look, some people measure by weight and some by measurement cups and some people just guesstimate how many small animals and toddlers would fill your cookware. It ain't weird.
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Feb 19, 2020 22:07
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Neo Rasa posted:Have to hard disagree with the early 2000s music video evaluation of Freddy vs. Jason. IMO What you both need to do since I think you both have Prime is stop what you're doing and watch Ronny Yu's early 90s romantic tragedy, The Bride with White Hair. It's a fairy tale wuxia kind of movie, and yet it's also where Freddy vs. Jason's aesthetic (AND EVEN SOME OF FREDDY VS. JASON'S ACTION SCENES!) come from. Plus it stars Leslie Cheung and Brigitte Linn so like why is anyone even still reading this. Fuckin' gorgeous flick and it's even thread appropriate since it has a brief but great body horror moment as we learn more about one of the film's antagonists. There's a sequel that's not horrible but Leslie Cheung and Brigitte Linn's characters are sidelined for a much less interesting cast so it's kind of bullshit imo. Cool, I'll check it out sometime! Hadn't heard much about his non-horror films.
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Franchescanado posted:Last Friday has been on my radar for a while, but I haven't played it yet. It's pretty fun. The mechanics are similar to Letters from Whitechapel, with a few tweaks. One of the cool modes is that it starts with the solo killer going after the campers, but when daytime comes, the campers go after the killer. I haven't gotten it to the table enough times to give it a good review, but we've enjoyed it. Some other good creepy/horror style games are Mysterium, Betrayal at the House on the Hill (this has been super fun at times and anticlimactic at times), and City of Horror.
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Neo Rasa posted:Have to hard disagree with the early 2000s music video evaluation of Freddy vs. Jason. IMO What you both need to do since I think you both have Prime is stop what you're doing and watch Ronny Yu's early 90s romantic tragedy, The Bride with White Hair. It's a fairy tale wuxia kind of movie, and yet it's also where Freddy vs. Jason's aesthetic (AND EVEN SOME OF FREDDY VS. JASON'S ACTION SCENES!) come from. Plus it stars Leslie Cheung and Brigitte Linn so like why is anyone even still reading this. Fuckin' gorgeous flick and it's even thread appropriate since it has a brief but great body horror moment as we learn more about one of the film's antagonists. There's a sequel that's not horrible but Leslie Cheung and Brigitte Linn's characters are sidelined for a much less interesting cast so it's kind of bullshit imo. I'll second the amazingness of The Bride with the White Hair. So so good.
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HouseOfLeaves99 posted:I'll second the amazingness of The Bride with the White Hair. So so good. Franchescanado posted:Cool, I'll check it out sometime! Hadn't heard much about his non-horror films.  Hell yeah
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Xenomrph posted:Tell me more. That's the part that you're questioning? What the literal hell is spaghetti gravy?? Did we forget the word for tomato sauce?
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Feb 19, 2020 22:22
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flashy_mcflash posted:That's the part that you're questioning? You really shouldn't give an Italian mother poo poo about her gravy. edit: I believe the non joke culinary explanation is a "gravy" is made from the drippings of meat so if you're making a "red sauce" or "tomato sauce" with meat and/or its drippings then you're technically making a "gravy." "Sauces" should be smoother. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Feb 19, 2020 |
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The only horror game I own is Last Night on Earth, it’s pretty fun but it always takes a while to remember how to play it and it always seems too daunting to explain to house guests when we’re considering which game to play. Also it’s quite a bit more fun to play as the survivors, even though I think being the zombies is easier in most game modes. The zombos feel too generic.
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If we're talking board games, The Thing board game is fun.
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