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Gripweed posted:I just watched The Day The Earth Caught Fire, which turned out to be a total disaster movie. It was recommended to me in this thread so I thought maybe disaster counted as a subgenre of horror or something. I don't think there's anything preventing disaster movies from being horror. Its just that most "disaster movies" tend to go more of the action film route. I think like the Last Man On Earth/Omega Man/I Am Legend thing is an interesting example. They're all adaptions of the same story but one is a horror, one is sci fi, and one is action. Its all about how the film maker approaches it.
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Gripweed posted:I just watched The Day The Earth Caught Fire, which turned out to be a total disaster movie. It was recommended to me in this thread so I thought maybe disaster counted as a subgenre of horror or something. Ooh, that was me. Glad you enjoyed it!
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Gripweed posted:Crawl? That has the added bonus of being a creature feature. The only movie I can think of that's definitely a disaster movie, but gets really close to horror, is Dante's peak, because it shows people melting in lava and getting liquidated in acid, and is set up in a weird way where it seems like the volcano is actively attacking the family/people. And even then, it's an action thriller.
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The_Doctor posted:Ooh, that was me. Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah it really nailed that feeling of events being completely out of control and the world being in the hands of people you know you can't trust but have no other option. Thanks for the recommendation But it's useless for the April Horror Challenge! Franchescanado posted:That has the added bonus of being a creature feature. I've heard people argue that Twister presents all tornadoes as being basically the same entity, and once you accept that it's essentially a slasher movie
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Gripweed posted:Are disaster movies horror movies? Most disaster movies are only one step away from being one of the Final Destinations (which, as it happens, rip off the underappreciated 1988 film Pulse), so: yes. Just substitute “Death” with “The Disaster”, and/or the specific setting. Towering Infernos, and so-on. Like, the aforementioned Day Britain Stopped is about the UK’s entire transportation infrastructure taking on a mind of its own and killing the people.
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Twister is basically a slasher film.
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Don't forget that Deep Blue Sea is also a disaster film, just not a particularly large scale one. But the plot does involve them trying to escape to the surface because a hurricane hosed up their whole facility. Backdraft also has horror elements. It's another one like Twister where the natural phenomenon is treated as a like a creature of a slasher.
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mike flanagan makes disasters of film AYO
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Just finished up a mini marathon of all the "canonical" non AVP Alien films. Started with Alien and ended with Alien Covenant. Honestly I was impressed the most with Alien : Resurrection. Out of all the films that one though despite it being "the worst" really wasn't that bad but it was definitely a film made in the 90s.
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Carrie, Jason, Leatherface.
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King Vidiot posted:
pretty much agreed (I would probably also loop in Halloween II), but man Myers was completely wasted up until the new new sequel(s). I'm very excited to rewatch TCM2, just waiting for that shipping notice from Shout.
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Man, Underwater is way better than it has any right to be. Kristen Stewart killed it and the art direction/soundtrack pair so well together. I wish Cthulhu had more to do than just "bwaah" menacingly and get blown up but the sense of scale was the scariest part of the movie I want a goddamn BioShock movie.
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If the question is "We're erasing all but 3 of these from history and they never existed" then my answer is Halloween, Exorcist, and Nightmare. Its a difficult decision but I'd still have Carrie the book and Scream probably isn't as good without the others existing to play off of. If the question is "We're killing all of them and will never make anything new with them again" then my answer is Halloween, Exorcist, and Chucky because they're the only ones who have done anything worth seeing in 20 years anyway. Except maybe TCM and RIng because I'm not remotely caught up on them.
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I choose... to not engage with nu-fangoria and its right wing owners.
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Lurdiak posted:I choose... to not engage with nu-fangoria and its right wing owners. Then don't, and pretend we asked the same question.
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Freddy, Jason and Chucky. Couldn’t live without Freddy or Jason and Chuckys franchise is just near perfect
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Hollismason posted:Just finished up a mini marathon of all the "canonical" non AVP Alien films. Started with Alien and ended with Alien Covenant. Honestly I was impressed the most with Alien : Resurrection. Out of all the films that one though despite it being "the worst" really wasn't that bad but it was definitely a film made in the 90s. The Patrick Willems youtube vid about why Covenant owns really recontextualised why it is a fantastic gothic horror movie and made me love it a whole lot while still being able to hate Prometheus
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Is the thread to post about Invisible Man? I enjoyed it way more than I would have expected from the trailers.
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I'm going to have to go with Freddie, Jason, and Mike Meyers
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Shrecknet posted:The Patrick Willems youtube vid about why Covenant owns really recontextualised why it is a fantastic gothic horror movie and made me love it a whole lot while still being able to hate Prometheus + 1 for Covenant love -1 for Prometheus hate. I award you no points and may god have mercy on your soul
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I watched Ju-On: The Grudge last night at work and while the movie is not good, the score is Carpenter-esque at points. Edit: Jason, Michael, Leatherface
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Lurdiak posted:I choose... to not engage with nu-fangoria and its right wing owners. Nu-Fangoria consistently runs amazing content that skews left more often than not. The EIC is particularly vocal about calling out the casual racism and misogyny you often find in horror circles. Yes, its owners are probably right wing chuds, but isn't that true of nearly everything these days? Sarchasm fucked around with this message at 15:06 on Apr 7, 2020 |
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ghostwritingduck posted:Is the thread to post about Invisible Man? I enjoyed it way more than I would have expected from the trailers. Absolutely, go for it.
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Pour out a cold one and watch Cockneys Versus Zombies this April for Honor Blackman, who has passed aged 94.
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Kvlt! posted:middle row stays duhhhh my best friend kvlt! is right again
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Jedit posted:Pour out a cold one and watch Cockneys Versus Zombies this April for Honor Blackman, who has passed aged 94. I need to watch that, I ignored it for the longest time because the title made it seem bad but I keep seeing people recommend it.
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Shneak posted:Man, Underwater is way better than it has any right to be. Kristen Stewart killed it and the art direction/soundtrack pair so well together. I wish Cthulhu had more to do than just "bwaah" menacingly and get blown up but the sense of scale was the scariest part of the movie This and Crawl were the two movies I most regretted seeing in theatres over the last year. I *need* Underwater on a big IMAX screen.
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COOL CORN posted:my best friend kvlt! is right again friendship NOT ended with COOL CORN COOL CORN will always be my best friend <3
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Saw the first two episodes of that BBC Dracula and, WOW. I haven't been so conflicted on something in a really long time. Cast is fantastic, but the script constantly flips from clever to dumbest thing ever sometimes even in the same scene. They clearly had a good budget for this one but they blow it on these great establishing shots that are like three seconds long and never reused but cheap out on the more personal effects? I am genuinely impressed at the ways they play around with how Dracula works though, and I really really really dig this take on Dracula as more of a Hannibal Lecter style psychopath. Shame they don't capitalize on it more since they made a character a human could get inside the head of and outsmart to an extent, but instead see all the points where they wrote themselves into a corner like everything from when they make the circle of protection on the ship to when Dracula is set on fire. Like everyone just IMMEDIATELY leaves the circle as soon as one person walks out? The fire just sort of....goes away from one shot to the next? So it's ends up being pretty blah overall but we're having fun with it. Going by how the second episode ends I'm prepared for it to go 200% to poo poo so I'm sure it will be enjoyable on that level. I appreciate that they just said gently caress it, recreate some stuff for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure at the end of episode 2 lol
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Oh Neo The last episode will hurt you so
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Burkion posted:Oh Neo Hahah oh my god, yes. Please. Please please PLEASE post your thoughts after episode 3.
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I avoided the series based on the writers alone. Steven Moffat wrote for Dr Who, Sherlock, and Jekyll, all of which are awful imo. And Mark Gatiss is a transphobe. He's one of these comedians from the '90s who made transphobic jokes, and then rather than just say "my bad," decided to instead downplay it by literally saying "Why does this matter while ISIS exists?"
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Debbie Does Dagon posted:I avoided the series based on the writers alone. Steven Moffat wrote for Dr Who, Sherlock, and Jekyll, all of which are awful imo. And Mark Gatiss is a transphobe. He's one of these comedians from the '90s who made transphobic jokes, and then rather than just say "my bad," decided to instead downplay it by literally saying "Why does this matter while ISIS exists?" Finally someone else who hates Dr. Who!
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I watched Dracula for lack of something better to do. It was mediocre for the first couple episodes, and the last one was awful with an ending that was even worse. I liked Sherlock for the first couple of seasons. It had issues but that weren't that glaring to me until the writing took a complete nosedive from season 3 onward. The end of season 3 has him loudly declaring that he's "A high functioning sociopath". Season 4 was way way dumber than that.
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Iron Crowned posted:Finally someone else who hates Dr. Who! 
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i despise dr who theres....THREE OF US
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Kvlt! posted:i despise dr who theres....THREE OF US nah i'm with you bud, i tried watching it and it sucked so bad
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