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gey muckle mowser
Aug 5, 2003

Do you know anything about...
witches?



Buglord

Lumbermouth posted:

I am having to watch Knock Knock for a podcast and I don’t know if I’ve ever hated a movie more.

one of the few films I’ve seen that actually made me angry

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Lumbermouth
Mar 6, 2008

GREG IS BIG NOW


gey muckle mowser posted:

one of the few films I’ve seen that actually made me angry

Like it is somehow a combination of both boring and reprehensible. It's the setup of pornography meets an idiot's idea of the New French Extremity.

Kvlt!
May 19, 2012



Lumbermouth posted:

It's the setup of pornography meets an idiot's idea of the New French Extremity.

but you said it's BAD????

Lumbermouth
Mar 6, 2008

GREG IS BIG NOW


Kvlt! posted:

but you said it's BAD????

Oh because it's a stupid person's idea of being deep. Like the whole thing is this base-hit "social commentary" that literally ends with a shot of paintings defaced with 'ART DOES NOT EXIST' in spray paint. Do you fuckin GET IT? I would rather be disgusted or shaken by a movie a thousand times before watching this freshman year philosophy-rear end bullshit again.

fr0id
Jul 27, 2016

Goodness no, now that wouldn't do at all!
So I’m far more active in the scream stream discord and I’ve decided to spend next week streaming found footage movies every night over Kast, starting this Sunday. My chosen categories are: Mainstream, Special Effects Heavy/Big Budget, Fauxcumentary, Anthology, Foreign, Meta, and Personal Favorites. I’m open to suggestions if something fits better than what I’ve already picked out. Also join in! I’ll be playing the movies starting 8 EST each night. May also do a pizza contest or something I dunno. Whatever the found footage equivalent is. Dumpster diving?

Stryder
Oct 3, 2002

fr0id posted:

So I’m far more active in the scream stream discord and I’ve decided to spend next week streaming found footage movies every night over Kast, starting this Sunday. My chosen categories are: Mainstream, Special Effects Heavy/Big Budget, Fauxcumentary, Anthology, Foreign, Meta, and Personal Favorites. I’m open to suggestions if something fits better than what I’ve already picked out. Also join in! I’ll be playing the movies starting 8 EST each night. May also do a pizza contest or something I dunno. Whatever the found footage equivalent is. Dumpster diving?

You should include The Bay (2012) because it's not only a pretty good found footage film, you can say "From the director of The Natural, Good Morning Vietnam, and Rain Man comes a new name in terror..."

Also, [REC] or As Above So Below seem like the obvious choices for a foreign category entry, but having just finally seen One Cut of the Dead, I freaking loved it and more people should see it. If you want to count that as "found footage".

flashy_mcflash
Feb 7, 2011

Lumbermouth posted:

Like it is somehow a combination of both boring and reprehensible. It's the setup of pornography meets an idiot's idea of the New French Extremity.

Yeah it's absolutely awful and wastes a whole lot of good talent on one of the worst scripts I've seen in years.

Midnight Pooptrain
Oct 13, 2012

2001's Father of the Year
I get spooked by horror films regularly. Some of the shots in The Tunnel were spooky and THAT reveal in Lake Mungo hosed me right up.

fr0id
Jul 27, 2016

Goodness no, now that wouldn't do at all!
What would you

Stryder posted:

You should include The Bay (2012) because it's not only a pretty good found footage film, you can say "From the director of The Natural, Good Morning Vietnam, and Rain Man comes a new name in terror..."

Also, [REC] or As Above So Below seem like the obvious choices for a foreign category entry, but having just finally seen One Cut of the Dead, I freaking loved it and more people should see it. If you want to count that as "found footage".

Where would you suggest I put the bay my categories are:
Favs: VHS 2, Hellhouse, Noroi (ALL SHUDDER)
Meta: grave encounters 2, Butterfly Kisses, (BOTH PRIME)Peeping Tom (RENT) OR one cut of the dead (SHUDDER)
Mainstream: Blair Witch (PRIME), Paranormal Activity (PLEX), Unfriended (HBO)
Foreign: troll hunter (RENT), rec (PLEX), g asylum (PRIME)
Fauxcumentary: ghostwatch (PLEX), lake mungo (PLEX), Leslie Vernon (PRIME)
Anthology: VHS 1 (RENT), Southbound (PRIME), Creep (NETFLIX)
Big budget: Cloverfield (NETFLIX), As Above So Below (NETFLIX), Final Prayer The Borderlands (RENT)


A few of the third films are added for fun to lacking categories. Maybe replace Leslie Vernon with the bay?

Kvlt!
May 19, 2012



Disposable Scud posted:

THAT reveal in Lake Mungo hosed me right up.

oh yeah this one actually genuinely frightened me, drat that was a good movie

SuperMechagodzilla
Jun 9, 2007

NEWT REBORN

fr0id posted:

Where would you suggest I put the bay my categories are:
Favs: VHS 2, Hellhouse, Noroi (ALL SHUDDER)
Meta: grave encounters 2, Butterfly Kisses, (BOTH PRIME)Peeping Tom (RENT) OR one cut of the dead (SHUDDER)
Mainstream: Blair Witch (PRIME), Paranormal Activity (PLEX), Unfriended (HBO)
Foreign: troll hunter (RENT), rec (PLEX), g asylum (PRIME)
Fauxcumentary: ghostwatch (PLEX), lake mungo (PLEX), Leslie Vernon (PRIME)
Anthology: VHS 1 (RENT), Southbound (PRIME), Creep (NETFLIX)
Big budget: Cloverfield (NETFLIX), As Above So Below (NETFLIX), Final Prayer The Borderlands (RENT)


A few of the third films are added for fun to lacking categories. Maybe replace Leslie Vernon with the bay?

Southbound isn't found footage, and Creep's not an anthology film.

For the "Anthology" category, you're better off going with 3:15 AM, DVD, Horror-Fest, and/or Real Aliens Caught On Tape Best Evidence Warning Scary Pt.3. I've also heard decent things about The Fear Footage, but cannot yet confirm. (Strongly avoid The Dark Tapes).

The Bay probably fits best in the 'Big Budget' category instead of Final Prayer, although I can't imagine it had that big of a budget.

Uatu The Lurker
Sep 14, 2003

I can say no more!
Already I have over stayed my time in this ephemeral sphere!
It's me, I'm the rear end in a top hat who watched One Cut of The Dead and hated the "turn."

franco
Jan 3, 2003

COOL CORN posted:

It might have been mentioned in here, but you can use code "shutin" to get a free month of Shudder, even if you're already a member. Big help for me since I'm having to cut back on a lot of my expenditures and had cut off Shudder :shobon:

Oh I'm a member and didn't know you could do that. But I'm also apparently an idiot - where do I go to put in the code (I watch on the site, not the app)? I looked in my account and all I could see was the usual contact details stuff and an option to change my card number (which I obviously don't want to do).

As for being scared, I think the circumstances of watching a horror film definitely help with that. A long time ago, when I was at university, I lived in a large shared house and had it to myself one night (it must have been the end of term or something and the others had gone home). I rented The Blair Witch Project (on VHS of course! ;)), turned off every light in the place and settled in. That was a VERY scary wild ride that had me jumping at everything for quite a while afterwards.

Similar deal years later with Ringu. Home alone in my flat and watching it in the dark on my PC, which meant I had my back to the room. As things ramped up, I was constantly looking over my shoulder to check that the doors to the kitchen/hallway hadn't opened or anything haha.

On that note, the American remake left me completely cold other than THAT jump scare (which is excellent). Leaning hard into the over the top "scary" disfigured makeup/fx for the girl really hurt it over the stark appearance of her in the Japanese original (plus the unnerving, jerky way she moves). Sometimes less is more!

STAC Goat
Mar 12, 2008

Watching you sleep.

Butt first, let's
check the feeds.

Good morning.

I just woke from the nightmare that I was watching a live action horror remake of Toy Story starring Woody Harrelson and Ray Liotta.

I’m gonna go analyze that over some coffee but I felt a need to share. Plus it sounded like something Eli Roth would do. Make it really edgy.

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


I would really like Eli Roth to make a big screen adaptation of Mutant League Football and give it the Any Given Sunday treatment

Thus is not a joke/irony post

The Hausu Usher
Feb 9, 2010

:spooky:
Screaming is the only useful thing that we can do.

I would really like Eli Roth and all his work to disappear from existence.

STAC Goat
Mar 12, 2008

Watching you sleep.

Butt first, let's
check the feeds.

Same.

Enemabag Jones
Mar 24, 2015

I dunno if this has been brought up yet, but holy poo poo Unfriended was ridiculously entertaining. I watched it because I needed background noise and I thought it might be good for a laugh, but I ended up watching the whole thing. It's a fun gimmick and it's executed well.

RenegadeStyle1
Jun 7, 2005

Baby Come Back
I haven't seen unfriended but I watched Unfriended Dark Web assuming I'd laugh at how bad it was the whole time. It was actually quite engaging from beginning to end and kept me entertained the whole time.

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


RenegadeStyle1 posted:

I haven't seen unfriended but I watched Unfriended Dark Web assuming I'd laugh at how bad it was the whole time. It was actually quite engaging from beginning to end and kept me entertained the whole time.

Extremely same, its also the only movie ever to execute the "spelled backwards as a code" gimmick well

married but discreet
May 7, 2005


Taco Defender
Y'all need to watch Searching

RenegadeStyle1
Jun 7, 2005

Baby Come Back
I was watching saw III yesterday and I don't really have much to say about it but at the end where they explain everything they said "oh the guy who set a trap up in the hotel brought in the pieces 1 by 1 to build it." And I laughed for a while thinking about a guy renting a motel room coming in every few hours with random pieces of metal, gears, metal, chains etc.

flashy_mcflash
Feb 7, 2011

married but discreet posted:

Y'all need to watch Searching

It's good but idk if I'd call it horror.

TheKingslayer
Sep 3, 2008

Unfriended was better than my expectations which were in the basement. The little making of that came with... One of the blurays was actually kinda interesting in that they allegedly filmed everyone in real time on different rooms in the set.

Stryder
Oct 3, 2002

fr0id posted:

What would you


Where would you suggest I put the bay my categories are:
Favs: VHS 2, Hellhouse, Noroi (ALL SHUDDER)
Meta: grave encounters 2, Butterfly Kisses, (BOTH PRIME)Peeping Tom (RENT) OR one cut of the dead (SHUDDER)
Mainstream: Blair Witch (PRIME), Paranormal Activity (PLEX), Unfriended (HBO)
Foreign: troll hunter (RENT), rec (PLEX), g asylum (PRIME)
Fauxcumentary: ghostwatch (PLEX), lake mungo (PLEX), Leslie Vernon (PRIME)
Anthology: VHS 1 (RENT), Southbound (PRIME), Creep (NETFLIX)
Big budget: Cloverfield (NETFLIX), As Above So Below (NETFLIX), Final Prayer The Borderlands (RENT)


A few of the third films are added for fun to lacking categories. Maybe replace Leslie Vernon with the bay?

The Bay might count as Fauxcumentary, based on what Levinson was trying to accomplish. This is kinda interesting, from the wiki page:

quote:

The film came about as a result of a documentary Levinson was asked to produce about problems facing the Chesapeake Bay. Although Levinson chose to abandon the documentary upon learning that Frontline already covered the same issue, Levinson instead decided to use the research to produce a horror film which he hoped would shed light on the issues facing Chesapeake. As such when promoting the film he noted that it's "80 percent factual information."

Levinson chose to use the found footage format after thinking about the Pompeii disaster and noting that if such a disaster happened today there would be much more evidence of what happened with him telling Yahoo! "For the very first time in history, you can get a picture of that town, if you collect all the footage from everyone's cell phones and their digital cameras and the Skypes, and the texting and everything else." A byproduct of the format was that much of the footage was able to be shot by the actors themselves as opposed to a more traditional camera crew. According to Levinson roughly one third of the film was shot this way.

I wouldn't wanna lose Leslie Vernon, though, cuz that's also a lot of fun. Also, that reminded me that Man Bites Dog exists and might also be a good candidate for the foreign category.

Stryder fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Apr 26, 2020

married but discreet
May 7, 2005


Taco Defender

flashy_mcflash posted:

It's good but idk if I'd call it horror.

Ah right, this is the horror thread. I still think it'd be allowed in the current challenge so it's good enough for me :colbert:

Timeless Appeal
May 28, 2006
Has anyone seen this Exorcist rip off and should I watch this? I want to live in this trailer.

Stryder
Oct 3, 2002

going by the music, I had to double check that it wasn't Beyond the Green Door...

BrendianaJones
Aug 2, 2011

Goodness no, now that wouldn't do at all!
Question for the thread,

I was describing a horror short to a friend and could not for the life of me remember the name.

It was about a group of kids, british I think, who were in an abandoned building and vanish one by one as the light flips on and off.

Sound familiar to anyone?

Count Thrashula
Jun 1, 2003

Peak Performance.

Buglord
I finally saw the original Maniac after seeing the Elijah Wood remake a couple months back.

The remake is SO MUCH BETTER than the original wow. Like they're both decent, but now I want to know what train of thought went into wanting to remake that stranger mediocre movie from 1980 into one of my favorite Horror movies of the 21st century.

King Vidiot
Feb 17, 2007

You think you can take me at Satan's Hollow? Go 'head on!
The Maniac remake makes me think of my experience watching the original The Hills Have Eyes thinking I'd already seen it, then realizing that all of my memories were of the remake and still not being 100% sure that I hadn't seen the original already. I think I've seen the original Maniac but I can't think of a single moment from it, but I can still remember the remake pretty vividly.

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

BrendianaJones posted:

Question for the thread,

I was describing a horror short to a friend and could not for the life of me remember the name.

It was about a group of kids, british I think, who were in an abandoned building and vanish one by one as the light flips on and off.

Sound familiar to anyone?

It does. It could well have been an episode of Doctor Who.

BrendianaJones
Aug 2, 2011

Goodness no, now that wouldn't do at all!

Jedit posted:

It does. It could well have been an episode of Doctor Who.

I distinctly remember it being a horror short, it could have been made in America and just featured british characters

Neo Rasa
Mar 8, 2007
Everyone should play DUKE games.

:dukedog:

I have seen Beyond the Door and like it quite a bit. It never quite gets boring and is stupid/wtf in a fun way and if you like Italian horror movies+possession movies at all it's worth a shot. Probably on one of the better of the Italian horror flicks trying to capitalize on The Exorcist, maybe the best one.

I believe both cuts are widely available on Prime/Tubi/etc. Make sure to watch the longer (108 minute?) cut. It's like ten minutes longer and has a cool intro and other bits that make it more coherent.

Also in true Italian horror fashion, this was just popular enough that when Mario Bava's last movie, Shock, was released in the US, it was given the title Beyond the Door II.

And Amok Train/Death Train was briefly released even in Italy as Beyond the Door III. :perfect: I've never seen that one though.

T Bowl
Feb 6, 2006

Shut up DUMMY
So Possessor loving rules. Watch it.

T Bowl fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Apr 27, 2020

Neo Rasa
Mar 8, 2007
Everyone should play DUKE games.

:dukedog:

T Bowl posted:

So Possesor loving rules. Watch it.

Possessor? Hardly even know'er.

BrendianaJones
Aug 2, 2011

Goodness no, now that wouldn't do at all!

BrendianaJones posted:

Question for the thread,

I was describing a horror short to a friend and could not for the life of me remember the name.

It was about a group of kids, british I think, who were in an abandoned building and vanish one by one as the light flips on and off.

Sound familiar to anyone?

It was this, found it finally

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-OIfpvsH3E

T Bowl
Feb 6, 2006

Shut up DUMMY

Neo Rasa posted:

Possessor? Hardly even know'er.

It's Cronenberg's son. Let's say he's doing Dad justice.

Stryder
Oct 3, 2002

COOL CORN posted:

I finally saw the original Maniac after seeing the Elijah Wood remake a couple months back.

The remake is SO MUCH BETTER than the original wow. Like they're both decent, but now I want to know what train of thought went into wanting to remake that stranger mediocre movie from 1980 into one of my favorite Horror movies of the 21st century.

Ha. I did this last night, and the same thing kept going through my head. Like, why does this movie even exist? What is it trying to do that Psycho didn't do 100 times better?

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This Is the Zodiac
Feb 4, 2003

The_Doctor posted:

I haven’t seen the Marked Ones, but apparently that’s alright?
It's quite good, and also one of a very, very few mainstream US horror movies with a mostly Latinx cast.

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