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Speaking of vertically cropped content, had a great conversation with a producer I’m working with where I had to remind him we not only had a whole conversation about their lower thirds and graphics barely being 16x9 title safe, but I specifically told him if they’re going to need anything centercut for the internet, the graphics they have won’t work. His response at the time was “we’ll figure it out when it comes up” and now that it’s finally delivery week and they’re requesting center cut clip selects, the producer just told me to “make it work.” 😭
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TheBizzness posted:I watched The Void today in between procedures at a doctors office and now I wish I had chosen to watch it on my tv any of the 8000 times I almost did because it ruled on my phone. 1stGear posted:The Void is good as hell and I'm real mad it's not on Netflix any more. I love The Void, and my favorite thing about it, which I already mentioned in a previous iteration of this thread, is the sense imparted by the titles about how this one of the "places between places" Stephen King has talked about in some short stories, just these run-down nowhere towns that could disappear off the map and nobody would miss them. Like, when King writes about Derry, it's specifically a place where things are definitely always hosed up, but then there's this sense that these irrelevant border places exist too, like the truck stops he mentions in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_That_You_Love_Will_Be_Carried_Away . Anyway I spent a lot of my life commuting on trains and Greyhounds at night in rust-belt towns and I love how these titles capture that sense of... not exactly isolation, but a sense that even though there are other people here, you're still alone. Unlike in most horror movies, you're in civilization, but only technically. Stuff is still bad because everything is already bad. https://streamable.com/xxr4tz (streamable keeps deleting my The Void intro every time I upload it so this may not last, but you all get the point)
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The Void is pretty much The Thing sequel that we should have gotten.
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May 23, 2020 01:41
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 what? The Void is a huge piece of poo poo. It's got the right heart and a few neat visuals, but it's an awful amateurish movie.
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feedmyleg posted:
The movie was crowdfunded and had a budget of ~$200,000 so I cut it lot of slack, it fuckin' rules.
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May 23, 2020 02:18
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Astron makes low budget movies with great scripts and amazing practical effects. It's their thing. This is their next thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMD8lGJR4GQ
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Neo Rasa posted:The movie was crowdfunded and had a budget of ~$200,000 so I cut it lot of slack, it fuckin' rules. Yeah it's real bad, just cause was made by incompetent people doesn't mean it can get away with being terrible. edit: but Psycho Goreman looks good edit2: Also that Raimi flipmovie looks good
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May 23, 2020 02:24
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I knew Sam Raimi wouldn't let me down.
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May 23, 2020 02:31
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Neo Rasa posted:The movie was crowdfunded and had a budget of ~$200,000 so I cut it lot of slack, it fuckin' rules. I'm not saying it doesn't have its positive aspects—heart goes a long way. But it's nowhere near "The Thing sequel that we should have gotten."
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feedmyleg posted:
Neo Rasa posted:The movie was crowdfunded and had a budget of ~$200,000 so I cut it lot of slack, it fuckin' rules.
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May 23, 2020 02:32
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May 23, 2020 02:43
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Sometimes the real horror is just the blatantly wrong opinions of others.
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May 23, 2020 02:51
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I thought the Void had some good stuff but like... not a 90 minute narrative story film's worth. Or as someone described it to me in discussion, it feels like very good cut scenes from a video game I wouldn't mind playing.
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May 23, 2020 02:59
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Chattanooga Film Fest is premiering Skull this weekend and it owns. Brazilian slasher with buckets of blood.
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May 23, 2020 03:36
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The Void has a particular theme and look that I enjoy. I know it falls down here and there, but mythos is a real big counter balance for me.
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May 23, 2020 03:49
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From Beyond, still perfect
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May 23, 2020 05:04
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I enjoyed the void way way more the second time through. and yeah it's awful and amateurish but it's got heart and it's not blumhouse or a24 so play on astron PG looks kick rear end too
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May 23, 2020 05:09
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This must be what Kvlt! feels when someone likes a Mike Flanagan movie.
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May 23, 2020 05:22
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The void would have made a great 30 minute thingy.
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I liked The Void a lot. Nothing life changing but a solid little movie that I watched twice and enjoyed both times. Obviously with like 3 million more dollars it could've been a lot better but that's life.
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Say what you will about Joe Bob (and there's a lot to say), but he's showing Deadbeat At Dawn right now, so the Joe Bob thread is experiencing it for the first time. I love it. vvvv Doubt anyone here is gonna disagree with that Count Thrashula fucked around with this message at 06:24 on May 23, 2020 |
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May 23, 2020 05:49
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Okay. Joe Bob is probably either a huge racist or deeply insensitive and awful and should be yelled at by a crowd of people.
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CelticPredator posted:Okay. Joe Bob is probably either a huge racist or deeply insensitive and awful and should be yelled at by a crowd of people. It's both
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May 23, 2020 08:32
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I just watched Goodnight Mommy and man I'm tired of this feelbad horror poo poo. There's a thinner line between this and something like Human Centipede 2 than it probably thinks.
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May 23, 2020 09:09
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Feel bad horror is kinda fun sometimes. Depends on the mood.
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feeling bad is good but feeling good is great gimme color out of space. best of both worlds
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That but Behind the Mask the Rise of Leslie Vernon
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Horror is an anxiety, a disgust, a sadness that we can control. We choose to watch, and we can choose to walk away. In the rest of our lives, we are out of control: someone we love might die, we might get catastrophically injured, hell we might even die. But horror strides the line between the relief of knowing that the bad things are happening to someone else, and the power of being able to stop it at any moment. I can't find it now but there was an article written about how people with trauma in their life (veterans for example) tend to be drawn to horror because it gives them a way to feel anxiety or fright that they have complete control over. Anyway, my point is feelbad horror has its place.
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I think feel bad horror has to be humane if that makes sense. I feel like Entrance is a great example. If you judge it by just the Wikipedia entry, it's a movie where a woman has all of her friends brutally and systematically killed after her life is being torn apart and ends on a very upsetting that note that only gets more upsetting if you consider the off-screen implications. But it's also a film about the isolation of cities and how the male gazes is amplified. It's upsetting, but is tackling and naming real fears. And I don't mean that in the bullshit hottake way. It's a film that really resonated with my ex when I first saw it on an emotional level. That's different from the Human Centipede films which are just about pulling the wings off a fly.
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Yeah I think there's an interesting question there to ask: does the ultraviolent, ultrableak stuff act as a healthy outlet for our darker desires, or does it engender them?
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the former. I remember people yelling at me to get psychiatric help itt when I was 14 and wanted extreme horror reccomendations and here we are 8 years down the line of watchinf the nastiest stuff I cam find and I've never hurt anybody or been violent or had the urge to.
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May 23, 2020 16:00
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Kvlt! is the sort of guy who's mugshot is destined for infamy.
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I like Mike Flanagan.
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Yeah, I don't even think dark urges is the right word. When I say feel bad horror has to be humane I mean to be of real interest or value. I think Kvlt!'s anecdote is actually an important one. When you're pre to early teen, you're coming out of a stage of your life when you're obsessed with rules. If you ever babysit a nine year old, you might notice that they get super pissy if you don't do something the way their parent do. To become a fully formed adult, you have to move beyond that and have a more nuanced view of how rules and order work. That's why twelve year olds are assholes, they're going from being obsessed with rules to realizing that some rules are bullshit. But because you're a child you don't know which are actually good and which are not, so you have to test things. And I think that can go into your media tastes. Teens can often be into pretty mean-spirited comedy because mean-spirited comedy tends to test the rules of what's okay to say. I think horror's similar. I got really into watching pretty grimy stuff as a teen because there was a rush of testing how far you could go with it. I never actually enjoyed I Spit On Your Grave, but there was a kick of digging into the depths of film, how hosed up you could get. But there's a limit to it. Feast is a good example. The film has some novelty of pushing conventions, but the novelty wore off in the second which was just unpleasant. I think that all horror fans have some appreciation for audacity in horror, but there is a horror type who never grows out of that seeing a fly get its wings pulled off thrill. But those people tend to be skeevy for other reasons.
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Kvlt! posted:the former. I remember people yelling at me to get psychiatric help itt when I was 14 and wanted extreme horror reccomendations and here we are 8 years down the line of watchinf the nastiest stuff I cam find and I've never hurt anybody or been violent or had the urge to. -that scene in Predator where Arnold and that other guy lock arms and say "you son of a bitch" but it's me and Kvlt! Relating to similar life experiences-
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I’ve been rewatching Ash vs Evil Dead and am realizing I never actually seen anything past the first episode of season 2. S2E2 has one of the grossest effects/scenes I’ve seen in anything, holy poo poo. in the morgue where the corpse forces Ash’s head up it’s rear end and it’s dick is flopping in his face, lol Also Ted Raimi’s character is great RenegadeStyle1 posted:I like Mike Flanagan. 
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CelticPredator posted:Okay. Joe Bob is probably either a huge racist or deeply insensitive and awful and should be yelled at by a crowd of people. He went off on a long rambling monologue about that Gillette ad because someone asked his opinion on it, and it was exactly as awkward as you'd expect. Then he ended it with "...but it's just an ad for shaving!" and I was like "well yeah, I agree with that and I hate faux-wokeness too", but then he started getting weird with talking about women also shaving and making implications and then... look it's a rollercoaster with this guy and I have no idea what the gently caress anymore. He didn't really have anything to contribute to Exorcist III that I didn't already learn from reading this thread. I'm mostly just done with the guy but it was a fun time I had two years ago when he first did his big comeback. But I think it's time to move on and maybe find a new cultural gatekeeper for the horror community.
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Kvlt! is what happens when you have The Omen IRL but instead of being a spawn of Satan it's Rob Zombie.
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Joe Bob is boring at the best of times and a huge rear end in a top hat the rest of the time. People only like him because when they grew up he was the only guy willing to engage with horror as if it were real cinema instead of just dismissing it out of hand or going "Check it out gorehounds, a geyser of gore gushes onto some ripe mammaries in this new Freakfest from Troma!" like the enthusiast press. But this ain't the 90s anymore and we don't need his old rear end.
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