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Human Tornada posted:So that new Kevin Bacon Amanda Seyfried movie You Should Have Left stinks, if you couldn't have guessed. A totally predictable, unoriginal story, completely stale scares, blandly unlikable characters, it really doesn't have anything going for it. Just a total nothing of a movie. The house needed to be like 10 times weirder. The best part was the shop keeper character.
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MacheteZombie posted:The house needed to be like 10 times weirder. I really can't get over how lame most of the attempted scares were. He turns all the lights off and then once he leaves the room a lamp turns on by itself. He looks back over his shoulder for a second yet his reflection remains staring straight ahead. There's a bunch of Polaroids of nothing in particular tacked to the walls. Some generic Pottery Barn artwork appears and disappears as the scene cuts between camera angles. One of the walls isn't perfectly level when measured with a triangle. This must have been a money laundering scheme or contractually obligated for everyone involved or something. Just totally stale and inept.
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Whoever recommended Gretel and Hansel ... thanks, that was really very good! Does anyone have anything to recommend that's along the same feel of A Dark Song that I might not have heard of? That was my favorite horror movie of the past 5 years, though I wish the ending were a bit different.
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BisonDollah posted:I love the streaming idea, if it's set up for some films I can't find from the Horror Directors World Cup I'll have to make the effort to stay up late into the cold Scottish night and hang out with y'all. I haven't actually watched any of the sequels, but I have a soft spot for the first Hatchet, because I feel like it actually really nails the whole "modernized 80s slasher" thing.
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I increasingly hated Hatchet which each movie I saw and then I watched Digging up the Marrow and I just had to stop because I hated the guy too much so I never got to Victor Crawley.
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Dead Hands Dig Deep is a weird little horrific documentary. Christian Death fans might like it. Weird movie ngl. Still unsure if its about Cool Corn or not.
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STAC Goat posted:I increasingly hated Hatchet which each movie I saw and then I watched Digging up the Marrow and I just had to stop because I hated the guy too much so I never got to Victor Crawley. You missed the "highlight" of the series.  I watched all the Wrong Turns before this and have Underworld lined up next, the Horror World Cup may have been justified in kicking these films out super early. ...why am I a completionist POS? Oh, suffer.
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Jun 28, 2020 19:59
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I basically did the same thing you're doing back in April for the Franchise Bracketology. Hatchet really might have been the low, which is saying a lot.
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BisonDollah posted:You missed the "highlight" of the series. i would never, ever call the Underworld movies traditionally good but four out of the five are fun as gently caress, the only real stinker of the bunch is Evolution e: like, if the concept of something simultaneously being the dumbest thing you've ever seen in your life, but also immensely entertaining, is familiar to you then you will love Underworld WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Jun 28, 2020 |
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Underworld Blood Wars, the fifth and so far final one, is a movie in which, at one point in a battle sequence, two dudes unload uzis into each other and then go RAAAAAARGH at each other so hard that the bullets all just go "nope gently caress this i'm out" and flop onto the floor
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Jun 28, 2020 20:25
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The Underworld movies are stupid, stupid movies but its a brand of stupid that I can see someone enjoying if they REALLY liked the Matrix or played White Wolf games or something.
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The best thing Adam Green ever did was his podcast. It’s sincerely helpful. Digging Up the Marrow is pretty good, he played a lovely version of himself on purpose.
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Underworld and Resident Evil are both guilty pleasure series and we are worse off for no longer having them.
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Man that new Child’s Play is pretty lousy. Did not feel it at all. It wasn’t important to the original, but I liked that the first film took place in Chicago and used its varying locales to great use. The new one was way too generic in its broad strokes about consumerism and felt more like a bad political cartoon than a horror movie.
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Underworld has Kate Beckinsale in skin tight vinyl, what's not to love?
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I just rewatched Autopsy of Jane Doe and it got me thinking, are there any other movies like it and Prince of Darkness where the scares come from a bunch of experts doing their job and finding out poo poo that’s impossible? I really love that tone in horror.
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Underworld is just so good. Then they get dumb but I still love them.
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Lumbermouth posted:I just rewatched Autopsy of Jane Doe and it got me thinking, are there any other movies like it and Prince of Darkness where the scares come from a bunch of experts doing their job and finding out poo poo that’s impossible? I really love that tone in horror. The Stone Tape.
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Europa Report is kind of scifi, but fits.
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Lumbermouth posted:I just rewatched Autopsy of Jane Doe and it got me thinking, are there any other movies like it and Prince of Darkness where the scares come from a bunch of experts doing their job and finding out poo poo that’s impossible? I really love that tone in horror. Quatermass and the Pit
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I watched the Maniac Cop trilogy last night for the first time in decades and had remembered nothing. The first was a solid low budget B movie. Nonsense plot, but fun enough, with a good cast. Part 2 was a big jump up in quality, and was an excellent genre pic. Sleazy, far better cinematography, the set pieces are great, Robert Davi owning it, and it's got a nice weird streak to it. Too bad they couldn't bring back Tom Atkins. The plot was still nonsense but who cares. Part 3 was a snoozer that forgot to include the Maniac Cop in a movie called Maniac Cop 3. This got me hankering for some good night in the big city horror films. You know, deserted sidewalks under the streetlights, grimy alleys, dingy bars, seedy clubs, the flash of a blade under a neon sign, maybe synth on the soundtrack. Maniac, Maniac Cop, NY Ripper type poo poo. I know Basket Case is NYC horror, but I remember it mostly taking place inside an apartment building. Anything else notable?
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What's the name of that French? Film set in a post apocalypse and its all underground , was a low budget I believe movie. Anyway that's good but I forgot the name.
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Origami Dali posted:I watched the Maniac Cop trilogy last night for the first time in decades and had remembered nothing. The first was a solid low budget B movie. Nonsense plot, but fun enough, with a good cast. Part 2 was a big jump up in quality, and was an excellent genre pic. Sleazy, far better cinematography, the set pieces are great, Robert Davi owning it, and it's got a nice weird streak to it. Too bad they couldn't bring back Tom Atkins. The plot was still nonsense but who cares. Part 3 was a snoozer that forgot to include the Maniac Cop in a movie called Maniac Cop 3. Deadbeat At Dawn
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Kvlt! posted:Deadbeat At Dawn
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Q is the single movie that most captured the feel of NYC to me but I think its set entirely in the day and in midtown. Basket Case is very sleazy NYC and only half of it is in an apartment. But that's a very NYC sleazy apartment. The Addiction is NYC as gently caress. Super arty and Greenwich Village NYC though. After Hours is a movie I haven't seen in forever and I'm not even sure if I remember it correctly as horror, but I definitely remember it being NYC as gently caress.
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The new York ripper also
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WeedlordGoku69 posted:Underworld Blood Wars, the fifth and so far final one, is a movie in which, at one point in a battle sequence, two dudes unload uzis into each other and then go RAAAAAARGH at each other so hard that the bullets all just go "nope gently caress this i'm out" and flop onto the floor STAC Goat posted:The Underworld movies are stupid, stupid movies but its a brand of stupid that I can see someone enjoying if they REALLY liked the Matrix or played White Wolf games or something. Okay I am officially on the Underworld hype train. I sleepy watched the first one when it was first out on home release... but yeah, this might be what I need. CelticPredator posted:The best thing Adam Green ever did was his podcast. It’s sincerely helpful. I'll be checking that podcast out but I really liked Frozen and think it shoulda been a bigger deal. (It has more going for it than the catchy theme song and doll merchandise). Origami Dali posted:I watched the Maniac Cop trilogy last night for the first time in decades and had remembered nothing. The first was a solid low budget B movie. Nonsense plot, but fun enough, with a good cast. Part 2 was a big jump up in quality, and was an excellent genre pic. Sleazy, far better cinematography, the set pieces are great, Robert Davi owning it, and it's got a nice weird streak to it. Too bad they couldn't bring back Tom Atkins. The plot was still nonsense but who cares. Part 3 was a snoozer that forgot to include the Maniac Cop in a movie called Maniac Cop 3.  WOLFEN for New York... but maybe not very dingey as far as I remember it.
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Iron Crowned posted:Underworld has Kate Beckinsale in skin tight vinyl, what's not to love? drat. Once again the reminder that makes me add "try and watch the Underworld series" to my list again.
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NUMBER 1 FULCI FAN posted:Kvlt are you okay I am actually home from the hospital today! ty everyone for the well wishes it meant a lot fr thank a doctor or a nurse those ppl are loving heroes also i love the hatchet movies idk i always thought they had some kind of charm like they're not perfect or even good but they felt like a good effort and are fun and there's some fun kills
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Hollismason posted:What's the name of that French? Film set in a post apocalypse and its all underground , was a low budget I believe movie. Anyway that's good but I forgot the name. Are you thinking of Delicatessen?
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I'd rather rewatch all the Underworld movies than like Friday the 13th.
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insularis posted:Are you thinking of Delicatessen? No this is a recent film where its all underground and just this one dude in thi weird hosed up world its like 10 years . It may not even be french.
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I enjoyed Paul Schrader's DOMINION: PREQUEL TO THE EXORCIST. It is way better than Renny Harlin's version anyway. The Brits vs the Africans is a little one-note, it runs half an hour too long and there's a Holocaust connection that is pretty crass BUT the demon and the weird janky arthouse effects made me loving poo poo myself. The connection between colonialism, christiandom and white supremacy/SATAN was kinda metal and the cheap-terrible CGI began to work for the film. I mean I wouldn't go out of my way to see it but it's sure something.
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Whichever one has the opening with the field of impaled crusaders gets my vote.
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Hollismason posted:No this is a recent film where its all underground and just this one dude in thi weird hosed up world its like 10 years . It may not even be french. A Boy And His Dog maybe? Though that's not particularly recent.
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Hollismason posted:No this is a recent film where its all underground and just this one dude in thi weird hosed up world its like 10 years . It may not even be french. I think you're thinking of The Night Eats the World. Its not underground or 10 years but its a dude holing himself up alone in an apartment building during the zombie apocalypse. And its French.
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STAC Goat posted:
I'd expand that to most of Henlotter's films. Brain Damage and Frankenhooker are pretty old sleaze NYC.
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BisonDollah posted:Okay I am officially on the Underworld hype train. I sleepy watched the first one when it was first out on home release... but yeah, this might be what I need. So a word of, maybe warning for the podcast. It’s very whiny. But I guess it clicks for me because it’s things I’ve been frustrated with on micro levels of film production so it’s kind of cathartic to hear it’s not just micro level films that struggle with these dumb issues. It takes a bit to sorta warm up to it but honestly once I did, it became one of my favorite things. The amount of help it’s done for me is tremendous and I’d love to meet Adam one day to thank him.
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Kvlt! posted:Deadbeat At Dawn Dude, I gotta thank you for the most fun I've had watching a movie in a long while, holy poo poo
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