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Debbie Does Dagon
Jul 8, 2005



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs0vZm-21SU&t=94s

This world movie theme is already a huge success. I've stumbled upon the greatest kaiju movie ever

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feedmyleg
Dec 25, 2004
Every time I skipped forward it got better.

drrockso20
May 6, 2013

Has Not Actually Done Cocaine
Should I go fish up Pulgasari while we're on the topic of bugnuts Kaiju movies?

married but discreet
May 7, 2005


Taco Defender

Debbie Does Dagon posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs0vZm-21SU&t=94s

This world movie theme is already a huge success. I've stumbled upon the greatest kaiju movie ever

Oh my god, watching this so hard!

Debbie Does Dagon
Jul 8, 2005



drrockso20 posted:

Should I go fish up Pulgasari while we're on the topic of bugnuts Kaiju movies?

Which is also on YouTube as it turns out! I guess it makes sense that North Korea wouldn't be running around copyright striking material.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCKSR0JArUQ

Count Thrashula
Jun 1, 2003

Peak Performance.

Buglord
The best kaiju movie is Godzilla vs. Mito Komon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0NQX6bSp4A

It brings such a smile to my face

Count Thrashula
Jun 1, 2003

Peak Performance.

Buglord
drat, why has "Be My Cat: A Film For Anne" never been mentioned in found footage horror discussions? It's on Amazon Prime and it's wildly hosed up. I feel like I'm watching someone lose their mind through a digital handheld camera.

anime tupac
Oct 25, 2010

stick your chest out, keep your head up, and handle it

david_a posted:

In The Tall Grass will certainly be tolerable for you. It’s not as good as it should be but there are some good performances, spooky moments, and I honestly don’t remember if the, um, source of antagonism (trying to be vague) is sci-fi or ghostly or ambiguously both.

I would reply with some kind of goofy gif but none seems applicable while also not seeming ironic, so thank you for the actual recommendation while I go back to my horrible vodka. Spookiness of any source is always good

Midnight Pooptrain
Oct 13, 2012

2001's Father of the Year

weekly font posted:

Same.

Heads up, the October sequel is significantly worse.

It's utter poo poo.

SuperMechagodzilla
Jun 9, 2007

NEWT REBORN
The Houses October Built movies are literally just generic youtube travel blogs with horror skits tacked onto the end.

The most notable thing about either, besides the sucking, is that the evil funhouse skit in the first one uses recognizable sets from Lords Of Salem.

M_Sinistrari
Sep 5, 2008

Do you like scary movies?



Cast Iron Brick posted:

Does anyone happen to have the list of horror shorts and YouTube videos that would get posted in the Halloween megathreads? I haven't seen one in years and I've really been wanting to see some of those again.

Do you remember the names of any of them? I saved the links to some of them for when I do my Countdown to Halloween thing on Facebook. I know these were from those lists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4PR9NZlAB4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-PZ4Qy5F0Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4gJh8GIh6I

Tac Dibar
Apr 7, 2009


What the hell is the difference between a "Vault Keeper" and a "Crypt Keeper" anyway? Aren't they basically the same thing?

Gary the Llama
Mar 16, 2007
SHIGERU MIYAMOTO IS MY ILLEGITIMATE FATHER!!!
Started my official Halloween season watching last night with Microwave Massacre which was total sleazy trash, and not in any redeeming ways. Tonight I’m about halfway through The Blob (80s) and it is every bit as disgusting as I had heard. I think this may top The Thing’s effects, even if The Thing is the better movie. So gooey!

Dog_Meat
May 19, 2013

Gary the Llama posted:

The Blob (80s) and it is every bit as disgusting as I had heard. I think this may top The Thing’s effects, even if The Thing is the better movie. So gooey!

It was one of my favourites as a kid (my uncle managed to sneak me into the cinema to watch it when I was 10). It was just so... horrific. The Thing is hands down the better movie, but as a kid the Blob just tapped into something NASTY for me. And it helps that they just don't care and utterly gently caress up the kid like that . There's nothing like an 80s/early 90s melting death to get a Fangoria kiddie's attention :aaa:

Dog_Meat fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Sep 3, 2020

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

M_Sinistrari posted:

It has to be at least an hour. Masters of Horror generally gets disqualified on that reason. Though I do have to ask about films that are close but not quite an hour. There's some I'm considering for the challenge but they're at 58 or 59 minutes.

The issue I have with the 60-minute rule is that it eliminates nearly all B-movies. A true B-movie, one that was released as a support to a main feature, is almost always less than an hour long.

drrockso20
May 6, 2013

Has Not Actually Done Cocaine

Jedit posted:

The issue I have with the 60-minute rule is that it eliminates nearly all B-movies. A true B-movie, one that was released as a support to a main feature, is almost always less than an hour long.

Not to mention a lot of Horror OVA's

Cast Iron Brick
Apr 24, 2008

M_Sinistrari posted:

Do you remember the names of any of them? I saved the links to some of them for when I do my Countdown to Halloween thing on Facebook. I know these were from those lists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4PR9NZlAB4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-PZ4Qy5F0Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4gJh8GIh6I

That's the problem. They had a name with really terrible SEO. It was always like "GBS/PYF Spooky Video Halloween Megathreads"

I bought search access and still haven't had any luck.

The Hausu Usher
Feb 9, 2010

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

For a different vibe on Haunted House movies I highly recommend SPOOKERS which is on Shudder. It's a New Zealand documentary on a Haunted house business and will totally take you by surprise, meeting the young crew and learning about their lives as well as the history of the building as a legitimate mental institution is beautifully handled. Massive kudos to the filmmakers for feel good spooks.

I'm also really happy to read people are enjoying GET DUKED!

Franchescanado
Feb 23, 2013

If it wasn't for disappointment
I wouldn't have any appointment

Grimey Drawer

BisonDollah posted:

For a different vibe on Haunted House movies I highly recommend SPOOKERS which is on Shudder. It's a New Zealand documentary on a Haunted house business and will totally take you by surprise, meeting the young crew and learning about their lives as well as the history of the building as a legitimate mental institution is beautifully handled. Massive kudos to the filmmakers for feel good spooks.

I'm also really happy to read people are enjoying GET DUKED!

The American equivalent, The American Scream, is also really fun and charming. It's on Amazon Prime (US) and TubiTV for free.

Halloween and Horror-adjacent documentaries are allowed in the October Challenge thread, if anyone wants to watch them in October.

Drunkboxer
Jun 30, 2007

flashy_mcflash posted:

Maybe I'm off base here but those segments seemed pretty central to the film's idea and needed to be shocking in order to emphasize the dissonance between the image that the cult presented to the outside world and what they actually were. Maybe it could've been done more subtly but I think that would've made the film pretty forgettable.

Yeah I agree, I think if you took that out you wouldn’t have much movie left. And not to start this argument but I don’t think any depiction of torture or violence is necessarily torture porn, it’s not like that scene wants you to identify with the tormentors or anything.

Ambitious Spider
Feb 13, 2012



Lipstick Apathy

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

The Houses October Built movies are literally just generic youtube travel blogs with horror skits tacked onto the end.

The most notable thing about either, besides the sucking, is that the evil funhouse skit in the first one uses recognizable sets from Lords Of Salem.

Wasn’t that what happened? I thought they were making a documentary and couldn’t find a distributor, until one was like “can you make it found footage?”

I also kind of like them in that it’s sort of like falling asleep during a travel channel special on haunts and having a weird dream.

TheOmegaWalrus
Feb 3, 2007

by Hand Knit
I watched Sputnik last night and was thoroughly entertained.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0OaZIxy9Ic

Soviet Russia was some bullshit.

Alien invasion stories are a dime a dozen, and an overused staple of the sci-fi genre. It would have been easy to retread old ground in the familiar way, but Sputnik isn't holding the poker hand you expected it to.

A lot of people are saying this is a Russian Alien remake to which I disagree, it's much closer thematically to K-Pax or The Man Who Fell to Earth. There's an emotional core that spins unusually in this film, where the normal expectations are gore and guns, Sputnik does the hard work of asking some big questions. It's not Blade Runner, no one monologues in the rain, but having the human element shine in an ET movie was very refreshing.

The setting isn't a gimmick and doing black site stuff for the Soviets is both lovingly recreated and terrifyingly brutal and cruel. The sets and hardware are wonderfully 83', from the flashlights to the helmets, but the lack of ubiquitous cigarettes and vodka took me a little out of the movie.

The creature's design and MO are fresh and unexpected, and that tickled the hard sci-fi fan deep inside. While sadly entirely CGI, the effects impressed even an old grognard, and the creature seemed memorable, menacing and realistic.

You'll definitely want to experience the creature live, so avoid trailers and spoilers and give yourself the gift of blindness.

The movie thrilled and chilled me. Novelty is the only currency worth a drat when you're dead inside, and Sputnik brought a smile to my face becoming an instant Walrus Certified Good Time.

TheOmegaWalrus fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Sep 3, 2020

Basebf555
Feb 29, 2008

The greatest sensual pleasure there is is to know the desires of another!

Fun Shoe
I've got that near the top of my list for October, definitely gonna do a sci-fi horror/alien themed night.

Timeless Appeal
May 28, 2006

Cast Iron Brick posted:

Does anyone happen to have the list of horror shorts and YouTube videos that would get posted in the Halloween megathreads? I haven't seen one in years and I've really been wanting to see some of those again.
Ten Steps is a good classic I use it every year with kids when I do our October scary story day to convince them that yes they can write stories without blood and guts
I remember this one destroying me back in the day.

Debbie Does Dagon
Jul 8, 2005



Debbie Does Dagon posted:

:spooky: Fire Walk with Me vs. Drag me to Hell, TONIGHT on the CineD Discord :spooky:

Starting 1930 EST



:spooky: The Fly vs Rebecca, AND Lair of the White Worm vs Special Effects, FRIDAY on the CineD Discord :spooky:

Starting 1900 EST



:spooky: Bad Taste vs The Devil's Backbone, MONDAY on the CineD Discord :spooky:

Starting 1930 EST


Mokelumne Trekka
Nov 22, 2015

Soon.

feedmyleg posted:

Was thinking something on the short film/TV episode side, but that's a drat good reminder that I need to finally see The Boogens.

It's on Youtube fyi

Amazon Prime and Youtube each have a good ratio of trash movies being available. The other day I searched Octaman (1971) on Prime and what do you know....

M_Sinistrari
Sep 5, 2008

Do you like scary movies?




This one hit me hard once it clicked what was going on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKQpG7EjXsg

Here are some others I remember from the past threads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I61l_f-328c There are Monsters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPwwskSwy8g Danger Word
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtdEKIsnEkM Zombie in a penguin suit

Timeless Appeal
May 28, 2006
This one kills me because the shop scene is very well done and i love the line, "It's happening." But the sound design and that final effect really ruin it.

Grammarchist
Jan 28, 2013

Cast Iron Brick posted:

Does anyone happen to have the list of horror shorts and YouTube videos that would get posted in the Halloween megathreads? I haven't seen one in years and I've really been wanting to see some of those again.

There's a thread currently running that includes some of the old ones. I can't remember the older thread years or dates, but a few classics are there.
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3922047

The Hopewell Haunting had a decent atmosphere, but I think it's more recent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sImMmdeO0c

Debbie Does Dagon
Jul 8, 2005



:boom: 30 minutes! :boom:

Debbie Does Dagon posted:

:spooky: Fire Walk with Me vs. Drag me to Hell, TONIGHT on the CineD Discord :spooky:

Starting 1930 EST


Hollismason
Jun 30, 2007

Witchfinder General

The real question is what's going to be your horror movie horror challenge for this year. Not just watching movies but a challenge you give yourself.

Mine for this year will be " Older than me " . I was born 1979 so no horror past 1979.

Most people do New to Me but that's hard and you'll start watching something and realize halfway through you watched it.

M_Sinistrari
Sep 5, 2008

Do you like scary movies?



Hollismason posted:

The real question is what's going to be your horror movie horror challenge for this year. Not just watching movies but a challenge you give yourself.


Considering the volume of films I've done for past challenges, it's a challenge to sort out what I haven't watched yet for the challenge.

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"




College Slice
My main goal is gonna be watching through stuff I’ve accumulated on physical media but not gotten around to yet. Past that, probably gonna mix in some unseen video nasties and partner picks.

drrockso20
May 6, 2013

Has Not Actually Done Cocaine

Hollismason posted:

The real question is what's going to be your horror movie horror challenge for this year. Not just watching movies but a challenge you give yourself.

Mine for this year will be " Older than me " . I was born 1979 so no horror past 1979.

Most people do New to Me but that's hard and you'll start watching something and realize halfway through you watched it.

I've never completed the challenge so I'm just going to do the basic challenge of 31 movies minimum

gey muckle mowser
Aug 5, 2003

Do you know anything about...
witches?



Buglord
I don’t normally pick a theme, but I only have 13 movies left to watch from Edgar Wright’s top 100 horror films, so I’ll probably try to finish up those.

Space Cadet Omoly
Jan 15, 2014

~Groovy~


New Mutants is so loving good, it's so good and now it breaks my heart that more people aren't going to see it and we'll never get more movies with these great characters played by great actors.

I mean here it is: the first superhero movie with an openly gay protagonist, it's not just gay subtext it's actual gay text, and it's so good and spooky and I love it, but critics hate it and no one is going to see it and it's such a bummer.

M_Sinistrari
Sep 5, 2008

Do you like scary movies?



Space Cadet Omoly posted:

New Mutants is so loving good, it's so good and now it breaks my heart that more people aren't going to see it and we'll never get more movies with these great characters played by great actors.

I mean here it is: the first superhero movie with an openly gay protagonist, it's not just gay subtext it's actual gay text, and it's so good and spooky and I love it, but critics hate it and no one is going to see it and it's such a bummer.

If you're familiar with the comics, some of the changes they made for the movie are odd ones. Case in point, they didn't have Xi'an Coy Manh aka Karma in the movie. She was an original member of the New Mutants and long established as a lesbian. With Dr. Reyes, not only did they change her ethnicity from African-American, but have her working for one of the main villains in the X-men books. I love the idea of going the horror route for superhero films, but so far it feels like the studio's not fully committing to the idea like with that one Fantastic Four attempt.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
🍀👽🆚🪖🏋

Space Cadet Omoly posted:

and it's so good and spooky and I love it, but critics hate it and no one is going to see it and it's such a bummer.

there’s a pandemic

Space Cadet Omoly
Jan 15, 2014

~Groovy~


M_Sinistrari posted:

If you're familiar with the comics, some of the changes they made for the movie are odd ones. Case in point, they didn't have Xi'an Coy Manh aka Karma in the movie. She was an original member of the New Mutants and long established as a lesbian. With Dr. Reyes, not only did they change her ethnicity from African-American, but have her working for one of the main villains in the X-men books. I love the idea of going the horror route for superhero films, but so far it feels like the studio's not fully committing to the idea like with that one Fantastic Four attempt.

I am not familiar with the comics, so I was not aware of those changes.

I felt like they committed pretty hard to the horror theme, but then I think a lot of that might be because so much of the horror imagery was stuff that resonated with me personally. Anyone else who sees this movie will probably feel like I over hyped it, but that's only because it's a movie that appeals to me in so many specific ways that it's hard for me to be objective about it.

CelticPredator posted:

there’s a pandemic

I know, which is why they should have released it on streaming instead of just letting copies illegally leak onto the internet where unscrupulous people like me can find and watch them.

Hopefully there will be a way for people to watch this movie legally and safely soon, though. I like it enough that I'll buy a copy when it comes out so I can support the creators.

Space Cadet Omoly fucked around with this message at 07:25 on Sep 4, 2020

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M_Sinistrari
Sep 5, 2008

Do you like scary movies?



Space Cadet Omoly posted:

I am not familiar with the comics, so I was not aware of those changes.

I felt like they committed pretty hard to the horror theme, but then I think a lot of that might be because so much of the horror imagery was stuff that resonated with me personally. Anyone else who sees this movie will probably feel like I over hyped it, but that's only because it's a movie that appeals to me in so many specific ways that it's hard for me to be objective about it.


I guess my biggest gripe with the superhero films is it seems like the writers barely skim a wiki article when it comes to material. If they actually dug into the source material, there's so much they could roll with for movies. If X-men ever progresses to where they do the Inferno storyline, that's at least two movies there considering the full on demonic possession of New York City. If they ever branch into the other superteams like Alpha Flight (Canada's big superteam), they'd be able to show Northstar who was the first established gay hero who wasn't a stereotype (and first gay marriage in comics) along with several Indigenous superheros.

Instead it's how many times can things get brought back to Avengers. I have some vestige of hope with Morbius opening the possibility of the Midnight Sons (Marvel's grouping for all the horror themed heroes) since they've already done Blade, Ghost Rider, and Dr. Strange, but with all the stuff I'm hearing from the rumor mill about Marvel and Disney I'm just not sure what'll happen.

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