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aware of dog posted:Is The Ice Cream Man worth watching? How does it compare to Clint Howard’s other performances? If you like Clint Howard being weird and chewing scenery then you'll like The Ice Cream man.
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Basebf555 posted:In terms of evidence, you're right the only significant evidence that people ever point to is the Patterson film. Most of the tracks have been exposed as hoaxes, or they're just not convincing to begin with. That’s sort-of true, except there’s a big difference between a belief in werewolves and a belief in werewolves as objects of scientific inquiry. You’d have stories of manimalistic nature-spirits, going back however many thousands of years, but 1958 is where you get this conviction that it’s definitely an ape that’s leaving footprints, and here’s a fecal sample and a copy of his photo ID.... It’s the same as the difference between a belief in god(s) and a far more recent belief in ancient aliens (which can be specifically traced back to HP Lovecraft). The 1958 Ray Wallace hoax itself didn’t appear from nowhere either; his innovation was in transplanting the (then decades-old) phenomenon of ‘Yeti footprints’ to the United States (which was itself based on the lasting hype around the 1902 discovery of mountain gorillas). Patterson’s sensationalist Bigfoot book, written a couple years before he filmed ‘Patty’, refers to Bigfoot as an “Abominable Snowman of America.”
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Sep 9, 2020 21:03
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:That’s sort-of true, except there’s a big difference between a belief in werewolves and a belief in werewolves as objects of scientific inquiry. You’d have stories of manimalistic nature-spirits, going back however many thousands of years, but 1958 is where you get this conviction that it’s definitely an ape that’s leaving footprints, and here’s a fecal sample and a copy of his photo ID.... It’s the same as the difference between a belief in god(s) and a far more recent belief in ancient aliens (which can be specifically traced back to HP Lovecraft). It's mostly white morons who don't understand the cultures recounting myths or stories with religious significance thinking that they must literally describe something physical and real because that was how people found orangutans after all. Actually, that's pretty much the entire field of cryptozoology. And also a lot of ancient aliens poo poo too.
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Sep 9, 2020 21:12
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Sep 9, 2020 21:30
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Hollismason posted:Werewolves are real though Yeah, I'm real as hell.
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Debbie Does Dagon posted:You're not a real horror fan until you've fully digested Tor Johnson's oeuvre. Beast of Yucca Flats is quite possibly the worst film ever made Basebf555 posted:In terms of evidence, you're right the only significant evidence that people ever point to is the Patterson film. Most of the tracks have been exposed as hoaxes, or they're just not convincing to begin with. Personally I feel there has to be something real behind Sasquatch, if mostly because legends of big hairy(and often very smelly) ape men are way too common on a global scale for it to just be something completely made up, whether anything of that sort still actually exists is of course a whole nother kettle of fish
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Sep 9, 2020 22:14
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drrockso20 posted:Beast of Yucca Flats is quite possibly the worst film ever made I think you mean "the most quotable film ever made."
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I think you mean "the most quotable film ever made." I stand by what I said, even the MST3K version is hard to watch In the category of "big ugly guy goes around strangling people" movies I'd much rather rewatch The Brute Man(which is also the superior episode of MST3K, partially because Chicken of Tomorrow is the funniest short that show ever did)
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drrockso20 posted:I stand by what I said, even the MST3K version is hard to watch Boys from the city, not yet caught by the whirlwind of progress. Feed soda pop to the thirsty pigs. That's been burned into my memory for at least 25 years now. I will concede that it may be a terrible movie also, but every line is extremely memorable, probably because it is almost entirely sentence fragments.
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Sep 9, 2020 22:47
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Franchescanado posted:Yeah, I'm real as hell. Real talk I can't look at your avatar without immediately hearing the associated MST3K riff in my head "An American Werewolf in... traffic."
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Sep 9, 2020 23:13
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Hollismason posted:If you like Clint Howard being weird and chewing scenery then you'll like The Ice Cream man. Aw hell yeah
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Say fellas, what exactly is a spook-a-doodle? When a knife stabs your eye and you're going to die spook-a-doodle When a big slimy ghoul jumps out of a pool spook-a-doodle Flesh will crawl biggy-biggy-bawl, biggy-biggy-bawl And you'll scream "AAAAHHHHH!" Blades will flay tippy-tippy-tay, tippy-tippy-tay Like a giant tarantula
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I'm your ice cream man...be-be-be-be-be-be-be-baby ah my, my, my...all my flavors are guaranteed to satis-uh-fy....Ow!!!!!!!
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FreudianSlippers posted:When a knife stabs your eye I love you, this is wonderful.
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Germane to the Universal Monsters talk, recently somebody asked me about which ones are worth watching, and I gave them (among other things) the list of the “shared universe” movies that tie together, leading up to the monster rally movies of the late 40s. https://benito-cereno.tumblr.com/post/626827988751859712/which-universal-monster-movies-are-still-worth So if you just want to see those—which are NOT always the best, and does not include any Invisible Man, Mummy, or Gillman stuff—here’s that list: Dracula Frankenstein Bride of Frankenstein Daughter of Dracula Son of Frankenstein Return of the Vampire (not Universal, but an unofficial Dracula sequel) The Wolf Man Ghost of Frankenstein Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman House of Frankenstein House of Dracula Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Return of the Vampire is optional and you could theoretically watch Son of Dracula, but I loving hate Son of Dracula. And Return of the Vampire rules.) If you just want to watch, like, the best Universal stuff, just watch Bride of Frankenstein, The Old Dark House, and The Black Cat (1934).
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Over in the Franchise Tournament thread we dubbed those movies (aside from Return of the Vampire) "The Saga of Larry Talbot". If you squint you can connect Invisible Man and Invisible Man Returns to the Vincent Price cameo at the end of Abbott and Costello. Also I recently discovered that Bully the Kid vs Dracula could sorta connect. But don't watch that. Its bad.
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TheOmegaWalrus posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuwDfbJF-MY Aw come on, theaters only? It's like the producers WANT me to steal these movies!
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Sep 10, 2020 04:21
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The holy trifecta of Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter, Billy the Kid Versus Dracula, and Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla.
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Is there room for KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park or is that too far gone? E: Crap, I always thought Universal had a hand in that but no.
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Sep 10, 2020 04:39
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All Hallow's Eve? Sucked. Gonna skip the sequels.
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Thanks to the thread for the heads up on What Keeps You Alive, that definitely would not have been on my radar otherwise and the Netflix thumbnail wasn’t doing it any favors (I thought it was about two teens in the woods). I didn’t realize that Colin Minihan was one of the Vicious Brothers, I was wondering what those dudes had been up to. I guess I thought they were another casualty of that whole V/H/S generation that seemed like they were going to be the next big thing before either fading into the ether or transitioning to tv
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Benito Cereno posted:Germane to the Universal Monsters talk, recently somebody asked me about which ones are worth watching, and I gave them (among other things) the list of the “shared universe” movies that tie together, leading up to the monster rally movies of the late 40s. Bookmarked this for Spooktober, thanks!
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drrockso20 posted:Personally I feel there has to be something real behind Sasquatch, if mostly because legends of big hairy(and often very smelly) ape men are way too common on a global scale for it to just be something completely made up While that’s not wrong, it misses that we already have smelly apes wandering around everywhere, called humans. When you look at enough alleged Bigfoot videos - which are now extremely easy to track down compared to pre-Internet times - you get a fairly even mix of people in dark clothing shot from a distance, shapes created by tree stumps and branches, and undisguised monkey suits. The former two types of video are the ones posted by the true believers, and it becomes quickly apparent that they literally use “Bigfoot” as a term for any dark and human-ish shape. So a collection of branches will be a Bigfoot from one angle and a bush from another, with the conclusion being that the Bigfoot (human shape) simply turned into a bush (plant shape). Like, showing that Bigfoot is just an image won’t dissuade folks because Bigfoot is effectively believed to be an animal made out of images. So, yeah, it’s not completely made up. There are shapes, sounds, and smells out in the woods - and Bigfoot is the name for the ones you can’t immediately identify. Blair Witch 3: The Woods is consequently one of the best Bigfoot movies, because the witch literally has arms made of sticks, her voice is made up of fox cries, etc. Then, occasionally, these objects briefly align.... The point of the official alternate title is that the antagonist literally is just the woods - in the same way that the Final Destinations are best read as a series of random accidents that the characters simply interpret as the work of an invisible puppeteer. (On the flipside, it’s honestly kind of surprising how inept the Bigfoot hoaxes tend to be, since Patterson proved that you just need to light a suit decently and ensure there are no visible shoes. It’s weirdly common to forget the shoes, or to release multiple different takes of the same video, or for the video’s backstory to make no fuckin sense whatsoever.)
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:While that’s not wrong, it misses that we already have smelly apes wandering around everywhere, called humans. Well I'm leaning more towards the idea that there used to be some big hairy ape men roaming the wilds of the world that inspired various legends but they probably went extinct centuries or millennia ago
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Kvlt! posted:Bigfoot is real and we made out Was he a good kisser?
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Huh, I didn't know Netflix made a sequel to The Babysitter. Guess I know what I'm watching tonight!
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I just watched The Final Showing last night and I didn't really like it. I loved the concept but the characters choices and how easily deceived they were really took me out of the movie. I have a pretty big suspension of disbelief for horror characters making stupid decisions but this one felt like a personal attack, like the movie creators though I was so dumb I'd just buy it.
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Argue posted:Huh, I didn't know Netflix made a sequel to The Babysitter. Guess I know what I'm watching tonight! I knew they were making this but I had no idea it was already out. It looks pretty fun, but I'm gonna save it for October.
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drrockso20 posted:Personally I feel there has to be something real behind Sasquatch, if mostly because legends of big hairy(and often very smelly) ape men are way too common on a global scale for it to just be something completely made up, whether anything of that sort still actually exists is of course a whole nother kettle of fish
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After reviewing my list from last years October Challenge, I see that I only watched 2 Hammer films. I had a feeling that was the case because as October approaches I was starting to feel that Hammer itch and it's now been almost 2 years since I've watched some of these great movies. Anyway, are there some deeper cuts that I should make time for? I've seen all of the Frankenstein and Dracula sequels(although I'll be rewatching a bunch of them).
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Basebf555 posted:After reviewing my list from last years October Challenge, I see that I only watched 2 Hammer films. I had a feeling that was the case because as October approaches I was starting to feel that Hammer itch and it's now been almost 2 years since I've watched some of these great movies. I like their Mummy movies. The Mummy is basically just Hammer's (better) version of Universal's The Mummy. The Curse of The Mummy's Tomb is my favorite of the bunch, and The Mummy's Shroud is fun. Blood from the Mummy's Tomb isn't really a mummy movie, it's a curse movie (inspired by a Bram Stoker novella), but Valerie Leon is striking as the lead, and it weirdly has some influence on Evil Dead 2. When I'm in the mood for a Hammer, I refer to this list curated by our very own Uncle Boogeyman that our very own MacheteZombie compiled on Letterboxd. Maybe there's something on there you haven't seen?
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For non-Dracula and Frankenstein Hammer movies that I've seen I'd recommend The Devil Rides Out, Quatermass and The Pit, and The Gorgon. It's been a long time since I've seen The Gorgon but I remember liking it.
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Yeah, The Devil Rides Out is really cool. I watched it last October.
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Argue posted:Huh, I didn't know Netflix made a sequel to The Babysitter. Guess I know what I'm watching tonight! Just finished! I enjoyed it, but it did have some weirdness that was a bit awkward for me. I don't remember how the first film was shot but I don't recall it being so... I don't have the word for it, but it has moments reminiscent to me of Scott Pilgrim or Detention--both movies that I like but which I don't really remember as being tonally in line with the previous film; in this one those parts just made me cringe. That said, it was a lot of fun; it had goofy deaths and a surprising amount of heart, which is enough for me to really enjoy most films. I saw one plot point coming, but I was way off on another. I thought that the new girl was the final girl from her own run in with the cult (or possibly even a completely different horror story) in an offscreen adventure, but that part did play out more typically than I expected. Argue fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Sep 10, 2020 |
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I'm considering buying Devil Rides Out on blu ray before October because I did technically see it but I watched it on a laptop screen. Franchescanado posted:I like their Mummy movies. Yea I need to delve into the Mummy sequels a bit more, I'll definitely make sure to watch Curse of the Mummy's Tomb at least. Any opinions on Scream of Fear?
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Basebf555 posted:
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