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anime tupac posted:e: imagine expecting to see your cat and instead you're greeted by this monster fractal apparatus with its eyes constantly widening beyond measure and you just want it to go away
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Gripweed posted:What's the deal with 8 Films to Die For? Is that stuff any good? All I know is Lake Mungo only came to the US via 8 Films To Die For aka After Dark Horrorfest.
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Sep 13, 2020 18:51
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:All I know is Lake Mungo only came to the US via 8 Films To Die For aka After Dark Horrorfest. That’s the only one I ever saw. Think it was a yearly film fest output like ten years ago? But not sure if it’s still around. Lake mungo is absolutely worth watching though
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Sep 13, 2020 18:53
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I watched most of the ones that came out in the collection that year and none were nearly as memorable.
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Sep 13, 2020 18:54
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:All I know is Lake Mungo only came to the US via 8 Films To Die For aka After Dark Horrorfest. Oh poo poo, yeah, I remember I could only find Lake Mungo in a 4 pack. The other 3 were not good. I'd forgotten that was part of the 8FTDF... collection? Label? Ambitious Spider posted:That’s the only one I ever saw. Think it was a yearly film fest output like ten years ago? But not sure if it’s still around. I keep seeing 8FTDF movies in DVD clearance sections. Yeah Lake Mungo is fantastic.
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Sep 13, 2020 19:04
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Re: Nicolas Cage pairings with Mom and Dad, while neither are straight forward horror each share a bit more in common with Mom and Dad in other regards: Trespass - A pseudo home invasion thriller where Nicolas Cage and his wife navigate the situation with varying levels of madness and distress. I remember enjoying this one well enough and it’s not overtly comedic. Could pair well as a Nicolas Cage Marital Problems night. Drive Angry - Much more of an action film but I remember two things, that they are driving away from hell itself and that Nicolas Cage is indeed, very angry. Pairs well as a Nicolas Cage Rage night.
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Sep 13, 2020 20:18
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gey muckle mowser posted:another poster brought up Jake being trans too, and the more I think about it the more I like that reading. I went in having read the book, which explains things more explicitly, so I wasn’t looking for those themes while watching it. Not sure I’m on board with the second half of your spoiler though, I think the film can be an exploration of Jake’s complex thoughts and feelings and memories without needing a diagetic explanation like drugs/hallucinations. There is a thread for it down a ways.
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Sep 13, 2020 21:17
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Bert of the Forest posted:Re: Nicolas Cage pairings with Mom and Dad, while neither are straight forward horror each share a bit more in common with Mom and Dad in other regards: Drive Angry is a lot of fun but it's incredibly gazey/horny in a way that might not fly well with everyone's sensibilities.
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Sep 13, 2020 21:31
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anime tupac posted:I thought the original was fun as hell, but wasn't sure how an update would manage that, given that the timeline has apparently moved forward. Is it still 80s schtick? It's an 80's horror sequel made for the Tick Tock generation. It kinda feels like a whole season of American Horror Story compressed down into one movie. That might not sound appealing but it really works. Killer Queen is the perfect sequel for The Babysitter and they work really, really well as a double feature if you're having a few beers while watching them.
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Sep 13, 2020 21:49
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One of the AfterDark films Mulberry St was a vampire story where it was a rat infestation and I vaguely remember liking that one. But I might have just been responding to the idea.
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Sep 13, 2020 22:19
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Late to the party, but Green Room was intense
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Sep 13, 2020 22:56
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqPnIcDW9g0
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Sep 13, 2020 23:12
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Ambitious Spider posted:Late to the party, but Green Room was intense If you enjoyed Green Room's raw energy you'd probably also enjoy Blue Ruin by Saulnier. Hold the Dark however was a weird letdown that I can't recommend in good conscious to anyone.
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Sep 13, 2020 23:14
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Ambitious Spider posted:Late to the party, but Green Room was intense this is the horror thread sir not the thriller thread 
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Sep 13, 2020 23:20
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TheOmegaWalrus posted:If you enjoyed Green Room's raw energy you'd probably also enjoy Blue Ruin by Saulnier. i loved Hold the Dark. Better than Green Room even. Maybe I liked it more since, it the first Saulnier I saw, but that cast was so good.Been going though my netflix queue and I'm pretty sure blue ruin is on there, so i'll probably get to it in the next few days
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Kvlt! posted:this is the horror thread sir not the thriller thread Calm down there Sonic the Hedgehog
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tbh I feel like siege movies like Green Room, Us, The Purge, Assault on Precinct 13 etc kind of sit on a weird boundary between action, thriller and horror where you could conceivably call them any of the three and not be wrong.
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Sep 14, 2020 00:16
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How do you tell the difference between a horror and a thriller?
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Sep 14, 2020 00:16
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The spooky music
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Sep 14, 2020 00:20
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Gripweed posted:How do you tell the difference between a horror and a thriller? How many ghouls does the film have?
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Sep 14, 2020 00:23
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The Silence of the Lambs is the best horror film ever made
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Gripweed posted:How do you tell the difference between a horror and a thriller? There are three types of thrillers:Spy, Erotic, and the kind people argue if they're actually horror movies or not.
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Sep 14, 2020 00:33
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Lid posted:The Silence of the Lambs is the best horror film ever made That's a funny way to spell, Tammy and the T-Rex
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Sep 14, 2020 00:34
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If it has Michael Jackson in it it's a Thriller.
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Ambitious Spider posted:There are three types of thrillers:Spy, Erotic, and the kind people argue if they're actually horror movies or not. but what about Memento?
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Sep 14, 2020 00:39
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Gripweed posted:How do you tell the difference between a horror and a thriller? after a bit of thinking, i feel like realistically speaking, thrillers are basically a name for the result of injecting action-movie elements into a "dark" (but relatively grounded, ie no supernatural elements) genre without going fully into action territory. like, when you think of movies that are called thrillers rather than crime dramas, or horror movies, that's the common thread. for example, The 25th Hour would be considered a crime drama, but Heat is a thriller, because the latter has a lot more spectacle-filled shootouts in it. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is a horror movie, whereas Silence of the Lambs is a thriller, because the latter is about a heroic protagonist hunting the serial killer down, rather than the film just following the serial killer as he butchers people. i think siege movies lay on a weird spot where you could conceivably argue them as full-on action, full-on horror, or thrillers, and Green Room is hard to pin down even within a hard-to-pin-down subgenre. it kind of bounces through all three at varying points in the movie. hell, the first act, before poo poo goes down, isn't even any of the three, it starts out as an indie mumblecore drama about a punk band. like i almost feel like its genre is "Green Room" more than anything. WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Sep 14, 2020 |
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Sep 14, 2020 01:03
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Hollismason posted:If it has Michael Jackson in it it's a Thriller. I would say that there’s at least one documentary with him that’s straight horror.
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Sep 14, 2020 01:13
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Gripweed posted:How do you tell the difference between a horror and a thriller? I think where Green Room kind of floats on the line for me is that horror usually dealt with antagonistic forces that seem entirely insurmountable and not mundane (An unstoppable slasher, the devil, the inescapable existential nightmare that is being Frankenstein's monster, Ronald Reagan). As loving tense and terrifying as Green Room is, you get a sense of the captives and their own anxieties. The film makes the choice to make them mundane and not just ghouls. But also Green Room's like really loving scary.
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Sep 14, 2020 01:41
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Criminal Minds is a publically digestoble torture porn to be honest. I put the whole thing in the same binas The Collector for series that are irredeemably narcissistic and nihilistic on the idea of pain and suffering.
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Sep 14, 2020 01:56
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Green Room made me feel the chills and thrills of a genuine spook-a-doodle, so I'm going to dub it an Honorary Horror Movie. Unrelated, I recently watched Female Vampire because I thought I'd give Jess Franco another chance. I was totally underwhelmed with Bloody Moon but... at least that was a horror movie. Female Vampire barely qualifies as a movie, let alone a horror movie. I was expecting it to be similar in pacing and tone to something like a Jean Rollin movie, but it was literally just a softcore porn movie. It doesn't even really have a conclusion, it just sort of ends? At this point I wonder if I should even keep going with Franco's catalog, even though I'm a little curious about Jack the Ripper. But that's mainly for Klaus Kinski.
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Sep 14, 2020 02:03
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What about a movie like shutter island or freaks? It has horror elements but at the core it seems more of a thriller.
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Or things like Collateral or Mulholland Drive or Children of Men or *googles* ... X-2: X-Men United?
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I’m very mad that only Xtro 3 is on Amazon Prime, give us the full trilogy Bezos 
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I think you could call any David Lynch movie, with the exception of like three of them, a horror movie. Shutter Island is psychological horror, Freaks is "horror" in maybe the same way the old Grimm's fairy tales were "horror". Freaks is a moral fable where the bad guys meet a horrific end and poetic justice is served, and if it were a true story it would be horrible but it has that horror movie dream logic where you root for the freaks.
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Sep 14, 2020 03:13
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I think Green Room is a horror because it made me scared more than just about any horror movie I've seen. I don't think there's any real difference between it and any "lost in the woods and at the mercy of a psychotic group" movie is the setting. I just rewatched Silence of the Lambs and like gun to my head I'd categorize it a "thriller" but also I don't mind putting it on the horror shelf at all and I feel like its weird that we split hairs with "thrillers" and yet like 4 out of giallos I see are basically thrillers. Ultimately this is an argument that goes nowhere every time and now I've once again become part of the problem. I'm gonna go watch Hannibal and Red Dragon and judge them on their inferiority to teh series and lack of Laurence Fishburne more than when its genre is.
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STAC Goat posted:I think Green Room is a horror because it made me scared more than just about any horror movie I've seen. I don't think there's any real difference between it and any "lost in the woods and at the mercy of a psychotic group" movie is the setting. Seriously. Imagine if you replaced the Nazis with a group of hillbillies terrorizing a group of hikers and you have yourself a generic slasher movie. It transcends the slasher/home invasion template but it's definitely informed by those types of movies and remains close enough to the formula to be considered a horror movie.
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Sep 14, 2020 03:21
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If you put Halloween masks on the nazis in Green Room you'd basically have any movie in the vein of The Strangers etc. I watched the Babysitter sequel, it was a lot of dumb fun
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Sep 14, 2020 03:52
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Shadow in the Cloud might be the dumbest, most hilarious movie I've seen this year. It's like nine kinds of movie all crammed into 80 minutes and none of them make sense. I can't wait to watch it again. It was rewritten from a Max Landis script and it shows, but it's worth watching in spite of that. It's...a lot.
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:What about a movie like shutter island or freaks? It has horror elements but at the core it seems more of a thriller. You can't argue that Shutter Island is not a horror movie while saying that The Cabinet of Dr Caligari is. And it is.
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Semantic arguments do indeed inevitably go nowhere but are admittedly very fun to think about and discuss. I’d say horror is on a sliding scale dependent on several factors, roughly something like: How powerless the protagonists are How scared/fearful characters are How fantastical/larger than life the threat is How severe the threat is (life or death or goosebumps-grade social ostracization) How prolonged suffering is/isn’t How dark/spooky the general tone is If something is like a zero on every factor then sure, I’d likely not consider it horror. But it’s not all or nothing. Green Room deals with very fearful and mooostly powerless protagonists, dealing with a grounded threat albeit with some exaggerated elements like some killer hound trainer and a conniving suave leader figure. The threat is life or death, with plenty of prolonged suffering, and it’s a plenty dark n spooky movie. Fits the bill well enough for me!
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