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Valhalla Rising is the most boring Viking movie I've ever seen. I still don't know what to make of Too Old To Die Young, but I wasn't bored.
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Watched We Summon the darkness. I’m glad they did the twist they did because with all the satanic panic 2.0 QAnon nonsense I don’t think I could handle a movie made today positing the satanic panic was real actually. So having it be evangelicals using it for their own ends is pretty spot on That said politics aside thought it was just ok.
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Too Old To Die Young is amazing and contains both supernatural & sci-fi elements in the story.
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C2C - 2.0 posted:Too Old To Die Young is amazing and contains both supernatural & sci-fi elements in the story. 
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hey horror thread, I’m selling a bunch of horror movies over in SA Mart. If anyone wants to stock up for the October challenge, I’ll give you the spook-a-doodle discount. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3940692
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gey muckle mowser posted:hey horror thread, I’m selling a bunch of horror movies over in SA Mart. If anyone wants to stock up for the October challenge, I’ll give you the spook-a-doodle discount. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3940692 
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gey muckle mowser posted:hey horror thread, I’m selling a bunch of horror movies over in SA Mart. If anyone wants to stock up for the October challenge, I’ll give you the spook-a-doodle discount. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3940692 done and done.
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anime tupac posted:(also Imogen Poots who has the most ridiculous name in the world for an incredibly pretty woman who has suffered terrible disaster in the only two movies I've seen her in, Green Room and 28 Weeks Later). Today I learned that Imogen Poots’ middle name is Gay
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david_a posted:Today I learned that Imogen Poots’ middle name is Gay "Honey, what can we name our daughter that would really maximize schoolyard bullying? I mean, really crank it up to 11."
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Or her non-union Welsh equilvant: Cymbeline Homo Sharts
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david_a posted:Today I learned that Imogen Poots’ middle name is Gay Stryder posted:"Honey, what can we name our daughter that would really maximize schoolyard bullying? I mean, really crank it up to 11." e:  [british voice] Hi everyone at the boarding school, this is our beloved daughter, Inogarph Gay Butt. please treat her with the utmost respect anime tupac fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Sep 17, 2020 |
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BisonDollah posted:Am I the only one that hated The Babysitter 2? I thought the first one was fun but just could not stand this, the tone was just all over the place. Pop culture references are not character development or a fast track to enjoyable dialogue. King Bach's lines in particular stunk. I have a soft spot for Stephen Amell from Arrow because I hate when guys with middling physiques are depicted as being super-tough, which happens constantly in Hollywood, and Amell is an actual legit badass so I put up with the show just for him (and also he is an incredibly nice guy irl). So I liked, actually loved, at least one thing from The Babysitter 2: his cousin Robbie Amell realizing that the virgin blood he had drunk was not actually virginal because the kid has since hosed, and then dying while being like "AARRGH I'M NOT EVEN MAD BRO. RESPECT! AARGH" while burning to death. Aside from that, I get your complaints about it though; it was less an homage to 80s slasher stuff like the first was and more just a hodgepodge of... stuff. (I also liked that it featured Love On A Real Train but that's just me)
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Starfish on Shudder is a thoroughly dragging and kind of... bland film. But the soundtrack is SO good. Like, it kind of reminds of something else, probably by Clint Mansell, and it's killing me that I can't place it. THIS IS IT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVN1B-tUpgs absolutely wrecks me every time I hear it edit-- The more I think about Starfish, the more I like it. It's slow and plodding, sure, but... it's an interesting look at dealing with grief while also having to shove it aside and deal with bigger problems. Count Thrashula fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Sep 17, 2020 |
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I really loved Starfish and I'd really like to revisit it because it's kind of prescient when it comes to portraying someone isolating like they do in quarantine now. I think the one criticism of it that's unfair is calling it bland though. Incoherent? Maybe. Disjointed? Sure. But a movie that breaks the fourth wall, has really excellent creature design, stops dead for an animated sequence by the Tezuka studios, and has a score like that can't be bland to me. The way he did the score is pretty neat. quote:AW: I left the score very late. When I wrote it originally it was a year until the second draft, and then you’re later in that year before you’re in pre-production. Then it’s shooting. We’re a very indie film, so we made a lot of mistakes [Al laughs]. Post-production drags on twice as long as it should have. So you’re many, many years out from when you first come up with the concept. But you’re always trying to keep the film in that essence of mind you were in when you first wrote it. flashy_mcflash fucked around with this message at 03:13 on Sep 17, 2020 |
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An actress for the horror movie Mirror Mirror is Rainbow Harvest. If we're discussing odd names.
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Starfish is in my top 30 films ever, and I don't even know why I want to say so, and that's why I haven't mentioned it around here, because I feel like I should be able to articulate why something is good. As soon as I was a few minutes into it I knew it was obviously, obviously about the writer dealing with a real friend's death. Even one of the Metacritic reviews from some major publication, I forget which, missed that this was OBVIOUSLY what the film was dealing with. I assumed it was going to get depressing and experimental; it did! I love where it goes, and I think the result is very good but not fantastic, I guess what I struggle with the most is the desire to just kill the world. I mean, I get it, I mostly post on C-SPAM, where it is a common belief that we might as well kill the world, but I wasn't sure the film provided enough evidence that that was a welcome outcome. There were still people alive. There was no obvious reason to just consign all life to oblivion. But then I read that the film was in part about the screenwriter trying to deal with his grief, so: his emotions are his business. It's a beautiful film that maybe doesn't do enough work to explain itself, but I don't mind and like it anyway
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I just subbed to Shudder a few days ago and haven’t checked out Starfish yet. But I did watch Blood Machines and...it sure was something.
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anime tupac posted:Starfish I think that's about where I've landed on it. It's probably not something I'll recommend to people often, but it left a lasting impression on me. It definitely hits harder during quarantine, I think.
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NUMBER 1 FULCI FAN posted:I think that's about where I've landed on it. It's probably not something I'll recommend to people often, but it left a lasting impression on me. It definitely hits harder during quarantine, I think. That is a fair impression of it. I think what gets me most is I can tell how earnest it is, but I'm not sure I'll ever be like "hey friends check out this fantastic movie" e: when you know for a true fact it's literally about the screenwriter dealing with his friend's death, it makes much more sense. no Death Of The Author stuff here; that's what this is about. anime tupac fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Sep 17, 2020 |
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I loved the aesthetics of Starfish and also the more grounded bits, but I felt like the intentional ambiguity about how much of the sci-fi stuff is metaphorical vs real made it very hard to emotionally connect with the narrative. I couldn't even tell whether I was supposed to feel happy or sad or even conflicted in any way with the ending, it all just seemed too dreamlike and abstracted.
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I'm pretty sure you're just supposed to want to kill yourself with vodka in an apartment by yourself, but I'm also pretty sure that's also what most artists of any stripe want you to do as well (Cobra Kai seems to have made this cool as hell, which is accurate) anime tupac fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Sep 17, 2020 |
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Scare Package... is a thing I've seen.
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escape artist posted:Scare Package... is a thing I've seen. I liked it. The humor was fun.
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:I liked it. The humor was fun. It was okay. Some segments weren't fleshed out enough. Watched it back to back with Tales of Halloween which I have to say I liked. Do people hate that one? Also, recommendations of any more horror comedies in this vein would be greatly appreciated.
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CelticPredator posted:Steaming hot take warning. Preserving Andrew Milligan's back catalogue was a greater contribution to cinema than anything Refn has ever committed to celluloid himself.
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Not liking Drive is an art crime, please report to the nearest Academy for re-education.
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the version I saw of Drive was pirated but the score was literally just a lot of Badalamenti's music from the Mulholland Drive score dumped over the top. it felt a little cheap but I always wondered if it was the mock-up cut prior to the real score
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I thought Carpenter's coroner character was the worst "anthology host character" :\
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NUMBER 1 FULCI FAN posted:I thought Carpenter's coroner character was the worst "anthology host character" :\ MODS?! ...Wait a sec.
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NUMBER 1 FULCI FAN posted:I thought Carpenter's coroner character was the worst "anthology host character" :\ You're saying that, but wasn't he sharing the screen with Tobe Hooper?
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Saw an HK psychological thriller/horror film called Legally Declared Dead the other day and really liked it. It's about an insurance agent who sees a kid hang himself and becomes convinced that the dad was responsible, partly because the agent's brother killed himself and he feels guilty. It's adapted from a novel so a couple of bits feel cursory or implausible, but mostly I thought it was gripping, well filmed (especially the flashbacks), and had good acting; the dad is played by Anthony Wong from the original Infernal Affairs films. It doesn't seem to have been released in the west, but it might come out on streaming, I suppose.
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Jedit posted:You're saying that, but wasn't he sharing the screen with Tobe Hooper? Hm... fair... fair... I dunno, Body Bags is charming as hell because in my mind it's just Carpenter and a bunch of other horror folks just hanging out having a good time and making a project they love. But, without all of the trivia level horror guy knowledge, I don't think he holds up the same as the Creep or the Cryptkeeper. I still love Johnny Carps don't worry
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You're right in the sense that if I were choosing an anthology to show to a horror novice, Body Bags wouldn't be it. But as a horror guy it's really really fun to have an anthology where a different famous horror alumni is popping up in every scene. John loving Carpenter as the horror host is just the cherry on top.
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NUMBER 1 FULCI FAN posted:Hm... fair... fair... I think the sight gags make it more broad than you're giving it credit. Cryptkeeper is painfully silly puns, which is about as broad as it gets (for English speaking audiences).
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The thing with Cryptkeeper is that it's a great puppet. So even through the stupid puns you can enjoy a really cool, gruesome looking puppet. Which of course is something the guy who voiced the Cryptkeeper never wanted to admit, he thought people loved his voice work more than the puppet.
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John Kassir's voice was next level good voice acting that actually rose to the quality of the puppet. Neither would work nearly as well without the other. Imagine that puppet with the voice of the Creep from Creepshow 2, oof.
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Imagine if they'd gone with a more faithful Cryptkeeper, where he's just a grody dude who drools. I imagine it would've been half as effective His first appearance is a bit more mysterious 
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I used to hide during the opening for Tales From The Crypt because the puppet popping out was so scary to me as a kid. I'd say it worked.
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They always had really nice set design on Cryptkeeper too. Tons of cobwebs and the heavy creaking doors and dusty books and all that stuff.
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