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Space Cadet Omoly posted:The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre still holds up, just in case anyone was wondering. Feels like I'm working in super high humidity and running into rusty barbed wire and hoping I get a tetanus shot before I get a nasty infection for the entire runtime. It's special.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre still holds up, just in case anyone was wondering. Yeah it does, I watched it last night. It still has juice with the kids too apparently because my girlfriends son refused to watch it with us because he was scared.
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Oct 3, 2020 15:36
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I've never watched Texas Chainsaw without wanting to shower very soon after. So grimy, so sweaty, so putrid. It's very good.
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Tarnop posted:I've never watched Texas Chainsaw without wanting to shower very soon after. So grimy, so sweaty, so putrid. It's very good. watch Hooper's Eaten Alive
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What makes Texas Chainsaw Massacre so effective as a film though, is it the matter of fact way that violence is potrayed, the performances, the direction? If you evaluated TCM today by our standards its really a "hard" PG 13. Which makes sense since Hooper was convinced he'd get a PG rating for the film or at least he tried to. I think it's a combination of all those direction , acting , and just the fact that its so realistic. It doesn't treat anyone in the film or anything as a "joke". I don't know why TCM is so effective but its still even to this day one of the greatest horror films ever made. In fact I'd argue its easily the best horror film made, period.
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Oct 3, 2020 16:02
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Got Eaten Alive on my list for October already!
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Hollismason posted:What makes Texas Chainsaw Massacre so effective as a film though, is it the matter of fact way that violence is potrayed, the performances, the direction? If you evaluated TCM today by our standards its really a "hard" PG 13. it'd still be a light R probably, but you'd literally just have to trim the twitching from the hammer kill and probably a few frames from the meat hook bit to push it to PG-13. e: it's in a similar zone to T2 or Aliens where, while it would need edits, they'd be so minor that only obsessives would actually notice them.
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Oct 3, 2020 16:13
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didnt they give the conjuring an r rating bc it was "too scary" despite not really having any violence, sex, or language
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i actually really like the conjuring movies but they are barely pg13 let alone r
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Tarnop posted:Got Eaten Alive on my list for October already! You're going to love it. It's my 2nd favorite Hooper film (TCM2 being my favorite). It's so beyond grimey and has a lot of pitch black humor, just a tons of maniacal fun. EDIT: wow I'm bad at posting, sorry for the triple post
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Hollismason posted:I don't know why TCM is so effective but its still even to this day one of the greatest horror films ever made. In fact I'd argue its easily the best horror film made, period.
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Debbie Does Dagon posted:
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BRACKETOLOGY FINALS TRIPLE FEATURE 
Ken Russell Vs. Takashi Miike, MONDAY, on the 
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Kvlt! posted:didnt they give the conjuring an r rating bc it was "too scary" despite not really having any violence, sex, or language I don't know about the MPAA but here in the UK our ratings board have some catch-all stuff that they can use to bump the rating of something that technically is a 12A (our PG13 equivalent) but "feels" bad. It's almost always applied to horror movies, because the BBFC hates them and what really gets you the box office friendly ratings is studios and directors with industry clout.
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feedmyleg posted:Geez! Ken Russell, who woulda thunk? Russell was an absolute silent assassin. He walks that fine line between fun, horny, crazy, acid-fueled freakouts, and just pure beautiful artistic expression. It's really hard to stand out when you're up against Russell, but if anyone can do it, it's the mischievous prankster king himself, Miike.
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If it wasn't for Texas Chain Saw Massacre then cannibal horror very well could have been dominated by films with the ugly colonial view of indigenous people (with some Herschell Gordon Lewis oddities thrown in the mix). The rural American cannibal is such a fine vein for horror with the comparisons to political division and the eventual trope of a debased revenge by the liberal city nerds. Now that's fighting barbeque with barbeque! We owe Tobe Hooper so much, I loving love TCM/2.
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Oct 3, 2020 19:02
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I’m watching the jackass movies right now and theyre far gorier and messed up than anything going on in TCM. What wonders a simple but evocative title like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre manages to conjure in peoples heads when the reality is far more tamer.
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I have no idea why I continually confuse The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes but I can't help it
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I can confidently say TCM is very possibly the best horror film ever made. It's not only one of the most effective, but decidedly one of the most influential of all time.
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WeedlordGoku69 posted:it'd still be a light R probably, but you'd literally just have to trim the twitching from the hammer kill and probably a few frames from the meat hook bit to push it to PG-13. Literally the best scene in the whole movie though
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Yeah that hammer kill is a perfect scene. No musical cues, no style. Just sudden, brief, shocking violence. The way his leg twitches and the door slams. It's like watching a person actually get murdered. My 16 year old mind was blown when I first saw it.
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I was having a look back at the Sight & Sound magazine archives to see when it was first mentioned on this side of the pond. They sent a reviewer to the Locarno Film Festival 1975. "America opened and closed the festival with French Connection No. 2 and Walter Hill's unexceptional The Streetfighter. Rather more interest was aroused in some quarters by Tobe Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a gory celluloid horror comic which, apart from its undeniably animated finale (involving a powerdriven chainsaw and barbecued victims), hardly seems worth the rumpus it is certainly going to create." - David Wilson, Autumn 1975.
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Spatulater bro! posted:I can confidently say TCM is very possibly the best horror film ever made. It's not only one of the most effective, but decidedly one of the most influential of all time. But I feel like sound design is inarguably the most influential outside of maybe Alien.
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I've always said TCM is the best found footage movie that's not actually a found footage movie. Something about it just feels like reels of someone's home movies. And the look of Leatherface has never been topped by any of the sequels/remakes.
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I always felt what worked best with TCM was how random it all was. With Nightmare and Friday and really most slasher films, you have that faint hint of morality where the kids are at least somewhat at fault, or at least "sinners" who are getting punished. With Chainsaw they more or less just get caught in the middle of something they have nothing to do with, their worst crime is giving a hitchhiker a lift and it leads to a really bad day. It's that idea that terrible things could happen to anyone that makes it land so well.
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Jedit posted:Any word on this? It drops tomorrow. Watched this earlier today. Fun! Not great, but a nice watch, not even 90 minutes long, feels timely, and has Mero (of Desus & Mero fame) as a cool bodega owner everyone loves. Definitely think you should give it a watch if you have Netflix
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TheBizzness posted:Literally the best scene in the whole movie though Agreed, cutting the death twitch would have been an absolutely unacceptable edit. That would have been like ripping the smile off the Mona Lisa. Everything about that first kill is perfect. Nowadays everyone already knows about Leatherface via cultural omosis, but can you imagine the shock of seeing him for the first time with no idea he was coming? They've already set up the creepy hitchhiker as the murderer, so that's who you think is going to end up doing the killing, and then out of blue BAM! A giant dude wearing someone else's face shows up and just casually slaughters a guy. Space Cadet Omoly fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Oct 3, 2020 |
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Loving all this TCM talk. It really is the best horror movie.
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The Head Hunter was fun. Low budget dark fantasy horror thing focused on a single actor with some nice practical effects, props, and locations.
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I need a recommendation for a fun horror comedy this evening, watching Get Out and The Purge: Anarchy back to back has got me in A Mood.
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Lumbermouth posted:I need a recommendation for a fun horror comedy this evening, watching Get Out and The Purge: Anarchy back to back has got me in A Mood. Tammy and the T-Rex: the gore cut and What We Do In the Shadows are my two favorite horror comedy movies. The What we do in the Shadows tv series is also brilliant. Edit: Oh! And One Cut of The Dead is wonderful.
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I'm about to hit movie #69 in my fall challenge, and I need the horniest horror movie possible, please help
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Lumbermouth posted:I need a recommendation for a fun horror comedy this evening, watching Get Out and The Purge: Anarchy back to back has got me in A Mood. tucker and dale vs evil if you haven't seen it
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Oct 3, 2020 23:03
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NUMBER 1 FULCI FAN posted:I'm about to hit movie #69 in my fall challenge, and I need the horniest horror movie possible, please help Jason X
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NUMBER 1 FULCI FAN posted:I'm about to hit movie #69 in my fall challenge, and I need the horniest horror movie possible, please help Knife + Heart or Bram Stoker's Dracula.
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Oct 3, 2020 23:07
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Nekromantik or From Beyond
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Oct 3, 2020 23:16
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I propose Nymphomaniac is a horror film
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Necromantik Or the Cat People remake
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Wait, I want to change my answer to "Cats".
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NUMBER 1 FULCI FAN posted:I'm about to hit movie #69 in my fall challenge, and I need the horniest horror movie possible, please help e: on second thought, Stranger by the Lake Debbie Does Dagon fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Oct 3, 2020 |
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