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Good fólk horror: -Blood on Satan's Claw -The Wicker Man -The VVitch -Witchfinder General -The Company of Wolves -Viy -Errementari -Onibaba -The Ritual -Hagazussa -The Wailing -Mystics in Bali -The Ritual Halloween 3 kinda? I'm currently working on what is essentially a 17th century folk horror Predator. Still in the research phase. Am going to submit a application to the film fund to develop it this spring at the latest. FreudianSlippers fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Jan 22, 2021 |
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FreudianSlippers posted:Good fólk horror: Also this: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053719/ Debbie Does Dagon and I watched it when I streamed it and it's good! Never heard of it but the Evolution of Horror podcast talked it up in their Folk Horror section so I decided to check it out. Plucky college student goes to research a quaint New England town with a history of burning witches at the suggestion of her professor (Christopher Lee). All is NOT kosher in that town!
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FreudianSlippers posted:Good fólk horror: That's a solid rear end list, I guess folk horror is better than slashers after all. Also your project sounds awesome.
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Iron Crowned posted:Well Escape Room was way better than I expected Has anyone been able to see Escape Room 2? I just checked and apparently it's already out, is it streaming anywhere?
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Iron Crowned posted:Well Escape Room was way better than I expected The opening scene still makes me wonder if they've ever attempted a "hidden object puzzle" movie. Space Cadet Omoly posted:Has anyone been able to see Escape Room 2? I just checked and apparently it's already out, is it streaming anywhere? Does it deliver on the insane, Saw-like premise it sets up with the ending stinger?
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I finally caved and watched Possessor (I was saving it until my new TV was set up) and boy oh boy that was excellent.
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So I recently rewatched The Descent the other night (still owns) and decided to give the sequel a go. I'd heard it wasn't great but man, was it ever BAD. It does nothing interesting or fun, it looks cheap as hell and almost retroactively makes the first movie worse. One of the best things about The Descent is how it was all lit from the flashlights and their handheld camera but somehow in the sequel everything is bright in the caves and or all green sometimes?? I highly recommend not ever watching The Descent 2. Space Cadet Omoly posted:Has anyone been able to see Escape Room 2? I just checked and apparently it's already out, is it streaming anywhere? It doesn't look like it's been released yet. el oso fucked around with this message at 07:08 on Jan 22, 2021 |
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Iron Crowned posted:Well Escape Room was way better than I expected Can you clarify which; there are three movies by that title, two of which came out in the same month of the same year, and all of which involve people getting suckered into an escape room game that turns deadly.
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Argue posted:Can you clarify which; there are three movies by that title, two of which came out in the same month of the same year, and all of which involve people getting suckered into an escape room game that turns deadly. This is the good one
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Tarnop posted:This is the good one That's the one. Those letterboxed reviews though, I sometimes really wonder about other people.
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I finally get to stream one of my top 4 favourite films of all time, Singapore Sling!  Debbie Does Dagon posted:
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Debbie Does Dagon posted:I finally get to stream one of my top 4 favourite films of all time, Singapore Sling! drat, I've really been wanting to see that since you posted about it a while ago (in one of the challenge threads maybe?), I'm gonna try to join the stream on Monday.
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gey muckle mowser posted:drat, I've really been wanting to see that since you posted about it a while ago (in one of the challenge threads maybe?), I'm gonna try to join the stream on Monday. In the October Challenge! I hope you can make it  for everyone who missed the thread:quote:Singapore Sling is filmed and narrated like an elegant, sophisticated film noir, and concerns a super horny incestuous mother/daughter team of serial killers. The mother is trans, and the daughter won't stop masturbating, and vomits and pisses on people she has sex with, sometimes whilst conducting electroconvulsive therapy on them. It has the most beautiful, dreamiest set design and costuming, with fabulously measured yet unhinged performances from both lead actors. It is everything I want from a film, and I want it poured endlessly into each of my welcoming orifices until the end of time. This is a film that would live happily in a sandwich between Alucarda and Man Bites Dog. It is wonderful. It is my everything. And I can’t stop gushing about it. Where to begin?
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Debbie Does Dagon posted:I finally get to stream one of my top 4 favourite films of all time, Singapore Sling! What are the other 3? Possession, maybe Alucarda, and ?
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Irony.or.Death posted:What are the other 3? Possession, maybe Alucarda, and ? Possession, Amer, and that difficult fourth spot is currently occupied by All That Heaven Allows, which is a Douglas Sirk/Rock Hudson/Jane Wyman melodrama. Horror wise though I think it's a tie between Alucarda and Neon Demon. I definitely have a thing for emotionally disturbed female leads e: Speaking of which, if anyone has any emotionally disturbed female lead recs, I will love you forever Debbie Does Dagon fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Jan 22, 2021 |
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Debbie Does Dagon posted:e: Speaking of which, if anyone has any emotionally disturbed female lead recs, I will love you forever Not sure if it totally fits the bill, but Starry Eyes just came to mind.
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Debbie Does Dagon posted:Possession, Amer, and that difficult fourth spot is currently occupied by All That Heaven Allows, which is a Douglas Sirk/Rock Hudson/Jane Wyman melodrama. Horror wise though I think it's a tie between Alucarda and Neon Demon. I definitely have a thing for emotionally disturbed female leads The Witch who Came from the Sea I saw this last October and it completely floored me.
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Debbie Does Dagon posted:Possession, Amer, and that difficult fourth spot is currently occupied by All That Heaven Allows, which is a Douglas Sirk/Rock Hudson/Jane Wyman melodrama. Horror wise though I think it's a tie between Alucarda and Neon Demon. I definitely have a thing for emotionally disturbed female leads Not straight horror, but Ingrid Goes West.
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Vince MechMahon posted:Not straight horror, but Ingrid Goes West. Yeah that's a neat little movie. Aubrey Plaza nails it.
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TheOmegaWalrus posted:The Witch who Came from the Sea Yeah I'm still kind of sad it's not the movie the poster sells, but this is a very DDD pick. edit: Also it's not really addressing the spirit of the request, but I am inserting another plug for Spider Baby because Spider Baby fits the letter of the request and also loving rules.
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Debbie Does Dagon posted:e: Speaking of which, if anyone has any emotionally disturbed female lead recs, I will love you forever you've seen May i assume TheOmegaWalrus posted:The Witch who Came from the Sea this one is also wild
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I forget where it ranks on the scale for Hellraise sequels, but I just finished rewatching Hellraiser V: Inferno; rewatching it because I remember liking it, and I still do. I could imagine it was a script about a noir-kind of detective descending into madness and his own personal hell, with Pinhead just attached when it was picked up for filming. And part of the reason why I like the movie is that this works really well. In contrast to the bombast of Hellraiser 2, Pinhead taking his time to torture some hardass detective with his own private Groundhog Day seems rather quaint, but fitting. It's a side gig. The transition from kinda-thriller to gently caress You, You Are In Hell Now near the end felt too sudden but on the other hand by then it's clear Craig Sheffer was hosed ever since he opened the box.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Good fólk horror: Not sure if it quite fits the mold because it's more of a mystical object than a folk creature, but Sauna is another great one that's pretty underrated. It's extremely good at slowly growing atmospheric dread, and it has gorgeous cinematography. I'd put it in the same category, at least tonally.
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This feels like heresy, but I didn't really like One Cut of the Dead. I went in completely blind, as advised, but the first part is very obviously waiting for a shoe to drop and as a result, I wasn't surprised by the reveal even though I didn't know exactly what it was going to be. Then the middle portion dragged- I couldn't get interested in the characters and kept waiting for something else to happen. The third act is obv the best and pulled me back in- it's clever and fascinating from a filmmaking perspective, and really impressive to see how they did it (so to speak). But as a whole movie, it just didn't land for me- it's never scary enough to be horror, nor funny enough (to me) to be comedy. I probably wouldn't have been so disappointed if I hadn't been so hyped, but zombies and metacinema are legit two of my absolute favorite genres and I'd been saving this movie for a while. 
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married but discreet posted:Yeah that's a neat little movie. Aubrey Plaza nails it. This is true. She was also great in Black Bear which I watched this week
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Thanks for all the recs! Jezebel posted:This feels like heresy, but I didn't really like One Cut of the Dead. I went in completely blind, as advised, but the first part is very obviously waiting for a shoe to drop and as a result, I wasn't surprised by the reveal even though I didn't know exactly what it was going to be. Then the middle portion dragged- I couldn't get interested in the characters and kept waiting for something else to happen. The third act is obv the best and pulled me back in- it's clever and fascinating from a filmmaking perspective, and really impressive to see how they did it (so to speak). But as a whole movie, it just didn't land for me- it's never scary enough to be horror, nor funny enough (to me) to be comedy. I think those are all valid criticisms. It's hard to really engage with a film once it's been built up to such a high degree. I'd completely agree that the middle act drags, but it's also where most of the character development is sewn, so it's difficult to imagine the film without it. It's also difficult to manage tonal shifts like that, and perhaps it's a little too abrupt to be satisfying, but I imagine those distinct acts are really the essence of the film and what makes it so unique. Have you seen Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013) It's possibly even less of a horror, but it plays with some of the same themes in an interesting and fun way. Debbie Does Dagon fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Jan 23, 2021 |
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So I ended up watching The Empty Man over the evening and it turned out to be much better than I was expecting. Everything about its outward appearance makes it look like one of those cheap horror movies that studios burn off in January, but the movie's more ambitious and more composed than that. James Badge Dale anchors the film well as an ex-cop investigating a nihilistic cult, and the film pays due homage to its influences by quoting Kill List and In the Mouth of Madness. The film is a little too unruly for its own good, and it takes a while to see how the more initially anomalous elements fit together, but it's a decent rental.
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Marshal Radisic posted:So I ended up watching The Empty Man over the evening and it turned out to be much better than I was expecting. Everything about its outward appearance makes it look like one of those cheap horror movies that studios burn off in January, but the movie's more ambitious and more composed than that. James Badge Dale anchors the film well as an ex-cop investigating a nihilistic cult, and the film pays due homage to its influences by quoting Kill List and In the Mouth of Madness. The film is a little too unruly for its own good, and it takes a while to see how the more initially anomalous elements fit together, but it's a decent rental. you had me at kill list
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I Saw the Devil is still a good time. Haven’t seen it since it came out. What a strange movie.
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Miguel Prado posted:Anybody get the chance to see psycho goreman yet? I'm watching it right now and it's good.
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dorium posted:I Saw the Devil is still a good time. Haven’t seen it since it came out. What a strange movie. Just saw that the other weekend! Loved it
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Marshal Radisic posted:So I ended up watching The Empty Man over the evening and it turned out to be much better than I was expecting. Everything about its outward appearance makes it look like one of those cheap horror movies that studios burn off in January, but the movie's more ambitious and more composed than that. James Badge Dale anchors the film well as an ex-cop investigating a nihilistic cult, and the film pays due homage to its influences by quoting Kill List and In the Mouth of Madness. The film is a little too unruly for its own good, and it takes a while to see how the more initially anomalous elements fit together, but it's a decent rental. Maybe it was a different movie, but I think the trailer for this just made me think of The Bye Bye Man.
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The Berzerker posted:This is true. She was also great in Black Bear which I watched this week
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A Proper Uppercut posted:Maybe it was a different movie, but I think the trailer for this just made me think of The Bye Bye Man. Bye Bye Man always reminds me of The Tall Man with Jessica Biel, which is waaaay better than what would at first sight appear to be a dollar store Slenderman cash-in.
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Timeless Appeal posted:I said this before, but while Black Bear might not strictly be horror, the last shot is chilling. I don't know the last time a movie gave me shivers. Huh. I saw the movie two weeks ago and enjoyed it but don’t really remember the last shot? I would love to see Aubrey Plaza do more horror though.
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Debbie Does Dagon posted:
Nope, but I'll toss it up onto my queue! Thanks!
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