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If you hated Murder House, you're probably not going to enjoy any of the rest of the seasons of AHS. It's one of the most cohesive and least campy ones.
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nemesis_hub posted:I watched season 1 of American Horror Story and thought it sucked. Are any of the other seasons worth watching? I won’t ask in TVIV because…well, you know. This thread is definitely more my speed from what I can gather by mostly lurking. its an annoyingly inconsistent show from episode to episode, let alone season to season. I quite liked the second season, Asylum, it's pretty "throw poo poo at a wall" sort of stuff though edit yeah that ^^^^^^^
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cake bunny posted:If you hated Murder House, you're probably not going to enjoy any of the rest of the seasons of AHS. It's one of the most cohesive and least campy ones. It felt like the showrunners didn’t even like horror, strange as that sounds. All the horror stuff felt like a joke, a cheap carnival funhouse veneer overtop the soap opera elements that they were actually interested in. But there are like a dozen seasons now so if there is a consensus that a particular season is really good I’ll give it another shot.
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Jul 31, 2021 11:56
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channel zero is the superior horrorfest that thing is just nightmares all the way along
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Jul 31, 2021 11:58
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I felt like Roanoke was the most consistently HORROR-like season
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Jul 31, 2021 12:20
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LemonLimeSoda posted:I felt like Roanoke was the most consistently HORROR-like season I agree. I could barely bother with having the other seasons on in the background.
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Jul 31, 2021 12:30
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CelticPredator posted:I hope they do A24 vs Blumhouse, like Dollman vs Demonic Toys
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Jul 31, 2021 14:02
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More like Chucky vs. The Gingerdead Man
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Jul 31, 2021 14:09
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alf_pogs posted:channel zero is the superior horrorfest that thing is just nightmares all the way along I have problems with Channel Zero, but yes.
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Jul 31, 2021 14:22
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nemesis_hub posted:I watched season 1 of American Horror Story and thought it sucked. Are any of the other seasons worth watching? I won’t ask in TVIV because…well, you know. This thread is definitely more my speed from what I can gather by mostly lurking. Hotel rules, Asylum is good too
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Jul 31, 2021 15:10
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AHS : Hotel is pretty drat good, probably one of the better seasons and it has some amazing actors and actresses in it.
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Jul 31, 2021 15:21
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Whatever you do dont watch the new Stories one
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Jul 31, 2021 15:25
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I haven't seen Apocalypse but I enjoyed every other AHS season except Coven and Freak Show. 
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Jul 31, 2021 15:35
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AHS suffers hugely from having 3x as many episodes as they need for a season. Even the potentially interesting seasons are bad because they're so obviously treading water for so much of them. Creepshow is definitely the best current horror TV show we have going now. S2s Bob Ross vs. You Gotta See Who episode is one of the most amazing surprises I've seen on TV.
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Jul 31, 2021 16:40
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I stopped watching during Roanoke, I just couldn't get into its pacing. Asylum was incredible though, easily one of the best seasons of a tv show I've ever seen
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Jul 31, 2021 16:44
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Can't believe how massive Creepshow's glow-up was for season 2. Even the production design started creeping toward the film's, after the first season felt essentially like bad student films. I'm really pumped for next season, I hope they crank up the monsters.
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Jul 31, 2021 16:49
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American Horror Story is basically set in the Doctor Sleep universe. It's soapy urban fantasy where literally every character is a murderer, and over half of them are some type of immortal. There's a lot of violence, but it's also fairly inconsequential because nobody cares and few people 'actually' die. After a while, you catch on that the various throat-slashings are a metaphor for mild rudeness. Like, this is just how people communicate.
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Jul 31, 2021 16:55
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I watched 30 coins because of this thread and it was amazing, thanks.
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Jul 31, 2021 16:59
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If you didn’t like the Soap Opera elements of Murder House I really can’t see you enjoying Hotel. Asylum is my favorite season but I have to admit there’s 1000 dangling loose ends and/or rushed conclusions to story lines because they tried to shove way too much stuff in.
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Jul 31, 2021 17:04
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I thought the first episode of 30 Coins was poorly acted, badly written and looked like poo poo. Like, it felt like a soap opera with some only-scary-if-you're-a-Catholic stuff thrown in. Does it improve?
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Jul 31, 2021 18:02
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anatomi posted:Like, it felt like a soap opera with some only-scary-if-you're-a-Catholic stuff This is how the trailer read to me and why I haven't caught it yet despite the praise. As someone raised non-religious, I just don't have any of those baked-in fears or religious cultural reference points.
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Jul 31, 2021 18:07
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I haven't seen 30 Coins but it's by Álex de la Iglesia who did Dia de la Bestia, the best Christmas movie ever made and just a fantastic horror comedy. So it is destined to be good.
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Jul 31, 2021 18:46
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So I'm currently binging Fear Street and so far the soundtrack is far and away the best part of the movies, but I'm also three minutes into 1666 and I already hate all of their stupid accents
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Jul 31, 2021 18:47
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Froghammer posted:So I'm currently binging Fear Street and so far the soundtrack is far and away the best part of the movies, but I'm also three minutes into 1666 and I already hate all of their stupid accents The only thing I like about that segment is that they found an era-appropriate way to continue the pattern of teenagers using prescription drugs recreationally.
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Jul 31, 2021 18:52
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:The only thing I like about that segment is that they found an era-appropriate way to continue the pattern of teenagers using prescription drugs recreationally.
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Jul 31, 2021 18:54
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Froghammer posted:Whoy arr they oll tawlkin in awful Oirish occents Because that's pretty close to how people in the 17th century colonies spoke. Like this dude who is doing a fairly accurate impersonation od 17th century English for humorous purposes https://youtu.be/Lio7sp45IXY FreudianSlippers fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Jul 31, 2021 |
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Jul 31, 2021 18:56
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Okay never mind this poo poo looped back around and is great 10/10 would recommend
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Jul 31, 2021 20:15
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anatomi posted:I thought the first episode of 30 Coins was poorly acted, badly written and looked like poo poo. Like, it felt like a soap opera with some only-scary-if-you're-a-Catholic stuff thrown in. Does it improve? feedmyleg posted:This is how the trailer read to me and why I haven't caught it yet despite the praise. As someone raised non-religious, I just don't have any of those baked-in fears or religious cultural reference points. It does help if you're Catholic or are knowledgeable about Catholicism. Case in point, it does bring up the Gospel of Judas which is one of the Apocryphal Gospels. However, I feel the show can be enjoyed without having Catholic connections. I'd say give the first and second episode a watch and if it's still not clicking with you, you have it a respectable try.
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Jul 31, 2021 20:28
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Reading an interesting article on Halloween Kills/Ends. So far the highlights are finding out that Paul Rudd was approached to reprise the part of Tommy Doyle (he declined, but gave Anthony Michael Hall his blessing), and that the nadir of the series is generally considered to be RZH2.
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Jul 31, 2021 22:26
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nemesis_hub posted:It felt like the showrunners didn’t even like horror, strange as that sounds. All the horror stuff felt like a joke, a cheap carnival funhouse veneer overtop the soap opera elements that they were actually interested in. But there are like a dozen seasons now so if there is a consensus that a particular season is really good I’ll give it another shot. Back when I lived in LA and had a writing partner, we went to an industry roundtable where a few different showrunners talked about running shows. One of the guests was the guy who ran AHS, and he spent a bunch of time whining about his annoyance that his lower tier writers and designers were trying really hard to make sure that the occult elements of Coven had a fair degree of accuracy to the beliefs, aesthetics, and history of the topics the show was concerned with (witchcraft, voodoo, Louisiana history, etc). His reasoning was that "it's all stupid made up stuff, who cares, no one will notice."
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Jul 31, 2021 22:47
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I’m still 20 pages behind - but did anyone catch that that Deena covered herself in Fear Street books as protection in third movie?
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Jedit posted:Reading an interesting article on Halloween Kills/Ends. So far the highlights are finding out that Paul Rudd was approached to reprise the part of Tommy Doyle (he declined, but gave Anthony Michael Hall his blessing), and that the nadir of the series is generally considered to be RZH2. Uh oh, here we go again!
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FreudianSlippers posted:I haven't seen 30 Coins but it's by Álex de la Iglesia who did Dia de la Bestia, the best Christmas movie ever made and just a fantastic horror comedy. poo poo, I was only mildly interested in 30 Coins but now I’m bumping it up to next on my TV watchlist
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Quiet Place part 2 is on paramount and I had a free trial so I guess it's time to watch the sequel to possibly the single most over rated horror movie in history and grumble about how it has a 91% on RT afterwards.
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that article is written by a person who could be the star of a tv show called "lovely Articles That Suck"
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Jedit posted:Reading an interesting article on Halloween Kills/Ends. So far the highlights are finding out that Paul Rudd was approached to reprise the part of Tommy Doyle (he declined, but gave Anthony Michael Hall his blessing), and that the nadir of the series is generally considered to be RZH2. wait... does that mean Halloween 6 is back in continuity? And that once again makes me annoyed they didn't give Danielle Harris the mom role.
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veni veni veni posted:Quiet Place part 2 is on paramount and I had a free trial so I guess it's time to watch the sequel to possibly the single most over rated horror movie in history and grumble about how it has a 91% on RT afterwards. i can not get over the fact that the guy literally just made a movie to say "wow we are good parents!" and everyone praised the film for being subtle for camera shots that linger on sticky notes that said "THEY HATE NOISE" for 5 seconds
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Aug 1, 2021 01:32
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:A24 vs Blumhouse, like Dollman vs Demonic Toys I made this a while back and it never went over like I thought it would https://twitter.com/benito_cereno/status/1237490140802580482
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Aug 1, 2021 01:42
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Benito Cereno posted:I made this a while back and it never went over like I thought it would I like this because it is both funny and relatable.
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I actually like several seasons of AHS a lot and didn't really hate any of them. They're mostly uneven trash fires as far as season cohesion goes, though, and Murder House is by far the most restrained with the camp factor. So, yeah, I think if you don't dig Murder House at all, you're probably not really going to like any of the seasons. Unless the reason you didn't like Murder House was that it didn't crank the camp to 11 and break the knob off, or you really like shows where some out of nowhere poo poo happens that doesn't necessarily connect to the what you thought the plot was, or where crazy stuff gets brought up for a few episodes and then just gets dropped without getting mentioned again. They're strange soap operas painted in a horror palate. It absolutely works for me, even when it doesn't come close to sticking the landing, but I can absolutely see why someone would bounce right off of the whole deal.
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