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Opopanax posted:Oh I am absolutely in for Left4Klownz Except it’s made by the people who made Friday the 13th so it will actually be good!
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I'm rewatching The Terror. gently caress I love watching a bunch of British character actors in silly little outfits get murdered. It's literally one of my favorite things in all the world.
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Hollismason posted:Yeah but there was not like a Hannibal Lecter rap video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfkR5o_bcSg
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Me in a better universe: I love the new episode of Hannibabies.
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Hollismason posted:It still blows my mind that Freddy Krueger a child murderer was a pop culture icon in the 80s Broke: Freddy Kreuger, child murderer. Woke: Charles Lee Ray, child murderer.
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Freddy as an icon kinda makes sense in that he's a villain for young teens and the only consistent character through the series. He's scary but the movies show that kids can have power over their nightmares.
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He’s also funny and charismatic
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I'm only upset about the Killer Klowns game because I wish Dead By Daylight licensed them instead. It's bad enough DBD is missing Jason just because he got his own game.
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I dated a girl who was legitimately attracted to Freddy Krueger. Not Robert Englund, mind you.
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please tell me you ran with it. And ran out to spirit Halloween
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It’s the hat, more horror villains need a jaunty hat.
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Its just kind of one of those weird occurences that Freddy is a pop culture icon now. Like its just weird. There's a few horror icons but Freddy kind went over to the mainstream and appeared in all kinds of poo poo.
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It really is just because Robert Englund absolutely nailed it straight out of the gate. Most other horror icons kinda stumbled to begin with, or they started strong then tapered off. Freddy is just Englund giving 110% for 7 movies in a row.
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Hollismason posted:Its just kind of one of those weird occurences that Freddy is a pop culture icon now. Like its just weird. There's a few horror icons but Freddy kind went over to the mainstream and appeared in all kinds of poo poo. I think part of it is that there's just an iconic look to certain characters, that makes them memorable. He's got an iconic hat, sweater, and weapon, you can identify him easily in silhouette. You can't really tell the difference between Michael Meyers or Jason Voorhees in silhouette. They also don't have anything clever to say.
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The subtextual implication that Freddie was a child molester was always there, but it wasn’t explicitly textual and I think this made a difference when we watched the original NoES in the theater during its initial run. He was a child-MURDERER, and violence and murder was much more palatable at the time than the idea that he was a pederast. Hell, violence of any kind was much more acceptable than anything to do with sex, whether it was pederasty or not. The remake was much more explicit about that, which did not go over well.
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I think it's mostly how chatty he is, and they leaned hard into that for the sequels.
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Baron von Eevl posted:I think it's mostly how chatty he is, and they leaned hard into that for the sequels. It's why chucky is awesome too
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And nearly as iconic!
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MacheteZombie posted:It's why chucky is awesome too 
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Medullah posted:Unless you're being sarcastic, Gun Media (the Friday the 13th studio) have been working on a Texas Chainsaw Massacre game, not this No, you're right - I read "From the Executive Director of Friday the 13th the Game" in the trailer and assumed that meant studio involvement too. Also: MacheteZombie posted:Horror thread: It's why chucky is awesome too
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You know, Child's Play could make a cool game in the vein of Alien: Isolation, especially if you get Brad Dourif to record 1000 quips for every time you get murked while hiding in a locker.
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Comedy is the seasoning all slasher movies need. It's why the NoES remake sucked and why Noted Thread Favourite TCM2 is so good.Iron Crowned posted:You know, Child's Play could make a cool game in the vein of Alien: Isolation, especially if you get Brad Dourif to record 1000 quips for every time you get murked while hiding in a locker. I'm in with one condition: Jennifer Tilly as Tiffany is present too.
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Chucky is better than Freddy because he’s not above just saying “gently caress you!” instead of going into a whole Bugs Bunny routine. Freddy tries too hard sometimes. Not every kill needs a bit - sometimes “gently caress you!” is all that needs to be said. Chucky understands this and his movies are better for it.
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Slugworth posted:I dated a girl who was legitimately attracted to Freddy Krueger. Not Robert Englund, mind you. Hold up, she was attracted to Freddy Krueger… but also attracted to you… What does that say about you?
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Xenomrph posted:Hold up, she was attracted to Freddy Krueger… but also attracted to you… Cool hat.
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MrMojok posted:He was a child-MURDERER, and violence and murder was much more palatable at the time than the idea that he was a pederast. So then what was his non-sexual motive?
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:So then what was his non-sexual motive? I guess you could go with the idea that he's just a sadist.
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I was a kid who was in grade school in the 70s, and we grew up watching the old Universal horror films, which were not horror films at all by modern measure. This was a Friday night standard, for us at the time: https://youtu.be/eDKJqwYAlxg And reading the Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine with the horrible Forrest Ackerman puns, and reading the marvel Werewolf by Night and Tomb of Dracula comics, which were all pretty tame. They did not show Hammer horror films on TV back then, likely because there was too much blood and tits in them. So when the slasher genre began with Halloween and F13, it was a whole new deal. Halloween is famously pretty devoid of blood and gore, F13 had a lot of it, but NoES was on a whole different level. There was gore, it wasn’t so simple as a killer trudging along to penetrate multiple morally-deficient teenagers, it was about guilt, puberty, and the dream-world angle was quite original, at the time. The movie was a sensation. I paused here for ten minutes because I forgot where I was going with this, but I am going to post it anyway. I had some point I was leading to but I seem to have forgotten. Too much leaded gasoline, perhaps. Flame away.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:So then what was his non-sexual motive? OK SMG, you got me.
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Man the NOES remake is so loving bad
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Chucky barely quips or has anything clever to say, he just kind of yells at you and then stabs you because he's a dumb violent rear end in a top hat. This is all extremely good, just to be clear.
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MrMojok posted:I was a kid who was in grade school in the 70s, and we grew up watching the old Universal horror films, which were not horror films at all by modern measure. I don't really know where you're going either, but there was definitely a major shift in horror in the 70's and by the 80's horror had become completely different, and I kinda wish I had been around to witness it.
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Hollismason posted:Man the NOES remake is so loving bad The only saving grace of my viewing experience was that it was so dark and poorly shot that I don’t really remember much of it at all.
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Libra posted:Chucky barely quips or has anything clever to say, he just kind of yells at you and then stabs you because he's a dumb violent rear end in a top hat. I happen to enjoy the simplicity of kill number #147 not having an elaborate muder-weapon centric pun and just being like, "I hosed your dad! With my DICK!!"
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Chucky isn't particularly quipy.
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Hollismason posted:Wasn't there a Freddy Krueger 1 900 number or am I misremembering. Like whats the most outrageous Freddy merchandise Everything had a 900 number in the 80's and 90's
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Iron Crowned posted:Everything had a 900 number in the 80's and 90's Freddy's the only horror icon with a 1-900 number
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  Which one are you? I’m “Freddy The Sex Symbol”
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Opopanax posted:I like Van Helsing. I don't care if it's stupid Van Helsing was a great Castlevania movie.
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