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MrMojok posted:“The 2005 film of the same name has a lot of similarities to, but is not based on, the book.” Hmm. The Descent (2005) is one of my favourite jump scare horror movies. I love it, saw it in theatres twice. I would say there are many differences and you should watch the movie. The main similarities are that there are caves and bad things happen in them.
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Feb 4, 2025 15:54
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That’s like saying Dracula and Lost Boys are the same because they both have vampires, the two Descents are wildly different
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Feb 4, 2025 15:55
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Opopanax posted:That’s like saying Dracula and Lost Boys are the same because they both have vampires, the two Descents are wildly different I think it does apply. Differences aside, they’re both worth watching if you watched one and want more vampire stuff.
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Feb 4, 2025 16:00
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Rolo posted:I think it does apply. Differences aside, they’re both worth watching if you watched one and want more vampire stuff. I think they mean between the book and the movie. The only similarity there is that there’s a hole in the ground
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Feb 4, 2025 16:03
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Good Citizen posted:I think they mean between the book and the movie. The only similarity there is that there’s a hole in the ground Ohhhh yeah ok. Though I think I’m gonna watch the descents, bram and lost boys now.
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Feb 4, 2025 16:06
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tuyop posted:The Descent (2005) is one of my favourite jump scare horror movies. I love it, saw it in theatres twice. Yeah I was going to say I vaguely remember the descent being a great jump scare thriller but the book has secret societies and evolutionary /parallel themes and the knights templar and conspiracy theories involving the freaking shroud of turin and is a completely different beast honestly it's a bit schizophrenic in its organization/parallel stories but imho it's pretty freaking good as a horror meets sci fi and anthropology meets indiana jones/adventure kinda book
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Feb 6, 2025 00:51
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I finished Absolution last night. Great body horror and some unsettling stuff with Ol' Jim and Central. Didn't love that third act with Lowry as the main character, and at times Vandermeer's prose is so impressionistic that it's really not clear what has happened (but at least the vibe is clear). Solid followup to the SR trilogy, imo, and I liked this a lot more than Dead Astronauts.
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Feb 6, 2025 15:13
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adnam posted:Yeah I was going to say
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Feb 6, 2025 18:10
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Thread I read Night Film and I enjoyed it but found the ending frustrating and I feel very stupid. What's this all about?
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Feb 12, 2025 16:31
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Man did I watch a different Descent? Because that's one of the two movies I've rewatched with someone who hasn't seen it to make sure it's as bad as I thought.
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Feb 12, 2025 16:37
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UwUnabomber posted:Man did I watch a different Descent? Because that's one of the two movies I've rewatched with someone who hasn't seen it to make sure it's as bad as I thought. Some people hate The Descent the movie and all I can say is it’s ok to be wrong. Spoilering a plot summary here for folks. The film is about a group of women who like doing fitness activities and sports like rock climbing and whitewater rafting together. They decide to explore a cave. One of these women loses her husband and child to a freak Final Destination accident on the way home from a sport time. She is the main character, Sarah. Some time after this accident, the gang gets together to go spelunking. The cave that they explore is quite remarkable and beautiful, as well as surprisingly challenging because the group was led to believe that it was mostly a tourist attraction cave for beginners, and they’re all experienced adventurers. As they proceed, there are hints scattered around that all is not as it seems. We see very old equipment left behind and strange figures in the dark. Eventually, there’s a cave-in and we learn that the organizer lied about the cave they’re exploring, imagining that they would map this new cave together to rekindle their spirits. It’s possible that this cave has only one entrance. Shortly after, a creature is seen and acts aggressively and causes everyone to split up in this maze of caverns. Relationships between the women decay and are strained as they try to escape and fight for their lives. There are revelations about Sarah and her husband’s relationship with one of the other women in the group. People get picked off one by one in various ways, sometimes from the creatures and sometimes not. The whole thing becomes progressively more horrific as there are fewer people to talk and they lose or damage their gear, eventually resorting to torches and ice axes while learning more about the cave’s history. Im quite scared of caves personally but I think it’s a good horror movie because there’s a pleasing symmetry to the way the arc of the plot and cinematography mesh with the character progression. The colour palette shifts toward firelight as things, erm, descend. The idea that the creatures are some kind of “devolution” is mirrored in how we transition from a group of friends in modern society to a troglodytic mad dash without dialogue. I’m not a fan of jump scares these days but this was pretty much state of the art for the subgenre at the time! Each of the supporting characters is well-directed and their demises have pretty good emotional impact. The POV character is somewhat unreliable and it’s unclear exactly what happens as her grief and trauma colour her perception of events. The whole experience for her is also a nice little metaphor for dealing with grief and being maimed.
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Feb 12, 2025 17:00
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UwUnabomber posted:Man did I watch a different Descent? Because that's one of the two movies I've rewatched with someone who hasn't seen it to make sure it's as bad as I thought. Very possibly because it's great?
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Feb 12, 2025 19:15
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This entire discussion I kept thinking of "As Above so Below" and was so very confused. Though I guess there are some similar themes between the two.
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Feb 13, 2025 12:04
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caspergers posted:Thread I read Night Film and I enjoyed it but found the ending frustrating and I feel very stupid. What's this all about? You're not stupid, you're just relying on the text of a book telling the actual story.
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Feb 13, 2025 12:39
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Jedit posted:You're not stupid, you're just relying on the text of a book telling the actual story. I gathered it's mainly about the narrator's obsessive, narrow-minded pursuit and his bending reality to fit his narrative, much in the way most journalism seems to do, but the very last passage in the book is so ambiguous that either which way I interpret it renders the rest of the book almost pointless. "The friends we made along the way" etc.
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Feb 13, 2025 15:19
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Ravus Ursus posted:This entire discussion I kept thinking of "As Above so Below" and was so very confused. Also a great horror movie about caves! I think The Borderlands was another good one about a weird church.
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Feb 13, 2025 17:03
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tuyop posted:Also a great horror movie about caves! I randomly selected both of those as a double-feature a few years back and can highly recommend watching them as a pair
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Feb 13, 2025 21:48
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Wrapping up Rosemary's Baby tonight and wondering what I should move onto next. Are the sequels worth a drat? I also read The Omen last week so I am curious about those sequels, too.
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Feb 14, 2025 00:05
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escape artist posted:Wrapping up Rosemary's Baby tonight Good, it's cold out
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Feb 14, 2025 02:38
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tuyop posted:Also a great horror movie about caves! Borderlands punched way above it's class. The visuals and vibes exceeded those of AAA budget movies.
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Feb 14, 2025 11:59
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Hey guys, I'm trying to help a friend to gather her courage and read house of leaves. She's extremely apprehensive about it, she doesn't do horror and finds it very daunting to try HoL, I think mainly from its reputation as "whoa dude you have GOT to read this book, so horrifying and mind blowing!!!" Problem is, it's been ~25 years since I read it and my mind is a sieve. Can someone confirm the following: The book is 50% Johnny Truant The house bits are creepy and unsettling but there are very few direct threats, aside from getting lost or freezing There aren't any monsters or boogernen, I think maybe some mysterious sounds are heard but that's it There is only one death and its the narrator's brother, who either freezes or gets lost, I dont remember The book sort of ends anticlimactally with no grand mystery solved The main draw to the book is the mystery/vibe and the interesting presentation, like the marginalia She recently finished Piranesi, which she loved (I'm only halfway through it right now) but I'd say there are some similar vibes between the two
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Feb 14, 2025 15:36
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WHY BONER NOW posted:Hey guys, I'm trying to help a friend to gather her courage and read house of leaves. She's extremely apprehensive about it, she doesn't do horror and finds it very daunting to try HoL, I think mainly from its reputation as "whoa dude you have GOT to read this book, so horrifying and mind blowing!!!" I read it a year or two ago and most of that is true, except maybe the first point. the Johnny Truant bits make up a fair amount of the book but from what I remember it's not as much as 50%. Maybe if you are talking just about the plot, as there are a lot of sections and footnotes of the "main" part of the book that ramble that aren't really meant to be read word-for-word Also I think another minor character dies (a crew member on one of the expeditions?) but I don't remember if it is described or if they just disappear and you never hear from them again
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Feb 14, 2025 16:08
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Perfect, thanks! That helps a lot!
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Feb 14, 2025 16:58
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I just finished My Work is Not Yet Done and it's probably my least favorite Ligotti. When boiled down to it, it's just an elaborate revenge fantasy. The corporate horror takes a backseat to the vengeance. Some of the revenge is kind of gross, too, and not in the weird horror way. Turning a woman into a mannequin with awareness and leaving her in a lot to be raped by "derelicts" isn't Ligotti's usual brand of terrible things happening. There were two other stories in the collection and I enjoyed those a lot more. The Nightmare Network was a trip, too. A corporation grows until it encompasses everything and everyone, invents its own competitors just so it has something to do, merges with something (its own warped creation? I'm not really sure), and then dies out when it's the only thing left in the universe. The scale and the strides it takes to get to that scale are all detailed in vignettes. It's like what an AI would do if it grew all-powerful.
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Feb 14, 2025 17:34
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tuyop posted:Also a great horror movie about caves! Posts about The Descent had me curious enough to want to watch it (without reading the spoilers), plus these two. Somehow this lead to Mr Enfys and I deciding to have a spooky Valentines weekend and watch one each night. We watched The Descent tonight and hoo boy, that was an amazing, horrifying, wild ride  I'm afraid to go to bed now though 
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Feb 14, 2025 21:19
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Enfys posted:Posts about The Descent had me curious enough to want to watch it (without reading the spoilers), plus these two. That first really good jump scare. Oh man. Guess I gotta watch it again, it’s been since release.
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Feb 14, 2025 22:04
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The Descent rules. It just nails so many different kinds of horror: gore, jump scares, bereavement, claustrophobia, despair, madness, hen parties
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Feb 15, 2025 16:41
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The Descent and The Ritual double feature
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Feb 15, 2025 16:47
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Is The Ritual a good book? I stumbled onto the movie and it was better than I expected. The parts where he would flash back to the convenient store while in the woods was incredible scene design.
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Feb 15, 2025 21:43
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Honestly I think the author simply isn’t a very good writer. The movie was better.
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Feb 15, 2025 22:14
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The Ritual by Adam Neville? Yeah he's pretty hit or miss. I think his biggest weakness is pacing
caspergers fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Feb 16, 2025 |
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Feb 16, 2025 02:45
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The movie is significantly better than the book.
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Feb 16, 2025 04:57
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I liked both fine
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Feb 16, 2025 08:56
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Haven't read The Ritual but All The Fiends of Hell by the same author is a good time. One of my favorite depictions of an alien invasion.
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Feb 16, 2025 15:25
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oh god oh gently caress posted:Haven't read The Ritual but All The Fiends of Hell by the same author is a good time. One of my favorite depictions of an alien invasion. Check out his novel Last Days if you haven't, it's got a detective vibe to it and it's about a cult.
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Feb 16, 2025 19:20
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caspergers posted:Check out his novel Last Days if you haven't, it's got a detective vibe to it and it's about a cult. That's Brian Evenson. Very different author. lol i know
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Feb 17, 2025 04:57
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fez_machine posted:That's Brian Evenson. Very different author. 
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Feb 17, 2025 17:24
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I got really excited to have somehow missed that Evenson wrote The Ritual, how disappointing!
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Feb 18, 2025 15:59
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I listened to the Ritual on audiobook and it was great for the first 3/4, then felt like the characters had walked into an entirely different story. The Swedish accent the narrator put on made it very funny when it was not supposed to be.
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