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I enjoyed Insidious 2 as well. It's one of the few horror movies that really justifies giving out so much backstory.
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osietra posted:The family is a metaphor for the basic tiers of aspergers. I think it's 'metaphor'. The trouble is the family members switch roles throughout the film, which is the issue I have when posting on an iPhone. Usually when I read this thread I have a glass of cider and an iPhone in my smoke-hole, and really enjoy reading about horror esoterica. Typing long well thought out responses on an iPhone for me is just another pain train going into a carpal tunnel. I think understanding this post might be a test for aspergers.
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Sep 13, 2013 23:46
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resurgam40 posted:Hey, how bout them horror movies, huh? (He said, hoping to stave off this topic that has no good ending...) Giving away everything about the old "woman" was a huge strength in this one. Normally it wouldn't be, but Insidious 2 provided a lot of closure to the first one. It also sets up that if there are any sequels, the ghostbusters will be the main characters, not Patrick Wilson & Co. We'll also have a new antagonist.
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Sep 14, 2013 07:42
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:Yeah they really failed to realize the dramatic and subtextual richness of the three billy goats gruff. Fairy tales are loaded with subtext. In a lot of the original versions the subtext was the text itself, but as the stories evolved a lot of elements that would have no longer been tasteful or appropriate were phased out or replaced.
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Sep 17, 2013 00:13
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DrVenkman posted:How is this a thing that exists? Um...most of them? A lot of the morality-type slashers have characters killed for minor transgressions (smoking weed, pre-marital sex, etc). Some specific examples of sympathetic victims would be Scream, Hostel, The Devil's Rejects. There's a lot more though.
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Sep 29, 2013 19:53
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Glamorama26 posted:The people in the original Texas Chainsaw absolutely do not deserve the hell they find. Sally is a really great, normal every day character that gets stuck in the worst situation ever and at no point do you not want her to make it. It's tremendous. I was thinking more about the folk band they torment, but that's a good point too.
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Sep 29, 2013 20:14
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Is there going to be an October horror viewing thread this year?
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Oct 1, 2013 15:07
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Dr.Caligari posted:I came to ask this also. I am working working on my watchlist of 30 titles, but realistically I will be happy to get through 15 this year. Me too. I can start a thread tonight when I get home, unless someone else wants to in the meantime.
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Oct 1, 2013 16:41
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sticklefifer posted:The Carrie remake was reasonably entertaining and certainly not bad, but it played things WAY too safely both in the setup and in the climax. It's 2013; bullying is far more pervasive now than it ever has been, and the things you can get away with in cinema are also far more brutal. It just didn't go far enough for me. I agree with this assessment 100%. Cyberbullying is a huge problem, and while it's existence is acknowledged in this, we really don't get to see much of the effect that it has on Carrie. The problem is Carrie isn't really shown as being tech-savvy at all - the one kid has to show her how to expand a YouTube video for example. They really needed to update this and let the White's have modern techno,logy so we could see the effects of the bullying.
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Oct 21, 2013 04:57
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Paranorman is a better telling of the Carrie story than Carrie.
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Oct 26, 2013 23:16
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Basebf555 posted:I think you'd mostly get a consensus that House of 1000 Corpses is really bad, as you say, but the Halloween remakes are pretty divisive. Some people really like them, and if you do then I can see thinking of Zombie's work as steadily improving. House is actually criminally underrated. Underneath the music video aesthetic there's actually a loving tribute to the entire horror genre. I know it's just Zombie mashing up his favorite horror movies, but most of the movie works dammit.
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Oct 31, 2013 23:26
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axleblaze posted:See the problem is it doesn't really. Difference of opinion and all that but I really wanted to like that movie and I've even given it multiple tries but it's just kind of a mess. There are a few great moments here and there but they are lost in what is mostly a muddled, pointless slog. It's the product of it being made by a filmmaker that was a little too enthusiastic about this stuff. He throws in every thing he possibly can just for the sake of throwing it in with no concern as to if it fits together into anything compelling or coherent. It does interesting things but it does them for no good reason other than Zombie thought it'd be cool. I don't mind that the movie exists and I respect him for making what he wanted to make but I just don't find it very enjoyable. Maybe it is just a difference of opinion, but I think it works well if you view it as a carnival ride. Zombie did throw everything against the wall, and not everything stuck. It's like how a carnival haunted house will have some exhibits that work and some that do not. It's a very bizarre movie and it's very disjointed, but I still like it. I might watch it later tonight. Busy with Trick R Treat right now though.
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I like Freddy vs Jason, but the second act really keeps it from becoming an all-time classic. In the second act we (the audience) find out about the background of the characters and villains, and the motivations and what not. This is good - it gives the audience the background info they need. Where it goes wrong is that the audience is way ahead of the characters at this point. They have a massive exposition dump that allows the characters to catch up to the audience, and the film just reaches a grinding halt at this point from which it never quite recovers.
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Nov 1, 2013 15:22
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axleblaze posted:
What was the original plan?
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Nov 1, 2013 15:26
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Xandoom: skip Saw V. Watch Saw VI instead. It's fairly self-contained, and probably the best one in the series.
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Dec 10, 2013 03:20
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saulwright posted:I might be in the minority here, but I don't even really want the overall witch plot to be advanced much more in future movies. If they go any further with it, things are going to get overly detailed / cumbersome a la the line of torturer successors in Saw. That being said, maybe they can surprise me and take it in new directions like the have in The Marked Ones. I completely agree about not expanding further. Too many horror franchises self-implode due to trying to explain too much.
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Jan 6, 2014 19:21
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Skywalker OG posted:What are the thread's thoughts on House of 1000 Corpses? I finally watched it way after enjoying Devil's Rejects and thought it to be a visually interesting overt mashup of a billion references to genre classics. I'm definitely going to rewatch Devil's Rejects but generally I can sense alot of growth into paring down to the group and the police, since 'House' takes a dramatic left turn in the last half hour that kind of tonally and thematically derails the movie, though it alludes constantly to it. It's not too well-regarded, but a few of us like it. I like the general aesthetic of it, and while it's somewhat disjointed and uneven, Zombie's love for the genre really shines through. It seems like he was putting everything on the table as it might have been his only shot at making a feature length movie.
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Jan 14, 2014 15:23
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Glamorama26 posted:No idea how one could jump to Romero stumbling onto the subtext of the Dead films. It was always there and he obviously intended it to be so. I think it's because Romero doesn't outright admit that it's intentional that people have jumped on to say it is there by accident. It sounds more like he's being coy or modest about the subtext then outright ignorant of it existing.
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Jan 20, 2014 21:28
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Kvlt! posted:Speaking of Ed Gein, the other day I met one of the psychiatrist's who treated him, it was actually really interesting. This franchise has actually been remade several times. There's also a few non-successive sequels. The first one is essential horror, and I'm somewhat shocked you haven't seen it. The second one is pretty divisive, but some goons like it quite a bit. It has Bill Moseley in a pretty iconic role of Chop Top. I haven't seen part 3, but it's a reboot as well I believe. . Part 4 was literally only released because Matthew McConaughey and Renee Zellweger both became bigger stars several years after this one was completed.
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Feb 4, 2014 03:40
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I just watch Day of the Dead for the first time since the 90s. It is way better than I remembered. When I was younger I was bored by this one, but watching it now I was completely enthralled by the human conflict.
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Feb 9, 2014 02:33
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His first Halloween is worth a watch. I haven't seen the sequel so I won't comment on its quality. House of 1000 Corpses is his tribute to 70s/80s horror movies. It has issues because zombie throws too much in there, but it also has great atmosphere throughout. The Devils Rejects is his best film. While it's a sequel to House, you don't need to watch House first to understand this one.
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Feb 24, 2014 04:08
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I liked You're Next but it really doesn't need a sequel (or prequel). It's a tight film that doesn't leave a lot of loose ends, and the villain's motives are very contained.
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Feb 28, 2014 05:56
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Buzkashi posted:What was that movie that like WWE produced where the killers kidnap a guy who's like a psycho serial killer himself? I was something like Everybody Dies. No One Lives? Yeah, was that as terrible as it looked? I follow enough wrestling that I feel I should have heard about this one.
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Feb 28, 2014 16:40
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I honestly don't think I heard of it. Was it direct to video? Is it worth tracking down?
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Feb 28, 2014 16:49
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Choco1980 posted:I've been laughed out of other threads for posting this, but I don't care because I'm serious. As a Franko-American myself (presently made out of four people and I've lost track of the scar count, which is about to go up in the morning) I've decided it's time to take the term "Frankenstein" back. That's our term now, like homosexuals took back "Queer", and African Americans took back the N-word. I'm a Frankenstein and I'm proud. I watched Would you Rather? last fall. It's not terrible or anything, but it was really gory and predictable.
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Mar 20, 2014 12:55
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The best Tales from the Crypt movies came out in the 70s.
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Apr 4, 2014 18:15
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I found The Conjuring and Grave Encounters to be legit scary. I also found the first 2 acts of Insidious to be pretty scary as well. Really, anything that's found footage or a haunting can get me pretty good. Sometimes i feel silly afterwards though. Buried isn't a horror movie, but I almost had a panic attack the first time I saw the trailer.
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Apr 8, 2014 21:33
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I forgot about it in my previous post but I also found The Strangers to be scary.
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Apr 9, 2014 02:11
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Speaking of nuclear war, did anyone watch The Day After when the Cold War was still on? My first viewing of the movie was fairly recent, and I don't remember too mucn of the Cold War. I didn't find this scary as I'm fairly far removed from the situation, but do any of you recall being freaked out by this when you were younger?
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Apr 10, 2014 14:47
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I've watched hundreds of horror movies and there's still hundreds that I want to see. Suspiria, The Omen & Phantasm are probably the biggest ones I haven't seen. There's a lot of franchises where I've seen the inaugural entry but none of the sequels as well.
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Apr 18, 2014 23:20
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Is there a way to watch WNUF (legally)? I haven't seen it available for rent through the PSN or my cable provider.
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May 15, 2014 19:26
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Saturday the 14th is tomorrow's film.
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Jun 13, 2014 17:41
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Would Slither count as a bug infestation movie?
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Jun 14, 2014 18:33
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What franchise do you consider to be the most consistent in terms of quality? Like, if you like one entry you'll probably like them all? Personally I'd go with the Evil Dead series but I'd like to hear some other opinions.
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Jun 30, 2014 16:59
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JohnnySavs posted:
Horror movies that are all consistently bad kind of count too. It's always good to know what to avoid.
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Jun 30, 2014 18:24
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Slackerish posted:if you're saying either Scream or Final Destination are consistently bad then you're an idiot. No, I don't think Scream or FD suck. I just quoted more than I should've. I haven't seen all the FD movies yet, but the ones I have seen have been fairly decent. the Scream franchise has varying degrees of quality though.
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Jun 30, 2014 18:41
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Oliver Reed posted:Still multiple pages behind and trying to catch up but what from 2014 is worth a watch in the horror world? Stuff from the latter half of last year is fine, too...I'm still going through new releases from like 2011. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones is definitely worth checking out.
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Jul 3, 2014 19:24
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The Purge 2 is a huge improvement over he first, but the big flaw of this series is the politics if this universe tend to be far more interesting than anything on screen.
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Jul 19, 2014 23:43
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Hat Thoughts posted:Really, "wildly disproportionate cosmic retribution for a minor transgression" is what happens to literally everyone except the hero in most horror films. Wait - are you seriously suggesting that someone who smokes marijuana or has premarital sex doesn't deserve to be brutally murdered and dismembered? Take that bleeding heart poo poo to D&D!
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I really think the Purge would work better in an anthology format. I guess this one kind of was to a degree as the 3 storylines don't collide until the second act, but this series needs to show more than just the murder that goes on. It hints at it, but it's way too focused on the lynch mob aspect.
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