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Oh drat are we already this close to October? I've slowed down in my movie watching considerably but I might just start early this year and finally watch the back log of horror I've been sitting on since November. I don't know what it is but come November 1st it's like the high is over, then come September you just can't wait to get going again.
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Sep 20, 2016 02:49
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It's been unseasonably warm and dry the past few weeks here so it's hard to get into an early Halloween spirit, so I'm easing myself in with Garth Marenghi's Darkplace which I somehow had never heard of before although apparently everybody else I know has and decided not to tell me about it. It's pure gold and probably the best way to move from the end of summer into Spooktacular Season. Also it's all on YouTube if you've never seen it. Six episodes, two mockumentary specials and then a six-episode talk show spinoff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EkN8WtFTpE
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Sep 20, 2016 15:05
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SomeJazzyRat posted:So for the last couple of years, I've tried to finish watching every film in what I consider the big 4: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street, plus Scream. My reasoning is that those four all left a huge mark on the genre of both horrors and slashers, either by influential first installments that influenced the others, or by codifying what a slasher franchise is and influencing the former's sequels. Then there's Scream, which revolutionized the stale slasher and gave new life into everyone of these franchises. Plus, at least two of them are decent films in their own right. Plus, for the most part they're uncharted territory for me. I want to get a crash course into what a slasher is and what the genre was defined by for over a decade. And so, I'm going to watch every one of them up to, and maybe past Halloween. This is certainly ambitious. One of my film nerd shames is that I actually have seen very few of the major horror franchise sequels and this year I want to try to knock off at least the Friday series, of which I rewatched the original a couple nights ago. For Friday, I've only ever seen the first film and Freddy vs. Jason. For Nightmare on Elm Street I'm a little deeper with the original, 2, New Nightmare and F v. J. I also finally dug into Halloween last year when I watched the first 3 films and the Zombie remakes, but left off the poo poo sequels. You've got too many films to get through already but maybe next year consider the Final Destination series. I finished those last October and to me they represent the true final slasher series. After the genre kept forcing itself to expand the role of the killer, it had nowhere left to go but to just make the slasher death itself. Everything since then has either been a remake or an homage to the 80s, to me it's the last true original before horror gave over completely to torture porn and found footage.
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Sep 23, 2016 17:00
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Other than going through series, I have trouble following a predetermined list, so I dunno how y'all are able to plan your entire month out in advance like this. So, in following with my "soft" pregame for October, I just watched the Duplass brothers' Baghead. It's a mumblecore pseudo-horror about four friends - with varying romantic entanglements with each other - who go out to a house in the woods to make their own amateur movie. However, they soon become paranoid that there is a man with a bag on his head roaming the woods. Ultimately, it's not so much a horror movie as it is fitting in the mumblecore genre's themes of late-twenties relationship woes. Chad likes Michelle but Michelle only sees him as a friend. Michelle likes Matt but Matt is Chad's bud and his ex Catherine still loves him. Matt is horny for Michelle and Catherine is jealous. It's one of the most complete mumblecore films out there. It's well-acted with driven characters and a strong story that threads it all together and I'm a huge fan of the homemade improv aesthetic. The horror elements make it fun and there's a few legitimate jump scares. So far my list goes 1. Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (2004) 2. Friday the 13th (1980)* 3. Baghead (2008) * = Rewatch
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Sep 23, 2016 19:24
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If any of y'all want to diversify your directors this year here's a good resource. http://flavorwire.com/483888/50-must-see-horror-films-directed-by-women/view-all
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Sep 24, 2016 16:29
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I was feeling off last night and started the month down a day, but in the lead up in September I managed to get through the first half of the Friday the 13th series. Part IV is probably the best so far what with Crispin Glover and Corey Feldman adding some weird starpower to the mix and Jason Lives is fun as well. A New Beginning is also probably a lot better than its reputation because it's got energy and brought that self-referential humor to the series. I'm waiting for my library loans of parts VII through X to come in so I can keep going and I sent away for the Elm Street sequels too. I might mix it up with something random tonight when I get home from work.
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Oct 2, 2016 19:16
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Samuel Clemens posted:Regarding Funny Games, I remember an interview with Haneke where he said that he had more respect for anyone who turned off the film than for those who watched it all the way to the end. Whether that makes it better or worse, I don't know. gently caress that. First of all he's overrating how gruesome his movie is but also why does this mean you're morally superior? He's an artist who has made a career of focusing on people's misery and their most painful and pathetic moments and this is the movie where he decides the audience are pigs? What's the difference between someone who turns the movie off out of some higher moral obligation and a prude? I hate this kind of attitude because it A) Is condescending to the audience and B) Severely misses the intellect and layers involved in horror filmmaking and why audiences respond to the genre.
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Oct 3, 2016 03:08
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Um, actually Intruder is dope.
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Oct 3, 2016 03:14
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Also, yeah, Intruder is one of those movies where it's kind of generic, but it does the generic thing it's going for so well that I love it anyways. It's the John Wick of horror. This is a good analogy.
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Oct 3, 2016 03:31
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Samuel Clemens posted:Well, yeah, Funny Games is pretty open about the fact that it has nothing but contempt for its audience. Yeah, it's bullshit. It's an art director mocking us for liking visceral story telling, the high end equivalent of moral crusaders getting up in arms over video nasties.
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Oct 3, 2016 14:31
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Quick update with a full list since September. 1. Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (2004) 2. Friday the 13th (1980) Rewatch 3. Baghead (2008) 4. The People Under the Stairs (1991) 5. Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977) 6. Deathdream (1974) 7. Friday the 13th Part II (1981) 8. Friday the 13th Part III (1982) 9. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) 10. Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985) 11. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) 12. The Bad Seed (1956) Waiting on Fridays VII through X from the library to come in.
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Oct 4, 2016 04:22
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Well, we're over halfway through the month and here's what I have to show for myself since October 1. 1. The Bad Seed (1956) 2. Frankenhooker (1990) 3. Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) 4. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) 5. Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) 6. Jason X (2001) 7. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Rewatch 8. The Pit (1981) 9. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) Rewatch 10. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) 11. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) So my trudge through both these series is shaping up fine to finish before the month's over and I've got time to catch up to hopefully make 31 by the end of the month, although I'm fairly behind. That's okay though because the all night horror marathon I'm going to on the 29th will help catch me up so long as I can stay on target from now until November.
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Oct 18, 2016 13:59
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