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Burkion posted:Demanding confessions is something only a poser can do I am Matthew Hopkins, Poserfinder.
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To find a poser, one must BE a poser This is the tragedy of all Poserfinder Generals
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Dec 24, 2020 23:17
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Stare not into the poser abyss, for ye will find...Mike Flanagan staring back at ye!
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Dec 24, 2020 23:25
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All I want is more Shaw Brothers horror, and I'd trade the last two decades of horror in their entirety for it.
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Dec 25, 2020 01:09
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Irony.or.Death posted:All I want is more Shaw Brothers horror, and I'd trade the last two decades of horror in their entirety for it. Same. In a loving heartbeat.
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Dec 25, 2020 02:37
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Dec 25, 2020 04:55
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Merry Christmas! You might have run out of time for your Christmas shopping but you have one day left to make your votes for the 2021 Spook-A-Doodle Horror Bracketology. We'll be starting Jan 1st (life changing events allowing) but votes lock up Dec 26th. So if you haven't gotten them in yet now's your chance, and if you've had second thoughts on something now's your last chance to change it up. https://forms.gle/a3QguP4rHQLRvS4A9
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Watching Spontaneous and absolutely loving it. It’s fairly light on the horror (besides the constant gory explosions of bodies), big on the laughs, with a generous dash of romance. I paused halfway thru just to recommend it here since I’ve seen almost nobody talking about it. Definitely ending the year on a high note.
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Dec 25, 2020 07:36
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Kvlt! posted:Confess posers! Confess your sins and embrace the open arms of Rob Zombie! Embrace horror salvation! Lords of Salem is the only Rombie movie that doesn’t suck poo poo. *closes eyes, spreads arms in a Christ pose, throws himself into the fire while Freebird plays*
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Dec 25, 2020 08:20
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Kvlt! posted:Confess posers! Confess your sins and embrace the open arms of Rob Zombie! Embrace horror salvation! I don’t really care for Scream or the Scream franchise and Ghostface looks like a blousy little twerp.
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Dec 25, 2020 16:01
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Kvlt! posted:Confess posers! Confess your sins and embrace the open arms of Rob Zombie! Embrace horror salvation! Horror's obsession with reliving the 80s is holding the genre back
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Dec 25, 2020 17:08
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BrendianaJones posted:Horror's obsession with reliving the 80s is holding the genre back This is the only confession that's unforgivable.
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Dec 25, 2020 18:08
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BrendianaJones posted:Horror's obsession with reliving the 80s is holding the genre back I get this. I only started watching horror movies with the challenges so I have no real nostalgia for earlier eras of horror.
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Dec 25, 2020 18:16
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Horror these days don’t do gore or goop like 80’s movies. I want gore and goop.
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CelticPredator posted:Horror these days don’t do gore or goop like 80’s movies.
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Dec 25, 2020 18:23
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My horror sin: I haven't seen every horror movie Yet
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CelticPredator posted:Horror these days don’t do gore or goop like 80’s movies.
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Dec 25, 2020 18:53
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Freaky was so fun. I was totally ready to skip it but it was exactly what I needed last night. Hope you're having a great Christmas/holiday, horror thread. 2020 was a bad year for just about everything but chatting spook-a-doodles with the only non-toxic horror community on the internet made it a little better.
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Kvlt! posted:Confess posers! Confess your sins and embrace the open arms of Rob Zombie! Embrace horror salvation! Horror is my favorite genre but I simultaneously think it's about 95% bad to just okay movies
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Dec 25, 2020 20:23
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Ehud posted:Horror is my favorite genre but I simultaneously think it's about 95% bad to just okay movies How is that different than any other genre
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Dec 25, 2020 20:44
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david_a posted:How is that different than any other genre It’s a better ratio than most other genres imo
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Anisocoria Feldman posted:It’s a better ratio than most other genres imo I think it's more that bad horror is still watchable. Like, a lovely horror movie can still be entertaining, but a lovely comedy is just a chore
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Dec 25, 2020 22:05
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BrendianaJones posted:Horror's obsession with reliving the 80s is holding the genre back Similarly, I wouldn't be particularly sad if people stopped making movies that were meta commentaries about horror movies or played around with genre conventions or subverted expectations or any of that.
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Dec 25, 2020 22:55
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Yeah sometimes I just want a ghost to scare/kill some people.
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:Yeah sometimes I just want a ghost to scare/kill some people. You can make movies that aren't just rehashing what the director likes about 80s horror and still have them be dumb and fun
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I just want someone to make a straight Stuart Gordon-like goopy, gory movie with blood and practical creature effects, or a Return of the Living Dead punk rock horror movie that isn't meta or trying too hard to be "edgy" and is just naturally, effortlessly cool. Like, it doesn't try to be "so bad it's good", and it's just good. Why don't we get a modern day Chopping Mall, or Night of the Creeps? And not remakes of either of those, original concepts that are that creative and insane, where people's heads explode.
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King Vidiot posted:I just want someone to make a straight Stuart Gordon-like goopy, gory movie with blood and practical creature effects, or a Return of the Living Dead punk rock horror movie that isn't meta or trying too hard to be "edgy" and is just naturally, effortlessly cool. Like, it doesn't try to be "so bad it's good", and it's just good. Why don't we get a modern day Chopping Mall, or Night of the Creeps? And not remakes of either of those, original concepts that are that creative and insane, where people's heads explode. Haven't you heard, it's all about high concept art house horror now!  Seriously though the return of effortpost horror is a welcome development but can't we have steak and goopy hamburgers at the same time?
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King Vidiot posted:I just want someone to make a straight Stuart Gordon-like goopy, gory movie with blood and practical creature effects, or a Return of the Living Dead punk rock horror movie that isn't meta or trying too hard to be "edgy" and is just naturally, effortlessly cool. Like, it doesn't try to be "so bad it's good", and it's just good. Why don't we get a modern day Chopping Mall, or Night of the Creeps? And not remakes of either of those, original concepts that are that creative and insane, where people's heads explode. have you seen https://letterboxd.com/film/the-ranger/?
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Retro Futurist posted:I think it's more that bad horror is still watchable. Like, a lovely horror movie can still be entertaining, but a lovely comedy is just a chore Scifi is like this too, mostly because even bad scifi is often based on a halfway clever high-concept premise. Bad fantasy usually gets a pass for the same reason, especially dark fantasy.
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I think horror seems more accessible for first time/bad film makers, take the Killjoy series for example. You don’t really need a plot beyond “monster/monstrous person pursues protagonist(s)”
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That is true. It annoys me with my friends sometimes. A lot of them just do horror because it’s easy. I make horror because it’s fuckin hard.
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Got Twin Peaks The Return on bluray for Xmas and am gonna start it soon... should I rewatch any of the older seasons and/or Fire Walk With Me first? I’ve no interest in doing a full rewatch (too long and plus I’ve seen S1 like 5 times), but I’m thinking maybe the last couple episodes of S2 and then FWWM might be a good refresher.
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gey muckle mowser posted:Got Twin Peaks The Return on bluray for Xmas and am gonna start it soon... should I rewatch any of the older seasons and/or Fire Walk With Me first? I’ve no interest in doing a full rewatch (too long and plus I’ve seen S1 like 5 times), but I’m thinking maybe the last couple episodes of S2 and then FWWM might be a good refresher. Your plan is good
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gey muckle mowser posted:Got Twin Peaks The Return on bluray for Xmas and am gonna start it soon... should I rewatch any of the older seasons and/or Fire Walk With Me first? I’ve no interest in doing a full rewatch (too long and plus I’ve seen S1 like 5 times), but I’m thinking maybe the last couple episodes of S2 and then FWWM might be a good refresher. I'd say rewatch all the Lynch directed episodes and FWWM, but your plan works too.
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Sweet, thanks! Can’t wait to finally dig into this.
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Bracketology II is right around the corner! The nominations have been made! The votes have been cast! Nothing left but to watch movies together! We have a bracket! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3950323 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rzRuxycZQQAkq1VjkgDyqTpmhrN_uVRSyk5d4D0I7Ig/edit?usp=sharing Tokyo Conference / Doubles Conference   Itallian Conference / American Slasher Conference   We've got some Play In Rounds to start off. January 1st - 7th: Italy #15 Seed: Mary Lambert vs. Ruggero Deodato vs. STAC Goat's Radio Silence (Joe Swanberg, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Glenn McQuaid, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez, and Chad Villella) Jan 8th - 14th Tokyo #16 Seed: Franchescanado’s Team Vulgær (Gaspar Noe & Lars Von Trier) vs. Charles Band vs. married but discreet’s Top Giallo Schmorgasboard (Aldo Lado, Duccio Tessari, & Giulio Questi) Doubles #16 Seed: Tarnop's Predation (Jonathan Glazer, Tomas Alfredson, David Robert Mitchell, Michael Powell, Gerald Kargl, and Alice Lowe) vs. married but discreet's Giallo B Team (Emilio Miraglia & Massimo Dallamano) vs. M. Night Shyamalan Jan 15th - 21st Italy #16 Seed: TrixRabbi's Andrzej Żuławski & Other Poles (Jerzy Kawalerowicz) vs. Debbie Does Dagon's Silent Scream (FW Murnau, Robert Wiene, & Teinosuke Kinugasa) vs. STAC Goat's In Russia Doodle Spook You (Egor Abramenko, Georgiy Kropachyov, Konstantin Ershov, & Svyatoslav Podgaevsky) American Slasher #16 Seed: STAC Goat's Block Party (Joe Cornish, Oz Rodriguez, Ernest R. Dickerson, & Austin Vesely) vs. Tarnop's Lost & Found (Erik Kristopher Myers, Elliot Goldner, Phil Guidry, Simon Herbert, and David Whelan, Zachary Donohue, Joel Anderson, & Christopher MacBride) vs. Steven Spielberg Jan 22nd - 28th Field of 64 Begins This thing is gonna take us all the way into September. The first round isn't even gonna end until May! So check out the thread, bookmark it, you might get introduced to some new movies or join a friendly group stream one night. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3950323 STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Dec 27, 2020 |
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Yo anyone sleeping on Horrified should grab it! It's so much fun. It's an incredibly lovingly crafted Universal Horror game. The premise is that you are in a vague European village trying to stop the Classic Universal Monsters (Dracula, Monster and his Bride, Wolfman, Creature, Mummy, and the Invisible Man). You can switch out which monsters you play with, and the gameplay is pretty unique for each while all relying on similar mechanics. With the Creature, you're trying to navigate a boat through the lagoon whereas with the Invisible Man you're trying to collect evidence for the police to prove his existence. If you have played Camp Grizzly or House on the Hill, it's spiritually very similar to those, but A LOT more streamlined. It hits a nice sweet spot of requiring strategy without being obtuse. My wife is a complex board game nut (Think 7 Wonders and Settlers) while my parents are more classic games people, and they all adore it. All the player characters are vague archetypes, but it does include villagers you're encouraged to protect. All the villagers are characters from the movies!
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The slasher genre desperately needed something like Black Christmas (2019) to be lifted up on release but ended up being let down by the perfect storm of horror fan neck-beard haters who could cry about it for being a remake, an overtly political film (+made so close to Get Out) and being ewwww PG-13 for young women to see it. I cannot wrap my head around another Scream movie being made in a world where the slasher genre is dead and anything that tries to move into the 21st century is relentlessly review bombed. When was the last culturally relevant slasher - or - one that was for people who weren't trying to relive the loving 1980s? I mean BC 2019 has some issues and I'd LOVE an Unrated cut but gently caress me is the internet full of people whining about this fantastic little film. E: Timeless Appeal posted:Yo anyone sleeping on Horrified should grab it! It's so much fun. It's an incredibly lovingly crafted Universal Horror game. The premise is that you are in a vague European village trying to stop the Classic Universal Monsters (Dracula, Monster and his Bride, Wolfman, Creature, Mummy, and the Invisible Man). You can switch out which monsters you play with, and the gameplay is pretty unique for each while all relying on similar mechanics. With the Creature, you're trying to navigate a boat through the lagoon whereas with the Invisible Man you're trying to collect evidence for the police to prove his existence. If you have played Camp Grizzly or House on the Hill, it's spiritually very similar to those, but A LOT more streamlined. It hits a nice sweet spot of requiring strategy without being obtuse. My wife is a complex board game nut (Think 7 Wonders and Settlers) while my parents are more classic games people, and they all adore it. You can play this on Tabletop Simulator on Steam (which is always on sale for around £7), find it in the Workshop for free! I liked it but when it came to buying an actual board game I got Jaws instead (which is also on TTS for free, it's kinda hard finding other players IRL in 2020). The Hausu Usher fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Dec 28, 2020 |
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BisonDollah posted:The slasher genre desperately needed something like Black Christmas (2019) to be lifted up on release but ended up being let down by the perfect storm of horror fan neck-beard haters who could cry about it for being a remake, an overtly political film (+made so close to Get Out) and being ewwww PG-13 for young women to see it. I cannot wrap my head around another Scream movie being made in a world where the slasher genre is dead and anything that tries to move into the 21st century is relentlessly review bombed. When was the last culturally relevant slasher - or - one that was for people who weren't trying to relive the loving 1980s? I mean BC 2019 has some issues and I'd LOVE an Unrated cut but gently caress me is the internet full of people whining about this fantastic little film. thoughts on Halloween 2018? I thought Black Christmas was fine, fantastic might be stretching it a bit for me
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