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I saw that this year after watching another movie from the same director that I got super obsessed with. So now I’m obsessed with both
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King Vidiot posted:But like, I can't name a single movie that starts with just the number 2 besides 2 Fast 2 Furious, and that might be stretching the definition of "horror". Just a bit. Two Evil Eyes!
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Basebf555 posted:Check out The Void if you want something that's similar but imo better. Yeah I really enjoyed The Void! Anything else in that vein I might enjoy?
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Aug 4, 2021 21:05
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Levantine posted:Yeah I really enjoyed The Void! Anything else in that vein I might enjoy? In The Mouth of Madness, Baskin, and maybe As Above So Below From Beyond! Event Horizon, The Resurrected, Prince of Darkness Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Aug 4, 2021 |
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Aug 4, 2021 21:11
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Franchescanado posted:In The Mouth of Madness, Baskin, and maybe As Above So Below drat, I've seen all of those but The Resurrected. I'll have to peep that. Thanks for that!
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Aug 4, 2021 21:14
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CelticPredator posted:I saw that this year after watching another movie from the same director that I got super obsessed with. Did you watch the short Astron-6 did for ABCs of Death 2? W is for Wish? As soon as they did the scene on PG’s home world, I knew that short must have also been them- very similar look. One of the few worthwhile things from that mostly trash anthology series.
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Aug 4, 2021 21:16
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Levantine posted:drat, I've seen all of those but The Resurrected. I'll have to peep that. Thanks for that! The Resurrected is more a Lovecraftian mystery rather than a siege/invasion flick with a cult and Lovecraftian monsters. Stuart Gordon's Dagon might also work for you. Same with The Omega Man (more action than horror, but it's cloaked cult members attacking the hero). And The Devil Rides Out is a Hammer horror about a cult trying to summon an evil deity with Christopher Lee. The Void is pretty unique, in that it's basically Assault on Precinct 13 mixed with Lovecraftian cults, and there really isn't an easy thing to point to that mixes those same things. People need to go easier on The Void! It's a fine movie!
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Aug 4, 2021 21:19
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Prince of Darkness has similarities to The Void as well. It seems like as big an influence on it as The Thing.
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WeaponX posted:Did you watch the short Astron-6 did for ABCs of Death 2? W is for Wish? As soon as they did the scene on PG’s home world, I knew that short must have also been them- very similar look. Oh god I may have...I think I need to revisit that. Did it have nerf guns and poo poo?
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Aug 4, 2021 21:27
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Nope never mind I know what that one was haha.
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Aug 4, 2021 21:28
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CelticPredator posted:Oh god I may have...I think I need to revisit that. Did it have nerf guns and poo poo? He-Man. That’s all I’ll say
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loving loved The Void. It does not waste your time before poo poo kicks into high gear and never slows down again.
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Aug 4, 2021 21:59
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I'm a loving huge fan of The Resurrected. So I'll go to bat for that film at any chance I get. Love the setting , love the special effects, love the actors. Give me more Lovecraftian detective stories.
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"I'm not old, I'm not old", I continue to insist as I slowly shrink and transform into a film snob. gey muckle mowser posted:imo anyone who posts that they are in the middle of watching a movie should get a 2 hour probation so they can go finish the drat thing Now that's the kind of autocracy I can get behind.
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Thanks for all the recommendations. I have seen literally all of them other than The Resurrected so I may hit that up tonight. I've seen The Void several times and really enjoy it. I know opinions on it are mixed but I really like how dreamlike it feels. The Prince of Darkness is similar and is near The Thing for me for favorite John Carpenter flick. I liked the Empty Man and Caveat for similar reasons though they are generally not much like any of those movies other than tone, IMO.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Prince of Darkness has similarities to The Void as well. It seems like as big an influence on it as The Thing. It’s probably my favorite movie that I’ve discovered during the October Challenge. Both it and The Void have a real serious “oh poo poo something is VERY wrong here” vibe.
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Prince of Darkness being a sci-fi movie where all the scientists realise they know nothing is terrific
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Im working my way through this list https://boxd.it/cct4u of movies I’ve seen recommended in this thread.
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alf_pogs posted:Prince of Darkness being a sci-fi movie where all the scientists realise they know nothing is terrific That’s why it’s the best horror movie about grad school
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Reminder that The Void absolutely sucked, if you ask me. So temper your expectations when watching, might improve your chances of having a good time.
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Void indeed sucked but it has a good heart so it's hard to hate on it. It's certainly not good, but it would be a really solid college 24 hour film festival entry.
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Prince of Darkness is my least favorite Carpenter movie, but the dream sequences are really well done and some of the creepiest things I’ve seen in a movie. I haven’t seen Ghosts of Mars at all, and only a little bit of Village of the Damned.
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Pillowpants posted:Im working my way through this list https://boxd.it/cct4u of movies I’ve seen recommended in this thread. Ha, Sick For Toys made the list. I'm sorry for that.
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Casimir Radon posted:Prince of Darkness is my least favorite Carpenter movie, but the dream sequences are really well done and some of the creepiest things I’ve seen in a movie. Ghost of Mars was just the sequel to Atrack on Precinct 13 just like Escape LA, and the same relative quality.
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Aug 5, 2021 00:13
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Prince of Darkness is like one of my favorite Carpenter films. I love it.
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Darko posted:Ghost of Mars was just the sequel to Atrack on Precinct 13 just like Escape LA, and the same relative quality. Apparently Ghost of Mars started as Escape from Mars and it makes a lot more sense if you realized Desolation Williams begins life as Snake Plissken.
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Prince of Darkness might be in the lower half of the list if I ranked all the Carpenter movies but I like it a lot. Dudes just got a really fun filmography.
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Darko posted:Ghost of Mars was just the sequel to Atrack on Precinct 13 just like Escape LA, and the same relative quality.
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Ghosts of Mars is one of the messiest films I've ever seen but it's charming in how dumb it is. A character in a flashback has a flashback sequence and it's just mindboggling that made it to print. But like most Carpenter movies there's something about it that works for me(even when it doesn't).
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Prince of Darkness owns. the soundtrack just keeps going and going, the characters get caught up in the dream-momentum of the plot and it just throws a hundred different ideas together that (in my opinion) all seem to fit and add to make something really unique. the supernova at the start, bizarre behaviour of the chemicals, them spending essentially three days in this building trapped by homeless people... every part of it is really unnerving and wrong.
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I find Ghosts of Mars very silly and very entertaining. A definite recommendation.
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Drunkboxer posted:Prince of Darkness might be in the lower half of the list if I ranked all the Carpenter movies but I like it a lot. Dudes just got a really fun filmography. It's a filmography of legendary quality, too. The article in the latest Total Film that I mentioned has a Top 12 Carpenter movies because they couldn't decide on what to exclude from a Top 10. Carpenter has directed 17 theatrical releases.
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I stood on the shoulders of giants and amalgamated an LGBTQ+ theme horror watchlist which has thrown so many titles I really want to see onto my radar, I have too many watchlists on Letterboxd but I really like this top twenty.
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Sleepaway camp 2s xfinity description is “sex changed slasher returns as counselor” Letssss gooo
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alf_pogs posted:Prince of Darkness being a sci-fi movie where all the scientists realise they know nothing is terrific I avoided watching PoD for a long time because I assumed it was just Carpenter's take on religious horror, like The Exorcist, and I just don't care or find those kinds of movies scary at all. This was the late 80s/early 90s so I couldn't just look up all the spoilers, all I knew was "swirling can of Satan," and it wasn't until 1997 or so before I saw it for the first time. Was very surprised when I watched it just how wrong I was, and was delighted to find that it was a sci-fi film and instead the religious horror is literally Donald Pleasance's character's horrified realization that everything he took on faith was a lie, the true teachings of Christ was some weird alien/interdimensional/quantum mechanics theory and that the tools to stop the apocalypse were suppressed and forgotten over hundreds of years. That hooked me hard, along with the claustrophobia, tachyon visions from the future and all the other weird phenomena in the movie. Carpenter has made more iconic films (Halloween) and films I think that are better made overall (The Thing), but PoD, as flawed as it is, will always be his scariest film to me, one of only a handful of movies to give me recurring nightmares over the last 20 years or so, because it's not afraid to be weird and obtuse. If you get through the scene where the scientists just matter of factly lay down the backbone of the plot Jesus was an alien, Satan was his quantum prisoner, this poo poo's all real and the Bible we know today is the instructions on keeping Satan imprisoned, only it got run through a 1,000-year-plus telephone game and the words are nothing now but parables and rhetoric and not think "holy poo poo this sounds awesome," but instead "this sounds silly as hell," then yeah, I can totally get why you wouldn't like the movie. alf_pogs posted:every part of it is really unnerving and wrong. yes, this Also it has some of his most badass music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvz4MDnTr_s Bruteman fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Aug 5, 2021 |
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Prince of Darkness is to The Stone Tape what Assault on Precinct 13 is to Rio Bravo.
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Stone Tape is perfect because one of my deepest fears is 70s shot-on-video synth-scored British spooky television. Just that whole Dr. Who wobbly sets and weird trails left by candles and flashlights thing left a deep imprint on my soul from tuning in to PBS for Newton’s Apple a few minutes early on Saturday afternoon.
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Reminder I liked the void so I enjoyed it
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Prince of Darkness may not be Carpenter’s best but it’s my favorite. A good dream sequence always hooks me. The only fault of that movie is the lame lead actor. It’s such a interesting, and unsettling, concept.
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WeaponX posted:Prince of Darkness may not be Carpenter’s best but it’s my favorite. A good dream sequence always hooks me. The only fault of that movie is the lame lead actor. It’s such a interesting, and unsettling, concept. he's a bit of a dud but at least the focus is shared enough around that it feels like the leads are shared between him, Lisa Blount and Donald Pleasance
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