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The new Lucky McKee, Kindred Spirits, isn't really much of anything besides a pretty good performance from Caitlin Stasey. Most everything else isn't given much time and I'm not quite sure what Macon Blair was doing in this. It just all seems very...thin? for a McKee and kinda seems like it was adapted from one of those teen horror books by Christopher Pike or RL Stine. It's fine I guess but might be his worst movie yet, depending on how much you like All Cheerleaders Die.
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M_Sinistrari posted:How so? I admit it does have some fairly big flaws and I'm curious to hear what you've got to say on it. It's also one of those films that can't live up to its introduction. Really loved the first 10-15 minutes of that movie. Same problem with the Transformers movie (from 1986).
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Alvarez IV posted:What's some low-budget, sleazy, camp horror or horror-adjacent stuff that will scratch my itch for Troma/John Waters/Rocky Horror? For comparison's sake, a friend told me about "Attack of the Adult Babies" which I might just watch based off the name alone, which has never failed me before (looking at you, "Gayniggers from Outer Space"), but if that sucks and my itch goes unscratched, I need backup. Hobo With A Shotgun
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I guess it's now officially Ewan McGregor's job to helm ruinous sequels to iconic movies.
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SecretOfSteel posted:It's also one of those films that can't live up to its introduction. Really loved the first 10-15 minutes of that movie. Same problem with the Transformers movie (from 1986). poo poo not even that much of the movie, the first 5 minutes are incredibly good and hugely frantic, the cinema I was in played it LOUD AS gently caress and it was just so chaotic. As soon as that first scene is done and out of the way the movie never recovers. As mentioned there's a whole load of incredibly dumb poo poo going on. I haven't seen it in years but the aforementioned helicopter scene was a full on eye roller, the way Carlisle could just wander around the military facility willy nilly because he was the janitor and that they had an actual zombie in the middle of the facility with ZERO security stood watch 'just in case'. I realise with a lot of horror you have to really suspend your disbelief but nah, this movie had used up any good-will I had for the series pretty quickly. 28 Days owns as it's own little movie, Weeks is actual trash.
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frankee posted:Hobo With A Shotgun hell yeah, I love that movie. The director also has a pretty good short called Treevenge that is on YouTube (I think) that has a similar tone
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bort posted:I guess it's now officially Ewan McGregor's job to helm ruinous sequels to iconic movies. T2 was pretty good, though.
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gey muckle mowser posted:hell yeah, I love that movie. The director also has a pretty good short called Treevenge that is on YouTube (I think) that has a similar tone This Treevenge? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kicdSI_-XpE
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The roommate was out so last night I got to eat spicy ramen and watch movies. First up was The Changeling. It was decent, but I thought it would have been a better movie without all the ghost stuff. Second up was The Perfection. It was also decent, but I thought that it would have been better with everything happening in sequence as the rewinds seemed to only exist to pad run-time
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M_Sinistrari posted:This Treevenge? yep!
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Alvarez IV posted:What's some low-budget, sleazy, camp horror or horror-adjacent stuff that will scratch my itch for Troma/John Waters/Rocky Horror? For comparison's sake, a friend told me about "Attack of the Adult Babies" which I might just watch based off the name alone, which has never failed me before (looking at you, "Gayniggers from Outer Space"), but if that sucks and my itch goes unscratched, I need backup. Anything by Herschell Gordon Lewis
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Alvarez IV posted:What's some low-budget, sleazy, camp horror or horror-adjacent stuff that will scratch my itch for Troma/John Waters/Rocky Horror? For comparison's sake, a friend told me about "Attack of the Adult Babies" which I might just watch based off the name alone, which has never failed me before (looking at you, "Gayniggers from Outer Space"), but if that sucks and my itch goes unscratched, I need backup. The Thingy: Confessions of a Teenage Placenta will scratch all of your itches
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Jedit posted:It very much does. I saw it back in college, although that was like 16 years ago so I don't remember much of it.
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I only checked back like 7 pages, but did anybody talk about The Field Guide to Evil? I generally like anthologies but this one was particularly lovely even by those metrics. I guess the folklore theme restricted them a bit, but it could have been better.
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ravenkult posted:I only checked back like 7 pages, but did anybody talk about The Field Guide to Evil? I was pretty excited to see it during a film festival, but skipped out on it twice from exhaustion. I think a UK goon saw it and liked it enough? Can't remember who.
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Writer of The Guest, this is uh, quite high praise https://twitter.com/Simon_Barrett/status/1141772834173157376
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edit /\/\/\ ha! Review of the new Child's Play that actually makes it sounds like it could be fun https://twitter.com/RueMorgue/status/1141782918307733506?s=20
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Jun 20, 2019 20:30
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Better than Child's Play 2? Ok buddy, we'll see about that
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Basebf555 posted:Better than Child's Play 2? Ok buddy, we'll see about that 
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Bride > Seed > 1 > Cult > 2 > Curse > 3
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2 is a high bar to clear out of the originals so I'm interested moreso than before
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DLC Inc posted:Writer of The Guest, this is uh, quite high praise Y'all remember when James Cameron was talking about how great Genesys is?
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Kvlt! posted:Bride > Seed > 1 > Cult > 2 > Curse > 3 When us olds were growing up the first three were the ones constantly playing on t.v. so I always have a hard time even seeing them all as part of the same series.
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I love Simon Barrett but he's nothing if not prone to hyperbole. I'm gonna see Childs Play but my expectations are still not that high.
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Lurdiak posted:Y'all remember when James Cameron was talking about how great Genesys is? ah yes, Simon Barrett, noted original creator of the Child's Play franchise. The comparison works perfectly especially because Simon Barrett previously told us other remakes of the original film he created that were bad, were good.
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DLC Inc posted:ah yes, Simon Barrett, noted original creator of the Child's Play franchise. The comparison works perfectly especially because Simon Barrett previously told us other remakes of the original film he created that were bad, were good. I don't see what about the original post inspired such a lovely response.
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Franchescanado posted:I don't see what about the original post inspired such a lovely response. Probably because in other threads when someone casts any sort of doubt on something you posted it's a green light to start throwing punches. Inexperienced horror thread posters take a while sometimes to adjust to the more laid back atmosphere.
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Basebf555 posted:When us olds were growing up the first three were the ones constantly playing on t.v. so I always have a hard time even seeing them all as part of the same series. Yeah, in my head the Chucky franchise is basically like 3 eras. The 3 Child's Play movies that I saw a ton of times on TV growing up that all were trying to be a straight horror. Then in my young adult years where Bride and Seed were this insane, absurdist comedy revival of Chucky. Then recently where Curse and Cult seemed to kind of try and marry the two or try and get back some of the horror it lost while being true to the absurdism that happened. It doesn't feel like a sequel after sequel franchise to me. It just feels like weird stages of growing up or something.
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STAC Goat posted:Yeah, in my head the Chucky franchise is basically like 3 eras. The 3 Child's Play movies that I saw a ton of times on TV growing up that all were trying to be a straight horror. Then in my young adult years where Bride and Seed were this insane, absurdist comedy revival of Chucky. Then recently where Curse and Cult seemed to kind of try and marry the two or try and get back some of the horror it lost while being true to the absurdism that happened. I haven't gotten around to seeing Curse and Cult yet. I remember 2 being on Saturday afternoon UHF channels a shitload in the 90's. I had seen that one so much that when I picked up the Blu-Ray of 1 a few years back I was very confused, as I was pretty much expecting it to be 2.
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I never made it past the first 3 Child's Play movies Still probably gonna see the new one tomorrow
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Franchescanado posted:I don't see what about the original post inspired such a lovely response. Flashbacks of terrible Terminator movies but you're right, too harsh, apologies. STAC Goat posted:Yeah, in my head the Chucky franchise is basically like 3 eras. The 3 Child's Play movies that I saw a ton of times on TV growing up that all were trying to be a straight horror. Then in my young adult years where Bride and Seed were this insane, absurdist comedy revival of Chucky. Then recently where Curse and Cult seemed to kind of try and marry the two or try and get back some of the horror it lost while being true to the absurdism that happened. The weirdest part is still trying to pretend most of Seed just didn't happen in the 2 newer ones. I read that references to Glen/Glenda had been scrapped from either Curse or Cult and I want to know how that would have looked.
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Adlai Stevenson posted:I never made it past the first 3 Child's Play movies You're missing out, Bride and Seed of Chucky are punk as gently caress.
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Adlai Stevenson posted:I never made it past the first 3 Child's Play movies 3 is the weakest one and Bride is one of my favorites, definitely check it out sometime. Jennifer Tilly is wonderful
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Adlai Stevenson posted:I never made it past the first 3 Child's Play movies 3 is the low point. Its where Mancini seems to have realized that the doll isn't scary anymore but he's still trying while also starting to get a little sillier about it. With Bride he just accepts it and makes a comedy slasher and with Seed he just lets loose and makes something completely insane. Whatever you think of them they're loving wild rides. Then he tries to reinvent Chucky as scary with Curse and really resolve everything and bring the world together as something insane but more straight with Cult. Its probably one of the best horror franchises to really watch out IMO because every film is done by Mancini and you can really see what he's thinking and trying to do with each one as he's never just trying to make a sequel for cash... except maybe for 3. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Jun 20, 2019 |
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STAC Goat posted:It doesn't feel like a sequel after sequel franchise to me. It just feels like weird stages of growing up or something. That's probably the best description for the franchise. Not so much sequel after sequel but stages.
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I really like part 2, but the original Child's Play is a legit good suspenseful horror film. A couple of structural tweaks and it could've been a Polanski style psychological masterpiece.
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I'm planning on seeing Child's Play after Toy Story 4 tonight. That's probably gonna be tonal whiplash, huh? lmao
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flashy_mcflash posted:The new Lucky McKee, Kindred Spirits, isn't really much of anything besides a pretty good performance from Caitlin Stasey. Most everything else isn't given much time and I'm not quite sure what Macon Blair was doing in this. It just all seems very...thin? for a McKee and kinda seems like it was adapted from one of those teen horror books by Christopher Pike or RL Stine. It's fine I guess but might be his worst movie yet, depending on how much you like All Cheerleaders Die. Where'd you watch it?
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I watched Ghost Stories(2017, d.p. Ole Bratt Birkeland) last night. I liked it for the most part but all of the stories felt like they ended a bit too soon and I'm not sure about the ending of the frame story being it was all a [coma] dream! . I mean it's built up decently enough that I actually thought to myself "Are they actually going there?" but still. Looked really nice and had some great performances.
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I really didn't like that one much at all. Like there were a lot of elements I did like and I could see how the original stage play could really work, but it really fell flat for me. None of the stories felt satisfying and the wrap around didn't feel earned or setup well. I dunno. Its the sort of film I'll probably consider watching again to see if it sits better or if I was just in a bad mood or something because usually when people love a film and I don't I can see what that thing is that separates our opinions. But in this case I just don't really know why I didn't like it, I just didn't.
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