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I feel like I've made an rear end out of u and me, horror thread, I assumed Bloody New Year had been suggested while folks were discussing New Year's Eve horror movies and so didn't take the time to mention how you should all see this utterly batshit 1987 holiday film. But CTRL+F has revealed that it wasn't brought up so that has to change right now: Anyway, BLOODY NEW YEAR, it's not super gory, but it's basically the Pieces of holiday horror movies in that all of the best parts of it are completely out of nowhere things that make zero sense even with the explanation given for why things are happening and it owns because of it. The movie's plot is very much an incoherent mash-up of Shockwaves and The Shining. However the way the group of characters gets to the location is, uh, okay so like it opens up with them all at an amusement park having fun, one of them gets into a situation where a group of local toughs are endangering her life by standing around the teacup carousel ride she's on and spinning the seat to make her turn far faster than normal, driving her into a huge panic. Except that, like, the ride is just going at the same speed as all the others, everyone's acting is very bad here, it rules. Some of her friends and the guy running the ride jump on to help her out and there's this like, teacup carousel tug of war as the ride is just going at its normal speed, then one of the friends smartly shuts the ride off, but then he also keeps it shut down by yanking a part out of it. His other friends immediately act in horror as if the guy just desecrated something sacred, and suddenly the local lowlifes and the guy running the ride TEAM UP to try to chase them to ends of the earth over this carousel part!!!! Smash cut to the friends lost at sea in a sailboat they stole to get away.    This movie has a scene where folks are watching a movie and then out of nowhere a person jumps OUT OF THE MOVIE into the real world and claws at the guy's face once, which instantly kills him. The rest of the characters freak out and bolt out of the room and notice a toy Santa Claus has been wound up and is walking around doing its wind up toy thing, which they find humorous, and then the movie continues. The spoilered bit happening to someone is completely unacknowledged and forgotten about the second the characters leave the room until...he return as a zombie! And then just when the movie reaches a point where you learn what's going on and it seems about to wind down... THE GUY THAT WAS RUNNING THE AMUSEMENT PARK RIDE RETURNS! YESSS!!! These were among the more mundane events in the film so don't miss out. It's a must watch it if you haven't yet, fortunately you can see it on YouTube for free right now!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1TPL4ZqL50 Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Jan 2, 2019 |
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Jan 2, 2019 18:05
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MacheteZombie posted:Lol it's like he wrote it just for kvlt! The Horror Thread: There Is A Personal Need To Attack James Wan
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Jan 2, 2019 23:22
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Choco1980 posted:Huh. I really thought I brought this up here. Must have been in the discord. I have the vhs with the box art featuring a knock-off Crypt Keeper with googly eyes covered in party streamers. Hell yeah. Googling it now it seems like it had some crazy covers, there's a 3D one and everything. :O Also found this very relevant gif: 
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Jan 3, 2019 01:02
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Paperbacks of the Damned is awesome because until I saw it I was too stupid to realize Stigma: The Life After Death was based on a book despite liking that movie.
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Jan 3, 2019 01:42
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Kvlt! posted:I'm in the hospital right now and nothing has lifted my spirits more than knowing James Wan is getting bullied. gently caress you Wan! I'll start a petition to the producers of it to let you see an early screening of Corpse Fucker XXXIV: Corpses Never Die
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Jan 3, 2019 15:05
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Don't forget the gravy.
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Jan 3, 2019 19:52
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Fart City posted:The Changeling is fantastic I'm glad people like this movie here because I love it too. 
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Jan 4, 2019 18:08
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Kvlt! posted:yeah i agree with that. Id totally pay for the shudder equivalent of martial arts/wuxia/samurai movies tho. I bring it up every couple of months (probably even already in this thread) but definitely check out The Butterfly Murders on Prime. It starts out in an almost insultingly typical way, here in Martial World 72 powerful people vie for power etc., and then someone selling a fake (OR IS IT?!?!) story to a newspaper is bloodily ganked and strung up outside where the city's printing press is setup and it becomes an investigative murder mystery conspiracy by the reporter and some allies in claustrophobic surroundings but with and about wuxia stuff. It's an impressively dangerous feeling film despite how powerful the main folks are. And it has a *GREAT* masked killer, the movie predates Jason but this dude is literally like an Mortal Kombat ninja slasher monster so fans of either will dig it. I just wish the print was better because you can tell the colors were great in the exteriors and once they get to the movie's central location and I fuckin' love how this movie is lit. I also wish they somehow made more of them (since the movie isn't perfect but I personally do love it for its atmosphere and mystery) even if it would make no sense, who cares. Also historically important because it was Tsui Hark's directorial debut.       
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Jan 4, 2019 18:18
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Fart City posted:Somebody accidentally bumped the Freddy lever from “quips” to “pedophile” People always say this but growing up I never knew anyone who thought the Freddy in the original abducted kids and brought them into his furnace basement and JUST killed them. I haven't seen the original in a while but this didn't seem like a far out concept when watching or talking about it. Still glad I never got around to seeing the remake though as described in this thread it sounds like it was awful in every way.
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Jan 4, 2019 22:04
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M_Sinistrari posted:I can't remember where I read it, but it was by the time he got out of the lake and regained consciousness he was already presumed dead so he went into the woods until the camp was reopened since it closed the summer he 'died' and Pamela kept sabotaging the attempted openings. Yet another weird thing where if the lake itself is a weird evil force rather than Jason himself then all of the movies make sense together.
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Jan 4, 2019 22:06
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Zwabu posted:Also, if Kvlt! were to receive a serial killer transplant while in hospital it should be a leg or foot where the only effect would be his uncontrollable urge to kick any poser in the rear end.
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Jan 5, 2019 20:41
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Zwabu posted:Also, if Kvlt! were to receive a serial killer transplant while in hospital it should be a leg or foot where the only effect would be his uncontrollable urge to kick James Wan in the rear end.
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Jan 5, 2019 20:42
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Windows 98 posted:I am extremely excited to watch Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer tonight for the first time. God drat do I love bleak and brutal. Please recommend me other things like this. I've seen quite a number of them so digging deep would be appreciated. I know just from these threads you've seen so many and there different ways to interpret "bleak and brutal" but hopefully these offer something new: Murderlust (1985), It's kind of not very good and in a suburban setting but god drat this movie feels grimy, mostly from the not great transfer and how unlikable the main character killer is The Stepfather (1987), Kinda sorta, in that it's about a killer living in a "typical" domestic situation for a bit but still also being a killer The Manson Family (2003), a docudrama I liked when it was new but only remember now because of this post, IIRC the entire movie is made up of 8mm dramatizations of events Water Power (1977), if you want to go waaaaaaay overboard, also this movie was meant as a porno. One of those ones like Caligula where there's several different versions of it including the equivalent of an R rated one Crawlspace (1986), Klaus Kinski leads a normal life as the landlord of an apartment building, except it's Klaus Kinski so he also has a basement where brings people to torture/kill them
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Jan 5, 2019 21:13
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Tolkien minority posted:Angst and I Stand Alone are the moves that remind me most of Henry, in that they have the same uncomfortable and grotesque nihilism to them Speaking of which, Massimiliano Cerchi's Hellbilly (2003) is available on Prime and like, WOW (in a bad way).
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Jan 5, 2019 21:25
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Tolkien minority posted:There was this random 70s/80s slasher about a serial rapist killer photographer I watched on prime earlier this year I remember being particularly nasty and uncomfortable but for the life of me I cannot find or remember the name of the movie now Sounds like one of many Ted Bundy inspired movies so maybe search that way. That reminds me of a somewhat more tame yet arguably more cynical take on a rapist photographer scenario that's been long forgotten, Love Crimes (1992) starring Sean Young. It was infamously despised when it was released but honestly isn't that bad. Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Jan 5, 2019 |
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Jan 5, 2019 21:55
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Oh yeah Hollis DEFINITELY check out Don't Answer the Phone if you haven't.
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Jan 5, 2019 23:08
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Coffee And Pie posted:What’s the best exploding head in movie history? I vote Dawn of the Dead, which they actually shot with a shotgun. Franchescanado posted:The Prowler has a really good one. These was going to be my picks. LOL I forget which cut but one version of Dawn of the Dead, when they first burst into the room the manakin is in full view and everything. 
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Jan 7, 2019 18:40
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Basebf555 posted:Kagemusha and Ran are masterpieces, and Dreams is the kind of film that I think would've found a much bigger audience if it were made today. Dersu Uzala is legit, it's crazy how good his movies are. Even the stuff he just wrote/worked on but ended up not being involved in the production of is pretty good like Runaway Train. Tora! Tora! Tora! is probably the only not great thing he was involved in, and even then the only good things about it were stuff leftover from when he was involved. I sometimes do wish we could have gotten the timeline where his original concept for what became Seven Samurai got made. The entire movie was going to take place over just several hours and be about a single samurai who hosed up a something minor first thing in the morning. But then for reasons still has to go through the rest of his day like normal, but the action and how he thinks it will be perceived and his attempts to correct it all unravel in his head to the point where when he returns home at the end of the day he kills himself. They scrapped the idea because at the time Kurosawa felt the historical information wasn't available to actually support a super detailed and accurate daily routine for a samurai.
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Jan 7, 2019 19:43
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I have to rewatch Dagon. I rented it like almost 20 years ago/whenever it came out on video and disliked it but I see so much praise for it here.
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Jan 8, 2019 03:54
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Plus even today having a suit like that looks that good while still being able to function underwater is an achievement. What's everyone least favorite Universal monster movies of the ones in the 30 film set?
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Jan 9, 2019 17:14
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Amityville II: The Possession (1982) was added to Prime recently. I've made a lot of posts in the past thread about the Amityville movies, none of them are good and the convoluted proflicness of them. No movie with "Amityville" in the name is great, but folks in this thread might like II for how grimy it can feel for an often in daylight movie in the suburbs. It's also the best one overall to me.
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Jan 10, 2019 01:12
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Lurdiak posted:The Mummy Returns is many times worse than The Mummy. It has atrocious cinematography, much worse CGI (and much more of it), and like the first half of the movie is just the first movie but sped up? Everyone brings up the gif earlier, but it really is crazy how bad almost all of the CG in that movie is (even for it's time).
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Jan 10, 2019 03:21
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Fart City posted:The Mummy rules. The Mummy Returns is baaaaaaad. It’s the exact kind of bloated, convoluted nonsense that the latter Pirates Of The Caribbean movies became synonymous with. All they had to do was keep it simple and like at the end of The Mummy have Rachel Weisz back working at a library or whatever and be like oh look this is an interesting volume but it's about the Wolfman or Dracula instead of Mummies and have each sequel be them doing archaeology stuff and then running into a new monster. Also have his whiny buddy Benny come back and then ally himself with that movie's monster each time with no explanation for how he got out alive the last time.
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Jan 10, 2019 04:03
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Can't forget The Incredible Melting Man also.
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Jan 10, 2019 15:09
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What's everyone's favorite Friday the 13th... ...The Series episode?
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Jan 12, 2019 23:24
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colachute posted:way late hot take about Halloween 2018 that was probably discussed already: Michael Myers doesn't give a poo poo about Laurie Strode and just wanted to kill some folks. Laurie would have been perfectly safe if she had just locked herself and her family in her cellar. And even then, Michael probably never would've made his way out to her compound anyway. I guess my idea falls apart because of the doctor trying to get them together but whatever, my bigger point still stands: Michael doesn't care about Laurie at all. Oh yeah this was definitely an intentional thing about the movie, Michael is an unstoppable force because everyone has built him up and tries to direct him as if there's a destined super final boss fight needed between him and Laurie.
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Jan 13, 2019 20:39
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Green Inferno still a better movie than Green Book Fortunately there's Room for one more Green movie that's better than them all.
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Jan 14, 2019 00:07
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Biomute posted:Having Pinhead deliver quips as he is murdering kids and razing churches is actually a good thing for a franchise to start doing in its third film, and the series becomes unwatchable after the fourth partly because they stop doing that and ineptly try making serious movies about bdsm monsters. Their mistake was making Pinhead the big bad at all but they went with it for how memorable and liked the style of the character was compared to Julia. They started developing and trying to get Hellraiser 2 out almost as soon as the original took off and IIRC that would have had Pinhead as the big bad too in a hypothetical world where they didn't start working on it for a couple of more years. But the original intention was always for Julia and her newest hell romance scheme drama to be the big bad of the sequels. Bloodlines too though, they did the opposite like they give Pinhead/etc. a lot of screentime but actually cut out almost all of Angelique's scenes and their conflict about one wanting sort of the Hellraiser 1 ordered/contracts/systematic temptation kind of hell that draws people to it and Pinhead wanting to spread hell everywhere across the universe. And without another character to actually bounce off of or have some conflict with beyond just immediately killing them in the scene he he meets them makes him no different in Bloodlines than he is in Hellraiser 3. I'm in the camp that thinks Inferno is fine and uh, Hellseeker? The 7th one I think? Is pretty good too but the franchise was doomed when they both got rid of Julia completely and then also made Pinhead a quipping gleeful guy instead of coming off like a more measured but arrogant dude.
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Fart City posted:We take our spook-a-doodles seriously here. Way to bury that one fast.
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Jan 14, 2019 22:34
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s.i.r.e. posted:Never heard of Horror Express so I'm watching it now. I think it's usually better on YouTube. loving awesome movie I feel like I personally have failed because it seems there's still folks in the thread that haven't seen it yet. 
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Drunkboxer posted:Anybody got that smooth brain gif from Horror Express? When I need a smooth brain I just look in a mirror. Wait...
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Liberal Idiot posted:drat, that triple-feature would have been a trip. "Guardian of Hell" is Bruno Mattei's "The Other Hell," "The Craving" is Paul Naschy's "Night of the Werewolf" and "Burial Ground" is, well, "Burial Ground." I can't even imagine a world cool enough where you could see a triple feature like that in theaters for $2.50 even existed. Of all of them, The Other Hell being in theaters it he most nuts to me. Great to see many fellow USA Up All Nighters here. Origami Dali posted:Word The Horror Thread: Gottfried Openly Flaunts Teen-age Titillation Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Jan 16, 2019 |
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CelticPredator posted:Horror toy pics. I'll get around to the Bride of Chucky set, but I've been itching to snap Mike. Especially after re-watching H40 again. I fuckin' love these two
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Fart City posted:First flick is dumb as rocks but has some fantastic practical effects in it. Second one sucks out loud and isn’t worth your time. Basically this. Part of it is because SH1 and 2 and 3 and 4 are all very focused games thematically. Like individual elements in them like some of the enemy designs and stuff seem simple in game but they all had a lot of thought put into them and are all were all very specifically made the way they were. But Pyramid Head in Silent Hill 2 made such an impression that (Konami did this in some of the games too) the movie puts Pyramid Head into it and some other SH2 stuff even though it's mostly telling the story from Silent Hill 1. It's a movie that's way less than the sum of its parts because the individual practical effects and the music are great. But put it together and it's like, tracks from Silent Hill 2 playing while someone's walking around, it's very smashed together. And they knew it too because they needed that insanely bad exposition dump that very selectively doesn't acknowledge a lot of what you see in the movie at all. Plus they shoehorned Sean Bean and janitor sheriff into it (the movie was originally going to have only female characters in it). I'd still say it's worth a watch because the result is so weird. The second one really is, like, just insane levels of awful. But it's kind of crazy how much it doesn't even touch the first two games despite cribbing so much from them superficially. Like that opening Silent Hill 1 where you're walking down the alley and the camera very gradually goes a little off kilter after a panning shot that follow you walking around a corner, and how it gradually gets darker and more hosed up looking so you don't quite notice it til it hits all at once that like, wait, you just made like six left turns? It's night now? Wha... Then right on cue as you turn around to leave after seeing the crucified corpse gore on a chainlink fence the bizarre zombie children roll out and stab you to death.  That game is a genuine masterstroke in how it manages to repeatedly make you feel lost for just a second despite the PSX's limitations and you almost always have a detailed and marked up map available. Like they really worked that repetitive tension into the game's structure so that it actually lasts across the entire game. That's crazy. Silent Hill 2 is just as good though I wish the first apartments area was a little shorter. Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Jan 16, 2019 |
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lol posers in this thread suggesting anything other than Gestapo's Last Orgy to shut down a movie and chill night
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STAC Goat posted:I went looking and it turns out we were both right. The poster did have a list of movies that included Henry and Audition that he was gonna show students, but a few years earlier he was looking for recommendations for what to show kids he was babysitting and "joked" he was told he couldn't show Martyrs. That reminds me of the guy (I forget if it was in the Traditional Games board here or on some other RPG board but it was infamous in the grognards.txt threads) who kept asking and seemed dead set on running like a tabletop gaming/D&D sort of thing as junior high after school program at his local school.  Using the Gor setting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gor 
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K. Waste posted:The answer is clearly Forced Entry If porn is allowed then Water Power is the definitive choice by far for this endeavor.
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