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So for those that have watched Black Mountain Side, did I miss something with the ending? Cause I swear it was just lone survivor stumbles into bear trap after wandering around for a day or two and then credits? While not necessarily a bad movie, it wasn't that good. It just felt like the paranoia of 'The Thing' without any real pay off; like a bunch of indistinct guys in different cabins feeling unease and then they go crazy doesn't really carry a movie for me. Then the ending...I feel like I missed something there.
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Yeah, I was very confused by what feeling 'The Dead Don't Die' was trying to get across but none of them really landed. It would go from sedated mumblecore dramedy to vague attempts at black humor to fourth wall breaking meta nonsense (the reveal of Adam Driver's character being so calm cause he had read the script and knows how it ends...and just going with it cause he's an actor in a movie?), all while trying to play up common zombie movie tropes or making a lot of callbacks to other zombie media. It had this stilted awkwardness mingled with a nihilistic view as characters just die pointlessly or get overwhelmed by the meaninglessness of the situation they're in.
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Blast Fantasto posted:Dan Stevens should play a real maniac in a horror movie again. He’s got a maniac face. But yeah, Eli was just exceedingly passable. It didn't do anything new and I did start to telegraph the twist after enough hints started to be dropped. But I did quite enjoy some of the visuals they went with like the trio of nuns floating as in an inverted crucifixion while being twisted and contorted...then lit on fire and flung around the room. I will say though that Netflix 'original' horror films definitely feel like more misses than hits. Also watched Willow Creek and I'm super confused the positive sentiment people seem to have for it. The first half of the movie is spent on watching two dull people wonder from tourist trap to tourist trap talking about bigfoot, then they reach the woods and some spooky stuff happens (though it's also framed against just watching a static shot of them in a tent for 20 minutes), and then ummm an ending? It felt like it might have been an alright short but as a full movie (even at a lil under an hour and twenty minutes) it felt like there was not nearly enough there. VVVV I remember hearing something about the bigfoot rape and I feel like I missed that in the ending? Was bigfoot raping that naked woman that flashed up for like a frame? It was honestly such a blur at the ending that it was a bit hard to follow. discworld is all I read fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Oct 20, 2019 |
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Speaking of the Love Witch, has anyone seen Abrakadabra? Came out a couple years ago I think, and seems to be another one of those modern takes on a giallo (like The Editor but less satire/comedy). The trailer looks interesting at least.
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So for the small hand full of folks that watched Slashers (a dark 'comedy' that played out like a no budget Running Man but with themed serial killers rather than lauded murder heroes), it seems the person that directed that managed to eek out one more movie called End of the Line (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSDekmdtq9Y), and strangely enough it wasn't bad. It follows a nurse after she gets off work and the dangers she faces as a fairly populated cult starts to off people in a subway (and possibly on a much larger scale). It was schlocky for the most part, skeezy at times, but it was never really boring and the practical effects were not bad (though the 'demons' at the end were a bit cheap looking). What was also fairly interesting was the ending which was left ambiguous as to whether the cult was right and it truly was the end of days with demons popping out of people's dead bodies or if the nurse was just having hallucinations brought on by some drug laced muffin that the cult had provided to her workplace that she's seen eating earlier. I think I was just mostly surprised it was competent for someone who made Slashers.
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Jul 10, 2020 07:14
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Disposable Scud posted:I hate werewolf media where the beast is just a wolf but I dug The Beast Must Die. The main character cracks me up and theres a baller shot of the wolf (a german shepard wearing really obvious fake fur) lurking above one of their victims. Also earns points for the presence of Peter Cushing. And really, it only seemed second in usage of regular dogs in lieu of actual wolves (or men in werewolf prosthetics) with the obvious winner going to Monster Dog.
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Jul 11, 2020 21:09
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Parts of Host were fine, but I'm not really sure why they wasted 1/6 of the running time with just the characters shooting the poo poo and trying to get across very shallow character traits. I mean, it feels like Unfriended got across more with the characters in half the time (or even developed it over the course of the film), but Host was more "This guy is a jokey prat with an annoying new girlfriend" or "This woman is easily drawn into spooky situations, maybe she'll overreact to nothing later" or "This woman likes to use face apps, she's kooky" all at once, so it just felt front loaded with that and then they just back-filled everything with spooks. I did quite enjoy the idea of a demon latching onto a fake idea to scare people and the random times that hanging feet would appear momentarily in a shot, or would droop in from above, were quite nicely done. Overall, it's not a bad way to spend an hour but definitely not as well done/planned as Unfriended. It also reminded me to watch 'Searching', which is in a similar vein, but more of a horror/thriller. Also, I cannot recommend watching 'Random Acts of Violence'; just a boring, pointless film about a generic killer and a group of characters that range from one dimensional to tedious going about getting murdered with red and green dramatic lighting at times.
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A Proper Uppercut posted:Maybe it was a different movie, but I think the trailer for this just made me think of The Bye Bye Man. And speaking of cosmic horror, watched Synchronic recently and it was enjoyable, and had some inklings of cosmic horror but it felt a bit weaker and more schmaltzy compared to The Endless or Resolution.
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Yeah, it really felt like the trailer for 'The Empty Man' leaned too far into the tired idea of summoning an urban legend (conjuring up memories of the similarly named 'Bye-Bye Man'), but yeah, in reality it was a pretty strong movie where that urban legend thing was just a fairly small part of the overall plot. I was especially surprised by how good just the opening bit in the mountains was; the atmosphere and feelings it setup for the rest of the movie were great and I was taken aback by the fact that that intro bit was almost 20 minutes and then title card. I feel like most modern horror films would try to shove in some quick jump scare about a couple minutes and maybe do flashbacks to backfill the story.
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fr0id posted:Like Celtic said, this movie does not have the charisma of Ray wise. It’s two schlubby dudes. The big twist is the end where they both actually get kidnapped. I think it switches to like security cameras footage of them both tied up.
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While I wouldn't call it strictly horror, The Wraith.
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TheOmegaWalrus posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMaVIAlJlnw
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Chris James 2 posted:...Huh. I don't quite know what to think of Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin beyond "it doesn't feel like a Paranormal Activity film". Not necessarily a bad thing itself, obviously
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:Has the thread talked about Howling Village yet, because I just watched it on Prime and had a really good time with it. Trailer spoils one of the more fun moments so maybe don't watch it if you read the premise and it sounds interesting to you. It kinda reminded me of another older J-horror film about a haunted apartment that just decided to take a left turn into edginess; the gist was that people that lived inside this haunted apartment complex before midnight, otherwise they'd be killed by a vengeful spirit and a down on his luck father/daughter family have just moved in. Cut to the end of the film where the father is racing against time to make it home before midnight and right when he thinks he's made it the daughter is revealed to have tricked the dad and left him outside to be killed by the ghost, and it turns out that the teenage daughter has been the target of the father's continual rapes since the mom left the picture and the ghost was also a teenage girl who had been raped and killed by her father...and yeah, there had been no indication of this strained family dynamic or rape anytime previously. discworld is all I read fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Jan 18, 2022 |
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Stink Billyums posted:I think it was this
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Gripweed posted:Yeah I want to subscribe to that company. Extremely softcore porn, urbex videos, and the occasional microbudget horror movie, I would like a regular delivery of that content straight to my front door.
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So Chichibu Demon I'd say was mostly fine? It knew it's constraints in regards to a budget (i.e. it didn't try to use any sketchy CG or anything) but that also means that it was super light on where it could be spooky. It would mostly have a flash of light or some minor camera effects, but most of the tension was just some of the characters acting off or seeing/hearing things that other folks couldn't (but things that also never showed up on the cameras). I'd also say the ending didn't really have any teeth, especially compared to something like Noroi; it just kinda reiterated the legend (the wisps are visible when someone dies/gets spirited away) and then the person who last saw the lights disappeared, wash/rinse/repeat. I can see why it wouldn't be very well known cause it's very generic but it's definitely not terrible or anything. For another semi-found footage movie that I was pleasantly surprised by a couple years ago that I don't see talked about that often was 'The Bridge Curse' (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11242242/?ref_=tt_urv); it seems to have a very by the numbers legend setup of a vengeful ghost in a specific location that is used in a test of courage but where it stood out for me was the time travel (or at least I think there was some time travel fuckery in there).
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DeimosRising posted:beasts rules Watching that, also led me to the fairly long running BBC series Thriller, which sadly didn't have that many quality horror episodes, but it definitely had a few like "Someone at the Top of the Stairs" Count Thrashula posted:Why have I never heard of The Monster Club before? This movie kicks rear end
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:Finally got around to watching Sorority House Massacre 3 (a.k.a. Hard to Die) and I'm pleased to report that it's the only movie I've ever seen which ends with a lingerie assault rifle fight.
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Hollismason posted:Whats the name of that Evil Dead ripoff that occurs at a farmhouse? Something Dawn? Maybe I can't remember much of it just that its a Evil Dead ripoff with a similar premise.
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Yeah, Evil Dead Trap was great and had so weird atmospheric whiplash; like it would go from a slasher/giallo when they first reach the warehouse/facility to kinda artsy (specifically thinking of when one of the characters stumbles upon a wall of tv's that I think shows someone being murdered(?)) and then yeah...the last 15 minutes almost becomes a tokusatsu affair. I also have been meaning to watch Evil Dead Trap 2 as the trailer made it seem pretty interesting but haven't gotten around to it. It also reminded me of another odd 80's Japanese horror movie called 'Entrails of a Virgin' (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0222817/) which ended up being about a collection of nudie models and their photographer and his crew getting stranded in a cabin and getting assaulted by a mud golem that was looking to plant his seed (via a massive shadow puppet penis). As you can imagine, the models have to deal with the lecherous machinations of the photographer and his crew along with the rapey mud golem. Very grimey and misogynistic, but very goofy and frantic with strange style choices (I recall one part where the mud golem hits a guy in the head with a hammer and it's intercut with just stock footage of steak, or maybe a piece of fruit, being hit with a hammer). It also ends in a similar tokusatsu way where the final girl has been impregnated by the mud golem, she's instantly got a full pregnancy bump and I think she says she's going to let the golem baby be birthed....queue a massive explosion of pyro behind her and freeze frame to credits. Sadly the sequel I don't remember being as good but it's probably been a decade since I've fully seen either, and the copy I had for 'Virgin' was undubbed and unsubtitled (so I ended up just guessing what was happening most of the time), but I was told that it had been gifted to the store I got it from by Glenn Danzig.
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Kvlt! posted:Rob Zombie Santos movie, thats the dream
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Snooze Cruise posted:Record of a Sweet Murder surprised me by actually having its happy ending after Occult going the opposite way with "god is talking to me."
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