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Dog_Meat
May 19, 2013

BisonDollah posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j91_B0D2xIQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j91_B0D2xIQ

Is there a better melting man scene than this? Love those practical melting effects more and more.

Not sure if you specifically wanted practical effects, in which case the classics have already been mentioned. But Deep Rising is a 'meh' movie with one particularly nasty melting scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmgn96uootU


* EDIT - The Borderlands. Spoilers below *

There was also a found footage film I watched a while back and I can't remember it too well as it was one I stumbled across, but the basic premise is someone investigating missing children and it ends up that there's a tunnel under a church which is some kind of hosed up digestive system and kids were being fed to it.

It didn't show anything overly graphic, but the final shots of the investigator screaming in the tunnel as he's being digested and then the picture cutting out and audio continuing was a pretty memorable moment

Dog_Meat fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Aug 13, 2019

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Dog_Meat
May 19, 2013

Basebf555 posted:

You all overlooked the finale of The Fly in the melting scene discussion. That's some gnarly poo poo.

How did I not think of this!?!?

Dog_Meat
May 19, 2013

AKZ posted:

Gave The Lighthouse a watch and didn't expect to be just quite that profoundly bored with the film.

I was exactly the same. I've seen other adpations of the same story so that didn't help, and I struggled with a lot of the dialogue. I'm not a fan of arty visuals and wasn't exactly taken in by it. But I found myself getting bored with the madness. Like, it just went on and on. It wasn't that it was too slow moving or a gradual slow build. It was just fundamentally boring.

My wife is a huge fan of black and white horror, loves anything gothic and ANYTHING to do with lighthouses. We've watched two other adaptions of the same story, but even she was fidgeting with boredom through it.

King Vidiot posted:

he entire movie felt tonally like that final sequence of There Will Be Blood, but stretched out over an entire feature.

Actually... this is a perfect description of the issue I had with it.

Dog_Meat
May 19, 2013

flashy_mcflash posted:

It'd make mine for sure. I struggle to think of anything that touches that creature design. It also makes really good use of what is a tough piece of source material to adapt.

Agreed on the source material. I read the book after the film and it seemed very simple (if creepy), but then took a weird almost torture porn turn. As much as the cultist stuff dragged, I can't see following the book working well.

Fantastic monster though. Really pagan and primeval feeling

EDIT: On the subject of monster design and going in the complete opposite direction, did anyone ever see a film called Hypothermia in 2010 (Michael Rooker was in it). I remember it being pretty decent for what it was. Nothing ground breaking, but a competent little movie out of nowhere. Then you got the reveal of the monster and...

Dear god. I cannot overstate how bad the monster was. I honestly thought it was a placeholder for test footage. Like... someone filmed that and said "yep, that's our monster". It was like some kid told his mum he needed a monster outfit for a school play the night before the show and she threw something together.

Dog_Meat fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Jan 20, 2020

Dog_Meat
May 19, 2013

Halloween Jack posted:

What, you want them to invent new colours?

It would actually be possible for Stanley to show us "chimerical colours" by fatiguing the viewer's eyes with a 30 second monochrome shot, but then we'd be Lovecraftian cultists.

I just want someone to do Mountains of Madness in 3D and screw with the perspective so your brain gets woozy trying to process the perspective of the structures :(

Dog_Meat
May 19, 2013

Space Cadet Omoly posted:

Wait, hold on, you DIDN'T turn into a dog monster during puberty?


Excited to see how this turns out. The Thing is already a perfect movie, so instead of trying to tie this new movie into it in some way (like the last Thing movie did) I think it would be a good idea to just do something completely different and unrelated.

Wasn't the 70s "Horror Express" film lossely based on that same novel? I know the creature look was and there were a lot of elements at play from the book.

Dog_Meat
May 19, 2013

sephiRoth IRA posted:

Finally caught Color Out of Space. Minus the accent choices and even they weren’t so bad, the movie was awesome. I liked the concessions to making a movie regarding what was cut from/added to the story, and the visuals were incredible. I want to see it again in the theater, but we’ll see if I can catch it- it’s gone from my local indie theater in like two days :(

I saw this for the first time last night and really wanted to love it. It did so much right with the visuals and the otherworldliness (I got an Annihilation vibe from it), the slow build up and the Thing-like WTF body horror. I seriously didn't expect them to horrifically mangle the kid like that .

I hate myself for saying this, but I felt like Cage was the problem. He was great in that "Nicolas Cage gonna Nicolas Cage" comic way, but he just felt wrong for the film. He was great in some parts, but there were a few "whacky funny crazy" moments that clashed with the tone.

Dog_Meat
May 19, 2013

veni veni veni posted:

Event Horizon. It's not actually a bad movie, in fact I like it. But conceptually it's just much cooler than the slightly better than a Sci Fi original quality of the film. I feel with some better production values and direction it would be a classic. I've been saying for years it could use a remake. Which is something I rarely want from any film.

(From earlier in the thread)

I don't mind the production on Event Horizon (apart from some dodgy CGI at the start). I think it had a suitably "worn in" feel, the cast were great and the ship itself was a unique, memorable design. My biggest problem is the same problem I have with a lot of films - it comes down to a fist fight between a good guy and a bad guy.
All the atmosphere, the build up, the ship messing with them, the hellscape bleeding into our world.... then naked Sam Neil pops up and throws Fishbourne around a bit while spouting bad guy lines and fire breaks out.

Is it a Paul Anderson thing? I only watched Pandorum once and thought it started off really intense with some cool ideas. Then it turned into a bad mad max kung fu flick and I can't even remember anything else

Dog_Meat
May 19, 2013
Thing talk. It's been a while since I watched them, but a few Halloweens back we watched TTFAW, Thing 2011 and 1982 back to back.

My biggest problem with the 2011 film is that I just don't remember any of it. When I rewatch it I think "actually, this isn't too bad" but then my brain just glazes over and nothing sticks. Even now the only things sticking in my head are the pretty nasty death of the guy being absorbed into the crawler (ruined by plastic CGI superimposed on top) and the human bad guy face awkwardly CGI'd onto the monster at the end.

Burkion posted:


It just does not connect to Thing '82 at all, from quality to style to tone to character to effects to effectiveness. It doesn't even read as a true prequel- there are things that are crowbarred into shape for it to be a prequel, but almost every single one of those is flawed or imperfect. The style of the movie is completely different, the way the Thing acts, the circumstances of how it came to be, none of it lines up.


The 2011 Thing acting differently to the 1982 Thing is kind of consistant (but only going by reading extended stuff). The more the creature absorbs, the more intelligence it gains. There was a short story written from the thing's perspective and it knew it was acting more on instinct as it tried to get back to having the intelligence and awareness it had before. Going on my hazy memory, it's been pretty messed up by the time the 82 guys get involved and it's a more instinctive creature.

I agree on the overall tone and feel though. It still felt like a modern film and didn't capture the bleak tone of the original. They could have gone for an older stock look and embraced the period. Instead it felt like a modern film but without cell phones.

Shrecknet posted:

It's worse than that; the practical effects were done and the studio literally had them CGI over the existing puppets and whatnot

:suicide:

This though... this was loving unforgivable. I think one of the reasons the film is just so forgettable is because of the cheap, rushed CGI literally slapped on top. Everything feels like generic CGI computer game garbage. And yet if you find the test footage of the practical effects on Youtube they would have been incredible. They really went all out with the puppet work and stood on the shoulders of the 82 work. Then some studio suit took a steaming turd on it.

Dog_Meat fucked around with this message at 08:34 on May 4, 2020

Dog_Meat
May 19, 2013

el oso posted:

I'd never seen The Blob (1988 version) before tonight, what a fun flick! Really great practical effects

e: some absolute lunatic on IMDB posted like 4 trivia items about different actors in the movie that also appeared in Golden Girls episodes

e2: VVV gooey gorey horror

I remember seeing this in the cinema and the scene where it drops on the audience was awesome to 10 yearold me (my uncle would sneak me into the cinema where he worked). It had an impact on me though because as FeedMyLeg said, that kid death really broke the rules. Some amazing practical effects in there.

The Steve McQueen original version is surprisingly good (for the time), but you have to accept a 30 yearold McQueen as a highschool student which is difficult

Dog_Meat
May 19, 2013

Gary the Llama posted:

The Blob (80s) and it is every bit as disgusting as I had heard. I think this may top The Thing’s effects, even if The Thing is the better movie. So gooey!

It was one of my favourites as a kid (my uncle managed to sneak me into the cinema to watch it when I was 10). It was just so... horrific. The Thing is hands down the better movie, but as a kid the Blob just tapped into something NASTY for me. And it helps that they just don't care and utterly gently caress up the kid like that . There's nothing like an 80s/early 90s melting death to get a Fangoria kiddie's attention :aaa:

Dog_Meat fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Sep 3, 2020

Dog_Meat
May 19, 2013

Gejimayu posted:

Having seen... Train to Busan, The Girl with All the Gifts, and One Cut of the Dead, am I sleeping on any other modern zombie movies from the last 5ish years?

The Night Eats the World was a good, low key one that gradually builds up.

Dog_Meat
May 19, 2013

TheOmegaWalrus posted:


The viewer is swept up in a maelstrom of lunacy where the only option available is to blindly "go with it" like a mushroom trip.


Not a horror film, but this is the genius of John Carpenter when it comes to Big Trouble in Little China. You literally have no idea what is going on and you're just as confused as Kurt Russel is. Everyone else in that world seems to know exactly what is going on and talks to you like you should, but you just end up going along for the ride because you know that if you actually stop and think it's all going to fall apart

* Edit - way to reply to a post 3 pages back...

Dog_Meat
May 19, 2013

Snooze Cruise posted:

NBC had that program for a bit where it was a serious wizard of oz that was going for a GoT vibe but network television. I feel like the tinman got a blowjob, but i am searching "emerald city blowjob" and "tinman blowjob" and nothing is coming up. Feel like I gave myself a mandela effect somehow.

There was a 2007 TV series called "Tin Man" which I barely remember, but it was a re-imagining of the story and had a darker tone to it. I honestly don't remember that specific detail though!

Dog_Meat
May 19, 2013

Uncle Boogeyman posted:

Dog Soldiers is great but people saying it’s the last great werewolf movie need to see The Wolf of Snow Hollow

Late Phases was pretty good too.

Dog Soldiers is amazing fun, but I still stand by Wer (2013) as one of the best werewolf films

Dog_Meat
May 19, 2013

Uncle Boogeyman posted:

Dunno if I've heard of that one but I'm adding it to my watchlist. Love a good werewolf movie.

It's been a while since I watched it so I don't know if I'd still gush over it, but I remember thinking it was a Let The Right One In for werewolves. It's a slow starter, but there's a scene where poo poo gets nuts!

Dog_Meat
May 19, 2013

MrMojok posted:

Hell, violence of any kind was much more acceptable than anything to do with sex, whether it was pederasty or not.

The remake was much more explicit about that, which did not go over well.

Hollismason posted:

Man the NOES remake is so loving bad

It would have helped if the burn make up didn't turn JEH's face into a motionless mask, but for me the biggest wasted opportunity was having Freddy being innocent. I really thought they were going to go with the ballsy move of having the kid's memories being wrong and the frenzied parents lynching an innocent man. But then they didn't just wuss out of that plot, they actually added a convenient pedo cave for good measure in case we were in danger of actually liking this new Freddy.

Dog_Meat
May 19, 2013

Takes No Damage posted:

No judgement, one drat near killed Stevie Wonder in '73 :ohdear:

The gently caress was he doing driving...?

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Dog_Meat
May 19, 2013

Alan Smithee posted:

Is Dark Song any good

Very slow, but very atmospheric and builds up to a batshit finish that I loved.

Definitely not for everyone though. I say "batshit" finish, but a lot of people found it anticlimactic

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