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I was surprised not to be too into 3 From Hell. Showing it in a double billing with Devil's Rejects seems like a mistake, since it makes much of the film feel redundant. The best beats of 3fH are where it diverges into new territory, but it's all still so tethered loosely to remapped themes and scenarios from TDR that they're nearly completely downed out. Potentially great character material like Baby's moment with Sebastian, Winslow discovering he's like an outsider, and Otis' newfound insecurity ("But I'm Satan!") was hopelessly overshadowed by the rest of the last act's remix of TDR's familial vengeance and uniformed goons.
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I thought that was meant to be a gag that fell flat. (Capitalism is a good idea to a literal child who has all the power.) Ads were lame though.
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I was pretty cold on these event screenings of stuff ...but getting hype for 3 From Hell and The Shining taught me that many acquaintances were actually horror friends waiting for a chance to come out.
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gey muckle mowser posted:I like the ace detective work in Pieces, where the cops just ask everyone "can you tell us anything?" and then immediately dropping it when they say no "Could the killer have used this chainsaw?" He asks, picking up the blood-covered chainsaw with his bare hands. "Yes."
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Sep 26, 2019 18:15
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You jerks had me scared that something had happened to Brad Dourif. I saw the 4k restoration of The Shining last night, and couldn't believe how much of that film I'd forgotten. My friend asked if they'd added footage, so it wasn't just me. Sadly they weren't giving away the new cool poster, and the Doctor Sleep stuff looked like a made-for-webisodes adaptation after seeing the real deal. They recreated the blood elevators with the fakest blood, and the whole vibe seemed to be "Hey remember the Shining? Scary right?"
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Oct 2, 2019 12:33
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Franchescanado posted:False. He’s a really mean floating nerd guy that looks kinda like Gilbert from Revenge of the Nerds. Wasn't Tony eventually revealed to be teenage Danny or some dumb poo poo?
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Oct 3, 2019 16:05
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I feel like Kubrick's version is a peek into a better universe where King has a competent editor.
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Oct 3, 2019 16:14
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King's great and I say this with love, but Kubrick is the only one to ever tell him no and look at what the world got.
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Oct 3, 2019 16:29
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Timeless Appeal posted:Find me a picture of a werewolf that's cooler than Count Orlok  It's arguable, but this is the werewolf from Brotherhood of the Wolf.
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Megasabin posted:If I remember correctly that is a normal lion or tiger in armor. It was! Events around the real-life Beast of Gévaudan gave rise to some werewolf lore, like the idea of silver bullets. It seems like this interpretation should at least be an affiliate in the Kool Werewolf Krew.
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Oct 4, 2019 14:14
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As good as The Keep is, its Tangerine Dream OST is better. It's unfortunately also what's keeping it off bluray.
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Dec 5, 2019 15:11
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M_Sinistrari posted:I read it before it was changed to part of a series. It was very good. Same, I didn't know it had become a series and now I'm very excited to look into this.
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Dec 6, 2019 19:00
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I loved the series, but I still wish the Phantasms hadn't gotten so Phantasmy.
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I really enjoyed the Exorcist TV show. I thought they did a great job of incorporating elements of the first and third movies, while steering sagely clear of eveything else.
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I ended up missing much of S2, did the show conclude or did the cancellation leave the story hanging?
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Dec 10, 2019 19:41
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You can safely skip 2. Three is really loving good and I don't even care this kicks off another Brad Dourif appreciation session. (He would deserve it.) 2 goes into some Poltergeist-era psychical research nonsense and James Earl Jones is great as always, but it shouldn't be sandwiched between two fantastic Exorcist films.
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Dec 10, 2019 19:52
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I appreciate all of these. Also Blasting the Poons is beautiful.
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Dec 23, 2019 19:29
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Darthemed posted:Raimi & Campbell? I was beaten to this, so joke answer of Rob and Sheri Moon Zombie. Serious answer: Roger Corman and Vincent Price. Corman let Vincent go full Price, and his performance was inevitably a highlight of whatever he appeared in.
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Dec 30, 2019 16:11
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Shrecknet posted:This reminds me of the Cabin Fever DVD, which featured "Girlfriend-Vision" that would automatically put black maquettes of hands over the picture whenever something scary happened. I remember Cabin Fever having a four-minute cut where everybody just has a good time and it ends. E: Oops, i misremembered the run time.
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FreudianSlippers posted:PYF horror circle  Race with the Devil
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Jan 6, 2020 16:20
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Is the show worth checking out?
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Jan 6, 2020 18:04
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Pumpkinhead is a demon IIRC. Mothman Prophecies was fun but all I remember was that the Mothman prank calls Richard Gere from another dimension.
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Jan 7, 2020 14:43
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I've wanted to enjoy the Subspecies series so many many times, but it's just not good.
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I'm almost certain that the tie-in will be the "some of grandpa's things" the kids found and at least one of the movies will take place chronologically earlier. Glad the next movie is Dunwich Horror, but we already had a film of that in the 70s! Lavinia was originally a character from DH, so I wouldn't be surprised if she makes an appearance in that film as a past life or something. (Which also ties the color to Yog-Sothoth in a cool, trilogy appropriate way. )
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Jan 23, 2020 14:07
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Completely agreed. Most Lovecraft adaptations feature a weirdo loner protagonists, but Color was family-driven which makes it categorically similar to Hereditary. There were often families present, but as background at best or props at worst. A lot of that results from strict adherence the source material, which nearly universally shies away from interpersonal relationships. Which is a shame, since Color shows what happens when you incorporate them. Dunwich Horror had a lot of family themes, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if he ties that family to this one. E: Relevant Tangent posted:They've said they want to use the same character, the hydrologist, in all three films so probably no shenanigans. Huh. They laid a lot of groundwork for prequels, but maybe that was just setting up flashbacks. moths fucked around with this message at 15:02 on Jan 23, 2020 |
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gey muckle mowser posted:that doesn't really seem like a spoiler to me but everyone else is doing it, so It is definitely a spoiler, as it gives away how that character fares throughout the film. I talked about elements of Color, but forgot to mention that I loved it. It took a while to build momentum, but was completely worth it.
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Jan 23, 2020 20:17
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Green Inferno was pretty garbage. I remember liking The Pyramid, but it got very mixed reactions. And I guess As Above So Below is technically exploration? Season One of The Terror is as good as expedition horror gets IMO.
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Jan 26, 2020 16:22
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Well it kind of did work if you consider that 1) she absorbed the color without getting freaky, 2) the forehead cutting matched the shrine on the plateau, and 3) she got swept off by the color tornado but possibly survived. I'm still fairly certain she'll return as Lavinia Whatley in Dunwich Horror. Her Wicca stuff in the beginning having been replaced by whatever hardcore hyper-witchcraft she picks up in space. But it also perfectly answers her "get me out of here" prayers from the opening scene.
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Jan 27, 2020 18:32
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He'd have thought Hitler was ok until they stopped getting along with England where all the real white people live.
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Jan 28, 2020 21:55
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They mentioned it at the advance screening Q&A I think - I vaguely remember thinking "Not that Varg I hope" at the name, then forgot it. Does anyone else have a better recollection?
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Jan 28, 2020 23:12
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david_a posted:Was that supposed to be Nyarlathotep in the vision at the end? It was a Crawling Chaos anyway. I think there were a few things going on: The tornado-tube was meant to be a tunnel to that other realm, which (I guess) was the Plateau of Leng (since that's the only alien plateau featured in Lovecraft.) Interestingly, the first GIS result for Plateau of Leng brings up this:  Which could easily have been inspiration for some of those visuals.
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Jan 29, 2020 14:31
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I think the Willows book was a reference to the particular scene it appears in - an invisible thing fucks with him and his vehicle as he is trying to enjoy nature. Leng has varying roles and locations in the original stories, so who knows. I expect any "power behind the color" will be the same as the outside power from Dunwich Horror, but really we won't know anything until part 3 happens.
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I saw the preview for Swallow, which is my pick for biggest "no, it's a horror" derail of 2020. It's a drama about a bored housewife with pica.
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Jan 29, 2020 20:23
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Wasn't that Tooth Fairy? That seems really familiar - I think they'd only come in the dark and one character has an absurd amount of lamps and everyone thinks he's nuts. E: or Darkness Falls?
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Jan 29, 2020 22:39
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Yeah she's basically "Something's wrong with my baby!" for the first two acts and then the punchline is "yep." I feel like it benefited greatly from being a mainstream take on a genre theme, but I haven't done the research to see how popular devil-babies were prior.
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It's an area where I'm not familiar, but I have the impression Polanski was a huge name outside of horror in the late 60s. Rosemary's Baby was a big deal because it was a major studio putting big money and names into what typically wouldnt have been a "serious" film. In that way, you got this crossover appeal - like the Exorcist or Jaws later, you've got a professional execution of (what was traditionally) a drive-in concept. I didn't realize that William Castle produced Rosemary's Baby, though! I just discovered that now, and that's a cool thing to find out.
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Thrillers yeah, I should have specified supernatural horror. I don't think there were any monsters or witches pre-Rosemary, which probably increased the shock of the "twist" ending.
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Jan 30, 2020 17:22
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Antebellum looks like a time-traveling Confederate South that kidnaps people, based on the preview. It feels like an jaded corporate reaction to Jordan Peele. Some boardroom asked themselves "What would be scary if we were black?" and landed on the Bermuda Southangle.
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Jan 30, 2020 22:11
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Oh. Jeez ok that sounds even dumber, I thought the disappearing plane was some time and space weirdness.
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david_a posted:Has there been official confirmation that Tony Todd isn’t playing Candyman again? From what I can tell he was, he wasn’t, but now he is. The Wikipedia page currently lists him in the role. I think the confusion is because a different actor is playing young Candyman in a flashback or something.
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