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CelticPredator posted:I have risen from the grave, obviously Hell yeah, Altered Beast.
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Sono posted:John Carradine. John Carradine is a great one if only so I can insist more people watch Death Race 2000. My suggestions: Barbara Crampton, Jeffrey Combs, Tony Todd, Linnea Quigley, Bill Moseley, Sid Haig. Anyway, I'm already looking forward to the May Challenge, it and the October one are highlights of my year.
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New Ari Aster trailer LFG
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Crescent Wrench posted:In particular, I am interested in candidates for the "That Guy"/"That Gal" challenge, which features our favorite unsung character actors, bit players, and so on. This category started in the October 2023 challenge, and so far we've featured Dick Miller, Keith David, Veronica Cartwright, Katharine Isabelle, Ken Foree and Tom Atkins Jason Mewes (basically every non-View Askewniverse film he's been in has been DTV horror) Lacey Chabert (she had a horror phase!)
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Crescent Wrench posted:
Ted Raimi might be a good pick for “that guy.”
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Oo I like Ted Raimi a lot as a That Guy.
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Yea I would agree that Ted Raimi fits the definition really well. He's a well known guy who pops up on a ton of stuff, but nobody would argue he's a horror "icon" on the level of a Jeffrey Combs or Tony Todd.
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Ted Raimi is so, so good in the videogame The Quarry which I feel doesn't get nearly enough love. It's more of a sequel to Until Dawn in scope than any of the Dark Pictures Anthology games (which I also like but are all very focused/limited in comparison).
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Nikumatic posted:Ted Raimi is so, so good in the videogame The Quarry which I feel doesn't get nearly enough love. It's more of a sequel to Until Dawn in scope than any of the Dark Pictures Anthology games (which I also like but are all very focused/limited in comparison). The Quarry is a five-star, best-of-it's-generation game up until the jail sequence where the game comes to an rear end-clenching stop for almost an entire unskippable hour of cutscene exposition dump. If they make a way to patch that out, I would still be playing it to this day.
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The Quarry rocked but I'm so salty that I almost made it out with everyone alive only for the kid trapped in the cage to bite it because we picked the wrong lever a chapter ago. Such a good time. Ted Raimi and David Arquette are amazing in it, and it was my first time seeing Justice Smith.
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Obviously very late to the party on Longlegs so I won't get into a whole review but I don't think the movie was served well by all the attention on the fact that Cage was in it and his performance. He's really not in it very much at all, and his performance isn't special or particularly memorable. I think it led to a lot of people seeing the movie with expectations that were completely out of whack.
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Basebf555 posted:Obviously very late to the party on Longlegs so I won't get into a whole review but I don't think the movie was served well by all the attention on the fact that Cage was in it and his performance. He's really not in it very much at all, and his performance isn't special or particularly memorable. I think it led to a lot of people seeing the movie with expectations that were completely out of whack. counterpoint: his performance was the only good or interesting thing about the movie
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Death of a Unicorn needed to be far funnier and more hosed up. The worse night time / darkness photography I've seen all year, which is an achievement. Poulter is the only consistently funny character, which really hurts it, despite point on casting from Richard E Grant, Tea Leoni (quite good, but not funny enough), etc. I think I'd enjoy a remake in twenty years from now, assuming we're still making films then. But that's what it feels like, a bad trial run of a much better film.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:counterpoint: his performance was the only good or interesting thing about the movie He was fine, I wouldn't say he was bad. Just not anything we haven't seen before from Cage and he didn't have enough screentime to really give the character interesting layers or depth. It wasn't something that I'd try to sell the movie on, "come see Cage play a creepy serial killer", the movie really doesn't deliver on that. Monroe's performance is a whole other discussion. I understand what she was going for given the characters backstory but it didn't make for a protagonist I could really connect with.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:counterpoint: his performance was the only good or interesting thing about the movie yep I didn't watch any of the advertising going into it so I had no real expectations other than some praise and I was left cold with an uninteresting movie with no actual atmosphere and a worrying amount of baggage that Oz desperately needs to work through. My opinion's only gotten worse now that I've actually seen Silence of the Lambs. Nic Cage did a good job with what he was given.
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Longlegs is just a dumb American remake of Cure (1997) with some Satanic Panic glamrock elements added. Or alternatively Cure mashed up with Silence of the Lambs but worse than either. Still thought it was decent
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FreudianSlippers posted:Longlegs is just a dumb American remake of Cure (1997) with some Satanic Panic glamrock elements added. At the time i thought of it as “dumb guy Thomas Ligotti” but “dumb guy Kiyoshi Kurosawa” also fits
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That Gal should be Barbara Crampton/Linnea Quigley
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FreudianSlippers posted:Longlegs is just a dumb American remake of Cure (1997) with some Satanic Panic glamrock elements added. I never thought of it like this but it's a perfect comparison and I really liked Longlegs. I gotta watch Cure again, it's been like 6 months and I still think about it a lot.
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I had mixed feeling about Longlegs. I literally said "gently caress you" out loud to Oz Perkins when that jump scare hit in the middle of the picture and unsettled the poo poo out of me because nothing like that happens anywhere else in the film. I was just reading a Letterboxd friend's review of the film that really strongly objected to Cage's appearance, characterizing it as another representation of a trans-coded monster in horror film, which they found harmful.
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It was just so much copypasta nonsense*, which was immensely disappointing after his tightly-written films. *The off screen events completely fall apart under any scrutiny. Nobody's making that 911 call while hypnotized, the accomplice wouldn't have spent all day doing construction to hide (and leaving breadcrumbs to!) the doll, here is a spooky code because Zodiac had one, and also the detective is psychic. Until oops she isn't.
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I think it’s just satanic panic kind of stuff is dull these days with it coming back in full force irl so it’s not “fun” but more 
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FreudianSlippers posted:Longlegs is just a dumb American remake of Cure (1997) with some Satanic Panic glamrock elements added. Skimming over this post put "Silence of the Glams" into my head
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Okay I am finally catching Godzilla Minus One on streaming and I have just gotten to the briefing about the plan to kill Godzilla. God help me I love this!
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:John Carradine is a great one if only so I can insist more people watch Death Race 2000.
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Yeah David was in Bangcock Dangerous
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Day one obviously. He's already one of my GOAT directors just for Midsommar and Beau, and hasn't had a single non-great feature, let alone a miss. Working with Emma Stone now is basically cheating, nobody living may even end up close to him for me by the end of the decade at this rate 
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god drat this looks good. Pedro P and EMMA STONE in an ari aster joint? hell the gently caress yeah
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Ari Aster movie about doomscrolling starring Pedro Pascal is a little too on the nose for reddit click bait
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Zach Cregger's next movie "Weapons" is getting an in-universe website that I presume will update with info about the story of the movie https://www.maybrookmissing.com/ it also ties in that the events of Barbarian happen within the universe of Weapons.
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Sir Nose posted:You're thinking of John's son David? gently caress, I totally am. Everyone should watch Death Race 2000 anyway, that movie rips.
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dorium posted:Zach Cregger's next movie "Weapons" is getting an in-universe website that I presume will update with info about the story of the movie gently caress yeah, internet 2.0 is back
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dorium posted:Zach Cregger's next movie "Weapons" is getting an in-universe website that I presume will update with info about the story of the movie I am intrigued.
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https://gizmodo.com/you-wont-find-the-m3gan-chatbot-at-the-alamo-drafthouse-2000589279 Alamo said "gently caress no" to Zuckerberg's "Play with your phone in a movie theater" initiative.
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CelticPredator posted:It’s a classic honestly  More general action/drama than horror but it's easily the best Godzilla movie in 30 years, alongside Shin of course.
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I still wish we got a follow up to shin. I want to see whatever was coming out of that tail. Just pure freakish energy on those things
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:gently caress, I totally am. Indeed. It does inspire another category suggestion, though: Bride of X, Son of X - watch a movie starring the spouse or child of a more famous actor. "More famous" specified so Jamie Lee Curtis, Drew Barrymore and Lon Chaney Jr aren't eligible. But you could still get away with Fiona Dourif, Wyatt Russell, Kiefer Sutherland or Josh Brolin.
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