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Infinity Pool is good, not great- I feel it's hurt a little by the protagonist being such a hapless idiot for most of it, and there's a portion of the film where it's just sorta hammering on the theme of everyone being depraved assholes. Skarsgård and Mia Goth are both quite good though, and it looks great with some interesting shot choices here and there, a lot of deliberately odd compositions with people's heads way off to the side and the like. Not quite as tight as Possessor but I enjoyed it.
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WHY BONER NOW posted:What are you guys' favorite 80s rock song from/written for a horror movie? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzZBBS5jrgY
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CelticPredator posted:Cocaine Clown Blatant gimmick infringement against Doctor Rockzo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-_L-QdgytQ
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Cenobite but on cocaine. WEhavesuchsighstoshowyouWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Mooseontheloose posted:Cenobite but on cocaine. WHO WANTS SOME PAIN! I HAVE SO MUCH PAIN HERE *sweats uncontrollably*
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NAILS! SOOOO GOOD NO WAIT HOW ABOUT WAIT THIS WILL BLOW YOUR MIND TO A NEW LEVEL HOW ABOUT NAILS BUT THE POINTY BITS POINT OUT! AND WOOOH! YEAH! WE NEED SOME RAZORWIRE YOU LIKE RAZORWIRE I LIKE RAZORWIRE YOU NEVER CAN GET SOME DECENT RAZORWIRE HOOKS! LETS GO GET SOME HOOKS
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Watched a movie call Ghost Lab on Netflix last night. What a strange watch. Good movie, just not what I necessarily wanted or expected. It sells itself as kind of a light hearted, Ghostbusters-esque premise of two doctors (one skeptic and one believer) seeing a ghost for realsies in their hospital one night. The skeptic immediately switches over to the believer and decides to aid him in his quest to prove to all humanity that ghosts exist. Cool premise, played with some humor. Then at about the 1/3 mark of the movie the skeptic's mom, who he has been caring for years, dies and he decides to kill himself to further the study by "coming back" to help his buddy prove ghosts existence. Turns out though, he can't do it and the believer doc just ices himself in front of his friend. This cements the cold open where the two docs are on stage in front of the world as a dream of the surviving character. The movie then turns into this really dark examination of obsession and belief and how far someone will go to achieve their goals. It gets dark. I don't really want to talk about the ending too much but I think the movie managed to stick the landing despite how loving off the reservation it went. The movie has some weird tonal issues like a lot of Asian films (it's a Thai production) but codifies its really dark themes in the final half. Overall a really good watch with some unexpected weight. Definitely not what I expected though.
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No idea what it's about but this is a hell of a teaser for Donald Glover's new Amazon show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVKxYKhSjZc
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MacheteZombie posted:Ya know, I don't think it has, I'll have to double check my list when I'm not on mobile Following up on this, Phantom of the Paradise has not been movie of the month!
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It should be! I almost picked it when it was my turn a few years ago but ended up going with Exorcist III instead.
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Zachack posted:It's been a while but I can confirm: Dang, I vaguely remembered that there was an Alf cartoon, but not at all that it was one of those animesque ones that got farmed out to a studio in Japan In retrospect that shouldn't be too much of a surprise because so many 80s cartoons were like that including the big ticket stuff like Ghostbusters, Transformers, and Inspector Gadget Phy fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Feb 10, 2023 |
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flashy_mcflash posted:No idea what it's about but this is a hell of a teaser for Donald Glover's new Amazon show.  well, I'm sold
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Yeah that looks neat
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Apparently it's about celebrity obsession and is loosely based on people's obsession with Beyonce (the b-hive/swarm). Yes please!
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Sweet, that looks awesome. Donald Glover rules, some of the best episodes of Atlanta already flirt with horror and I can't wait to see a full-on horror project he's involved with.
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So Pearl has finally got a UK release date of the 17th March, followed one week later by Infinity Pool - it's officially Mia Goth fortnight. Pearl is also showing as a Cineworld Unlimited screening on the 13th, including at my smaller local, but it remains to be seen if IP gets a full release - I don't believe Possessor ever did.
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Carpet posted:Infinity Pool ... full release Put this on the drat poster
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What was the result of this? I don't wanna double vote
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54.1% Yeah 45.9% Naw
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40 to 34, so not a huge amount for a flash poll, but that's probably our number of 'regulars' on any given day in the thread.
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Works for me was just curious. Thanks!
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i thought from everything i heard that i would hate Skinamarink but i ended up loving it
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MacheteZombie posted:Works for me was just curious. Thanks! No. Not acceptable. How the gently caress dare you, MZ. jk love you boo
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:54.1% Yeah This tracks with the informal polling I've done with my irl spook-a-doodle crew.
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Skinamarink reminds me of a Rothko painting. It requires a lot of projection on the part of the viewer. The people who are affected by it are rewarded by a deeply entrancing and rewarding experience and everyone else is just left with a whole lot of nothing Funny because I love Rothko (I have a small print of one on my bedroom wall) and I thought Skinamarink was a loving stupid waste of time for all the reasons that have been expressed by those who also got nothing from it.
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I will say this: Skinamarink, for me, is the movie that’s come closest to recapturing the magic of The Blair Witch Project. But like The Blair Witch Project, the knockoffs are gonna be baaaaaaaaad.
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Sono posted:NOES 3, but instead of the dream suppressor, Nancy's just like "Hey, kids. Let's snort a bunch of coke and never sleep." Now I'm remembering a NOES comic where Freddy found a serial killer who idolized him and decided to send him after a teen who had been spending three days doing nothing but meth and searching through mystic books for a solution to stop Freddy. I forgot the context, but it led to a bit where Freddy went into another killer's dreams and the guy excitedly said he was a huge fan. Freddy's reaction was, "I'm getting that a lot these days. ...the gently caress is wrong with people?"
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There’s definitely a school of thought that believes the scariest possible thing is to have absolutely no idea what’s going on, and I’m not sure I fall into that camp I guess I’m saying I have very ambivalent feelings about The Outwaters
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Started watching Skinamarink at home with my wife last weekend and we had to stop about fifty minutes in because she was fading and it wasn't doing much for me at the time. I started it over a few days later by myself in a dark room with headphones on, and it managed to get under my skin pretty good. I completely understand anyone who doesn't like it, and their reasons for not liking it are (for the most part) totally valid, but I have to wonder how much the setting you watch it in impacts your feelings on it. I also had seen a screenshot of the eyes in the dark before watching it, so part of it was almost certainly due to me being on edge, not knowing when that was going to pop up. I suspect that anyone who hears that it's the scariest movie of the (time period) is going to be disappointed with it. That's true of just about any movie, though-- I was talking to someone who was super pumped for Barbarian and had watched the trailer a bunch of times, and then when I asked her about it later she told me that she didn't like it at all. I loved it, but I went in pretty blind.
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Benito Cereno posted:There’s definitely a school of thought that believes the scariest possible thing is to have absolutely no idea what’s going on, and I’m not sure I fall into that camp I'm the headmaster of this school. I think when we think of the things that scare us - really scare us - you can almost always boil it down to the unknown. An uncertainty of what is happening, or why.
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flashy_mcflash posted:I'm the headmaster of this school. To be clear, an element of the unknown is definitely necessary for horror to work and I’m by no means asking for everything to be explained, but there are movies that could not give a gently caress about throwing a brother a whiff of context. The reason the uncanny/unheimlich is so unsettling is because it introduces elements of the unfamiliar into a familiar context. There are long stretches of The Outwaters where I would be hard pressed to tell you the temporal or causal relationship between one frame and the next. Which, again, I understand that sense of overwhelming disorientation appeals to some people, I’m just not sure I’m the audience for it
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yeah i cant stand HP Lovecraft bc its always like "he opened the door and what he saw so so scary tbh i cant even describe it bro like its beyond comprehension you wouldnt even get it" like i am much more scared of a dude in a hockey mask chasing me with a machete than i am a haunted wall.
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A lot of The Outwaters is a guy running around babbling incoherently in the absolute pitch-black darkness and occasionally seeing part of a tentacle or someone's feet, which started to wear out its welcome after about twenty minutes.
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I think there are a lot of callbacks in The Outwaters that would warrant a repeat viewing or two, and it really worked for me. Like Skinamarink it's a lot of vibes but unlike Skinamarink it gives you some nice goop and I think more of a payoff. At least, I was intrigued by what was causing everything and I really think there's an explanation buried in there somewhere.
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Kvlt! posted:yeah i cant stand HP Lovecraft bc its always like "he opened the door and what he saw so so scary tbh i cant even describe it bro like its beyond comprehension you wouldnt even get it" You'd like at least a few episodes of Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities on Netflix. You get both! In the first episode, literally. Well, it isn't wearing a mask
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