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M_Sinistrari posted:I'm upset I'm going to miss Dead/Alive. But work comes first. Near same. Tonight’s the big October dance and they’ve got a cool old time band with a great fiddle player. But also I really love Dead/Alive.
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Medullah posted:I'm on episode 4 and really enjoying it. I'm a big Poe fan so it's awesome seeing all the not so subtle Easter eggs I’m also on episode 4 and enjoying it. It’s less monologuey than other Flannigan shows, more gory and odd. Not very Poe like but also kind of very Poe like? Sort of more of an anthology of Poe story adaptions but also a main story for sure? I dunno. But I’m enjoying it.
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White Light posted:Is this series worth watching? I've tried some tv horror before but man they were some real duds, im wondering if it's a case of me having poor luck or if the television format isn't the best for the horror genre 🤔 I also also just finished ep4 As a big Flanagan fan already: still doesn't top Bly Manor for me, but if it keeps this up for the final four eps it might surpass everything else. It rules watching even the sleazeball characters of the family in a Poe saga
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Medullah posted:Ugh I thought the Changeling was a limited series, and was already thinking "they could have told this story in 5 episodes, they didn't need 8". And now it's just season 1. So drawn out. I did like it for the most part, LaKeith is on my list of actors that elevate anything they're in. i think i'll read the book first honestly. the idea of splitting something into multiple series is a groan from me these days though, so much poo poo gets padded out then cancelled before a satisfying conclusion
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alf_pogs posted:i think i'll read the book first honestly. the idea of splitting something into multiple series is a groan from me these days though, so much poo poo gets padded out then cancelled before a satisfying conclusion Yeah honestly I'm in the same position. I was excited about the show for the first six or so episodes but finding out it was just part 1 REALLY soured me. I might grab the book for my next read. Similar happened to me with Game of Thrones, but that was more "holy poo poo this show is amazing I can't wait for season 2" so I binged through the whole book series before s2. And then, well, we know what happened once the books ran out
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The new season of Creepshow released. First episode didn't get very high ratings so I skipped to the second for now. If it's any indication, it's going to be pretty much on par with last season. First segment The Hat was fun, about a writer with writers block and gets a lucky hat that gives inspiration. Slow beginning, but picked up in the middle and had a very fun ending. Felt like they squandered the potential of the premise a bit, but it did the job. Second segment Grieving Process is about a woman who gets randomly attacked and starts to change as her husband helps her recuperate. A bit bland, was a bit more generic and didn't make much sense. Not a bad way to spend 30 minutes, though. e: First part of the third episode, Parent Death Trap, is a bunch of fun. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Oct 15, 2023 |
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I finally sat down to start watching the Chucky sequels that I never got around to, and Child's Play 2 is... better than the first one? I did not expect this. Child's Play 3 is drizzling dogshit though. That's as far as I've made it.
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Finished House of Usher. Midnight Mass is still my favorite Flanagan series, but this one was really good.
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:I finally sat down to start watching the Chucky sequels that I never got around to, and Child's Play 2 is... better than the first one? I did not expect this. Yeah, Child's Play 2 rules. 3 is a pretty big slump, but push through it, the next one onwards is all gravy.
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Yeah, Child's Play 2 is the best of the movies imo. More fun than the first but also just a genuine amount of heart I was not expecting from it going in.
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I'm currently watching this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UwxuZeBQBI and I'm really pleasantly surprised. It's got huge Fear Street vibes, where it feels like it's a 'made for teens' thing, but then it randomly busts out incredibly gratuitous violence and it sorta rules? It's sorta like The Hunger Games meets The Purge meets The Warriors, but with an enormous pumpkin-headed monster that rips some kid's head off at the jaw and causes a blood geyser. I'm having a lot of fun with it.
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Tired Moritz posted:watched exorcist believer and i hated it. can movies light their scenes so half of the screen isnt just black Just looking at the stills and trailer was an immediate turnoff for me. For a movie that's apparently banking hard on nostalgia it sure sports the look of a typical modern horror flick. Also I can already tell it's gonna look like pixelated rear end on streaming, even the daytime shots look dull and dingy.
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Something just occurred to me. Remember that weird week when people talked about "cozy horror" and nobody had any idea what the gently caress they were talking about and they couldn't define it and it seemed like it could turn into some kinda incredibly stupid culture war thing but then just completely ran out of steam because there was just nothing behind the "cozy horror" concept? I think they just wanted Hammer horror. It's cozy as gently caress. Kind old men in big coats and young women in pretty dresses in well-appointed drawing rooms and rustic country inns, lots of dialogue, just a little bit of blood and gore. Hell, some of those rustic sets were drat near cottagecore. Did those people just want Hammer horror but didn't know enough about horror to realize that's what they wanted?
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Oct 15, 2023 03:54
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drat this Fall of Usher show loving slaps, been a while since I wanted to binge some godass television, big props to everyone for the rec. Someone help me put, where the heck have I seen the MC and the government lawyers at? It's on the tip of my tongue but I can't put my finger on it.
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Finally got to the VHS 85 credit song omg I’m dying 
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Gripweed posted:Something just occurred to me. Remember that weird week when people talked about "cozy horror" and nobody had any idea what the gently caress they were talking about and they couldn't define it and it seemed like it could turn into some kinda incredibly stupid culture war thing but then just completely ran out of steam because there was just nothing behind the "cozy horror" concept? Yeah, I think Hammer is at least a great starting point for people looking for that, both it and Boggy Creek. Toss the Corman Poe cycle on the pile as well. The whole "cozy horror" thing is ridiculous because so much of it is defanging what horror could count as "cozy" while also trying to stay away from disquiet and unease and defanging horror itself but there's so much out there that if they want something with ~spooky fall vibes~ or whatever they were saying there's so much of it. Almost any Vincent Price movie is "cozy" to me.
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its funny how people suddenly moved on from wholesome to cozy/comfy, did someone sent out a memo or something?
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Cozy horror movies Alien Friday the 13th 2-4 and 6. Nightmare on Elm Street 3 + more idk
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Just watched Incantation and it was terrific, loved Noroi and Medium as well. What am I missing in the Asian Found Footage Curse Movie genre? Cult and Occult are both on my list, and I know there's those Koji movies everyone here loves that I'll have a better setup for in a few months
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Opopanax posted:What am I missing in the Asian Found Footage Curse Movie genre?
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Oh yeah, I watched a bunch of those too, good poo poo
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Stink Billyums posted:worse, after 3D got big in the wake of avatar that producer paid a fortune to do a 3D conversion of dawn, which of course nobody wants, so he lost his shirt on it and was holding out for some company to pay exorbitant licensing fees to recoup his losses Googling this it looks like that 3D version finally got a limited release last year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-ufklqO0f8 Gaz2k21 posted:Second Sight did a 4K release of Dawn of the dead im pretty sure in 2 releases one basic and one loaded with features (I have that one) if you have a 4K player you can get this release, 4K discs arent region coded. I wonder if this movie's more apparent widespread availability in Region 2 is at all related to that original arrangement that resulted in the dedicated European version titled "Zombi."
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Opopanax posted:Just watched Incantation and it was terrific, loved Noroi and Medium as well. What am I missing in the Asian Found Footage Curse Movie genre? Cult and Occult are both on my list, and I know there's those Koji movies everyone here loves that I'll have a better setup for in a few months it's not found footage, but as a long-time Grudge fan i really enjoyed the Netflix 'Ju-On: Origins' series. different vibe - much flatter and bleaker, with lingering melancholy, but plenty of bizarre j-horror spookles too
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Two episodes into The Fall of the House of Usher and enjoying it a lot, though --The monologues aren't philosophical enough --I 100% cannot buy the angry Irish girl from Midnight Society as a gold-digging(?) wife White Light posted:drat this Fall of Usher show loving slaps, been a while since I wanted to binge some godass television, big props to everyone for the rec. I think Roderick is Captain Pike from the Chris Pine Star Treks but I haven't actually looked that up. Voice sounded really familiar and it took me a couple of episodes to pin it down. checkplease posted:Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight was pretty fun. 90 minutes, big bloody gore effects, funny shocking kills, and lots of Billy Zane. Good stuff. My wife grew up outside of the US and thought that this movie was way bigger than it actually is, because for whatever reason her daycare had a VHS and played it all the time? Can confirm it shreds though.
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C-Euro posted:I think Roderick is Captain Pike from the Chris Pine Star Treks but I haven't actually looked that up. Voice sounded really familiar and it took me a couple of episodes to pin it down. that is correct; Bruce Greenwood! also known as Gerald in Flanagan's adaptation of Gerald's Game
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:Yeah, I think Hammer is at least a great starting point for people looking for that, both it and Boggy Creek. Toss the Corman Poe cycle on the pile as well. The whole "cozy horror" thing is ridiculous because so much of it is defanging what horror could count as "cozy" while also trying to stay away from disquiet and unease and defanging horror itself but there's so much out there that if they want something with ~spooky fall vibes~ or whatever they were saying there's so much of it. Almost any Vincent Price movie is "cozy" to me. I thought cozy horror was just a case of simple, easy to enjoy and turn-your-brain-off kind of horror flicks? Like there's no wild premise or anything pushing the boundaries of the medium, just 'oh hey here's a spooky haunted house, the MC shouldn't go inside but he does and here comes the scares' and goes through the motions well. The Woman In Black feels like a 'cozy horror' film for me, but I have no clue if this is what cozy horror means for others
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Deadite posted:Also I watched History of the Occult last night and I think I need to watch it again. It was really absorbing and I think I paid close attention to it but that ending was nuts. I think I missed a lot of the clues to what was really happening. first of all your puppet suit thing is loving awesome. but secondly, I think I missed a bunch too but I really liked the read on the top-voted Letterboxd comment, which presumably is from an Argentinian (it’s in Spanish) whose milieu the story is set in. they said Belasco is using energy from the entity beyond our world to change our future: the people forget so many things and return to the past—the retro styling, the black and white, there are even changes to aspect ratio—because the coven traded the future, the world of possibility, away for power. that’s literalized in that some of the kids apparently never existed; per the commercial for the children’s fund (and the Whitney Houston song) we know the children are the future. anyway, when Natalia finds the iPhone in one of the coven’s safe houses, it awakens her to what’s been going on. she calls from the taxi, which would be impossible with the 70s-era technology we see in the rest of the movie. she gets to the studio and gives the phone to Marcato, who calls the daughter the coven took from him, which helps everyone else in the studio realize the meaning of “the future is over” and what the coven is doing. color returns, the aspect ratio changes, etc. (forgive any mistakes here, because my Spanish is passable-but-not-good and I’m using a mix of machine translation and my own understanding to get the gist of the comment.) I really really like this analysis! it wouldn’t surprise me if it was what was intended because it’s very neat, and you can definitely see how it connects to Argentinian history, in particular the dictatorship of the mid-70s, the dispute over the Falklands/Malvinas in the early 80s, etc. Pretzel Rod Serling fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Oct 15, 2023 |
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Watched the first two episodes of the Flanagan Poe series. Embarrassing. He clearly just wanted to direct some episodes of succession. Characters constantly saying the names of Poe short stories out loud is incredibly corny. The pseudo monologue framing story is some of his worst writing ever. When it’s being funny it’s actually decent, maybe he should try his hand at a comedy. The ghosts standing in the background of shots is such a playing the hits move I almost respect it. The hot club bangers being entirely mid tempo remixes of earth 90s radio staples tells you everything about the audience and the vibe here
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Pretzel Rod Serling posted:first of all your puppet suit thing is loving awesome. Kind of but I think you missed a bit with the end His daughter gives him the "magic word" that should break the spell. He asks everyone to crank their volume but the broadcast is cut before he can say it on air, which is why the world is black and white but then they cut back to the studio and it's in Glorious technicolor Such a rad use of mediums in that movie
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Mark Hamill is in this Fall of Usher series which is sort of hilarious to me cause he's actually doing a great job but every time he speaks half the time I hear Skips from Regular Show EDIT: vv Doing years of the Joker flat destroyed his vocal cords so I'm cool with grumpy old man gravel voice MH White Light fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Oct 15, 2023 |
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The Nun 2 I was shocked to find out was better than the first
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White Light posted:Mark Hamill is in this Fall of Usher series which is sort of hilarious to me cause he's actually doing a great job but every time he speaks half the time I hear Skips from Regular Show He’s a loving grumpy old man, and I guess this is the persona that Hamill has chosen now, or maybe it’s what he really is now. Either way the few posts here about Usher have made me think I need to give it another chance.
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ruddiger posted:Two times zero is still zero tho O yeah, but I couldn’t just leave that joke lying there.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:The Nun 2 I was shocked to find out was better than the first So was the second Annabelle movie. It seems to be a thing with Conjuring spin offs that they start trying way harder than they need to after dull and rote first entries High Warlord Zog fucked around with this message at 09:13 on Oct 15, 2023 |
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Piper Laurie has passed away aged 91. Telekinetic knife throwing is not believed to have been involved.
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