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The gore, while fun, wasn't really why I enjoyed Terrifier 2 so much. I enjoyed it because of how utterly weird and funny it was. From Art hallucinating a second weird clown girl to the costume shop scene, and then the big climax taking place in a title drop and the main character becoming a crazed Valkyrie that was supercharged with fantasy lightning - that's exactly my jam. All the splatter is fun, and I'm sure they'll use it as the gimmick like they did the second, but as long as they don't forget the wild fun of the second one I'll be up for the third.
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Also the film wasn’t advertised as a barf bag movie. People just kept barfing and fainting and it was hilarious. The world did the marketing for them
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:The gore, while fun, wasn't really why I enjoyed Terrifier 2 so much. I enjoyed it because of how utterly weird and funny it was. From Art hallucinating a second weird clown girl to the costume shop scene, and then the big climax taking place in a title drop and the main character becoming a crazed Valkyrie that was supercharged with fantasy lightning - that's exactly my jam. All the splatter is fun, and I'm sure they'll use it as the gimmick like they did the second, but as long as they don't forget the wild fun of the second one I'll be up for the third. Yeah I agree with this. This is what won me over. I thought the first was very mid with good effects but it had little charm. The gore in 2 was more fun in that it was so over the top it became cartoony.
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David Howard Thornton being a legitimately really good mime goes a long way too, the whole costume store scene was brilliant because of him.
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I'm very behind because of the challenge but we watched House of Usher this week and it owns. I enjoyed the earlier Flanagan stuff but only really liked Midnight Mass, but thought this one was great and a very cool concept.
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I started The Curse. While it isn't outright horror yet, it's one of the most uncomfortable, dread-inducing things I've seen. My girlfriend could barely finish it from cringing so much. re: Horror Adventure Games, Amnesia: The Dark Descent is basically that with a first-person perspective. No combat or weapons, you just have to run if poo poo gets bad. Very fun game. Played it over the spooky season and it's thankfully pretty short.
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My main takeaway from watching that first episode of The Curse was Fielder could totally make a killer horror movie, yeah.
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WHY BONER NOW posted:a while back people were talking about getting scared by horror movies. I don't get scared very often but once in a while something will get under my skin and give me the willies, usually found footage of people in isolated places. Yeah, I have watched way too much horror and most of it fails to get a reaction out of me, but found footage can still spook me out a bit sometimes. It’s mostly a dumb genre but I like it for that reason.
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I hate that I can be like oh Horror movies don't scare me anymore that's something I've seen a million times here comes the trope and then get terrified by some stupid rear end analogue horror on youtube.
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Have u watched the Japanese horror series "Q" that poo poo rocks On the youtubes
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:The gore, while fun, wasn't really why I enjoyed Terrifier 2 so much. I enjoyed it because of how utterly weird and funny it was. From Art hallucinating a second weird clown girl to the costume shop scene, and then the big climax taking place in a title drop and the main character becoming a crazed Valkyrie that was supercharged with fantasy lightning - that's exactly my jam. All the splatter is fun, and I'm sure they'll use it as the gimmick like they did the second, but as long as they don't forget the wild fun of the second one I'll be up for the third. I hoped for a moment that the trailer for T3 would have Art attacking Santa and the movie is about the protagonists racing Art to all the holiday beings to protect them from being horriffically butchered.
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a good jump scare still makes me grin when it gets me but yeah that deep soul-deadening terror is harder to come by in cinema these days. just lookin out the window will do it though!
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I felt more tension and general unease and ick watching Priscilla than I have with any recent horror movie, Elvis is a great monster but I'm not quite ready to call it a horror movie
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:I felt more tension and general unease and ick watching Priscilla than I have with any recent horror movie, Elvis is a great monster but I'm not quite ready to call it a horror movie  , though I'd call it one. Maybe psychological horror is a more appropriate term for it, but I definitely felt horrified watching it.
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 completelyAlso speaking of new horrors: coming to VOD services tomorrow are two festival-buzzers. Onyx The Fortuitous And The Talisman Of Souls, which I wanted to see but didn't have the chance to and Wintertide, which I got to see in summer for Chattanooga and really liked! A volunteer watch person during a zombie plague in a city that hasn't seen sunlight in over 3 months. A neat and beautiful-looking tense mystery with a zombie take on the 30 Days of Night setting. In a festival I loved, one of the more interesting surprises
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Just watched Five (1951), the first film made about a post nuclear apocalyptic world. It got under my skin way more than I expected it to, but it was funny to see how much of the genre was established right here at the very beginning. Way bleaker than I expected!
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:Just watched Five (1951), the first film made about a post nuclear apocalyptic world. It got under my skin way more than I expected it to, but it was funny to see how much of the genre was established right here at the very beginning. Way bleaker than I expected! It is a rough watch. And on a positive note, my theater's getting Godzilla Minus One.
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M_Sinistrari posted:It is a rough watch. Oh my, so jealous of your ability to watch Godzilla. I finally, finally watched Shin Godzilla over the weekend and absolutely loved it. My teenage son was surprisingly engaged and my girlfriend thought it was just OK, but she is more of a fan of the "Godzilla fights monsters" era of the movies. I want to see Minus One so bad! We went on kind of a tear this last weekend watching or rewatching some favorites. We did a long afternoon of Hellraiser and Hellraiser 2, followed by the new Hellraiser movie on Hulu. That was a fun, goopy ride. The OG Hellraiser was really far superior to the sequel, which for years I thought was the better of the two. But on rewatch I found the first to be really perfectly paced in comparison. The reboot/re-imagining/whatever is also a great little movie. It doesn't really serve as a replacement for the OG Hellraiser but works as a modern take on the concept. It's really well shot and doesn't overstay its welcome at all. I hope we get another one. We tried a movie called The Tower on Shudder as well that definitely wasn't our cup of tea though. It's a french movie with a neat concept (blackness envelops a building, ostensibly killing anyone that goes into it) but it veers and stays into "man is the real monster, don't you think?" territory and stays there. I was hoping for something a bit more supernatural tbh. There are some good performances but like a lot of recent, modern horror it's kind of missing the last part of its third act. It just....ends. Maybe it's thematically appropriate but it was deeply unsatisfying. I'm find having questions when a movie is done but it just didn't do it for me. I've noticed that trend in recent movies where they end with entire plots just dangling. Arctic Void was another recent one that did the same thing. It's hard for me to recommend but it's a bleak, human survival movie with some brutal scenes so it might be for someone.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Ho ho ho, Art's back. I mean, I'm down to clown again as much as the next Art aficionado but I don't know that I want to see Art graphically killing a kid, if that's what the teaser was implying.
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Levantine posted:
That's too bad about The Tower. I've been eyeballing that one, but if it's going the 'man's the real monster' angle, I'll skip it. I've seen enough in life, especially during my stint as a 911 operator to know very much that humanity can be the real monster to where when it pops in a film it's like the equivalent of the artist painting with her menstrual blood acting like this is something new when it's been done since the 60s. It's not really shocking or something that makes you think beyond 'oof, that had to reek'. And I agree with you on the abrupt ending thing. I'm forgetting the name, but it was a short French film where this kinda agoraphobic work from home tech support guy goes to a party and something happens where people are turning into Lovecraftian tentacle shadow monsters. It was really good, but the end just drops off and left me wanting more.
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:I felt more tension and general unease and ick watching Priscilla than I have with any recent horror movie, Elvis is a great monster but I'm not quite ready to call it a horror movie I kept squirming in my seat during large parts of it, and Elvis throwing a chair in a fit of rage was right up there with my favorite horror moments ever. Wouldn't call it a horror movie by any stretch but now I want to see Sofia Coppola tackle a horror movie. I also watched Wolfen this weekend and loved that. I don't want to spoil anything in case you haven't seen it, but about halfway through I thought it was going for some weird racist stuff, but it veers in an entirely different direction and thankfully is much smarter than I'd expect from an 80s movie tackling some of the themes that it did.
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King Vidiot posted:I mean, I'm down to clown again as much as the next Art aficionado but I don't know that I want to see Art graphically killing a kid, if that's what the teaser was implying. He’s gonna turn that kid into a stocking lmfao
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Levantine posted:
I have solved the mystery. I like French cinema, I've seen a good chunk, but for whatever reason they love that poo poo. Not a crafted ambiguous ending that gives you some questions to ponder, no ; it just feels like the camera ran out so they stopped there. It's common enough that I just call it a "french ending" (which, yeah, sound like it means a different thing). Not a movie and not really horror, but if you want harrowing weird survival stuff : I just started Scavengers Reign and that poo poo is amazing.
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I appreciate this FvJ script just being like gently caress THAT HOUSE AND THAT STUPID SUMMER CAMP. BLOW EM UPquote:Nightmare 13 would have assuredly pleased fans of both franchises with its pilgrimage back to classic locations we have long known. The only catch is that the script obliterates the two most iconic venues from each story. We are talking Amityville 3-D/Halloween Resurrection levels of fiery landmark destruction here. Make no mistake, Nightmare 13 is playing for keeps. speaking of napalm quote:The Fred-heads of the Reiff/Voris draft are also not above suiciding for their cause by way of self-immolation. Cult members are equipped with “concentrated napalm capsules” that explode when bitten.
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Xiahou Dun posted:I have solved the mystery.
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Shrecknet posted:gently caress Man Bites Dog
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I couldn't finish The Tower, seems like after the initial rush of finding out they were stuck in a matter eating death cube and trying to escape they just accepted the situation and it became a poor man's Aniara.
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This is a very subjective question but are there are GOOD adaptations of Junji Ito's work? I did not really enjoy the Netflix animated series that just came out; the animation was pretty crap and the pacing was way too frantic. Are any of the live action films worth watching? I saw there's like a dozen Tomie movies, and I really enjoyed those original comics.
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Oh yeah they did like a series for his shorts huh. Not surprised it sucks. Still waiting on that adult swim uzumaki. Maybe it'll be released when I'm like 60 years old I always heard the live action Uzumaki is like...OK. never dared to try.
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Yeah, live action Uzumaki is...fine, which probably makes it the best Ito adaptation by default. I suppose it's because the original material is just so loving good that anyone else getting their hands on it feels like a step down.
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A Fancy Hat posted:This is a very subjective question but are there are GOOD adaptations of Junji Ito's work? I did not really enjoy the Netflix animated series that just came out; the animation was pretty crap and the pacing was way too frantic. Long Dream (2000) 
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Xiahou Dun posted:I have solved the mystery. I'm stealing that for the next time I want to complain about a movie. I saw something on Scavengers Reign recently and thought it looked really good. I'll try to catch it when I re-up Max to binge 30 Coins season 2.
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There was an animated version of GYO though I've never seen it.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Yeah, live action Uzumaki is...fine, which probably makes it the best Ito adaptation by default.
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ruddiger posted:Long Dream (2000) Jeffree star?
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Unironically me when I'm sleep deprived
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It's not technically horror but Red Rooms is the most unsettled and uncomfortable a film has left me in a while.
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A Fancy Hat posted:This is a very subjective question but are there are GOOD adaptations of Junji Ito's work? I did not really enjoy the Netflix animated series that just came out; the animation was pretty crap and the pacing was way too frantic. I'm not sure there is. I watched the first three Tomies and lost steam there. The first one is solidly OK. The "second" one is a made for TV anthology that's watchable but still very made for TV. The second feature film is like the Ringu sequels. It features characters who don't know anything about Tomie spending the whole movie discovering Tomie but the audience already knows all this so it's kinda pointless. I'll watch the whole Tomie series and report back to the thread if someone can point me to somewhere to watch them with subtitles.
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the long-awaited adultswim Uzumaki adaptation still looks absolutely unreal, but it's been a long time coming so i hope it's not overcooked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRrqvjjKlOs
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TheMopeSquad posted:There was an animated version of GYO though I've never seen it. It had it's moments.
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