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Jedit posted:Oh, sure, being a nepo baby doesn't automatically mean you're bad. Nicolas Cage is a nepo baby if we come to it. So are Christian Slater, Patrick Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis. But offhand I can't think of any nepo director who is better than their parent. Nic Cage, Jason Schwartzman, and Sophia Coppola are the least likely first-cousin nepo babies I can imagine. But I think Rob Reiner probably qualifies as a better director than his father.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Nic Cage, Jason Schwartzman, and Sophia Coppola are the least likely first-cousin nepo babies I can imagine. Arguable. Carl Reiner was no slouch in the chair, he directed several of Steve Martin's best comedies. He's as close an example as I've heard yet, though.
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Oz Perkins. Tony Perkins directed, was good (I love you, Psycho III, it’s okay), but I think Oz is the more famous and well regarded one.
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Sergio Leone's dad directed silent movies, although I guess that's practically a different medium at this point so unfair to make the comparison.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I support more Cronenbergs just because we could always use more body horror. I like David Cronenberg but Brandon's stuff isn't for me. It's not that he's bad at what he does but I just do not vibe with his output. We watched Infinity Pool over the weekend and it just didn't do much for me at all. I think maybe the movie was too smart for me or something but I was really just glad when it was over. Mia Goth was pretty great but that goes without saying.
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Xiahou Dun posted:Oz Perkins. This is interesting because it really depends. Tony Perkins was a TV staple at one point off the strength of Psycho being the one horror movie everyone had seen. Are there really that many The Blackcoat's Daughter fans out there who know Oz Perkins by name?
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:This is interesting because it really depends. Tony Perkins was a TV staple at one point off the strength of Psycho being the one horror movie everyone had seen. Are there really that many The Blackcoat's Daughter fans out there who know Oz Perkins by name? there is a small but vocal contingent of horror fans that is trying to make Oz Perkins happen i didn't even know he did another Hansel and Gretel movie lol
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Levantine posted:I like David Cronenberg but Brandon's stuff isn't for me. It's not that he's bad at what he does but I just do not vibe with his output. We watched Infinity Pool over the weekend and it just didn't do much for me at all. I think maybe the movie was too smart for me or something but I was really just glad when it was over. Mia Goth was pretty great but that goes without saying. I feel like the concept could have been done in like 45 minutes and much more effectively. Nikumatic posted:When Shudder’s Creepshow anthology first launched my partner was incredibly nonplussed by the first episode so we never ended up watching anymore. Until I needled them a few days ago because they were lamenting about not having something new like Tales from the Crypt to watch and I brought up that we had never given it another shot. Anyway now we’ve binged the entire series and the specials and it rules that is all. Yeah, the first season isn't that great, but other than that its pretty good. Although its funny how obvious it is that they had an episode with a guy obsessed about Horror Express because that is the movie they could get the rights to.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:there is a small but vocal contingent of horror fans that is trying to make Oz Perkins happen Gretel & Hansel rocked, superior to similar offerings that year like The Green Knight. Alice Krieg in particular is wonderful in it.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:there is a small but vocal contingent of horror fans that is trying to make Oz Perkins happen I loved Blackguard's Daughter, but I am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the House dragged so much I was wondering if I'd start getting my social security checks by the time anything happened in that one.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:I feel like the concept could have been done in like 45 minutes and much more effectively. It's funny you say that. We paused at about an hour to do some laundry and my girlfriend basically said "we've wasted an hour, lets give up" (which is rare for her) and I talked her into finishing it. I got to thinking how maybe the movie would have landed better if they had trimmed it up quite a bit. It's not a terrible movie or anything but I can confidently say it's not for me.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Gretel & Hansel rocked, superior to similar offerings that year like The Green Knight. Alice Krieg in particular is wonderful in it. oh i do love Alice Krige, noted
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Sophia Lillis is still an ickle baby, but she’s been good in every horror she’s done so far too.
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Gretel and Hansel was one of my favorite movies of that year. Granted it was a bit of a weak year(2020) for obvious reasons, but still.
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 That's a movie that I constantly forget exists and then I remember it and am like "hell yeah, that was good stuff". IShallRiseAgain posted:Yeah, the first season isn't that great, but other than that its pretty good. Although its funny how obvious it is that they had an episode with a guy obsessed about Horror Express because that is the movie they could get the rights to. Absolutely, it really hits its stride with the goofy-scary combo that Tales was always so good at it, and there's some real fun and clever poo poo throughout (like the episode that's entirely "what ELSE was going on during Night of the Living Dead?"). I feel it's got way more ups than downs in total which is all I can ask for in an anthology.
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Jedit posted:Oh, sure, being a nepo baby doesn't automatically mean you're bad. Nicolas Cage is a nepo baby if we come to it. So are Christian Slater, Patrick Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis. But offhand I can't think of any nepo director who is better than their parent. Beyond The Black Rainbow and Mandy are absolutely better Leviathan and Rambo 2. HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:What were your thoughts on The Outwaters?? Sorry to be late on this, but Outwaters is just a genuine movie-rear end movie where the protagonists set out to make a music video and then do exactly that. That’s the sense of fun that counters and partly overrides the plot content. Like, superficially, it’s not any different from Project Angst or 6-5=2 or whatever, but it’s expertly crafted - especially with regards to the editing. One subtle joke is that the footage is arranged in chronological order by the cops, when it’s fairly obvious that the two ‘halves’ of the film actually occur pretty much simultaneously. The second part, often dismissed as just chaos, is the subtext of the first. I also appreciate that it has a ton of tonal and thematic parallels with the underseen and not-at-all-gory The Midnight Swim. I feel like they’d make a very solid double-feature. And it’s again just dope that they applied that kind of Malickian, literary style to an Area 407.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:oh i do love Alice Krige, noted Much is made of her resemblance to a sphynx cat, it's great SuperMechagodzilla posted:Beyond The Black Rainbow and Mandy are absolutely better Leviathan and Rambo 2. Hell yeah.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Beyond The Black Rainbow and Mandy are absolutely better Leviathan and Rambo 2. neither are better than Cobra, though
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grobbo posted:My less hot take is that we should get a proper Gormenghast adaptation, some really sumptuous horror-adjacent high gothic / high weird fantasy by del Toro or David Lowery. A Del Toro Gormenghast would be awesome and Gormenghast doesn't have the fervent fandom that would be outraged at deviations from the source material. I'd take almost any modern adaptation at this point. Maybe I'm just biased 
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Did it get posted here that GDT is scouting Arctic locations for what is presumably a restarted At the Mountains of Madness adaptation? Guess he has to get in gear while the planet still has glacial ice.
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TitusGroen posted:I caught a YouTuber discussing his favorite horror flicks of last year and was rather irked to see he said Smile was the one he enjoyed most. loving SMILE?! It's so clearly an inferior version of It Follows that they announced a sequel to It Follows called They Follow, which is likely going to be dog water. Just for a cash grab because someone made a shittier but more successful version of your movie Yeah Smile was boring garbage. If you want to be even more offended here's the study for the scariest movie of all time 
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Smile was sick and not just because they filmed some of it by me (the diner scenes).
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Did it get posted here that GDT is scouting Arctic locations for what is presumably a restarted At the Mountains of Madness adaptation? Guess he has to get in gear while the planet still has glacial ice. apparently it's actually for his Frankenstein adaptation.
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Smile was much better than I expected but I definitely wouldn't call it a great horror movie or anything. My wife and I watched it while we were carving Jack O Lanterns and that was kind of the perfect vibe for it for me, personally. I got more Ring vibes than anything else but even a cheaper, worse Ring is still pretty fun.
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I liked Smile better when it was called Lights Out, and I didn't particularly like Lights Out for its handling of mental health either.
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Smile was basically "dumb guy It Follows" meets "dumb guy Junji Ito" and i enjoyed it on that level.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:apparently it's actually for his Frankenstein adaptation. Oh, hmm.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:
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Smile's ad campaign was inspired, I'll say that. It was clever to just post weird smiling people around stadiums and getting cameras to magically look at them.
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Smile was decent, but it committed the cardinal sin of putting its best scare in the trailer.
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Doltos posted:Yeah Smile was boring garbage. If you want to be even more offended here's the study for the scariest movie of all time Cursed list but also adding Dark and the Wicked to my watchlist
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ruddiger posted:Cursed list but also adding Dark and the Wicked to my watchlist I actually really liked the Dark and the Wicked. The story is pretty stock but the movie was shot great. Definitely feels like the director put a ton of effort into every scene.
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Doltos posted:Yeah Smile was boring garbage. If you want to be even more offended here's the study for the scariest movie of all time Did they only ask 12 year olds or something.
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Xiahou Dun posted:Did they only ask 12 year olds or something. Methodology: Science of Scare posted:Each year, the Science of Scare project curates a list of the most terrifying feature length movies and puts them to our panel 250 ‘victims’ (test subjects). https://www.broadbandchoices.co.uk/features/science-of-scare Not the greatest but it's interesting to see what scares the average theater goer. I'm pretty sure most people watch everything half on their cellphones these days so I understand Sinister being at the top of the list due to all the jump scares. Stands to reason BPM goes up for that. The kid popping out of the box scared the poo poo out of me too.
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That’s not “not the greatest”, that’s “got a C- at the middle school science fair”.
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I like Smile  https://twitter.com/flanaganfilm/status/1726624854617833828
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Xiahou Dun posted:That’s not “not the greatest”, that’s “got a C- at the middle school science fair”. If you hate that you should see some other stats bullshit people pull with questionnaires, poor population polling, and implied magnitude
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