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weekly font posted:I walked out of Talk to Me enjoying it but the further I’ve gotten from it the less its stuck with me at all. Fairly forgettable but fun little flick. I’ve been so absentee on horror this year that it would still probably sneak into the back half of my top 10 on lack of volume alone same. it was forgettable fun. m3gan was kickass
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Lazy_Liberal posted:m3gan was kickass
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Nov 27, 2023 17:45
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My top 5 for this year, not in any ranked order, are M3GAN, When Evil Lurks, Evil Dead Rise, Beau is Afraid and Saw X.
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Nov 27, 2023 17:50
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Two episodes into Fall of the House of Usher and is that the goriest thing Flanagan's ever done? I was not at all expecting that, holy poo poo.
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Nov 27, 2023 17:51
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PriorMarcus posted:I watched Talk to Me last night and was left pretty disappointed by it. I liked a lot of the ideas it presented, and I generally like nasty ghost who are deliberately loving people up, but I found every character to be so utterly unsympathetic and gullible that I couldn't buy into it. Maybe I just wasn't in the right frame of mind, but Mia, in particular, was just an unpleasant character to spend time with no matter what was happening. I was disappointed as well. I liked the early part of the film. It did capture the teenager vibe very well with the dynamic of trying to fit in with the cool kids, peer pressure to do stupid risky things etc. I realize that Mia is supposed to be a flawed character but I found her so unlikeable it got in the way of enjoying the film. I found it unforgivable that she gave the green light for the kid to participate in the hand ritual and never owned up responsibility for what happened to him. I also found the last third or so of the film to be a muddled incoherent mess, right up until the very end which I thought was good.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:What are the picks for the year, folks? I feel like I'm super behind on horror because I've just been digging in the crates. Stuff I liked enough to mention that hasn't been said already (I think): Angry Black Girl and Her Monster, Wrath of Becky, Brooklyn 45, Cobweb, Dark Harvest, Evil Dead Rise, Huesera: The Bone Woman, New Religion, No One Will Save You, Old Gods, The Pope’s Exorcist, Renfield, Talk To Me, Tin & Tina, Totally Killer, Unwelcome, VHS85
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:What are the picks for the year, folks? I feel like I'm super behind on horror because I've just been digging in the crates.
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Nov 27, 2023 18:03
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Megan was dog water, No One Will Save You was kinda forgettable, Talk to Me was the right kind of mean that I liked, Beau is Afraid probably runs away with it this year if it werent the official release year of Skinamarink which was still a hell of a theater experience. Evil Dead Rises was also a great top 5 contender, Hell House 4 also a surprise good one, Infinity Pool getting top 5 rec, Knock at the Cabin was very good, Malum was great, Scream 6 had a really solid first hour but then becomes another crappy scream movie, The Boogeyman sucked, Renfield was mid, The Outwaters was good, Popes Exorcist was great, VHS85 was a return to form for the entire series, Where Evil Lurks was some mid-rear end bullshit.
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Zwabu posted:I was disappointed as well. I liked the early part of the film. It did capture the teenager vibe very well with the dynamic of trying to fit in with the cool kids, peer pressure to do stupid risky things etc. This was my main sticking point for her too. And the artificial drama the film tried to inject into her relationship with her Dad further strained any sympathy I had for her. She was routinely gullible for no reason other than the plot demanded it. If the film had, at any point, made it seem plausible that the mum was real I might of had more sympathy. Zwabu posted:I also found the last third or so of the film to be a muddled incoherent mess, right up until the very end which I thought was good. I think the last third was meant to be muddled because we were seeing Mia unravel, but the rest of the film was so underwhelming for me I couldn't tell if it was a stylistic choice or just bad storytelling. The very end was great, yes.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Two episodes into Fall of the House of Usher and is that the goriest thing Flanagan's ever done? I was not at all expecting that, holy poo poo. Yeah it's a strong starter
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Nov 27, 2023 18:10
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No One Will Save You, When Evil Lurks, Huesera The Bone Woman, M3GAN, Influencer, and Hell House 4 are my top this year I really disliked Beau is Afraid obviously, Knock at the Cabin was kind of a wet fart, not too crazy at the arthouse horrors in Skinamarink and Outwaters, Evil Dead Rise and Talk to Me were just okay, same with Malum, Good Boy was too frustrating. It wasn't too bad of a year in retrospect.
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Nov 27, 2023 18:35
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When Evil Lurks was incredible. Must see imo. Very simple very well done horror film.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Two episodes into Fall of the House of Usher and is that the goriest thing Flanagan's ever done? I was not at all expecting that, holy poo poo. Masque of the Red Death is the series highpoint imo, but then I think I feel that way about the original Poe. The last sentence gives me goosebumps just thinking about it. And also the goriest thing Flanagan's ever done is his horror newbie letterbox recommendations that got posted a couple pages ago
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Nov 27, 2023 18:40
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my top horror of the year at this point, roughly in this order. I feel like I've seen most of the big ones, there are still some 2023 horror films on my watchlist but nothing I'd expect to bump these. Skinamarink Enys Men When Evil Lurks M3GAN Talk to Me (maybe Evil Dead Rise over Talk to Me)
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Nov 27, 2023 18:42
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Was Speak No Evil this year? I think it was so that'd be on my list. M3gan The Pope's Exorcist Speak No Evil Infinity Pool Evil Dead Rise Hollismason fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Nov 27, 2023 |
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Nov 27, 2023 18:53
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What I've got is in order: They Cloned Tyrone When Evil Lurks No One Will Save You Talk To Me Totally Killer When Evil Lurks, Talk To Me, and Totally Killer would be "pure" horror, while They Cloned Tyrone and No One Will Save You is more adjacent.
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Nov 27, 2023 19:05
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I disagree No One Will Save You is adjacent
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Nov 27, 2023 19:08
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top 11 Beau is Afraid Skinamarink Evil Dead Rises Infinity Pool Talk to Me Hell House 4 Knock at the Cabin Malum The Outwaters The Popes Exorcist VHS85
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Nov 27, 2023 19:33
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dorium posted:top 11 even with like half of these not really being my thing at all, this feels like a really well rounded top 11, and it doesn't even include a couple of this year's heavy hitters like When Evil Lurks or Thanksgiving. 2023 seems like it was a pretty decent horror year.
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Nov 27, 2023 20:07
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I still need to see a bunch, but top of the list is Suitable Flesh which by all accounts is great. Top 12 here we come.
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Nov 27, 2023 20:14
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sorting on Letterboxd for horror movies only in 2023 by average rating, looks like people liked Late Night with the Devil most so I’m excited to see that. why is myhouse.wad on here lol
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Nov 27, 2023 20:15
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I didn’t like suitable flesh. It wasn’t horrible just felt a little undercooked and once again don’t like that gimble Lynch keeps using lol. Needed more goop and gore
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Pretzel Rod Serling posted:sorting on Letterboxd for horror movies only in 2023 by average rating, looks like people liked Late Night with the Devil most so I’m excited to see that. why is myhouse.wad on here lol even though I excluded everything except features most of this poo poo is still YouTube video essays or festival films there’s no way I could see because they don’t have distribution but on the plus side I’m hearing about a bunch of cool poo poo I’ll probably love in a year, like Alice Maio Mackay’s Satranic Panic
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Nov 27, 2023 20:27
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History of the Occult and EDR are probably my picks, though I'm probably forgetting something
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Nov 27, 2023 20:45
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Philthy posted:What I've got is in order: They Cloned Tyrone is really good, not sure I'd count it as horror or even horror-adjacent though unless you're just including anything sci-fi under that umbrella. anyone who hasn't seen it yet should check it out though, it flew under my radar a bit as a Netflix movie with a dumb name but it's a really excellent and funny satirical sci-fi/comedy
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Nov 27, 2023 21:27
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They Cloned Tyrone and No One Will Save You both had the psychological dread going on. They were almost the same story, in a way. I don't want to spoil much of either to make the argument tho.
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Nov 27, 2023 21:51
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They Cloned Tyrone was the best straight to netflix job they've done since the company was founded (not counting anything that got a theatrical run).
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dorium posted:They Cloned Tyrone was the best straight to netflix job they've done since the company was founded (not counting anything that got a theatrical run). Yeah, kinda suspiciously so. I wonder if someone snuck it through or managed to get it greenlit as a favor or something.
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Pretzel Rod Serling posted:why is myhouse.wad on here lol It's a playable creepypasta doom wad basically. why people are putting it on letterboxd, idk, but i watched a youtube video showcasing myhouse and it was pretty cool it's kinda like if skinamarink was good and had a super shotgun
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Nov 27, 2023 22:57
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Skinamarink was lacking a super shotgun.
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Infinity Pool When Evil Lurks Evil Dead Rise VHS 85 Pope’s Exorcist
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They had to stop writing super shotguns into horror films due to plot holes
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https://x.com/screamboxtv/status/1729200637207044358?s=46
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Nov 27, 2023 23:51
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You have to change the stupid X to Twitter for it to embed properly. Thanks Elon
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Nov 27, 2023 23:53
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I had to IMDB it and apparently this movie came out in 2011, which is better, I guess, because it looks like a Smosh video from 2006.
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Doltos posted:They had to stop writing super shotguns into horror films due to plot holes Why do you think so many films are set in the 80s now, before the invention of the super shotgun?
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:What are the picks for the year, folks? I feel like I'm super behind on horror because I've just been digging in the crates. honestly i think my two faves are both Argentine horror - When Evil Lurks and History of the Occult, although the latter might be a 2022 release... the other honourable mentions to round out a top 5 would be Beau is Afraid, Saw X and Infinity Pool i think
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Nikumatic posted:It's a playable creepypasta doom wad basically. It's more like a "Top 10 spooky liminal space photos" youtube video with a shotgun. Skinamarink is doing something different, and I respect how hard it commits to it.
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