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WeaponX posted:Anyway, how would Stephen King rank the Friday the 13th series? Is he a Jason X man? Does he take the Carrie rip-off character as a compliment or is he mad about it? He'd say whichever one you're willing to put a pull quote from Stephen King on the box for is the best one. If you asked him for a quote about Jason Takes Manhattan he'd talk about how the boat is a great setting.
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The horror thread is talking about authors and nobody said Nathan Ballingrud or his loving amazing work Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell, I'm deeply ashamed. 'Skullpocket' is one of the greatest modern horror stories and I would kill to see it adapted into a stop-motion feature. [Edit: Apparently you can read it online too for free here and I can promise you that it's 1,000% worth your time if you like gross and spooky stuff.
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:The horror thread is talking about authors and nobody said Nathan Ballingrud or his loving amazing work Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell, I'm deeply ashamed. 'Skullpocket' is one of the greatest modern horror stories and I would kill to see it adapted into a stop-motion feature. I’d lead with North American Lake Monsters, but I very much second Ballingrud. I don’t think I’ve gone a week without thinking about one of the stories in there since I read it. (Not a particular story, just any one of them. But the werewolf one, the vampire in the crawl space and the dead wife one are frequent.)
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I would also like to say Wounds is one of the most creative set of short stories I've ever seen. I'm pretty sure it's referenced in VHS 99's last segment too. On the book topic, if you haven't heard about The Locked Tomb series yet get your rear end on top of that. It's not exactly horror in the sense that it wants you to be scared, but it is about a post-apocalyptic world where the entire civilization revolves around necromancy. It's also hilarious, turbo LGBT+ and has the best audio book versions. I've gone through the series three times in the past year already.
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MacheteZombie posted:I'm convinced, reading is terrible
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I suggest you check out the Aubrey-Maturin series because a. it's genuinely well-written historical adventure fiction, and b. if I ever make that Maturin joke again I would like someone besides myself to laugh
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MacheteZombie posted:I'm convinced, reading is terrible its time as a society that we admit that cursed video tapes are cooler than the cursed written word
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Snooze Cruise posted:its time as a society that we admit that cursed video tapes are cooler than the cursed written word If it's a piece of cursed media, I'll happily consume it. It's me, the guy from the first ten minutes of every horror work in history, the guy who hears 'it has a terrible curse' and is like, 'Neat!'
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Snooze Cruise posted:its time as a society that we admit that cursed video tapes are cooler than the cursed written word yup
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Phy posted:I suggest you check out the Aubrey-Maturin series because a. it's genuinely well-written historical adventure fiction, and b. if I ever make that Maturin joke again I would like someone besides myself to laugh I want you to know that I laughed at that joke.
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Snooze Cruise posted:its time as a society that we admit that cursed video tapes are cooler than the cursed written word Sam Neil laughing at the cinema screen while a terrible ripoff of Enter Sandman starts chugging in the background
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:'Skullpocket' is one of the greatest modern horror stories and I would kill to see it adapted into a stop-motion feature.
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Xiahou Dun posted:I want you to know that I laughed at that joke. Thank you, I truly appreciate that. (Honestly I knew going in that it was gonna be a bit niche, I hope I came across as comically aggrieved and not actually aggrieved.) Shrecknet posted:Sadly, no matter how good it is, it is only the second-best horror story ever written. (2000 words/4 pages, absolutely the most scared out-of-my-mind I've ever been, still hate it, still read it every year or so) Lena could basically have been subtitled Do Not Create The Torment Nexus
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Phy posted:Thank you, I truly appreciate that. (Honestly I knew going in that it was gonna be a bit niche, I hope I came across as comically aggrieved and not actually aggrieved.) "Making a niche joke" and "comically aggrieved" are two of my main personality traits ; of course I'm gonna get it. By the by, if you like old boats, you might want to check out the Military History thread.. There are in fact mulitple goons into doing 19th century sailing stuff, including people who actually sail 200 year-old boats. Finally, I finished season 2 of 30 Coins last night and holy shiiiiiiit was that a trip. God I hope they do a third season. I love the gimmick where you recast all the same actors slightly differently to do an alternate world. I was absolutely ecstatic when Dark did that in season 3.
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Tried watching destroy all neighbors Halfway through I skipped to the end and shut it off. I don’t like movies where the main character goes mad and loses everything. Even if the main character was a dweeb. Suitable Flesh was the same thing too lol.
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what makes The Terror so fun is it's basically a horror version of an Aubrey-Maturin book
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:what makes The Terror so fun is it's basically a horror version of an Aubrey-Maturin book A solid half of the horror is just living on that god drat boat.
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Suitable Flesh hit Shudder today and I cannot wait to watch it after work. I love Barbara Crampton and I had read that originally Stuart Gordon was attached to this film. If it maintains even 1/10th of his wild energy it's going to kick rear end.
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A Fancy Hat posted:Suitable Flesh hit Shudder today and I cannot wait to watch it after work. I love Barbara Crampton and I had read that originally Stuart Gordon was attached to this film. If it maintains even 1/10th of his wild energy it's going to kick rear end. Please let us know your reactions on this, I've been holding off it as most of the takes I've heard have been negative. BC tends to only help make a film better no matter how otherwise forgettable it would otherwise be.
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It’s okay. I like joe lynch as a person but I don’t love his movies too much. It felt like something was missing It’s bloody but not really reanimator gory. It’s got a lot of sex with whipping spinning camera angles and porno music lol
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A Fancy Hat posted:Suitable Flesh hit Shudder today and I cannot wait to watch it after work. I love Barbara Crampton and I had read that originally Stuart Gordon was attached to this film. If it maintains even 1/10th of his wild energy it's going to kick rear end. It definitely does. I know a few people that noped out in the first half but if you stick with it it pays off imo. It really leans into 90s erotic thriller vibes and Heather Graham is so good.
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Tbh crampton made it neither better nor worse
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CelticPredator posted:Tbh crampton made it neither better nor worse Yeah agreed, she didn't add much of anything . Graham, the dude, and the guy playing her husband were all scenery chewing great though.
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I do find it interesting in a “hah fate” way, that he lobbying to direct the babysitter but mcg ended up getting it and now he made this movie with the kid from the babysitter He also worked with Samara weaving fairly early too.
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Baghead was just really loving dull. Like the store brand version of Talk To Me, with none of the stuff that made Talk To Me good.
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I'm in the middle of both Slamdance and Sundance right now. In terms of stuff to look out for, horror-wise, The Complex Forms is a neat little (~70min) black-and-white Italian film where people sign themselves off contractually to be "possessed" for select intervals of time by creatures. When three of the people end up accidentally witnessing what this actually means, a change of plans is considered. The creatures look cool as hell, there's a great sense of dread, and it's a worthwhile watch whenever it's available outside of Slamdance if you don't mind an underwhelming/over-explanatory ending A harder sell, but for me a better film, is Handling the Undead. The stars of The Worst Person In The World collab again, this time for a unique take on zombies: a power outage causes the dead to wake up. We follow three people essentially (one of whom, and the best performance, being Renate Reinsve) who have each lost a loved one at various points in the past year, whom this outage brings back into their lives, and the hardship it takes on them seeing them like this and wondering what to do from here. Loss takes something from you that can't be regained, even with renewed presence from it/them in your life; there's no set time on grief. Already one of the most contentious/divisive releases in Sundance, which frankly I'm surprised by: Handling the Undead treats grief delicately and the deceased/zombies compassionately, in a way that stands out from modern grief/COVID/zombie films; if that comes at a slow, relaxed pace (akin to You Won't Be Alone, another film I loved), so be it. As someone recently/still struggling with "moving on" from a significant death, I appreciate a film basically showing me that's okay, not just telling me it. (The big thing I could do without, and I will put a strong caveat on, is the rabbit scene. Understand completely people giving a worse review because of that)
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Shrecknet posted:Sadly, no matter how good it is, it is only the second-best horror story ever written. (2000 words/4 pages, absolutely the most scared out-of-my-mind I've ever been, still hate it, still read it every year or so) I'm not sure if I get the story completely. Are they torturing the AI to make it comply?
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Shrecknet posted:Sadly, no matter how good it is, it is only the second-best horror story ever written. (2000 words/4 pages, absolutely the most scared out-of-my-mind I've ever been, still hate it, still read it every year or so) Quoting dis so I can remember to read it when I get home.
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Doltos posted:I'm not sure if I get the story completely. Are they torturing the AI to make it comply? It’s a person. And yes.
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Xiahou Dun posted:It’s a person. And yes. So that means the space probe they launched just doomed the guy to an infinite torment
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Doltos posted:So that means the space probe they launched just doomed the guy to an infinite torment Yes. It’s a pretty short story, just read it again, my dude.
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I read "unlikely to be retrieved and executed" as implying he is not currently running on the space probe, in the same way that the records on Voyager 1 and 2 aren't constantly playing.
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Doltos posted:I'm not sure if I get the story completely. Are they torturing the AI to make it comply? It's sort of like in-universe documentation of the cookie technology in the Black Mirror episode, White Christmas, including the idea of fast-forward torture. My favorite element of is how it demonstrates the dehumanizing and whitewashing effect of industrial language. "Red-washing", indeed.
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"Red motivation" is such a brutal euphemism.
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moths posted:Stephen King has gotten more people to read than anybody on any list of "good" authors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA9nRB_8aFw
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moths posted:Stephen King has gotten more people to read than anybody on any list of "good" authors. Does that make JK Rowling the best author? You would think that the horror movie thread would be cool with the fact that sometimes bad movies (or books or authors) can be fun or enjoyable while still not being good.
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What exactly makes a good author? Is it only when they deal with higher themes of thought or if their books are considered classics?
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the amount of gay subtext i can read into their works
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Doltos posted:What exactly makes a good author? Is it only when they deal with higher themes of thought or if their books are considered classics? Use of the word “cyclopean”
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Use of the word “cyclopean” Seconding this.
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