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Australian horror is right on my wavelength. I don't know what it is but The Loved Ones has this intangible to it that has kept me thinking about it since I first watched it.
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Kvlt! posted:i cant even put my finger on what makes Snowtown so loving BLEAK like its gory sure but it really just has this hopeless disturbing quality too it. Definitely has that Henry/Man Bites Dog quality. There's an authenticity to it that really resonates. It's shot on location where the real murders happened and several of the town's residents appear as extras. It really comes through onscreen. I remember seeing one of the first screenings of it at TIFF and people just sadly shuffled out of that theatre afterwards, their day ruined. E: I don't even know if it's all that gory, by thread standards, but it's shot in a way that you feel every second of it so it's a real 'less is more' situation. What a great movie. Erin M. Fiasco posted:Australian horror is right on my wavelength. I don't know what it is but The Loved Ones has this intangible to it that has kept me thinking about it since I first watched it. It's my favourite horror movie after May. It just has all the elements and hits the perfect tone for me. flashy_mcflash fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Apr 4, 2024 |
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Oh, can't talk about Aussie horror that makes you feel like poo poo without mentioning Lake Mungo, that's another absolute day-ruiner, some scenes that still really freak me out too, to tie back to movies that still scare you. I've not seen The Loved Ones or Snowtown, looks like I've got some stuff to track down. Gyro Zeppeli fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Apr 4, 2024 |
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Yeah I mean if you want to a miserable time watch Snowtown or Wake in Fright. Snowtown is particularly bad.
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Crescent Wrench posted:After extensive PM negotiations with Hollismason, reviewing Robert's Rules of Order, and scrutinizing the fine print of the Necronomicon, it has been decided I will take up the mantle of running the May Horror Challenge 2024. In other words... Finally, we can get that absurd “no pornographic movies” rule removed.
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I'M RUNNING THIS MONKEY FARM NOW, FRANKENSTEIN
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Crescent Wrench posted:I am ABSOLUTELY soliciting category ideas, anyone is encouraged to post em here or shoot me a PM. Finding Yourself - Protagonist begins the movie in a relationship and is single by the end of the movie.
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Crescent Wrench posted:I am ABSOLUTELY soliciting category ideas, anyone is encouraged to post em here or shoot me a PM. Tubin’ Watch a horror movie you’ve never heard of on Tubi.
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Gripweed posted:Tubin’ Similarly, watch a horror movie on a streaming service with no cover art. Just generic text on black background. That’s where the gold is.
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SEEIN BUGS: Watch a horror movie after staying up for 48+ fours
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Kvlt! posted:SEEIN BUGS: Watch a horror movie after staying up for 48+ fours This is how I watched Antichrist for the first time. Would not recommend. I was cramming for finals in college and had a huge project to finish, I put this movie on after I finished everything as a little treat for myself. Have never had more hosed up and impossible to understand dreams in my life. Trees and plants industrial plant layouts all intermingled as a pack of dogs chased me through a maze of queue lines I’d designed to trap them instead. Chaos reigns, indeed.
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I first saw Southland Tales when I was running a 103 degree fever and it opened up my brain like a flower blooming.
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Gripweed posted:I first saw Southland Tales when I was running a 103 degree fever and it opened up my brain like a flower blooming. I saw the original Suspiria for the first time when it was play ing at an indie local theater with a similar fever that was an experience for sure
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One thing about the challenges, and this is just my read on things so feel free to disagree, but they can't be overly specific to the actual plot of the movie. In other words, you want people to be able to plan out the challenges without having to spoil the movies they watch. So like, if you have a challenge that is essentially "watch a movie where X happens", the participants have to either just randomly watch movies until the Thing happens, or they have to look things up and spoil that aspect of the movie. I know a more scavenger hunt based format has been suggested so I'm not saying we should rule anything out, this is just my sense based on what I've observed over the years.
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Crescent Wrench posted:I am ABSOLUTELY soliciting category ideas, anyone is encouraged to post em here or shoot me a PM. "Dad picked up the wrong video from the store again" Watch a movie that could easily be mistaken for a different horror thing, due to similar name, plot, cast, cover, etc. Bonus points for watching both. E.g: - Terrifier vs Terrified - The Mist vs The Fog - House on Haunted Hill vs Haunting of Hill House Reboots/remakes and obvious rip-offs would fit but it's more fun the more disconnected the movies are.
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Basebf555 posted:One thing about the challenges, and this is just my read on things so feel free to disagree, but they can't be overly specific to the actual plot of the movie. In other words, you want people to be able to plan out the challenges without having to spoil the movies they watch. So like, if you have a challenge that is essentially "watch a movie where X happens", the participants have to either just randomly watch movies until the Thing happens, or they have to look things up and spoil that aspect of the movie. I feel almost the exact opposite and I feel like the challenges need to be less ticking off entries in a list and a lot more silly nonsense. They’re challenges and it’s more fun if they’re interesting. The whole point is to make people (gently) come out of their comfort zone and try stuff they wouldn’t normally watch. It’s a constraint that I don’t think really does anything for us, and it’s not like everyone is obligated to 100% all challenges. If someone thinks a category or theme is dumb, they can just skip that one, and this would give space to try out new ideas. But similarly, I argue that because I honestly feel like people would have more fun if we explored what the challenges can be a bit more. If people don’t want that then I won’t push beyond occasional advocacy because my larger goal is that everyone has a good time. It would defeat that if I tried to make people have fun the way I like having fun.
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Just rolled the insanely bleak lady-or-the-tiger credits on M.O.M. Mother of Monsters. I have not seen We Need to Talk About Kevin, but my understanding is this is basically a FF/screenlife version of that. Good lord this movie's first 2/3rds is a ratchet that only moves one way - more tense, more terrifying, more push yourself back in the chair to get away from the events that are happening. The last third kinda pisses some of that away with a particularly protracted third-act, but both the titular Mom and the son turn in such banger performances, especially given it was both actors' (and director's) basically first film. Strong recommend on Prime, can't recommend on Tubi, the ad breaks would destroy everything the movie is building up.
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just for fun, they're still doing this
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Is it actually good? I’ve been seeing some mixed things recently
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Ok so that's the first two Omen films down and I guess this is sacrilege but I actually liked the second movie more than the first! It's technically worse as a film but I just vibed with the campier, dark comedy tone more than the first film's more epic globe trotting stuff. I was genuinely surprised at how little time was spent with Damien in the first film and it's actually pretty fun watching him be a little poo poo in the second. Never let anyone say I've got good taste in anything. The crow/truck scene was enough to put me fully on board for what this movie was laying down. A True Jar Jar Fan fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Apr 4, 2024 |
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I love this thread. I make an offhand comment about Aussie horror, come back the next day, and now I have a bunch of new movies queued up to watch. I dunno what it is though either. Not even just horror, but thrillers, post apocalypse stuff etc. Obviously not all of it is great, but I feel like if its from australia there is a pretty decent chance I'm gonna like it. Not sure if I can articulate why, but I guess it often has a bit an edge to it, and Aussie horror tends to prey on relatable fears and have decent characters. Eastern European stuff sometimes lands for me for similar reasons. Talk to Me is a good example. it's a pretty textbook teen horror movie. Teens summoning ghosts, bad stuff happens...There's nothing notable about the premise tbh. But the characters and acting are really good. It's even very funny at times. I felt genuinely bad for the main girl. I just wanted poo poo to work out for her, which is a weird feeling watching a teen horror. Also it really doesn't pull any punches and goes hard as hell when it chooses too. Just bleak as gently caress. Their depiction of hell(?) was just like, gruesome and unsettling .
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Aussie cinema definitely has an edge to it I really appreciate. I watched Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert just the other day and it blew me away with how effortlessly campy and funny it was while never skimping on the grit and edge and melancholy of a drat good queer film. One of my biggest surprises this year so far.
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aussie horror movies are scary the same texas chainsaw massacre is. its hot
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Weird Sandwich posted:If you want a challenge that's more difficult: Watch a movie in a language you don't understand, without any subtitles I did that back in the day with Ringu and Ju On: The Grudge/The Curse because the VHS rips I borrowed didn't have subtitles. It's not very fun.
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Xiahou Dun posted:I feel almost the exact opposite and I feel like the challenges need to be less ticking off entries in a list and a lot more silly nonsense. They’re challenges and it’s more fun if they’re interesting. The whole point is to make people (gently) come out of their comfort zone and try stuff they wouldn’t normally watch. I'd have to agree that a general format change is probably overdue, I guess I'm just not the creative type and I was mostly just trying to imitate what we'd already been doing. But yea it comes down to how "difficult" you want them to be, i.e. how much specific effort you want people to have to put in to fit what they're watching to complete the challenges. I definitely skewed things more towards the conservative side where they could watch what they felt like watching and it would still likely complete a challenge without having to put much thought into it. Like you said though, that's kinda boring in a way, you're just checking off a list and not necessarily going outside of your comfort zone.
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my buddy sent me an interesting thought "the ending of the mist is actually really happy if youre not the main character"
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Weird Sandwich posted:If you want a challenge that's more difficult: Watch a movie in a language you don't understand, without any subtitles i feel like "watch a horror movie from a country that you've never seen a movie from" would be a better idea for something like this
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So I've learned two things about reading reviews from the preview showings of The First Omen that make me a lot more excited to see it tomorrow: apparently its first cut got an NC-17, and apparently the theatrical cut is still really skirting that line.
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Kvlt! posted:i feel like "watch a horror movie from a country that you've never seen a movie from" would be a better idea for something like this That's been one of the regular challenges for a while. Some people are complaining that they're running out of countries.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:So I've learned two things about reading reviews from the preview showings of The First Omen that make me a lot more excited to see it tomorrow: apparently its first cut got an NC-17, and apparently the theatrical cut is still really skirting that line. Eh i wouldnt put too much into that. Blue Valentine originally got an NC17 because it had a cunnilingus scene iirc. Still pumped for the movie tho Jedit posted:That's been one of the regular challenges for a while. Some people are complaining that they're running out of countries. ah ok didnt know that!
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desperately searching "easter island horror film" so I can win an internet competition
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Open Source Idiom posted:desperately searching "easter island horror film" so I can win an internet competition Taking a vacation to the Marshall Islands to film a quick horror movie you can then watch to fulfill the challenge.
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CelticPredator posted:Is it actually good? I’ve been seeing some mixed things recently It's fine, it's a little slow for a 90 minute film but not annoyingly so. I didn't find it particularly scary and I felt like it was really easy to figure out what was happening early on, ends on a high note though
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:Next of Kin is my favorite Australian horror and the ending absolutely rules The hard pivot from gothic mystery in a spooky mansion to and now the baddies have a loving big as gently caress truck and there are big explosions and smashes and crashes and poo poo is very very fun
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Basebf555 posted:I'd have to agree that a general format change is probably overdue, I guess I'm just not the creative type and I was mostly just trying to imitate what we'd already been doing. I think it'd be best if it had a really low "floor" on what the minimum to complete a challenge season is but also a really high and variable "ceiling". It's not just open to us sickos in the thread, so we want it to be relatively easy for a rando who's basically never watched anything to do half a dozen classics over the month and leave with a sense of accomplishment. However, we also want a bunch of random cool stuff to keep ourselves amused : which can totally still be BINGO and a big checklist to work through, I'm not anti that, I just think it could also have a bunch of random weird poo poo for fun. Just my two cents, though. I couldn't volunteer to run the the May challenge due to another commitment, so this is all just kibitzing.
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Xiahou Dun posted:I think it'd be best if it had a really low "floor" on what the minimum to complete a challenge season is but also a really high and variable "ceiling". It's not just open to us sickos in the thread, so we want it to be relatively easy for a rando who's basically never watched anything to do half a dozen classics over the month and leave with a sense of accomplishment. However, we also want a bunch of random cool stuff to keep ourselves amused : which can totally still be BINGO and a big checklist to work through, I'm not anti that, I just think it could also have a bunch of random weird poo poo for fun. I'm not against random weird poo poo at all, my main concern was just that there could be some frustration with a scavenger hunt style format where people don't know if they're completing a challenge when they sit down to watch a movie. So now you're watching three or four movies just in hopes that you stumble on something that completes one of the items in the scavenger hunt. But maybe the answer is to have a separate category for that, kinda like what we did with the meta challenges. That way it feels like it's own little separate challenge for the die hards who are watching 50+ movies anyway and aren't as worried about fitting challenges into their schedule.
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Basebf555 posted:I'm not against random weird poo poo at all, my main concern was just that there could be some frustration with a scavenger hunt style format where people don't know if they're completing a challenge when they sit down to watch a movie. So now you're watching three or four movies just in hopes that you stumble on something that completes one of the items in the scavenger hunt. Yeah, I think that's the pool I've been swimming in without realizing that explicitly. There should be multiple variably difficult kinds of challenges and people can pick their own hardness level*. The expectation that a semi-reasonable person can 100% everything comes at the cost of not encouraging people to do weird poo poo, and I like the idea of people writing poetry about Chucky or submitting recipes or doing art or whatever. Also, if we allow music entries, I might finally have an excuse to buy a mandola too. And who doesn't want me to buy a mandola? * 
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