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Doltos posted:So if kids love it then I guess they shouldn't have watered down the movie what did they water down
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Yeah you bought that poo poo from book orders!! It's a kids book of spooky stories! It and Goosebumps! The third book has one of the two stories that really freaked me out as a kid (the spider bite) and I was glad/grossed out that it made it into the movie. The movie wasn't really very good (not enough energy imo) but for teen horror it does the trick and is respectable with great adaptations of some of the more recognizable monster illustrations. The other story in those books that really freaked me out was the one with the three old men in the nursing home and the one near the window would tell the other two about all the sights he saw out of the window. It ended with the one furthest from the window conspiring to kill the others so he could move to the bed next to the window. The illustration and punchline always made my stomach twist, it was probably the most existential story there.
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Apr 17, 2024 02:39
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harold didnt skin anyone but you cant have a puppet flay someone alive in a movie for teens its not proper
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Apr 17, 2024 02:39
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Kvlt! posted:what did they water down I felt like there was a CGI sheen to everything that made it feel pretty clinical. I picture something like Begotten when I think of those illustrations but the movie felt more like the new IT. Still harrowing imagery that would give a kid nightmares but not exactly as impactful as the illustrations. They also changed a lot of the stories to just be intimidating monster rather than the doom implication. Like Harold was making people spew out corn which was way less harrowing than him skinning someone and drying it on the roof.
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Apr 17, 2024 02:42
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how do you show someone getting skinned and dried out on a roof in a kids movie
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Apr 17, 2024 02:45
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Kvlt! posted:how do you show someone getting skinned and dried out on a roof in a kids movie you gotta make sure they are established as a bully beforehand
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Apr 17, 2024 02:47
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Doltos posted:Definitely marketed towards children but it was a well known book for hosed up illustrations and stories. I read it as a kid but I dunno if kids were supposed to be looking at this: My friend and I photocopied that girl image when we were like 10 and put it under his sister's sheets and she screamed real loud when she went to bed and we got in a lot of trouble. Being a kid owns.
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Apr 17, 2024 02:49
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Tim Whatley posted:My friend and I photocopied that girl image when we were like 10 and put it under his sister's sheets and she screamed real loud when she went to bed and we got in a lot of trouble. Being a kid owns. lol
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Apr 17, 2024 02:50
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david_a posted:Also have to give a big shout out to the Crestwood House Monster Series, aka the orange monster books I'd never heard of these but I already love them
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Apr 17, 2024 02:55
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david_a posted:Also have to give a big shout out to the Crestwood House Monster Series, aka the orange monster books these were what got me into universal horror as a kid. badass books
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Apr 17, 2024 02:58
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and how i found out about frankenstein's monster throwing that child into the river lol
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Apr 17, 2024 02:58
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Scary Stories can be PG and good, the problem was the film wasn’t very good. A few cool creature shots tho.
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Apr 17, 2024 02:59
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:and how i found out about frankenstein's monster throwing that child into the river lol I don't think I learned it from that book but I definitely read a film history book in the same vein from my school library that talked about how that scene was censored. owned
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Apr 17, 2024 03:01
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What PG spooky film or show has the best creature design? My gut pick is The Other Mother from Coraline.
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Apr 17, 2024 03:03
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:I don't think I learned it from that book but I definitely read a film history book in the same vein from my school library that talked about how that scene was censored. owned it could have been that book i would grab anything horror related from the library lol
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High Warlord Zog posted:What PG spooky film or show has the best creature design? My gut pick is The Other Mother from Coraline. the troll sfrom ernest scared stupid
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david_a posted:Also have to give a big shout out to the Crestwood House Monster Series, aka the orange monster books the only time i ever got saturday detention, and i genuinely do not remember why i did, it was in the library and i discovered these and spent the entire detention period reading them and now i post in horror thread: lightning, uh, finds a grave
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Apr 17, 2024 03:07
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WeaponX posted:Scary Stories can be PG and good, the problem was the film wasn’t very good. A few cool creature shots tho. I agree. Didn’t really work for me honestly
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Apr 17, 2024 03:11
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High Warlord Zog posted:What PG spooky film or show has the best creature design? My gut pick is The Other Mother from Coraline. Obvious answer aside Poltergeist
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Apr 17, 2024 03:19
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High Warlord Zog posted:What PG spooky film or show has the best creature design? My gut pick is The Other Mother from Coraline. Gremlins The Witches
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Kvlt! posted:how do you show someone getting skinned and dried out on a roof in a kids movie You can't but this statement and that it wasn't watered down for kids has trouble co-existing. Movie didn't work for me which is why I wanted to see a more accurate version to the books. Also not for nothing I don't think kids are aware of the book anymore, seems like you could easily make it for the generation that grew up on it that's all 30+ now.
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Apr 17, 2024 03:26
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High Warlord Zog posted:What PG spooky film or show has the best creature design? My gut pick is The Other Mother from Coraline. big fan of all the creature design (both heroic and antagonistic) in return to oz
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Apr 17, 2024 03:27
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High Warlord Zog posted:What PG spooky film or show has the best creature design? My gut pick is The Other Mother from Coraline. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G93OIEJLJE&t=45s
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High Warlord Zog posted:What PG spooky film or show has the best creature design? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lo7JPLJUUU (warning: flashing lights  )16-bit Butt-Head posted:the troll sfrom ernest scared stupid Shrecknet fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Apr 17, 2024 |
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Doltos posted:You can't but this statement and that it wasn't watered down for kids has trouble co-existing. Movie didn't work for me which is why I wanted to see a more accurate version to the books. Also not for nothing I don't think kids are aware of the book anymore, seems like you could easily make it for the generation that grew up on it that's all 30+ now. I think in the end it's a series where those illustrations were the thing that people remember much more so than the actual stories. I have fond memories of reading the books but the memories of the stories are very vague, it's the illustrations that made the lasting impression. So I guess my point is that it was a really tough thing to attempt. You have these illustrations that in a way are iconic, but for most people they don't have actual stories attached to them and the demographic that has the nostalgia connection is pretty old at this point. Maybe in hindsight not the smartest move to try to make it into a feature film because it's not like the usual 80s/90s nostalgia property where you have popular characters and successful storylines already established to work from.
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Apr 17, 2024 03:40
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Props to the Netflix Dark Crystal prequel show for fully committing to recreating the nightmarishness of the most frightening Henson and Henson adjacent kids media from the 80s and early 90s. I don't know if any children watched it (I feel like 10 hours of Dark Crystal isn't exactly something that would appeal to present days kids), but if they did the episode where Mother Aughra removes her eye and gives it to a little spider critter to carry around the Skeksis palace as they start to mass murder the Gelflings must've been the source of a lot of nightmares. The payoff to the subplot with the Mark Hamill voiced Mad Science Skeksis was some delightfully nasty stuff. High Warlord Zog fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Apr 17, 2024 |
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High Warlord Zog posted:What PG spooky film or show has the best creature design? My gut pick is The Other Mother from Coraline. my faves are Mogwai and the Gremlins from Gremlins or Beetlejuice and his surrounding monsters, maybe
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Basebf555 posted:I think in the end it's a series where those illustrations were the thing that people remember much more so than the actual stories. I have fond memories of reading the books but the memories of the stories are very vague, it's the illustrations that made the lasting impression. I reread them all like a year ago and the stories are geared towards early grade reading levels. Pretty simplistic and couched in the idea that you'd be telling them at a slumber party or something. The imagination is definitely filled in by the illustrations but some of the stories have some legit scares. The old lady going to the mass of the dead because she woke up too early for church or the guy who woke up at night and saw a hearse with the driver saying room for one more, going to work the next day and seeing the same guy in the elevator and then the elevator crashing. Aforementioned scarecrow flaying a guy, the bride that locks herself in the chest during hide and seek, all hosed up and memorable.
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Shrecknet posted:
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High Warlord Zog posted:Props to the Netflix Dark Crystal prequel show for fully committing to recreating the nightmarishness of the most frightening Henson and Henson adjacent kids media from the 80s and early 90s. I don't know if any children watched it (I feel like 10 hours of Dark Crystal isn't exactly something that would appeal to present days kids), but if they did the episode where Mother Aughra removes her eye and gives it to a little spider critter to carry around the Skeksis palace as they start to mass murder the Gelflings must've been the source of a lot of nightmares. The payoff to the subplot with the Mark Hamill voiced Mad Science Skeksis was some delightfully nasty stuff. Is the prequel show good? I never bothered to check it out, but you just described some pretty cool things.
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Xiahou Dun posted:Is the prequel show good? I never bothered to check it out, but you just described some pretty cool things. i really liked it and i saw the original only as an adult so no nostalgia tint here
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Kvlt! posted:i really liked it and i saw the original only as an adult so no nostalgia tint here Sheeit. Maybe I’m a Dark Crystal prequel show kind of guy.
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Xiahou Dun posted:Is the prequel show good? I never bothered to check it out, but you just described some pretty cool things. its good
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they used as many practical effects as they could its tight
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can any of you help me remember a movie I rented from blockbuster in like 2008-09? I was pretty sure there was a killer clown but my friend disagrees. I’ve looked through all the killer clown movies of this era and haven’t found it so he might be right. there was definitely a bad guy chasing the group. I remember it being gritty and kind of aesthetically a SAW ripoff but a lot more brown & rust. i remember a dessicated corpse looking guy getting fluids transferred out of him. I remember the girl escaping by climbing up and out into a shack on a frozen lake then burning the shack down. im truly sorry for this terrible post
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The Dark Crystal show was good and did some unexpected things, the one problem is the one all heavily serialized streaming shows have where episodes feel a little overlong because they don’t quite know how to pace out the story.
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Ghislaine of YOSPOS posted:can any of you help me remember a movie I rented from blockbuster in like 2008-09? I was pretty sure there was a killer clown but my friend disagrees. I’ve looked through all the killer clown Dark Ride (2006)?
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Apr 17, 2024 05:26
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Kvlt! posted:Dark Ride (2006)? no but the spirit of this post is very close. it was not something I’ve ever heard of before or since, in the sense that it was a pretty lovely b movie that took itself completely seriously. i will watch dark ride i love rides
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Apr 17, 2024 05:28
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your description is ringing a serious bell in my head too ima dig a little more
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Kvlt! posted:your description is ringing a serious bell in my head too ima dig a little more appreciate you. my buddy also said the end came down to the two girls of the group and the killler got pushed into some vials/whatever he was trying to kill them with.
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