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Pretzel Rod Serling posted:if we were still in the Halloween subforum I’d give you a sixer for this, smdh it deserves a permaban imo possibly a real life criminal trial for libel and slander
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Cryptids that aren't real: bigfoot nessie champ mongolian death worm el chupacabra loveland frog cryptids that are real: mothman fresno nightcrawlers tsuchinoko
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The jersey devil is real, I've seen him and he is my friend
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At this point its hard to disprove the Fresno Nightcrawlers
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Snooze Cruise posted:
an ex of mine believed the loveland frog was her dad im not even joking she was not well whether it was mental illness or frog genes only the Lord knows
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Snooze Cruise posted:Cryptids that aren't real: You're leaving the door open on dogmen?
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Baron von Eevl posted:The jersey devil is real, I've seen him and he is my friend 
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Scariest monster I saw while hiking in the Pine Barrens was a neo nazi that wanted to swim in a river with us
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Snooze Cruise posted:Cryptids that aren't real: No no, you've got it all wrong. Nessie is real, she just isn't corporeal. The reason no dredging ever turned up a body is because Nessie is a pleisiosaur that died mmillions of years ago but lives on as a ghost. 
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Doltos posted:Yeah I think most of the elevated horror is just trauma over and over which is fine the first few times but becomes old fast. I probably would have appreciated Smile more if it wasn't the 100th entry into the trauma genre in the last 10 years. less movies about the fear of trauma taking over your life manifesting as giant snakes, more movies about the fundamental fear of being chased by a real giant snake imo
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I just found the flatwoods monster in fallout 76 and now I really want to make my flatwoods movie. It looked cool in the game. But it needed more of that spade head. Flatwoods is underrated
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Snooze Cruise posted:Cryptids that aren't real: Ogopogo, yes/no?
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Xiahou Dun posted:Ogopogo, yes/no? that one is real
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animals that are not real: horses. look at their eyes. they always look like a human got trapped in a horses body and is miserable and desperate but cant communicate. horses are demonic.
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Snooze Cruise posted:that one is real I grew up in the Okanagan and can confirm
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Opopanax posted:I grew up in the Okanagan and can confirm Exactly, and they spread the word as they go west.
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I highly doubt a biologist would just go up and touch a Jersey Devil
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Kvlt! posted:animals that are not real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk4G2wuGKJE
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My literal first thought.
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Medullah posted:I love James Randi movie sure didn't
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Which Bigfoot movie is the one where Bigfoot rips a guy's dingus off? That's the best Bigfoot movie
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The Berzerker posted:Which Bigfoot movie is the one where Bigfoot rips a guy's dingus off? That's the best Bigfoot movie Night of the Demon
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Alan Smithee posted:movie sure didn't Good
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Lots of big names and brands this week in Bracketology. Maybe not all the biggest movies. Where We’re At: 4. Tobe Hooper’s The Mangler vs. 13. Renny Harlin’s Exorcist: The Beginning 5. (Goat’s Team Zombie aka the New and Improved Knockoffs of the Living Dead) Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead vs. 12. (Sam’s Argenterror) Demián Rugna’s Terrified You can vote in this round until 12 noon EST Apr 28th (or when I get to it) Next Week! 3. Horror Noire vs. 14. Always Back The Drac 6. In Space No One Can Hear You Stream vs. 11. Lucio Fulci Thread / Spreadsheet / Letterboxd List
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As excited as I am for Trap, his daughters film I’m more excited for
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Busy weekend: Friday night: The First Omen in theater and Late Night With The Devil at home. First Omen felt more authentic, or at least more restrained, in terms of being Euro/Catholic horror than a lot of the American-produced stuff in that genre I've seen lately (30 Coins being my current gold standard). The twist of Margaret being a second antichrist-mother felt pretty telegraphed, though I was surprised her roommate was in on it. Agreed with most of y'all that the hey assholes this is a prequel stuff towards the end detracted from the atmosphere set by the rest of the movie. Late Night: I had fun with it; the AI art fuckin didn't need to be there. Always love when a demon reifies and poo poo gets gory and trippy. Saturday: Child's Play 2 & 3 aren't on our streaming so we skipped ahead and watched Bride of Chucky, which is still great. I love how much bathos they make out of flipping between "These 10-lb dolls are actually dangerous homicidal maniacs" and "These dangerous homicidal maniacs are still 10-lb dolls" and I don't think I will ever not cackle when Chucky is flung around the room. Followed it up with the 80s Invaders From Mars, which was note-perfect b-movie schlock.
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STAC Goat posted:Lots of big names and brands this week in Bracketology. Maybe not all the biggest movies. I loved “The Mangler” short story—anything where spell ingredients get kinda symbolic and postmodern does it for me. hopefully I can find some time to czech this one out…
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:NIGHT OF THE DEMON kicks rear end. Oh does it ever. It's pure exploitive trash and I say that in a very good way.
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Kvlt! posted:animals that are not real: I still remember the goon who was sharing his experience working at a stable and how twitchy the horses were and his still memorable line of 'Poor Freckles, thought of ants and died'.
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The Berzerker posted:Which Bigfoot movie is the one where Bigfoot rips a guy's dingus off? That's the best Bigfoot movie WeaponX posted:Night of the Demon At first I thought you meant Night of the Demon (1957) and was nodding approvingly like, 'it's a creative interpretation, but yes, the movie is really about proving the existence of Satanic Bigfoot who shows up out of the woods and rips guys' dinguses off'
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Chris James 2 posted:Starve Acre (folk horror starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark), Neat! I enjoyed the book this is based on. Although if it is anything like the book, and folks've had their fill of (broad theme spoilers coming up)"actually it's about grief" films then maybe wait for streaming/rental. I'm looking forward to Longlegs, The Watchers, I Saw the TV Glow, Alien Romulus, In a Violent Nature, Maxxxine, Tarot, Nosferatu. Although given how few foreign films make it to the theatres around here, and the fact that I've had to cancel most of my subscription services, who knows when I'll actually get to see any of them!
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I'll never tire of "it's about grief" horror Everything you consume has a message, if you're not perceptive enough to see that it's not the creator's fault when it's pointed out to you or when you discover it, it doesn't auto-make it bad, and it's doubly not their fault for making something timely in a big and vast genre that IMO encompasses everything and that is, if nothing else, known for being timely (did or didn't COVID just happen? Did or didn't it kill someone you knew, either directly or mutually/separated by a degree? What does coming that close to mortality, and isolated either physically or emotionally while doing it, do to you and your mentality going forward?) 
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While sometimes modern horror can be a bit clunky and obvious in their metaphor, that's something affecting the media landscape as a whole, and sometimes an obvious message doesn't automatically mean a bad one. And so much great horror - and this is what made me absolutely fall in love with the genre - can be savvy and have depth even when the subject is about a giant blob or whatever. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 is about how disabled people, especially teenagers, are not taken seriously by the social programs set up to "protect" them, and rarely if ever get the help they need or deserve. Bubba Ho Tep is about how miserable senior living facilities are and how badly society treats those on the fringe of society - in this case the elderly or those suffering from dementia. Godzilla Minus One is about breaking down the myth of the noble death and exploring the generational trauma of the nuclear attacks on Japan. They are also about a spooky man who kills people ironically in dreams, a mummy fighting Elvis and Black JFK, and a big lizard destroying a city, respectively.
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i just dont need a metaphor in my horror movies tbh or at least not ALL OF them. Like give me a movie about a scary guy with a machete attacking teenagers and just have it be that. not everything needs to be some grand metaphor or statement, i think filmmaking esp horror has forgotten about just having fun and being entertained and escaping lovely reality for a few hours
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There was a three week period where there were two extremely good new religious horror films that easily could have just been about fighting the Devil and instead subverted those expectations, one by showing the importance of choosing oneself over the demands of a society fixated on being a parent first (and on being the perfect ideal of one after), and the other about how necessary it is to discover oneself on the way to even being able to choose that (and how anarchic such a concept can be; not a coincidence at all The First Omen was deliberately taking place amidst a backdrop of mass student protests, strikes, tension and violence like the Years of Lead)
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