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rawdog pozfail posted:Never ever watch Crowsnest ever. As some one who made this mistake, I can support this idea.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Calling any sequence in Phantasmagoria 2 a puzzle is extremely generous. What about that puzzle of goop and interdimensional boogers or whatever that was at the end?
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Went and saw Viy 3D because, well, how could I resist? Turns out it's a sequel, not a remake, and it turns the story into a Sleepy Hollow sort of spooky fairy tale, only with a messier script. First half of the movie is a complete mess; they establish ties with the original Soviet film in very clumsy ways and also introduce the new, extremly implausible main character. There's no identifiable antagonist and no conflict, you have zero reason to care about anything that happens. But later a mystery plot of some sort begins to take shape. Nothing too fancy, but much of the aimless stuff from the beginning gets addressed, and things get in motion at least. It is, of course, never scary; the CG-fests of demon invasions are more slapstick than anything else. The most unsettling part is the hairstyles of the villagers. That poo poo will haunt my dreams.
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Feb 1, 2014 21:21
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woodenchicken posted:The most unsettling part is the hairstyles of the villagers. That poo poo will haunt my dreams. Wow, Skrillex has aged terribly.
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Feb 1, 2014 21:25
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Drunkboxer posted:What about that puzzle of goop and interdimensional boogers or whatever that was at the end? Touché. Also that slide puzzle on the door of the S&M club. You know the club, it has three guys dancing in front of it.
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Feb 1, 2014 21:34
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rawdog pozfail posted:Never ever watch Crowsnest ever. I thought it was a lot of fun. I'm fairly sure the characters are written to be as useless and ineffectual as possible, to the point that the viewer ends up rooting for the cannibal hillbillies. I'm thinking specifically of the scene where the really annoying whiny girl gets run over unexpectedly by the RV, it's such a great moment of slapstick.
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Feb 1, 2014 21:38
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Kvlt! posted:How's Devil's Due? Very generic and doesnt add much to a dying (sub?) genre; but it does have one of my favorite FF scares.
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Kvlt! posted:How's Devil's Due? It's bad. Definitely not worth paying theater prices.
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It does do something fairly new that helps explain the amount of found footage though, that was nice.
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Feb 3, 2014 05:42
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I've kinda come around to found footage, because now I really want to see some GoPro found footage movies. That segment in VHS 2 was pretty cool.
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Feb 3, 2014 05:47
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Zwabu posted:It's bad. Definitely not worth paying theater prices. What about for "$5 Movie Night"?
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Feb 3, 2014 06:10
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temple posted:I watched the Phantasm movies over the summer.... Actually Phantasm III is the best one if only for the way it ends. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxG8ALGoiLU_&t=15s It's not the best one.
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Feb 3, 2014 10:43
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Rhyno posted:It does do something fairly new that helps explain the amount of found footage though, that was nice. What did it do?
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Feb 3, 2014 18:18
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I re watched The Blair Witch Project last night for about the fifth time and have finally concluded that it's the best horror movie of the 90s.
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I absolutely 100% disagree with you. There are plenty of great ideas, and even a few truly inspired moments, but there's so much chaff bogging down the wheat that there's no way the film is as good as it always believed it was. While I can appreciate the improvisational manner of the script, endless wandering filled with swearing because the actors didn't know what else to say does not make for entertainment. If they had replaced the filler with more creepy moments, it could be in my opinion a real classic instead of an interesting experiment that ultimately coasted on its own novelty.
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Choco1980 posted:I absolutely 100% disagree with you. There are plenty of great ideas, and even a few truly inspired moments, but there's so much chaff bogging down the wheat that there's no way the film is as good as it always believed it was. While I can appreciate the improvisational manner of the script, endless wandering filled with swearing because the actors didn't know what else to say does not make for entertainment. If they had replaced the filler with more creepy moments, it could be in my opinion a real classic instead of an interesting experiment that ultimately coasted on its own novelty. See, the very reason the movie works so well is because it totally downplays those "creepy moments" that you wanted more of. The movie is grounded in reality more than almost any other I've seen, and it's precisely because of the "endless wandering" without much happening. The swearing, the inane chatter is all so naturalistic that my brain starts to forget I'm watching a movie. By the time poo poo hits the fan at the end, the sense of dread and terror feels stunningly close. It's remarkable how the movie opens up my imagination to some utterly terrifying notions, all by simply hinting at them rather than showing them. One shot of a distant figure, one witch sound, one quick flash of a face or a shadowy figure in front of the camera and the whole effect would be completely destroyed. The movie is, in a way, a litmus test for ones own imagination.
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caiman posted:See, the very reason the movie works so well is because it totally downplays those "creepy moments" that you wanted more of. The movie is grounded in reality more than almost any other I've seen, and it's precisely because of the "endless wandering" without much happening. The swearing, the inane chatter is all so naturalistic that my brain starts to forget I'm watching a movie. By the time poo poo hits the fan at the end, the sense of dread and terror feels stunningly close. It's remarkable how the movie opens up my imagination to some utterly terrifying notions, all by simply hinting at them rather than showing them. One shot of a distant figure, one witch sound, one quick flash of a face or a shadowy figure in front of the camera and the whole effect would be completely destroyed. The movie is, in a way, a litmus test for ones own imagination. Also as a long time hiker, watching them wander in increasing panic without being able to find the way out was worrying. When Mike cracks up and throws the map away it shouldn't matter - if you head downhill until you hit water then head downstream you'll inevitably find people, and your only worry is lack of food. But then you realise that it didn't matter; even if he had kept his head they wouldn't have been able to find their way out. This is even more obvious if you watched the subsidiary material including Curse of the Blair Witch first, so that you know all about the house at the end and where the film footage was purportedly found.
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Choco1980 posted:I absolutely 100% disagree with you. There are plenty of great ideas, and even a few truly inspired moments, but there's so much chaff bogging down the wheat that there's no way the film is as good as it always believed it was. While I can appreciate the improvisational manner of the script, endless wandering filled with swearing because the actors didn't know what else to say does not make for entertainment. If they had replaced the filler with more creepy moments, it could be in my opinion a real classic instead of an interesting experiment that ultimately coasted on its own novelty. I agree with this post but I don't really have an alternative "best horror movie of the 90s" to name in its stead.
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Drunkboxer posted:I agree with this post but I don't really have an alternative "best horror movie of the 90s" to name in its stead. We've had this discussion before and it's Ravenous.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:We've had this discussion before and it's Ravenous. I guess that doesn't click as a horror movie to me since it's mostly fighting, I thought. Maybe I'm remembering it wrong. Also what's horrific about eating people to gain their power? Sounds like the dream to me.
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caiman posted:one witch sound I 100% agree, but this part made me laugh. Speaking of witch sounds, I really wanted to like Lords of Salem, but the witches made absolutely no sense. They're just hanging out in the woods, yelling "EVIL" words? I'm not sure if this actually happened or if I just created a false memory, but I'm convinced there was a scene during the crazy witch chanting where one of the women shouts out, "I'm BLASPHEMING!", in the same exact tone that Richard Dreyfus would respond, "Keep Blasheming, Bob!"
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Scream, Blair Witch, Silence of the Lambs, New Nightmare, Ravenous. There's your top 5 for the 90s. Candyman and Tremors just barely miss making the cut.
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Speaking of Ed Gein, the other day I met one of the psychiatrist's who treated him, it was actually really interesting. And while we're on the subject, after the original, which one of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies are worth watching? Not including the remakes.
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Drunkboxer posted:I guess that doesn't click as a horror movie to me since it's mostly fighting, I thought. Maybe I'm remembering it wrong. Also what's horrific about eating people to gain their power? Sounds like the dream to me. Difficult to argue with, I suppose.
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Kvlt! posted:Speaking of Ed Gein, the other day I met one of the psychiatrist's who treated him, it was actually really interesting. The first one is fantastic, not sure about the rest though.
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Feb 4, 2014 03:06
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Phantasm II is available via Cinemax on demand streaming. Will it screw anything up watching this if I haven't seen the original film?
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Kvlt! posted:What did it do? The cult members broke into the couple's home and installed 18 hidden cameras. So rather than rely entirely on a handheld camera and finding an excuse for the male lead to always be recording with his handheld they had more sources.
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Feb 4, 2014 03:24
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Kvlt! posted:Speaking of Ed Gein, the other day I met one of the psychiatrist's who treated him, it was actually really interesting. This franchise has actually been remade several times. There's also a few non-successive sequels. The first one is essential horror, and I'm somewhat shocked you haven't seen it. The second one is pretty divisive, but some goons like it quite a bit. It has Bill Moseley in a pretty iconic role of Chop Top. I haven't seen part 3, but it's a reboot as well I believe. . Part 4 was literally only released because Matthew McConaughey and Renee Zellweger both became bigger stars several years after this one was completed.
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Kvlt! posted:And while we're on the subject, after the original, which one of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies are worth watching? Not including the remakes.
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The best Horror movie of the '90s is Dead Alive and don't any of you forget it.
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CopywrightMMXI posted:This franchise has actually been remade several times. There's also a few non-successive sequels. Even if you don't count TCM3 as a soft reboot or whatever, it's been remade no less than three times.
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Zwabu posted:Phantasm II is available via Cinemax on demand streaming. Will it screw anything up watching this if I haven't seen the original film? It'll spoil the ending of the first one, including a pretty amazing scare sequence. But I've made people who don't like horror watch just the second one and they weren't (that) lost.
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Just to be clear I've seen the original TCM and all the modern ones too, I just haven't seen the ones in between. Thanks all!
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Kvlt! posted:Speaking of Ed Gein, the other day I met one of the psychiatrist's who treated him, it was actually really interesting. This just reminds me of that Loaded Weapon quote: "General Mortars was my patient. I taught him to express his anger." "You taught him well." "Quite. After our last session, he started the Vietnamese war."
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The best horror movie of the 90's was actually Candyman. on the subject of ed gein, I watched Deranged (1974) recently which is supposedly a re-telling of the ed gein story. It was ok, Roberts Blossom chewed the scenery as ed gein but the movie ended pretty abruptly and for some reason it was presented as a "true crime" story with an on screen narrator. Wasn't on the level of TCM, thats for sure
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The best Horror movies of the '90s in no order based on my generally questionable taste and ratings: From Dusk Till Dawn Blade The Faculty Scream The Blair Witch Project Army of Darkness The Frighteners Tremors Troll 2 The People Under the Stairs Idle Hands Candyman In the Mouth of Madness Dead Alive House on Haunted Hill Mimic Deep Rising New Nightmare Ravenous Night of the Living Dead Gremlins 2: The New Batch Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday The Exorcist III Demon Knight The Relic Tremors II: Aftershocks Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III My Boyfriend's Back Frankenhooker Dr. Giggles Highway to Hell Terror Firmer The Willies Body Melt Tell Me Something The Boneyard
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Jason Goes to Hell was a stupid awful movie but it will always hold a special place in my heart as my first real horror experience.
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I actually really do like the House on Haunted Hill remake. It generally gets crapped on, but I thought it was one of those rare movies that was just silly enough to disarm you, then it would bust out some genuinely scary poo poo when you weren't expecting it.
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DeathChicken posted:I actually really do like the House on Haunted Hill remake. It generally gets crapped on, but I thought it was one of those rare movies that was just silly enough to disarm you, then it would bust out some genuinely scary poo poo when you weren't expecting it. I generally agree. I loved everything about it until that last bit. It wasn't necessary and just ruined the atmosphere. 
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