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Keanu Grieves posted:Also, Haunt Thanks for the recommendation. I'd never heard of it before. Just watched it, not bad. I love ghost stories and keep looking for movies that will actually scare me, aka make my heart rate increase. This fit the bill. It had a bit too much teenage romance drama for my liking but was otherwise OK and definitely not a waste of time. 7/10 with some decent jump scares.
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You are all criminals for thinking Triangle is better than Timecrimes. Triangle is a movie I've seen at least five better versions of. Oh no bad things happen and then they repeat, what an original idea!
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ravenkult posted:You are all criminals for thinking Triangle is better than Timecrimes. Triangle is a movie I've seen at least five better versions of. Oh no bad things happen and then they repeat, what an original idea! What are five better movies than triangle? Because I enjoyed the hell out of Triangle, and might be interested in seeing other movies like it that aren't Timecrimes.
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ravenkult posted:You are all criminals for thinking Triangle is better than Timecrimes. Triangle is a movie I've seen at least five better versions of. Oh no bad things happen and then they repeat, what an original idea! Other than Groundhog Day I'm stressing to think of another movie where the entire timeline cycles. Oh poo poo, mentioning GD was bannable at one point.
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Mar 11, 2014 17:06
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I disliked Timecrimes for the same reason I disliked Tucker and Dale vs Evil: Once you understand the premise, all that remains is seeing what kind of crazy contortions the writers are going to have to put the story through to get there. It's entertaining, sure, but not as a story. Whereas, I thought Triangle was actually an effective horror movie.
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Skyscraper posted:I disliked Timecrimes for the same reason I disliked Tucker and Dale vs Evil: Once you understand the premise, all that remains is seeing what kind of crazy contortions the writers are going to have to put the story through to get there. It's entertaining, sure, but not as a story. Whereas, I thought Triangle was actually an effective horror movie. Well...Tucker and Dale was a straight up hooror, with all the tropes that established genre has. It's great they were kinda funny about it, but if you're watching that movie expecting to be blown away by the plot of it or Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Friday the Thirteenth then you just should lower your expectations of what a straight horror gets you. I mean, it was basically a comedy sendup of TCM, which itself had no loving point. It's really not a 'smart' genre. There are some great twists off that genre, like Cabin in the woods, but those are hybrids. Drifter fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Mar 11, 2014 |
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nocal posted:Kill List is like having a literal nightmare. Martha Marcy May Marlene is kinda sorta like having a friend who joined the Manson family. Dogtooth is about a clannish, abusive family -- not as horrific as the other two, but pretty good. If you liked Kill List you should probably check out the rest of Ben Wheatley's films. Down Terrace and Sightseers aren't strictly psychological horror, but his most recent, A Field In England, probably counts. It's a trippy, Jodorowsky-esque film about the English Civil War with one scene of Reece Shearsmith, exiting a tent in slow motion after something very bad has happened, sporting a really nightmarish expression. Shearsmith's currently writing/starring in a TV series called Inside Number 9 which is pretty great too, each episode a standalone story in an updated Tales of the Unexpected/twisted O Henry style. The first episode, "Sardines", was probably the best, with a really sick twist at the end. Anyway, to further us away from arguing about the merits of time travel films, I just watched Frailty (I'm investigating Matthew McConaughey's back catalogue to see if he was always this good, aside from all the romcoms) and kinda dug it? It's Bill Paxton's first film as director and has a pretty great opening scene - an FBI agent (Powers Boothe!) is called to his office in the middle of the night because a guy (McConaughey) claims the serial killer the agent's been hunting is his brother, who just killed himself - and has a creepy story that's mostly told in flashback. The direction's pretty pedestrian and there's some hammy parts - a lot from Paxton himself, who plays McConaughey's loony father - and cheesy dialogue in places, but also some child actors that are genuinely good and the premise is just weird and unsettling. I even quite liked the goofy ending  Worth a stream, if nothing else.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:What, really? Yeah, it was something stupid where goons would post "that one movie with Bill Murray" and it became bannable. At least I think that's how it went. http://forums.somethingawful.com/dictionary.php?act=3&topicid=2186
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Skyscraper posted:I disliked Timecrimes for the same reason I disliked Tucker and Dale vs Evil: Once you understand the premise, all that remains is seeing what kind of crazy contortions the writers are going to have to put the story through to get there. It's entertaining, sure, but not as a story. Whereas, I thought Triangle was actually an effective horror movie. Yeah but Tucker and Dale vs Evil was hilarious.
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Slackerish posted:Yeah but Tucker and Dale vs Evil was hilarious. Sure, it just wasn't surprising after the premise. Likewise, Timecrimes (I think) makes a better dark comedy than a psychological horror film, while Triangle plays it straight.
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Keanu Grieves posted:
I actually kind of lost interest in the remake right around the hallway fight, oddly enough. It just didn't feel as visceral as the original; it seemed like the remake was basically just built around trying to one-up the hallway scene and everything else was an afterthought. Also, it strains credulity to make me sit there and buy that not one single person in a giant private supermax facility in post-Katrina New Orleans owns a gun. Nah, better just line up one at a time with beer bottles and random hunks of lumber that can be splintered over Josh Brolin's spine with no seeming effect. Then you get the exposition dumps and an ending that seems tone-deaf to the point of the original in a film that is otherwise close to a shot-for-shot remake and ugh. It did a few things right, and there are some interesting shots, but judged as a whole I think the Oldboy remake is much weaker. Then again, it might not be fair to judge it after seeing the original, because knowing exactly what's going to happen next for 90% of the film does kind of rob it of potency.
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I watched Lunopolis on Netflix today. It's not horror, sort of thriller-ish and I thought it was really interesting. Low budget found-footage pseudo-documentary kind of thing--involves people on the moon, governmental conspiracies, and cults. I didn't expect much but it really held my attention and interest. Some pretty clever bits, even offering somewhat plausible explanations for time travel, Atlantis, and ghosts. I liked it, especially for not knowing anything about it going in. Definitely spent worse 90 minutes.
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I felt compelled to rectify the lack of Lars von Trier's Riget/The Kingdom. Premise: "The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff's faith in science--a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor's fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural. At the goading of a spiritualist patient, some employees work to let supernatural forces rest." https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108906/ I don't think you have to like Lars von Trier to enjoy this series; the person who recommended it to me as one of his favorite things ever hated Lars. Oliver Reed fucked around with this message at 13:09 on Mar 22, 2014 |
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The first season of Riget is my favorite season of any show. It's so hilariously bizarre and unsettling 
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Drifter posted:What are five better movies than triangle? Because I enjoyed the hell out of Triangle, and might be interested in seeing other movies like it that aren't Timecrimes. I do like Triangle (altho TimeCrimes is better), Plus One (aka +1) is another movie in that vein you might like.
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TIMECRIME/TRIANGLE MEGATHREAD Is +1 any good? I like the concept but it took a while for it to get going and I got tired of the insufferable teens. It felt like I'd been tricked into watching half of Project X.
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I personally found it really mediocre. If you stopped watching halfway through because of boring teen bullshit then you made the right choice, because the rest of it is even more boring teen bullshit.
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tenniseveryone posted:TIMECRIME/TRIANGLE MEGATHREAD It's ok. There was a clearly missed opportunity for a clever twist about 2/3 of the way in -- they spend so much time stressing out about how they're the originals and have to defeat the "evil" clones that I was sure they were going to discover a 3rd group of the actual originals, as far ahead in time from them as they themselves were ahead of the third group, and go into the metaphysical crisis that would entail. But nope. It's reasonably entertaining but nothing you'd ever want to own or rewatch. I'd say it's as entertaining as, say, Saw N, where N is a whole number greater than 1. Good soundtrack!
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whatshesaid posted:Thanks for the recommendation. I'd never heard of it before. Just watched it, not bad. I love ghost stories and keep looking for movies that will actually scare me, aka make my heart rate increase. This fit the bill. It had a bit too much teenage romance drama for my liking but was otherwise OK and definitely not a waste of time. 7/10 with some decent jump scares.  Full Fathoms Five posted:I actually kind of lost interest in the remake right around the hallway fight, oddly enough. It just didn't feel as visceral as the original; it seemed like the remake was basically just built around trying to one-up the hallway scene and everything else was an afterthought. Also, it strains credulity to make me sit there and buy that not one single person in a giant private supermax facility in post-Katrina New Orleans owns a gun. Nah, better just line up one at a time with beer bottles and random hunks of lumber that can be splintered over Josh Brolin's spine with no seeming effect. Also, 13 Sins — a remake of 13: Game of Death, which I still haven't seen — is out on VOD this weekend and it's surprisingly decent. There are a few gory moments, but it's more about transgression and irony than the gooey stuff. And, while we're on the subject of movies beginning with 13, if you haven't seen 13 tzameti — well, what the gently caress are you doing with your life? EDIT: I almost forgot to mention Cheap Thrills, which has a similar premise as 13 Sins — a series of escalating bets gets really loving dark — but is all-around a better film, created by the collective responsible for You're Next and V/H/S. Ed Koechner really should get more starring roles, it reunites The Innkeepers' Pat Healy and Sara Paxton, and it has a wonderful sense of humor. Thunderlips posted:I watched Lunopolis on Netflix today. tenniseveryone posted:Shearsmith's currently writing/starring in a TV series called Inside Number 9 which is pretty great too, each episode a standalone story in an updated Tales of the Unexpected/twisted O Henry style. The first episode, "Sardines", was probably the best, with a really sick twist at the end. Keanu Grieves fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Mar 22, 2014 |
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Dissapointed Owl posted:It's an amazing film. Kinda sad we don't get the novel's ending. That is not at all what happens 
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tenniseveryone posted:TIMECRIME/TRIANGLE MEGATHREAD I liked it well enough, it was a neat concept that fell kind of flat but it's nowhere near the worst film I saw last year.
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goodness posted:That is not at all what happens Ahaha, that's what I get for trusting someone else's interpretation of the 18th chapter (which got published after the author's death) which I hadn't read myself. You can read it here ( http://robertomengoni.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/secret-hanging-rock.pdf ) and I guess someone was loving with me. Dissapointed Owl fucked around with this message at 06:50 on Mar 23, 2014 |
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I feel like the first episode of Inside No. 9, Sardines, was probably influenced a lot by Thomas Vinterberg's movie The Celebration, which is, I think, the ultimate feeling-claustrophobic-at-a-family-reunion movie. I can't remember if it's been talked about in this thread before, but it sort of fits the thread theme. The set-up is simple (a family have a reunion to celebrate the patriarch's sixtieth birthday and a secret from the past is revealed), but the way it's shot and acted makes it feel grossly realistic. While it's not scary, I found it unsettling as hell and I felt nauseous for the rest of the day after watching it.  "All families have a secret"
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Admiral Goodenough posted:I feel like the first episode of Inside No. 9, Sardines, was probably influenced a lot by Thomas Vinterberg's movie The Celebration, which is, I think, the ultimate feeling-claustrophobic-at-a-family-reunion movie. I can't remember if it's been talked about in this thread before, but it sort of fits the thread theme. The set-up is simple (a family have a reunion to celebrate the patriarch's sixtieth birthday and a secret from the past is revealed), but the way it's shot and acted makes it feel grossly realistic. While it's not scary, I found it unsettling as hell and I felt nauseous for the rest of the day after watching it.
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Your Dylan McDermott avatar reminded me that this movie belongs in this thread: It's a slightly art-house lower budget version of terminator without the time travel aspect. Nothing amazing plot wise, it fit's the sci-fi thriller category at least. I mostly liked it for the visuals, the director had only done music videos before this film. It's got cameos from Iggy Pop and Lemme from motorhead.
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monkey posted:Your Dylan McDermott avatar reminded me that this movie belongs in this thread: Also, Porkins.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Also, Porkins. Whoa, is he the creepy neighbor guy?!
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I never noticed that, just like I never noticed that Wez from Road Warrior is Bennett.
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monkey posted:Your Dylan McDermott avatar reminded me that this movie belongs in this thread: I saw it when it came out because the soundtrack featured Ministry and it was tied to the "industrial" aesthetic which I was into, but it was only a so-so movie.
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After watching the trailer for "Clown", it got me thinking - there aren't many horror movies where a good person slowly turns into evil due to some external force. Can anybody recommend some movies that have that sort of premise?
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Bag of Sun Chips posted:After watching the trailer for "Clown", it got me thinking - there aren't many horror movies where a good person slowly turns into evil due to some external force. Can anybody recommend some movies that have that sort of premise? It's just a tiny bit more lurid than most films in the thread, but Drag Me to Hell touches on this theme a bit. And it's a pretty good movie besides, especially if you like Sam Raimi. Actually I think it poses the question of whether the main character was ever a good person, but whatever. The events of the movie make her awfulness more obvious, at the very least.
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Bag of Sun Chips posted:After watching the trailer for "Clown", it got me thinking - there aren't many horror movies where a good person slowly turns into evil due to some external force. Can anybody recommend some movies that have that sort of premise? Do you mean like every possession movie ever?
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Do you mean like every possession movie ever? Are you a fresh coast retard?
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So I just watched the trailer for 'Clown' and I can't believe they made movie out of a literal Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iw4ZeNoTbg tvayisnihyaami posted:Are you a fresh coast retard? fresh coast
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Bag of Sun Chips posted:After watching the trailer for "Clown", it got me thinking - there aren't many horror movies where a good person slowly turns into evil due to some external force. Can anybody recommend some movies that have that sort of premise? Uh, The Shining?
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Sarchasm posted:It's just a tiny bit more lurid than most films in the thread, but Drag Me to Hell touches on this theme a bit. And it's a pretty good movie besides, especially if you like Sam Raimi. Eh, no more evil than any other average person trying to get ahead in capitalist society. Selfish maybe, but "evil" considering the ridiculous extremes of characters in the horror genre? Nah.
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Wizchine posted:Uh, The Shining? Another reason why I actually asked the question - The Shining is one of my favorite movies ever.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:So I just watched the trailer for 'Clown' and I can't believe they made movie out of a literal Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode: Haha holy poo poo you're right. They might as well have just called the movie The Clowning. That being said I want to see it because that movie looks hilarious.
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