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BioEnchanted
Aug 9, 2011

He plays for the dreamers that forgot how to dream, and the lovers that forgot how to love.
Gulliver? :ohdear:

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SulfurMonoxideCute
Feb 9, 2008

I was under direct orders not to die
🐵❌💀

TheFallenEvincar posted:

Isn't this from a Scary Movie sequel or something? :lol:

It's Scary Movie 3, the one made by the same guys as Airplane/Hot Shots/Naked Gun etc. So it's OK to like it.

Palpek
Dec 27, 2008


Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.


Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
Just got a dog(?). His name is Zalgo.

Not Operator
Jan 1, 2009

Not A doctor, THE Doctor!

Whenever I see this, I always wonder how goofy it would look in without the distortion.

Punkin Spunkin
Jan 1, 2010

Not Operator posted:

Whenever I see this, I always wonder how goofy it would look in without the distortion.
it's already pretty goofy but I'm thinking it'd be like one of those MST3K intermission skits

Segmentation Fault
Jun 7, 2012

TheFallenEvincar posted:

it's already pretty goofy but I'm thinking it'd be like one of those MST3K intermission skits

If The Poughkeepsie Tapes came out like 20 years earlier there'd definitely be a skit involving Crow T. Robot crawling up on a tied-up helpless whimpering Tom Servo (or Mike).

Gay Horney
Feb 10, 2013

by Reene

Not Operator posted:

Whenever I see this, I always wonder how goofy it would look in without the distortion.

What is this from?

canis minor
May 4, 2011





Frank Rodick



Juna Helminen

Terminal Entropy
Dec 26, 2012

Sharzak posted:

What is this from?

The Poughkeepsie Tapes. Though that scene looks a lot different when not so heavily compressed.

Screaming Idiot
Nov 26, 2007

JUST POSTING WHILE JERKIN' MY GHERKIN SITTIN' IN A PERKINS!

BEATS SELLING MERKINS.

eithedog posted:





Frank Rodick



Juna Helminen

I gotta say, the new Silent Hill's got some impressive effects.

Pipski
Apr 18, 2004

FrakkinCylon posted:

I am actually an x-ray tech. Patients like this are almost always extremely difficult to get any sort of decent image.

Jesus, I just noticed how bowed the bones in his lower legs are.

ZenMaster
Jan 24, 2006

I Saved PC Gaming

It has a picture, but I like to think of the pictures this creates in your collective heads:

http://www.ktvb.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/10/family-flees-venomous-spiders/17045259/

Chard
Aug 24, 2010




ZenMaster posted:

It has a picture, but I like to think of the pictures this creates in your collective heads:

http://www.ktvb.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/10/family-flees-venomous-spiders/17045259/

"There'll be nothing alive in there after this," said Tim McCarthy, president of the company hired to fix the problem once and for all.

That is the kind of response that I would demand in that situation :stare:

DragQueenofAngmar
Dec 29, 2009

You shall not pass!
Speaking of Silent Hill...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXlTET9FXVw

And More
Jun 19, 2013

How far, Doctor?
How long have you lived?


You're kind of late to the party.

canyoneer
Sep 13, 2005


I only have canyoneyes for you


Wild teddy bears! :derp:

kilogram
Mar 29, 2012

Cyborg Senator

Terminal Entropy posted:

The Poughkeepsie Tapes. Though that scene looks a lot different when not so heavily compressed.

Thanks for mentioning this, just watched it and it's the most interesting horror movie I've seen in a long while. But then I am a sucker for found footage.

SybilVimes
Oct 29, 2011

kilogram posted:

Thanks for mentioning this, just watched it and it's the most interesting horror movie I've seen in a long while. But then I am a sucker for found footage.

Same

but the ending was too ham fisted IMO

Avshalom
Feb 14, 2012

by Lowtax

Philippe
Aug 9, 2013

(she/her)
Chernobyl?

Avshalom
Feb 14, 2012

by Lowtax
Apparently it's just a normal populated Russian town and they decided to leave... those things... like that... for reasons known only to themselves.

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.



Terminal Entropy posted:

The Poughkeepsie Tapes. Though that scene looks a lot different when not so heavily compressed.

The show has some very interesting visuals but there are some really terrible bits that are ridicule-worthy (e.g. the video specialist's interview who goes beyond hyperbole). Not too bad a movie though.

hexa
Dec 10, 2004

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom

The Saddest Rhino posted:

The show has some very interesting visuals but there are some really terrible bits that are ridicule-worthy (e.g. the video specialist's interview who goes beyond hyperbole). Not too bad a movie though.

Yeah, there are some patchy bits in the movie and the acting is all over the place in terms of quality. I still rate it as one of the best indie horror movies, as it manages to put a novel spin on both the found footage and mockumentary sub-genres.

Also I love how understated some bits were - when Slave moves her arm and you see the amputation, it only appears on screen for such a short time and that makes it all the more effective.

Genesplicer
Oct 19, 2002

I give your invention the worst grade imaginable: An A-minus-minus!

Total Clam

Choco1980 posted:

I think my favorite case of that was in the remake of The Toolbox Murders. Which is surprising because Tobe Hooper hasn't done anything good in decades. The protagonist opens the medicine cabinet, and then closes it with this big dramatic sting towards nothing. Then walks away only for the monster to jump at her through the window with no dramatic music.

My second most favorite mirror gag would be the SNL digital short with Ellen Page and Andy Samberg that riffs on this trope but I can only find weird edited versions on youtube or "remakes" of it for some stupid reason.



I think I've said it before, but Coulrophobia is something that bugs me. I'm old enough to remember that even as far back as the 80's, almost no one found clowns creepy or scary, just fun for kids. Then, between the It miniseries, and a far-overused running gag in 90's media of joking that characters found clowns scary (most notably Wacko in Animaniacs, but it popped up in sitcoms all the time) eventually led to a bunch of crappy clown-based horror movies, and suddenly around the turn of the century (man it still sounds weird saying that 14 years in) people all over started taking the "clowns are creepy/scary" thing seriously, and now it's ranked in the top 10 fears of the world, and you can't even look at old pictures of clowns without them looking sinister. It's the strangest thing. :iiam:


But at the same time, Lon Chaney, the great silent movie actor (and creator of some legendary monster makeup, like the Phantom of the Opera and the Hunchback of Notre Dame), acknowledged that clowns are scary. His most famous quote about monsters is "There is nothing more frightening than a clown after midnight." And that was in the 1920's.

BOOTY-ADE
Aug 30, 2006

BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT

Avshalom posted:

Apparently it's just a normal populated Russian town and they decided to leave... those things... like that... for reasons known only to themselves.

There's only 2 reasons, really - vodka and krokodil

Gazaar
Mar 23, 2005

.txt
Russia just seems like a giant Detroit at this point.

Missing Name
Jan 5, 2013


Avshalom posted:

Apparently it's just a normal populated Russian town and they decided to leave... those things... like that... for reasons known only to themselves.

Don't forget this, either:

Centripetal Horse
Nov 22, 2009

Fuck money, get GBS

This could have bought you a half a tank of gas, lmfao -
Love, gromdul

I don't know what the rest of you are seeing when you look at this, but I like it. The tree, the colors of the doors and ground, and the awesome sculptures. I can totally see just chilling there on a brisk fall day, with no sound except the wind. I guess there could be a factory with a steam-whistle just off-camera, or it could be +/- 100 degrees out, but it seems pretty chill in my imagination.

Screaming Idiot
Nov 26, 2007

JUST POSTING WHILE JERKIN' MY GHERKIN SITTIN' IN A PERKINS!

BEATS SELLING MERKINS.

canyoneer posted:



Wild teddy bears! :derp:

I gotta say, the new Star Wars got some unimpressive effects. It's like they weren't even trying with the Ewok.

(Sorry, couldn't pass this one up.)

uranium grass
Jan 15, 2005

Missing Name posted:

Don't forget this, either:



Is there an English-subbed version of this documentary?

Missing Name
Jan 5, 2013


Grrl Anachronism posted:

Is there an English-subbed version of this documentary?

not that I've found :(

Avshalom
Feb 14, 2012

by Lowtax
Another one that's really quite beautiful and only frightening because it looks so post-apocalyptic: an abandoned shopping centre in thailand that flooded and has become home to thousands of wild koi



Somfin
Oct 25, 2010

In my🦚 experience🛠️ the big things🌑 don't teach you anything🤷‍♀️.

Nap Ghost

Avshalom posted:

Another one that's really quite beautiful and only frightening because it looks so post-apocalyptic: an abandoned shopping centre in thailand that flooded and has become home to thousands of wild koi





gently caress, that place was abandoned in 1999.

15 years.

That level of destruction and ruin in 15 years.

holttho
May 21, 2007

Granted, that place has a friggen ocean that moved into it, but it's crazy how fast buildings decay when they aren't inhabited by people.

Caterwaul
May 4, 2009

quote:

The mall, which reportedly caught fire in 1999 (rumored to be arson by a competitor)
Helped I guess.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

Somfin posted:

gently caress, that place was abandoned in 1999.

15 years.

That level of destruction and ruin in 15 years.

The wonderful thing about the world is that once we're gone, almost nothing that we've built will last more than a couple hundred years.

DandyLion
Jun 24, 2010
disrespectul Deciever

Zeroisanumber posted:

The wonderful thing about the world is that once we're gone, almost nothing that we've built will last more than a couple hundred years.

Never underestimate humanities ability to ruin everything, everywhere, always.

Centripetal Horse
Nov 22, 2009

Fuck money, get GBS

This could have bought you a half a tank of gas, lmfao -
Love, gromdul

DandyLion posted:

Never underestimate humanities ability to ruin everything, everywhere, always.

Yes, but only for a limited amount of time. Even if it takes this planet 100,000,000 years to shake off the dust of humanity, it's an eyeblink on the cosmic scale. If we reduce the earth to a fine powdery cloud, there will be time for it to form again and be destroyed again and form again a million times over before the universe starts to run out of steam.

What I'm saying is, existence is awesome, and we are nothing.

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nerdz
Oct 12, 2004


Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
Grimey Drawer

Say Nothing posted:

Just got a dog(?). His name is Zalgo.



Oh, so this is the end result of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8c5wmeOL9o

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