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RightClickSaveAs posted:To be pedantic, it's going to be a short film. I like the idea of short films, but also never find myself watching them. If it were something that was going to be a feature with a big release, I'd be all over it. Although that would take a lot more than $21k CanadaBucks to make. Their plan is to use the short to raise funding for a feature though. The whole team is made up of industry vets so I trust that they are going to go about handling it in the best way possible as a passion project. A majority of that $21k is for roddy, they are going out of pocket on a majority of the additional costs and calling in favors. From the sounds of it with a niche film of this nature finding financial backing from producers can be really difficult without a proof of concept or short to illustrate what they're attempting to pull off and crowd-funding is a way of demonstrating that they have a fan base for a wider release. It's an interesting time for film making for sure, particularly sci-fi and horror that has any kind of visual effects to consider. I'd like to think of it as putting my money behind more indie horror flicks getting made.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Phase IV loving rules. Can you elaborate? Criticker says I have seen this film, and I didn't like it, but I have no memory of ever watching the film, despite me seeing it only a few years ago. I am just wondering if I should plan a re-watch.
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Twin Cinema posted:Can you elaborate? Criticker says I have seen this film, and I didn't like it, but I have no memory of ever watching the film, despite me seeing it only a few years ago. I am just wondering if I should plan a re-watch. Phase IV is outstanding. it's like if '70s Cronenberg and '70s Ridley Scott collaborated on a movie about killer, hyperintelligent ants. takes what could be a basic creature feature and brings it into far more unsettling, brainy territory. it's got a really neat look to it too. it's on Netflix right now, I highly recommend it.
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MMD3 posted:I'd like to think of it as putting my money behind more indie horror flicks getting made.
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Twin Cinema posted:Can you elaborate? Criticker says I have seen this film, and I didn't like it, but I have no memory of ever watching the film, despite me seeing it only a few years ago. I am just wondering if I should plan a re-watch. It's like the movie that The Hellstrom Chronicle is talking about.
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MMD3 posted:In case anyone missed it a few pages ago... Sorry, I see "Indiegogo flexible funding" combined with nerdbait and immediately know I'm not going to touch it with a twenty foot pole.
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Dec 5, 2014 21:38
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Phase IV is the best movie.
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Horns posted:I'm trying to remember the name of psychological horror/thriller I saw a few years back and was wondering if you fine folks could help me.
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Everblight posted:indie horror flicks is just a dogwhistle for more loving found-footage
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osietra posted:You're wrong, but that's an excellent turn of phrase. Seriously, I understand why they do it (because it's cheap as hell) but it is so rarely done with anything approaching skill that it just floods the market. I'm not watching anymore found footage because it just reinforces that the fastest, cheapest way to make a buck is to shoot what is essentially Gonzo Porn instead of having actual non-diagetic lighting and non-guerrilla locations
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I'd watch a movie that starts as gonzo porn then turns into a found footage horror movie.
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Sadly, My rear end is Haunted already exists. so the good name for that is taken
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Hell yeah: the best horror film of 2015 has a trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsoUG9ScJnc
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Oculus was alright for what it was, but it fell apart in the third act. I mean I get that they were going for a disjointed what-is-real feeling, but then it just sort of...stops. They weren't building to anything. Nothing ever leads them to press the button, it's like they ran out of time and said "welp, time to end the movie now". Daedra posted:Anyone know what this film was? I'd be interested to know that too. It's weird how other than a few details and the time period, it sounds kinda similar to Sauna.
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TheJoker138 posted:I'd watch a movie that starts as gonzo porn then turns into a found footage horror movie. Check out Lost in the Hood.
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justlikedunkirk posted:Hell yeah: the best horror film of 2015 has a trailer That's such a good title. Good Lord.
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justlikedunkirk posted:Hell yeah: the best horror film of 2015 has a trailer I'm really liking this.
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The last really good horror movie I saw was babadook and honestly it hasn't been since evil dead in 2013 that I really enjoyed the more recent horror movies. Why is that? We had some really good stuff in the early 2000s but it seems like the horror genre is kind of not as good as it used to be. The past few years have not been really great although I've seen an awful lot of horror movies. My favorite horror movie still continues to be Triangle but there hasn't been anything since that came out that I've enjoyed as much. Is there any good psychological horror movies like that? I love something that makes you go "drat" when it is all over, where everything is just completely hosed. Good examples of this are "In the mouth of madness", "Triangle", "Martyrs", "Inside", "High Tension", and even "The Descent". I like a movie where at the end of it I am sad.
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justlikedunkirk posted:Hell yeah: the best horror film of 2015 has a trailer I've heard really good things.
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You heard right. Awesome movie, awesome score, awesome everything!
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I've heard really good things. My friend who was at Fantastic Fest said the best movies there were this, The Guest and Babadook so that's some company.
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Meowbot posted:The last really good horror movie I saw was babadook and honestly it hasn't been since evil dead in 2013 that I really enjoyed the more recent horror movies. Why is that? We had some really good stuff in the early 2000s but it seems like the horror genre is kind of not as good as it used to be. The past few years have not been really great although I've seen an awful lot of horror movies. My favorite horror movie still continues to be Triangle but there hasn't been anything since that came out that I've enjoyed as much. This year has seen Crawl Or Die, The Den, As Above So Below, Delivery, Beneath... And not to mention horror-tinged sci-fi like Under The Skin, The Machine, and The Marked Ones.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:And not to mention horror-tinged sci-fi like Under The Skin, The Machine, and The Marked Ones. In what way was The Marked Ones sci-fi?
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penismightier posted:In what way was The Marked Ones sci-fi? Illegal aliens.
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Daedra posted:Anyone know what this film was? I don't. But it sounds very similar to R-Point
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Oh yeah, that reminds me, Delivery did own. That's a fair point, it was sort of a weak year for horror. Half those movies you list are from 2013 and weren't theatrical. Enemy, Under The Skin and Nightcrawler are easy top ten for me. Even ABSB appealed to me more as a horror tinged adventure, V/H/S/Viral is gonzo horror-comedy, etc. Babadook and The Den, both ownzone, are the closest thing.
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penismightier posted:In what way was The Marked Ones sci-fi? Did you not see what happened with the Simon? Its clearly Sci-fi.
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mysterious frankie posted:Have they ever made a horror film about chocolate? If so I would watch it... maybe while eating some IRL chocolate. Consuming Passions?
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penismightier posted:In what way was The Marked Ones sci-fi? The series turned into The Terminator so gradually that few people even noticed. It reminds me a lot of, like, Prince Of Darkness.
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Because there's some minor time-travel it becomes sci-fi?
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Sire Oblivion posted:Because there's some minor time-travel it becomes sci-fi? I can think of one very famous horror movie where the plot revolves entirely around time travel: The Blair Witch Project.
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Sire Oblivion posted:Because there's some minor time-travel it becomes sci-fi? yes. You can take the horror out of sci-fi but you can't take the sci-fi out of horror. I watched As Above So Below again last night, and I got to thinking. In a way, I can understand that producers want to shy away from the possibility of being confusing. I'm sure that a lot of exposition in film get's shoehorned in out of panic that people will miss things. If you look at some of the really big cult films in the horror genre, though, removing any detailed exposition seems to be a big factor in their success. The two friends I watched it with and I were having exciting conversations about Dante's Inferno, and slotting all these scenes from the movie into that narrative. It goes even further than the obvious though, because once you realize that the filmmakers were alluding to things you can start to fill in back-story and other world-building elements that aren't in the film either. Blair Witch is probably the main offender in this. There is so much content in that movie that isn't in the movie, it was all filled in afterword. Paranormal Activity does the same (well, at first they did) If a movie tries to explain everything and one piece doesn't add up, you just assume the screenwriter is an idiot and made a mistake. If you remove all exposition, and hint that there are bigger things going on than what's on screen, then when something doesn't add up we assume we're idiots and haven't figured it out yet.
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Sire Oblivion posted:Because there's some minor time-travel it becomes sci-fi? The next one is The Ghost Dimension, which gives me Prince of Darkness vibes, so I can see where he's going with that.
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What a great title, by the way. I'm surprised "3D" isn't at the end of it.
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Most of the background details in As Above, So Below are just "real world alchemists were crazy dudes who loved symbolism in ways SMG can only imagine." Speaking of, is it supposed to be implied that Benji (the cameraman) had some sort of past with the cult lady who kills him, or was it that she chose him as a victim? Everyone else is threatened by something from their past, but camera dude seemed to have just horrible luck and/or "being the black dude in a horror film" going on.
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It's the same relationship from Quarantine, which had the same writer/directors. So there is professional respect/an implied history between them that's not necessarily romantic.
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Hey so I just watched the Babadook. Thought you'd like to know. Cheers.
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Hodgepodge posted:Speaking of, is it supposed to be implied that Benji (the cameraman) had some sort of past with the cult lady who kills him, or was it that she chose him as a victim? Everyone else is threatened by something from their past, but camera dude seemed to have just horrible luck and/or "being the black dude in a horror film" going on. Considering that so many characters were haunted by specters who represented their feelings of repressed remorse or guilt, regardless of whether or not they could have done something about it, but since Benji doesn't have any pronounced feelings or identification with the girl, I'm almost certain it was something along the lines of, as a cameraman, he witnessed something but didn't intervene, and just kept shooting.
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Hodgepodge posted:Most of the background details in As Above, So Below are just "real world alchemists were crazy dudes who loved symbolism in ways SMG can only imagine." Is that who flashes on the screen and kills him? No one I was with could tell.
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It's almost sumliminal, but the woman who haunts him is holding a dead infant, and screaming. There's your backstory.Sire Oblivion posted:Because there's some minor time-travel it becomes sci-fi? Once you establish that the demons use time travel (combined with the anticapitalist themes), they become a threat from the apocalyptic future, as in Terminator or The Matrix. SuperMechagodzilla fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Dec 7, 2014 |
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