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I've seen Martha Marcy May Marlene mentioned a few times, but had anyone checked out Simon Killer? A lot of the same people are involved. I don't think it's quite as good, but that's more because Marcy is one of my favourite movies. I really like the way Simon Killer is shot. The camera is always getting blocked by objects and people in front of the main characters, and there's some interesting and important scenes where you can't see anyone's faces. It's got this great constricted feeling as the camera follows the back of Simon's head while he's blasting loud electronic music in his ears. It's more of a thriller than horror though. I watched Kill List recently and I think I really liked it. Really brutal and I'm not entirely sure how I feel about the ending, but the feeling of dread in that movie is pretty incredible.
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the chaos engine posted:Well gently caress, which is it? The acting by the dick roommate is offensively bad. It makes the movie unbearable.
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Feb 28, 2015 06:53
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Funny story about Kill List . I lent the dvd of it to a druggie guy I knew because he was bored and I felt bad for him. His dad, who was a republican former-politician ended up watching it, and talked my ear off about how sick and evil it was. I have not lent movies to that guy since. Good movie though.
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Feb 28, 2015 15:29
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I'll take any opportunity to talk about Kill List. Christ, what a fantastic movie. One of the main things that I think makes it so visceral and raw is the cinematography and editing. Lighting-wise the film clearly uses a lot of natural light and is just realistically lit in pretty much every scene. That means most shots are fairly dark, the lighting uneven across faces and figures, but man does it feel textured. The constant shoulder rig-heavy handheld cinematography helps toward this feeling as well, removing "cleanliness" from each shot and producing a feeling of uneasiness, tension and immense pressure. The editing is phenomenal as well. First of all, the film is relatively short for a feature but this is by no means a bad thing. It's just so dense and the story moves along at a perfect speed. The many, many jump cuts and generally broken rhythm of the edit gives the film this feeling of ephemerality, stress and tension. I could keep going about every aspect of the movie. loving love Kill List
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Feb 28, 2015 23:12
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Blisster posted:I've seen Martha Marcy May Marlene mentioned a few times, but had anyone checked out Simon Killer? A lot of the same people are involved. I don't think it's quite as good, but that's more because Marcy is one of my favourite movies. I really like the way Simon Killer is shot. The camera is always getting blocked by objects and people in front of the main characters, and there's some interesting and important scenes where you can't see anyone's faces. It's got this great constricted feeling as the camera follows the back of Simon's head while he's blasting loud electronic music in his ears. It's more of a thriller than horror though. Thanks for recommending this. I think I knew the name, but had never seen it.
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Blisster posted:I've seen Martha Marcy May Marlene mentioned a few times, but had anyone checked out Simon Killer? A lot of the same people are involved. I don't think it's quite as good, but that's more because Marcy is one of my favourite movies. I really like the way Simon Killer is shot. The camera is always getting blocked by objects and people in front of the main characters, and there's some interesting and important scenes where you can't see anyone's faces. It's got this great constricted feeling as the camera follows the back of Simon's head while he's blasting loud electronic music in his ears. It's more of a thriller than horror though. I was going to recommend Magic Magic in the same vein, and oddly enough I just found out that all three movies share a composer.
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Mar 1, 2015 04:58
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I've had Berberian Sound Studio on my Netflix queue for ages and finally just got around to it.Netflix posted:A shy sound engineer agrees to work on a depraved horror film, only to find that the dysfunction surrounding the project blurs fiction and reality. This is set in a '70s Italian horror film studio and quickly builds to the lingering sense of menace found in contemporary pieces like Suspiria. Sound is very important in this and headphones might be the better choice if you've got a basic home audio setup like mine. The film employs some abstract storytelling and doesn't plan to give you the kind of resolution usually asked for. If you enjoyed Under the Skin or Beyond the Black Rainbow, this absolutely deserves a chance.
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Mar 5, 2015 00:42
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If Time Lapse were as popular as Looper or Back to the Future the internet would never shut the gently caress up about it regarding how time travel works.
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Mar 5, 2015 11:13
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Ego-bot posted:If Time Lapse were as popular as Looper or Back to the Future the internet would never shut the gently caress up about it regarding how time travel works. Is this not true of every movie dealing with time travel, or any film that attempts to delve into science in any way?
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Mar 5, 2015 18:43
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Thanks for recommending this. I think I knew the name, but had never seen it. Just a warning that Simon Killer has a lot of nudity and sex so... don't watch it with your parents or something.
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Blisster posted:Just a warning that Simon Killer has a lot of nudity and sex so... don't watch it with your parents or something. I don't think my parents would give a poo poo but I haven't seen a movie with them in years.
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monkey posted:Your Dylan McDermott avatar reminded me that this movie belongs in this thread: This movie is loving beautiful and uses it's space exceedingly well. Also directed by Richard Stanley is Dust Devil, which totally belongs in here but please watch the complete, uncut version.  And I grabbed Kill List out of a secondhand sale a year ago, watched it blind, and loved everything except the ending because it felt cheap and obvious. I even groaned. Also, what about William Friedkin's Bug? That movie is absolutely horrifying. cthulusnewzulubbq fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Mar 6, 2015 |
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Mar 5, 2015 21:51
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Tetsuo, the Iron Man : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096251/ A strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body... I probably saw this movie around 1993ish and it always stuck with me. Seems to fit with this thread. Don't read anything else about it, just watch it. Best part about it is that you can watch the whole thing for free here: https://archive.org/details/TetsuoTheIronMan1988 confused fucked around with this message at 08:25 on Mar 6, 2015 |
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Just re-watched I Know Who Killed Me, and hoo boy, I cannot figure out if it is howlingly bad or Ed-Wood-Great. I understand the idea (Lindsey Lohan wants to be a Serious Adult Actress, so she takes on a challenging role in a sexually-charged psycho-thriller. Unfortunately, the director is so amateurish and the "Blue is Danger, Orange is Safety" themes throughout the film is so overdone and without consistency that it beggars belief that anyone competent had anything to do with it. Watch I Know Who Killed Me if you want:
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Mar 12, 2015 18:08
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Gonna watch Magic (1978) tonight for the first time since I was in middle school. I was so excited to realize Attenborough directed it, I had no idea who he was back in the day. I really like learning new stuff about flicks I think I've looked at completely. Since I'm posting here I'll throw in that I watched Annabelle finally last night and I thought it was way better as a mild drama than a horror. Definitely not as creepy as Conjuring.
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Everblight posted:Just re-watched I Know Who Killed Me, and hoo boy, I cannot figure out if it is howlingly bad or Ed-Wood-Great. I understand the idea (Lindsey Lohan wants to be a Serious Adult Actress, so she takes on a challenging role in a sexually-charged psycho-thriller. Unfortunately, the director is so amateurish and the "Blue is Danger, Orange is Safety" themes throughout the film is so overdone and without consistency that it beggars belief that anyone competent had anything to do with it. Watch I Know Who Killed Me if you want: What exactly are you referring to with "orange" and "blue?" I haven't seen this movie.
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xzoto1 posted:What exactly are you referring to with "orange" and "blue?" I haven't seen this movie. There's lots of orange and blue. Orange everything! Blue everything! It's really 'mid-2000s-movie-poster' levels of over-the-top. Watch the movie. It's a hoot. In one scene, the main character is standing at a bus stop, with an overhead light casting an orange glow around the square underneath it. All around, everything is blue. A blue bus shows up, opens it door to reveal an orange interior. Like, it's color-corrected to hell and back, and it hammers home the orange/blue dichotomy nonstop, but never does anything with it or establishes any rules about it.
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Mar 12, 2015 20:18
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Sounds like the CSIs: NYC/Miami crossover to me. I'm in.
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I Know Who Killed Me is one of those 'bad in an interesting way' movies. It really is fun to watch. I recently watched The Core and had a similar feeling. It becomes so terrible that it's nearly surrealist, and you have to keep watching to try and figure out just how this or that plot element or shot or character will be mishandled, because the answer often surprises you.
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I recently watched Housebound on netflix and wanted to recommend it here with one caveat: It is also a comedy. Now, it's not that really popular brand of self-aware comedy, it's just regular funny. It does a good job of building some genuine tension and subverting expectations. I highly recommend this film to anyone who watches haunted house type supernatural/psychological thrillers. I watched I Know Who Killed Me after hearing about some of the ridiculous poo poo in it. It's bad. It's a hilarious combination of reasonable production values and horribly amateurish direction. Everblight is not kidding. It's not like "oh this scene has kind of a blue pallet" it's "Everything on the screen is either black or blue", or "everything on the screen is black or red." The plot is another thing.
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I Know Who Killed Me is hilarious and deserves to go down as a cult film. Everyone watch it.
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Just wanted to pop in here and say that Simon Killer was great. I'm a huge sucker for follow shots in movies and this entire film was basically one long follow shot. Also there's a fairly lengthy club scene that uses "Dance Yrself Clean" as the soundtrack, which is amazing of course.
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Everblight posted:Crab Man from My Name Is Earl in a crushed velvet creamsicle leisure suit, I mean I kinda want this in every movie, so sold I guess.
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Went back a few pages t see if The Borderlands/Final Prayer had been mentioned. Just finished watching it with my mate and we're both just utterly horrified. It's a found-footage film, but done in a much better way than the usual. The basic premise is a Vatican team are sent to a remote church to debunk a miracle but they find something way beyond their control. The tension is gripping from the get go. Within the first 10 minutes I was more invested in this flick than the combined sum of all the other films we watched today. It genuinely feels like a real documentary at times which just lets it get right under your skin. There's a sense of isolation and hopelessness throughout which is balanced brilliantly by the two leads who you genuinely begin to care for with their back and forths. But then the film gets into the final ten minutes and, well I'm not usually one to say, "JUST WATCH IT!" Because to be honest, it could rub people the wrong way with how much the tone shift. It goes from creeping dread to balls out psychotic but jesus, it's a hard kick to the gut that really punctuates the build up and I loved it even though it's going to haunt me.
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Just want to throw in with those who recommended The Pact. For three quarters of the film it was everything I could ever have hoped for! Frit the poo poo out of me and had me hooked from the start. Like Session 9, which is also 3/4 of a cracking creepy movie, it goes wonky at the end but it was still a great film.
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Lasher posted:Went back a few pages t see if The Borderlands/Final Prayer had been mentioned. I really liked this. It was intriguing and pretty understated the whole way through, what few scares there were were really effective and then the ending came along and kicked me right in the balls. It bothered me for days afterwards. That is also a great poster I’ve never seen before.
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I thought the ending of The Borderlands was boring bullshit and you people overhyped it. e: not saying the film wasn't fun or creepy or anything, but I thought the ending was not something particularly shocking in the context of the movie. advanced statsman fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Mar 27, 2015 |
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Mar 27, 2015 19:03
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Yeah, the ending was fun, mind you, but maybe take it down a notch or two.
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Too much of them running around the tunnels shouting for each other but come on - leads getting graphically digested as they scream in the bowels of an ancient beast was quite the surprise. And yes, as for it being found footage I like the think the giant church monster poo poo the cameras into a field and someone found them by chance.
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Well, I had a good laugh at the end and enjoyed the movie. I'd like to recommend The Reflecting Skin. It fits this thread and hasn't been mentioned yet.
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Utz posted:Well, I had a good laugh at the end and enjoyed the movie. The Phillip Ridley movie? That movie is fantastic and I haven't watched it in a million years.
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Crackerman posted:Too much of them running around the tunnels shouting for each other but come on - leads getting graphically digested as they scream in the bowels of an ancient beast was quite the surprise. I haven't seen this in a while, but I thought that was the whole point of them stopping and having him set up that relay thing, that it was wirelessly sending the footage back. Maybe I'm just on crack tho. Overall it was a pretty solid movie. The ending grossed me out in a way horror films usually don't which is both good and bad I suppose. They really should have shortened the ending or done a better job of explaining why anyone thought going down into the creepy ancient tunnels in the middle of the night chasing after friends who are obviously not well was a good idea but... eh, horror movie tropes. I think it only bothered me because they seemed to be pretty sensible for 90% of the film.
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What I loved more than I realised at the time was the fella just breaking down and crying at the end. Week on and it's still on my mind.
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Watched Valhalla Rising, before finding this thread. Was not impressed. Cinematography and music was nice but the rest was ridiculous. Definitely thought it was smarter than it really easy. Don't really think it fits this topic theme either
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Lasher posted:What I loved more than I realised at the time was the fella just breaking down and crying at the end. Yeah that was part of why the ending bothered me (in a good way) for a long time. He lays on the “waaayyy I’m a lad, rosy bollocks, etc” performance a bit thick for a lot of the film but his panic and desperation at the end really felt genuine.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The Phillip Ridley movie? That movie is fantastic and I haven't watched it in a million years. Yep, that's the one. Also, I've only seen it once and didn't like it at the time, but Terry Gilliam's Tideland was supposedly inspired by it. Similar imagery and plot concerning a child trying to explain the horrible adult world to itself. It probably fits into this thread too, but The Reflecting Skin is the better film, I think.
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The Reflecting Skin is much, much better than Tideland, but I still have some respect for Tideland.
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Apr 1, 2015 14:49
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I gotta say, the Going Clear doc can be considered horror
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Didn't notice any mention of it but I just recently saw Starry Eyes and its fitting that I watched it a day after seeing the much-praised House of The Devil for the first time because it shares a lot of tonal and structural similarities to that film. Both were terrific in their pacing, in that they both spend most of the running time in slow-burn horror mode, something I'm very much appreciative of. With that said, for that same reason I noticed they both kinda fell apart in ways at the end, because once the cat is out of the bag, the tension tends to go out the window for me, since I know it's all gonna probably be typical horror stabathons from here on out. Still, I'd say they're both worth a watch for all the slow-burn and 70's horror aesthetic goodness, particularly when it comes to their sound tracks. 70's synths are still oddly effective at setting a mood for me, so its nice to see it coming back between these films and Maniac.
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I've recently watched The Atticus Institute and really enjoyed it. Very little gore, an interesting parapsychological premise and a lot of Hey it's that guy! casting. I never felt bored or had that moment of 'seeing' a monster that just wasn't as scary as the one in my mind. Would recommend if you ever watched Unsolved Mystery style programmes
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