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Apparently The Gallows got its R rating for being too intense and terrifying. The directors said they where aiming for PG13 but the MPAA wouldn't budge. Too be honest, when you're younger the PG13 rated horror movies never interested me. You'd always want to see the stuff your not supposed to.
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LORD OF BUTT posted:There's a comic version of Contamination, apparently, and it has really weird art that's black and white with almost no shading, like a coloring book. It's not mentioned in the specifications, but the Arrow BluRay actually has this comic book as a special feature (it's not a physical book - it's one those comics you scroll through on your TV). You are entirely correct about the art style too!
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Jul 15, 2015 21:32
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:List five of them. I'm thinking of a bunch but you have seen way more of these films than anyone else here, I bet. The Bay, Extinction, Shirome, The Sacrament, Digging Up the Marrow. I could go into more spoilery examples too, but that's five. There's simply too much variety to the endings of these films to put them in narrow categories. Even when everyone dies, Blair Witch style, there's a great deal of variation.
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Jul 15, 2015 21:43
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I'm surprised that I've seen every single one of those.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I'm surprised that I've seen every single one of those. The thing is that you're going into like, who is the filmmaker? What does it mean to complete the film? The Dinosaur Project ends with the protagonist putting his tapes in the river as a 'message in a bottle', then heading off on further adventures. Does that count as successfully completing the film?
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:The thing is that you're going into like, who is the filmmaker? What does it mean to complete the film? The Dinosaur Project ends with the protagonist putting his tapes in the river as a 'message in a bottle', then heading off on further adventures. Does that count as successfully completing the film? I'd say yes.
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Jul 15, 2015 21:53
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metavisual posted:Salems Lot is my goto when people ask for a really scary scene! That drat "let me in" scene with him in the window still creeps me out to this day! I never got around to seeing it, I guess I should?
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Sire Oblivion posted:I never got around to seeing it, I guess I should? It's hard to find a better made for television horror movie. Plus there's Fred Willard. Because it was a miniseries, there's minimal gore but a lot of atmosphere- basically a Gothic 60's film on steroids. cthulusnewzulubbq fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Jul 15, 2015 |
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Jul 15, 2015 22:07
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cthulusnewzulubbq posted:It's hard to find a better made for television horror movie. Plus there's Fred Willard. The sequel has Tara Reid.
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Jul 15, 2015 22:43
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drat, Lake Mungo is really good.
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Loki_XLII posted:drat, Lake Mungo is really good. Fuckin' A right it is.
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cthulusnewzulubbq posted:It's hard to find a better made for television horror movie. Plus there's Fred Willard. Sold, I'll get to it as soon as possible.
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Sire Oblivion posted:I never got around to seeing it, I guess I should? I think so, I haven't seen it in a bit, so I don't know how well it holds up. But make sure it's the 1979 version, not the 2004 remake with Rob Lowe! 
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cthulusnewzulubbq posted:It's hard to find a better made for television horror movie. Closest contenders are probably Dark Night of the Scarecrow and Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. Salem's Lot is better than both.
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Jul 16, 2015 14:17
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InfiniteZero posted:Closest contenders are probably Dark Night of the Scarecrow and Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. Salem's Lot is better than both. I haven't seen any of these, but how does Duel rank?
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I haven't seen any of these, but how does Duel rank? Top of the line.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Top of the line. I guess I should have said how does Duel rank against those, because Duel is the only made-for-TV horror movie I've seen.
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Are we not counting The Stand as horror or just saying The Stand is bad? EDIT: Incident in Lake County is also up there in my book.
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Timeless Appeal posted:Are we not counting The Stand as horror or just saying The Stand is bad? The interviews with actual ufo people who obviously had no idea what the show would be really elevate it imo.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I guess I should have said how does Duel rank against those, because Duel is the only made-for-TV horror movie I've seen. Duel is one of the best made for TV movies of all time, not just for horror either.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I haven't seen any of these, but how does Duel rank? I forgot about Duel. That said, I still prefer Salem's Lot over Duel. Duel never creeped me out after watching it, but Salem's Lot certainly did. 
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Its almost not fair to include Duel because its one of the rare times where one of the best directors to ever live did a T.V. movie.
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The Night Gallery movie was made for television, too.
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Speaking of Steven King adaptations, there was a pretty enjoyable adaptation of Battleground made for TV as part of a collection of adaptations of his stories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmares_%26_Dreamscapes:_From_the_Stories_of_Stephen_King
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The Midnight Hour is pretty awesome, too. I'd put it over Dark Night of the Scarecrow at least.
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The vampires of Salem's Lot are surprisingly still freaky. What holds up less well is the pacing: it was meant to be watched in two parts so together it's like 3 hours long, and way too much of the running time is focused on completely pointless love triangles (yes, plural). (Edit): Also, we need to give a shout to It while we're talking about scary TV movie / miniseries.
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It is extremely uneven. I think the parts everyone holds up are the first half childhood parts while forgetting how boring large portions of adult half are.
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InfiniteZero posted:I forgot about Duel. Seriously...SERIOUSLY, did you HAVE to post that?. Still gets me every time. I just scrolled down and saw it and said NO NO NO NO (out loud at work).  Then the person next to me asked me if the network was down, because I sounded upset/angry/confused! ACK and then I forgot I quoted you and had to see it again when I previewed my reply!
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Basebf555 posted:its one of the rare times where one of the best directors to ever live did a T.V. movie. Alfred Hitchcock directed 17 episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour himself. Billy Friedkin directed the final episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and started out making made for TV documentaries. Tobe Hooper directed Salem's Lot. Rainer Fassbinder made Berlin Alexanderplatz as a made for TV miniseries. Although it was a TV series proper and not really a film, David Lynch directed the best episodes of Twin Peaks. Same goes for The Kingdom from Lars Von Trier. EDIT -- and didn't Werner Herzog originally do Grizzly Man for Discovery Channel or something like that? I see your point because most of these are specials and not films proper, but plenty of great directors have done made for TV stuff. InfiniteZero fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Jul 16, 2015 |
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InfiniteZero posted:Alfred Hitchcock directed 17 episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour himself. Well Salem's Lot is also one of the best T.V. movies ever so it makes sense that a legit director made it. I don't consider creating a show and writing some episodes for it to be the same thing as directing an actual made-for-T.V. movie though. There's always been a stigma attached to the latter that for whatever reason isn't there for series.
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Let's not forget Michael Mann and L.A. Takedown.
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InfiniteZero posted:Alfred Hitchcock directed 17 episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour himself.  HBO is probably cheating (and also it being intended for theatrical release)
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What a good movie.
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On the made for TV front I've had a soft spot for Storm of the Century and I don't know why. It's not a great movie, but I still can't help watch it once a year during a blizzard. It was written by Stephen King specifically to be made into a miniseries, so it's very slow, but I sort of appreciate that. The child actors are atrocious, and one FX scene stands out pretty poorly, but the rest is done well enough.
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I've always been partial to CONTROL FACTOR, the third film in an unofficial trilogy with They Live and Total Recall.
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metavisual posted:Seriously...SERIOUSLY, did you HAVE to post that?. Still gets me every time. I thought about asking people not to post that picture because it probably works better as a link than bombing the thread with it, but I knew that would just be inviting someone to do it.
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Finally watching that scene after years of people talking about it in hushed tones was underwhelming
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You know who was also underwhelming? Your mom. 
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NarkyBark posted:On the made for TV front I've had a soft spot for Storm of the Century and I don't know why. It's not a great movie, but I still can't help watch it once a year during a blizzard. It was written by Stephen King specifically to be made into a miniseries, so it's very slow, but I sort of appreciate that. The child actors are atrocious, and one FX scene stands out pretty poorly, but the rest is done well enough. I always liked the choice that one built to, which I thought was a genuinely nightmarish decision to make, and I loved how the epilogue dealt with it.
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Man, I really wanna enjoy the Conjuring but I can't shake the feeling that I'm watching a really well made Chick tract.
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