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im gaye posted:Do folks here actually have a favorite horror movie? And I mean the desert-island-just-pick-one variety. For the desert island test I'd pick Tremors, because I'd need something to cheer me up. Otherwise, I'd say Tetsuo: The Iron Man. I love it, but I'm not going to watch it more than a couple times in my life.
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im gaye posted:Do folks here actually have a favorite horror movie? And I mean the desert-island-just-pick-one variety. Probably The Evil Dead(1981) but Carnival of Souls (1962) or The Haunting(1963) or Alien or Possession or The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) or The Thing (1982) or Suspiria would all be contenders if I actually had to pick one. I'm not good at picking just one thing.
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If I were really forced to only watch one horror movie for the rest of my life, it would have to be something I could watch for more than just the scares, because that goes away after so many viewings. I'd probably chose something like The Shining, because of the visuals, the performances, and the overall Kubrick style. John Carpenter is my favorite horror director by far, but I could never choose just one of his movies as my favorite. Sometimes I'm in the mood to watch The Fog, sometimes Halloween, sometimes The Thing.
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I know I said Return of the Living Dead already, but The Fog has to come with me too or the captors taking me to the deserted island can just shoot me on the spot
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The Invitation was dope as hell and I didn't find anything about the end out of place with the rest of the film. The friends joke throughout the entire film that they're in a "cult" but everyone refuses to accept the implications of this out of politeness (besides Claire). I mean, creepy bald dude who chills in the corner the whole evening reveals he murdered his wife but no one wants to make things "uncomfortable". That's the general theme I got from the movie, that these things that aren't so pleasant, that are uncomfortable, well they're a part of reality and if you ignore them you do so at your own peril. The cultists don't want to feel pain anymore so they accept this entire belief system where they get to opt out of things like grief. The bougie friends don't want to accept that their hosts are in an insane cult and everything about their evening is extremely odd and points to something sinister at foot. This movie was loving awesome.
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Apr 16, 2016 18:55
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im gaye posted:Do folks here actually have a favorite horror movie? And I mean the desert-island-just-pick-one variety. Kubrick's The Shining with the Dawn of the Dead remake coming in a close second. "Wanna hear something that really sucks? You guys know that, that chick at Dairy Queen?" "The fat one?" "Yeah. She was coming over tonight, I woulda tapped that poo poo for sure." "Bart, dude, everybody's dead, okay? Your mom's dead, your brother's dead, that fat chick at Dairy Queen? Dead." "Yeah, that sucks too." HELL IS OVERFLOWING AND SATAN IS SENDING HIS DEAD TO US
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Another vote for The Thing. Still remains super tense even after rewatching, which is impressive.
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Seven's probably my #1. It's so well shot and well constructed, and has so many memorable scenes in it - and not just the deaths. The car conversation is one of my favorite scenes ever, and the dinner scene is a nice rare moment of levity. Even on a rewatch, you know what the characters don't, so it's that much more tense.Cart posted:Oh, and sorry - Claire's definitely dead
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im gaye posted:Do folks here actually have a favorite horror movie? And I mean the desert-island-just-pick-one variety. 28 Days Later, no question.
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Hmmmm. I'd put The Thing, The Evil Dead (original), Suspiria, The Exorcist, and Videodrome in a sack, shake it up real good, and whoever came out alive would be the victor!
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Apr 17, 2016 01:05
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I've never seen Suspiria, I need to remedy that...
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sethsez posted:I can't take Tim Lucas. I'm on the other side of the fence completely. For most movies he's done a commentary for, I had one level of appreciation for it before I listened to his commentary and a much higher level afterward. It is true that his encyclopedic knowledge leads to some really esoteric trivia, but he also often ties it together somehow. For example, he often recommends other films to watch with the same smaller role actors in them that he thinks are good and I've found a lot of good films this way. He also helped me recognize a lot of things in Bava films I hadn't noticed before, like some of the more subtle uses of his famous lighting techniques and how his films influenced others. im gaye posted:Do folks here actually have a favorite horror movie? And I mean the desert-island-just-pick-one variety. That would be Race With The Devil for me. If I'm going to be trapped on a desert island, I want Warren Oates, Peter Fonda, and Hot Lips Houlihan to be with me. InfiniteZero fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Apr 17, 2016 |
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Is Pieces any good?
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Yaws posted:Is Pieces any good? It is a wonderful and terrible thing. (It's exactly what you think it is!)
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InfiniteZero posted:Tim Lucas stuff Yeah, I'm with you on Lucas and have also found alot of films because of him referencing them on his commentaries. Have you ever read his Bava book?
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Apr 17, 2016 02:49
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Decided to throw on Trick r Treat tonight since it's been close to a decade since I've seen it. I forgot how fun and indulgent it is!
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im gaye posted:Do folks here actually have a favorite horror movie? And I mean the desert-island-just-pick-one variety.
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Darthemed posted:No big surprise, it's Videodrome for me. Probably the one I'd go for, too.
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Yaws posted:Is Pieces any good? Pieces is one of my favourite movies. It's lurid, ridiculous, and fun as hell. It's a sloppy, gory, beautiful mess of a film. PIECES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCWA2IYrKlk I would especially recommend watching this film with a fun group of people. I've had great success with it this way.  Also, there is almost no movie that exists that wouldn't be better if it ended like Pieces does.
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Depending on my mood, the desert island test is either Ichi the Killer or Night Breed. Ironic that both are only horror by association, for different reasons.
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So I hooked up my VCR again and I'm wondering what essential vhs only (or prohibitively expensive on disc) horror I might have to track down. I also got a tape of Popcorn at the thrift store, which is cool.
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I love my Texas Chainsaw Massacre in all formats, but my mental visual of it is and always will be of an incredibly grainy image of Leatherface chasing Sally under a blue moon hue. It's a wonderful vhs experience.
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InfiniteZero posted:I'm on the other side of the fence completely. For most movies he's done a commentary for, I had one level of appreciation for it before I listened to his commentary and a much higher level afterward. It is true that his encyclopedic knowledge leads to some really esoteric trivia, but he also often ties it together somehow. For example, he often recommends other films to watch with the same smaller role actors in them that he thinks are good and I've found a lot of good films this way. He also helped me recognize a lot of things in Bava films I hadn't noticed before, like some of the more subtle uses of his famous lighting techniques and how his films influenced others. Maybe I was a bit harsh, when he's on point he can be extremely interestings, but it feels like 70% of his commentaries are tangentially-related trivia. His commentaries for Blood and Black Lace and Bay of Blood are particularly bad about this, which is pretty amazing considering how incredibly groundbreaking both of those films are. It's almost as if the more moving parts a film has, the more distracted he gets from the film itself. They're always fine as general-purpose lectures about European genre fiction (learning about actor histories, getting recommendations for other films, etc), but I'm not convinced they always function as particularly great commentaries for the individual films themselves. I suppose it depends on what you're looking for in a commentary.
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In case anybody missed it: John Carpenter's Lost Themes II is available now and is dope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLMCog_4sAI
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I really liked Hush, but because the entire thing takes place at night in a house without power, I couldn't see a loving thing in some scenes even with the TV brightness maxed out. Like, I have no idea what she wrote on the window in her blood Definitely agree with whoever said it would make a gear double feature with You're Next.
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Aggro posted:I really liked Hush, but because the entire thing takes place at night in a house without power, I couldn't see a loving thing in some scenes even with the TV brightness maxed out. Like, I have no idea what she wrote on the window in her blood I think something may be wrong with your TV... she was literally shining a light through the blood to make it visible.
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COOL CORN posted:I think something may be wrong with your TV... she was literally shining a light through the blood to make it visible. Yeah, it's very legible.
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Some people watch televisions with hosed up brightness or contrast settings for years without every noticing anything is wrong. Not quite on the same level as my grandfather though. He had HD service for several years and regularly talked about how great it was. But when we went over there and hung out for a while it turned out he'd been watching the non-HD channels and had never discovered the part of the dial that included the HD stuff.
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InfiniteZero posted:In case anybody missed it: John Carpenter's Lost Themes II is available now and is dope. Thank you for reminding me about this! I also received my Bride of Re-Animator special edition. Officially a good day.
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I just got back from another Baskin viewing, the pillar of salt and rape gets a cup of whisky. The giant fingers bit.
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Aggro posted:I really liked Hush, but because the entire thing takes place at night in a house without power, I couldn't see a loving thing in some scenes even with the TV brightness maxed out. Like, I have no idea what she wrote on the window in her blood Like others said it must be a problem with your screen because it was definitely very visible. Using her lipstick she wrote something like "Please go away won't say anything didn't see your face boyfriend coming over soon" or something like that I've definitely seen some movies that were so dark that they were a pain to watch. What was that movie that came out like a year or two ago about the little girl who was abused by her parents and then went on to murder other kids and her very nice non-abusive foster parents? It was Irish or Welsh or something. THAT was, in addition to being thematically very dark, literally very dark.
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Whispering Machines posted:Like others said it must be a problem with your screen because it was definitely very visible. Using her lipstick she wrote something like "Please go away won't say anything didn't see your face boyfriend coming over soon" or something like that I saw all that. The scene I was thinking of was toward the end. I rewatched the scene in a darkened room and it says COWARD. Watching The Witch now. So far the most horrifying thing is the thought of living as a Puritan in the 18th century.
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Basebf555 posted:Some people watch televisions with hosed up brightness or contrast settings for years without every noticing anything is wrong. In a similar vein my Brother-in-law was talking up his SKY-HD service only for me to take a look at it and discover it had been connected via Scart rather than HDMI. He had no idea...
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Aggro posted:I saw all that. The scene I was thinking of was toward the end. I rewatched the scene in a darkened room and it says COWARD. Ahhh okay I had forgotten that part. The VVVVitch was 1630s I think. Even shittier time period to live in. 
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The new Texas Chainsaw 2 blu ray is amazing looking and has a bundle of cool new features plus all the old ones on top of it, including the 90 minute making of feature that was on the previous release. It's awesome and cool and worth your 20 bucks. So build ya a lil fryhouse and buy it.
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What are peoples' thoughts on Texas Chainsaw? I just watched a review on Youtube that touted it as being on par with TCM2, and better than any other remake that's come out. But at the same time I don't want to waste an hour and a half. BUT, at the same time, I love everything TCM and will probably watch it anyway.
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COOL CORN posted:What are peoples' thoughts on Texas Chainsaw? I just watched a review on Youtube that touted it as being on par with TCM2, and better than any other remake that's come out. If that's the one that was also marketed as Texas Chainsaw 3D, it's really, really bad. So bad that even Alexandra Daddario couldn't distract me from it's shittiness. edit: Anyone got a good suggestion for a double-bill to go with Baskin? Quote-Unquote fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Apr 22, 2016 |
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Quote-Unquote posted:If that's the one that was also marketed as Texas Chainsaw 3D, it's really, really bad. So bad that even Alexandra Daddario couldn't distract me from it's shittiness. That's the one. Shucks. I think I'm the only person who liked the 2003 TCM remake. It didn't feel anything like the original, but it was fun.
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COOL CORN posted:What are peoples' thoughts on Texas Chainsaw? I just watched a review on Youtube that touted it as being on par with TCM2, and better than any other remake that's come out. It's nowhere near as funny as TCM2 so I have no idea what that's referring to.
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Quote-Unquote posted:edit: Anyone got a good suggestion for a double-bill to go with Baskin? Hellraiser, Event Horizon, and City of the Living Dead would all work pretty well. Alternative suggestion: Mulholland Drive
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