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Finally got around to watching Wake in Fright, and anyone who hasn't seen it yet really needs to get on it. It's an amazing movie.
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Jun 19, 2016 11:45
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Tired Moritz posted:Is Heavenly Creatures a horror film? No. Still worth watching though.
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:My biggest problem with Cloverfield, and incidentally most horror movies, is the 20-30 minutes in the beginning they spend on absolutely pointless character development. It's even worse when the audience already knows what's going on and you have to watch the characters slowly figure it out. How is 10 Cloverfield Lane in that regard? This really isn't much of a spoiler because it's literally the first minute of the film, but the way they introduce Mary Elizabeth Winstead's character is really subtle and well done. She's on the phone, she leaves a ring on the counter, we don't hear dialogue, and then she leaves and heads out of town. It conveys a lot with very little, and I really liked how that one little silent scene covers everything you need to know about her before the plot kicks in.
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Jun 19, 2016 22:42
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sticklefifer posted:This really isn't much of a spoiler because it's literally the first minute of the film, but the way they introduce Mary Elizabeth Winstead's character is really subtle and well done. She's on the phone, she leaves a ring on the counter, we don't hear dialogue, and then she leaves and heads out of town. It conveys a lot with very little, and I really liked how that one little silent scene covers everything you need to know about her before the plot kicks in.
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I have a habit of looking forward to movies for ages, reading and listening to a bunch about them, never seeing them when they are finally released (in Australia) and then sitting on my PC until I get a chance to watch something when the family is out. Finally got around to watching The Witch, and holy poo poo that was good. The authentic period touches really elevated the movie for me.
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Jun 20, 2016 06:51
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xcore posted:I have a habit of looking forward to movies for ages, reading and listening to a bunch about them, never seeing them when they are finally released (in Australia) and then sitting on my PC until I get a chance to watch something when the family is out. Finally got around to watching The Witch, and holy poo poo that was good. The authentic period touches really elevated the movie for me. Yeah, I felt really transported to another time and place. edit: With "epics" I'm used to, as a viewer, "being transported to a fantasy world" like Lord of the Rings, or whatever, but that's a whole different type of suspension of disbelief. This put you up close and personal with people who were from another world, but a real world that actually existed.
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Hey, I have a question for all of you who've seen Under the Skin. Specifically, a question about 1:32 in this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5auc-EIUtk. There is something special about that moment. I've seen some hosed up poo poo in movies, and I'm guessing you all have too. Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Ichi the Killer, that moment in Bone Tomahawk where that guy gets split in two (gently caress that movie btw). The faces of the dead kids in Ring hosed me up too. But nothing has made me feel the kind of terror that Under the Skin did. It hits me in the chest, like someone taking a battering ram to my heart. I hope I'm not alone in this, because my question is: what do you think makes that moment so uniquely terrifying? It's a fairly mild scene, all things considered. It's just a couple dudes floating in water until 1:32. It's not even that graphic. Sorry if this is a dumb post, but this is something I've been thinking about for a while. I can't come up with an answer, and you all seem to be smart people, so I thought I'd ask.
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Conduit for Sale! posted:Hey, I have a question for all of you who've seen Under the Skin. Specifically, a question about 1:32 in this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5auc-EIUtk. Not dumb at all, I love discussing Under the Skin and that moment in particular is absolute genius. Probably the most viscerally disturbing scene I've seen for a long time. I think a lot of it is about how it builds and builds, as you slowly realize that something is not right with this guy's body, and then BAM right as you're processing that you get clobbered over the head. Technically speaking, there's a musical sting that happens that I think adds a lot to the scene and helps make you completely leap out of your chair. I'd technically call it a jump scare, and one of the all-time great ones at that.
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Conduit for Sale! posted:Hey, I have a question for all of you who've seen Under the Skin. Specifically, a question about 1:32 in this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5auc-EIUtk. I haven't seen Under the Skin but that scene's terrifying without context, too. Kind of wish I hadn't spoiled myself!
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to me the terror of the scene is the guy seeing what happens and knowing what's to befall him and having no escape.
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Jun 25, 2016 01:35
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They look like People was pretty drat good. For its budget they really did a lot with the scares. Really can't recommend it enough. On Netflix right now.
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Conduit for Sale! posted:Hey, I have a question for all of you who've seen Under the Skin. Specifically, a question about 1:32 in this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5auc-EIUtk. 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMHwri8TtNE
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Conduit for Sale! posted:Hey, I have a question for all of you who've seen Under the Skin. Specifically, a question about 1:32 in this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5auc-EIUtk. I haven't seen the movie (but I definitely will now!), but I think a large part of it is that it's an unreal way to die. In the sense that it doesn't conform to any of our usual expectations for death in movies. I really feel in a lot of horror movies that's one of the most effective techniques. To show a kind of death beyond our normal comfort zones and familiarity. Of course, if other movies start copying it, it become cliche, but the first time is always super-effective. Or put it this way, I've seen so many zombie kills and zombie fatalities that it barely registers anymore. But something like this confuses and upsets the brain.
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I want to give a shout out to the movie Embers which is on VOD now. It got a very small festival unveiling last fall and a lot of people missed out on it, so it's been under the radar ever since. It takes place in the future when a disease has more or less wiped out the ability to remember, and it follows 5 or 6 disconnected stories that each touch on one aspect of humanity (love, art, education, violence, innocence) and how it changes when we can no longer retain any memories. I thought it was a really neat, ambitious little sci-fi film, but more of a drama than a thriller I guess. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkRe0b9L-wI
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various cheeses posted:Thread's been dead for a couple months. Anything new/good out? I liked Karyn Kusama's The Invitation a lot
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various cheeses posted:Thread's been dead for a couple months. Anything new/good out? It's kind of redundant now that the other thread is officially just the horror thread.
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BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:I liked Karyn Kusama's The Invitation a lot I didn't really. It was formulaic and cliche, and the climax was telegraphed from about five minutes in. It was well polished and decently acted (and I'm definitely 'not gay' for Michael Huisman), but extremely forgettable, not to mention a severe case of why don't people just leave. Props for a race, gender and orientation diverse cast, though.
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Vulpes posted:I didn't really. It was formulaic and cliche, and the climax was telegraphed from about five minutes in. It was well polished and decently acted (and I'm definitely 'not gay' for Michael Huisman), but extremely forgettable, not to mention a severe case of why don't people just leave. Props for a race, gender and orientation diverse cast, though. Didn't someone just left and it was heavily implied she got murdered?
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Didn't someone just left and it was heavily implied she got murdered? Implied to the viewer, yes, but not to the characters. Will had his suspicions but was pretty easily distracted and didn't mention it at all until he flipped out later in the piece. I know horror/thriller movies don't usually work unless the characters make stupid decisions, but it really rubbed me the wrong way in this one.
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"Why don't they just leave" seemed to be addressed pretty naturally to me. People tend to act irrationally tolerant of awkward situations when it's a social event and they want to avoid having a falling out or making a social faux pas by skipping out on hosts and friends they haven't seen in a long time. Most of the characters had reasons for wanting to stay, or weren't completely freaked out, or wanted to be there for people other than the hosts. When people did try to leave, there were either consequences or people there to talk them out of it, and only once did someone want to leave badly enough that they couldn't be talked down.
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Just wanna warn the thread about Complete Unknown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhR74Y1uDr8 I went in expecting a psychological thriller about who this woman really was, but it was more a slice-of-life, Dinner with Andre if Andre was a Lying Weirdo thing. Its a fine movie, but its not a thriller by any stretch of the imagination.
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sticklefifer posted:"Why don't they just leave" seemed to be addressed pretty naturally to me. People tend to act irrationally tolerant of awkward situations when it's a social event and they want to avoid having a falling out or making a social faux pas by skipping out on hosts and friends they haven't seen in a long time. Most of the characters had reasons for wanting to stay, or weren't completely freaked out, or wanted to be there for people other than the hosts. When people did try to leave, there were either consequences or people there to talk them out of it, and only once did someone want to leave badly enough that they couldn't be talked down. Yea I agree with this. It seemed like the movie went out of its way to explain the motivations for each individual character and why they'd end up staying at the party, and even threw in one guest who did get uncomfortable enough to get up and leave. I'm not sure what else could have been done.
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I have yet to see The Invitation but am I right in my understanding that it basically a mumblecore/horror The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie or Exterminating Angel where a bunch of upper-middle class assholes attempt to have a proper and civilized dinner but things go horribly wrong?
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Sep 27, 2016 21:14
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRfnevzM9kQ JOrdan Peele (of Key & Peele) is releasing a new film. Seems like its a psychological thriller. I'm excited.
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Oct 5, 2016 08:33
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That looks like it could be good, anyone interested be warned - it's one of those trailers that shows A LOT of the movie.
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Nov 6, 2016 08:26
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Ya that looked interesting but the trailer was a bit too revealing imo. Should have just shown the parents acting a bit weird and not going full psycho which kinda ruins the suspense of the movie.
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Ulio posted:Ya that looked interesting but the trailer was a bit too revealing imo. Should have just shown the parents acting a bit weird and not going full psycho which kinda ruins the suspense of the movie. Like, for example, this comment would if someone didn't watch the trailer...
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Nov 17, 2016 14:50
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What if I saved you the trouble and just revealed that it's The Stepford Wives except with a couple black people
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that's fairly obvious from the trailer.
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Shadowhand00 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRfnevzM9kQ Lol the dislike ratio and the comments section full of offended white people
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Snak posted:Like, for example, this comment would if someone didn't watch the trailer... Oh my bad for spoiling a trailer. I was actually hoping this to be some sort of dark comedy but it seems to be taking itself too serious.
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Nov 18, 2016 07:29
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it's actually a really good time for such a movie to come out.
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nothing funny about racism, bud.
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Ulio posted:Oh my bad for spoiling a trailer.
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Yeah, use that handy "edit" button to put the spoiler tags on it, pal.
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That movie looks bad
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Professor Shark posted:That movie looks bad *ahem* you racist
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