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ruddiger posted:Roger Corman had the right idea and Charlie Band followed his business model. Strike up the poster art first, see which artwork is popular with the public, make the movie based on which artwork gains traction. Rinse, repeat. It's funny, there was a time when Fangoria did an article on Full Moon selling their unmade movies at some festival, I don't think it was Cannes, but it might have been, and they showed all these posters with unfinished special effects in them. Like Puppet Master 3, where Six Shooter was literally just a four armed foot soldier toy, and Subspecies had the original idea of hairy stuntmen in costumes for the little demon things Radu makes. Some notes on the poster post: Puppet Master vs Demonic Toys was made by SyFy, not Full Moon. They leased the licenses. The puppets look AWFUL. I once asked Charles Band on twitter if it was canon to the series, and he very clearly said it was not. Speaking of Demonic Toys, part 2 also a sequel to Hideous! which is actually pretty good. Also, Blood Dolls apparently has a sort of extra-dimensional connection to Demonic Toys, as the clown manservant character is said by Full Moon to be a human version of Jack Attack. Blood Dolls is also supposed to technically be Head of the Family part 3. There is no part 2. InfiniteZero posted:This movie is now notable because it stars Greg Sestero from The Room. I liked Retro! <  >
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X-Ray Pecs posted:The excellent and excellently-named horror short Chainsaw Scumfuck That felt like some bizzare proto-August Underground.
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Kvlt! posted:That felt like some bizzare proto-August Underground. It's more like Driller Killer or Evil Dead Trap. It doesn't have the obsessive attention to detail of August Underground.
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Aug 15, 2016 21:10
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I need to see Head of the Family at some point. A comic shop down the road has a bunch of Full Moon merchandise, including Evil Bong and Gingerdead Man cereal boxes. I'm pretty sure they come with dvd's as well, but I find that company's marketing hilarious and amazing.
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The Evil Bong movies are, uh, bizarre.
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I've actually never been able to finish a August Underground film. It's too much I just end up turning it off. edit: Huh, I didn't even know Full Moon had a streaming service. Kvlt! posted:That felt like some bizzare proto-August Underground. http://fullmoonstreaming.com/ Did you know about this? Hollismason fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Aug 15, 2016 |
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Aug 15, 2016 22:59
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Avclub did a run the series on puppet master recently that was pretty funny. I remember being scared of the first one as a kid but it's definitely a fun Classic in retrospect
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FastestGunAlive posted:Avclub did a run the series on puppet master recently that was pretty funny. I remember being scared of the first one as a kid but it's definitely a fun Classic in retrospect The second terrified me as a child. I caught it on the Scifi (syfy?) channel and couldn't stop watching it, but it wasn't much later that I actually actively enjoyed/sought out horror movies. I credit that to a thunderstorm and Friday the 13th part 4.
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Aug 15, 2016 23:39
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Hollismason posted:I've actually never been able to finish a August Underground film. It's too much I just end up turning it off. If that works in the UK I might have to get involved especially since Shudder much like Netflix have clamped down on VPN use.
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I like scary movies.
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The Bananana posted:I like scary movies. What's your favorite scary movie?
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Basebf555 posted:What's your favorite scary movie? Jeepers Creepers
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I never got the Showgirls line in Scream 2. That film geek would be all over Verhoeven's dick, I just don't see a dude like that bashing that director or his film.
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ruddiger posted:I never got the Showgirls line in Scream 2. That film geek would be all over Verhoeven's dick, I just don't see a dude like that bashing that director or his film. Scream 2 came out just two years after Showgirls, long before the critical reevaluation of that movie began.
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The Bananana posted:Jeepers Creepers That's a good choice because the final girl in the film is a guy which is pretty interesting.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:It's more like Driller Killer or Evil Dead Trap. It doesn't have the obsessive attention to detail of August Underground. Is it a full movie? Or just that clip? Hollismason posted:I've actually never been able to finish a August Underground film. It's too much I just end up turning it off. August Underground is very hard to watch. Not just because of the gruesome content but the way it's filmed can be nauseating, especially to those with motion sickness. I haven't heard of full moon streaming but I'll definitely check it out. I don't think i've seen one, which ones should I start with?
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I don't think I'd ever watch one of the August Underground movies in their entirety, but S&Man did pique my interest. Fred Vogel is a great interview subject.
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Kvlt! posted:Is it a full movie? Or just that clip? Puppet Master series is a lot of fun up til 3 , actually most of the First films in all the series are pretty good. I'm going to hold off and buy a 12 month because it seems the best deal 6 movies plus you get a 50 dollar gift card. That's kind of crazy. Uncle Boogeyman posted:I don't think I'd ever watch one of the August Underground movies in their entirety, but S&Man did pique my interest. Fred Vogel is a great interview subject. I actually really liked that film. Although I found the interviews more interesting than the actual "story". I just can't deal with all the sexual violence poo poo in the August Underground series. Hollismason fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Aug 16, 2016 |
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Aug 16, 2016 02:19
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Kvlt! posted:Is it a full movie? Or just that clip? Haha, that is the full movie. Uncle Boogeyman posted:I don't think I'd ever watch one of the August Underground movies in their entirety The thing about them is that they are very boring. You want to talk found footage, they are literally like watching home movies just with meticulous and seamless effects. It feels like they were made to demonstrate to apprentices what you can accomplish with practical tech.
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Hollismason posted:That's a good choice because the final girl in the film is a guy which is pretty interesting. I like it for lots of reasons. Though I think the 3rd act is weak. (I'm not against the ending though)
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The thing about them is that they are very boring. You want to talk found footage, they are literally like watching home movies just with meticulous and seamless effects. It feels like they were made to demonstrate to apprentices what you can accomplish with practical tech. I actually kind of respect that, one of my problems with a lot of found footage movies is how conspicuously edited they are. I more just don't really wanna watch an extended sequence of someone being raped with dogshit or whatever.
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They have really good practical effects as someone who was a paramedic some of their stuff looks legit real. It's like watching a full video of the movies of Henry and Otis from Henry : Portrait of.. just more graphic. Like they were like "That home invasion part of the Henry film let's make that but worse".
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If I was like 13 when those movies first came out, I definitely would have told people at school they were real.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:If I was like 13 when those movies first came out, I definitely would have told people at school they were real. It took this post for me to realize what a straight line you can draw from Guinea Pig to August Underground
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Actually... you guys are more movie knowledgeable than I... what changes would have made Jeepers Creepers perfect?
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The Bananana posted:Actually... you guys are more movie knowledgeable than I... what changes would have made Jeepers Creepers perfect? Not hiring the guy who rapes kids to direct it.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Not hiring the guy who rapes kids to direct 
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You guys hit the hail on the head in regards to AU. The AU films are literal found footage- they're meant to be like tapes from a serial killer. There's no story or anything like in a traditional found footage movie. There's no narrative or any real character development. It's an "uncensored" look into the lives of some hosed up people. As hard as they are to watch, they are pretty unique movies. I'm a big Toetag fan so I might be biased but I found them to be a really original horror concept. I actually met Fred Vogel and his wife, both were really nice and genuinely care for their craft.
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Scanners is actually real fuckin' bad, and I will fight you if you have anything good to say about it. A movie that is reducible to a single gif, and that scene happens like 10 minutes in. It's a laborious slog through sub-Dan-Brown level technothriller bullshit.
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:Scanners is actually real fuckin' bad, and I will fight you if you have anything good to say about it. A movie that is reducible to a single gif, and that scene happens like 10 minutes in. The film has Michael Ironside 
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Hollismason posted:The film has Michael Ironside So does Total Recall, making Scanners superfluous in the cinema canon.
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:So does Total Recall, making Scanners superfluous in the cinema canon. 
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Holy crow this print of Blood Mania in this mill creek pack is surprisingly clean. I'm kind of shocked.
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:So does Total Recall, making Scanners superfluous in the cinema canon. How does it feel to be so wrong? Scanners is great, and the final battle is fantastic. Ironside was also pretty great in Visting Hours which is an alright little slasher that Shatner is in for like 10 minutes.
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:Scanners is actually real fuckin' bad, and I will fight you if you have anything good to say about it. A movie that is reducible to a single gif, and that scene happens like 10 minutes in. As I said earlier, it's his worst film. Like, you can see all the good ideas hiding behind the corners, but at the end of the day it's a mess that can't seem to decide what it wants to be. Getting back to Full Moon Streaming, I had a subscription gifted to me for the year of 2014, which really was great. Especially when they managed to get both Something Weird Video and Blue Underground to sign on under them, so their catalogs keep getting added too, not to mention stuff Charles Band made or had rights to sitting around that's not Full Moon. My only complaint is there's no dedicated app, you just watch straight from browsers. Though mobile browsers have no problems with the films. I've asked for another subscription for my birthday at the end of the month. That, and one for shudder.
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Scanners really is Cronenbergs worst film, but even then it's a really great film. Full Moon doesn't have the catalogue to really justify that 8 buck a month. However, the yearly subscription for 65 and you get 6 films on DVD apparently plus a 50 dollar gift card sweetens the deal to just getting the yearly.
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I want to talk about horror movies with you guys.
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I like the old Italian giallo and lots of 60s -80s stuff, too. I like the hammer movies, the universal monster stuff and lots of old b movies. Recently I re-watched Tombs of the Blind Dead and Blood and Black Lace. Edit: on-topic, the AU movies are fine but not really my thing. I don't find them offensive but the lack of narrative just doesn't work for me. PinkoBastard fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Aug 16, 2016 |
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:Scanners is actually real fuckin' bad, and I will fight you if you have anything good to say about it. A movie that is reducible to a single gif, and that scene happens like 10 minutes in. Scanners is great nails that sweaty fever dream feeling it owns
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PinkoBastard posted:I like the old Italian giallo and lots of 60s -80s stuff, too. I like the hammer movies, the universal monster stuff and lots of old b movies. Recently I re-watched Tombs of the Blind Dead and Blood and Black Lace. I like those things too.  Have you dabbled in the Amicus anthologies? They're pretty fun. Thirsty Girl fucked around with this message at 07:58 on Aug 16, 2016 |
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