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The person being pulled into the sink by the blob, their bloody leg getting sucked down the drain. That always stuck with me. The Blob remake was one of the movies I watched when I was sick, and it made me nauseous. I feel like that feeling is imprinted, and if I were to watch it again, I'd feel that same sickly nausea. I'd like to show The Blob remake for one of my horror movie nights, but I'd have to figure out a good theme or double feature. I can't show the original and the remake as a double feature, right? Too much blob?
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The Blob remake is rad as gently caress because it seems to be coming at the audience with a chip on its shoulder. Like for the guys behind it, Frank Darabont and Chuck Russell, it's like they remembered this movie being scary as hell as kids, and were now seeing it being mocked by modern 80's audiences. So they were like, "okay, challenge accepted." I think what struck me the most about rewatching it is how innocent people die hard (see: the good natured diner owner having to come face-to-melted-face with her would-be suitor before being crushed in a phonebooth). Plus it straight-up turbomurders a kid. You really want to take a ride to hell, double-feature it with Croenenber's The Fly for a bloody drive-in horror remake good time.
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Aug 1, 2017 15:38
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Abandoned Grain Elevator? Oh yeah, that's the one.
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Aug 1, 2017 15:43
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Franchescanado posted:The person being pulled into the sink by the blob, their bloody leg getting sucked down the drain. That always stuck with me. You already did my first suggestion of The Stuff so how about before The Blob showing a horror movie with some kids doing stuff but not getting killed moments to make The Blob stand out even more. Like The Gate or something along those lines.
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Aug 1, 2017 15:47
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Neo Rasa posted:You already did my first suggestion of The Stuff so how about before The Blob showing a horror movie with some kids doing stuff but not getting killed moments to make The Blob stand out even more. Like The Gate or something along those lines. The Gate and The Blob would be a kickin' rad 80's double feature. It'd also be mean as hell. Typically I try to do the mean/scary/gross movie first and then the second movie as a little lighter for people to mellow out. It'd be hilarious to break that trend with The Blob. 
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Aug 1, 2017 15:51
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Franchescanado posted:The Gate and The Blob would be a kickin' rad 80's double feature. The Fly, dude. Gory drive-in horror remake double feature.
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Aug 1, 2017 15:53
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Fart City posted:The Fly, dude. Gory drive-in horror remake double feature. Hell yea, nobody's gonna come up with a better one than this.
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Aug 1, 2017 15:53
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Untrustable posted:Tell me your secrets. Where do I go from here on the path to found footage enlightenment? All I have to look forward to is Boots On The Ground in like 2018 Dig up some crap off Found Footage Critic.com, watch some of the foreign stuff (SORGOI PRAKHOV was a cool recent fave of mine), watch some of those shithouse Kings Of Horror FF movies.
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Aug 1, 2017 15:57
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Franchescanado posted:The Gate and The Blob would be a kickin' rad 80's double feature. It'd be awesome too because The Blob has it crashing as a meteorite at first so we think it's an alien entity and not a government project, but it still has a similarity to The Gate where both open up with a geode thing popping up in suburbia and it honestly is pretty campy when it first grabs that hobo's arm. A fast progression from something to a little light to 
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Aug 1, 2017 16:02
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Fart City posted:The Fly, dude. Gory drive-in horror remake double feature. I really want to do that, but I think it might break my audience. Maybe I can get some fun vomit bags for everyone. The Fly remake is the other movie I saw when I was sick and I now have muscle memory-like nausea when I watch it. (Not that that's a bad thing.) I just checked and both are a little over 90 minutes... I think it's going to happen. Neo Rasa posted:It'd be awesome too because The Blob has it crashing as a meteorite at first so we think it's an alien entity and not a government project, but it still has a similarity to The Gate where both open up with a geode thing popping up in suburbia and it honestly is pretty campy when it first grabs that hobo's arm. A fast progression from something to a little light to I agree, it'd be a really fun one, but I can't beat The Fly/The Blob 80's Remake Night.
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Aug 1, 2017 16:21
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Untrustable posted:Tell me your secrets. Where do I go from here on the path to found footage enlightenment? All I have to look forward to is Boots On The Ground in like 2018 Found Footage 3D sounds interesting.
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Aug 1, 2017 16:21
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I should specify, I find the CONCEPT of the original much scarier. Some gently caress off germ of a thing falls from space and suddenly everyone and everything is going to die. What's worse, it doesn't just dissolve you like the Remake Thing- it transforms you. It turns you INTO it. You just become more mass for it. Absorption VS dissolving Think of that poor old dude who woke up and found his arm was now just Blob Stuff. You could do some hosed up poo poo with that.
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Aug 1, 2017 16:22
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Franchescanado posted:I really want to do that, but I think it might break my audience. Maybe I can get some fun vomit bags for everyone. Ha, you should dig up some of those old William Castle promos where he warns the audience about the "graphic nature of the motion picture you are about to witness"and poo poo and run them during seating. They'd be perfect for the drive-in aesthetic.
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Aug 1, 2017 16:28
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Fart City posted:Ha, you should dig up some of those old William Castle promos where he warns the audience about the "graphic nature of the motion picture you are about to witness"and poo poo and run them during seating. They'd be perfect for the drive-in aesthetic. Deal. I always do a pre-show playlist of ads, short films, cartoons for everyone to get in the mood and to hint at the movies and themes.
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Aug 1, 2017 16:43
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Franchescanado posted:Deal. I always do a pre-show playlist of ads, short films, cartoons for everyone to get in the mood and to hint at the movies and themes. Do these people understand how lucky they are? You're doing God's work.
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Aug 1, 2017 16:45
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Drunkboxer posted:I always wanted to make a parody thread of this thread called Gimme Bud: The buddy cop movie thread but I don't really like buddy cop movies all that much. Gimme Yer Badge and make it about police movies in general (I know it ruins the wordplay). But then you could lump in Poliziotteschi movies.
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Aug 1, 2017 16:55
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Basebf555 posted:Do these people understand how lucky they are? You're doing God's work. Probably not. The best compliment I've had was from my friend, who claims to actively hate horror movies and considers it one of the worst genres. He said that he's loved every movie I've shown and it's been the highlight of his summer so far, and that he's no longer dismissive of the genre.
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Franchescanado posted:Deal. I always do a pre-show playlist of ads, short films, cartoons for everyone to get in the mood and to hint at the movies and themes. Copycat.
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Aug 1, 2017 17:19
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Lurdiak posted:Copycat. I prefer to call it an Americanized remake. edit: You still win for having original bumpers and intros and the like. I've thought about doing it, but I can't get editing softwares to work on my laptop.
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Aug 1, 2017 17:25
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Lurdiak posted:Copycat. Underrated movie, that one.
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Franchescanado posted:I prefer to call it an Americanized remake. Hey I can't even take credit for that, I learned it all from my pal Gerry Swanson, who used to do bad/weird movie streams with goofy intros and compilation videos. This is a level of dedication I can never hope to reach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuiL9IwoOAM
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Aug 1, 2017 17:41
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I got a bunch of older sci-fi and horrors during the recent KL sale. So far I've watched The Oblong Box and The Quatermass Xperiment. Both are worth seeing, particularly the Quatermass Xperiment.
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Aug 1, 2017 18:45
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Quatermass Xperiment is great, little bummed I passed on that KL sale but my shelves are overflowing
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Aug 1, 2017 18:49
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Hollismason posted:Where do you load up the page stats at? I dunno how to do that. I'd be curious as to how posts everyone made. 
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Aug 1, 2017 20:29
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I didn't make my first post here until about 4 years in, so I'm surprised to be that high on the list. Well, not that surprised. Unfortunately my first posts in the thread were some dumb opinion of how genres should be defined. Embarrassing.
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Aug 1, 2017 20:35
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smallmouth posted:I got a bunch of older sci-fi and horrors during the recent KL sale. So far I've watched The Oblong Box and The Quatermass Xperiment. Both are worth seeing, particularly the Quatermass Xperiment. if you haven't seen it, Quartermass and the Pit is one of my fav movies that I've seen in the last year. Hammer horror/scifi film? Sign me the gently caress up. Try to go in knowing as little as possible about the plot because I did that and it seriously blew me away cause I sure was not expecting anything at all out of it.
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Basebf555 posted:I didn't make my first post here until about 4 years in, so I'm surprised to be that high on the list. Well, not that surprised. I didn't post until 6 or 7 years in... You are all very patient with my frequent posting
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What's the threads opinion on The Dark Tapes? I was thinking of renting it through Amazon but don't wanna waste the money if it's outright awful.
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Aug 1, 2017 21:00
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I'm still relatively new to posting in here mostly because I just lurked for the longest.
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Untrustable posted:What's the threads opinion on The Dark Tapes? I was thinking of renting it through Amazon but don't wanna waste the money if it's outright awful. It's awful.
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Aug 1, 2017 21:09
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Untrustable posted:What's the threads opinion on The Dark Tapes? I was thinking of renting it through Amazon but don't wanna waste the money if it's outright awful. I think the consensus was that it's bad? Am I remembering that right? Edit: I guess so
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Aug 1, 2017 21:09
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Dang 12 more posts (11 after this one) and I'll have to quit. Content: I love Phone Booth and things like that, and this looks ridiculously good https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=wBf0xLj7FhU So does this new David Bruckner https://youtu.be/A0DrYMaWhlA
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flashy_mcflash posted:Dang 12 more posts (11 after this one) and I'll have to quit. Nice. Like the look of both. Though Downrange looks like it could be a short movie stretched into 90mins
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Ramadu posted:if you haven't seen it, Quartermass and the Pit is one of my fav movies that I've seen in the last year. Hammer horror/scifi film? Sign me the gently caress up. Try to go in knowing as little as possible about the plot because I did that and it seriously blew me away cause I sure was not expecting anything at all out of it. I remember watching Quatermass and the Pit when I was 7 years old on the local UHF station's Saturday afternoon sci-fi/horror show and it freaked me out. Like the last 15 minutes or so of that stuck with me for a long time.
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Franchescanado posted:The person being pulled into the sink by the blob, their bloody leg getting sucked down the drain. That always stuck with me. Do a Kevin Dillon doubleheader and include Remote Control.
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Untrustable posted:What's the threads opinion on The Dark Tapes? I was thinking of renting it through Amazon but don't wanna waste the money if it's outright awful. It's balls. Hated it.
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Aug 1, 2017 21:22
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Ok so definitely not spending money on The Dark Tapes. I settled on They're Watching and so far I am unimpressed. I am probably gonna finish it and maybe it'll get good.
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Aug 1, 2017 22:17
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Untrustable posted:Ok so definitely not spending money on The Dark Tapes. I settled on They're Watching and so far I am unimpressed. I am probably gonna finish it and maybe it'll get good. If you started They're Watching, you should definitely finish it. It never gets "good", but it definitely ratchets up the insanity towards the end in a way that most found footage films don't have the balls to go for.
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Aug 1, 2017 22:23
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alphabettitouretti posted:I watched The Dyatlov Pass Incident (aka Devil's Pass) the other day and that might be slightly better than the average youtube movie. It's incompetently made even for this genre as it fails the most basic test of believably selling that it's found footage (and it's not like Renny Harlin is a first time director so there's no excuse) but it does have a fun premise once things actually start happening. The ending is kinda nuts and has some cheap but effective creature design. I thought this movie was good for what it was. It keeps up a good pace, makes good use of the whole frozen tundra environment and the whole idea of interdimensional time loop monster versions of themselves was pretty eerie and original. Not a classic, but better than like 90% of the found footage genre (which unfortunately says very little)
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I always think I post way more than I do, but I also have the bad (good?) habit of typing out long winded posts, re-reading them to myself, then deleting them before moving on to the next opportunity to poo poo post. (I should've deleted this post before hitting submit...)
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