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Franchescanado posted:"Booger" is a southern colloquialism for "ghost", like in "Boogeyman". I jokingly used the word “haint” in a conversation recently and had to explain it to a group of people.
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Alligator and Alligator II: The Mutation both whip rear end, and if you disagree with me, I will wrestle you in a loving swamp.
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Jul 9, 2018 22:32
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I never seen part 2 so I should maybe rectify that.
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Jul 9, 2018 22:33
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I have a double DVD of the alligator films somewhere it’s been far to long since I have them a watch!
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Jul 9, 2018 22:34
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How many of those lake placid movies did they make? I'm pretty sure I saw the first one in theaters but the only recollection I have is establishing shots of a lake.
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Jul 9, 2018 22:34
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Lurdiak posted:How many of those lake placid movies did they make? I'm pretty sure I saw the first one in theaters but the only recollection I have is establishing shots of a lake. How can anyone watch Lake Placid and forget the helicopter cow scene? If I see that scene under the right circumstances, I can't stop laughing. To answer your question, there's like four or something, plus crossovers.
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Jul 9, 2018 22:44
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Lurdiak posted:How many of those lake placid movies did they make? I'm pretty sure I saw the first one in theaters but the only recollection I have is establishing shots of a lake. I know they recently made a Lake Placid vs. Anaconda. So that's... something.
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Franchescanado posted:How can anyone watch Lake Placid and forget the helicopter cow scene? If I see that scene under the right circumstances, I can't stop laughing. I don't know, maybe it's just the mindset I was in when I saw it. I remember similarly little about the Inspector Gadget film, even though that should be memorably bad.
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Jul 9, 2018 23:03
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Franchescanado posted:"Booger" is a southern colloquialism for "ghost", like in "Boogeyman". Not to be confused with their Coloradoan counterparts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge-h0BFozFk
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Jul 9, 2018 23:20
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Burkion posted:Wait wait, Shudder Channel is free? is that on Amazon or something? No, the website has an ad-supported streaming component where they stream their movies and shows and you don't need a subscription for it. Shudder is still $5 either through their website or Amazon. But Joe Bob is going to be streaming live from their website on the 13th, on the aforementioned stream. It's called Shudder TV: https://www.shudder.com/shudder-tv
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Jul 9, 2018 23:25
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The best animal attack movie also has the best title ever.....Sssssss!
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Lake placid is really good+funny but I haven’t seen any of the sequels, I assume they’re terrible
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Jul 9, 2018 23:46
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What was the one I showed that was about the worms.
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Shudder really needs a host to intro the quality flicks on the site, like a gothed up Robert Osbourne.
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Hollismason posted:What was the one I showed that was about the worms. Squirm.
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Origami Dali posted:Shudder really needs a host to intro the quality flicks on the site, like a gothed up Robert Osbourne. Barbara Crampton
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Jul 10, 2018 01:19
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Lurdiak posted:Name one thing the remake does better than the original. Like it's not the worst movie ever made but it has nothing to offer, either. The score. Maybe. I dunno. The remake rules you grump.
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Jul 10, 2018 01:20
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anton y, colin farrel and david tenant are all cool and good. Fright Night remake is pretty great
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Counterpoint: meh
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Lurdiak posted:Squirm. i just watched the trailer for this and it was terrific. gonna watch it tonight
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alf_pogs posted:i just watched the trailer for this and it was terrific. gonna watch it tonight Don't.
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So Tremors: Cold Day In Hell was pretty ok. Could still take or leave Kennedy. But at least he's getting work
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Finally caught up on this thread, after reading who knows how many pages. To show my appreciation to all you fine folks I will give a recommendation and a warning... I'm reading Men, Women and Chainsaws by Carol Clover and it is flipping excellent. Definitely on the academic side of film criticism but some really interesting stuff re:gender in horror. I watched Incubus starring John Cassavetes today on Prime and it stunk out loud. Can't decide if it wants to be a slasher or possession film and treads the line between the two in an aggressively boring fashion. Also Cassavetes seemed to want to gently caress his own daughter? but like every other sideplot there really is no resolution to that Any other good books on horror movies? I tend to prefer broad works that cover entire genres, rather than books focused on one film or series.
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Jeff Wiiver posted:Any other good books on horror movies? I tend to prefer broad works that cover entire genres, rather than books focused on one film or series. Stephen King's Danse Macabre if you haven't read it. It's old enough that it doesn't cover a lot of great stuff that's come out since then, though. It's about horror as a genre though including books.
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Jeff Wiiver posted:Finally caught up on this thread, after reading who knows how many pages. To show my appreciation to all you fine folks I will give a recommendation and a warning... Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film, w. Rockoff Nightmare Movies, w. Newman The American Nightmare, w. Wood The Naked and the Undead: Evil and the Appeal of Horror, w. Freeland
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Thanks guys. Added those to my list. My wonderful mother bought me Room to Dream by David Lynch, so I'll probably dive into that next.
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SPLATTER CAPITAL read SPLATTER CAPITAL or don't i mean im not the boss of you
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Alligator is amazing, it's got a scene in it where the titular Gator crashes a wedding, a kid getting eaten scene that seems specifically designed to out-cruel the one in Jaws, and of all things, a really good reference to the The Third Man I went through a period years ago of trying to watch a bunch of Crocodile/Gator movies. Tobe Hooper's Crocodile is pretty bad, but has a couple of cool ideas, it's sequel Crocodile 2: Death Roll was still bad but maybe slightly better, which was surprising. The most surreal however was Krocodylus (Blood Surf in the UK) which does weird things like inter-cut a woman having sex with her parents getting eaten.
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Jeff Wiiver posted:Finally caught up on this thread, after reading who knows how many pages. To show my appreciation to all you fine folks I will give a recommendation and a warning... A professor lent me that book for a paper in college and I adored it. I need to get my own copy at some point. A couple years ago, I read a book called J-Horror: The Definitive Guide to The Ring, The Grudge, and Beyond. Parts of it were dry and a little dated, but the author is very thorough in their love of J-Horror. Found some more obscure movies to watch through that book. For some reason, I remember the author disliking Koji Shiraishi, which I don't agree with at all though.
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Tangentially related but all this Alligator talk is reminding me of this video where some redneck throws a piece of meat into the pen of several Gators and one, in excitement, chomps down on another's leg and does the death roll and takes the leg clean off. The absurdity of the now de-legged gator just completely confused while the redneck screams, "What did you do! Oh no, what did you do, you loving idiot! That was your brother's leg!" Strangely horrifying.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Tangentially related but all this Alligator talk is reminding me of this video where some redneck throws a piece of meat into the pen of several Gators and one, in excitement, chomps down on another's leg and does the death roll and takes the leg clean off. The absurdity of the now de-legged gator just completely confused while the redneck screams, "What did you do! Oh no, what did you do, you loving idiot! That was your brother's leg!" the most disturbing part is just how the leg just rips off like it was nothing, gators are crazy strong. if I ever get attacked by one I am hosed
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Jeff Wiiver posted:Thanks guys. Added those to my list. My wonderful mother bought me Room to Dream by David Lynch, so I'll probably dive into that next. I had no idea there was a new Lynch book! Gonna get that this weekend.
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Jeff Wiiver posted:Any other good books on horror movies? I tend to prefer broad works that cover entire genres, rather than books focused on one film or series. If you want something that approaches it all from both an academic and personal perspective, Kier-La Janisse's House of Psychotic Women comes highly recommended. As the title suggests, it focuses on madness and women in horror, but it's deeper than that too because she's so knowledgeable on the genre that she can't help it. She's a really great writer and to say she knows horror films is an understatement. The best book on horror (although it's not just horror) is Stephen Thrower's Nightmare USA which is now back in print.  You said you wanted broad studies and that would definitely cover it, although it only goes up to 1985 (he's been working on Part II for years which will continue from there). Outsider recommendation -- not about movies specifically (although a few were made into movies), I've had a lot of fun with Grady Hendrix's Paperbacks from Hell too. Some of those covers are ... wow.
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So, based on doing a very successful double feature of Night of the Living Dead/Get Out last year, I'm planning on constructing double features of significant horror films that came out this year with good companion piece horror films later this fall. The one trick is that I haven't seen any of the new horror films since I stockpile them over the course of a year... Anyhoo.. Here is what I have... Hereditary/The Exorcist A Quiet Place/Tremors Mom and Dad/Children of the Corn Annihilation/The Fly (Remake) Summer of 84/Fright Night (Original) But I'm willing to take any feedback or substitutions if people have them to offer.
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Timeless Appeal posted:So, based on doing a very successful double feature of Night of the Living Dead/Get Out last year, I'm planning on constructing double features of significant horror films that came out this year with good companion piece horror films later this fall. The one trick is that I haven't seen any of the new horror films since I stockpile them over the course of a year... Anyhoo.. Here is what I have... if you are willing to go outside of strictly horror, Stalker or maybe Solaris would be good companions to Annihilation. they are both pretty long though so maybe not the best choices for a double feature.
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Timeless Appeal posted:So, based on doing a very successful double feature of Night of the Living Dead/Get Out last year, I'm planning on constructing double features of significant horror films that came out this year with good companion piece horror films later this fall. The one trick is that I haven't seen any of the new horror films since I stockpile them over the course of a year... Anyhoo.. Here is what I have... I would substitute Rosemary's Baby instead of The Exorcist, Parents instead of Children of the Corn. Stalker paired with Annihilation would be great, but as gey muckle mowser mentioned, it's very long and emotionally/mentally draining.
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Timeless Appeal posted:Hereditary/The Exorcist I don't understand why people are thinking Hereditary is anything like The Exorcist when it's clearly a nearly slavish tribute to Polanski, in theme with Rosemary's Baby and in style with Repulsion. (not questioning you personally, I know that the posters for Hereditary referenced The Exorcist) Also mowser is entirely correct in suggesting Stalker with Annihilation. Stalker is just infinitely superior in every way really, unless you're excited about the special effects I guess. The Endless is another good movie to match with Stalker or Annihilation by the way. Personally I thought it was much better than Annihilation (although I'm not the right person to ask because I thought Annihilation was a trash heap).
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Solaris would be absolutely perfect with Annihilation, even better than Stalker imo. I recently rewatched Annihilation and it really clicked with me this time, there's actually a lot to unpack there that rewards multiple viewings.
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I read the book Annihilation in preparation for watching the movie (because it was in and out of theaters before I could watch it and I wanted to read the book while I waited for the video release). I feel like Annihilation the movie is to the book as Congo the movie is to the book. Like it isn't just a case of "the book was better", but "the book was good and the movie was a schlocky piece of garbage". I mean, Annihilation might be a better movie than Congo by far but it was still pretty bad and forgettable. It was all the more disappointing because I really liked Ex Machina and thought that Alex Garland could pull off another low key sci-fi movie. But no, everybody had loving assault weapons and fired them at lovely CGI Bearhuman.
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King Vidiot posted:But no, everybody had loving assault weapons and fired them at lovely CGI Bearhuman. That ends up being a pretty small portion of the movie in the end though, there's really only like three scenes involving the bear and that subplot gets wrapped up well in advance of the actual climax. But anyway I can understand being frustrated when an adaptation of a book you like doesn't live up to the source, I'd probably feel differently about it had I read the book.
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