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I love Troll Hunter, but it’s weird to me that people consider it horror. I always thought of it as more action/fantasy oriented.
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Esme posted:I love Troll Hunter, but it’s weird to me that people consider it horror. I always thought of it as more action/fantasy oriented. I can't really disagree overall but that scene where the camera guy gets snatched up as they flee the cave and ripped apart/eaten by a gang of trolls is pretty horrific.
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Apr 26, 2019 15:31
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Basebf555 posted:I can't really disagree overall but that scene where the camera guy gets snatched up as they flee the cave and ripped apart/eaten by a gang of trolls is pretty horrific. A fate befitting many Christians I’ve met, tbh
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Apr 26, 2019 15:37
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Well poo poo, now I want to watch Troll Hunter again. A great example of how CGI can be used to great effect, even with a smaller budget, as long as you have some restraint and know how to shoot it properly.
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Apr 26, 2019 15:40
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Gerald’s Game is possibly the only movie I’ve seen that pretty much directly translates to film one of Stephen King’s notoriously wonky/rushed endings, and I find that particularly fascinating.
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Apr 26, 2019 15:49
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Pomp posted:I can't blame anyone who can't ignore Depp's presence, but Sweeney Todd is fun and is probably the last thing worth watching Burton is ever going to direct I thought it was fine. Depp is lifeless in it but that’s fine for this character imo. M_Sinistrari posted:Sweetney Todd you can drop. It's typical Burton twee. Franchescanado posted:It’s a gothic (emo) romance musical with some blood and murders in it. Not really a fun horror movie. It feels anachronistic to call it twee and emo since it’s more or less just the Sondheim play. It seems like this thread is against good old fashioned dumb show tunes since every time the subject of horror musicals gets brought up euro-pop and disco stuff gets recommended.
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Apr 26, 2019 15:59
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(I wouldn't watch it as part of a horror binge tho)
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See now I love showtunes (I was Audrey II in 10th grade), so I think I owe Sweeney Todd some time on my screen.
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Apr 26, 2019 16:03
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Drunkboxer posted:I thought it was fine. Depp is lifeless in it but that’s fine for this character imo. Eh, it's retroactively twee. I'm pretty sure it counts as emo due to the fact that emo has been Burton's bread and butter since The Nightmare Before Christmas.
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Apr 26, 2019 16:06
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Iron Crowned posted:Eh, it's retroactively twee. I'm pretty sure it counts as emo due to the fact that emo has been Burton's bread and butter since The Nightmare Before Christmas. Tim Burton neither wrote nor directed Nightmare Before Christmas.
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Apr 26, 2019 16:08
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Easy Diff posted:See now I love showtunes (I was Audrey II in 10th grade), so I think I owe Sweeney Todd some time on my screen. Did you guys have a big plant puppet?
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Apr 26, 2019 16:08
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Kvlt! posted:Sweeney Todd is loving fantastic whatre you guys talking about It's okay, but I'm a bit partial to the Angela Lansbury one.
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Apr 26, 2019 16:16
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Drunkboxer posted:I thought it was fine. Depp is lifeless in it but that’s fine for this character imo. I think it’s fine. I like some of the songs—I think the film’s version of the ‘Joanna’ is better than stage versions—and Bonham Carter is a good fit in her role, and Alan Rickman is a perfect choice for the villain. I think calling it the possible last good Burton flick is interesting and kind of appropriate. For a horror challenge, it’s pretty skippable, since it’s a musical first and a revenge flick second and a comedic love story third, with murders and some gore thrown in. Horror isn’t really on the film’s agenda, minus a few tense moments when Todd starts his murderin’. You’re right, though. Emo isn’t an accurate remark on the film, but it has always been really popular among emo and goth culture, like Repo the Genetic Opera.
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Apr 26, 2019 16:21
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Drunkboxer posted:Did you guys have a big plant puppet? I did. It sucked and barely worked.
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Apr 26, 2019 16:25
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Sweeney Todd is way more horror than the Lure so if the latter counts so does the fomer
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Apr 26, 2019 16:29
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Adding Peewees Big Adventure to the horror challenge, to own the libs
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Apr 26, 2019 16:36
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Pomp posted:Adding Peewees Big Adventure to the horror challenge, to own the libs Hey, if you can justify it as horror in a write-up, I say it counts.
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Apr 26, 2019 16:41
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you can literally justify any movie as any genre if you try hard enough tbh
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Apr 26, 2019 16:42
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Isn't that K. Waste's whole shtick.
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Apr 26, 2019 16:43
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Lurdiak posted:Isn't that K. Waste's whole shtick. I thought K. Waste's shtick was effortlessly dunking on all of my opinions.
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Apr 26, 2019 16:44
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Easy Diff posted:Tim Burton neither wrote nor directed Nightmare Before Christmas. Then why are the two forever linked in my brain?
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Apr 26, 2019 16:49
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Iron Crowned posted:Then why are the two forever linked in my brain? It's called Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas and he produced it and it's very "Burton-esque"
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Apr 26, 2019 16:51
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Iron Crowned posted:Then why are the two forever linked in my brain? He produced it. It’s based off a poem he wrote and illustrated. Henry Sellick (Coraline!) directed it.
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Apr 26, 2019 16:54
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Easy Diff posted:Tim Burton neither wrote nor directed Nightmare Before Christmas. he wrote the poem that it is based on and was heavily involved with the production e: I'm slow
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Apr 26, 2019 16:56
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Pomp posted:Adding Peewees Big Adventure to the horror challenge, to own the libs 
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Apr 26, 2019 17:24
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What's David Bruckner up to now? I keep finding myself wishing I could watch The Ritual again for the first time.
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Apr 26, 2019 17:24
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Drunkboxer posted:I thought it was fine. Depp is lifeless in it but that’s fine for this character imo. I would have preferred an older actress being given the role of Lovett, but I think Carter gets who the character is supposed to be and has a lot more fun with it. To be clear, I don't need copies of the stage productions--Sweeney Todd is fun because there are so many different productions with a recent 1950s looking and semi-interactive run in NYC from last year being great. And I'm probably the only person on the planet who will actually defend Russel Crowe's performance in Les Mis. But I actually think Crowe goes for something interesting despite it not being what people wanted whereas Depp's take is just boring. quote:It feels anachronistic to call it twee and emo since it’s more or less just the Sondheim play. It seems like this thread is against good old fashioned dumb show tunes since every time the subject of horror musicals gets brought up euro-pop and disco stuff gets recommended.
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Apr 26, 2019 17:29
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I thought our gimmick was getting annoyed at people who claim horror films are non-horror, not the other way around.
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Apr 26, 2019 17:53
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Lurdiak posted:Isn't that K. Waste's whole shtick. K. Waste doesn't have a shtick, he's just a capital-F capital-N Film Nerd in a forum full of people that aren't typically nearly so academic about it
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Apr 26, 2019 17:54
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Samuel Clemens posted:I thought our gimmick was getting annoyed at people who claim horror films are non-horror, not the other way around. I don't have a gimmick
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Apr 26, 2019 17:57
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he definitely does it as a shtick tho. There's forums where his level of "academic-talk" are normal/expected but he chooses to post essays on a dying forum where we argue over castration scenes. I mean a shtick is ok, i have my posers and evil bongs shtick, but lets not act like he doesnt play the academic card up a lot or stretch genre definitons to get a reaction (from idiots like me who will argue over the definition of torture porn for hours)
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Apr 26, 2019 17:57
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Pomp posted:Adding Peewees Big Adventure to the horror challenge, to own the libs 
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Apr 26, 2019 17:57
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And that's not even the scariest scene.
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Apr 26, 2019 17:58
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Easy Diff posted:So I'm gonna watch 15 horror movies in May. Kvlt! posted:ooooh green room youre in for a treat Seriously second for Green Room, it has one of the most emotionally affecting scenes I've ever seen in a movie, and Anton Yelchin was such a good actor it was genuinely world shattering for me when he died.
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Apr 26, 2019 18:18
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Here's a list of the 18 highest-rated horror movies on NetFlix that I haven't seen. Ignoring the obvious scratch of the 1991 award show, what other two can I drop to get down to 15?
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Also yeah, Green Room basically killed the entire home-invasion/siege subgenre of horror for me because it proved that your protagonists don't actually have to be hilariously incompetent for that to work like, none of the band are trained badasses or anything, but they're able to think on their feet and defend themselves from basically the second things go to poo poo. i know we dog on "tactical realism" complaints a lot in horror, but... Green Room is an example of a movie that goes along with everything those folks say, and is still scary as gently caress because it turns out that people thinking on their feet is not an insta-win button when you're dealing with a horde of Nazis trying to kill you.
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Apr 26, 2019 18:22
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Well I'm gonna watch 15 of the 18 films there, so the question is "what three to cut." Lookin' forward to Green Room anyway though
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Apr 26, 2019 18:28
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47 Meters Down was terrible definitely don't bother with that. Jaws is on Netflix, just watch that again if you really feel like watching a shark movie.
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Apr 26, 2019 18:35
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That pic is making me mad all over again that they're making a sequel to 47 Meters Down and not calling it 48 Meters Down. Absolute cowards.
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Apr 26, 2019 18:35
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For some reason they're making a 47 Meters Down sequel, I have to admit I'm intrigued.
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Apr 26, 2019 18:36
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I’m not squeamish, but that one scene in Green Room made me viscerally react with a “nope, mm-mmm” and a head shake. Y’all know the one I’m talking about.
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Tart Kitty posted:I’m not squeamish, but that one scene in Green Room made me viscerally react with a “nope, mm-mmm” and a head shake. There were multiple like that for me. The arm, obv, but also when the MMA guy whose name I'm forgetting gets his head bashed in and is technically barely alive for most of the rest of the movie
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