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I loved VVitch, Apostle, and Hereditary so I could get behind "pagan horror" being the new "run it into the ground" horror fad.
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STAC Goat posted:I loved VVitch, Apostle, and Hereditary so I could get behind "pagan horror" being the new "run it into the ground" horror fad. Yeah, if people keep making movies as good as those three + Midsommar, make all the movies you want I don't care
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Jul 7, 2019 01:38
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Yeah pagan horror is great, I love the mood most of them give off. I also love satan so stuff like that is a big plus for me. Mild thematic spoilers I like how both of Ari Aster’s movies are basically rituals that last the whole movie, but in Hereditary the pieces don’t come together until the climax, and in Midsommar you know the whole time, but aren’t really sure what the goal is or who is truly at risk. I mean, it’s all of them but they kind of make you think Chris Shat will be kept alive too.
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Jul 7, 2019 02:58
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Blackcoat's Daughter too. Was it the witch that started the paganism/witchcraft boom? It's bled into fashion, graphic design, and funky decor over the past 5 years too.
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Jul 7, 2019 03:02
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Origami Dali posted:Blackcoat's Daughter too. Was it the witch that started the paganism/witchcraft boom? It's bled into fashion, graphic design, and funky decor over the past 5 years too. Neon Demon was p cool. Same with Blackcoats Daughter
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Jul 7, 2019 03:09
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Watched Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day 2U over the last couple nights and the first one is pretty good but the second one was diminishing returns on the formula.
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im with married but discreet pagan horror is boring as all hell and beaten to death already
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Jul 7, 2019 03:27
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Kvlt! posted:im with married but discreet pagan horror is boring as all hell and beaten to death already What would count as discreet? Every pagan horror I've sat through's been pretty candid about it.
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Jul 7, 2019 03:33
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I'm digging the folk horror revival. It's not like it's that oversaturated. There's a handful of movies in the early seventies and a few more in the last four years. And a few stragglers here and there in between. Compared to a dozen slashers per year back in the day.
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M_Sinistrari posted:What would count as discreet? Every pagan horror I've sat through's been pretty candid about it. It's the name given to me by my parent, Fragmaster.
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:Watched Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day 2U over the last couple nights and the first one is pretty good but the second one was diminishing returns on the formula. I just don't think either added anything to Groundhog Day or Edge of Tomorrow, which are both funnier and scarier.
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Jul 7, 2019 03:46
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slashers are at least fun and usually self-aware of that fact, whereas every pagan horror movie ive seen is a lot of self-indulgent* artsy atmospheric crap that each director thinks is a new and creative spin on a genre thats anything but. (*inb4 "but all art is self indulgent", I'm talking beyond the scope of what is considered normal self-indulgence) In short please take funds away from Ari Aster and give them to Rob Zombie
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Jul 7, 2019 04:14
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Rob Zombie is artsy fartsy too.
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not even Lords of Salem gets anywhere close to the levels of VVitch or Midsommar artsy fartsy
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Kvlt! posted:slashers are at least fun and usually self-aware of that fact, whereas every pagan horror movie ive seen is a lot of self-indulgent* artsy atmospheric crap that each director thinks is a new and creative spin on a genre thats anything but.  Rob Zombie is the director who is least likely to be apologetic about what he's shooting.
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Kvlt! posted:In short please take funds away from Ari Aster and give them to Rob Zombie Extreme poser opinion 
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Jul 7, 2019 05:18
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ReapersTouch posted:Watched House for the first time last night. Kinda of a mess, but it had heart. Gonna watch the sequel later tonight. I was always creeped out by the House poster as a kid but I never actually watch it until tonight and it is cheeeeeeeesy. Entertaining but not very scary at all. Reminded me of Evil Dead quite a bit. 
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Jul 7, 2019 05:41
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el oso posted:I was always creeped out by the House poster as a kid but I never actually watch it until tonight and it is cheeeeeeeesy. Entertaining but not very scary at all. Reminded me of Evil Dead quite a bit. House whips. House 2 is a lot of fun too, but in a vastly different way (and has perhaps the single greatest subtitle pun in movie history). First flick is great, though.
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Jul 7, 2019 05:53
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If you're going to vouch for the movie at least call it by the full and most appealing name, House 2: The Second Story
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Jul 7, 2019 05:56
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I feel like the ending of Midsommar is basically what Zombie wanted the ending of Lords of Salem to be except Midsommar does it better.
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Jul 7, 2019 05:59
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George Wendt is really great in House, and he's still alive today!
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married but discreet posted:pagan horror is just the absolute bottom tier subgenre Edit: actually, what subgenre hasn’t already been completely stripmined? Torture porn, zombies, jump scare demon movies, found footage, home invasion - all past the point of deconstruction. I guess we haven’t had a banner werewolf year in a long time. bort fucked around with this message at 06:24 on Jul 7, 2019 |
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Are we separating pagan horror from santanism horror? Because if not, santanism horror owns, what the hell. Black Sunday? The Devil Rides Out?? Rosemary's Baby?!?
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I like House of the Devil, too. I have an unjustified feeling of rooting for Ti West. I want to see him make a real career defining ouevre.
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bort posted:Edit: actually, what subgenre hasn’t already been completely stripmined? Torture porn, zombies, jump scare demon movies, found footage, home invasion - all past the point of deconstruction. I guess we haven’t had a banner werewolf year in a long time. From off the top of my head, any cryptid that isn't Bigfoot, and any undead that's not vampires or zombies. Disease/epidemic and/or nature run amok's still might have some life in them. For really unique stuff in the vein of Fiend without a Face or The Flesh Eaters, I don't think those are possible outside of indie anymore because no one else'd take a chance on the premise.
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Origami Dali posted:Are we separating pagan horror from santanism horror? Because if not, santanism horror owns, what the hell. Black Sunday? The Devil Rides Out?? Rosemary's Baby?!? Santanism horror would be more along the lines of Krampus, Silent Night Deadly Night, no? lol
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bort posted:Edit: actually, what subgenre hasn’t already been completely stripmined? Torture porn, zombies, jump scare demon movies, found footage, home invasion - all past the point of deconstruction. I guess we haven’t had a banner werewolf year in a long time. Movies about filmmaking that aren't high off their farts but instead are purely enthusiastic about the collaborative process about making impossible dreams realities. Or MAFAHOTFIPEACPAMIDR's So far the shelf at Blockbuster only contains Why Don't You Play In Hell.
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Jul 7, 2019 06:49
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Fuckin Alien Abduction needs way more love.
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el oso posted:George Wendt is really great in House, and he's still alive today! Norm and Cliff should've been in more horror movies. I really dig the Masters of Horror ep with George Wendt, and he acted in the stage adaptation of Re-Animator.
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We can slice this razor thin. If it crosses two subgenres, we can make new ones! Edit: coming in September: I Want My Mummy One cult horror that’s really stuck with me is the Timo Tjahjanto segment in V/H/S/2. It’s constricted by the found footage constraint, but it quickly builds its world, makes it awfully disturbing and drops my jaw as it unravels. Great character interplay, too. I'm sure it'd break down if you tried to make it full length, but it’s rushed in the vignette format and could have had more time to play with itself, as it were. I like The Sacrament, too, to plug Ti West again, but I'm completely fascinated by Jim Jones. bort fucked around with this message at 07:02 on Jul 7, 2019 |
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Kvlt! posted:slashers are at least fun and usually self-aware of that fact, whereas every pagan horror movie ive seen is a lot of self-indulgent* artsy atmospheric crap that each director thinks is a new and creative spin on a genre thats anything but. 
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This is bait Oh poo poo, trap sprung
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I want to assume someone made this as a joke, but because we live in hell now I'm sure I'll find somewhere that it's sincere.
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I hate to ask, but what's that third one in the top row?
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SecretOfSteel posted:I hate to ask, but what's that third one in the top row? Noroi. It’s good.
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CelticPredator posted:Fuckin Alien Abduction needs way more love. it’ll be hard to top that scene from fire in the sky but I would love to see someone try.
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Darko posted:I just don't think either added anything to Groundhog Day or Edge of Tomorrow, which are both funnier and scarier.  The only really funny thing was the montage.
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How has pagan horror been beaten to death? There have been like 4 films in 3 years, it's nothing compared to the slasher saturation of the 80s
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Kvlt! posted:slashers are at least fun and usually self-aware of that fact Huh? Self aware of how fun they are? What the gently caress does that even mean?
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STAC Goat posted:I loved VVitch, Apostle, and Hereditary so I could get behind "pagan horror" being the new "run it into the ground" horror fad. I dunno, I think even those great movies import more of the terrible values of the era than they intend to.
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