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Franchescanado posted:I've always been curious about how NJ and New Jerseyans feel about Friday the 13th as a representative of the state. Most of my time in NJ has been in EWR, which I can't say I enjoyed. If you're from anywhere in the NJ/NY area you fuckin' love all horror poo poo because it's wound into the historical and natural "aesthetic" of the region. Like when I was in NJ I literally lived near Shadow Lake, like that's it's name. In central NJ you can basically The Fog/Silent Hill caliber fog, the police station in Red Bank (there's a new building now but still :P ) was a former old style stone schoolhouse that still had art/small community events and so it was literally the police station from Resident Evil 2, etc. New Jersey has actual real run down/barely populated/abandoned places like Telegraph Hill, Shades of Death Road, Witches Hollow Blvd., I mean there's a reason there was a long running magazine called Weird NJ. The amount of urban (suburban? rural?) legends are off the charts.  NYC and the state of New York in general I mean no further explanation needed. I cannot emphasize enough how much every few miles of the state of NJ has a unique horror movie premise in it. Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Jan 6, 2020 |
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Jan 6, 2020 20:48
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The remake of Fright Night really put across that other side of Vegas, the cookie-cutter suburban housing that feels airdropped into the middle of a desert. With David Tennant as a Criss Angel style magician.MacheteZombie posted:Was about to suggest The Burning but that's upstate new york.
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Jan 6, 2020 21:23
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Basebf555 posted:I like Blair Witch Project as much as the next guy but as a Marylander I wish it wasn't the one and only choice on every single one of these maps. Hannibal Lecter was housed in Baltimore, can we go with Silence of the Lambs one time just to mix it up? I'm in MD too and Silence of The Lambs is also listed on that map.
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Jan 6, 2020 21:26
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Make a Flatwoods Monster movie, cowards.
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Jan 6, 2020 21:28
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There's no good Jersey Devil movies because the Jersey Devil lives in all of us.
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Jan 6, 2020 21:32
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Jan 6, 2020 21:34
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Neo Rasa posted:I cannot emphasize enough how much every few miles of the state of NJ has a unique horror movie premise in it. As mentioned, I live in Florida, which is equally untapped for horror films. Like we have our own bigfoot called the Skunkape, which is a giant ape-like creature who stinks so bad it will immediately make you sick. Like many southern cryptids, it's silly name kinda disarms how terrifying a Bigfoot in a swamp would be. I like Crawl a lot, but it's kinda funny/silly that the only Florida-specific horror film in recent years takes place in Gainesville and has a UF student as it's main character. Do a horror movie in the Everglades, you cowards.
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Jan 6, 2020 21:34
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Franchescanado posted:Do a horror movie in the Everglades, you cowards.
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Jan 6, 2020 21:38
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Franchescanado posted:As mentioned, I live in Florida, which is equally untapped for horror films. Hell yeah that would own. There's no Skunkape movie at all is there. 
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Jan 6, 2020 21:39
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Maybe it's time for another goon project!
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Jan 6, 2020 21:43
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I got Evil Dead I have nothing to complain about Sorry ya'll
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Jan 6, 2020 21:44
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As a Bigfoot enthusiast, I've always found the Skunk Ape to be the scariest version. Probably because it's usually depicted as having longer, wilder hair than the typical mountain Sasquatch, so it comes across as like half wildman half ape.  For me Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Skunk Ape/Yeti is one of the best untapped horrors left in the genre. For my money we've yet to have a film take full advantage of the idea, and how terrifying it could really be if this thing almost literally the size of The Hulk actually existed and decided that it wanted you to not exist anymore. And yes, it would require CGI. But why has nobody with a legit budget attempted this yet? Think of like the bear scene from The Revenant. A Bigfoot movie with two or three scenes of that quality, and an R rating, would have huge potential in my opinion.
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Jan 6, 2020 21:46
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Neo Rasa posted:Hell yeah that would own. There's no Skunkape movie at all is there. My pitch is a little similar to Boggy Creek 2, in that just have a small group of zoologists in the Everglades trying to collect samples and catalog changes in the environment. In the middle of the night, the Skunk Ape finds their camp and attacks. The rest is a survival horror film where the scientists are just trying to get out of the Skunk Ape's territory while it rips them apart one by one. It's simple, but swampy Floridian woods are already absolutely terrifying, so adding the terrifying beast pictured in Basebf555's post makes it horrific.
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Jan 6, 2020 21:53
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Franchescanado posted:My pitch is a little similar to Boggy Creek 2, in that just have a small group of zoologists in the Everglades trying to collect samples and catalog changes in the environment. In the middle of the night, the Skunk Ape finds their camp and attacks. The rest is a survival horror film where the scientists are just trying to get out of the Skunk Ape's territory while it rips them apart one by one. Dan Bell taught me that there's a big old abandoned housing development down there too. So you could even have some really cool cat and mouse through some dilapidated housing.
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Jan 6, 2020 21:57
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I'm just sick of banging on tents and scratches on trees and yowling in the distance. I want a Bigfoot movie that actually delivers the goods.
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Jan 6, 2020 21:58
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Zombie has his faults, but I don't think his preoccupation with showing boisterous, ill-mannered working-class people onscreen is a fault. It's not always pleasant, but that's okay.Tart Kitty posted:My only complaint about The Sacrament is that it basically offers very little commentary on the nature of cults, or what happened at Jonestown; it simply retells the incidents of the tragedy with fictional inserts included. It feels like there could have been more exploration in the narrative. It's also a commentary on the Vice journalists and the society they represent. They're young, hip, college-educated, secular liberals. They're doing "immersive journalism" while striving to maintain this objective, neutral, apolitical attitude. Instead of inoculating them against the con, it makes them perfect marks. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Jan 6, 2020 |
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Jan 6, 2020 22:01
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Basebf555 posted:As a Bigfoot enthusiast, I've always found the Skunk Ape to be the scariest version. Probably because it's usually depicted as having longer, wilder hair than the typical mountain Sasquatch, so it comes across as like half wildman half ape. I’ve never understood if the skunk ape in this picture is supposed to have massive arms or if that’s an optical illusion.
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Jan 6, 2020 22:02
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Franchescanado posted:My pitch is a little similar to Boggy Creek 2, in that just have a small group of zoologists in the Everglades trying to collect samples and catalog changes in the environment. In the middle of the night, the Skunk Ape finds their camp and attacks. The rest is a survival horror film where the scientists are just trying to get out of the Skunk Ape's territory while it rips them apart one by one. Agreed I looked at some more pictures of it and I like how menacing it still is when on all fours. How, uh, how fast is the Skunkape? I'm thinking maybe not something as extreme as Bubba Ho-Tep, but a situation of oh gently caress we're in the Everglades and it's a giant swamp with plants everywhere so we're moving slow as gently caress. So the Skunkape can start out slow and on all fours, picking people off and take his time gruesomely mangling them to death alive. Then as the movie goes on and towards the end it stands up and is more and more ferocious until it's definitively defeated. So like the characters think it's just a dumb animal but as it goes on it does more human-like stuff and turns their own tactics against them and stuff. Like it's teased for most of the movie as you just see it rising a bit out of the swamp or a limb here or there but then towards the end we see more of it in its full glory. Final shot of course will be like the end of Big Trouble in Little China where as the survivors drive off it's completely recovered and clinging to the back of the vehicle. Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Jan 6, 2020 |
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Jan 6, 2020 22:09
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Basebf555 posted:I'm just sick of banging on tents and scratches on trees and yowling in the distance. I want a Bigfoot movie that actually delivers the goods. Agreed. Willow Creek had some good potential, and it's engaging for what it is, but I just want a boisterous full-on Bigfoot movie. I'd prefer it to be filmed like the monster in The Ritual, where eventually you get your money's worth, but it's teased for most of the film. Drunkboxer posted:I’ve never understood if the skunk ape in this picture is supposed to have massive arms or if that’s an optical illusion.  I believe this is its arm. Neo Rasa posted:Agreed I looked at some more pictures of it and I like how menacing it still is when on all fours. I'm thinking it's fast as hell, but also has to deal with it's mass and weight. Like, the people have to wade through swamp water and crawl over the notches and roots of trees while the Skunk Ape climbs halfway up a tree to jump towards another tree. It knows how to get around the forest quickly despite it's size and weight, while we're dealing with outdoorsy science nerds. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Jan 6, 2020 |
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Jan 6, 2020 22:09
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How do you get around the Noodle Incident problem, where no actual Bigfoot can live up to the hype?
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Drunkboxer posted:I’ve never understood if the skunk ape in this picture is supposed to have massive arms or if that’s an optical illusion. It's an optical illusion, but I see what you're talking about. The part that seems like a huge arm is really supposed to be the ape's entire right side, and it's hunched over. The hair is very long and laying over the whole body which is what creates gigantic arm effect(which I never saw until you just pointed it out actually). When you realize it's on all fours you'll see that it's not just one huge arm. Halloween Jack posted:How do you get around the Noodle Incident problem, where no actual Bigfoot can live up to the hype? The appearance isn't what will make the lasting impression, it would be the unimaginable power and ferocity. It would be ripping people limb from limb. Basebf555 fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Jan 6, 2020 |
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Jan 6, 2020 22:10
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Willow Creek was a decent-ish Bigfoot movie
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Since we’re on the subject, here’s a crossover post from the pyf cryptid thread. ruddiger posted:I worked on a couple of really silly cryptid reality shows a while back.
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Jan 6, 2020 22:15
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COOL CORN posted:Willow Creek was a decent-ish Bigfoot movie
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Jan 6, 2020 22:21
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Halloween Jack posted:You gotta hand it to them for making a Chuck Tingle title the plot of the movie. There's an entire sub sub genre of bigfoot-fuckin literature so this doesn't actually narrow it down at all.
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Jan 6, 2020 22:33
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I can’t believe that I STILL haven’t seen Night of the Demon (1980). I’ve heard it’s pure grade yeti smut.
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Jan 6, 2020 22:39
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Bigfoot straight-up rips off a dude’s junk in Night of the Demon. And the trick to make a Bigfoot horror movie stand out is to avoid using the standard Sasquatch design. Keep the silhouette but switch it up by giving it extra eyes or a giant mouth or something. Less Chewbacca, more Attack the Block.
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Jan 6, 2020 22:47
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omg the new grudge is a dumpster fire
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MacheteZombie posted:Was about to suggest The Burning but that's upstate new york. I don't know about "good", but The Last Broadcast is a Jersey Devil movie.
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Jan 7, 2020 01:15
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Drunkboxer posted:Make a Flatwoods Monster movie, cowards. Considering the Flatwoods Monster's become a bit of a pop culture icon in some areas, I'm surprised someone hasn't made a movie about it. With all this cryptid talk, now I'm wondering what movies/shows are out there that involve some of the lesser known (compared to Bigfoot and Nessie) cryptids. I'm sitting through Hellier currently and so far it's been a bit of a slog.
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Jan 7, 2020 02:29
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It was very weird to me when I got around to playing Amagon on the NES and found that the Flatwoods Monster was the final boss.
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M_Sinistrari posted:Considering the Flatwoods Monster's become a bit of a pop culture icon in some areas, I'm surprised someone hasn't made a movie about it. The Mothman Prophecies excised all the interesting parts of the Mothman and was very boring, I would like a better one.
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M_Sinistrari posted:With all this cryptid talk, now I'm wondering what movies/shows are out there that involve some of the lesser known (compared to Bigfoot and Nessie) cryptids. I'm sitting through Hellier currently and so far it's been a bit of a slog. 
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Jan 7, 2020 03:00
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Just got out of a screening of Hallucinations and an earlier Polonia brothers short film, Blood Flood, hooooooooly poo poo 
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this describes cool corn
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Iron Crowned posted:The Mothman Prophecies excised all the interesting parts of the Mothman and was very boring, I would like a better one. What? No! Mothman Prophecies is very good!
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I appreciate what Mothman Prophecies is trying to do, it's definitely not for everyone. It defies you to like it.
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The new Grudge is a C-grade horror movie. It doesn't do anything particularly wrong, but it doesn't do anything right either. It just kind of exists and fails to do anything new or interesting with the material which is a drat shame. Someone in this thread mentioned that reviews have said that this movie is "meaner" than the other Grudge films, but I really don't see how. To be fair though, it's hard to make the Grudge movies any meaner than they already are because they're just inherently unforgiving films (something I've always appreciated about them): Ghosts in the Grudge movies work the same way nuclear radiation works in the real world (which is probably intentional given that the atomic bombings have left a permanent scare on Japan culturally) if you go to a certain place you become infected with them and the will stay with you and torture you until they inevitably kill you. This infection can not be stopped or cured, once you have it it's with you until you die. Oh, and you can totally spread it to others too so even if you're smart/lucky enough to never go to the ghost infected house you can still catch ghosts from some dumb sucker who has (Just like how you can still get radiation poisoning from someone who's been exposed to enough radiation even if you never visit a radioactive place yourself). edit: Neo Rasa posted:https://letterboxd.com/film/viy-1909/ Oh rad! I'm going to check these out. M_Sinistrari posted:Considering the Flatwoods Monster's become a bit of a pop culture icon in some areas, I'm surprised someone hasn't made a movie about it. Same, the Flatwoods Monster is a surprisingly underrated cryptoid who should get the spotlight more. Has there ever been a Chupacabra horror movie? Chupacabras are one of those monsters that I see referenced a lot, but rarely (if ever) get to take center stage and be the main bad guys. Space Cadet Omoly fucked around with this message at 06:50 on Jan 7, 2020 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I appreciate what Mothman Prophecies is trying to do, it's definitely not for everyone. It defies you to like it. I enjoyed The Mothman Prophecies, but would also like for someone to actually make the movie the trailers and advertising suggested it was going to be.
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