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Kvlt! posted:I appreciate that but for me I dont really want the "piss-my-pants" moments in my slashers to be SUBTLE I want them to be the OPPOSITE. I mean maybe it's just because I like my slashers gory and over the top but to me even as a kid Halloween was boring. Listening to the soundtrack is a better time than watching the movie imo. The best slasher moments are full of sublety, you donk. Annie realizing the inside of the car is fogged up is more effective than the kill itself.
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Lurdiak posted:I can't believe you left Pumpkinhead out of these proceedings. Same, but Sleepaway Camp. Maniac Cop, The Hills Have Eyes, Silent Night, Deadly Night, Gingerdead Man. If Critters is in, Ghoulies? Charles Band could probably fill out the D-tier on his own.
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Tart Kitty posted:The best slasher moments are full of sublety, you donk. Annie realizing the inside of the car is fogged up is more effective than the kill itself. I disagree. The best slasher moments end in a geyser of gore. I wish Hatchet was better than it was because that movie has some A+ kills. The head ripped apart is so great
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Mar 19, 2020 03:54
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CelticPredator posted:I disagree. The best slasher moments end in a geyser of gore. Couldn't agree more with everything written here <3 I like the Hatchet movies they're cheesy as hell but they have heart
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I’ve only seen 1, but I just didnt think it was very funny. I like Adam Green as a person but his comedy just does not work for me at all. Frozen and Marrow were great though
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Mix of serious and poo poo-tier franchise suggestions: Psycho Violent poo poo Ju-On Tomie Xtro Creepshow Witchcraft Cube Wishmaster Evil Dead Warlock Final Destination V/H/S Ghoulies Troll (part 3 is also known as The Crawlers) House (1 through 4) The Stepfather I Know What You Did Last Summer Species Jaws Leprechaun Slumber Party Massacre The Omen Poltergeist The Doll (Indonesian) Robert the Doll Silent Night, Deadly Night Tremors Gingerdead Man David DeCoteau's 1313 series
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My Twitter Account posted:Or, if you prefer your gang tags animated: I was going to do one but I feel like this one already won. It's just amazing on every level
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87 franchises nominated by my tabulation. I suggest this schedule March: Leave nomination block open. April: Take the final nomination pool, set the number of automatic seeds, determine who they are by ballot or small council, have everyone else "play in". May/June: Showcase one bracket of 4 match ups/8 franchises each Monday and encourage people to check them out and hype up the Tourney. July: Do the tourney 2 months after the April Midway Challenge and 2 months before the October Halloween Challenge giving us yet another excuse to binge on horror together. January: Small Council "Essentials" or something so we just od every 3 months. I'm happy to get involved and help any way I can. Given that I'm unemployed for the immediate future I have the time. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Mar 19, 2020 |
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My Twitter Account posted:Or, if you prefer your gang tags animated:
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STAC Goat posted:87 franchises nominated by my tabulation. From my experience running pop culture brackets, it's best to have 65 entrants (with a one-off "play-in" for the final, 64th spot) and do one leg of the tourney (64->32->16->Final 4->Championship). This way you aren't talking about the same series over and over and over and you keep coming back to them rather than just look at them once and forget them. You also can assign different qualifiers to each round, so in a particular round, movies are only judged on: kill quality, music, lore, etc to keep it from just being an all-rounder tourney that ends up with the usual suspects at 1-4. STAC once you've got a firm 65 lmk and I can do something special
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Mar 19, 2020 04:50
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ill buy one if it says Crüe
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Shrecknet posted:Samesies. Plus like... I think in this case time is a good thing because it gives people time to watch movies. In general pop culture bracket stuff you're dealing with known quantities. But I think this is more fun if its another excuse to check out stuff you've never heard of or never gotten around to or want to revisit. But like if people think it would be easier to just cut it down, so be it. Like I said, I don't know how to do polls anyway. quote:You also can assign different qualifiers to each round, so in a particular round, movies are only judged on: kill quality, music, lore, etc to keep it from just being an all-rounder tourney that ends up with the usual suspects at 1-4.
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It looks like Discord has temporarily upped their in app streaming from 10 to 50 since people are stuck inside. To stream out in good quality you need Nitro so I'm gonna tinker with that a little and see if it might be suitable.
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Jedit posted:Let's face it, nearly all horror franchises are poo poo because franchises are inherently uncreative. The most consistently good ones are Evil Dead and Romero's Dead sequence, and even they drop off hard after the opening trilogy. The only horror franchise that has more than three genuinely good movies is Alien, and even that's debatable depending on what you make of Alien 3. The most consistently-good horror franchise is Blair Witch, with a total of six (or seven*) movies - each stylistically unique, and all excellent. Paranormal Activity is second place, with eight entries ranging in quality from decent to fantastic. Alien is eight films, and only one mildly ‘bad’ entry. (Even AVP 1 has some schlock merit.) There are also, like, a dozen solid short films. *this depends on how you classify Sticks And Stones, which is an alternate cut of Curse Of The Blair Witch.
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The best horror franchise is actually Bad Ben.
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Speaking of Blair Witch, I was pleasantly surprised giving a second look to Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2. It still wasn't great but it was a lot more watchable than I remembered it being.
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Darthemed posted:
The Omen is bad. The remake isn't great either but at least it's entertaining.
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Sono posted:Same, but Sleepaway Camp. Yeah I demand both Critters and Ghoulies. Love those little guys.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Paranormal Activity is second place, with eight entries ranging in quality from decent to fantastic. i really loved watching all the Paranormal Activity movies in a marathon right after one another. its just a fun and silly dump of films
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Mar 19, 2020 08:13
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Zombies of Mora Tau (1957) Two (2) years before The Twilight Zone TV show
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TheKingslayer posted:Speaking of Blair Witch, I was pleasantly surprised giving a second look to Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2. It still wasn't great but it was a lot more watchable than I remembered it being.
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Kvlt! posted:ill buy one if it says Crüe
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Alhazred posted:The Omen is bad. The remake isn't great either but at least it's entertaining. Splint Chesthair posted:Couldn’t the Witchcraft series support its own bracket by now? Witchcraft II: The Temptress Witchcraft Witchcraft VIII: Salem's Ghost Witchcraft III: The Kiss of Death Witchcraft 666: The Devil's Mistress Witchcraft V: Dance with the Devil Witchcraft IV: The Virgin Heart Witchcraft XVI: Hollywood Coven Witchcraft XIV: Angel of Death Witchcraft XV: Blood Rose Witchcraft XII: In the Lair of the Serpent Witchcraft 13: Blood of the Chosen Witchcraft X: Mistress of the Craft Witchcraft VII: Judgement Hour Witchcraft XI: Sisters in Blood Witchcraft IX: Bitter Flesh Darthemed fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Mar 19, 2020 |
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Hey Kvlt!, go watch The Golden Glove (Der Goldene Handschuh), it's greasy and grimy and made me feel like poo poo and it's a true story!
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TIL there a more sequels to Blair Witch
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Someone posted a review of Bliss that said "Like a grimier and gorier low budget Gaspar Noé film." and I never realized I had an exact aesthetic before, but that's it. Now I gotta watch Bliss
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COOL CORN posted:Hey Kvlt!, go watch The Golden Glove (Der Goldene Handschuh), it's greasy and grimy and made me feel like poo poo gonna watch this tn <3 COOL CORN posted:Someone posted a review of Bliss that said "Like a grimier and gorier low budget Gaspar Noé film." and I never realized I had an exact aesthetic before, but that's it. I wish Bliss was like this but thats vastly overhyping it tbh
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Kvlt! posted:gonna watch this tn <3  Kvlt! posted:I wish Bliss was like this but thats vastly overhyping it tbh 
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Bliss is a gory, neon flashing sign of a movie. It's more of a rollercoaster ride than the traditional narrative, sort of like Mandy or a Safdie brothers film. It also compliments my personal belief that one must enter a gnostic state in order to effectively create art. Whether through hypnosis, mania, drugs, exhaustion, or any other altered state- the artist tries to achieve "no mind" and is then able to focus the mind entirely on creation. In the end, just as Chopin became his music Dezzy becomes her painting. Sometimes, to finish painting a picture you need to kill a whole lot of people.
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COOL CORN posted:Someone posted a review of Bliss that said "Like a grimier and gorier low budget Gaspar Noé film." and I never realized I had an exact aesthetic before, but that's it. that was me and it's great Kvlt! posted:I wish Bliss was like this but thats vastly overhyping it tbh 
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Darthemed posted:
I should have had more faith in this thread. Namaste.
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TheOmegaWalrus posted:Bliss is a gory, neon flashing sign of a movie. It's more of a rollercoaster ride https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3kLrWdyVTo
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Alhazred posted:The Omen is bad. The remake isn't great either but at least it's entertaining.
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I like the original The Omen. It's not as good as many of it's contemporaries that it's grouped together with usually, but there's a lot of great stuff. I love the photographer's death, the nanny that hangs herself at the party, I reference the dog knocking the mom down on the stairs kinda regularly. I haven't seen it in a while, but the first two acts are loaded with great ideas, but the third act can't really maintain the weight of the ideas, or the rhythm of the scares, or conclude the premise in a satisfying way.
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Franchescanado posted:I like the original The Omen. It's not as good as many of it's contemporaries that it's grouped together with usually, but there's a lot of great stuff. I love the photographer's death, the nanny that hangs herself at the party, I reference the dog knocking the mom down on the stairs kinda regularly. I haven't seen it in a while, but the first two acts are loaded with great ideas, but the third act can't really maintain the weight of the ideas, or the rhythm of the scares, or conclude the premise in a satisfying way. Yeah I was going to say I was surprised at the negative reaction to the original. I always thought it was pretty well remembered. Who doesn’t like that decapitation?
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TheOmegaWalrus posted:Bliss is a gory, neon flashing sign of a movie. It's more of a rollercoaster ride than the traditional narrative, sort of like Mandy or a Safdie brothers film. Yeah I really enjoyed it, having just watched it now. It scratched the manic Gaspar Noé itch a la something like Climax, but obviously had a much more substantial plot than Climax did. Really fun ride.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:did you read the last sentence of my post OK guilty I can't read. I am just completely baffled by how much you like the bad Halloweens and I thought there had to be some other explanation, but it's just plain old different tastes. And horror thread so that's cool, I am glad someone enjoys Halloween 4.
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I think he's easily second best, but I feel like CP3 and Seed drag that franchise down more than the bad Halloweens drag that one down
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Irony.or.Death posted:[...] I am glad someone enjoys Halloween 4. I thought H4 was one of the better regarded ones? It was certainly a lot more competent than I expected going into it. 5 was distinctly worse and 6 just felt so, so tired (and I watched the “good” version).
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By people who really like the franchise, it probably is I guess? I'm not one of them, I recognize that the original is a great movie but III is the only one I enjoy enough to rewatch. e: disclaimers: haven't seen '18 and I'm not including the Zombie stuff.
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