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Kvlt! posted:Cowboys vs Aliens but it's the aliens from Arrival Seriously though you make a good point in that Cowboys vs. Aliens didn't get nearly weird enough. It was all just space ships and laser gauntlets, unless I'm forgetting stuff which is totally possible.
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MrMojok posted:Cannot believe you guys of ALL PEOPLE have forgotten the classic “Billy the Kid vs. Dracula” And lets not forget the seminal horror classic, Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire  edit: Cowboys vs Aliens was just weird enough, playing the premise of Aliens coming for OUR GOLD completely straight. It's one of those movies that don't actually need jokes to be hilarous. married but discreet fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Nov 23, 2021 |
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Westworld kinda was. What about Gallowswalker with Wesley Snipes?
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Nov 23, 2021 21:08
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Let's not talk about Gallowswalker with Wesley Snipes.
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Nov 23, 2021 21:09
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While we're covering horror Westerns and genre mashups, what about horror in a war setting? The Keep, right? Any others? When I was a kid I seem to remember there was a comic book or two that covered such territory. Weird War is a title I remember.
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Nov 23, 2021 21:55
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Zwabu posted:While we're covering horror Westerns and genre mashups, what about horror in a war setting? Overlord i think it was called? WW2 Zombie movie
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Nov 23, 2021 22:07
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Kvlt! posted:Overlord i think it was called? WW2 Zombie movie Oh, yeah, saw it and enjoyed it in the theater.
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Zwabu posted:While we're covering horror Westerns and genre mashups, what about horror in a war setting? a lot (maybe all?) of war movies at least partially traffic in horror and existentialism, but without the genre pulp two spring to mind as maybe being outright horror: 'Johnny Got His Gun' has probably the most horrifying ending sequence of any war film i've ever seen and the whole thing is pretty much a nightmare. 'Come and See' is a powerhouse too
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Nov 23, 2021 22:18
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I can't remember if "Dogs of War" actually happened in a war setting, or in a military peacetime setting.
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Nov 23, 2021 22:27
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alf_pogs posted:a lot (maybe all?) of war movies at least partially traffic in horror and existentialism, but without the genre pulp poser
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Nov 23, 2021 22:32
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Ghosts of War was spectacularly terrible.
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Nov 23, 2021 22:39
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Zwabu posted:While we're covering horror Westerns and genre mashups, what about horror in a war setting? Jacob's Ladder? I don't know if you would count horror movies where military personnel are the protagonists, such as Dog Soldiers or Aliens.
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I watched The Cremator, a Czechoslovakian new wave movie set shortly before WW2, for the October challenge. It was insanely good but I honestly don't know if it's horror or history or both.
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Splint Chesthair posted:Dog Soldiers. This was the title I was looking for not dogs of war.
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Splint Chesthair posted:Jacob's Ladder? Yeah its an interesting line. Dog Soliders features the titular characters, but isn’t a war movie. Predator feels closer, but also not technically in a war. Snow Zombies has nazi zombies, but again, same problem. I’ve heard lots of supernatural stories from people who were in war in Afghanistan. Actually that rings a bell. Love/Death/Robots did episodes like that. Season 1 episodes 10 & 18.
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Nov 23, 2021 23:25
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Zwabu posted:This was the title I was looking for not dogs of war. Dogs of War is a better title anyway
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Tarnop posted:Writes down "Hateful Eight x The Thing" in nanowrimo_ideas.docx Hateful Eight is already The Thing. Morricone was chosen for that reason and makes it super obvious. It even ends the same haha.
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For a really lovely western/thriller, there's Diablo (2015), starring Clint Eastwood's kid and Walton Goggins. Some great scenery and landscape shots, but every part of the storytelling is incompetent, particularly in handling the twist.
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Brimstone is a pretty brutal revisionist Western. It's not a horror movie at all but it'd pair well with something like the Proposition.
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Yeah, watching High Plains Drifter for the first time with my parents was a bit squirmy there at the beginning  They didn't show anything on screen because it was the 60s, but they also casually dismissed sexual assault because it was the 60s.Darko posted:Hateful Eight is already The Thing. Morricone was chosen for that reason and makes it super obvious. It even ends the same haha. If only the original alien could have been identified as easily as 'looks dishonest'  H8 is OK, I feel it suffers from a lot latter-day Tarantino 'less than the sum of its parts'-itis where individual scenes are cool and good but mashing them all together into a movie feels jumbled and weird. Felt the same about Django and Once Upon a Time. It is however a fantastic example of why you don't bring in a voiceover narrater 90 minutes in; so weird and jarring.
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Hateful 8 didn't do all that much for me but I do greatly admire the ballsiness of shooting a film in 70mm and marketing it heavily on that with special screenings to see it in it's full glory as intended by the auteur and then 90% of the film is people talking in a small cabin. I enjoyed it, and I still think about it every now and then which is probably the greatest measure of a film's quality to me, but it never really came together as well as the films preceding and following it.
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Takes No Damage posted:Yeah, watching High Plains Drifter for the first time with my parents was a bit squirmy there at the beginning While I enjoy all those movies quite a bit, you're definitely feeling the loss of Sally Menke's editing. The editing from Inglourious Basterds to Django was a pretty big downturn.
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Red Sands is a horror movie I saw that was set in the Iraq war. I also keep seeing this movie about WWI (I think) soldiers trapped in a church where spooky stuff starts happening on Netflix that I keep meaning to watch.
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:Red Sands is a horror movie I saw that was set in the Iraq war. I also keep seeing this movie about WWI (I think) soldiers trapped in a church where spooky stuff starts happening on Netflix that I keep meaning to watch. That might be Ghosts of War, which I strongly discourage. It's WW2 and a haunted house though. Deathwatch is pretty great until the last act. Andy Serkis in WWI with a haunted trench.
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It is Ghosts Of War that I keep seeing that I was interested in. I never seem to remember it when it's time to pick a movie though.
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Darko posted:Hateful Eight is already The Thing. Morricone was chosen for that reason and makes it super obvious. It even ends the same haha. I don't want nanowrimo to be more of a challenge than it already is
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I guess it's not strictly western but Ravenous is close and everyone should watch it anyways
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Retro Futurist posted:I guess it's not strictly western but Ravenous is close and everyone should watch it anyways Yes
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Retro Futurist posted:I guess it's not strictly western but Ravenous is close and everyone should watch it anyways What makes you say it isn’t?
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R-point might count as a war horror film.
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I rewatched Possessor and it's really interesting how all the technology is presented as analogue. The pot on the machine looks old and worn, the technology needs wires, and when we see the guts of the machine it very clearly is using vacuum tubes and old capacitors.
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Watching Curse of the Undead now, I didn't realize how thoroughly Han Solo's outfit was a gunfighter get up.
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PeterCat posted:Watching Curse of the Undead now, I didn't realize how thoroughly Han Solo's outfit was a gunfighter get up.
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Burkion posted:So in a lot of situations where people say this, it doesn't excuse it As for war horror movies there’s the B-17 segment from Heavy Metal. https://youtu.be/AsLyG6A13f4
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I'm like 2/3 of the way through Midnight Mass. Well into the part where poo poo is going down and I'm starting to know what's actually happening. This is my kind of story, overall, but I think it's both way too much of a slow burn to really get into the horror, and too talky and philosophical for my taste. I just wish the pacing were less languid.
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Kvlt! posted:I rewatched Possessor and it's really interesting how all the technology is presented as analogue. The pot on the machine looks old and worn, the technology needs wires, and when we see the guts of the machine it very clearly is using vacuum tubes and old capacitors. Reminded me of the dream infiltration gear from Inception. I wonder if it's become a kind of shorthand for illicit tech
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bowmore posted:well yeah, star wars is a space western Mashed together with Flash Gordon and WW2 films.
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Casimir Radon posted:
This is completely the vibe from the Weird War type comics from my childhood.  
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Re: Western horror, there’s a recent one on Shudder called The Pale Door. It’s about a gang of outlaws hiding out after a train robbery, and ending up in a town full of witches.
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Zwabu posted:This is completely the vibe from the Weird War type comics from my childhood.
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