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Franchescanado posted:The Haunting remake is a structural and pacing mess. Nothing happens until the final 5 minutes, and it fails to build the momentum for the payoff to work. That's also true. One of the sillier aspects is that the tension of the story revolves around Eleanor slowly seeing things with the other characters assuming she's becoming delusional. But, there's a definite point where everyone witnesses a clearly supernatural event and the reaction by the other characters is so mild in comparison to what they're seeing that it makes it funny. A giant head leers down at them with disembodied hands ejecting from its mouth, and though they run away, they don't seem horrified or anything.
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Twin Cinema posted:I Still Know What You Did Last Summer needs to be watched. Not because it's good, but because the final reveal is the most ridiculous reveal I have seen. And this includes Scream 2. I lost my loving mind guesting on a horror podcast about the plot of this movie. The entire thing relies on either the audience being stupid enough that the twist works, or the characters being stupid enough that there is no twist.
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I think the twist is actually kinda sorta clever because if you don't know what the capital of Brazil is, and most of the people watching probably had no idea, then you're oblivious but if you know you think it's a goof in a stupid film until the twist. Maybe I'm reading the film as more meta and self-aware than it actually is
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I don't have much of an issue with the capital of Brazil thing as much as I do with the idea that Ben Willis for some reason decided to send his son to Julie's college to hang around her for an entire semester. Like, why? What was the point of that if you're just gonna invite her to this isolated island anyway?
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Saw Creep last night. It was wicked good! I went in thinking "Pete from the League made a horror movie lmao" but by the end I was really impressed. It was pretty unsettling and blending in a lot of drama and black comedy really made up for it being "light" in the horror elements. Overall just a wicked engrossing movie, I really dug it and I went in expecting not to like it.
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Kvlt! posted:Saw Creep last night. It was wicked good! I went in thinking "Pete from the League made a horror movie lmao" but by the end I was really impressed. It was pretty unsettling and blending in a lot of drama and black comedy really made up for it being "light" in the horror elements. Overall just a wicked engrossing movie, I really dug it and I went in expecting not to like it. The sequal is really good too, manages to elevate the concept without feeling like a retread or getting stupid
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Kvlt! posted:Saw Creep last night. It was wicked good! I went in thinking "Pete from the League made a horror movie lmao" but by the end I was really impressed. It was pretty unsettling and blending in a lot of drama and black comedy really made up for it being "light" in the horror elements. Overall just a wicked engrossing movie, I really dug it and I went in expecting not to like it. The sequel is just as good
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Kvlt! posted:Saw Creep last night. It was wicked good! I went in thinking "Pete from the League made a horror movie lmao" but by the end I was really impressed. It was pretty unsettling and blending in a lot of drama and black comedy really made up for it being "light" in the horror elements. Overall just a wicked engrossing movie, I really dug it and I went in expecting not to like it. Yeah those Duplass boys can make good movies when they want to
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I lost my loving mind guesting on a horror podcast about the plot of this movie. The entire thing relies on either the audience being stupid enough that the twist works, or the characters being stupid enough that there is no twist. I was like 13 when I saw it and spent the whole movie very confused. It’s not much of a twist because it doesnt have a ton of bearing on the plot one way or another but you do have to assume that the characters are smooth brained which the rest of the movie confirms. The GET IT WILL, BENS SON? EH? reveal is way more egregious and goof troop.
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I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is also the rare film to feature the iconic phrase, "get jiggy with it". Timeless.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I lost my loving mind guesting on a horror podcast about the plot of this movie. The entire thing relies on either the audience being stupid enough that the twist works, or the characters being stupid enough that there is no twist.
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I watched V/H/S/94, the first segment is really good and the two that follow it are a good time. The last two are very boring. All hail Raatma.
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i watched the ritual last night on amazon. it was really good.
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It's been so long since I saw "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" but am I remembering right that the fisherman commissioned a fake radio station call-in contest that would give our protagonists free vacation packages regardless of whether they got the question right or not?
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Speaking of ridiculous movies, I just watched Highwaymen with Jesus Caviezel. There is some really cool stunts/car poo poo in it. Turns out 45 minutes of the film was cut by the studio before release. What a shame.
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bowmore posted:I watched V/H/S/94, the first segment is really good and the two that follow it are a good time. The last two are very boring. All hail Raatma. I thought the wraparound story concluded badly (I liked the opening with the cops finding people sitting around with the droning message in the back), but a lot of hits vs. misses for me. I liked the segment with the scientist making human/machine hybrids in his basement, it reminded me strongly of the videogame SOMA.
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:It's been so long since I saw "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" but am I remembering right that the fisherman commissioned a fake radio station call-in contest that would give our protagonists free vacation packages regardless of whether they got the question right or not? Yes. But actually it's the fisherman's son who does it
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Stink Billyums posted:I'm watching Bad Ben 9, and if you want another 90 minutes of irate fat bald man, you got it. Yes please.
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New Backrooms stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py6c5NaHeB8
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married but discreet posted:Netflix movie from no-name director, hm. Tobe Hooper was a no-name director when he made TCM.
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Watching Trauma (2017 not the Argento) on a recommendation 5 minutes in and I may have to slap the friend who recommended it……. Edit: gently caress this Movie In more exciting news my Scream cereal just got delivered Gaz2k21 fucked around with this message at 11:53 on Jan 29, 2022 |
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Fit for a cereal killer no doubt. I liked VHS 94, I had watched Viral a few days before and the difference in quality was vast. Viral was really disappointing.
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I'm still waiting for them to do the sequel to VHS that everyone knows they must do at some point: Betamax
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:I'm still waiting for them to do the sequel to VHS that everyone knows they must do at some point: Nahhhh have that as a separate franchise then have a crossover “Vs” movie
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:I'm still waiting for them to do the sequel to VHS that everyone knows they must do at some point: Laserdisc - a hard sci-fi horror anthology.
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Jedit posted:Tobe Hooper was a no-name director when he made TCM. I'm sure the what, 10th remake of TCM will be good.
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Gaz2k21 posted:Nahhhh have that as a separate franchise then have a crossover “Vs” movie But we already know who wins, though! Levantine posted:Laserdisc - a hard sci-fi horror anthology. "Do it." /Palpatine
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married but discreet posted:I'm sure the what, 10th remake of TCM will be good. It's a sequel, not a remake. My expectations are low but on paper it looks like it could be good to great.
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Jedit posted:Tobe Hooper was a no-name director when he made TCM.
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Me, I'm just turned off by the plot synopsis of "them dang big city librul elites are making Bubba put on the face mask and pick up his chainsaw one last time!". Maybe it sounds worse than it is but I'm going to wait until reviews come out. There hasn't been a single good TCM movie since 2 so I have low hopes of this one bucking the trend.
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davidspackage posted:I thought the wraparound story concluded badly (I liked the opening with the cops finding people sitting around with the droning message in the back), but a lot of hits vs. misses for me. I liked the segment with the scientist making human/machine hybrids in his basement, it reminded me strongly of the videogame SOMA.
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:I'm still waiting for them to do the sequel to VHS that everyone knows they must do at some point: But they already have failed spinoffs
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I ended up enjoying the Wrong Turn reboot so I'll give TCM a chance. It can't be worse than some of the recent ones.
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King Vidiot posted:There hasn't been a single good TCM movie since 2 so I have low hopes of this one bucking the trend. Even if that were the case, a) much like the next Hellraiser, it probably wouldn't be even the third-worst entry in its franchise at this point, and b) it's pretty wild to see takes like this married but discreet posted:I'm sure the what, 10th remake of TCM will be good. Because even if it were a remake (it's not), it comes off as saying horror remakes inherently suck or a lot of horror franchise entries are uniquely annoying to hear about happening Do I think the 9th TCM film in 48 years is going to be great? No. Some people think the 9th Batman film in 23 years will be
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