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Takes No Damage posted:Slowly making my way through the Chucky franchise so I can watch the series everybody liked so much. I didn't think they were going to top the doll sex scene from Bride of Chucky anytime soon, but watching John Waters creep on Chucky rubbing one out into a cup so Jennifer Tilly can turkey baster inseminate herself with the titular Seed of Chucky... yeah that'll fuckin' do it I also just watched the entire Chucky franchise a few weeks ago so I could watch the show. I was surprised at how much fun the series was to watch, it was corny and over the top but in a good way. The only ones I didn't like were 3 and the remake with Mark Hamil.
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davidspackage posted:Final Destination 2 starts with the huge highway pile-up right? That's a hell of a scene. I'm gonna marathon the series, can't remember which ones I did and didn't see. Someone on YouTube set this scene to the jingle for "Log!" from Ren & Stimpy on YouTube and it was really funny
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Xander B Coolridge posted:I finally watched Censor and I'm not sure how I felt about it. Unless there's some reading of it I missed, the intended explanation of what happened seemed to be literally explained by one character halfway through. I interpreted it as your last point, being generally about how censorship can be pointless and even harmful, especially self-censorship. Enid finds the lines between fantasy and reality blurred because of her own repressed trauma, not because the films themselves are inherently a bad influence. None of her coworkers had the same problem, and the murders that kick off the plot of the film would've happened whether or not that guy saw Deranged.
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Just (re)watched Final Destination 2 and drat, it holds up when it comes to memorable deaths. The CG is dodgy but most of it's practical effects or compositing. Weird to see, in hindsight, the obvious lighting, fashion and hairstyle of the early 00s. The main character, Kimberly, looks interchangeable with a dozen other horror movie protagonists from that era, including Anna Faris in the Scary Movies.
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side note: Anna Faris doesn't get nearly enough credit for being g the only reliably funny part of the Scary Movie franchise, which had its moments.
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Shrecknet posted:side note: Anna Faris doesn't get nearly enough credit 
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Plus she's got built in horror cred from May.
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Shrecknet posted:side note: Anna Faris doesn't get nearly enough credit for being g the only reliably funny part of the Scary Movie franchise, which had its moments. I think Regina Hall is consistently funny in them, too.
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Holy poo poo, the Final Destination 2 transfer on Tubi has the most uneven audio I've ever encountered.
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Iron Crowned posted:Holy poo poo, the Final Destination 2 transfer on Tubi has the most uneven audio I've ever encountered. Please don’t criticize Tubi. It’s an important repository for all our most valuable culture.
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Shrecknet posted:side note: Anna Faris doesn't get nearly enough credit for being g the only reliably funny part of the Scary Movie franchise, which had its moments. She doesn’t get enough credit for leaving Mom between seasons, forcing them to have to pretend her character was on the end of a phone until it ended.
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Drunkboxer posted:Please don’t criticize Tubi. It’s an important repository for all our most valuable culture. I didn't end up watching any of those, gonna do A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night tonight though I'm pretty sure. I've been watching ALTER shorts as usual, and loving a lot of them. Also, has anyone seen Cold Fish? It's gory right? I'm interested but I can't get through nasty gore and some Letterboxd reviews have worried me.
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Drunkboxer posted:Please don’t criticize Tubi. It’s an important repository for all our most valuable culture. I honestly probably have most hours watched on Tubi right after Netflix. They have so many random rear end monster movies, and I don't give a poo poo if I finish them, so that is what is usually on when I'm going to bed.
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Snuff Melange posted:I didn't end up watching any of those, gonna do A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night tonight though I'm pretty sure. I've been watching ALTER shorts as usual, and loving a lot of them. Cold Fish is pretty tame, its not gorier than your average slasher. Great movie!
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Drunkboxer posted:Please don’t criticize Tubi. It’s an important repository for all our most valuable culture. It has the fourth greatest Halloween movie ever made https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmrwfhbtjFw
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CelticPredator posted:It has the fourth greatest Halloween movie ever made That movie is terrible. Michael Myers doesn't even get to Aunt Ethel's until the last 20 minutes, the rest of it is on a loving boat.
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Shrecknet posted:side note: Anna Faris doesn't get nearly enough credit for being g the only reliably funny part of the Scary Movie franchise, which had its moments. She was fun in Keanu
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Haven't visited this thread in a long time, but Shudder is doing a big push on French horror and I finally got to see Martyrs last night. HOLY poo poo. I missed it when it first came out, but I remember the response basically being, "This is brutal and relentless, and Cannes had fainting and walkouts and blah blah blah." Through no big effort of my own, I managed to go in relatively blind. It's not just brutal, it keeps escalating in more and more bonkers ways. Like, I kept getting to checkpoints of, "It's been 20 minutes and how does the movie go on from here?" "It's been 40 minutes, where can this POSSIBLY go from here??" "HOLY poo poo, WHAT IS HAPPENING!?" If you've never seen it, do not sleep on it. Up next is Inside.
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Stryder posted:
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Stryder posted:Haven't visited this thread in a long time, but Shudder is doing a big push on French horror and I finally got to see Martyrs last night. HOLY poo poo. I missed it when it first came out, but I remember the response basically being, "This is brutal and relentless, and Cannes had fainting and walkouts and blah blah blah." Through no big effort of my own, I managed to go in relatively blind. It's not just brutal, it keeps escalating in more and more bonkers ways. Like, I kept getting to checkpoints of, "It's been 20 minutes and how does the movie go on from here?" "It's been 40 minutes, where can this POSSIBLY go from here??" "HOLY poo poo, WHAT IS HAPPENING!?" If you've never seen it, do not sleep on it. Martyrs is awesome and I think totally lives up to the hype. I wish I felt the same way about Inside. It’s not terrible or anything, it just didn’t hit for me the way it apparently does for other people. Probably due to that chintzy looking cgi fetus.
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Yea it's kinda tough to even hold up Martyrs as like, the best French Extremity has to offer because yea, on the one hand it is but on the other hand it's totally unique and I don't think anything else from the French Extremity movement lives up to it.
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Maybe I'm off base but I think a lot of FE builds on what came before it, kinda like an arms race for disturbing content. If you go Funny Games > High Tension > Frontieres/ILS > Martyrs there's a clear progression there to me. It kinda stops with Martyrs though because I've always read it as a commentary on the violence in FE as a whole.
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I'll always stan Martyrs as my favorite 'gore porn' movie, as it isn't JUST about putting the most hosed up thing you can think of on screen, there's an actual narrative reason for everything. Oh no this girl was traumatized as a child and just murdered an innocent family.  Oh NO a secret basement, they really were a crazy murder family.  OHNO the family is part of a secret organization torturing women to see what's in the afterlife.  And that ending 
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How should the Blank Check podcast follow up their John Carpenter series? https://twitter.com/blankcheckpod/status/1501598200360325123?s=20&t=yRCJget9mwVaowPMqJz8AA
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Well I'm into that, guess I'm putting alerts back on for that podcast.CelticPredator posted:Don’t know those guys but gonna have to listen I guess the carpenter series they did last year was good.
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Franchescanado posted:How should the Blank Check podcast follow up their John Carpenter series? Nice! As part of my return to Shudder, a few nights ago I watched Darkman for probably the first time since seeing it in theaters in 1990. At the time, 15-year old me had no real reference for Sam Raimi, but it's amazing to go back and see it now, and how much all of his cinematic tricks are on full display. Snap zooms, dutch angles, sped up footage, goofy ADR, transposed montages... Reading about it, it sounds like that stuff is also only in there because Sam drove the studio-provided editor crazy. Can't wait to hear his take on it. Also a funny bit of trivia, Darkman is the second Raimi film where he tried to cast Bruce Campbell as the lead and the studio said, "No friggin' way could that guy carry a movie." (Crimewave being the first).
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I'm irrationally angry that when they couldn't get Neeson back for Darkman 2 they re-shot the ending of the first movie with Arnold Vosloo and pretended that this is what the guy always looked like. He changes his appearance! That's his whole thing! You can have him lose his Liam Neeson face data and have to make a new scan from some schmuck played by Arnold Vosloo, there you go!
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Kvlt! posted:Cold Fish is pretty tame, its not gorier than your average slasher. Great movie! Sweet, that's on my list for sure then. Just finished A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, and WOW! I expected a sleepier, old-timey silent film pacing with drier characters I guess, but I was proven a fool. Loooove the characters, the setting of "Bad City" and the moody atmospheric tone. Fantastic ending too. 5/5 on Letterboxd, and shame on me for putting it off so long.
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Martyrs kind of wastes its premise on a really hokey presentation of the reveal towards the back end. It's like a Fiala/Franz movie that ends up getting hijacked by Tom Six.
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Rob Zombie’s The Munsters has received an official “PG” rating for… “Macabre and suggestive material, scary images and language.”
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Darko posted:I feel the same. Also, having met Danielle Harris; the poo poo he puts her through in the movies makes me feel extra bad for the character because of that. I have never met her, but I feel the exact same way about her in these films. I posted this a while back: MrMojok posted:Then the other day I’m watching Zombie’s films, thinking Annie looks so familiar and I just cannot place where I’ve seen her before, except that it was a long time ago when she was young.
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SilentChaz posted:Rob Zombie’s The Munsters has received an official “PG” rating for… “Macabre and suggestive material, scary images and language.” My sympathies to Kvlt in this difficult time
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Franchescanado posted:Kvlt! wanted it to be a PG comedy cuz he also likes the original series. Yup. Im a lifelong Munsters fan, one of my fav shows growing up. I expected it to be PG and am glad it is. I also think it'll be a great challenge for Rob to make a PG comedy, I'm wicked excited for it!
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FreudianSlippers posted:So what's the word on the May Horror Challenge this year? An awesome person has kindly volunteered to run it, and I am confident they will make it awesome, and they have my full approval. I will leave it to them to announce anything further.
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