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Listening to The Flop House a couple of weeks ago I was surprised to find out that there are a bunch of cheap "Amityville" horror movies.
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Sep 27, 2022 17:36
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muscles like this! posted:Listening to The Flop House a couple of weeks ago I was surprised to find out that there are a bunch of cheap "Amityville" horror movies. I guess that's the natural result of branding that uses a somewhat uncommon name, of a real place, which you also can't possibly own the rights to.
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Sep 27, 2022 17:51
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It's because you can't really make an intellectual property out of it, anyone can make a movie about a haunted house in the town of Amityville, NY. The original murders were an actual event, and the town really exists. The only thing you'd have to pay for is if you want to use the story of the Lutz family, which is what the original and remake are based on. Even in the original series they left the house and town by the fourth entry. There's a string of sequels in the nineties that are just haunted objects that originally came from the house like a mirror, a lamp, a clock, a dollhouse, etc. EDIT: I've mentioned this before, but having grown up five minutes from Ocean Ave, it's really funny that literally every single movie that takes place in the house fucks up the geography. They make it seem like the houses were on these big pieces of property and you'd have to take a walk to the neighbor's place when the houses are actually very close together, like being able to look into the windows next door. What makes it even more absurd is that the biggest reason the murders were so frightening and inexplicable is because of the proximity of the neighbors and that no one heard someone shooting six people to death that night. Pope Corky the IX fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Sep 27, 2022 |
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Sep 27, 2022 17:53
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kiimo posted:Imagine going with TotesMarissa The mind shudders
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Sep 27, 2022 22:24
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Eh a horror movie needs an element of isolation. When your neighbors can hear you having sex and pound on the wall it’s not too spooky.
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Sep 27, 2022 23:09
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Not for you, maybe. Think of the neighbor.
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Sep 27, 2022 23:10
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Horror in an actual apartment building works because a lot of the time despite being surrounded by people on all sides total social isolation is still possible. Also a lot more people have lived and died in any apartment block older than a couple decades than even the oldest and spookiest manor house so they should all be full of ghosts. FreudianSlippers fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Sep 27, 2022 |
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Sep 27, 2022 23:13
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Waffleman_ posted:Not for you, maybe. Think of the neighbor. If they don’t want to hear me scream jimminie jillickers that’s their problem!!
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Sep 27, 2022 23:18
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FreudianSlippers posted:Horror in an actual apartment building works because a lot of the time despite being surrounded by people on all sides total social isolation is still possible. and there's always the horror of being physically in a tight-knit community that you aren't a part of.
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Sep 27, 2022 23:48
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FreudianSlippers posted:Horror in an actual apartment building works because a lot of the time despite being surrounded by people on all sides total social isolation is still possible. A24 had a movie last year called The Humans that, while not outright horror, effectively used the apartment it was set in to ramp the creepiness and claustrophobia and metaphor way up.
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Sep 28, 2022 00:14
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FreudianSlippers posted:Horror in an actual apartment building works because a lot of the time despite being surrounded by people on all sides total social isolation is still possible. Yeah, claustrophobic or paranoid horror/thriller things work great in an apartment. Anonymity in the big city, and so on. The idea that there are people on all sides, but none of them notice or care what happens to you (and/or are "part of it") is scary unto itself. Black Swan is a phenomenal story of intense isolation set in the middle of New York.
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Sep 28, 2022 00:32
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They made a whole Silent Hill game about it even
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Sep 28, 2022 01:00
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Good points! I guess you don’t need to show physical isolation from others, but perhaps it’s an overused trope of the haunted house genre.
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Sep 28, 2022 01:41
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Making a spooky apartment film that never leaves the apartment would be pretty cheap. Maybe have a scene where the character first sees something inside the actual apartment, a silhouette in a doorway or something, and locks themselves in the bathroom and calls the cops who only show up two hours later because it's a dodgy neighborhood.
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Sep 28, 2022 01:48
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Candyman is the ultimate Apartment Horror film and explicitly shows the cops ignoring what happens there until a white lady gets involved
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Sep 28, 2022 02:03
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The movie itself sucks, but Poltergeist III has some pretty good ideas of what to do in a haunted skyscraper. It’s also mostly practical effects and there are mirrors everywhere.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:
Yeah when I did a deep dive on it all that was one of the big things that stood out. Insane to think that no one heard people being murdered with a rifle. And the idea that Ronald didn't act alone but maybe his sister was involved.
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:Candyman is the ultimate Apartment Horror film Rosemary's Baby though
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:Candyman is the ultimate Apartment Horror I mean, maybe… 
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muscles like this! posted:Listening to The Flop House a couple of weeks ago I was surprised to find out that there are a bunch of cheap "Amityville" horror movies. I kind of want to see all of them.   
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Sep 29, 2022 15:39
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caligulamprey posted:I kind of want to see all of them. This photoshop can't be real. Tell me it isn't real.
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Sep 29, 2022 15:58
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kiimo posted:This photoshop can't be real. Tell me it isn't real. you tell me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SsiMl8b1D0
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Sep 29, 2022 16:02
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amazing
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Expectations were low but christ
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Sep 29, 2022 17:42
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Amityville in Space is apparently not any better. I mean, it is a Mark Polonia movie.
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Sep 29, 2022 17:44
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Cinema is an art form
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Ah yes, Amityville in the hood of upstate New York
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Sep 29, 2022 19:02
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 I don't know dick about these Maze Runner movies the director's done, but that hasn't stopped me from pounding my fists on the desk while chanting "Apes! Apes! Apes!"
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Sep 29, 2022 19:24
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The apes better wear fuckin clothes in this one or imma be pissed Gimme:  gimme gimme gimme
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Waffleman_ posted:Ah yes, Amityville in the hood of upstate New York While it’s still not the hood, Amityville is on Long Island.
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caligulamprey posted:
Oh my God we're getting another one? This is awesome, I thought it was done after 3.
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Sep 29, 2022 21:54
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Amityville Droods.
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Sep 29, 2022 22:01
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Get Matt Reeves back to do apes, except it's a sequel to his Batman and it's Batman vs. Gorilla Grodd. With Detective Chimp being his sleuthing mentor.
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Sep 29, 2022 22:45
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But Grod is a Flash villian!
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CharlestheHammer posted:But Grod is a Flash villian! Unfortunately Flash has become the villain so his rogues gallery is up for grabs.
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caligulamprey posted:
Oh hell yes. The Apes trilogy (?) is low-key one of the best movies series of the past decade. The third one starts to border on being a silent movie even, there's only like three credited non-ape actors and the rest is just Andy Serkis doing sign language to himself. It's also great because the producers realized that titling two movies Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes might be a wee bit confusing, so the third movie literally opens with a mnemonic on how to tell them apart. 
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