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Repo!, Repo Men, Turistas, Coma, 12 Hour Shift, Am I missing any good organ harvesting movies?
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Oct 1, 2022 11:00
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Kvlt! posted:Repo!, Repo Men, Turistas, Coma, 12 Hour Shift, How'd you miss Frankenstein? :P The ultimate organ harvester.
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Oct 1, 2022 11:06
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BioEnchanted posted:How'd you miss Frankenstein? :P The ultimate organ harvester. That's body part graverobbin', not organ harvestin'
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Oct 1, 2022 11:07
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Unperson_47 posted:I love horror films and it never occurred to me to check if there was a thread for it here so this will live in my regular bookmarks. el oso posted:Any list that mentions Viy is a-ok with me. was gonna say, witch gives me Kwaidan vibes
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Oct 1, 2022 11:22
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well apparently wikipedia has an article on every film about organ harvesting of all things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_about_organ_trafficking
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Oct 1, 2022 11:22
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Kvlt! posted:well apparently wikipedia has an article on every film about organ harvesting of all things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_about_organ_trafficking I know everyone scoffs at tv tropes as a resource but imagine librarians who are too online and do this on their free time
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Oct 1, 2022 11:24
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I'm going to be publishing a longer essay on it, but some short thoughts on THE MUNSTERS: I went into it with what I call a "reverse open mind", meaning I am biased to like it, so I should still remain critical. Even then, maybe because life's been tough and I needed it, I just absolutely adored every scene. What I loved most about it is how goddam unique it is. It's so neon and garish. It feels like those theme-park scary houses. I can't think of another movie that looks like this. I think of highly aestheticized movies like this like I think of wrestlers: people can love you or hate you and you're doing well, but the worst thing you can be is BORING (i'm looking at you BLUMHOUSE AND A24). I liked the whimsical, campy nature. I thought all the performances were fantastic, in particular Jorge Garcia was just hilarious and had me laughing at each scene. Richard Brake kills it as usual. Daniel Roebuck is delightful and JDP and Sheri had great onscreen chemistry. My only complaint is that it felt like a movie starring the Munsters, rather than a Munsters movie. The whole "normal family of monsters in a world of normal humans" idea of the Munsters is just sort of tossed out the window and replaced with an entirely spooky world. But Zombo was there, and there was a lot of great jokes and references to the series. 12/10.
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Oct 1, 2022 11:30
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Smile was more or less predictable. I think if you go in with a gimmick death movie in mind you won't be too disappointed a lot of lulls since it's about *trauma* so they need to let that simmer before really escalating to 100 SMILES A MINUTE. Some others brought It Follows which probably paced itself more, not to mention kind of established their rules better and adherred to them. The psychological battle at the end between her and the presence was interesting, though kind of a shame she doesn't really figure out how to really fight it (or just bad planning/timing with Joel). Thems the breaks when you're in a horror movie I guess At least they didn't bring back Victor Salva. Christ cancel culture didn't come soon enough for him
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Oct 1, 2022 11:45
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I've always hated the Jeepers Creepers movies, so this isn't a defense of them it's an attack on the RT rating system. If all the reviewers give the movie a 51/100, it'll get a 100%. So you'll see a 100% rating for a movie everyone thought was mediocre/lovely. How does that help anyone. Unless I'm misunderstanding how it works?
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Oct 1, 2022 11:47
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Alan Smithee posted:Smile was more or less predictable. I think if you go in with a gimmick death movie in mind you won't be too disappointed a lot of lulls since it's about *trauma* so they need to let that simmer before really escalating to 100 SMILES A MINUTE. Some others brought It Follows which probably paced itself more, not to mention kind of established their rules better and adherred to them. The psychological battle at the end between her and the presence was interesting, though kind of a shame she doesn't really figure out how to really fight it (or just bad planning/timing with Joel). Thems the breaks when you're in a horror movie I guess I liked the design of the prescence's true form, with the multiple nested smiling mouths that possesses you by climbing into your mouth, adding it to their own face. I thought that that was a fun visual.
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Oct 1, 2022 12:00
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Savageland (which is up on youtube for free!) does something like that, a fictional story presented exactly like a true crime documentary. That sounds neat Twin Cinema posted:I will probably end up watching the Dahmer series at some point, but I really recommend the graphic novel, My Friend Dahmer. It's not really horror, per say, but it's a really great look at the formative years of a soon-to-be serial killer. Agreed it's an excellent comic Chris James 2 posted:In order by years: Neat
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Oct 1, 2022 12:03
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BioEnchanted posted:I liked the design of the prescence's true form, with the multiple nested smiling mouths that possesses you by climbing into your mouth, adding it to their own face. I thought that that was a fun visual. Smile/Barbarian spoilers i honestly didn't even notice that. I think I was kinda nonplussed over the big CG mother subconsciously because of Barbarian
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Oct 1, 2022 12:13
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Alan Smithee posted:Never heard of Viy somehow, watched trailer now watch the trailer for viy 2, starring jackie chan and arnold schwarzenegger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71txQGFoYCM
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Oct 1, 2022 12:22
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Kvlt! posted:I've always hated the Jeepers Creepers movies, so this isn't a defense of them it's an attack on the RT rating system. Sure but you pretty much never get "universally agreed upon as very slightly above average" so your example of all critics saying it's 5.1 out of 10 resulting in 100% doesn't really happen. Think of it as a measurement of how likely you are to enjoy a movie, not how much you'll enjoy it.
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Oct 1, 2022 13:03
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Baron von Eevl posted:Sure but you pretty much never get "universally agreed upon as very slightly above average" so your example of all critics saying it's 5.1 out of 10 resulting in 100% doesn't really happen. Think of it as a measurement of how likely you are to enjoy a movie, not how much you'll enjoy it. i prefer the ROT system of measuring how much I'll enjoy a movie Rob Zombie Or Toetag
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Oct 1, 2022 13:07
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Alan Smithee posted:Does it show the cop letting dahmer take away the laotian kid and then become the head of the police union? Yes. Also him and the other cop with him that laughs it off basically are only punished with paid leave
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Oct 1, 2022 13:09
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Stink Billyums posted:now watch the trailer for viy 2, starring jackie chan and arnold schwarzenegger I no idea there were so many film adaptations of this outside of the 1967 classic
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Oct 1, 2022 14:20
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There's a new Thai Kaiju movie coming out that looks rad
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Oct 1, 2022 15:31
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Kvlt! posted:Repo!, Repo Men, Turistas, Coma, 12 Hour Shift, I'm still on the fence about whether I thought it was "good" or not, but would Crimes of the Future count? I mean, there's a lot of organ harvesting so it better count.
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Oct 1, 2022 15:34
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I'd say Crimes of the Future totally counts, lots of organ stuff happening there.
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Oct 1, 2022 15:49
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Opopanax posted:There's a new Thai Kaiju movie coming out that looks rad Yeah this looks like my jam.
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Oct 1, 2022 15:50
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call that a Thaiju
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Hollismason posted:I read the wiki for Gutterballs and feel like I need a shower. Goddamn even reading about it makes it like the worst kind of movie. I'm so sorry that not only you, but several other people in this thread actually know about / watched this movie. It is the worst movie I've ever watched. By a lot. Not a single redeeming quality. Kvlt! posted:I'm going to be publishing a longer essay on it, but some short thoughts on THE MUNSTERS: Also, it's me. I'm the other person who liked Rob Zombie's The Munsters. It's a dorky as gently caress kids movie and it was great at being just that. The show was a dorky as gently caress kids show, too, so I don't feel like it was disjointed from the source, even if it had less screen time devoted to juxtaposing the Munsters with normal humans. I thought it was adorable creepy-cute camp fun, and it worked well as an origin story for the tv show's premise. Completely agree that the look of the movie made it worth watching all by itself. Very clear how much Zombie loves the series. Hell, it even referenced Car 54 Where Are You?, another TV show that Fred Gwynne was in right before The Munsters. cake bunny fucked around with this message at 16:21 on Oct 1, 2022 |
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Oct 1, 2022 16:18
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I thought Smile was an okay movie, but it's really held back by having it's main theme be "trauma" and then trying to treat that theme with some sort of seriousness and respect despite not really being the kind of movie that's capable of handling something like that. It's not done so poorly that it's offensive, it's just also not very good or interesting and ends up being just generic melodrama and monologues in-between jumpscares. Best Part: the main character dropping her wine glass twice Worst Part: the cat death. I knew it would happen, but I still hated it. The cat they had for the role was extra adorable, and did the same "greeting humans at the door and demanding food" my kitty does, very unfun to see that sweet baby as a corpse later on.
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Oct 1, 2022 17:22
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i forever chuckle at people going to see movies for fun about people being brutally murdered and then getting upset when an animal is killed lol * *not counting irl animal death/gore
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Oct 1, 2022 17:24
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Baron von Eevl posted:Sure but you pretty much never get "universally agreed upon as very slightly above average" so your example of all critics saying it's 5.1 out of 10 resulting in 100% doesn't really happen. Think of it as a measurement of how likely you are to enjoy a movie, not how much you'll enjoy it. It should be translated as "X% of all critics thought it was at least worth watching."
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Oct 1, 2022 17:27
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Kvlt! posted:i forever chuckle at people going to see movies for fun about people being brutally murdered and then getting upset when an animal is killed lol * People suck, dogs are cool
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Oct 1, 2022 17:31
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I know it's popular to say stuff like that online but I don't think any animal has greater value than a human life also i hate dogs
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Oct 1, 2022 17:36
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Stink Billyums posted:now watch the trailer for viy 2, starring jackie chan and arnold schwarzenegger I definitely heard about this but what a weird IP to be a sequel for. If they wanted something Soviet so that it was public domain they could have just as easily made it Battleship Potemkin 2 Or Soviet Hobbit 2 Or Soviet Winnie Pooh 2
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Oct 1, 2022 17:38
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Kvlt! posted:I know it's popular to say stuff like that online but I don't think any animal has greater value than a human life also i hate dogs I honestly think if you held a gun to 75% of the US populations dogs head and asked "the dog or a random person" that 100% of them would say random person
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Oct 1, 2022 17:39
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worms butthole guy posted:I honestly think if you held a gun to 75% of the US populations dogs head and asked "the dog or a random person" that 100% of them would say random person I honestly think if you believe that you need to get outside more. If someone came into a building with a gun and a dog and a human, and made you pick one to shoot, if you choose the dog you're scum.
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Oct 1, 2022 17:43
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Kvlt! posted:i forever chuckle at people going to see movies for fun about people being brutally murdered and then getting upset when an animal is killed lol * I fully recognize how irrational it is, but animal deaths just hit different for me. Like, when I see a person die or on screen my brain is able to recognize "okay that's fake. That person is not actually hurt", but when I see an animal die in a movie for some reason my brain treats that as a "real" death. I know rationally that no animal was actually harmed, but my brain still sends the "be upset and sad chemicals" I would get if I were seeing an animal getting hurt in real life. I dunno! Brains are weird and sometimes you don't have full control over what chemicals end up sloshing around up there!
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Oct 1, 2022 17:52
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Kvlt! posted:I honestly think if you believe that you need to get outside more. If someone came into a building with a gun and a dog and a human, and made you pick one to shoot, if you choose the dog you're scum. Maybe it depends where in the US one lives tbh. I live in rural white maga territory
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Oct 1, 2022 17:53
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Kvlt! posted:I know it's popular to say stuff like that online but I don't think any animal has greater value than a human life also i hate dogs Obviously movies are different, in real life if I’m faced with some kind of trolley problem and it’s a person vs a dog I’m going to save the person, but movies aren’t real life. Plus, since they’re movies and especially horror movies, the people generally, in some way, deserve it, whereas an animal isn’t going to Opopanax fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Oct 1, 2022 |
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there is much less separating an animal in a film from how that animal would be in real life than there is any given character and their performer.
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Oct 1, 2022 17:58
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the whole point of horror movies is to scare/disturb so if dog deaths do that for yall i say throw more in
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Oct 1, 2022 18:01
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Nah I think if it really did come down to an irl situation where you had to choose between your dog and another person, 99%+ of people would choose to save the person. It's just an example of that magical layer of unreality that films have. The people dying aren't real, you're aware that they're just actors and you're entertained by their deaths. Dogs I think are more of a blank slate so people tend to see their own dog and then the emotions get a bit more intense. In a real life situation where you knew the person wasn't a fictional character it would be totally different. Edit: Ah, I see multiple others said pretty much this same thing already
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Oct 1, 2022 18:04
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Kvlt! posted:Repo!, Repo Men, Turistas, Coma, 12 Hour Shift, Alan Smithee posted:speaking of, were there any other horror movies/thrillers with a quiz show in it? All I could find was a Dutch movie from 2012 called Quiz
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Oct 1, 2022 18:06
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My hypothetical scenario was an irl one so I assumed the response of the "75% would choose the dog" was to that. I really thought I was going nuts lol like "Would people really choose a dog over an irl human life?" (assuming its a random stranger and not like a scumbag serial murderer or something) Very relieved the value of human life is not lost itt
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Kvlt! posted:My hypothetical scenario was an irl one so I assumed the response of the "75% would choose the dog" was to that. I really thought I was going nuts lol like "Would people really choose a dog over an irl human life?" (assuming its a random stranger and not like a scumbag serial murderer or something) Yea it was the other post that was wrong I think, not yours. Anyway I'm definitely not against dog death in horror movies, if it gets the audience going then I'm all for it. If they're sad about the dog then they're emotionally engaged, which is a key thing for horror.
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