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I had an hour free so collated the top 10 horrors of the Spook-a-doodle crew (left out anyone who didn't stick to 10 films) and it ended up being 11 movies. 1. The Thing 2. Alien 3. Evil Dead II 4. Return of the Living Dead = The Shining 6. Texas Chain Saw Massacre = Night of the Living Dead 8. Halloween 9. Day of the Dead = The Fly = Dawn of the Dead = Bram Stoker's Dracula Honourable Mentions: The Wicker Man, Black Christmas, Hellraiser and Candyman. edit: Oops, missed adding Night of the Living Dead into the post - it's joint 6th and doesn't change any of the rest of the list. The Hausu Usher fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Oct 16, 2022 |
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Good list imo, Horror goons stay winning
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Oct 16, 2022 17:07
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That's just a full stack of stone-cold classics.
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Oct 16, 2022 17:10
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checkplease posted:Ok Prince of Darkness was really good. It’s such a weird movie that’s part religious horror and part sci fi. There’s a liquid Saran, alien Jesus, super creepy homeless and future people trying to influence the past. Plus returning actors from Big Trouble. The whole thing is a cautionary tale of establishing and following safety protocols in your experiments. That's the thing, though - the priest does do that. He spends the time hiding reciting Bible verses, he finds his faith again when he sees the axe, he shouts passages in Latin as he attacks Kelly. Then everything he does proves ineffectual, and his faith is defeated. It is such a good movie. I watched Halloween Ends and I think that it's better than any Friday or Nightmare sequel. There's some really good touches in there. It just doesn't hold up against the style of H18 or the brutality of Kills.
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Oct 16, 2022 17:14
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Something about the Cenobites in general portrayal is that they feel very limited for creatures seeking the extremes of sensation. They only portray it as a binary scale between physical pleasure and pain, pain that's almost entirely just using the sense of touch. Where are the cenobites exploring the limits of other senses, smell, taste etc? It would be interesting to have a few cenobites who are relatively mundane like one who became a chef because it allows him to experience a wide variety of stimuli at once from all extremes, or one who simply travels the worlds he has access to because he wants to see everything that he can that exists, good and bad.
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Oct 16, 2022 17:36
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MacheteZombie posted:I'm one of those freaks that legit enjoys getting dinner at a theater. I don't live around any theaters that serve dinner that you can eat in the screening room, but I do like eating stuff more substantial than popcorn when I'm out. I like nachos with extra jalapenos, but my favorite theater snacking experience was eating soft pretzels dipped in cheese while I watched Halloween '18. It just added something to the experience, made it feel like I was at an indoor drive-in or something.
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Oct 16, 2022 17:37
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What other Chinese horror should I watch? Just rewatched Seventh Curse and am now watching Encounters of the Spooky Kind. Just kind of in a mood for Hong Kong horror.
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Oct 16, 2022 17:40
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I have misophonia so people eating in a theater, where I can often hear them chew, slurp and whatnot gently caress me up real bad.
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Oct 16, 2022 17:47
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BioEnchanted posted:Something about the Cenobites in general portrayal is that they feel very limited for creatures seeking the extremes of sensation. They only portray it as a binary scale between physical pleasure and pain, pain that's almost entirely just using the sense of touch. Where are the cenobites exploring the limits of other senses, smell, taste etc? It would be interesting to have a few cenobites who are relatively mundane like one who became a chef because it allows him to experience a wide variety of stimuli at once from all extremes, or one who simply travels the worlds he has access to because he wants to see everything that he can that exists, good and bad. It's 'cause the person that came up with them was into kink. If one of the Brians from Lightning Bolt came up with them they might have been into extremely loud noises instead.
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Oct 16, 2022 17:49
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Yeah, but they were adapted by other people afterwards. Surely someone should have SOME imagination beyond the original author.
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Oct 16, 2022 17:52
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BioEnchanted posted:They only portray it as a binary scale between physical pleasure and pain, pain that's almost entirely just using the sense of touch As opposed to what? the pain of...taste? Isn't all pain a sense of touch/physical neves? "This is the WORST tasting burger" isn't exactly scary as "this is the WORST pain"
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Oct 16, 2022 17:52
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Kvlt! posted:As opposed to what? the pain of...taste? Isn't all pain a sense of touch/physical neves? Well, taste specifically can get pretty interesting. In the real world, you have people who basically injure themselves on purpose by trying to eat the hottest things possible. How far can you go? What do things that are rotten taste like? If your senses are heightened enough, you might be able to taste fear, agression etc. from the sweat of living beings in the air, since taste and smell are deeply connected. Just spitballing here.
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Oct 16, 2022 17:59
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Majkol posted:Well, taste specifically can get pretty interesting. In the real world, you have people who basically injure themselves on purpose by trying to eat the hottest things possible. How far can you go? What do things that are rotten taste like? If your senses are heightened enough, you might be able to taste fear, agression etc. from the sweat of living beings in the air, since taste and smell are deeply connected. Just spitballing here. I mean we're still ending at "oh no this tastes so bad" which is a pretty boring thing to watch on screen
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Oct 16, 2022 18:01
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Joe Rogan managed to spin an entire career of being terrible out of people's desire to watch other people eat gross poo poo on TV.
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Oct 16, 2022 18:03
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Kvlt! posted:I mean we're still ending at "oh no this tastes so bad" which is a pretty boring thing to watch on screen Unless they get sick and then he’s funny to watch
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Oct 16, 2022 18:04
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Kvlt! posted:I mean we're still ending at "oh no this tastes so bad" which is a pretty boring thing to watch on screen I never saw it, but I hear the movie Perfume had an interesting way of portraying the sense of smell. It does seem inherently uncinematic but I think it could be pulled off, you'd have to get pretty creative though.
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Oct 16, 2022 18:04
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All I can say is now I'm picturing a Cenobite who eats hot pepper chips all the time and another that never showers. And its a whole different group of friends. But still very scary.
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Oct 16, 2022 18:06
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Hollismason posted:What other Chinese horror should I watch? Just rewatched Seventh Curse and am now watching Encounters of the Spooky Kind. Just kind of in a mood for Hong Kong horror. Magic Cop Boxer’s Omen Devil Fetus Bewitched Spooky, Spooky Bio Zombie Dream Home
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Oct 16, 2022 18:08
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STAC Goat posted:All I can say is now I'm picturing a Cenobite who eats hot pepper chips all the time and another that never showers. And its a whole different group of friends. I knew these guys in high shool. loving terrifying let me tell you.
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Oct 16, 2022 18:12
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMJHJ0i86ts This man is a cenobite
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Oct 16, 2022 18:14
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Majkol posted:I mean, what we are getting right now is also "oh no this hurts real bad" if you want to be reductive? Maybe you can add "and it's not at all what I wanted". Physical pain is much more variety. That's why we have creative slasher kills: seeing someone get shot is different from seeing someone get run over vs someone beaten to death etc vs throw in a woodchipper Taste all you have is "this tastes bad I guess ill make a face bc its gross"
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Oct 16, 2022 18:15
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"I'm Johnny Knoxville and I have such sights to show you!" *jumps dick-first into a cactus* "Ahh, exquisite!"
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Oct 16, 2022 18:16
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"We have such sights to show you" *beaten
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Oct 16, 2022 18:24
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i agree that all the cenobites are basically the same guy which i find insanely boring and also i would expect kvlt to understand that a smell/taste based cenobite film would have the opportunity for full goop
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Oct 16, 2022 18:28
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I'm thinking poo poo like Anodyne 2, where people have become corrupted by something called Dust and all their obsessions become heightened - one of the early levels is a guy so obsessed with food that his entire body has turned into one big tongue. Just a naked weirdo covered head to toe in tastebuds.
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Oct 16, 2022 18:30
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:i agree that all the cenobites are basically the same guy which i find insanely boring and also i would expect kvlt to understand that a smell/taste based cenobite film would have the opportunity for full goop It’s just a stinky fat cenobite eating the newest fast food abomination in his car “Greater delights…await.”
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Oct 16, 2022 18:34
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CelticPredator posted:It’s just a stinky fat cenobite eating the newest fast food abomination in his car This man, also, is a Cenobite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GofsCr-E1VM
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Oct 16, 2022 18:40
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Kvlt! posted:Physical pain is much more variety. That's why we have creative slasher kills: seeing someone get shot is different from seeing someone get run over vs someone beaten to death etc vs throw in a woodchipper Cenobites are a team, this guy wants to find out what the amygdala of a person who is being skinned alive by some other Cenobite tastes like. Probably has a hosed up bib that looks like a gigeresque rib cage or something.
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Oct 16, 2022 18:43
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I think the more you think about the Cenobites the less they makes sense. They’re kinky demons with an inflated sense of self worth imo. I almost kind of liked that movie that basically said they were just a problem branch of hell none of the other demons wanted to deal with. Or something.
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Oct 16, 2022 18:43
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Majkol posted:This man, also, is a Cenobite. No he’s the wholesome soul who dupes them into taking someone else.
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Oct 16, 2022 18:44
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I'm imagining a LABEAST style Cenobyte who's doing crazy poo poo like eating cactus and 10lb boxes of lard.
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Oct 16, 2022 18:50
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Baron von Eevl posted:"I'm Johnny Knoxville and I have such sights to show you!" Hahaha, that's great. I could see Steve-O as a cenobite.
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Oct 16, 2022 18:58
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Jedit posted:That's the thing, though - the priest does do that. He spends the time hiding reciting Bible verses, he finds his faith again when he sees the axe, he shouts passages in Latin as he attacks Kelly. Then everything he does proves ineffectual, and his faith is defeated. It is such a good movie. Yeah true though at first the tone differs. He begs for help from Christ instead of invoking the name in power. But right, at the end he does use the Bible as a source of strength and it has no effect. The Satan creature just traps him quickly and then ignores him again. The great part is that after the girl sacrifices herself to push them all into the mirror dimension, he does yes smartly decide to break the mirror. But then he takes all the credit for the saving the day and stopping the day while ignoring the girls sacrifice.
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Oct 16, 2022 19:01
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MacheteZombie posted:I'm one of those freaks that legit enjoys getting dinner at a theater. It's nice having a burger n beer while at a theater. I'm not a big popcorn guy tho so before I was just not eating anything. I also have an iron bladder so the beer never makes me miss the movie. Rarely do I get a full meal at the Alamo near me, but I do like their cauliflower buffalo wings or their baked pretzel. Both of those and a couple a vodka gimlets and I’m a happy camper.
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Oct 16, 2022 19:09
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This discussion is the topic I was getting at earlier. Frank talks about pain and pleasure, indivisible, but everything that's briefly shown in the film is all hooks in flesh and impaled body parts spinning around on a bloody pillar. I still haven't read Hellbound Heart (and should/must) but this is the kind of thing you could explore in a lot more depth in a book. Talk about how Cenobites might, say, explore producing some kind of sexual pleasure, or pleasant tickling sensation, but them gradually and relentlessly keep dialing it up until it was hard to take, and eventually unbearable agony, and how you might derive insights coming at that from the other side, learning that the extreme agony of their tortures seemed indistinguishable as the unbearable pleasures. It just seems like a bit of a bad joke that you only see the torture part in the film (I know, it's a horror film). Like, where the pleasure at?
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Oct 16, 2022 19:12
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A victim sees the Cenobites and throws them off by not even being scared or impressed, just annoyed at their cliches. "So your face and neck resemble a giant vagina, so what? Are you trying to make a statement about female sexuality or just trying to be edgy?" "Ummm..." "Because it's not working either way." Then Pinhead's all "Hey, my hearts all exposed in my chest... if you come with us, I'll let you poke it." "drat it, that's actually REALLY tempting..." "And this, vagina face, is why I'M the leader.  "
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Oct 16, 2022 19:28
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The cenobites do amplify all of Frank's senses 1000x when they first show up to claim him in the books.
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Oct 16, 2022 19:40
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Was Piggy mentioned ITT, I stumbled across it today and the name sounded familiar. I'm intrigued so I'm about to check it out.
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Is Piggy based on the short?
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Opopanax posted:Is Piggy based on the short? Yes it’s an expansion of the short
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