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Hey good news everyone, I could have sworn that he died, but I guess I was thinking of Miguel Ferrer.
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Babe Magnet posted:been goin through a lot of anthology horror (the best genre) with the lads, is Terrified (2017) any good I really liked it. It's not really an anthology though. Like, functionally it is just a series of vigenettes, but they're all tied together to the main story and its not laid out like an anthology.
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Oct 22, 2022 15:34
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Babe Magnet posted:been goin through a lot of anthology horror (the best genre) with the lads, is Terrified (2017) any good terrified pwns but isnt anthology horror but you should still watch it because its one of the best haunting movies that i've ever seen
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Oct 22, 2022 15:44
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Tangentially related, but I caught some of I, Frankenstein yesterday on TV, and assumed it was an Underworld film because of Bill Nighy and Kevin Grevioux and Sophia Myles, and the whole aesthetic. Then I found what it actually was, and while it was intended to be part of the Underworld universe with Easter eggs and a Selene cameo, none of that actually got done and???
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Oct 22, 2022 15:51
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ahh, it sounded like an anthology-like style movie from the brief description I read, I didn't want to spoil anything though so I tried not to dig too deep on it if its good though we'll probably watch it anyway thanks thread
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Oct 22, 2022 16:34
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It's basically about a very haunted suburb, so it really is just a bunch of shorts, but they're tied together by the people investigating it and it's all one movie with one director. It's a pretty unique setup and has some great moments
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The_Doctor posted:Tangentially related, but I caught some of I, Frankenstein yesterday on TV, and assumed it was an Underworld film because of Bill Nighy and Kevin Grevioux and Sophia Myles, and the whole aesthetic. Then I found what it actually was, and while it was intended to be part of the Underworld universe with Easter eggs and a Selene cameo, none of that actually got done and??? Its basically a underworld film where somebody replaced the Vampires and Werewolves with Frankensteins and
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Oct 22, 2022 17:35
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But it’s even from the same makers/studio! I wonder why they didn’t bother doing the dot-joining they planned on.
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Oct 22, 2022 17:39
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I wish Terrifier 2 was just Terrifier 1 again because all the character and plot poo poo they added suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks
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Oct 22, 2022 17:48
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:i have no taste and will watch anything at least once
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Oct 22, 2022 17:54
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I just got the Hellraiser collection (DVD with the first 3 movies) from CEX due to this discussion and rewatched the original, which I haven't seen in ages. I like all the little references to classic horror like when Frank first comes back to life, and his heart starts beating from under the floorboards as a nod to the Telltale heart. Also the practical effects where he first reassembles himself and it starts with just a torso, arms, and a trachea and esophagus, blindly sniffing around to find it's head to connect to. Great use of puppetry. I think Butterball may be dead because he didn't zap back like the others, he just got crushed by debris, but I'll see if he comes back in the sequel. Which I've never seen, the original was the only one I've seen before. It's kind of funny though that after doing up their new house, no one went into that room across the hall from the storage room. Seems a tad cartoony in a way.
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Oct 22, 2022 17:55
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I always forget that Hellraiser 1 is set in London. Like there’s 80s Docklands, and here’s Cricklewood, and that’s Barnet.
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The_Doctor posted:I always forget that Hellraiser 1 is set in London. Like there’s 80s Docklands, and here’s Cricklewood, and that’s Barnet. half of he cast were dubbed over with american accents and its very distracting lol
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Oct 22, 2022 18:13
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The actual house they used for the exterior shots is still standing too, but it's been divided up into flats now because, obviously, it's London.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:The actual house they used for the exterior shots is still standing too, but it's been divided up into flats now because, obviously, it's London. Lol, the poor fucker renting Frank's room.
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Oct 22, 2022 18:35
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Watched Terrifier 2 this morning, and while I liked it better than the first movie, it's more like someone's extended special effects demo than an actual movie. No real scares beyond just 'hey check out this gross thing', and even then, the novelty starts to wear off pretty quickly. The extended Allie kill scene especially feels excessive and indulgent as the whole thing just keeps going, and going, and then stops, and then goes some more, and then the mom shows up, and then it goes a little longer. I mean, it was gnarly and mean-spirited (which I'm OK with), but it has the same issue that a lot of the rest of the movie has -- it just keeps dragging on and on. The whole Clown Cafe nightmare could be half the time, and even the final fight feels incredibly repetitive: Sierra fights Art and gets knocked out, Art tortures her brother a little, Sierra fights Art some more and gets knocked out, he tortures her little brother a little, Sierra fights Art and goes to Clown Cafe Hell, Art tortures her little brother, Sierra kills Art. Once works. Twice is OK. Three's just clumsy. But I guess when you write and direct the movie, you only have to worry about your editor, but when you also EDIT your own movie.... It did make me laugh that the movie seemed conscious about how misogynistic the first one was, and goes out of the way to have the protagonist be a likable girl with the story centered around her, but then saves the most drawn out death sequences for the two young women in the cast, and has most of the prolonged mutilation happen to women, and there's that scene where a literal evil clown girl shoots black goop out of her vagina... OK, so maybe that's just weird taste in horror, at least there's no weird sex shaming or name-calling in this one. Just kidding, he managed to make it through the whole movie without doing it but couldn't resist putting it in the mid-credits scene where a mutilated woman uses her menstrual blood to write 'oval office whore pig slut bitch' on the wall. Jesus Christ, Damien Leone needs to talk to someone about his feelings about women. Anyway, it wasn't a terrible movie, but the gore is honestly the only thing it's got going for it. I know Leone wanted to make the next great horror series, but I think instead he's just going to chug out movies equivalent to the Saw sequels where everybody only cares about the latest gross death and the rest is just sorta whatever.
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Oct 22, 2022 20:39
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:i have no taste but I must scream
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Oct 22, 2022 20:42
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I saw Terrifier 1 yesterday and thought it was absolute garbage that wasn't scary at all, and yeah, it really felt like the director hates women. There was that part where Art the Clown saws that naked woman in half starting at her vagina that left a really bad taste in my mouth. I have no interest in seeing the second one.
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Oct 22, 2022 20:43
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Just signed up for Shudder and was psyched to check out the library but unfortunately it just plain does not work on Roku TVs right now. A problem with the latest Roku update, or something. Kind of a drag.
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flashy_mcflash posted:If you don't like glitching, VHS just isn't for you, simple as. It's like not wanting artificial film grain effects but watching a bunch of Peter Strickland. Birds gonna fly, fish gonna swim. They did go a bit heavy on the glitching in 99 compared to the others, so I can see why that was a bit overmuch.
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I'm surprised to see so much positive reaction to V/H/S99 because I really thought it was worse than the last entry. The majority of the stories seemed to be "teens being lovely", and I wish the wraparound had just been progressively weirder army man tales instead of turning into pretty much a complete retread of the very first V/H/S story, just subbing a gorgon for a harpy. I agree with someone else that the middle 3rd of Ozzy's Dungeon felt like filler, and they could've had the same result if they'd just kept the whole thing within the Double-Dare game, but the girl pushed through her injuries and won. My expectations for Flying Lotus were probably higher because Kusohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDRYASntddo is so loving bugnuts. They get bonus points for Steve Ogg, though. I really only liked the last segment and I think the Deadstream folks are gonna go places if they can keep it up. Besides the premise, I really liked the bickering between Nate and Troy (Go-gurt is NOT a meal!) and again, Melanie Stone seems to have a great time with her part. Side note: looking her up on IMDB, Melanie Stone seems to have starred in a SHITload of low-budget fantasy films called Mythica: Something-Or-Other, with Kevin Sorbo  . She also has WAY too many Christmas TV-movies to her name. I guess work is work...
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:Anyway, it wasn't a terrible movie, but the gore is honestly the only thing it's got going for it. I know Leone wanted to make the next great horror series, but I think instead he's just going to chug out movies equivalent to the Saw sequels where everybody only cares about the latest gross death and the rest is just sorta whatever. How dare you! Most people like the Saw movies for their lovely overly convoluted continuity. The dumb trap deaths are just window dressing, people are there for some green-tinged Mexican soap opera with actual production values and slightly more screaming. I didn't get around to watching One Cut of the Dead yesterday so I watched it today. There is no  big enough and I'm happy I avoided spoilers for this one.
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Stryder posted:I'm surprised to see so much positive reaction to V/H/S99 because I really thought it was worse than the last entry. The majority of the stories seemed to be "teens being lovely", and I wish the wraparound had just been progressively weirder army man tales instead of turning into pretty much a complete retread of the very first V/H/S story, just subbing a gorgon for a harpy. Yeah the Deadstream people need to go all-in on horror movies and let Melanie Stone give 110% on every role she's given. It looks like the Winters and Melanie have been in a lot of low-budget stuff, but Deadstream and To Hell and Back are two of my favorite new horror things from this year so I hope this is their breakout moment. For the rest of V/H/S/99 - Shredding: Everyone's seen nearly this exact plot dozens of times. It's so by-the-numbers. Suicide Bid: Claustrophobic horror can be scary, but this was broken up by too many scenes outside of the coffin to have the impact it should have. I liked the ending. Ozzy's Dungeon: I agree with everything everyone's said, that this was better in idea than execution and could have used another few passes at the script. I thought that the Double Dare part was the whole thing, and it was going to get more and more absurd and dangerous until it was revealed that there was a sinister reason behind the game. And then just when I was wondering if the extended torture porn middle part was going anywhere, it had a rushed ending. The Gawkers: More teens being lovely, but I don't know what the message of this one is. We get a way-too-long short film about teens creeping on their new neighbor, and in the last sixty seconds she's a monster and kills them. Nothing suspicious or scary happens in the entire lead-up. The kids find the snake skin, notice some statues on her property, and she lifts the iMac with no problem, but none of that is connected to "the kids deserved this". There was a massive lost opportunity for a "Rear Window, but with a gorgon" short film. To Hell and Back: In addition to what I said at the start of this post, journey through hell scenes have captivated me ever since I was an edgy teen reading Dante's Inferno. I also liked how Mabel just wanted her name written in that book. I kept waiting for her to betray them, but nope, she was just single-mindedly obsessed with becoming Hell famous.
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I've watched the first 3 Hellraiser movies now, and hope that the reboot doesn't take too much longer to get to the UK. I liked all three, although the second is definitely the strongest which seems to be the prevailing opinion. I really liked moments like Channard's transformation into a Cenobite with the great line "To think... I hesitated". Also the reveal before that that Julia has been a Cenobite the whole time, or at least working with them, as she whispers to Channard on their tour through the Labyrinth "I have such sights to show you.." I like the Labyrinth in general, it's a cool design for a hellscape and the matte paintings really give a good sense of scale. The third movie was definitely the silliest, like CD was overly cartoony at times, but it had some good moments too. The whole visual of the destroyed Night club had some inventive ideas, like the one guy with billiard balls forced into his mouth and the other guy with dice shoved into his eye sockets There were some neat practical effects there.
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Cool now you can rest easy knowing you've seen all the Hellraisers. Yessiree.
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The new actor pinhead (to clarify, not Jamie Clayton, the one from the bad sequels) shows up and everyone asks where Doug Bradley's is. The Answer? He's getting his nails done.  I just came up with that pun and was too proud of it not to share. BioEnchanted fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Oct 22, 2022 |
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Origami Dali posted:Cool now you can rest easy knowing you've seen all the Hellraisers. Yessiree. 4 is better than 3 May as well watch that one
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Opopanax posted:4 is better than 3 May as well watch that one I'd say 5 and 6 are also better than three, but that's where I stop being charitable.
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LifeLynx posted:To Hell and Back: In addition to what I said at the start of this post, journey through hell scenes have captivated me ever since I was an edgy teen reading Dante's Inferno. I also liked how Mabel just wanted her name written in that book. I kept waiting for her to betray them, but nope, she was just single-mindedly obsessed with becoming Hell famous. If you didn’t watch through the credits they end with the coven chanting to bring the witch named Mable back to earth
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Terrifier 2 kicked loving rear end.
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I see people thought terrifier was supposed to be scary No it’s supposed to be a way to see gore come on now. Clowns aren’t scary
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Hollismason posted:I need a Spaced Invaders or Werewolf movie that I haven't seen. 
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Hollismason posted:I need a Spaced Invaders or Werewolf movie that I haven't seen. That might be difficult considering we don't know what you have seen. If you haven't seen the new version of IT you can use the two chapters to tick both boxes, though; IT is from outer space and is absolutely a werewolf, at least in a way.
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Jedit posted:That might be difficult considering we don't know what you have seen. If you haven't seen the new version of IT you can use the two chapters to tick both boxes, though; IT is from outer space and is absolutely a werewolf, at least in a way. Assume I've seen most everything. I'm watching Deadly Spawn right now. I need a Werewolf movie. I may go with one of the later Howling movies because I can't remember them at all , even though i probably watched them.
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cant remember who recommended it in this thread but tiny cinema was great
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watched v\h\s last night and it was p okay. i think i legitimately liked about half of them, and the rest were soso. the only thing i didnt care for was the video quality got on my nerves. the glitching i guess as other people were mentioning about the other ones. tone it down by maybe 40% and id be cool with it
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Philthy posted:Saw this when it was released on a campus at a midnight showing with half the theater drunk. It was just people screaming and jumping for everything. Loved it. Ive been watching all these horror films at home, and I miss a good horror audience like this. I remember a great full audience reacting to the first paranormal activity.
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I've been reading It Came From The Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror" and several of the essays are real loving good. Recommended.
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