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Would have been hilarious to have a moment where he's possessed and the spirit's just like "Why do you hang out with this kid? He's a total rear end in a top hat and that's coming from US. He's a toxic friend and you should find better company. I know usually our schtick is to be mean, but I'm in the mood to give some genuine advice..."
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Really looking forward to seeing Talk To Me. Part of the reason I loved The Loved Ones so much was because of how down-to-earth, real, and recognizable the setting felt. Like, something about the outfits and the way everyone talked to each other when in the high school just hit close to home and felt like a real time capsule of my actual high school experience, which is funny because I did not in the slightest go to an Australian high school. I can't think of an Australian horror movie I've seen that I've disliked. I think I'm just on that wavelength. Excited.
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Another thing I really loved about Talk To Me: Nobody was stupid just for the sake of moving the plot along. Sure, they make bad decisions, but in the context, they all seem reasonable. Like letting Riley use the hand, it's already established as long as they follow the rules, using it is harmless, since they've all done it multiple times by that point. Or how the mother accuses Mia of giving him drugs, then once they test him and find out he's clean, she apologizes and lets Mia be alone with him. It takes a lot of good writing to create a compelling horror plot like that that doesn't involve someone momentarily lapsing into being stupid just to justify keeping the story going.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Another thing I really loved about Talk To Me: Nobody was stupid just for the sake of moving the plot along. Sure, they make bad decisions, but in the context, they all seem reasonable. Like letting Riley use the hand, it's already established as long as they follow the rules, using it is harmless, since they've all done it multiple times by that point. Or how the mother accuses Mia of giving him drugs, then once they test him and find out he's clean, she apologizes and lets Mia be alone with him. It takes a lot of good writing to create a compelling horror plot like that that doesn't involve someone momentarily lapsing into being stupid just to justify keeping the story going. Even the dead themselves are smart about being evil. They start playful when they physically can't do any harm and only ramp up when the living get careless enough to give them that inch.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Another thing I really loved about Talk To Me: Nobody was stupid just for the sake of moving the plot along. Sure, they make bad decisions, but in the context, they all seem reasonable. Like letting Riley use the hand, it's already established as long as they follow the rules, using it is harmless, since they've all done it multiple times by that point. Or how the mother accuses Mia of giving him drugs, then once they test him and find out he's clean, she apologizes and lets Mia be alone with him. It takes a lot of good writing to create a compelling horror plot like that that doesn't involve someone momentarily lapsing into being stupid just to justify keeping the story going. While I found Talk to Me average and predictable, I really liked that no one was stupid for the sake of plot. Even with Riley wanting to use the hand, the teens originally refused him until Mia talked them into it, then botched it with breaking the rules, it was all exactly normal for teens who do feel on some level they're indestructible.
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Aug 6, 2023 14:51
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The Toxic Avenger is a perfect Sunday Morning movie.
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Hollismason posted:The Toxic Avenger is a perfect Sunday Morning movie. Yes, yes it is.
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Aug 6, 2023 15:13
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I've been glossing over discussion about Talk to Me since I may want to see it. I'm off this week and may have a few opportunities to go the theater, yay or nay on catching it on the big screen if I have a chance?
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Crescent Wrench posted:I've been glossing over discussion about Talk to Me since I may want to see it. I'm off this week and may have a few opportunities to go the theater, yay or nay on catching it on the big screen if I have a chance? It's got some fun camera work and is overall quite well shot but it's up to you if that's enough. Also seeing horror movies with people can enhance the atmosphere.
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Aug 6, 2023 16:35
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Hollismason posted:Eh. Its bad but its not good bad. You’re right, it’s good good
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Aug 6, 2023 16:39
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Talk To Me was very obviously conceived as a found footage movie.
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Brooklyn 45 is a pretty decent enough bottle horror movie. I think I'mma watch this movie The Ranger next.
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Saw Oppenheimer yesterday and thought to myself, what if this was just played straight as a horror movie. The scenes where Oppenhimer thinks of the people who get nuked is pretty chilling.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Talk To Me was very obviously conceived as a found footage movie. it felt to me like it changed its mind about what kind of movie it wanted to be every 15 minutes
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The Ranger isn't particularly good.
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I quite liked The Ranger. Silly premise but the guy playing the ranger absolutely sold it.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:I quite liked The Ranger. Silly premise but the guy playing the ranger absolutely sold it. He's good . I mean it doesn't take to many swings though. Also people just getting shot is kind of boring.
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Mooseontheloose posted:Saw Oppenheimer yesterday and thought to myself, what if this was just played straight as a horror movie. The scenes where Oppenhimer thinks of the people who get nuked is pretty chilling.  , that gym scene is legit the scariest thing I've seen all year
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:it felt to me like it changed its mind about what kind of movie it wanted to be every 15 minutes I don't know if this is what you mean, and if it didn't work for you it didn't work for you, but I have this pet peeve around the general criticism of 'tonal inconsistency' for movies where audiences are often really willing to accept jarring shifts in tone in foreign-language films (i.e. it's always considered a good thing for Korean films and the work of Bong Joon-ho) but it's a criticism whenever it's applied to English language cinema. Of course, the balance of this is always ymmv I went into Talk to Me knowing very little (Australian horror movie getting a lot of hype and people muttering Hereditary in the same sentence, seen the poster, a cast list and a single screenshot of the lead with black eyes and knew a tiny bit about the directors, young Greek-Aussie twins with a YouTube background) and that was it - didn't actually know the premise or had seen a trailer, and it was extremely effective with that limited knowledge. One thing I liked about the movie was that it wasn't ever willing to commit to the rhythms we might expect - i.e. the entire supporting cast in particular reckless teens could have more easily been fodder to be picked off. The fact that the total amount of violence in the movie was somewhat restrained, but extremely impactful when it happened, made it much more tense and horrific
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Tonal shifts are my favorite thing unless it’s it turns into a real dour slog.
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Dragged my rear end out of the house to see Talk To Me so I could read the thread. Not incredible, but I thought it was pretty solid. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a better ten horror minutes than the party/teen possession of the boy scene, which escalated perfectly and ended horrifically. One thing that really struck me on this one was the sound design; the loud hits were LOUD, the party music was overwhelming, and the mix made it seem like certain sounds were coming from inside the theater. Pretty rad. Also, lol for the most memorable recent on-screen toe sucking 
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What’s a better ridiculous shark movie, The Meg or Deep Blue Sea?
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Deep Blue Sea is rated R and incredibly gorey. Meg has some gore but not much. Also Deep Blue Sea is just the better film because the actors are really loving good.
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Also, one of these involves "deepest bluest my hat is like a shark's fin", and it doesn't go "deepest bluest Jason Statham's bald head is like a shark's fin".
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Zwabu posted:What’s a better ridiculous shark movie, The Meg or Deep Blue Sea? Deep Blue Sea just for Samuel L Jackson's part
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Watching The Monster Club and there's one specific scene in it that is worth watching the show for a woman strips then they turn it into a animated black silohouette and then she takes off her skin and dances as a skeleton pretty good for just that scene otherwise its decent to watch for Vincent Price.
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Monsters rule, okay!
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*slurp slurp* I'm just a sucker for YOUR LOVE!
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Monster club is a particularly weird disposable late 70s Price vehicle. Like, just particularly bizarre.
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:Monsters rule, okay! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkPqiVODzj0
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Monster Club is cute and warm, not particularly great but Vincent Price is having a wonderful time. And speaking of Vincent Prince having a wonderful time, I watched The Raven for the first time a few days ago and I am DEEPLY tickled by how, five films into his Poe series, Corman abandons the classy, beautiful gothic style of the incredible Masque of the Red Death after the first seven minutes and makes a goofy weird horror comedy featuring Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff all hamming it up with a young Jack Nicholson. That wizard battle at the end  What a treat. Everyone was having so much fun. It's so cool, too, how tonally similar it feels to Young Frankenstein that would come later, at least in terms of the silly charm. Just a great fun time with some legendary actors.
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I posted the video because I love the music, it's the best part of the movie
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It really is. I catch myself humming it to myself every so often apropos of nothing.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:it felt to me like it changed its mind about what kind of movie it wanted to be every 15 minutes Yeah it turns into the Flatliners remake about halfway thru.
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One thing that elevated it above that for me was that they never had "that scene" where they start going to a library looking through microfiche caches or Googling etc for the lore of how to defeat the big bad, which is often the worst part of these films. It was clear that there was SOME lore and logic to how the supernatural worked, but the kids didn't have a rich understanding of it and were in over their heads with a loose understanding that they kinda had. Yes, the scene where they talk to the guy's brother is the closest version of having that, but it was just "well, my experience was it was like this way, I guess, anyway gently caress off" was more interesting than the Scooby Gang perfectly piecing it together
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I'm glad From Beyond is on Shudder. I never saw it but have wanted to ever since I was a kid. The VHS box for it always caught my eye at the small video store but my parents would never let me rent it.
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I love people doing research in libraries in horror.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I love people doing research in libraries in horror. Agreed. It just isn't the same when they just call some rear end in a top hat paranormal expert on Skype. Give me newspaper articles on microfiche any day.
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Wolfman 2012 has one of my favorite horror movie digging through books montages.
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Crescent Wrench posted:Agreed. It just isn't the same when they just call some rear end in a top hat paranormal expert on Skype. Give me newspaper articles on microfiche any day. Sinister really had one of the weirdest squanderings of Vincent D'Onofrio ever
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