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FreudianSlippers posted:I love people doing research in libraries in horror. I don't generally like it, but my favourite ever example of a horror loredump is in the movie Clown when the monster is shown as the ancient "Cloyne" in a centuries old book. It got a smile out of me.
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My ideal, perfect horror movie would be almost entirely spent running between various historical societies and libraries in a haunted town. Like The Ghost Writer but with a bunch of actual ghosts.
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Aug 7, 2023 02:11
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Yeah my perfect horror movie is a group of scientist investigating some supernatural occurence and discovering sinister occult forces. Preferably there's a scene where they hook up a bunch of machines that have readings and dials and poo poo. Also maybe there's a scene where someones doing math.
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Aug 7, 2023 02:34
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may I recommend a little know film. A hidden gem, if you will: Ghostbusters
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Hollismason posted:Yeah my perfect horror movie is a group of scientist investigating some supernatural occurence and discovering sinister occult forces. Preferably there's a scene where they hook up a bunch of machines that have readings and dials and poo poo. Also maybe there's a scene where someones doing math. Astronauts would be pretty sick too. Some spoopy space mysteries.
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Aug 7, 2023 03:02
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As someone who often spends hours in research libraries pouring through annals and other ancient tomes looking for info on the supernatural for fun I can relate to horror characters doing the same to save their lives.
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Aug 7, 2023 03:02
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Talk to Me was real good. I love that premise, Teen idiots get ahold of a cursed artifact and use it to get high is such a simple yet underused idea
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Aug 7, 2023 03:07
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WHY BONER NOW posted:may I recommend a little know film. A hidden gem, if you will: Ghostbusters You mean the show with the gorilla? They made a movie out of that?
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Hollismason posted:Yeah my perfect horror movie is a group of scientist investigating some supernatural occurence and discovering sinister occult forces. Preferably there's a scene where they hook up a bunch of machines that have readings and dials and poo poo. Also maybe there's a scene where someones doing math. With a small tweak that's basically Stephen King's Rose Red. A made for tv miniseries. Still falls into his tropey nonsense like the magical autistic girl, but has some great performances. Emery Summers and Joyce Rheardon are particular standouts as terrible people played well, especially Joyce's absolute madness in how obsessed she is with proving that the evil house is a real thing and not just spooky stories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Dwu-ZZyPo BioEnchanted fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Aug 7, 2023 |
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Aug 7, 2023 03:25
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Finally getting around to The Legend of Boggy Creek because I wanted a nice evening movie and people here described it as having a bedtime story quality and yeah I love that descriptor. It's also like if a peaceful educational film was about Bigfoot. This is great stuff.
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Aug 7, 2023 03:25
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Baron von Eevl posted:You mean the show with the gorilla? They made a movie out of that? Yea it stars Melissa McCarthy
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Aug 7, 2023 03:29
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Best research scene is in The Howling. I wish there was a TV series spinoff of Dick Miller just giving people advice on how to kill supernatural creatures in his rare and antiquarian bookstore every week.
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Aug 7, 2023 04:21
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the worst research scenes are when the characters just Google stuff and we watch them scroll through the results. I mean that’s something people would actually do in real life but in a movie it’s the lamest and laziest form of exposition dump.
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Aug 7, 2023 04:43
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I like the one in Suspiria where Udo Kier explains witches as though they were some rare thing nobody had ever heard of
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Opopanax posted:I like the one in Suspiria where Udo Kier explains witches as though they were some rare thing nobody had ever heard of i quite like the loredumps in Suspiria 2018 being "oh check out this crazy delusion as well"
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Aug 7, 2023 05:09
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We tried watching  I can't blame him, I fondly remember watching it repeatedly with my best friend when I was about his age, but still watching that library ghost through half-closed eyes.
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Aug 7, 2023 06:12
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It's scarier than many actual horror movies
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I know it's been talked about a while back, but I really, REALLY disliked Insidious: The Red Door. I like 1&2, and think 3 is actually pretty decent (Last Key is a bore tho) but this one was such a huge miss for me. I am just going to copy/paste my letterboxd review below: - Oof, what a miss! Insidious is a franchise that do like. (minus the Last Key, what a bore.). So when I heard we were getting a 3rd "mainline" film with Patrick set to direct, I was excited to see what he would come up with. And the premise is very solid: Him and Dalton are hypnotized at the end of 2 and made to forget all the spooky things that have happened, in hopes of giving them and the family a normal life. 9 years later, one thing leads to another and both Datlon and Patrick are sucked back into the world of the further. I like this set up a lot and it really seems like a natural continuation of the franchise. There is a lot you could do here, and you probably think you have an idea of what happens. But sadly, the movie instead just kind of meanders messily for about 90 minutes until the "finale" which was maybe the most anticlimactic thing I have ever seen. Here are some things that I did not like **SPOILERS BELOW** -Dalton gains access to the "further" via a countdown exercise in his art class. This alone is silly because I am very sure that at some point in the 9 years before that point, someone has counted down from 10. -Carl has a cameo and really seems like he is going to pop up to help at some point but nah. Same with his dead mom, who I guess would have made an appearance to help. -The whole subplot dealing with his dad. While it gave some of the better visual scares of the movie, it went absolutely nowhere and was so underbaked. -There really is no explanation as to why Patrick started getting haunted by his dad in the first place. -2/3 of the movie is dedicated to Dalton being at college and learning about the further and trying to use it to talk to a dead frat kid and that plot gets dropped with no resolution lmao. -The movie sets up the big confrontation between the Bride and Red Man but we barely see the two and instead Dalton just kind of gets caught then is saved in the next scene. -Rose is about to tell Patrick all about the further and the whole ordeal, then it literally cuts to the next scene and he goes "oh wow, I can't believe all of that, super crazy". We don't get to see her tell him and the trauma it unlocked. -The scene with Elise at the end was garbage. She pops up and says the dumbest poo poo, collects that check and is OUT. -Painting over the door doesn't really seem to make any sense either since they both now remember everything? Anyway, it's bad minus like, 2 good visual background cues, and the MRI scene. Most of the decisions and editing are just baffling. They set it up for a new one, and I know a spinoff is in the works, but after this and The Last key I think I am checked out --
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I watched Ghostbusters at like 3 years old, by 12 I was sneaking into theaters to see slashers.
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thatfuturekid posted:I know it's been talked about a while back, but I really, REALLY disliked Insidious: The Red Door. I like 1&2, and think 3 is actually pretty decent (Last Key is a bore tho) but this one was such a huge miss for me. I am just going to copy/paste my letterboxd review below: If I remember rightly, it wasn't just counting down. The instructor had them digging deep inside to uncover forgotten influences while counting down. Dalton was already aware on some level there was something buried deep from when he was a kid and the exercise was just ripping off the mental scab he'd already been picking at.
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davidspackage posted:We tried watching I was a year younger than your nephew when Ghostbusters came out, and will attest that the library ghost put the shitters up me. The cabbie was also pretty disturbing. The rest was quite mild, though.
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had a guy show up to Talk to Me about 15 minutes late, sit right behind my group, loudly exclaim "ohhh, Talk to Me!!!" the first time they performed the ritual, and then perform some of the loudest nose breathing I've ever heard for the rest of the movie. I tried to imagine it was a spooky ghost behind us but it didn't work Anyway that movie was still really cool though. I loved the weird water imagery and sound related to all the spirits, added a real slimy and gross vibe. I'm trying to decide how much of what was going on can be "solved," or how much was just the spirits just being assholes and/or Mia refusing to accept that her mom simply did kill herself and causing a bunch of trouble as a result.
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Saw 3D has a mean streak towards women. The most fair reading I can give to that is its Hoffman's anger at Jill leaking into the rest of the game, but like nah this move is just straight up misogynistic in a way the rest of the series never got close to. Weird! Anyway despite that last film leaving a bad taste in my mouth and 3 being pretty boring, I enjoyed my time with the rest of the series. But I also have a soft spot for dumb convoluted puzzle plots. Is there any other horror that scratches that type of itch but uh... of a better quality lol? and remember gang, never go through an unsecured door.
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Jedit posted:I was a year younger than your nephew when Ghostbusters came out, and will attest that the library ghost put the shitters up me. The cabbie was also pretty disturbing. The rest was quite mild, though. Yeah, I kinda wish we'd tried sticking with it, but it was his parents' call. Maybe he'd have found Zuul attacking Dana quite scary, but the scene where they catch Slimer is great fun, the Zuul chasing Lewis isn't so bad cause he's a funny character, and surely he'd have loved the giant marshmallow man. Oh well, maybe some other time.
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https://i.imgur.com/37VGvj8.mp4 unmute despite my issues with the rest of 7 this scene is truly cinema. safe. house.
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Snooze Cruise posted:https://i.imgur.com/37VGvj8.mp4 unmute Holy poo poo that feels cheap as hell. This was a theatrically released movie!?
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lol that’s tod from final destination
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david_a posted:Holy poo poo that feels cheap as hell. This was a theatrically released movie!?
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davidspackage posted:We tried watching I always did OK with Ghostbusters, but I remember watching Ghostbusters 2 and finding an excuse to leave the room for a minute when they got eaten by the river of pink slime. 
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I've actually forgotten how bad the SAW films are. Thank you for reminding me.
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STAC Goat posted:I've actually forgotten how bad the SAW films are. Thank you for reminding me. Yeah, straight up garbage. The first one is okay, as a sort of mystery movie with added torture. Heavily inspired by Seven.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Wolfman 2012 has one of my favorite horror movie digging through books montages. Joe Johnston did a really good job on that, it reminds me most of the Martin Campbell Zorro movies, consciously unfussy throwbacks.
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It's a fool's hope to hold out for a director's cut, but I am a fool
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If you're a fool, you can still dream...
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feedmyleg posted:It's a fool's hope to hold out for a director's cut, but I am a fool I thought there was a director's cut and it introduced some insane continuity error like a character has a conversation with someone and then later in the movie they meet for the first time. Maybe it's just a deleted scene?
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Von Pluring posted:Yeah, straight up garbage. The first one is okay, as a sort of mystery movie with added torture. Heavily inspired by Seven. I gave up around the third film. When it started to branch out into the protegees, it felt like the franchise went into  . Only reason I'm curious about the upcoming one is it's more back to basics.
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Detective Hoffman breathed new life into the Saw series, so if you gave up before Saw IV you missed out on one of the better horror villains of the past 20 years. It's true that the Saw movies look flat and often feel cheap but they make up for it with completely ridiculous soap opera storylines combined with an actual continuity most franchises don't have because the same three guys(or two of the same three guys) were involved in most of the sequels. Basebf555 fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Aug 7, 2023 |
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Crescent Wrench posted:I always did OK with Ghostbusters, but I remember watching Ghostbusters 2 and finding an excuse to leave the room for a minute when they got eaten by the river of pink slime. I must have been 4 or 5 the first time I saw Ghostbusters and then I would make my parents rent it weekly and watch it over and over afterwards, but Vigo's big slimy head at the end scared the hell out of me and I could never get into 2 as much
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Opopanax posted:I must have been 4 or 5 the first time I saw Ghostbusters and then I would make my parents rent it weekly and watch it over and over afterwards, but Vigo's big slimy head at the end scared the hell out of me and I could never get into 2 as much One of the things about Ghostbusters that is somewhat forgotten now almost 40(!) years later, when it came out home video was really just getting started. When the VHS was released they charged $80 for it, and this was before big rental chains like Blockbuster were prevalent(the first Blockbuster opened in 1985, the same year as the Ghostbusters VHS). So that was a big part of my first memory of Ghostbusters, my family was not in a position to be spending $80 for a VHS, not to mention we didn't even have a player yet. BUT we did have some friends who had more money than we did and they invited us over for a movie night with the Ghostbusters VHS. At 2 or 3 years old it felt like a massive event to be watching that movie in someone's living room, and I'm guessing that's one reason why my parents allowed me to watch it at that age in the first place. Probably the best example of how new the VHS market was at that time, Beverly Hills Cop beat Ghostbusters in VHS sales because they sold the Beverly Hills Cop VHS for $30, so Ghostbusters was priced at more than double it's competition. You'd never see anything like that today, the price point of blu rays is pretty well established and nobody every tries to charge more than about $30 unless it's a really nice collectors edition.
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