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I regularly shout at my tv "What the hell is wrong with you don't do that" whenever a horror character goes off on their own. I even do this during movies that I have already seen.
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Snooze Cruise posted:Escape Room is one of the most by the numbers death game stories I seen, lol. I think the only thing missing was a taunting mascot. Still fun though, the set design is nifty. Actual line from the movie It owns
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Xiahou Dun posted:I guess you were right not to google that. The GIS results aren’t exactly fun. Eugh, sorry. I wouldna dropped the reference if I knew people were gonna look at photos. I never have, the descriptions are awful and sad enough.
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 04:39 |
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Hollismason posted:Anyone else watch so many goddamn horror movies that other than a few specific ones after several years you can go back and watch something you've watched before and its like a brand new experience. yeah all the time i also keep forgetting how bad the sequels get for stuff like Hellraiser, SAW etc and end up trying to rewatch them all and its always so painful and im like never again
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 04:41 |
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Phy posted:Eugh, sorry. I wouldna dropped the reference if I knew people were gonna look at photos. I never have, the descriptions are awful and sad enough. O no, I got your reference and enjoyed it. I was originally just going to give a lmgtfy link, but I decided to pretend to not be a dick and made something up instead.
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 04:48 |
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When I was a kid we rented movies incessantly, and we also diligently recorded everything we watched. Our private collection was almost entirely our bootlegged VHS tapes with 3 movies per tape. They're long gone, but I wish I at least had a picture of the labels or a list or something. I'm sure there's many combinations of 2 to 3 movies that I just saw all the time because they were all together on the same tape.
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 05:11 |
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i had a vhs copy of Aliens that i taped from tv as a kid. now i'm always shocked when i see it without the last five minutes of Simpsons "Flaming Moes" episode before it
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 05:15 |
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Just watched The Descent (for about the fifth time) followed by Evil Dead Rise (first time) Oh, what a night it has been!
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 05:38 |
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Tournament of Champions is better than the first. I called the twist on who the real baddie was B) But I was also watching the extended cut, and from what I read after finishing the movie that theatrical cut sounds bad, lol. Anyway I had fun. I would watch more of these, they should make more of them.
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 07:39 |
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Best horror movies where the vast majority of the film takes place in one room, go. My vote for Fermat's Room. Consolation prize goes to 1408.
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 08:08 |
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Bug
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 08:15 |
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MrMojok posted:All the time. I did a lot of this until they got wise and started using something called “Macrovision” or similar that would somehow scramble any copy you tried to make. I probably have my old Macrovision crackerbox buried somewhere. Copied tapes didn't scramble, but did come out a skosh darker than normal. It was a fair enough trade off considering.
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Jedit posted:Best horror movies where the vast majority of the film takes place in one room, go. The Exam The Circle Would you rather?
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 10:55 |
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First thing we did with our vcr was tape Donner's Superman off tv. My sister talked during it and I shushed her, we're recording right now!
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:38 |
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Jedit posted:Best horror movies where the vast majority of the film takes place in one room, go. I mean, the obvious gold standard answer is Evil Dead, right? Honourable mention to Saw 1.
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:46 |
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There might be some outside scenes but I remember most of the very cool Faults (2014) taking place in the hotel room (and bathroom)
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 13:04 |
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Ambitious Spider posted:The Exam This is good a time as any to bring this up, but I absolutely love movies where characters are facing a very defined situation/set of circumstances/etc. and have to deduce the rules and use logic and strategy to survive. These are typically horror/thriller/survival movies, but I guess they don't have to exclusively fall into that for me to enjoy them. Exam and Circle are two examples that got me thinking. The Cube series, of course. The Platform. Coherence. Triangle becomes something in this vein. Devil (the elevator one). Frozen (the ski lift one). You can be pretty loose with this definition, though. I think a very early example for me was Night of the Living Dead (being trapped in the house, figuring out how to fortify it, plans to find a vehicle, plans in case of a breach, etc.) Anyway, I am always, always on the lookout for stuff like this. Even relatively mediocre ones.
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Crescent Wrench posted:This is good a time as any to bring this up, but I absolutely love movies where characters are facing a very defined situation/set of circumstances/etc. and have to deduce the rules and use logic and strategy to survive. These are typically horror/thriller/survival movies, but I guess they don't have to exclusively fall into that for me to enjoy them. Exam and Circle are two examples that got me thinking. The Cube series, of course. The Platform. Coherence. Triangle becomes something in this vein. Devil (the elevator one). Frozen (the ski lift one). You can be pretty loose with this definition, though. I think a very early example for me was Night of the Living Dead (being trapped in the house, figuring out how to fortify it, plans to find a vehicle, plans in case of a breach, etc.) Giant genre shift, but have you read Project Hail Mary? It’s from Andy Weird, The Martian guy, and it is literally 90% people solving bizarre alien physics problems through experimentation.
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Xiahou Dun posted:Giant genre shift, but have you read Project Hail Mary? It’s from Andy Weird, The Martian guy, and it is literally 90% people solving bizarre alien physics problems through experimentation. Ooh. No, I have not, but sci-fi is my genre of choice when it comes to literature so that's going on the list.
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 14:23 |
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RIP Billy. I'm blaming David Gordon Green for this. "Who's doing it? The schmuck who directed Pineapple Express and Your Highness? Oh gently caress me!" Also finally started watching some moorhead/Benson stuff. Resolution was pretty nifty, getting into The Endless next.
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Going back to VHS chat for a moment, the $90 price point thing for distributors was something that stuck around for a long long time. I remember seeing a catalog of new purchasable titles at the local Phar-Mor - sort of a small Southern drug store chain a la Rite Aid - that used to rent movies and games. I was interested in potentially getting a copy of Tomorrow Never Dies, the first Bond film I'd seen in theaters, but it was priced at $100 in 1998 money. Cheaper to buy a copy of "GoldenEye 007" and an extra controller for the N64 than to get one single VHS tape before its public release street date lol. But, it wasn't all bad for those distributors - sometimes they got goofy pitch videos with the stars to try to pitch them on the smart financial business of buying copies of smaller and mid-budget films for their stores. Like this one, starring Chucky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7irP3CTyDsg
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 16:10 |
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Horror blindness strikes again with me watching The Sentinel then realizing I've seen it 45 minutes in.
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 16:24 |
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Bug is so loving good. Ripd Willy
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 16:33 |
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Waiting for someone in the thread to say Killer Joe is their favorite friedkin so I can immediately report them to the authorities. Good movie but you should be somewhere where you can't hurt people.
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I rewatched his To Live and Die in L.A. recently and I really appreciated how he wrote the main "protagonist" as a complete piece of poo poo and then has him get shotgunned in the face at the end. William Peterson was great in the role too, he's swaggering around in his tight 80s jeans and just being a total rear end in a top hat to everyone he meets and by the end of the movie you hate his guts.
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Class3KillStorm posted:Going back to VHS chat for a moment, the $90 price point thing for distributors was something that stuck around for a long long time. I remember seeing a catalog of new purchasable titles at the local Phar-Mor - sort of a small Southern drug store chain a la Rite Aid - that used to rent movies and games. I was interested in potentially getting a copy of Tomorrow Never Dies, the first Bond film I'd seen in theaters, but it was priced at $100 in 1998 money. Cheaper to buy a copy of "GoldenEye 007" and an extra controller for the N64 than to get one single VHS tape before its public release street date lol. Never forget the Terminator 2 VHS promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9frKVo6-1M
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Xiahou Dun posted:Giant genre shift, but have you read Project Hail Mary? It’s from Andy Weird, The Martian guy, and it is literally 90% people solving bizarre alien physics problems through experimentation. Looks like this is getting turned into a movie with Ryan Gosling
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Waiting for someone in the thread to say Killer Joe is their favorite friedkin so I can immediately report them to the authorities. Good movie but you should be somewhere where you can't hurt people. i mean it’s probably top 3
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shoeberto posted:Never forget the Terminator 2 VHS promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9frKVo6-1M lol, Robert Patrick is putting the work in.
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The Loved Ones doesn't quite take place in a single room, as there are sequences outside before the main action as well as intermittent scenes following another character, but the main horror all happens in a single area and it's awesome.
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Basebf555 posted:I rewatched his To Live and Die in L.A. recently and I really appreciated how he wrote the main "protagonist" as a complete piece of poo poo and then has him get shotgunned in the face at the end. William Peterson was great in the role too, he's swaggering around in his tight 80s jeans and just being a total rear end in a top hat to everyone he meets and by the end of the movie you hate his guts. To Live and Die in L.A. is phenomenal. Just a unbelievably great film.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:i mean it’s probably top 3 It's his Wolf Of Wall Street.
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 17:47 |
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In a 1970s kind of mood so continuing my horror day with Messiah of Evil which I vaguely remember.
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 18:00 |
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Great pick
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Xander B Coolridge posted:Looks like this is getting turned into a movie with Ryan Gosling Lmao. Weir has three novels, The Martian got a movie and was his first. Project Hail Mary, his third, is also getting a movie. His second, Artemis, doesn’t. Anyone wanna guess why? The protagonist is an African woman.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:i mean it’s probably top 3 Killer Joe isn't even top 5 Friedkin. That's TLADILA, Cruising, The Exorcist, Sorcerer and The French Connection.
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 18:38 |
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Messiah of Evil owns
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 18:39 |
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Cruising is real problematic film. I mean I like it but its got some issues.
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 18:52 |
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That's kinda Friedkin's whole deal.
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It feels like an Italian remake of Carnival of Souls despite the fact that it's as American as apple pie.
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