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Boat Dracula was fun enough. Probably nothing I'll think about in a month but decent goop and a fun setting go a long way for me. I'll agree with CJ2 that it's probably my last favourite Ovredal so far but that's still a decently high bar.
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Gripweed posted:I know that this is the only thing I ever talk about, but I just had a thought about the Senritsu Kaiki File series. Is it the best use of the series format of any horror movie series? Other horror movie series tend to start with an idea, and then future sequels try to do that idea again but bigger or in a new way or just the same again. But every Senritsu Kaiki entry adds more to the world, continues the story of our characters, slowly draws the shape of the horror, without ever over explaining or undercutting a previous entry.
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Opopanax posted:I think a lot of Horror is set in the 80s/90s so they don't have to explain why people don't have cell phones with them at all times I feel like the key to cellphones is just to create stories where the cellphones can't help. Like, if a werewolf is hunting you now and you're an hour's drive from anywhere, you can call for help but you still need to come up with a solution for the current predicament.
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Aug 16, 2023 03:02
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Mover posted:We need MORE horror set in the 80s, but, like, the 1480s Really, I'm quite flexible on those first two digits. Or even tack on a B.C.E. I'd gently caress with some Bronze Age horror.
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Aug 16, 2023 03:06
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Give me the loving 1880s and 1890s. These are obviously the best era to set horror in.
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Hollismason posted:Give me the loving 1880s and 1890s. These are obviously the best era to set horror in. Deathtrolley
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Aug 16, 2023 03:10
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Cult horror set during the Plague Of Justinian with lots of body borror Caveman encounters the first vampires, alternatively neanderthals encounter early humanity who are presented as nearly psychopathic ruthless competitors 12-13th century academic is drawn obsessively to research the legend of Prester John, only to discover he is not an earthly ruler but an alien reality that becomes more real the more is written about it, Mouth of Madness style
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Aug 16, 2023 03:19
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Hrmm weird memory but anyone remember a horror movie from the possibly the 1970s and before anything bad or gross happened the screen flashed red to warn you. I remember someone had their hand cut off?
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Mover posted:Cult horror set during the Plague Of Justinian with lots of body borror All of this directly into my eyeballs, gently caress
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Aug 16, 2023 03:39
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Just turn Between Two Fires into a movie already. Best horror novel in a long time and it takes place during the black plague.
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Aug 16, 2023 04:00
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Mover posted:Caveman encounters the first vampires, alternatively neanderthals encounter early humanity who are presented as nearly psychopathic ruthless competitors Pretty sure these were done in Primal. https://youtu.be/0x7Bmz4l38E
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Aug 16, 2023 04:29
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I feel like there's a lot of easy low budget horror movie ideas about people trapped in a dust storm in the 19302.
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Aug 16, 2023 04:31
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Mover posted:
You're describing the vampires from Peter Watts to some extent. God I love it when hard science folk just get drunk and come up with some nonsense.
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https://twitter.com/philtippett/status/1691535728935628801?s=46&t=wbUf_u7uOvtvxKOmB6dAHQ Oooh I didn’t know it was his team behind it. Even better! dorium fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Aug 16, 2023 |
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There's a newish horror game called Killer Frequency which is very good, but it's set in the 80s for no particular reason and yet half the plot only works if the majority of people are carrying cell phones. It irked me
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People don’t realize you can do 80’s aesthetic stuff in 2023. You can have neon lights and dirty grimy sets with sweet synth music without having to be locked in a decade
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dorium posted:https://twitter.com/philtippett/status/1691535728935628801?s=46&t=wbUf_u7uOvtvxKOmB6dAHQ that is a stacked list of "oh cool they're involved!?" people
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Darthemed posted:I threw the idea ‘horror film franchises are bad’ at myself the other day, and Senritsu Kaiki was the top objection my mind threw back. I will defend Freddy's Dead against as many hordes as it takes
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Crescent Wrench posted:
Usually they drop the ball hard on the wraparound. The last film's wraparound sucked so hard it blew.
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Oh they're balanced all right.
You really think so?
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CelticPredator posted:People don’t realize you can do 80’s aesthetic stuff in 2023. You can have neon lights and dirty grimy sets with sweet synth music without having to be locked in a decade More movies just need to do the It Follows thing and embrace period ambiguity.
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Aug 16, 2023 12:48
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Megasabin posted:Just turn Between Two Fires into a movie already. Best horror novel in a long time and it takes place during the black plague. I think it might work better in a limited series format, the novel is already pretty episodic and a film would most likely cut some segments to tell a more straightforward story.
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Hollismason posted:Hrmm weird memory but anyone remember a horror movie from the possibly the 1970s and before anything bad or gross happened the screen flashed red to warn you. I remember someone had their hand cut off? No but I did watch Cemetery High which features a "gore gong" sound effect before any murder scenes (there are not many) and a "hooter horn" sound effect before any nudity (there's a lot)
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That image does not look like Toxie. It looks like some sort of weird superhero with a staff. That's loving boring.
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Aug 16, 2023 13:42
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Oh cool Netflix now has The Pope's Exorcist. I'll probably wait on it until October though.
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Crescent Wrench posted:I think the rose-colored glasses effect about period music is even worse when it's some dipshit kid's t-shirt or posters in their bedroom. You're 13 years old in 1980, dude. Some production designer put that Joy Division poster there while you were begging mom for a ride to see REO Speedwagon or Bob Seger. The one that bothers me most is the prominent The Thing poster in Stranger Things. That movie infamously completely tanked at the box office! Nobody would have gave a poo poo about that poster!
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What was the giallo thats fairly standard (iirc) but then at the end, one of the victims comes bursting out of a closet and rips a guys dick off?
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heard u like girls posted:What was the giallo thats fairly standard (iirc) but then at the end, one of the victims comes bursting out of a closet and rips a guys dick off? I'm pretty sure that's Pieces! What a wild one.
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:I'm pretty sure that's Pieces! What a wild one. The movie that absolutely wins the arms race of best tagline. Pieces: It's Exactly What You Think It Is.
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:I'm pretty sure that's Pieces! What a wild one. Thank you, that seems to be it. I guess it wasn't really standard at all lmao
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Not long ago I watched Pieces and Don't Open 'Til Christmas very close together and Edmund Purdom should be in some kind of horror hall of fame.
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Hollismason posted:Hrmm weird memory but anyone remember a horror movie from the possibly the 1970s and before anything bad or gross happened the screen flashed red to warn you. I remember someone had their hand cut off? Cannibal Girls had a bell sound go off as a warning. Not sure about any film using a red flash, but that does sound familiar.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:The one that bothers me most is the prominent The Thing poster in Stranger Things. That movie infamously completely tanked at the box office! Nobody would have gave a poo poo about that poster! They also show the kids watching Day of the Dead in the theater. There's no way a small local cinema would run an unrated film like that, much less let a bunch of thirteen year olds in.
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Need more horror films with like, a flashing warning message and countdown ala Gaspar Noé's I Stand Alone. STOP WATCHING THIS MOVIE! YOU HAVE 30 SECONDS TO COMPLY. I guess most horror films don't really approach the OH GOD factor of Noé though.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:The one that bothers me most is the prominent The Thing poster in Stranger Things. That movie infamously completely tanked at the box office! Nobody would have gave a poo poo about that poster! This is like in Gremlins and the kid in the 80s is a big fan of Robot Monster or whatever. Gimme a break.
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If anything it's more realistic nowadays for kids to have weirder, more obscure interests with how available so many things are. Perhaps 2020s period horror will have kids who are really into Columbo. Then again we can't all be my partner's best friend who had a film history buff father. It is a running gag to gently clown on his childhood because no normal six year old has a favorite Marx Brothers movie.
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In Evil Dead, there's a hills have eyes poster in the cabin. Am I to believe the Allens were horror fans??
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:The movie that absolutely wins the arms race of best tagline. I'm partial to another tagline for Pieces: You don't have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre!
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