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Saw CANDYMAN (2021) again, the bf hadn't seen it before or the original movie which we will see this evening and follow it up with BARBARIAN. We had a lot to talk about and tho it wasn't scary in the same way Hereditary had him watching dark corners and freezing up when I made the mouth click sound it was definitely impactful.
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Went to see Cobweb, and that is 100% just a grown-up Goosebumps episode, in the best way possible. Nothing groundbreaking, but a pretty decent time, especially for how good Lizzy Caplan and Antony Starr are in it.
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Dammit, I live in NYC, why isn't Cobweb playing around me I don't wanna VOD it
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Halloween Jack posted:I would like to see a horror-themed TV show where they feed "paranormal investigators" into one of those big grinders they use to dispose of diseased livestock. Xiahou Dun posted:Then it cuts to Tom Waits rhythmically hitting a cowboy boot with a dead raccoon while crooning “MEAT your maker…” Y'all trying to get sued by Dan Aykroyd? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEZEgd8GjJc
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Nothing But Trouble...now there's a movie I'd kill to see a darker, creepier version of. I actually vibe with it a lot more than most but if it was darker and gorier, and Chevy Chase wasn't so obsessed with trying to be snarky and cool, I feel like it could've been a genuine classic instead of just a curiosity. The ending is great, too.
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:Nothing But Trouble...now there's a movie I'd kill to see a darker, creepier version of. not possible
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"I almost like Nothing But Trouble, but I wish Akroyd's nose looked like an even weirder penis."
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RLM did a video about it, listening to the history it's a miracle/mistake that it got made at all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz_NLJXcMiE e: Actually I think this is what I watched? Why are there multiple post mortem video essays about this thing?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TFfL1aUDaQ Takes No Damage fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Sep 2, 2023 |
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Deadite posted:Has anyone here watched Halloween Wars on Food Network? It's a good 'background noise' show to put on when it airs in September/October. Fun story that's Zac Bagans/TRVL channel-adjacent. I've said this in other threads, but my wife and I have a spooky youtube channel with over a million subscribers, and out of the blue, we got an email from a production company with a contract to do a show on the TRVL channel. We really didn't want to do it, but figuring that it would be a good resume item later, we "took the meeting." It turned out that TRVL was looking for shows to help prop up the network once Zac Bagans stops doing Ghost Adventures, and the idea was "show how a spooky video on youtube is made." We were a bit confused, because surely they didn't want "find a topic, look around on the internet for days about it, get sick of seeing it, lounge around for a few days, and then do all the production/editing stuff", but that's exactly what they wanted. The most boring 42 minutes of tv possible, consisting of mostly a computer screen and words being typed into Google. We passed, because "dear lord, this show is gonna suck" is not the best way to start a project. Also, my wife makes it a point to troll Zac Bagans on Twitter every chance she gets, and the idea of being on the same network as him was a non-starter for her. We Got Us A Bread fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Sep 2, 2023 |
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Sep 2, 2023 01:19
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well don’t bogart the channel, boo
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Baron von Eevl posted:"I almost like Nothing But Trouble, but I wish Akroyd's nose looked like an even weirder penis." I just think it leans too heavily on Chevy Chase Being A Dickhead and is too disjointed to be properly horror or even properly comedic  It's an oddity, but it could've been really splattery. It's too tame to be Troma and too grotesque to be particularly funny, so it lands in this weird zone where it is mostly unsatisfying, but there's a lot of interesting weird poo poo in there that it could have been more.
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You’re not allowed to have a Good and Cool channel and not tell your friends, a bunch of internet deviants.
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Post the youtube channel coward
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Hollismason posted:Post the youtube channel coward Sorry, I was trying to not be the guy who pimps his poo poo on the forums. https://www.youtube.com/@ReignBot , she's the voice/face/editor, i'm the writer/researcher. We're taking a break to work on some outside projects, but new stuff is coming soon.
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I genuinely loved Nothing But Trouble when I was a kid, now I just find it fascinating that it exists. Of course I had to buy the blu-ray, then watched it once and was like... "Yeeeeah..." I didn't really enjoy it, but it was still a kick to watch it after not seeing it for like 20+ years. I was shocked they managed to get Chevy Chase to do a mini-interview video for the special features, I figured he'd never want to go near that movie again (and also he's kind of a dick, I'm told).
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Such blatant disrespect for Tupac's film debut ITT.
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King Vidiot posted:I was shocked they managed to get Chevy Chase to do a mini-interview video for the special features, I figured he'd never want to go near that movie again (and also he's kind of a dick, I'm told). With his reputation it's possible that Chase was just happy to have someone who wanted to hear what he had to say about any subject at all.
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We Got Us A Bread posted:Sorry, I was trying to not be the guy who pimps his poo poo on the forums. https://www.youtube.com/@ReignBot , she's the voice/face/editor, i'm the writer/researcher. We're taking a break to work on some outside projects, but new stuff is coming soon. Absolutely wild, I've been watching you two for years. Thank you for never dipping into the bullshit fake voice or gimmick stuff, it's basically the same channel it was when I found it in what, 2015? 2016? Whenever the Sad Satan poo poo was going on? Anyway, good job with the channel, it's a good channel.
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Crescent Wrench posted:Such blatant disrespect for Tupac's film debut ITT. Random quotes from that movie just pop into my head all the time, to this day, but it just doesn't hold up well at all. I felt the same way trying to rewatch Little Monsters recently, but at least that had the excuse of being made for kids. Put out that dog rocket!
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Has anyone else ever seen The Booth? It's a I think early 2000s Japanese movie about a radio call-in show that gets a call-in from a ghost. Aside from the intro I think it's actually done in real time, or close to it.
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Got a question that might piss everyone off. I'm putting together a very rough list of movies I want to hit this year when I watch 31 horror movies in October, and I was considering adding The Caller (1987), which I haven't seen before but know there's some big twist. When I checked it on IMDB it lists it as a thriller, but what I want to know is where everyone falls on thrillers being counted as horror? Usually I go by a movie by movie basis, so I don't think every thriller would qualify, but there are a ton of thrillers out there that I think are close enough to be considered horror.
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Traditionally thrillers are explicitly allowed in the October Challenge Horror Thread The definition of horror that thread uses is pretty dang broad, to avoid arguments, and conjoined genres like thriller and kaiju are just included wholesale so people don't have to, like, parse which Godzilla movies counts as horror and which don't.
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If it feels like a horror to you count it. There’s countless thrillers that are accepted as horrors. There’s also some that aren’t. It’s a vibe thing. There’s an entire genre of thrillers made in Italy in the 60s that is heralded as a foundation of horror. Just give your honest reaction. I believe the challenges typically specifically allow room for “thrillers”. But no one is gonna get mad at you either way. It’s chill.
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Blow Out is unquestionably a "thriller" but it's absolutely drenched in horror vibes.
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If you want it to be horror count it. Life is too short to care about genre that much that it causes anger or anxiety
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Thrillers are explicitly allowed for the challenges, but more generally I am always surprised when people don't just go for the "better to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission" route. Just try to find suitable movies, no one's going to narc on you.
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I follow a simple rule that if it feels right to me I include. I’ve absolutely watched movies that I thought were horror and then not counted them because they just didn’t feel like they should count at all. My general thought is if you really gotta ask yourself a question about eligibility you’re answering it yourself. If you feel good about it then go for it.
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Yeah thrillers fall under the horror category.
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i am compulsed to mention this every time ghost adventures is mentioned: there is an episode where its valentines and they go to a bed and breakfast where there is a lady ghost who has sex with you. the entire episode is about zak and one of his cohosts trying to seduce the ghost. there is a bit where zak slips on ice while reading poetry to the lady ghost and lands on his rear end. they replay it in the same way they replay spooky ghost sounds.
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Evil Dead Rise is a hell of a thing...
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Shrecknet posted:Evil Dead Rise is a hell of a thing... The only thing I didn't like was that it does the whole 1 Week earlier bit at the beginning but otherwise its really loving good.
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Rewatched Pitch Black and remembered Vin Diesel once displayed charisma.
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Disposable Scud posted:Rewatched Pitch Black and remembered Vin Diesel once displayed charisma. wait till you see Multi-Facial and find out he used to act, too!
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Hollismason posted:The only thing I didn't like was that it does the whole 1 Week earlier bit at the beginning but otherwise its really loving good. It was one day earlier and that’s why it was pretty funny.
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The rules of the October Challenge thread are very loose, the biggest restriction is you just can't watch series, it has to be movies, this being CineD and all. So you can't watch 31 episodes of Tales From the Crypt, for example. If the concern is about straight thrillers being disqualified then definitely don't worry about that. Personally I wait all year for the classic spooky stuff with the monsters and slashers and foggy graveyards etc etc so I tend to go the traditional route.
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I finally watched The Texas Chain Saw Massacre last night. What a great movie. It's shocking how little gore is in it - truly the first scene with the decaying heads dripping was the hardest thing to watch. I felt like if they cut that and had PG-13 as an option back then it would have gotten it easily. Heck maybe even with it, it's more "gross" than gory. I am surprised that I never saw it as a kid. Probably my parents remember it coming out and being "incredibly scary etc" so refused to let me rent it during my horror years in middle school. Mind you I saw much worse in the things that I did watch. Event Horizon was my favorite movie, and definitely still top 10. Also y'all calling it TCM is so confusing given its chain space saw in the title.  I can't wait to listen to the ruined episode on it, it's next after The Exorcist which is another movie I haven't seen.
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Crescent Wrench posted:Definitely watch that TCM scene. Aside from some mysterious squealing, the character calling for his friend, and the thud of the hammer, it's silent. The tension is earned from the mundane tone of the film so far juxtaposed with the sudden, raw brutality. There's not an ear-splitting musical sting. There's no shaky cam shot with Leatherface running directly up to the lens and mugging for the camera. These eras of jump scares are so far apart it's like comparing Robert Johnson at the crossroads to the stock bar band music used in a light beer commercial and saying "See? It's all the blues!" You do have a point. A well handled jumpscare's perfectly fine, it's just more recently it's been handled as quantity > quality. I'll take quality any day, I'm tired of the quantity. We Got Us A Bread posted:Sorry, I was trying to not be the guy who pimps his poo poo on the forums. https://www.youtube.com/@ReignBot , she's the voice/face/editor, i'm the writer/researcher. We're taking a break to work on some outside projects, but new stuff is coming soon. I've been subbed to you two's channel for years. Great job, both of you. I can't wait to see what the new stuff'll be. And speaking of Nothing But Trouble, I sat through R.L. Stein's Zombie Town. It's pretty much a full feature length Goosebumps episode. Not bad, but I seriously didn't recognize Chevy Chase from how he's aged.
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Basebf555 posted:The rules of the October Challenge thread are very loose, the biggest restriction is you just can't watch series, it has to be movies, this being CineD and all. So you can't watch 31 episodes of Tales From the Crypt, for example. If the concern is about straight thrillers being disqualified then definitely don't worry about that. I've been doing it for something like 9 years now (I used to post reviews of each on Facebook and now I'm in the process of transferring all of them onto letterboxed), so at this point I'll watch almost anything as long as I've never seen it before. Usually my eye for appropriate stuff is pretty good, but every so often I'll watch something that ends up being barely horror or something that's like, "Huh. This is pretty much just weird porn then..." I'm not super worried about accidentally breaking any rules so much as I was curious how other people saw thrillers.
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I don’t even know how to distinguish horror from thrillers anymore. I used to say that horror needed to have some kind of supernatural element to it, but there are plenty of classic horror movies that don’t have anything supernatural about them. So now I have no idea what distinguishes a thriller from just being called horror.
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After a certain point getting too focused on taxonomy ends up locking you out of a lot of films that I'd argue are massively important or impactful horror. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer could pretty accurately be categorized as a Drama, same with The Devils, but both are incredibly horrifying. At the same time, I'm not going to pretend I wasn't rolling my eyes constantly when people were trying to make "cozy horror" a thing a few months ago.
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