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feedmyleg posted:What's some fun, ignorable background 90s horror or horror-adjacent TV that I can watch while cleaning and such? I don't want to get too invested, but I want it to suck me in for a scene occasionally, or at least look cool when I glance at the TV. I've been watching Are You Afraid of the Dark which has been great, but I want to try something new, and The Outer Limits feels a little too similar. I didn't watch much horror TV other than X-Files at the time because I was too s-s-scared so I'm pretty ignorant of the basics. Buffy was too soapy the few times I tried it, but I wonder about trash like The Crow tv series, or Poltergeist: The Legacy. I suppose maybe Tales from the Crypt, though I would argue it deserves your attention while it's playing
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STAC Goat posted:And then you get to enjoy the show writing entire episodes, characters, and key plot points around “what the gently caress is wrong with our fans?” And you get to read all the omegaverse fanfiction other people have written
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Sep 4, 2023 20:00
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Sounds like you need an early 90s TV show that you can pay little attention to but is occasionally amusing... Quiet, it's starting! And it's on   
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Sep 4, 2023 20:01
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feedmyleg posted:What's some fun, ignorable background 90s horror or horror-adjacent TV that I can watch while cleaning and such? I don't want to get too invested, but I want it to suck me in for a scene occasionally, or at least look cool when I glance at the TV. I've been watching Are You Afraid of the Dark which has been great, but I want to try something new, and The Outer Limits feels a little too similar. I didn't watch much horror TV other than X-Files at the time because I was too s-s-scared so I'm pretty ignorant of the basics. Buffy was too soapy the few times I tried it, but I wonder about trash like The Crow tv series, or Poltergeist: The Legacy. All of Are you Afraid of the Dark is on YouTube for free (officially)
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Sep 4, 2023 20:04
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From dusk til dawn? 
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Justwatch fooled me again! Ghostwatch is not available on Canadian Tubi, you monsters.
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Excited for The Nun Part 2: Ecclesiastical Boogaloo Looks like absolute schlock.
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Slaughter High is from the same people who made Pieces and it is just as loving insane. Lol.
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Ooh, yeah maybe I should give Monsters another shot.STAC Goat posted:Supernatural isn’t quite 90s but definitely fits as horror tv you can turn on and half watch and just zone in for the really good stuff and end of episode meta plot recaps. And there’s like 13 seasons of it so it will last. Fair, definitely up for more modern stuff that just channels that 90s vibe. Though I've watched Evil, which is great. I tried watching one episode of Supernatural ages ago and didn't vibe with it, but it could have just been my mood or a bum episode.
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Hollismason posted:Holy gently caress , new Godzilla Minus One Trailer, Releases December 1st. Holy loving poo poo
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Hrmm obviously I'm going to need to call this number.
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:Sounds like you need an early 90s TV show that you can pay little attention to but is occasionally amusing... For a while there was a compilation of just all the interstitials of Monsters on YouTube that had like 2k views and a million comments.
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Gonna put this in the OP.
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Opopanax posted:All of Are you Afraid of the Dark is on YouTube for free (officially)
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Darthemed posted:Is that a Canada-only thing? I'm only seeing chunks of seasons, and the option to rent/buy from Paramount. No idea but see if This works
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Sep 4, 2023 21:17
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That doesn't work for me. But if you have Paramount+ I believe it's all on that.
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And if you have Paramount+ you can watch Evil, the best modern horror TV show.
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Opopanax posted:No idea but see if This works Here's with a US IP:  With a Canadian IP, all the videos are visible.
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Ended up watching The Ninth Gate and now I'm wanting to watch something similar. Any suggestions?
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:And if you have Paramount+ you can watch Evil, the best modern horror TV show. I have P+ and I’d not heard of this. I just read a little about it and I think it sounds worth a watch!
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It starts off a little shaky, but give it a few episodes until it realizes just how asinine they can get away with being and then it hits quality status.
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Hollismason posted:Ended up watching The Ninth Gate and now I'm wanting to watch something similar. Any suggestions? 1408 would be the obvious one, I feel.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:1408 would be the obvious one, I feel. Yeah alright. I haven't actually seen that.
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Hollismason posted:Yeah alright. I haven't actually seen that. It’s a lot of fun
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One of my favorite things about Evil compared to X-Files it doesn't go totally into "yeah everything paranormal is real" and stuff will sometimes end up being a hoax. And when the later seasons start going fully batshit crazy there is a game-like element of like "what is the skeptical reading here?" that can be fun. And none of this undercuts the horror elements.
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Snooze Cruise posted:One of my favorite things about Evil compared to X-Files it doesn't go totally into "yeah everything paranormal is real" and stuff will sometimes end up being a hoax. And when the later seasons start going fully batshit crazy there is a game-like element of like "what is the skeptical reading here?" that can be fun. And none of this undercuts the horror elements. Agreed. Other things I really appreciate about Evil: 1. The show is accepting of both evil in the supernatural sense, and evil in the human sense. Both are treated as equally legitimate, and neither cheapens the other. 2. The theology that the show presents -- the closer you are to God or the Devil, the more likely you are to be able to see actual Holy or Evil things in the world -- is an interesting change from most religious-themed shows like this. A lot of shows default to 'oh, this guy is evil, everyone can see him as a literal demon', but Evil subverts it by making you work for those revelations. It's a clever way to track a character's morality throughout the seasons based on what they can and cannot see. 3. There are a LOT of loose ends. Of course, there are some that I think are bullshit because they're never explained, but a lot of their cases are left on this ambiguous note because they themselves don't have firm answers too. The show is generally pretty good about giving explanations for the 'monster of the week' stuff but sometimes there are no answers, and it's left to you to decide what really happened. Again, a nice subversion of this type of show. 4. It's not afraid to be funny or stupid when it deserves to be. Kristen beating Leland with a shoe, or the Bouchard girls bullying Leland over the internet are both funny moments that feel like tension release without spoiling the mood entirely. The Bouchard girls specifically are excellent because while they're annoying in the early parts of the show, they eventually turn into a great tension buster in-between some of the heavier stuff. 5. The show is loving BRUTAL about organized religion, but is also pretty sympathetic to it. It's equally willing to show that religion provides comfort and relief for people in turmoil, but it's also likely to call out racism, sexism, and exploitation, especially in the Catholic church. It even has the Catholic Priest sometimes admit, 'Yeah man, the church has some bullshit beliefs, we're working on changing it', which is refreshing. Evil is such a fun show, highly recommend that goons watch it.
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Gripweed posted:Where does Dracula being Judas come from? It wasn’t in the original novel, was it? Tangential, but in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter vampires existed long before Christ but silver became "a curse upon the cursed" after Judas' betrayal.
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I wish there was a Jimmy Buffett horror movie. Yes I know club dread lol. I just want a Jimmy Buffett horror movie rn
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I like the Vampire The Masquerade : Bloodlines where the first Vampire is biblical Cain but he's just a cab driver and doesn't really care about vampire politics because he's like 300 thousand years old.
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I forget, is the story of the centurion who stabbed Jesus with a spear turned into a vampire? Possibly merely cursed with immortality?
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MariusLecter posted:I forget, is the story of the centurion who stabbed Jesus with a spear turned into a vampire? Possibly merely cursed with immortality? Pretty sure Vampire: The Requiem has Longinus turned into a vampire, yeah.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I like the Vampire The Masquerade : Bloodlines where the first Vampire is biblical Cain but he's just a cab driver and doesn't really care about vampire politics because he's like 300 thousand years old. I liked what they did in Supernatural just a guy who wants to make stew and be left alone. You know aside from the mark cursing him with bloody rage murder and all. But you know
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Crossposting from pyf Snowglobe of Doom posted:You actually put way way more thought into it than the actual Dracula porn parody producers. This is pretty much the opposite of effort:
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:It starts off a little shaky, but give it a few episodes until it realizes just how asinine they can get away with being and then it hits quality status. Huh. I gave up after like 3 episodes. Maybe I should try again.
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CelticPredator posted:I wish there was a Jimmy Buffett horror movie. Was Jimmy Buffet killed by the pteranodons in Jurassic World, or merely menaced by them?
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:5. The show is loving BRUTAL about organized religion, but is also pretty sympathetic to it. It's equally willing to show that religion provides comfort and relief for people in turmoil, but it's also likely to call out racism, sexism, and exploitation, especially in the Catholic church. It even has the Catholic Priest sometimes admit, 'Yeah man, the church has some bullshit beliefs, we're working on changing it', which is refreshing. I like there are two separate episodes where nuns or clergy are implied to have gotten possessed by demons because they are repressed gays and its the church's fault for being homophobic lmao. H110Hawk posted:Huh. I gave up after like 3 episodes. Maybe I should try again. I like the first 3 fine enough but I feel like episode 4 (Rose390) is where the show really starts to show its bite. Snooze Cruise fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Sep 5, 2023 |
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H110Hawk posted:Huh. I gave up after like 3 episodes. Maybe I should try again. I think I watched most of the first season and then peaced out.
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