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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:What are some good horrors where the monster is unambiguously the hero, outside of kaiju and yokai stuff? Joke answer - Small Soldiers! still kinda love that movie ngl
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Sep 5, 2023 15:33
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Small Soldiers absolutely counts. Great movie.Uncle Boogeyman posted:100%. Alex de la Iglesia one of our best genre filmmakers Did you ever get around to Witching & Bitching?
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Sep 5, 2023 15:40
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Did you ever get around to Witching & Bitching? yeah it was fun as hell. loved the lady from Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown as head witch. I have Common Wealth out from the library now but haven't watched it yet. I gotta go back and finish 30 Coins too.
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Sep 5, 2023 15:47
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The Carrier (1988) Ever since you made that movie of the month I think about this movie a lot
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Sep 5, 2023 15:59
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:What are some good horrors where the monster is unambiguously the hero, outside of kaiju and yokai stuff? I'm not sure that's possible, as "a horror movie that is a monster reaping a terrible vengeance on people who deserve it" is just "an action movie" maaaaaybe The Girl With All the Gifts? A few zombie movies make the case that humanity as a whole deserves to just go away, and Zombies are the method of doing so, but mostly it's "the government/scientists are worse than the zombies, makes you think eh?" but that's just the graffitti from Left 4 Dead all over
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Sep 5, 2023 16:06
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I've seen most of the suggestions so far and they're all good but I haven't seen The Carrier, I'll check that outShrecknet posted:I'm not sure that's possible, as "a horror movie that is a monster reaping a terrible vengeance on people who deserve it" is just "an action movie" But I mean I'm also totally fine with an action movie about Draculas bringing gory vengeance on jerks that deserve it A True Jar Jar Fan fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Sep 5, 2023 |
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Sep 5, 2023 16:17
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Often this type of horror story is using that same framework from The Golem, so stuff like Pumpkinhead or the Old Chief Woodenhead story from Creepshow 2. You get the revenge angle where it's definitely satisfying to see the bad people get what they deserve but typically that gets turned around by the end and the protagonists have to try to put the monster down for the greater good. You rarely will be 100% on the monsters side from beginning to end.
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Sep 5, 2023 16:31
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Stephen King's Popsy is a pretty great short story about a monster being a good guy. It's been a while but I'm pretty sure in Puppet Master 3 the puppets are pretty unambiguously the good guys, it's very much a take on The Golem.
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Sep 5, 2023 16:39
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DeimosRising posted:Ever since you made that movie of the month I think about this movie a lot Such a neat movie
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Sep 5, 2023 16:43
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Ironically the only thing I can think of is AvP: Requiem, where both the Alien and the Predator are bad and kill lots of people, but the Predator is killing stuff as a means to an end of getting rid of the Alien threat. So you have one unambiguously bad monster (Alien) and one monster that at least is trying (Predator) and the humans are just chum caught in the waters.
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Sep 5, 2023 16:44
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:yeah it was fun as hell. loved the lady from Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown as head witch. Think I'm overdue on both of those. DeimosRising posted:Ever since you made that movie of the month I think about this movie a lot I legitimately forgot I reviewed this and I'm not kidding. But yeah, a lot of the images from that stick in my head, the garbage bag bondage Madonna is some inspired stuff.
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Sep 5, 2023 16:48
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Shrecknet posted:Ironically the only thing I can think of is AvP: Requiem, where both the Alien and the Predator are bad and kill lots of people, but the Predator is killing stuff as a means to an end of getting rid of the Alien threat. So you have one unambiguously bad monster (Alien) and one monster that at least is trying (Predator) and the humans are just chum caught in the waters. But I have it on pretty good authority whoever wins, we in fact lose.
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Sep 5, 2023 16:53
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Oh another good two-fer where the monsters are unambiguously heroic, in my opinion are Day of the Dead and Land of the Dead.
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Sep 5, 2023 16:57
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In Day of the Dead, metaphorically speaking, are the scientists and soldiers just the last vestiges of a corrupt empire, sitting in the Winter Palace, trying to understand their predicament with Tarot cards and religious mysticism?
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Sep 5, 2023 17:02
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Surprised no-one's mentioned Carrie. Maybe not a hero, but certainly at least justified to a huge extent. Or on an existential level, Final Destination. Don't try and gently caress with the natural order of things.
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Sep 5, 2023 17:09
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I'm in that weird point in the year when I got horror movies stacking up on my physical pile and I want to watch them, but I know October is right around the corner and a lot of these are new to me so these would be first watches for potential challenges too next month. Ugh. I really want to watch The Last Horror Film and its sitting right there. Going to be good and just wait till next month and really let the stack grow.  current pile dorium fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Sep 5, 2023 |
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Sep 5, 2023 17:25
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Twins of Evil is a solid Hammer flick, though I don't think there were any Puritans in Austria in the 1600s. But I was expecting something more trippy in the vein of Vampire Circus.
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Sep 5, 2023 17:29
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Shrecknet posted:I'm not sure that's possible, as "a horror movie that is a monster reaping a terrible vengeance on people who deserve it" is just "an action movie" John Wick is my favorite horror series
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Sep 5, 2023 17:33
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Dark Night Of The Scarecrow is kind of a good-guy-monster movie, in that all the victims deserved it and it doesn't fall into the Pumpkinhead formula. There's...kind of Cocaine Bear by the end, Tammy & The T-Rex too, and if you want to stretch a little Warm Bodies is way more charming and fun than I ever expected.
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Sep 5, 2023 17:37
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:What are some good horrors where the monster is unambiguously the hero, outside of kaiju and yokai stuff? Psycho Goreman
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Opopanax posted:John Wick is my favorite horror series
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Sep 5, 2023 18:21
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Shrecknet posted:unironically it is. a person (gangsters son) transgresses (steals wicks car and kills his dog) and unleashes a terrifying ancient monster once thought locked away (Wick digs up his coins and guns) who kills everyone related to him In JW4 Keanu plays the character a lot like Frankenstein's monster or something along those lines. Wandering around killing people but never quite sure why he's in a given place killing this particular person at this particular moment, just a constant haze of confusion but the one thing he's certain about is that he will Kill Them All. He's kinda like Jason at the beginning of Freddy vs. Jason, wandering in Hell killing and killing but can't really put your finger on why or what the end goal actually is. Just a monster on a neverending hunt without any particular purpose.
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Sep 5, 2023 18:29
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They literally call him a witch (baba yaga).
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Sep 5, 2023 18:38
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And The Boogeyman. I was mostly joking but yeah I suppose when you get down to it, Wick is a revenant and we just get his POV instead of the victims.
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Sep 5, 2023 18:47
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ruddiger posted:They literally call him a witch (baba yaga). I am super annoyed there's no chicken legged house in the series, but I am also amused by the story I heard that someone just googled what was Russian for 'boogeyman' and got the wrong thing. Its that kind of fine attention to detail that truly makes it a slasher.
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Sep 5, 2023 19:03
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:What are some good horrors where the monster is unambiguously the hero, outside of kaiju and yokai stuff? T2 The Addams Family Blade Hellboy Darkman (Young) Frankenstein Any Larry Talbot as monster hunter Donnie Darko The Day the Earth Stood Still Jacob's Ladder Return of the Living Dead 3 The Munsters
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Sep 5, 2023 19:04
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STAC Goat posted:I am super annoyed there's no chicken legged house in the series, but I am also amused by the story I heard that someone just googled what was Russian for 'boogeyman' and got the wrong thing. I remember watching the first one with people and it was like a census of Russian folklore knowledge. About half the people didn’t care/notice and the other half had the rare but specific face of wondering if Keanu Reeves was about to ride a flying mortar and pestle.
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Sep 5, 2023 19:06
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May I interest you in a home invasion-ish movie with a twist? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXK4_ZcyrMk
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Sep 5, 2023 19:27
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:May I interest you in a home invasion-ish movie with a twist? Yes yes yes
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Sep 5, 2023 19:45
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I don’t really care about aliens in my horror either way, but spooky poo poo with no dialogue for huge chunks is my jam. Cautiously optimistic. Will probably save for the inevitable challenge involving a UFO horror.
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Sep 5, 2023 20:02
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:May I interest you in a home invasion-ish movie with a twist? Link doesn't work.
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Sep 5, 2023 20:03
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drat, Hulu must have privated it. It was a trailer for Hulu's No One Will Save You which appears to be a home invasion movie but the invaders ARE ALIEN SPIDER MONSTERS?!
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Pope Corky the IX posted:When was the Poltergeist television series made? I feel like it was in that late 80s to late 90s period where horror movies weren't doing too well in theaters so let's make a TV show instead. I remember it debuted the same night the Stargate show did. Showtime pretty quickly poured more attention on Stargate than P:TL early on so it felt like they'd made up their mind on what show was worth their time and dumped the other on Sci-Fi where it was pretty much doomed since around that time Sci-Fi was pushing aside any of the horror stuff they used to help build the channel.
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Sep 5, 2023 20:37
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Horror thread, post your favorite horror movie cops/detectives who look like they smell like stale farts. The cop from Dead Silence  Officer Mooney from Killer Klowns 
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Sep 5, 2023 21:44
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Tom Atkins. In anything.
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Sep 5, 2023 21:57
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Yeah, I'll likely give this a watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEk5WsjMDGA
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Sep 5, 2023 21:58
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Oh I love cops in horror and exploitation! Me and my friends are always on the lookout for funny horror cops we can give nicknames to. Of course you have the evil cop slasher villain such as the Psycho Cop in Psycho Cop Returns, Matt Cordell, the Hell Cop from Highway To Hell, etc, but you also have Dainty Cop from Bride of Re-Animator, Useless Cop from Slaughterhouse, Even More Useless Cop from Angel, Homophobe Cop from Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker...the list goes on. Horror Cops are such a great character type.
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Sep 5, 2023 22:02
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M_Sinistrari posted:Yeah, I'll likely give this a watch. I'll watch this, mainly because I love the horror subgenre of 'British people find the most nightmarish thing they can think of, slightly more country British people'.
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:I'll watch this, mainly because I love the horror subgenre of 'British people find the most nightmarish thing they can think of, slightly more country British people'. Looks like a great axe murderer movie.
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