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M_Sinistrari posted:Going from the Slasher Glut of the 80s, then you could argue the slasher subgenre was dead. However, the Horror genre's very responsive to audience tastes compared to movies in general. Whether it's from having a specific audience or on average horror's quicker to make, who knows? When slashers were starting to get tired, the general shift went to whatever subgenre was next. Slasher films still happened, but nowhere near as much as during the Glut until Scream turned the interest back. (Not singling you out, you’re just a good person to quote) I think if we compared raw numbers per year on how many horror movies are “one or more people with a weapon” vs any given other subtype of horror movie (e.g “werewolf movies”), talking about slashers ever being dead is going to look like a ridiculous statement. I guarantee you that if I go back in time year-by-year it will be significantly harder to find a year or years with no slasher films than if we did this with like, fish-people. Satan and ghosts are the only things I think might be comparable. gently caress I might have just talked myself into a project. gently caress.
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Yes, we do need more fish people slashers with ties to Satan
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Now I'm curious about the slasher/vampire ratio in any given year. I'm not even sure when to start tracking slashers. Blood Feast, I guess?
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Xiahou Dun posted:(Not singling you out, you’re just a good person to quote) Halloween Jack posted:Now I'm curious about the slasher/vampire ratio in any given year. I'm not even sure when to start tracking slashers. Blood Feast, I guess? Actually, that would be interesting to see. What are the ratios of subgenre trends over time in Horror.
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:Yes, we do need more fish people slashers with ties to Satan What about a film adaptation of The Shadow over Innsmouth as a slasher?
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Slashers will never go away because a rubber knife and Karo syrup is a lot cheaper than multiple full-body costumes or puppets and puppeteers. Also worth noting in any statistical study, there are ~2300 horror films on Letterboxed for the entire decade of the 90s while there are 1400 horror films just in 2022*. Filmmaking got exponetially cheaper and that's going to trend towards certain film types (and monster types) because when your only cost is production, not film or post, you're going to select projects that are achievable on zero budget. You'd have to additionally filter by, say "has 1000+ ratings" to make sure you weren't catching 500 Z-budget movies that somehow got on Letterboxd despite never receiving a theatrical or even home video release. *filters include "hide docs, short films and unreleased to further slim the actual options Shrecknet fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Sep 7, 2023 |
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CelticPredator posted:People love stabbing. Everyone says this right up until it's them getting stabbed. Then suddenly I'm the bad guy. Excuse me for just giving the people what they want.
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MariusLecter posted:What about a film adaptation of The Shadow over Innsmouth as a slasher? That's Dagon
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PYF Forgotten Sitcoms:Opopanax posted:That's Dagon
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Class3KillStorm posted:PYF Forgotten Sitcoms: 
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CelticPredator posted:what gets me is him shooting the trampoline scene like it’s the most iconic horror moment and just a super funny joke. I mean, he stole it from Cutting Class where it is presented as a funny joke.
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For me alf the charm of the original trailer was the VO, like a coroner who'd been inhaling sulfur hexafluoride Thanksgiving. You'll be coming home. In a bodybag.
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How much of the creep show score is used in the new trailer?
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Phy posted:For me alf the charm of the original trailer was the VO, like a coroner who'd been inhaling sulfur hexafluoride Now I want to see a episode of Alf where he is possessed by a alien spirit and the whole family is hunted down while he tries to eat them.
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Shrecknet posted:Slashers will never go away because a rubber knife and Karo syrup is a lot cheaper than multiple full-body costumes or puppets and puppeteers. It really does go unremarked how the horror boom of the 80's absolutely salted the earth for the 90's, but that was probably for the best.
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X sure is another Ti West movie. I feel bad, my top review on Letterboxed by stars is me just absolutely savaging the 2/3rds of House of the Devil that I made it through, and this is more of the same. West is a truly gifted chameleon and far better at Brett Ratner's schtick of "tell me what director you want this film to look like," but his pacing still absolutely sucks and his script, while fun, has absolutely zero swerves or surprises. You clock what's happening in the first 5 minutes, and then indeed everything does go down that way! Wish I liked West's stuff better or got out of it what others are getting, but he's just a really, really good director who refuses to apply his talents to anything other than homages to older eras of film and dogshit slow-burn stories.
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The homages and slow burns get me and I enjoy his work well enough, but I will say Pearl is leagues better than anything else I've seen of his and I have to wonder if that's because Mia Goth helped write it.
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:The homages and slow burns get me and I enjoy his work well enough, but I will say Pearl is leagues better than anything else I've seen of his and I have to wonder if that's because Mia Goth helped write it.  ) She brings the sort of ethereal otherness that you only get from models-turned-actresses who don't quite work the same way normal human bodies do. The poise trained into them over a decade can be reduced but never truly hidden.
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It’s me, the other guy who liked A Cure For Wellness.
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EL BROMANCE posted:It’s me, the other guy who liked A Cure For Wellness. It rules, I loved it. And I actually really liked X and thought it was a very funny dark comedy but Pearl is so much better.
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EL BROMANCE posted:It’s me, the other guy who liked A Cure For Wellness. I think it's quite popular around here. I liked it a lot
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Loved cure for wellness. Gore Verbinski is underrated. Love his pirates movies. That’s the last time anyone brought that kind of weird creative insanity to a Disney film
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DeimosRising posted:I think it's quite popular around here. I liked it a lot
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CelticPredator posted:Loved cure for wellness. Gore Verbinski is underrated. Love his pirates movies. That’s the last time anyone brought that kind of weird creative insanity to a Disney film Same with Mousehunt.
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Like I said earlier we really need an adaptation of Michael McDowell's Blackwater as it's a masterpiece of horror literature, there's just the issue that due to how it's paced(takes place over the course of multiple decades with often both years and chapters between any actual horror happening*) it probably would work better as a mini series or even full on TV series than as a movie *though when they do show up they are very effective
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His novel The Elementals could make a pretty good movie. Wouldn't be very expensive either as it takes almost entirely in one location.
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M_Sinistrari posted:Same with Mousehunt. This film (and Shrek) were the bane of my childhood. I remember finding them both viscerally unpleasant and must have sat through both of them at least ten times a piece (not by choice). I should probably revisit Mousehunt though.
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Shrecknet posted:X sure is another Ti West movie. I feel bad, my top review on Letterboxed by stars is me just absolutely savaging the 2/3rds of House of the Devil that I made it through, and this is more of the same. West is a truly gifted chameleon and far better at Brett Ratner's schtick of "tell me what director you want this film to look like," but his pacing still absolutely sucks and his script, while fun, has absolutely zero swerves or surprises. You clock what's happening in the first 5 minutes, and then indeed everything does go down that way! I am a massive Ti West fan. For me, I think he creates really strong and likable characters that you want to spend time with. Pearl was (to me) his best movie so far and that's because Mia Goth loving crushed it, Pearl is equal parts pitiable and disturbing and you want to see what happens to her by the end. I don't necessarily need swerves or surprises if everything is constructed so well and I'm having fun with it.
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A Fancy Hat posted:I am a massive Ti West fan. He creates really strong and likable characters that you want to spend time with.
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MacheteZombie posted:I'm rooting for Maniac meets Showgirls I'm rooting for Boogie Nights meets Assault on Precinct 13. Maxxxine's crazy Christian cult family is definitely going to play a part, I feel.
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I bring one piece of good news about The Nun 2: There is a goatman. An honest-to-god goatman. Otherwise, it's exactly what you expect, including the two best jumpscares being in the trailer.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:i thought X was just okay and that Pearl absolutely blew it out of the water, which does make me really curious how I'll feel about Maxxxine. Pearl has a couple of annoying Grindhouse Flourishes (tm) but they're right around the start of the movie, then it settles into a real movie for the rest of the runtime.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:I bring one piece of good news about The Nun 2: There is a goatman. An honest-to-god goatman. Does it have the ring????
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:I bring one piece of good news about The Nun 2: There is a goatman. An honest-to-god goatman. Does he whistle far and wee?
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