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alf_pogs posted:oh drat, sold. lining this up for the weekend What the heck this looks amazing. Some cool poo poo coming out of South America lately, it's great.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:If anyone is interested in this setup (and it's a good one), track down History of the Occult/Historia de lo Oculto from 2020, it's an Argentinian movie with a very similar premise and it might be the only thing not made by David Lynch that really hits those Lynchian vibes. That looks fantastic and looks like I can watch it on Tubi! Thanks for this recommendation.
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Vindicta had an awesome trailer and great slasher villain design but I'm cautious since the director's other credits don't inspire confidence. I'm hoping to be surprised by it.
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Sep 25, 2023 14:34
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I'm predictably waffling on the last few October thread bonus challenges so hey, if anyone has some last minute ideas there's still time to sneak them in!
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History of the Occult rules, I watched it for one of the challenges last time and it's quite an experience
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Basebf555 posted:I'm predictably waffling on the last few October thread bonus challenges so hey, if anyone has some last minute ideas there's still time to sneak them in! Do the one I did a few years ago where you watch a movie or two from your birth year.
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Sep 25, 2023 15:26
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Basebf555 posted:I'm predictably waffling on the last few October thread bonus challenges so hey, if anyone has some last minute ideas there's still time to sneak them in! Movies about killer butts
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Devil is an extremely stupid movie but I found it to be a pretty enjoyable kind of stupid, not all that different from Pope's Exorcist except it has this thin veneer of being pseudo-intellectual. Very very dumb things that try just a tiny bit to look smart can be very fun. Speaking of Pope's Exorcist though, I think it's hilarious that the exorcist is based on a real guy and his real memoirs but the Pope character is definitely not based on JP2 at all. It's like if you did The Butler but all the presidents were insane made up presidents played by Franco Nero.
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Basebf555 posted:I'm predictably waffling on the last few October thread bonus challenges so hey, if anyone has some last minute ideas there's still time to sneak them in! Animal attack movie!
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Texas Chainsaw 2 is perhaps the most effective movie I've ever seen at making me immediately hope the main characters die. It's six minutes in and I could not be happier if either of the two teenage dudes are murdered immediately. [e: loving sick, Tobe Hooper killed them within the next five minutes, I'm sorry for doubting you dad] PKMN Trainer Red fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Sep 25, 2023 |
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Basebf555 posted:I'm predictably waffling on the last few October thread bonus challenges so hey, if anyone has some last minute ideas there's still time to sneak them in! Also, watch a movie with a stupidly long title (five or more words long).
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Animal attack movie! I'm considering it, only reason I didn't go with it initially is because we've had it in for the past few years and I thought maybe people would be bored with it. But hey, animal attack movies are fun so if it's popular then might as well use it. Hollismason posted:Do the one I did a few years ago where you watch a movie or two from your birth year. Actually kinda similar to what I said about animal attack movies, I thought I'd seen some people say that they were starting to run out of good options for birth year movies. On the other hand, rewatches are kosher this year so maybe that's not so much of an issue. Much to think about over the next few days... PKMN Trainer Red posted:Also, watch a movie with a stupidly long title (five or more words long). I like that this one is basically "watch a giallo" without having to actually say it
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take a bunch of psilocybin and watch Cannibal Holocaust and Henry portrait of a serial killer challenge.
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High Warlord Zog posted:No One Will Save You is a banger  Crescent Wrench posted:I'm not sure that you can read the ending of No One Will Save You as the aliens simply giving up on defeating her because she's so tough, they already had her captured and killing her would be trivial. Besides, they didn't throw her in a cage, they gave her a real-life interactive dollhouse with human slaves. And didn't those humans still have the parasitic aliens in their throats? That's a lot of manpower. There's got to be something more complex going on with regard to their motivations. It took me a while to figure out what was going on, like, I didnt really put it together until this morning, but my take is the parasites are basically putting people into "The Matrix, but nice". She rejects that, due to overwhelming guilt, so they build her an irl habitat instead. Its very clear the telekinetic aliens don't want to hurt anyone. The one in the basement squatting down and talking after taking her scissors convinced me of that. It gave strong "hey man, theres no need for that" energy.
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Palette Cleanser: watch a nice Disney or Care Bears movie to calm yourself down
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Opopanax posted:Palette Cleanser: watch a nice Disney or Care Bears movie to calm yourself down Fran did have a "watch a family friendly movie" challenge last year. I've been trying to come up with new stuff that Fran never did but it's tough because he's kinda done it all by this point.
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:Texas Chainsaw 2 is perhaps the most effective movie I've ever seen at making me immediately hope the main characters die. It's six minutes in and I could not be happier if either of the two teenage dudes are murdered immediately. lmao
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alf_pogs posted:oh drat, sold. lining this up for the weekend God drat that looks good.
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One More Fat Nerd posted:
On that last note, the part where she tries to sneak up on the alien in her bedroom and it does a no-look flick of the wrist behind it's back to blast her away got a good laugh out of me.
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Crescent Wrench posted:On that last note, the part where she tries to sneak up on the alien in her bedroom and it does a no-look flick of the wrist behind it's back to blast her away got a good laugh out of me. Yeah that felt like it was just getting annoyed with her, and I laughed too. The only part I struggle with is when they make that emergency clone of her to house her parasite, and it tries to kill her (poorly). I'm of two minds, maybe it was just trying to momentarily disable her (thus the fairly ineffectual violence) OR the fact they made a copy of her and the first thing it tries to do is kill her indicates more about HER than the aliens.
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Basebf555 posted:I'm predictably waffling on the last few October thread bonus challenges so hey, if anyone has some last minute ideas there's still time to sneak them in! Fewer than 10 Ratings on Letterboxd feels so obvious you've probably already got it, but to me it's the perfect challenge. Film that takes place on Halloween (that aren't in the Halloween franchise). Adapted from something that's not a book (video game, comic book that isn't a graphic novel, viral Twitter thread, pop song, board game, etc). From a director who only made a single feature film. Silent feature film. Horror musical. Underwater horror. Horror anthology not in the English language. Featuring the death of a billionaire. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Sep 25, 2023 |
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Jumping on the “History of The Occult” train and yeah people should watch that ASAP if they haven’t. Was the first thing I was reminded of when I read the synopsis for Late Night With The Devil.
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Watching a SoV flick, Knight Chill. A dnd guy commits suicide and returns as his dnd character to slash his way through the dnd group that bullied him
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I watched Fire in the Sky for the first time last night. A lot of the movie wasn't great, but that alien torture scene?  Jesus loving Christ, that was bone-chilling. Glad I didn't see this when I was a kid because it definitely would've given me nightmares.
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MacheteZombie posted:Watching a SoV flick, Knight Chill. A dnd guy commits suicide and returns as his dnd character to slash his way through the dnd group that bullied him I hope this is at least half as fun as you're making it sound.
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Rageaholic posted:I watched Fire in the Sky for the first time last night. A lot of the movie wasn't great, but that alien torture scene? The movie mostly being mid until that scene imO is a feature not a bug. It’s a great juke
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I remember the TV ads for the movie made it seem like the entire thing was either that torture scene or the one where the beam of light takes him.
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Watch a movie in a language you don’t speak and try to figure out the plot from context. Watch the first/a non-horror project of a famous horror figure. I still like the idea of watching something for the poster/box cover. Did the murder weapon scavenger hunt idea make it in?
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Basebf555 posted:I'm predictably waffling on the last few October thread bonus challenges so hey, if anyone has some last minute ideas there's still time to sneak them in! Just pulling stuff out of my rear end: Watch something with an IMDb rating lower than 3 Watch something filmed/set where you live (your state for us residents) Watch a horror movie involving a "game" Watch something that involves "eating" Watch something that shares the name of another piece of media (e.g. Dead Space (1991), Night of the Demon/s) Watch something involving technology You could also go a little more meta with it if people are cool with it and you're good with the honor system, like "watch something on VHS" or "Watch a movie outside"
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Oooo I really like the idea of something with a local setting.
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Speaking of a Dead Space I really want to see a Dead Space movie now. I’d love to see someone try and out Bottin with the necro morphs
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Xiahou Dun posted:Watch a movie in a language you don’t speak and try to figure out the plot from context. No murder weapon scavenger hunt. I also didn't use another idea someone PM'd me about for the same reason, which is that I think most people want to be able to plan out what they watch. They don't want to have to watch a bunch of stuff without knowing if it's actually going to complete a challenge. So challenges where it's like "watch a movie where a X happens" basically force people to either watch a bunch of movies in hopes of finding that particular thing or they have to read spoilers to know which movies that thing happens in. I like that poster/box art idea though, I'm gonna think on that one.
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CelticPredator posted:Speaking of a Dead Space I really want to see a Dead Space movie now. I’d love to see someone try and out Bottin with the necro morphs There was an animated Dead Space movie with Bruce Boxleitner. It was about what you’d expect when Bruce Boxleitner is your big name. Edit to respond to above : yeah that makes sense.
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:I hope this is at least half as fun as you're making it sound. It's directed by a woman, a rarity for SoV which is cool and you can definitely see that influence in the movies themes. While the plot uses the satanic panic issues of dnd in the 80s/90s, it also has a neat undercurrent of toxic masculinity going on. The bullied nerd was incredibly creepy and way too into the knight aspect and is very much supposed to be a "nice guy". He commits suicide in part because he gets rejected by the lady he's crushing on. That said, it's also SoV, so there's a lot of talking with mid to low tier acting, its not very effects heavy, and the killers costume is larper quality. How this impacts your experience depends on you, but I eat this stuff up.
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Basebf555 posted:I'm considering it, only reason I didn't go with it initially is because we've had it in for the past few years and I thought maybe people would be bored with it. But hey, animal attack movies are fun so if it's popular then might as well use it. Split animal attack movies into two challenges, unusually large version of the animal (Lake Placid, Night of the Lepus) and swarms of tiny and usually harmless animals (Phase IV, Slugs).
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Xiahou Dun posted:There was an animated Dead Space movie with Bruce Boxleitner. Yeah but it’s animated How can I see good practical effects if it’s all cgi
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Xiahou Dun posted:Oooo I really like the idea of something with a local setting. I hadn't planned on doing the challenge stuff but this could get me to finally check out Nightbreed
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Lmfao Tcm2 is a gem. I enjoyed the childs play remake but I loved more than anything that tcm2 is new Chucky’s evil trigger movie
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I love me some regional horror. I'm really looking forward to seeing Thrust! just to see some folks I know do gory nonsense in the city I live in. Not really as part of the challenges or anything (I have my own lineup of horror movies I watch in October playing 24/7 on my TV at my house all month and most of this week will be dedicated to doing final prep for that) but hey, if that's one of the bonus challenges that'll be something to check off.
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