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PKMN Trainer Red posted:Moon Garden is an interesting movie (not amazing, but interesting enough) that feels like Jan Svankmajer's Alice with the production value but general nonsense of 2021's The Blazing World. The creature design is very cool, and the whole thing looks fantastic, but it's a little too loose for anyone but genre nerds. It feels like a J-horror sort of ghost story, especially in its monster designs, blended with Euro weirdness and I'm just really into that. What a cool vibe all around. Definitely not for everyone but this one really got me.
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:Just want to say that Moon Garden is maybe my favorite horror film of the year so far (unless we're counting Beau is Afraid.) I love dreamy movies and yeah, the writing is a little cliche, but as a parent of a six year old the nightmare imagery and the blurring of the waking and dream world feels REALLY authentic. I definitely count Beau, and this makes me excited to watch it. I love the poster, definitely gives me Euro gothic vibes right from the get-go 
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Roommate doesn’t like horror, doesn’t like gore but they had a great time the other day with Evil Dead 2 because the comedy made the gore and scares palatable
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Try dead alive. It’s really gross and gory but absurd through out. It may be too much but could be worth a go
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Steve Yun posted:Roommate doesn’t like horror, doesn’t like gore but they had a great time the other day with Evil Dead 2 because the comedy made the gore and scares palatable I mean the obvious choice is Army of Darkness.
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Chris James 2 posted:I'd have to rewatch to make sure it was actually the reason, but I remember at the time even before the gunshots scaring the rest off but it, I thought it was the one standout with the size of its horns I think you're right. Also perhaps the wife was already in on it and she was drawing attention to the possessed goat intentionally.
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I needed bleak. I was hoping The Signal would deliver that but it was too jokey. Glad Evil delivered my misery.
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gey muckle mowser posted:What does “watchable” mean in this context? I might’ve missed a post about it, this thread has been moving really fast lately. I’m defining it as ‘would I just casually grab a soda and sit down to watch this some random Saturday afternoon’ rather than any reflection of quality. Then again, I guess quality would be a part of it in that if a movie was made in a dogshit fashion, I probably wouldn’t choose to sit down and watch it again, lol
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Lumbermouth posted:Rock n' Roll Nightmare has the greatest third act twist in cinema history For a moment there I thought the twist would make the rest of the movie make some sort of sense, but no. It's pure art. I watched Trick or Treat (1986) after, a solid absurd movie about how evil/awesome metal is. After those two movies, I might need to check my hair in the morning.
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Finish it up with Rocktober Blood! The twist in that one is absurd! It's a blast.
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Saw VHS 85 yesterday, thought most of it was fun, but man parts of God of Death were just upsetting (Not the Aztec stuff though, that was right back to fun.) Rewatching Suspiria '18 thanks to y'all and drat do I dig this. And then this evening is the haunted house train ride!
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:Finish it up with Rocktober Blood! The twist in that one is absurd! It's a blast. This certainly looks in line with the Nightmare, I'll check it out!
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Phy posted:Saw VHS 85 yesterday, thought most of it was fun, but man parts of God of Death were just upsetting There is nothing more fear inducing than a halloween hay ride
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Rewatched When Evil Lurks back to back with The Crescent, just real bad times in two vastly different ways.
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Watched Haunting of the Queen Mary with some friends and oof, there’s a movie that needed a solid hour of its runtime cut down
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I’m considering watching The Void for the 50th time.
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MrMojok posted:Pet Sematary: Bloodlines To answer your question, I thought to myself, Did I watch that one yet?, and then I looked on Plex and yes, I did watch it. Soooooo
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Steve Yun posted:Roommate doesn’t like horror, doesn’t like gore but they had a great time the other day with Evil Dead 2 because the comedy made the gore and scares palatable Ha, yeah, I played this for my mom and sister a year or two ago but my mom played phone solitaire the whole time like an rear end in a top hat. (My sister liked it though!)
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MrMojok posted:Pet Sematary: Bloodlines Totally banal
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MrMojok posted:Pet Sematary: Bloodlines The worst one in the franchise, easily
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:Yeah, I couldn't tell if that was him or one really weird coincidence in names. I enjoyed it quite a bit since it so thoroughly tapped into that 90s TV special vibe. Wonderfully hokey.
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Pretzel Rod Serling posted:my mom played phone solitaire the whole time  I literally stop movies when people's phones come out and ask if they want to do something else. I cannot imagine not wanting to watch something but being passive-aggressive enough to just idly flick through your phone instead of just leaving.
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They’re actually renaming passive-aggression to Virginiaism, in honor of my mom, who honed it in the 80s and finally perfected it here in my adulthood
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There are many, many films out there people watch while on their cellphones. Some have critical acclaim. Your ancestors would have watched all the classics while on their phones, if they had them.
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Don’t call out your friends and family for using a phone during a movie, just silently judge them On a dead forum
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I find myself doing it more and more due to age. Because of “Wait, what else have I seen this guy in?” Of course this often leads down other IMDb rabbit holes and I end up having to rewind the last fifteen minutes of the film.
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https://deadline.com/2023/10/five-nights-at-freddys-bearing-down-on-130m-global-bow-international-box-office-1235586004/ Has anyone bitten the bullet and seen this yet.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Have any of y'all ever seen LEMORA before? Yes, and I liked it. gey muckle mowser posted:What does “watchable” mean in this context? I might’ve missed a post about it, this thread has been moving really fast lately. I didn't regret spending time out of my life seeing it. Okay, in all seriousness despite being mild in blood, it's pretty decent. I liked it.
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hey thread, what are some good / great Chinese horror movies? I have no idea what rocks in that regard
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alf_pogs posted:hey thread, what are some good / great Chinese horror movies? I have no idea what rocks in that regard If you include Hong Kong (honestly I don’t really understand the relationship between China and Hong Kong, but it seems like the film industry is mostly based there), these are some classics: Seeding of a Ghost The Boxer’s Omen Mr. Vampire Encounters of the Spooky Kind A Chinese Ghost Story The Seventh Curse Human Lanterns
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Doesn’t the Chinese govt forbid ghosts in entertainment? That’s why all those Hong Kong movies are from before 1997 I wonder if they’re not even allowed to be grandfathered into distribution. It would be an interesting pocket of film preservation
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High Warlord Zog posted:https://deadline.com/2023/10/five-nights-at-freddys-bearing-down-on-130m-global-bow-international-box-office-1235586004/ I did, it's not very good. It's a very tame PG-13, almost feels like they were shooting for straight PG and just missed. I'm sure if you're into the franchise, it'd be a bigger deal, but for me, it was just very slow and dull. Shocking lack of jumpscares given what the games are too.
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High Warlord Zog posted:https://deadline.com/2023/10/five-nights-at-freddys-bearing-down-on-130m-global-bow-international-box-office-1235586004/ Yeah, it’s pretty boring but not remarkably bad or anything. They clearly spent money on it, the suits look great.
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Steve Yun posted:Doesn’t the Chinese govt forbid ghosts in entertainment? That’s why all those Hong Kong movies are from before 1997 They didn't ban them specifically. It's a roundabout ban because there's no rating system in China and they only allow generic, bland movies through. From what I understand from my friends there's a really awesome belief system that horror is real and people outside the cities would watch one and panic.
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Was at a farmers market and dude was selling a bunch of knitted objects (wolves, cats, frogs) and then I saw him and had to have it
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High Warlord Zog posted:https://deadline.com/2023/10/five-nights-at-freddys-bearing-down-on-130m-global-bow-international-box-office-1235586004/ Its not good. Its really bogged down by a complicated backstory for the protagonist when it would have been better off with them just being a normal person dealing with poo poo they aren't paid nearly well enough for. Its pretty clear the creator of FNAF wanted to shove in as much deep lore as possible into the film. The PG-13 rating isn't doing any favors. I will say the suits look really good though. The two rip-off films Banana Split and Willy's Wonderland while not good both pull of the concept better.
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