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Uncle Boogeyman posted:i'll go ahead and go to bat for Sleepy Hollow being a legitimately great movie, Burton's last great movie, no one ever did a better job paying tribute to Hammer and as others have said, all time production design and an extremely sick cast, great death scenes, 10/10 I rewatched it recently and second this, but have to deduct one point for Depp's clean-shaved proto-Jack Sparrow that, knowing Jack Sparrow and how all that went, grated a little here and there. But the surrounding movie works better with that character than the Pirates movies; at times Crane is like a Frank Drebin with the other characters pausing for a second to figure out what he's on about.
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A Hellraiser movie from 2022 has absolutely no right being as good as it is. Sure it's the bronze medal of the series, but hell, it took 34 loving years to finally get a third genuinely good entry from that franchise.
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The main thing that bothered me about Hellraiser 2022 was that you could solve the puzzle box, dodge the spike, and just poke people with the sharp bit to send them to hell.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:A Hellraiser movie from 2022 has absolutely no right being as good as it is. Sure it's the bronze medal of the series, but hell, it took 34 loving years to finally get a third genuinely good entry from that franchise. Hellraiser 2022 is like the fifth or sixth best Hellraiser, tops.
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WeaponX posted:Sleepy Hollow may be the best collection of British character actors getting beheaded ever put to film Michael Gambon, Ian McDiarmid, Michael Gough, Richard Griffiths, Christopher Lee, Alun Armstrong. Dumbledore, Palpatine, Alfred, Uncle Vernon, Saruman, and guy who is in every weird random fantasy attempt of the early 2000s. That's not even counting Casper Van Dien, Christopher Walken, and Christina Ricci. What a film.
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I liked the Hellraiser with the guy from Oz who had breast cancer and the car accident commercials. It's like 90% film noir and then pinhead or the box shows up. Man, I gotta put that on my rewatch list.
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Drunkboxer posted:The main thing that bothered me about Hellraiser 2022 was that you could solve the puzzle box, dodge the spike, and just poke people with the sharp bit to send them to hell. The movie makes explicitly clear that whoever wants to open the box/go through its configurations is an utter bastard and I thought it made sense that the box would encourage that kind of cheating. It was pretty funny when that bit them in the rear end, though. RIP Chatterer, the Worf of Cenobites.
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Grendels Dad posted:The movie makes explicitly clear that whoever wants to open the box/go through its configurations is an utter bastard and I thought it made sense that the box would encourage that kind of cheating. It was pretty funny when that bit them in the rear end, though. RIP Chatterer, the Worf of Cenobites. Chatterer isn't dead, he's just spending a while in the Ouchie Pain Dimension. That's like Maui for them, he's getting a vacation while the new guy learns the ropes! 
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David Bruckner is one of those directors I never really pay attention to and then I watch real solid rear end spookadoodle and turns out oh it was him.
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Circutron posted:Chatterer isn't dead, he's just spending a while in the Ouchie Pain Dimension. That's like Maui for them, he's getting a vacation while the new guy learns the ropes! I'm pretty sure its canon that the Cenobites have a union.
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Hollismason posted:I'm pretty sure its canon that the Cenobites have a union. And when they file a grievance against you, you will understand what it is to grieve
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I just watched Saw X for the first time. I really like this one because it feels like an evolution of the series. It drops a lot of the 00s torture porn conventions (still bloody and gory though and no complaints) and instead gives Tobin Bell a hell of a lot more time to shine as John Kramer. Like we see John Kramer as a far more understanding figure (something well overdue for the series) who kind of goes down the path his does with this cold and dull logic. We as the audience then get to see his plight and decide when we want to get off the train and at what point on the path. That's not to say I agree with Jigsaw just that this film doesn't show him as a melodramatic supervillain. Well overdue like I said. Small thing but I appreciated the small injections of gallows humor into the film like Amanda saying "He's speaking metaphorically...he does that a lot" to a victim. This is something 00s torture porn films never did because they just took themselves so seriously to the point of being edgelord about it. It was welcome.
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Hey Celtic Predator (or anyone else with a horror or even sci-fi short film up their sleeve) Frostbiter the Icelandic Horror Film Festival is looking for submissions until the 15th of December and it's only twenty (20) bucks. It's not likely to be seen by more than a couple dozen people in an Industrial space in rural Iceland but at least it's a legit festival unlike probably 40% of the stuff on Film Freeway.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Hey Celtic Predator (or anyone else with a horror or even sci-fi short film up their sleeve) Frostbiter the Icelandic Horror Film Festival is looking for submissions until the 15th of December and it's only twenty (20) bucks. Interesting. Might be interested. What should I put in? I’m trying to get traction for Alienated but people have always been iffy with that lol so idk
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I watched It's a Wonderful Knife and man, I don't think it was necessarily a GOOD movie but for some reason it really clicked with me and I enjoyed it quite a bit. It's kind of nice having a fairly straight forward, short movie with a pretty original concept. I think between this, Barbarian and the Creepshow episode he was in, Justin Long may have found his calling as a Horror rear end in a top hat™. Though all I could think watching it was "Is this main character intentionally dressed to look like Ashley Graham?" 
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Medullah posted:It's a Wonderful Knife 
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CelticPredator posted:Interesting. Might be interested. What should I put in? I’m trying to get traction for Alienated but people have always been iffy with that lol so idk Put that latest short you did in there. That was pretty good then you can advertise it as world reknowned.
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Hollismason posted:Put that latest short you did in there. That was pretty good then you can advertise it as world reknowned. And if it gets rejected, you can claim it's banned in Iceland. That might be even better press, actually.
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I still won't believe Beetlejuice 2 is real until I'm actually watching it
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Nikumatic posted:I'm more worried about how a movie can hope to capture the energy of the original Beetlejuice actor, Alex Brightman. We'll see if this "Keaton" guy knows his way around the character I guess. I want you to know at least one other person enjoyed this post
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Opopanax posted:I still won't believe Beetlejuice 2 is real until I'm actually watching it Still disappointed we never got Kevin Smith's Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian in the late 90s.
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Man, the horror in Godzilla Minus One is top notch.
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If it wasn't literally 20 degrees out I'd go see Godzilla this week  gonna definitely try to check it out next week, maybe as a double feature with How Do You Live?/Boy and the Heron
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Chris James 2 posted:If it wasn't literally 20 degrees out I'd go see Godzilla this week LMAO if it was -1 Degree I would still go see Godzilla Minus 1.
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A scream box annual subscription is still on sale till tomorrow at 12am for half off ($29.99) So if you want a year of it act fast. https://x.com/screamboxtv/status/1730255713170014344?s=46
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I will always stan Sleepy Hollow as the last good Burton. The plot’s kind of a mess but it perfectly captures that hot-cider on a crisp autumn night horror mood. And that’s kind of my whole vibe, so I have to love it. Criminal lack of love for Miranda Richardson though. She chews twice as much scenery as her male counterparts too since she plays two roles.
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Godzilla Minus One is incredible. Go see it. HBD to the problematic clown.
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I'm very jealous of everyone getting to see Godzilla!! I hope I can soon Instead I watched Where The Devil Roams, the new one by the Hellbender family. I was lukewarm on that one but this one ruled, takes a while to get going but the whole final act is just so gross and delightful. Horror as performance art, weird clowns, Frankenstein elements, circus hangout scenes, this one hit a whole lot of marks for me.
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Xiahou Dun posted:I will always stan Sleepy Hollow as the last good Burton. I like Sleepy Hollow well enough but nah, that's Big Fish.
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Yeah, Big Fish is great. It's easily his last great movie and also his last good movie, and it was a bit of a turnaround after a couple duds.
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afraid i gotta rep team "Big Fish is a Big Turd"
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a big fish is pretty scary if you think about it. aaaah it’s gonna get me
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Mover posted:a big fish is pretty scary if you think about it. aaaah it’s gonna get me for some reason whenever someone brings up lake mungo i immediately instead think of beneath, the dopey-rear end killer catfish movie with this beautiful creature 
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Nikumatic posted:for some reason whenever someone brings up lake mungo i immediately instead think of beneath, the dopey-rear end killer catfish movie with this beautiful creature I feel like a giant alligator gar would be a much better killer fish 
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Chris James 2 posted:If it wasn't literally 20 degrees out I'd go see Godzilla this week You won't be disappointed - Godzilla Minus One has a lot of clear Miyazaki influence, which I appreciated, and it mixes it with some fascinating Spielberg influences as well while also delivering some truly harrowing depictions of war, tragedy, and destruction. It's a fantastic time. December is a good movie month between this, The Boy and the Heron, and The Iron Claw. My favorite theater is gonna be seeing a lot of me.
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