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Philthy posted:I haven't watched it in a while, but I remember it being pretty drat good. Yea it's good, I did enjoy that one. Still, it was very low budget and depended a lot on that low budget charm. If you tell me James Wan has like $100 mil budget to make a Call of Cthulhu movie with high end special effects, that gets me even more excited. I just don't have my hopes up that we'll actually get that, I figure 99% of the movie will be about the guy investigating the cult, not the story of the sailors encountering Cthulhu.
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dorium posted:I want cold, desolate and creeping dread more than anything. we must reject this racist dork and destroy his boring mood (lovecraft)
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dorium posted:I want cold, desolate and creeping dread more than anything. Call of Chutulu is an adventure story.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:What other New Year's horror movies are there besides New Year's Evil and Bloody New Year? Antisocial (2013) Holidays (has a new year's entry) 2016 Ghostkeeper (1981) The Signal (2007)
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i forgot The Signal is a new year's movie. fun flick. as an anthology, i'll take it over any of the V/H/S movies that descended from it.
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Is that the boring one where kids get abducted by aliens and one kid gets cyber legs I didn’t like that
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:Wan's biggest strength as a director is that he's good at what he does but has a clear Really Weird streak so I think he's a perfect fit if they go a creative route. Rewatching The Conjuring 2 for the third or fourth time in October was fun because this time I noticed the weird freeze frames and the way the camera swooped around in between the Serious Parts. There are some very fun transitions in Dead Silence.
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CelticPredator posted:Is that the boring one where kids get abducted by aliens and one kid gets cyber legs there's like five movies called The Signal but The Signal (2007) is the exquisite-corpse-style anthology where a weird TV signal turns everyone into psycho killers. David Bruckner's directorial debut! Final third is lame but the first two thirds are great.
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Oh ok, yeah I heard of that. I wanted to see it because someone said it was like the cell, which I thought the idea sounded like the coolest idea ever when I was a kid I never read the book lol I’ll put it on the list
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Call of Chutulu is an adventure story. The very good opening of the kinda bad CoC: Dark Corners video game is best adaptation of that story there will ever be.
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I mean after Malignant I'm going to be in the theater for every James Wan horror movie so it doesnt.matter to me
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Open Source Idiom posted:At least one of Hulu's Into The Dark anthology films is set at New Year, but they've got a film for most any holiday. I remember it being one of the decent ones too. two! Sophia Takal’s social media satire New Year, New You (which despite the phrase “social media satire” is actually good) and Carter Smith’s gay slasher Midnight Kiss (watchable, great cast)
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Apologies if I missed it, but I don't think I saw The AV Club's "top 30" posted yet: https://www.avclub.com/the-best-horror-movies-of-2023-1850375041 It has few I haven't seen on other lists (like Variety's). Namely The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster, which I put on my personal 2023 best. Mighty fine.
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also when I say “gay slasher” I don’t mean that in an understated or subtextual way, like it’s a story explicitly about gay men made by gay men. which is cool! you’ve probably all seen it done better because you guys like horror movies but it’s fun! the killer wears a pup mask and it’s not weird, it’s just part of the milieu!
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Naked Man Punch posted:Apologies if I missed it, but I don't think I saw The AV Club's "top 30" posted yet: I don't know how seriously I can take a list that doesn't put Godzilla: Minus One in the top 5, at least.
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It’s certainly one of the top five of the year period and I respect opinions to the contrary but I don’t really group Godzilla Minus One as a horror movie.
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Class3KillStorm posted:I don't know how seriously I can take a list that doesn't put Godzilla: Minus One in the top 5, at least. I clicked through expecting to see it buried at like 29 or 30. It's number 6! You're so picky! I actually just got home from seeing it (and watched the original at home beforehand). It's great, obviously, but I agree that I probably wouldn't file it under horror.
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Hollismason posted:I mean after Malignant I'm going to be in the theater for every James Wan horror movie so it doesnt.matter to me Can't wait for Cthulhu to hurl a chair at the police
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I haven’t even heard of a good third of the movies on that AV Club list. I watched The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster last week and I was disappointed, it’s a great premise and I really wanted to like it but I thought it was executed in a super flat boring way.
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I know the reception was pretty mixed but I thought Dark Harvest was a lot of fun and I'm glad to see it on at least one list
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CelticPredator posted:Oh ok, yeah I heard of that. I wanted to see it because someone said it was like the cell, which I thought the idea sounded like the coolest idea ever when I was a kid Cell works and doesnt work in some very-Stephen King ways, but the opening chapters are quite good.
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dorium posted:Cell works and doesnt work in some very-Stephen King ways, but the opening chapters are quite good. also the Cusack/Sam L Jackson movie for it is only like the third best Cusack/Jackson King adaptation
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dorium posted:Cell works and doesnt work in some very-Stephen King ways, but the opening chapters are quite good. Yeah this is what I knew about it and I was like this is legit cool
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Cell was when I stopped reading King.
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Philthy posted:Cell was when I stopped reading King. SOME GIZMO the novel.
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Revival is the last one that piqued my interest and I do wanna get around to it but I think the last things I read by him were Under the Dome and that one short story about the guy who gets stuck in a portapotty. Both were pretty sick.
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Pretzel Rod Serling posted:two! Yeah I was thinking of the Carter Smith one. It's solid.
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I wish I had been able to see Evil Dead Rise in a theater, finally watched it tonight and it just didn't do a lot for me. Might have been more fun with a crowd? Alyssa Sutherland is great though! I guess I should finally check out the Ash vs Evil Dead series.
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I enjoyed EDR but I saw it in the theatre with the worst possible fuckboi/girl audience. I think the fact that I enjoyed it even a little with people openly talking all the way through it and getting up and walking around to talk to other groups of people in the theatre is a testament to the quality of the movie itself.
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:I wish I had been able to see Evil Dead Rise in a theater, finally watched it tonight and it just didn't do a lot for me. Might have been more fun with a crowd? Alyssa Sutherland is great though! It's not bad but it's not particularly great. I don't remember much other than the long CGI deadite death at the end. It tried to be 2013 Evil Dead but that stuck around in my brain longer than Rise did.
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ruddiger posted:I heard the Mercedes trilogy and the Outsider were pretty good. I really liked the outsider and loved the show which irons out a bunch of the book in good ways. Thanksgiving was alright. Good kills bad everything else. Glad to see a peppered Patrick Dempsey back to back this week in Thanksgiving and Ferrari.
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:I know the reception was pretty mixed but I thought Dark Harvest was a lot of fun and I'm glad to see it on at least one list I highly recommend the book by Norman Partridge.
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gey muckle mowser posted:I haven’t even heard of a good third of the movies on that AV Club list. I really liked the first 30 minutes and the last 30 minutes, but the middle just drug and felt like a slog/boring. Which is really sort of impressive, since I can't think of much else that does it. Overall glad I watched it but probably won't ever again.
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Medullah posted:I'm glad I saw Evil Dead Rise in the theater if for no other reason than the title reveal was great on a huge screen 
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