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flashy_mcflash posted:I don't know if it's out yet but Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person is Quebec-set and both really good and, as you can see, has one hell of a title Yeah there we go, thank you! Quebecois cinema and TV has been thriving for decades when Anglo-Canadian productions were still a byword for cheap and weird, and I know almost nothing about it other than there are depths to be plumbed
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I drive past Voorhees, NJ about once a month and there's no way F13 isn't supposed to be set in NJ.
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CelticPredator posted:Looking it up or course Jason goes to hell fucks with it. Saying it’s set in Connecticut lol Hmph. Another reason for me to not consider that movie canon. 
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ruddiger posted:Oh man the Irish folk horror movie Unwelcome is the unofficial sequel to Cat’s Eye I never knew I wanted. I got "Unwelcome" and "The Uninvited" confused for a second and wondered why the mutant cat on a boat movie qualified as folk horror.
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Where in Canada was THINGS filmed? That's all that matters.
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Well, Night Swim is some pretty forgettable trash. Completely unremarkable and probably won't even be remembered this time next week. I guess Blumhouse dropping a movie in January only worked last year with M3GAN, we're firmly back to gently caress You It's January.
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Flubby posted:Where in Canada was THINGS filmed? That's all that matters. Toronto. (Technically Scarborough, but nobody gives a care about what part of Toronto you're talking about unless you're from Toronto.) Also, lol, googling "Things" wasn't super helpful until I added "movie"
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moths posted:I drive past Voorhees, NJ about once a month and there's no way F13 isn't supposed to be set in NJ. There's nothing more terrifying that south Jersey where everyone calls it pork roll instead of taylor ham and mcmansions are 50k dollars. One time we were camping in the pine barrens. A guy came up to us out of the woods while we were swimming in a river, not from the direction of the trail, was like 'you boys swimmin??' and ripped off his shirt to reveal swastikas up and down his torso.
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I'm trying to imagine the guy who gets second and subsequent swastika tattoos because he's afraid of being too subtle. I had it spoiled that the family cat doesn't make it through Night Swim so gently caress watching that film even for a bad January time filler.
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One of the scariest interactions I ever had was on a Amtrak train when I was 17 and I asked a guy who was wearing a dress shirt and tie about their tattoo and he pulled it up and it was a giant swastika and the guy said "When you're in prison you gotta pick a side" . Anyway thats how I learned to not speak to people on the train.
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The killer pointedly puts on black leather gloves and there is a police investigation, therefore Thanksgiving is a Giallo.
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Finally saw Poughkeeepsie Tapes. Welp.
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https://x.com/filmupdates/status/1743349112647352505?s=46 Synopsis (if you want that this far out) Lee Harker, a talented new FBI agent, has been assigned to an unsolved case of a serial killer. As the investigation becomes more complicated and occult evidence is uncovered, Harker realizes a personal link to the ruthless killer and must act quickly to prevent another family murder. dorium fucked around with this message at 07:34 on Jan 6, 2024 |
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Midnight Pooptrain posted:Finally saw Poughkeeepsie Tapes. Welp. Yuuuuup. I hate that super edgy ultra clever serial killer poo poo, so that movie was an absolute slog for me. Rewatched it for the challenge this year, and it did not improve.
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Xiahou Dun posted:Yuuuuup. He was a serial killer Mary Sue. It really became too much.
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Midnight Pooptrain posted:He was a serial killer Mary Sue. It really became too much. This could be a really funny premise. Like a dumber American psycho
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Midnight Pooptrain posted:He was a serial killer Mary Sue. It really became too much. It’s being really proud of how clever you are for outwitting an opponent you control. Just an hour and a half of somebody telling you about the cool chess gambit they did in a game they played against themselves. And they did things to the queen that make you really uncomfortable.
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Midnight Pooptrain posted:He was a serial killer Mary Sue. It really became too much. Poughkeepsie Tapes is satirizing that poo poo, where all the characters are breathlessly fascinated by the villain but he's just some jagoff loser who happens to randomly kill people. He's the greatest serial killer off all time and it's like... that's it? Meanwhile, the diegetic documentations claim that America is collapsing as a nation due to a plague of uncaught serial killers. Like, "we're trying to raise awareness! Look at how bad they are!" It's a real smoke-the-whole-pack approach to True Crime garbage.
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My main thought about Poughkeepsie Tapes was and remains "this was getting teaser trailers in 2006, didn't get released in a way I could legally watch it until 2017, and I didn't hate it* but it definitely didn't deserve that length of wait for what it delivered" *The director also made the REC remake Quarantine, so. Maybe low bar, but I definitely don't think this is his worst film
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I liked when they implied the Poughkeepsie Taper did 9/11 to evade capture
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dorium posted:https://x.com/filmupdates/status/1743349112647352505?s=46 This is a pretty appealing cast and crew for me, drat! Admittedly, The Blackcoat's Daughter didn't work for me, but I really liked I Am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the House. And Maika and Nic in horror are always pretty easy sells.
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Tubi has a found footage flick called Embedded that I watched last night and thought was pretty good
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dorium posted:https://x.com/filmupdates/status/1743349112647352505?s=46 Nic Cage horror output has been pretty drat good so I'll definitely see this and I'm a suckered for occult serial killer investigation movies
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Midnight Pooptrain posted:He was a serial killer Mary Sue. It really became too much. It's exactly what it was. It also felt extremely 2006. Like I don't think the director is fantasizing about killing women and children. I think him and his brother sat down and tried to think of the edgiest things they could think of because that's what was seen as worthwhile back then. Like just the year before they had Wolf Creek and Hostel and the Devils Rejects and stuff like that. The Dowdle brothers sat down and wrote a lame rear end exploitation film. The mask/needle scene and the water dunking scene are both memorable but like, it's just gross. Doesn't feel like anything or making any commentary. It feels like what Siskel and Ebert were complaining about back in the 80s but actually right about it this time. I would like to see a remake where they tone it back and maybe put a story in it instead of a series of torture vignettes.
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Shrecknet posted:The killer pointedly puts on black leather gloves and there is a police investigation, therefore Thanksgiving is a Giallo. Is there a good/definitive list of the top ~100 giallos? I've watched a ton on tubi over the last few years and I'm worried I've seen all the good stuff.
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Fate Accomplice posted:Is there a good/definitive list of the top ~100 giallos? just go on letterboxd and sort Horror/by country/Italy and you're like 90% of the way there
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Poughkeepsie Tapes was pretty much the last gasp for the "supervillain serial killer" genre that Se7en and Silence of the Lamb popularized. It was tapering off by 2007 anyway, but they'd just caught Denis Rader (the BTK killer) in '05 and the David Parker Ray "toy box" abduction killings were still fresh on people's minds. You couldn't just go on stage with "he's the most serial killer!" because the mystique of the brilliant human predators had been washed away - and what was left was chubby gross white dudes who are stupid, very lucky, and hateful. Poughkeepsie Tapes presented us with the mythic version of how IRL serial killers imagine themselves, and it felt legitimately dirty.
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Wouldn't the FBI try and contact stores selling large amounts of blank VHS tapes? This dude had an outrageous amount.
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Fate Accomplice posted:Is there a good/definitive list of the top ~100 giallos? You can never go wrong with a giallo
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Why isn’t there horror themed jello called Giall-O.
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Because it would look like orange tempera paint.
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moths posted:Because it would look like orange tempera paint. As opposed to the appetizing look of normal jello?
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Have a nice day to relax and I decided on Slugs 1988 for my horror movie the weekend.
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Crescent Wrench posted:This is a pretty appealing cast and crew for me, drat! Admittedly, The Blackcoat's Daughter didn't work for me, but I really liked I Am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the House. And Maika and Nic in horror are always pretty easy sells. I'm the opposite in I liked Blackcoat's Daughter, but Pretty Thing had me wondering if I'd be collecting social security by the time it got anywhere. That said, Longlegs looks interesting, but I need to see more trailers first.
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Xiahou Dun posted:As opposed to the appetizing look of normal jello? The savory seafood Jell-O of mid century America deserves a horror thread of its own. I've seen it once with a cooked trout posed to appear swimming in it. Hollismason posted:Have a nice day to relax and I decided on Slugs 1988 for my horror movie the weekend. Hell yes.
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