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Pope Corky the IX posted:Forgive me if I'm wrong, it's been decades, but wasn't Faces of Death mostly staged while Traces of Death was the one where the majority of the footage was real? I remember that's how I originally saw the R. Budd Dwyer video before the internet. Going from the Faces of Death documentary, the Japanese investors wanted the real deal so the filmmakers first went to all the news stations and bought up the footage that wasn't suitable for broadcast. They put it together and the investors loved it but wanted more gore which left the filmmakers doing their best to make recreation footage to match what they had. So like the mass shooting in the house, it's real footage up to where the police get into the house and fake from there. They showed what they had at this point to the investors who loved it more but also wanted more so that's where you get the full on fake bits like the cannibal blood orgy, the electrocution and the monkey bit.
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Shrecknet posted:Also it is killing me that The Fog remake in 2005 is set in Oregon, making it the top Oregonian horror, pretty sure Green Room is set in Oregon yo (wikipedia synopsis says the show was in "a rural area outside Portland" and all the filming was in Oregon)
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Watched Haunting of Queen Mary and had a good time but it's trippy, time jumpy, and perhaps not overly cohesive. I think I understand that the whole movie is a possession movie where ghosts from the past want to possess people either to leave or to continue what they did. So the captain wants to captain so he takes over a modern guy, a killer entombed in the ship ritual-style wants to kill so he takes over the vintage guy. I don't think there's any rhyme or reason to who is vulnerable to possession though unless I missed something. Were the kid, the vintage couple, the new captain, or the modern couple vulnerable in some way? And for the ending, am I to take it that the unpossessed mom closed the window on the possessed son to fall to his death do so thinking she was letting her own son fall to his death because she was tired of being a mom? And the ghost possessing the mom has to deal with the consequences of her original host's actions? Not a bad watch, some good violence, really nice historical texture, and not bad behind the scenes work. But if the above is right, it could have been told more cleanly and tightly to make for a more satisfying watch.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:The way to make a Faces Of Death Movie in 2024 is to make every death just fake as hell, like somebody gets decapitated by a pizza slicer while making a pizza & a narrator gravely intones that this is "real horror, true horror".
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1000 Ways to Die was a fun show. That and MXC completely justified Spike TV
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Chris James 2 posted:1000 Ways to Die was a fun show. That and MXC completely justified Spike TV They also had these interstials which I found amusing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdQYNT4vFZc
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Chris James 2 posted:1000 Ways to Die was a fun show. That and MXC completely justified Spike TV There is a part of my brain that just shuts down when I see The Deadliest Warrior. It’s so stupid but I can’t stop watching. It’s just a half an hour of my-dad-could-beat-up-your-dad and some chungus in mirror shades stabbing the poo poo out of a dead pig with a gladius hispaniensis.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Spike TV kept TNA Wrestling alive for about 10 years, so I truly can't hate it as a network.
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Shrecknet posted:Hard Times and Pipe Bomb are legendary promos, but Steiner Math is the wrestling-related thing I quote the most, so which was the more successful fed in the end? You know they say that all feds are created equal, but you look at TNA and you look at WWE and you can see that statement is not true. See, normally if the feds go one on one with another, you got a 50/50 chance of winning. But TNA had a genetic freak and was not normal! So the Fed got a 25%, AT BEST, at beat TNA. Then you add AEW to the mix, your chances of winning drastic go down.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:The way to make a Faces Of Death Movie in 2024 is to make every death just fake as hell, like somebody gets decapitated by a pizza slicer while making a pizza & a narrator gravely intones that this is "real horror, true horror". Pizza Baker Klaus
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The original FACES is just MONDO CANE. For being a series that reinforces stereotypes, Mondo Cane is an all timer movie title.
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I'd totally watch an ironic Faces of Death, I really would.
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The Blob remake is already perfect and feels untouchable. It'd be like someone taking a swing at a Fly remake or Thing remake. You've set youself up to fail trying to do it better.
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man The Thing remake was such a disappointment, i was completely hoodwinked by their marketing campaign. curse my younger self always down for some more blob goop and body horror, though, i hope Bruckner turns it out
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Flubby posted:The Blob remake is already perfect and feels untouchable. It'd be like someone taking a swing at a Fly remake or Thing remake. You've set youself up to fail trying to do it better. I wouldn’t be against someone remaking The Fly. I couldn’t believe it’d be more gross but I could believe it’d be good; like how we have three great Body Snatchers films
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Chris James 2 posted:1000 Ways to Die was a fun show. That and MXC completely justified Spike TV I watched the hell out of 1000 Ways to Die. Wish it was still available as a free stream.
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alf_pogs posted:man The Thing remake was such a disappointment, i was completely hoodwinked by their marketing campaign. curse my younger self I can only assume that the remake you are talking about is The Thing (1981), with The Thing From Another World (1951) being the original
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yes, it's me, the ghost of Roger Ebert, whoooooaaaaaaaa
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VROOM VROOM posted:I can only assume that the remake you are talking about is The Thing (1981), with The Thing From Another World (1951) being the original They’re talking about the prequel remake in 2011
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CelticPredator posted:They’re talking about the prequel remake in 2011 I thought it was just a prequel. Is the norwegian stuff just the opening or something?
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It’s more or less the same movie with a prequel facade draped over it.
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CelticPredator posted:It’s more or less the same movie with a prequel facade draped over it. It was one of the first wave of legacy sequels/requels, we just didn't know if back then.
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i mean it's straight up a prequel. the whole "following movie is basically the prior movie beat for beat but worse" is a time honored tradition of film. choosing to just call it "the thing" just happens to be a decision as boneheaded as plastering cgi over the practical effects.
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I honestly rewatch it a lot more than I’d like to admit but not because it’s good but because it’s just noise. And sometimes I look up and see this and giggle 
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Nikumatic posted:i mean it's straight up a prequel. the whole "following movie is basically the prior movie beat for beat but worse" is a time honored tradition of film. choosing to just call it "the thing" just happens to be a decision as boneheaded as plastering cgi over the practical effects. Thematically I think it's kind of appropriate to call it The Thing. No matter how much anything else in the story changes, The Thing is a constant, so all consuming that it never has a sequel, just another cell to mutate. Honestly, go insane and franchise it with every film just called The Thing.
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I like both versions of The Blob but the 80s remake is kind of a perfect goopy horror movie. As a kid I was disappointed that sequel hook at the end never came to fruition, I think something like "Cult of the Blob" could kick a lot of rear end. If you do a totally fresh remake I still think there's something to be mined from the concept. The original one was an alien, the remake one is a government created weapon. A modern version could play off that, have a bunch of people assume it's a government weapon only to find out it actually is an alien, or have it be a random mutant created by industrial runoff or something.
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Joe Lynch wanted to do the cult of the blob. He even got to be friends with chuck Russell too. Could still happen idk. Maybe a tv show
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The problem with remaking something like The Thing or The Fly or The Blob is that the 80s remakes were completely defined by their practical effects. The practical effects are what people think of, they're the reason those films are considered iconic today. So any remake made now is going to have a choice between trying to top those practical effects, or go the CG route which imo is basically drawing dead. Absolutely nobody is interested in a remake of The Fly where the fly effects are CG, zero people want that. But at the same time how can you possibly top what Cronenberg did? It seems impossible.
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My pitch for a blob remake would be to take advantage of how non-horror people don't really know the 84 version. Cast a bunch of likable comedians, like Bill Hader, Charlie Day etc., make it seem like you're doing a goofy send-up of the original 50s movie, then kill them all as graphically and horribly as possible.
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I don't think you can do The Thing again. The Carpenter version has incredible creature effects AND gets the tension perfect, too. So even an amazingly written remake is going to pale in comparison. Plus there's nowhere else you need to take the story, the ending's already perfect. A Blob movie could have a really good script that makes it worth seeing, either continue on from the 88 version or take it in a totally different version. Even if the effects won't be as fun or impressive. Same with the Fly. I think you could even tone down the special effects and make it more like the original. Some dude gets changed, we know something's wrong but the reveal isn't until late in the movie. Go for one big shock reveal, have the focus of the movie be on how people around him are affected by his increasingly odd behavior.
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Leatherhead posted:My pitch for a blob remake would be to take advantage of how non-horror people don't really know the 84 version. Cast a bunch of likable comedians, like Bill Hader, Charlie Day etc., make it seem like you're doing a goofy send-up of the original 50s movie, then kill them all as graphically and horribly as possible. There are some fun options for casting where they could pull the same trick as the 80s version did with the Paul character. Cast someone like Chris Evans or Ryan Reynolds and let the audience assume they're the main protagonist.
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