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That got me thinking about What If Dark City B&W but it's pretty gosh darn close already
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M_Sinistrari posted:Do we have a title for this one yet? I want to preorder it. Phiction: Tales from the World of Phantasm https://www.darkdel.com/events.html#/
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:i saw Johnny Mnemonic B&W in the theater and it did make some of the '90s CGI shots look kinda cool but i gotta be honest it's not my preferred version and i do not get the trend. This one makes more sense than the others bc it’s invoking the ‘54 film. But other wise idk. I like black and white but I do feel like it comes off as random when it’s like, justice league or mad max
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the "Graveyard Rats" episode of Cabinet of Curiosities looks great in black and white. it's a shame the option for it got buried in netflix menu hell
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Chris James 2 posted:Oh yeah also The Mist It really sells the kind of timeless Twilight Zone feel better in black and white. God I remember having possibly the longest argument with a friend where his main critique is the people went crazy at an unrealistic pace. It went on so long we tabled the issue and would bring it back up when we’d have a long train ride.
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The crazy is believable because they're being attacked. If some religious zealot is screaming about god punishing them and there's giant tentacle monsters outside I'd prob listen to them too
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Xiahou Dun posted:It really sells the kind of timeless Twilight Zone feel better in black and white. Post-COVID, the argument about how long it would take for people to go insane is moot. We saw people throwing hands over toilet paper and spending their life savings on hand sanitizer, now imagine if there were goddamn dinosaurs outside eating people.
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:Post-COVID, the argument about how long it would take for people to go insane is moot. We saw people throwing hands over toilet paper and spending their life savings on hand sanitizer, now imagine if there were goddamn dinosaurs outside eating people. And it doesn’t matter if it’s realistic! Stories aren’t real and they can break the rules of reality to make a point or just for drama. Spiders also don’t spurt acid webbing or lay eggs in your chest, but the story would be worse if they didn’t do that. * Except the ones in your house, Kevin. They’re gonna lay so many eggs inside you.
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Spiders don't lay eggs inside people. They certainly try though when they crawl into your mouth while you sleep.
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Dunno who recommended All About Evil, but I'm having a good time with it. Pearl meets Sweeney Todd. Really fun.
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Doltos posted:The crazy is believable because they're being attacked. If some religious zealot is screaming about god punishing them and there's giant tentacle monsters outside I'd prob listen to them too PKMN Trainer Red posted:Post-COVID, the argument about how long it would take for people to go insane is moot. We saw people throwing hands over toilet paper and spending their life savings on hand sanitizer, now imagine if there were goddamn dinosaurs outside eating people. To film quote, A person is smart and rational, people are dumb and panicky animals. As a species, we like groundedness such as the sun rises and sets, and water is wet and summer's generally a scorcher. Natural disaster like a tornado or earthquake, that's something people can wrap their minds around. But something so completely out of the norm like entities completely outside of our worldview that never existed on Earth, people are going to be desperate for anything that reconnects to what's 'normal'. Even listening to a religious crazy, we're familiar with religion so it makes sense that some would follow along whether they're religious or not at least until something comes along that's more familiar to the norm and then they'd be ashamed or embarrassed over having listened to the nutter they did before.
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Oh yeah, that owned. All About Evil: perfect film?
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When the dude shot the preachy lady in The Mist I jumped out of my seat and shouted "PRAISE JEBUS!" I've been searching for that high of screaming at movies ever since. Nothing I can concoct will ever be funnier to strangers than me shouting Simpsons quotes at The Mist. Oh. my. god.
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A Fancy Hat posted:I know WHY these movies get made, since they're dirt cheap and will make a profit just from people going "haha look how dumb this is" and seeing it in theaters. The original Pinocchio goes to dark places and leaning in to that can work, as seen in del Toro's film. A straight horror Pinocchio could be done well I think. Just not by the sort of edgelord who thinks a killer winnie the poo is hillarious enough a concept to carry a whole movie
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The grinch movie annoys the gently caress out of me because like you actually have good quality ingredients You have a decent make up designer A derivative but possibly fun concept And an actor who can be extremely charismatic under globs of make up and doesn’t need to say a single word And they made all the kills cgi and made the film look so cheap Awful
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This seems extremely up my alley https://twitter.com/digitalspy/status/1747720019935387711
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Winnie the Pooh and the Grinch already have spooky sides to them that are far smarter than these new movies. The idea of something unknown coming into your home with the goal of taking whatever it is that makes you happy is scary! There's a helplessness to it all and Pooh's nightmare sequence in The Blustery Day is still freaky! It's all stuff that plays on childhood fears and actually is creepy to children. Likewise, Pinocchio is a great, darkly funny novel. Then these filmmakers grow up and say "what if, like, a guy in a mask stabbed you." It's boring.
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This remake is going to be nowhere as good as 964 Pinocchio so why even bother.
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I hate Christopher Robin because he named the rabbit Rabbit, the pig Piglet, the kangaroos Kanga and Roo, but then suddenly understands onomatopoeia when he sees a donkey.
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:Then these filmmakers grow up and say "what if, like, a guy in a mask stabbed you." It's boring. That's the big problem with horror in general. A lot of writers come up with a concept that's horror but they don't know how to make it scary. Taking the Mist for example. The concept that's horror is big predatory monsters kill people, but the way to make it scary is isolation, uncertainty from not being able to see the creatures through the mist, infighting, and then ultimately having to leave the safety of the grocery store. If some hack got a hold of that they'd just make it about the scary monsters but lack the nuance to make it truly scary with the extra themes. The Pooh movie is just going to be an angry bear running around stabbing people.,
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If you want a queer coded villain watch Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (1973). The main villain is essentially an evil drag queen but played by a woman and is treated as female by all the characters but is dressed and made-up in such a way that she looks like should be in stage lip syncing and vogueing.
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Longlegs continues to look rad https://twitter.com/FilmUpdates/status/1748401165002289590?s=20 https://twitter.com/TheJulMarie/status/1748109217272078553?s=20 quote: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 Starring Nicolas Cage and Maika Monroe Directed by Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat's Daughter, Hansel & Gretel)
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I've liked, but not loved, all of Perkins' films to date. I'm hoping this is the one to break through for me.
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It’s getting increasingly hard to not pull out the whiteboard and try to figure out the glyphs in the trailer.
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If done right a Pinocchio horror movie could be spooky as hell but it will not be done right.
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Xiahou Dun posted:It’s getting increasingly hard to not pull out the whiteboard and try to figure out the glyphs in the trailer. Or play the whole thing backwards and upside down. Speaking of, I was rewatching the Hellraiser reboot again and while I'm still torn on how I like how the movie handles it overall, there are parts of the movie where being shot in Eastern Europe works in its favor. It just feels slightly off, most notably in the hospital scene that's totally not an American hospital. It lends the sequences in question a slightly otherworldly feeling, possibly because you realize that nothing of what is happening is actually happening where it is supposed to happen 
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its a videogame, not a film, but Lies of P did a pretty good take on horror Pinocchio LONGLEGS has a great marketing campaign but really the Nick Cage / Maika Monroe casting is doing a lot of the heavy lifting for me
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Cage has been in some really good horror movies. I think it fits him better than the other genre films.
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Rewatching the Mist and it's not strange that everyone fell for Mrs. Carmody's bullshit it's strange that Andrew Braugher's character refused to believe Thomas Jane at all. Yeah buddy the entire town is in on making you look in the back room for a second. What a great gotcha
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Satanic panic is back in full swing and people are more Christian than ever. The bad kind of Christian It’s bad man.
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I really hope Longlegs is good because the marketing has been great, but I’ve been burned by great marketing before.
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Did anyone ever watch Pinocchio in outer space (1965)? I recall it being terrifying, but I was super young when I saw it. I'm sure it's quite tame but I remember an underwater part where he's being chased and it scared the poo poo out of me
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So what is the difference when some indies make a found footage movie using a cell phone vs. when Soderbergh shoots a film like Unsane or Side Effects on an iPhone? Why does the Soderbergh film look pretty drat good and the FF look like garbage most of the time? Is it only down to skill and filmmaking experience? Or is a lot of the difference down to other technical resources that the Soderbergh budget can accommodate like fancy lighting, tripods trolleys and other apparatus?
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Zwabu posted:So what is the difference when some indies make a found footage movie using a cell phone vs. when Soderbergh shoots a film like Unsane or Side Effects on an iPhone? Why does the Soderbergh film look pretty drat good and the FF look like garbage most of the time? Almost any footage from a camera produced after 2010 can look great to amazing with the correct lighting and set-ups, something that FF doesn't particularly care about. As I recall, Soderbergh's big push around the Unsane release was that anyone can make a movie if they've got the skill and drive, so I'd be willing to bet that the skill portion is what's missing.
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Zwabu posted:So what is the difference when some indies make a found footage movie using a cell phone vs. when Soderbergh shoots a film like Unsane or Side Effects on an iPhone? Why does the Soderbergh film look pretty drat good and the FF look like garbage most of the time? Lighting and skill. Lighting matters even in no budget productions
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Chucky is basically evil Pinocchio trying to become a real boy. Brad Dourif can voice Jiminy the cricket, Pinocchio’s dark passenger basically. This poo poo writes itself.
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TheBizzness posted:Chucky is basically evil Pinocchio trying to become a real boy. poo poo, just do that and have it be Chucky having a dream, that sounds way better than anything the Blood and Honey guys could come up with
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Zwabu posted:So what is the difference when some indies make a found footage movie using a cell phone vs. when Soderbergh shoots a film like Unsane or Side Effects on an iPhone? Why does the Soderbergh film look pretty drat good and the FF look like garbage most of the time? Lighting lighting lighting Nothing can save a poorly lit shot.
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https://x.com/variety/status/1748562421319455110?s=46quote:One scene, involving liquids spouting out of every — and we mean every — orifice of the female Bigfoot, played to raucous applause in the room. Less than 15 minutes into the film, one moviegoer announced to nobody in particular, “This is the weirdest movie ever.”
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