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A Fancy Hat posted:A ton of Argento movies hit Shudder, I'm going to check out that documentary tonight but I attempted to revisit Dracula 3D over my lunch break. Yea I'm a big Dracula guy, I seek out every Dracula I can possibly find. I keep going back to Argento's Dracula in hopes that I'll find a different perspective on it or discover some elements of it that are worthwhile but it really is a pile of crap. I've watched it 3 times I think(and one of those times I quit halfway through). Pope Corky the IX posted:Halloween 5 loving sucks but I can't help but love Donald Pleasance's performance. The movie isn't good but I watch it anyway because it has one of my favorite Pleasance/Michael scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhFz3wQPIb8 I just love the way he says "goddamn you..." Basebf555 fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Feb 2, 2024 |
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CelticPredator posted:This is correct gotta wash drug money somehow.
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I'm about 20 minutes into the Argento documentary. I like that Guillermo del Toro and Gaspar Noe are among the interviewees, and if nothing else I hope that gets more people to check out Noe's Vortex starring Argento
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John Yossarian posted:I was on Tubi today and I noticed so many Amityville movies that I've never heard of. There was one movie set in space I think, I didn't watch it because it looked really bad. I honestly didn't know that they were so many movies based on it. Having done the Amityville franchise for the movie challenges and reading up on all the behind the scenes stuff, it boils down to George Lutz was a litigious and greedy sob, and movie studios can be incredibly petty. Pretty much George wanted to market the poo poo out of Amityville Horror. He was even thinking toys and board games level of run this poo poo into the ground. This also meant he was determined to have his fingers in all the pies possible. He was pissed that the studio was making a sequel and that he wasn't a part of it. So he sued and this is why the sequel's Amityville II and not Amityville Horror II because the courts ruled that George only could lay claim to the title Amityville Horror. From there, the studios just kept cranking out films under the Amityville title or rebranding films that hadn't been too successful under their original title into the Amityville franchise to squeeze a few more bucks out of things. This, of course pissed George off more since as far as he was concerned, the studios were stealing money from him and at one point he tried to claim rights to the name Amityville despite the actual town, y'know, existing before he was born. So, there's actually very few of the films in the franchise that are connected to the original story or the real DeFeo murders, everything else kinda tries to mention the name Amityville somewhere and calls it good. Case in point, Amityville Vibrator.
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Amityville is a real town on Long Island and the murders actually happened. The only thing Lutz owned was his own ghost story and the name "Amityville Horror" It's also why they went with a "prequel" of sorts for Amityville II, which then had it's own set of problems when they had to change the name of the DeFeos and a few other details because they were portraying a family of murder victims as incestuous rapists.
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Amityville II is totally bizarre
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A Fancy Hat posted:A ton of Argento movies hit Shudder, I'm going to check out that documentary tonight but I attempted to revisit Dracula 3D over my lunch break. Speaking of Rutger Hauer, on a whim decided to watch The Hitcher last night, that movie rules, almost entirely down to him.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Halloween 5 loving sucks but I can't help but love Donald Pleasance's performance. Halloween 5 was the first Halloween I saw as a child and my soft spot for it comes entirely from this sequence.
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Longlegs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48wg-_VzD04 Day one
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Amityville is a real town on Long Island and the murders actually happened. The only thing Lutz owned was his own ghost story and the name "Amityville Horror" It's also why they went with a "prequel" of sorts for Amityville II, which then had it's own set of problems when they had to change the name of the DeFeos and a few other details because they were portraying a family of murder victims as incestuous rapists. Wow, guess I'm not showing you the script I'm working on.
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Chris James 2 posted:Longlegs I still have no idea what the gently caress this is about but hell yeah
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Opopanax posted:I still have no idea what the gently caress this is about but hell yeah From what I understand, Maika Monroe is (very basic plot overview) a cop investigating a serial killer played by Nicolas Cage. So yea....hard to put together a sentence that would get me more interested in a horror movie than that.
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Basebf555 posted:From what I understand, Maika Monroe is (very basic plot overview) a cop investigating a serial killer played by Nicolas Cage. "...and John Carpenter comes out of retirement to direct."
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Just watched Studio 666, it was pretty fun, was John Carpenter playing himself or just doing a cameo as an audio engineer?
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If I were to watch a single classic Hammer flick, which would it be? Dracula/Horror of Dracula?
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Zwabu posted:If I were to watch a single classic Hammer flick, which would it be? No way, all the FRANKENSTEIN movies.
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ruddiger posted:Just watched Studio 666, it was pretty fun, was John Carpenter playing himself or just doing a cameo as an audio engineer? he was playing the engineer.
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Zwabu posted:If I were to watch a single classic Hammer flick, which would it be? I mean honestly I'd say Horror of Dracula
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Zwabu posted:If I were to watch a single classic Hammer flick, which would it be? I'm fond of The Devil Rides Out.
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If you're gonna watch one Hammer movie it might as well have the unholy trinity(Cushing/Lee/Fisher). So that means Horror of Dracula, Curse of Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Gorgon, and The Hound of the Baskervilles.
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Thanks for the recs. I would be inclined to go with The Devil Rides Out just based on the name, but I don't see it for stream anyplace right now. Since I'm more of a Dracula guy I think I'll start with Horror of Dracula, although I have heard from other sources that the Frankenstein ones are the best.
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The Frankenstein series is better overall but Horror of Dracula is still Hammer at the top of their game and you can't go wrong with either it or Curse of Frankenstein. I like most of the other Dracula entries a lot but the only other one I'd say is really good is Brides of Dracula. I wish The Devil Rides Out was more readily available because it's also one of their best.
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Yea the rights to The Devil Rides Out must be a problem because a few years ago I tried to record it on Youtube TV but it wouldn't let me because it said they didn't have the rights to it.
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:My only complaint about HotC is that I wanted more creepy poo poo. One of the early scares with the all-black figure with the pinpoint eyes was awesome, and I wanted to see more of him, and there wasn't much more. Don't show me neat things to get me all curious and then cut me off, dawg, I need them spoops! What was that thing anyway? I should re-watch it.
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I feel like if you are going to watch one horror film from Hammer then it has to have Cushing, Lee, Fisher and agree with the post that said of those 3. I don't recommend Curse of Frankenstein because Lee doesn't have much dialogue, but he does not have any dialogue in Dracula either.
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Panico, the Argento doc on Shudder, is pretty drat good. This might be a personal thing since I’m from Pittsburgh but I was a little bummed we got nothing about Argento and Romero’s friendship and collaborations. But otherwise it’s a pretty nice (but far from exhaustive) look back at his career’s highs and lows. One kinda slight warning thing; Asia Argento recounts filming a sex scene for Phantom of the Opera and it weirded me out pretty bad. Normally I’m not bothered by much but I think she has a kinda hosed up view of her father and it definitely made itself known at that point. Just skip those 5 min or whatever.
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She groomed a minor so yeah I can buy that
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This is a public service announcement : Season 4 of True Detective is 100% horror. The other seasons flirted with it or maybe your horror-genre tent is big enough to contain them, but season 4 is from the jump a horror. You know how I’m always talking about how my most beloved little sub-genre is a spooky investigative mystery of some really hosed up poo poo with a bunch of great actors? Yeah. The only way it isn’t perfectly aimed at me is that it’s not a period piece, and even I don’t need that all the time. Jodie Foster is loving phenomenal as always and is nailing some real complex and specific tones. John Hawkes has done his usual wizardry where he reveals he’s always been a [whatever the hell you need], and you think of course John Hawkes has always been like that. The setting clicks, the actual horror is compelling, complex characters, they’re playing with a lot of good themes : I’m totally hooked. I’m only two episodes in, planning to dole them out in little chunks, but this is season 1 levels of good so far. At least to me. I admit it might have been made specifically for me.
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They are unconnected. Skip ahead. Although yeah, it’s pretty loving solid in its own right.
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It's alright. The writing is kind of ponderous and they haven't done a great job fleshing out the town or characters yet. The thread on it in TV/IV is all over the place liking it or condemning it. It's definitely horror and has an interesting first episode hook the corpseburg. The actors are doing well with what they're given. Going to wait for it all to come out before judging it.
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jodie foster is also so fun to watch and there's heaps of The Thing callouts, it's a wild fun time
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Chris James 2 posted:Longlegs Just popping in to say that Neon has been absolutely killing it with the marketing of this so far. Every one of the little 30 second teasers they've released and the awesome posters have got me so hyped.
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Chris James 2 posted:Longlegs Circling back, this looks good. Curious about the story though. I like the guy, but story structure isn’t really his strong suit, so I’m curious what he does with this.
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Great imagery. neon really lucked out on a great looking picture for a trailer. I hope the entire production is good.
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Yeah, sorry. Perkins’ imagery is always so brooding and stark and yummy I was sort of taking it as a given.
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Like I said I think Neon lucked out, but I can’t help but feel a bit of “Gabbo Gabbo Gabbo!” When I see this much great advertising material (especially coming from the game industry where you want to pull all the tricks in the promotional materials just to get those early sales even if they’re not indicative of the final product. All parties involved I hope it’s good. That’s a lot of talent right there.
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the marketing is great but really you put Cage and Maika M in anything horror and I'll watch the hell out of it regardless
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Maybe falling asleep while watching Videodrome wasn’t the smartest idea.
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