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MacheteZombie posted:Gripweed, have u seen 15/05/11 abandoned grain elevator this works as an indie horror movie or a text sent by a panicked supervisor at a grain elevor factory
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Late Night with the Devil is a good movie but I wish it was a little spookier.
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Abandoned Grain Elevator is alright, I  ed about it in the challenge thread one time
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TheBizzness posted:Late Night with the Devil is a good movie but I wish it was a little spookier. I feel like they could have went more subtle and have it devolve through psychology rather than just showing a demon blaster but I loved the demon blaster so
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Abigail: not unenjoyable but also feels like it was written with the intent that you go in not knowing it’s a vampire movie? Which is not to fault Universal—I don’t really see how you’d market it otherwise—but there’s a fair bit of runtime before it gets to the “big reveal”, and even some misdirection before that, and consequently it kinda feels like it’s treading water for a while. Fun overall, anyway
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Doltos posted:I feel like they could have went more subtle and have it devolve through psychology rather than just showing a demon blaster but I loved the demon blaster so I want more demon! Give me more demon!!!!
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I thought it was kind of bad. The concept is good but it wasn’t very convincing.
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My favorite part was the worm coming out of the sidekicks eye, and that part wasn’t even real 
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https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1781879861029535813quote:The cast of ‘THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT’ have released a statement ahead of the original’s 25th anniversary & a new reboot, asking for:
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Doltos posted:It feels like every horror movie geared towards teens is just a curse movie. Empty Man, Bye Bye Man, Wish Upon, Truth Or Dare, anything that just CGI's out a rictus grin. It's all derivative. This is never going to change. Horror geared towards teens is always going to chase a trend. In the late 90s it was slashers chasing Scream and in the 00s it was chasing The Ring and so on and so on. Even going back it was the 80s slasher trend before my time.
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Dangers of signing onto a super shoestring budget movie advertised in trade magazines. You may have to fight for what comes later on. Edit: I'm not knocking them or anything just saying this is the equivalent of entering a handshake agreement because this project was so low budget they didn't have contracts or anything in writing. They are going to have to lawyer up (as they should) and fight. Justin Godscock fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Apr 21, 2024 |
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It’s so loving slimey that the studio tried to claim copyright ownership of their real names since they were used in the movie.
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Doltos posted:It feels like every horror movie geared towards teens is just a curse movie. Empty Man, Bye Bye Man, Wish Upon, Truth Or Dare, anything that just CGI's out a rictus grin. It's all derivative. Empty Man isn't really a teen movie at all.
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Of course it is! The kids go crazy for James Badge Dale!
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veni veni veni posted:Empty Man isn't really a teen movie at all. I guess it's not on the level of Fear Street or something like that but I think it was quite clearly playing towards the creepypasta crowd with its naming scheme and its plot was close enough to another Slenderman/Bye Bye Man
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Wait I thought this thread loved Empty Man (I certainly did) i do too but it's a bit of a dividing movie. easy one to get all-in for the first third, then slowly bummed that the rest of the movie is nothing like it Late Night With The Devil was fine, fun stuff. an easy 'B'. loved the live studio band, they were cookin'! both hypnosis sequences were the best parts and Ian Bliss dominates as Cameron from the minute he struts onto the stage. it just never tipped over the line into being great, to me. changing visual styles during the adbreaks, removing the strict 70's ratio here and there, the massive exposition dump at the start, all felt like choices that compromised the movie's main concept. ultimately a fine fun time but maybe i spoiled it by watching History Of The Occult first.
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alf_pogs posted:i do too but it's a bit of a dividing movie. easy one to get all-in for the first third, then slowly bummed that the rest of the movie is nothing like it Yeah the beginning mystery was done well and I got supremely disappointed when they're like there's a cursed guy called the Empty Man and his cult is coming for you and now you're the Empty Man
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I liked The Empty Man fine (mainly cuz I like James Badge Dale from The Standoff at Sparrow Creek...great tense one location The Thing type riff around a nationalist militia). It just felt so long and bloated.
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Doltos posted:Yeah the beginning mystery was done well and I got supremely disappointed when they're like there's a cursed guy called the Empty Man and his cult is coming for you and now you're the Empty Man I gradually got more psyched at the bait and switch. after I hit occultist Stephen Root I was all in on it going wherever the hell. Empty Man director's episode of Cabinet of Curiosities is one of the best as well, The Autopsy
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It's not a perfect movie but it does some interesting stuff. I enjoyed it. They really didn't do themselves any favors with the title.
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Justin Godscock posted:Dangers of signing onto a super shoestring budget movie advertised in trade magazines. You may have to fight for what comes later on. Yeah, it's worth noting that the $60k annual grant to an aspiring filmmaker that they're asking for is the shooting budget of the original movie.
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Watched Lowlifes (2024) this evening on Tubi this evening. All in all I had a good time with it but it feels like the movie thinks it's premise is a lot more clever than it really is. Turning the wholesome family from the city into the TCM Sawyer clan just lands with an, "ok, sure" for me. I was really hoping there would be a double twist and it would be city cannibals vs country cannibals in a slasher throw down. I also really wasn't in the mood for the ending where all of our protagonists die and one of the killers gets away, feels a bit done to death these days.
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was the empty man that tulpa movie it was p good also the empty house or the night man or whatever where that ladies husband dies that was p good too
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Watching Matilda gently caress up those criminals was a lot of fun, and I hope we get a cool endcap to the unofficial trilogy that this could make because I definitely choose to believe that Abigail and Ready or Not are shared-universe.
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Kvlt! posted:was the empty man that tulpa movie it was p good Yes. Stephen Root should always be talking about tulpas. The Night House. Also yes but qualified because they had a couple stumbles. Left a lot of good stuff sitting on the table and the resolution wasn’t very well integrated. But what they did, they did really well.
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Night House had like 2 or 3 absolutely incredible all-timer shots and a couple other good moments (when she's at school in the beginning looking at real estate listings, falls asleep at her desk, and when she wakes up it's a gun shopping website was real hosed) but like you said, it left too much on the table. I just really wanted them to tie the architecture aspect into it being like evil geometry or occultism in the design of the house itself and they barely touched on that, and then having it turn out it's basically final destination but without the Rube Goldberg kills deflated it too much for me.
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I gently caress with The Night House to any degree that I do purely for Rebecca Hall. She carried that and she can carry a lot. But yeah I gave it a B more or less.
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That reminds me, Resurrection also carried by Rebecca Hall. Also more or less just ok but creepy/weird and honestly I thought pretty hilarious when it comes down to Tim Roth's bizarre poo poo. It's like a planet of crazy carried by Rebecca Hall. You really haven't lived until you've seen Rebecca Hall deliver the line "loving men—you can‘t stick your dick in anything without deciding that you love it or you hate it. Impede my mission once more and I will beat you until you are dead." Also shout out to Christine (not the one about the car, the one where Rebecca Hall plays Christine Chubbuck) Christ what a depressing loving movie. Also if you don't know who Christine Chubbuck is just read the plot blurb and go in blind. Prepare to weep. Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Apr 21, 2024 |
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Rebecca Hall's long, unbroken monologue in Resurrection is incredible, and the cut to the stunned looking intern when she's done is a hilarious little cherry on top.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:That reminds me, Resurrection also carried by Rebecca Hall. Also more or less just ok but creepy/weird and honestly I thought pretty hilarious when it comes down to Tim Roth's bizarre poo poo. It's like a planet of crazy carried by Rebecca Hall. Yeah Christine is heartbreaking and imo Hall's best performance (and thats saying something!). Probably the best depiction of loneliness on film.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Night House had like 2 or 3 absolutely incredible all-timer shots and a couple other good moments (when she's at school in the beginning looking at real estate listings, falls asleep at her desk, and when she wakes up it's a gun shopping website was real hosed) but like you said, it left too much on the table. I just really wanted them to tie the architecture aspect into it being like evil geometry or occultism in the design of the house itself and they barely touched on that, and then having it turn out it's basically final destination but without the Rube Goldberg kills deflated it too much for me. Yuuuup. They did a really good job executing a script that had a lot of potential, but desperately needed some workshopping/tightening. They don’t have to follow my tummy feels on how to resolve all the loose threads*, there are a lot of ways to do it, but they need to do something with them. Also as someone who’s almost died, solid “enh” at the twist. It’s a lot more what a writer imagines that’s like than something relevant. I got virgin teenager writing sex scene vibes off of it. Not terrible, but again needed some workshopping. *I vote more overt supernatural stuff with the house and occult geometry similar to what you said. You can leave in the serial killer stuff (I guess), just make it actually a ritual instead of not-Dan Stevens using random women as a murder nicotine patch for his wife.
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Night House is definitely one of those movies where they had a nest idea and then had to figure out how to build a 2 hour movie around it
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I loved every minute of Night House, Resurrection, and Christine and it's so weird going from Hall's incredible performances in those movies to her being so neutral in the new Godzilla Kong movies
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I like Night House a good bit just for the atmosphere and being one of the About Trauma horror movies to make the drama actually interesting
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oh god oh gently caress posted:I like Night House a good bit just for the atmosphere and being one of the About Trauma horror movies to make the drama actually interesting Yeah that's why I liked it too. It felt like being trapped in a bad dream and was grounding that dream in a practical horrible situation.
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Is M.R. James a zoomer author? Because he has a few stories where people sorta accidentally stumble into curses and get got by some ancient demon or guardian spirit.
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BiggerBoat posted:Flags it for me and gives me poo poo. Might need a different list or something, I haven't had issues.
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