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Watched a double feature of Late Night with the Devil and Infested last night. Late Night is loving fantastic.... up until the ending. Someone above nailed it, it's found footage then it goes into Jack's hallucinations? What? I'm super disappointed the titular Devil wasn't the skeptic psychic, I kept hoping there was going to be some horrible loving reveal that he'd hypnotized everyone to start killing each other or worshipping him or etc. When the hypnosis part happened I thought FOR loving SURE that's where we were going and instead we got... the end. The opposite of sticking the landing imo, they did a 9.5 gymnastics routine and then ended it by throwing a javelin at the judges. I'm the guy Infested was made for. I wrote an entire book about a serial killer who uses swarms of insects to kill his victims. So I was fired up about this one, been talking about it for a month. Well, Infested is loving stupid. It's got a great setup but about the last 30 min or so is just loving ridiculous trash. The main character is an unlikable rear end. Nothing about the poo poo with the spiders make any sense whatsoever. They're aggressive and instantly deadly but people in Afghanistan (?) risk their lives to capture them because they sell for the huge huge price of... 50 euro? The cops showed up to a spider infestation with riot armor and machine guns? You're going to machine gun a loving spider? The first half of the movie was pretty good, especially the "swarmed by baby spiders" part that got Moussa. But man... the rest of this thing is a loving mess, when the cop-spider firefight starts we all just started laughing and then the loving firefight goes on for like 20+ minutes as background for what our heroes are doing. How many cops did they bring? Just bleh. Slot this one in next to Crawl in "good setup, descends into farce." I can believe someone shrugging off multiple 9-foot gator bites quicker than I can believe in car-sized spiders the cops show up to have a firefight with. I kinda understand why Sam Raimi wanted the Infested guy to do Evil Dead, there were a couple of genuinely skin-crawling moments and a good payoff to all that sneaker box setup but it's a Tale of Two Movies, a suspenseful first half and then all of a sudden we're in loving Spider All Quiet on the Western Front. Shoulda been "*REC with spiders" instead of "Arachnophobia played straight."
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JonathonSpectre posted:Watched a double feature of Late Night with the Devil and Infested last night. My take on it was demonic manipulation . Much like the hypnosis bit, this was the entity's effecting things. Only evidence I've got is at the end, the end transmission text glitches.
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 15:17 |
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We saw what the demon wanted us to see yeah
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 15:31 |
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Infested rocked. Wish it had gotten a theater run because that camera work and lighting deserved a gigantic screen.
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 16:13 |
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Red Letter Media covered Late Night With The Devil and had some good points that the 70's aesthetic wasn't followed fully. It'd be cool if Jay does his project and washes out the footage a few times to achieve the grainy look of old talk shows. They also pointed out that the wide angle shots break the conceit that we're watching something being filmed on a set. It would have been cool if the shots were done from giant 70's cameras with stiff angles rather than panning out and showing us everything.
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 17:12 |
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dorium posted:Infested rocked. Wish it had gotten a theater run because that camera work and lighting deserved a gigantic screen. There were definitely parts I really, really liked, which is what made the parts I didn't so disappointing. I especially loved the scene where he puts the spider in the shoebox in his room for the first time. The way it keeps cutting back to the tanks and the animals moving, that was some seriously excellent 'oh gently caress what is this spider' tension. I also thought the walk out of the parking garage was first rate, my skin was crawling the entire time. And the already mentioned scene where Moussa gets bit on the toe and then just swarmed by almost-invisibly small baby spiders, that was loving dreadful. Just don't follow that up with a line of cops shooting at a doorway as spiders pour out of it screeching and clicking. And DO NOT set up a sequence where your highly-unlikeable main character can be eaten by a spider the size of a loving motorcycle and then let him walk away! Deep Blue Sea knew! When some dumbshit gets a bunch of people killed they get eaten at the end of the movie. Come on now, just eat him. Maybe that's the alternate ending for the director's cut. "I've got to go raise the gate." >steps outside< >even bigger spider jumps him from behind and rips poo poo up< >girls gun it and smash through the gate< DEEP BLUE SPIDER
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 17:40 |
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I'm dying to see Infested, saving it for the May challenge. Love a good creature feature.
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 18:10 |
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JonathonSpectre posted:There were definitely parts I really, really liked, which is what made the parts I didn't so disappointing. but I forgave the last 6 minutes because the previous 100 minutes was so strong Humane was not good tho. That was a real snooze fest. A neat premise that could’ve been used in a 45 minute short stretched to double that length and then just kinda wades in the water too long. Maybe could’ve helped if they played into the campiness a bit more or just made the villains more villainous. Something was missing and I just kept checking my watch all the way through.
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 18:33 |
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in late night with the devil if he made a deal with the devil why was he getting clobbered by Carson in the ratings? Did Carson have a better deal with a better devil?
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Ghislaine of YOSPOS posted:in late night with the devil if he made a deal with the devil why was he getting clobbered by Carson in the ratings? Did Carson have a better deal with a better devil? yes
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 18:36 |
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carson had mcmahon
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 18:36 |
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:I'm dying to see Infested, saving it for the May challenge. Love a good creature feature. Same, and I even like a lot of really schlocky ones like Prophecy (1979), an all time guilty pleasure. Trying to think of my overall faves. Let's see. JAWS, The Thing, Alien(s)...I liked Cujo. Several Godzilla movies but Shin Godzilla in particular. King Kong (original, 1976 and the peter Jackson one), Jurassic Park, Arachnophobia...hm.. Does The Fly count?
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regarding Infested...JonathonSpectre posted:Just don't follow that up with a line of cops shooting at a doorway as spiders pour out of it screeching and clicking. And DO NOT set up a sequence where your highly-unlikeable main character can be eaten by a spider the size of a loving motorcycle and then let him walk away! Deep Blue Sea knew! When some dumbshit gets a bunch of people killed they get eaten at the end of the movie. Come on now, just eat him. rear end in a top hat or not, I'd had about enough of poor brown and black people brutally dying (put the sequel in the suburbs please), so not only was I pulling for all of them but it was awesome that they can now say they killed two cops (counting the dude they hit) and got away with it. I also liked that he had that moment of nonviolence with what was his original pet. The dude loves creepy crawlers. The french pigs being totally incompetent and brutalized by spiders just put the cherry on the cake. Those spiders went harder than usual on those dudes. p.s. watching Isolation and yeah it's some solid single location goopy fun. Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Apr 28, 2024 |
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is isolation yall talking bout the 2005 one?
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 19:50 |
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Just got out of theaters seeing the rerelease of Alien. Man, still such a perfect movie and I’m real happy I finally got to see it in a theater setting
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 20:29 |
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Kvlt! posted:is isolation yall talking bout the 2005 one? Directed by Billy obrien
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Kvlt! posted:is isolation yall talking bout the 2005 one? Rewatched Joy Ride recently and it's fun enough though I forgot how toothless it really is. Dude doesn't even really kill anyone except some poor random hotel lobby guy (yeah he puts another dude brutally in a coma who's basically dead but still). None of the major players get killed, and I was just begging the film to at least have Steve Zahn crushed by a truck. He has Zahn too, by the end, and unlike any other horror killer doesn't just immediately dispatch him (yeah he's a Saw type dude but he'd already had his fun psychologically torturing this obnoxious gently caress and he knew the cops were arriving). Zahn's playing the typical obnoxious misogynistic Bush era comedic relief (with the very amusingly white name "Fuller Thomas") but the dude is basically a psychopath who not only triggers this whole thing but also basically shows no guilt or empathy. He only apologizes when threatened with death. While Paul Walker is like "wow that was some hosed up poo poo", Zahn's character is just like "we'll all be dead in a 100 years. There is no such thing as right or wrong" lol Fun voice acting from "Rusty Nail" though. Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Apr 28, 2024 |
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BiggerBoat posted:Same, and I even like a lot of really schlocky ones like Prophecy (1979), an all time guilty pleasure. Trying to think of my overall faves. Let's see. You need to watch Isolation
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 21:39 |
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I liked that Isolation is a disease type body horror film at the end of the day. The monsters mostly can't outright physically kill people unless they really get the jump on you, it's more about the parasitic infection they can spread.
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 21:42 |
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Watched part of The Tunnel last night and all the wet rusty metal had me feeling like I got tetanus just from watching
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 21:44 |
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Yeah. I saw the ending coming a mile away but I was grinning the entire time.
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CelticPredator posted:You need to watch Isolation Yeah...I watched the trailer and some review videos and it looks super hosed up. Right up my alley.
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 21:49 |
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I assume the general Abigail consensus was it has its flaws but it's decent horror fun? Surely something worth moviepassing? I'm mostly hearing B, B- from people.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I assume the general Abigail consensus was it has its flaws but it's decent horror fun? Surely something worth moviepassing? I'm mostly hearing B, B- from people. I thought it was a lot of fun
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 22:14 |
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Yeah, a solid B/B+. Definitely worth moviepassing at least.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I assume the general Abigail consensus was it has its flaws but it's decent horror fun? Surely something worth moviepassing? I'm mostly hearing B, B- from people. If you liked Ready or Not, you'll probably like Abigail; I felt RoN was stronger but it was still a real good time.
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Ghislaine of YOSPOS posted:in late night with the devil if he made a deal with the devil why was he getting clobbered by Carson in the ratings? Did Carson have a better deal with a better devil? Close, but actually Carson is the Devil
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Weird Sandwich posted:Close, but actually Carson is the Devil
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# ? Apr 29, 2024 00:50 |
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I should've figured I'd immediately gently caress with Abigail. I mean, Dan Stevens playing a bespectacled boss with a Queens accent and a motherfucking Harrison Ford rear end earring. Angus Cloud playing a character described as having "loose wiring" lmao, forever acting like he just smoked a blunt, listening to 2000s style hip hop, and dropping lines like "it's about to get accelerated in this bitch!" and "who the gently caress is Don Rickles, man??" I'm already fully in. These aren't spoilers btw, they're enticers.
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Abigail was awesome imo. A lot of fun. B+ EDIT: wait Angus Cloud died??? gently caress! Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Apr 29, 2024 |
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Loved that Steven's character was named Adam Barrett (I assume as a tribute to Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett). Abigail was great!
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# ? Apr 29, 2024 02:59 |
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Well, consider me enticed! I just finished a double feature of Lisa Frankenstein & Late Night With The Devil. Lisa Frankenstein moved me much more deeply than I expected with the knowledge that it was directed by Zelda Williams and the loving tributes there were to Mary Shelley The Person rather than Mary Shelley's Works, and as a sicko who actually loves Diablo Cody's writing I thought it was funny, charming, and poignant. Also the soundtrack was a bop. Late Night With The Devil...whew, I can see why y'all were raving about the host and James Randi character's performances. Absolutely fantastic work by both of them. I wasn't a fan of the intro framing device because it immediately ruins the fiction of the movie before it can even start and think it would have been cool for it to start with the master timing clock (amazing touch) or maybe just "It's the television event that gripped the nation" and a title card before jumping into the meat, but the way it escalates into the finale is very good. It never quite felt as period-accurate to me as it should have but it is a rock-solid bit of unique horror, and I hope the directors do more in the future...preferably this time without those ugly AI graphics we've all talked about to death. A very fun evening all in all. It's been a great year for spooky movies!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_6_wLF1pDg Just watched Exhuma, a Korean horror based on the taoist/buddhist practice of exhuming the grave of an ancestor if you feel that the lack of upkeep is causing distress (read: health or wealth issues) to your current family. A team of four (including Choi Min-Sik of Oldboy) shamans and grave handlers are tasked with handling the case of a rich family only to discover secrets haunting the family and even the country itself, going into ancient Japanese-Korean relations and an undead samurai. Very atmospheric and the presentation of the culture and history are really good, I enjoyed how pragmatic the main four are about the whole thing even when poo poo is hitting the fan. Definitely worth a watch!
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# ? Apr 29, 2024 08:40 |
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I only just got around to seeing The Killing of a Sacred Deer. What a gem.
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# ? Apr 29, 2024 08:42 |
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This is not a drill... the MAY HORROR CHALLENGE 2024 is LIVE!
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# ? Apr 29, 2024 13:58 |
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Started watching Them: The Scare on Prime Video last night and it's REALLY GOOD Everyone should watch it because nobody I know has heard of it, and I only just happened to see it in the new releases menu.
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Count Thrashula posted:Started watching Them: The Scare on Prime Video last night and it's REALLY GOOD i didn't realise it was a second series of that show THEM from 2021. that was a tough watch honestly, but i'm interested enough to give s2 a whirl
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# ? Apr 29, 2024 14:38 |
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Abigail is a lot of fun, like it's absolutely an action comedy horror thing and everyone's shown up game to do that. Newton and Stevens are particularly fun, and even the weakest (Barrera) is much better than I've seen her before. I reckon you can tell everyone had a wildly fun time making this thing. However the entire first act is incredibly damaged by the film's marketing campaign, which really relies on audiences expecting a more boring version of this story and then having the rug pulled out from under them, rather than waiting half an hour to get to what they've been told is the premise of the movie. I reckon a lot of the early scenes with Abigail, particularly, are meant to be a bit clichéd and disappointing. Not bad, but route and out of a far worse film. I wonder if I'd have enjoyed a lot of the fake outs and plotting in this part better if the film's paratext hadn't loudly announced its overall direction; i reckon there's a fun project in creating a new, better trailer for this i.e. one that doesn't spoil the twist. That said, my biggest takeaway from it is that we were robbed a romcom with Angus Cloud and Kathryn Newton.
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I will say, despite wishing the marketing choices were different, it's a credit to Abigail that it whips despite that. I'm weird when it comes to spoilers, I'll often spoil myself and still gently caress with something pretty hard cuz I'm a psycho. But at the same time, like, seeing Cloverfield opening night having somehow totally avoided all marketing and talk of the premise was an incredible movie experience. That's why when I learned my homie hadn't seen the trailers or heard of it somehow I just told her to moviepass that poo poo as soon as loving possible
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Quote-Unquote posted:I enjoyed Late Night With the Devil, though I did a little lol at the 1:45 of like 8 different production company idents at the start. That's gotta be some kind of record, right? 8 seemed like the low side but I forgot to count once it started getting ridiculous.
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