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May 21, 2016 04:28
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Jack Gladney posted:Xtro 2 is weird and fun also, as I remember from Joe Bob Briggs talking me through it. This man is a dirty liar.
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May 21, 2016 04:36
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:How is Fire in the Sky? It's the best Alien Abduction film our of 3 imo. It functions like a weird opposite Wolf of Wall Street where 80% is very mundane and kind of dull honestly. It starts off with a burst, and slows to a crawl. And then, literally without warning, it loses it's goddamn mind and crafts the best scene in that genre. I think that scene is great on it's own, but it really works when you have the contrast. I just think no one's done the genre justice yet. There's always good moments in the films, but never one film that works completely. Dark Skies has the bedroom scene and the finale, The Fourth Kind has the possession scenes, Extraterrestrial has one single good shot where the Alien is highlighted in the doorway by lighting. Alien Abduction is worthless. I personally don't like the way the Aliens function in Alien Slumber Party. If that short was less "RUN ALIENS AAAHHHH" and more the Aliens stalking around the house, I would've liked it a lot more. The kids were really fun in that one. As a kid, this is the one thing that legit frightened me for years. I remember seeing a documentary about it, and seeing these kids with triangles and poo poo scared all over their body. It's horrific. They flashed a picture of a Grey right after and I think I screamed. Ever since, the paranormal has fascinated me. First it was about discovery, but now it's just these stories are really unique and interesting. There's a lot of untapped potential. But people just want to make a quick buck off it. Oh well.
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May 21, 2016 05:04
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZzAG1f-HEM very good scene.
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May 21, 2016 05:07
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CelticPredator posted:As a kid, this is the one thing that legit frightened me for years. I remember seeing a documentary about it, and seeing these kids with triangles and poo poo scared all over their body. It's horrific. Ever read Scott Sigler's "Infected" trilogy? There's these nasty little aliens that are triangle-shaped and grow under peoples skin and then explode out. One guy in the first book tries to remove all of them. It's super disgusting.
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May 21, 2016 05:14
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Fuckin' bingo, I need to watch this don't I? I need to watch this.
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May 21, 2016 20:59
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It's really unusual and cool. It's not funny but the movie it's always reminded me of is An American Werewolf In London.
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May 21, 2016 21:06
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I miss Monstervision/Up All Night a lot. I don't suppose there's anything like it on TV now?
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May 22, 2016 09:44
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Just seen Society (1989). It was like a more visceral Rosemary's Baby - the effects at the end were truly terrifying. I really liked the film. It had this crazy plastic sheen to the entire production. The star felt like Michael J. Fox If you have Shudder, I definitely recommend it.
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May 22, 2016 11:01
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Just watched Contamination and am currently checking out Alien 2: On Earth. I'm making it a goal for the year to watch all of the Alien ripoffs (or loving homage I guess) and films that inspired Alien.
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May 22, 2016 16:51
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TOOT BOOT posted:I miss Monstervision/Up All Night a lot. I don't suppose there's anything like it on TV now? Svengoolie, though he's gesturing back to a slightly older style of movie host.
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May 22, 2016 16:56
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TOOT BOOT posted:I miss Monstervision/Up All Night a lot. I don't suppose there's anything like it on TV now? Svengoolie
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May 22, 2016 17:18
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Saw The Blackcoat's Daughter on Friday, and it was pretty decent. It's a real slow burn, but I appreciated it for being a movie about possession that didn't go totally over the top with it.
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May 22, 2016 22:23
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Part of what was great about Monstervision was that he would go on film nerd rants. His gimmick was weird, but I think ended up fitting monster movies.
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May 22, 2016 23:36
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I'm thinking about getting a Shudder subscription on my Amazon, would you guys say it's worth it for someone who's grown bored of whatever Netflix has to offer?
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May 23, 2016 03:27
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s.i.r.e. posted:I'm thinking about getting a Shudder subscription on my Amazon, would you guys say it's worth it for someone who's grown bored of whatever Netflix has to offer? That's why I subbed to it so yes imo. Pretty good selection and they update much more frequently, or at least it feels that way.
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May 23, 2016 06:27
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How much is shudder?
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May 23, 2016 07:29
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I think it's $6.99 but I can't recommend it enough. The selections are curated - sometimes by up-and-coming horror directors. There's many quality horror films both new and old, and there's new additions all the time. There are some kinks like I can't actually view the films on my phone and I hear there's an issue with Chromecast right now. If you try to cancel after the one-week trial, they'll offer you a free month so if you want to just try it for longer. Shudder's been wonderful to me. I just watched The Mutilator and it was one of the most bizarre slashers I've seen yet. The deaths were all imaginative and gory, the beginning scene was a great way to set the whole ball rolling (a silly pink note that says 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD I cleaned 'em for you' on the father's gun rack), The theme song was wonderful - the acting is all really over-the-top. I've been reading and apparently the new Blu-Ray went all-out including a feature length making-of documentary and that would be cool to watch. The Mutilator himself felt like Ernest Hemingway or the seacaptain from The Simpsons. His halberd and the hook were so gruesome. The guy who played Ralph fascinated me like "what were they thinking doing this/casting him? was it the script or is that the actor" IF YOU HAVE SHUDDER, PLEASE WATCH SOCIETY. I'd like to read more about it from others because the last thirty minutes are so mindboggling SaavikSpocksDaddy fucked around with this message at 09:57 on May 23, 2016 |
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May 23, 2016 09:54
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One of the podcasts I listen to (Never Not Funny) had Shudder as an advertiser last week, offering the first month free with promo code 'pardo'. So if you're on the fence you could try that I suppose.
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May 23, 2016 14:33
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Looking over the selection of Shudder, they'd have to really keep updating it regularly for me to keep a subscription long-term because they don't have a ton of stuff. On average how many movies are they adding per month? Its definitely something that I'm going to get for a month or two though, because there's a solid bunch of like 8-10 movies that I've been dying to see for a while now. Opera, Society, Maniac, Don't Torture a Duckling, Absentia, The Stuff, and probably 3 or 4 others. Its also a good subscription to get in October so I can have access to a lot of classic Bava stuff that I'd probably only want to watch once a year.
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May 23, 2016 14:42
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SaavikSpocksDaddy posted:I think it's $6.99 but I can't recommend it enough. I've got the Blu-Ray (and an old Big Box VHS that I can't part with) it's generally well thought off in this thread and in general and that's because it loving owns. Shudder is a great service, I've been subscribing to it for a while I just don't use it as much as I should mainly because it's a bit of a pain in the arse to use, this is nothing to do with Shudder themselves it's more to do with me being in the UK and having to use VPN's it seems to work best casting to my Apple TV from the shudder app on my phone. This of course renders my phone unusable during the runtime of the film which is no bad thing I guess. Please don't judge me for watching both nekromantik films as my first shudder viewings.
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May 23, 2016 15:31
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SaavikSpocksDaddy posted:Just seen Society (1989). It was like a more visceral Rosemary's Baby - the effects at the end were truly terrifying. I really liked the film. It had this crazy plastic sheen to the entire production. The star felt like Michael J. Fox I love reading people's reactions to Society because they are always the same: the existential dread engendered by watching a movie of that stripe without the usual Cronenberg warning.
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May 23, 2016 16:01
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Shudder is great but buggy. It wimped out on me in the last 5 mins of Society (NOT COOL) so I had to finish it on youtube.
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May 23, 2016 16:05
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As formulaic as Dark Skies is to the Blumhouse brand of haunted house movies, it's still a pretty effective family drama. The Arthur C Clarke quote at the beginning is really great because the idea of the aliens being objectively real or just a shared psychotic episode by the parents, doesn't really matter, because both are equally terrifying.
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May 23, 2016 19:07
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The J.K. Simmons extended cameo in that is really, really good.
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May 23, 2016 19:08
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I think I'm going to join Shudder soon because gently caress it why not. I waste way more than $7/mo on pointless bullshit, so I might as well throw it in a direction that both gets me a thing I enjoy (even if I don't use it often) and supports a service that shares my interest. I'm sure Netflix will still be 90% of my streaming (with Hulu making up 5% and Shudder the other 5%), but Shudder is just the kind of thing that I want to exist for the moments I want to use it.
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May 23, 2016 19:48
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I think I'm going to join shudder too just so I can finally watch Cat in the Brain. Is it still buggy if I get it as an Amazon prime add-on?
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May 23, 2016 20:04
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:As formulaic as Dark Skies is to the Blumhouse brand of haunted house movies, it's still a pretty effective family drama. The Arthur C Clarke quote at the beginning is really great because the idea of the aliens being objectively real or just a shared psychotic episode by the parents, doesn't really matter, because both are equally terrifying. But imo aliens are spookier. Skinny big eyed fucks. 
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CelticPredator posted:But imo aliens are spookier. Skinny big eyed fucks. yeah, Dark Skies was at least somewhat bizarre, but the result of employing that arthur c. clarke joke is less 'aliens are the mind playing tricks on us' and more 'generic conventions prove aliens and ghosts are exactly the same thing.' meanwhile, the pseudocumentary The Nightmare just gives you ghost-nightmare-aliens, and directly implies that christ is our only salvation. watch The Nightmare it's good
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May 23, 2016 20:27
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K. Waste posted:watch The Nightmare it's good The Nightmare is really good. I love how it's less focused on the science behind sleep paralysis and more focused on what it means to the interviewees.
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May 23, 2016 20:38
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Rodney Ascher owns.
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May 23, 2016 20:45
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Rodney Ascher owns. honestly, i hadn't even realized he also directed Room 237 until just finding out. this also looks hella interesting: https://vimeo.com/123765892
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May 23, 2016 20:52
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I'm gonna soon. But Jesus can't stop the anal probe.
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May 23, 2016 20:53
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CelticPredator posted:But imo aliens are spookier. Skinny big eyed fucks. Way spookier. It really is a great movie. I also watched War of the Worlds and I've gotta say I enjoyed it a lot.
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May 23, 2016 20:55
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K. Waste posted:honestly, i hadn't even realized he also directed Room 237 until just finding out. I can't say anything about it because there's nowhere to see it!
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May 23, 2016 21:03
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Is this any good?
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May 23, 2016 21:11
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I can't say anything about it because there's nowhere to see it! gently caress, this just played like three blocks from me. I thought it looked interesting but the description I read was kind of coy and mostly confusing
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May 23, 2016 21:14
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I don't remember if it came up in here or GenChat, but thanks to the people who were recommending Kolchak The Night Stalker. Very entertaining series, helped me get through doing some minor renovation projects without slacking off like I usually do.
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Wyrmwood is actually a pretty decent 'revisionist' zombie movie. not as good as Frankenstein's Army, but close.
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