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morestuff posted:I'm sure some people would throw bows for American Werewolf in London, but as much as I like that movie it always feels paper thin Its a great movie and I pretty much have nothing bad to say about it, but its just not quite up to the level of a RotLD or Re-animator.
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does anyone else on the planet like the movie Yellowbrickroad or am i just a huge retarded person?
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Apr 27, 2015 16:42
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A Spider Covets posted:does anyone else on the planet like the movie Yellowbrickroad or am i just a huge retarded person? Maybe. I thought it was okay.
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Apr 27, 2015 16:43
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Has anyone seen the new movie made by the Marble Hornets crew yet? It's called Always Watching and it involves Slenderman. I saw it available for rent but the PSN is charging $9.99 for a rental and that seems kind of steep.
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Apr 27, 2015 16:56
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Has anyone seen the new movie made by the Marble Hornets crew yet? It's called Always Watching and it involves Slenderman. I saw it available for rent but the PSN is charging $9.99 for a rental and that seems kind of steep. I saw it and thought it was bad, but I never really got into Marble Hornets either.
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Apr 27, 2015 17:08
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My new shameful secret is that I feel like The Return of the Living Dead really loses steam as it goes on, but even that's largely down to how hard it is to keep up with that near-perfect first act.
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Apr 27, 2015 17:18
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Thirding that Return of the Living Dead 3 is batshit insane if nothing else. It's a surprisingly romantic movie about zombie BDSM. Make sure and find the unrated version, the MPAA slashed it to ribbons.
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Apr 27, 2015 17:25
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Jenny Angel posted:My new shameful secret is that I feel like The Return of the Living Dead really loses steam as it goes on, but even that's largely down to how hard it is to keep up with that near-perfect first act. How bout that ending, though?
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Apr 27, 2015 17:26
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LORD OF BUTT posted:Thirding that Return of the Living Dead 3 is batshit insane if nothing else. It's a surprisingly romantic movie about zombie BDSM. Make sure and find the unrated version, the MPAA slashed it to ribbons. I thought I was the only person on the face of the earth to really like this movie until the last two pages of this thread. I actually think Part 2 is passable though, if only for the joke where the actors from the first one, playing basically the same characters, have their little 4th wall moment of "I feel like we've done all this before."
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Apr 27, 2015 17:50
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A Spider Covets posted:does anyone else on the planet like the movie Yellowbrickroad or am i just a huge retarded person? I liked the opening and middle quite a lot, but the last quarter really drags to an unfortunate ending.
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Apr 27, 2015 18:00
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Has anyone seen the new movie made by the Marble Hornets crew yet? It's called Always Watching and it involves Slenderman. I saw it available for rent but the PSN is charging $9.99 for a rental and that seems kind of steep. Pretty sure that it's a completely separate group who just purchased the rights to Marble Hornets. As far as I know the original dudes visited the set one day and that's their contribution (but I haven't seen the film so this might be moot). As is I'm waiting for Netflix to pick it up.
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Apr 27, 2015 18:03
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Glamorama26 posted:Hey guys, is Bride of Frakenstein James Whale's 3rd best picture? Cuz I think The Invisible Man and The Old Dark House are better. All great films, but The Invisible Man is an underrated masterpiece. I think The Old Dark House is his best film. Bride Of Frankenstein might be better shot, and of course The Invisible Man has the still stunning effects work, but The Old Dark House is a pitch perfect horror comedy.
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Apr 27, 2015 18:22
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Just thought I'd say if you haven't already got it the ROTLD blu-Ray is worth a purchase the transfer is pretty nice and it has a pretty fun documentary on it to. ROTLD 3 owns as well but the less said about part 4 & 5 the better.
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Apr 27, 2015 18:23
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:How bout that ending, though? Yeah the ending owns, and it's hard to think of something that involves a literal nuclear artillery shell blowing up all but two characters as "bittersweet", but that's definitely what it feels like. The implication of the whole zombification process is that it returns people as MORE of what they were, at least to some extent, as the origin of the zombie chemical was as a method of dealing with those drat (dangerous! frightful! young!) potheads - but it just created these creatures that are even ruder and even more defined by an addiction. Hence Trash coming back as this flawless, predatory vampire queen. That's the "sweet" part. With the shelling and the rain just propagating the zombie infection further, she's going to come back again as even more sexually liberated and aggressive, and honestly, good for her. The "bitter" part, though, comes when someone like Freddy comes back and the unhealthy aspects of his relationship with Tina rise to the surface. Freddy's been full of golly-gee-shucks Americana from the get-go, but that kinda ends up being the other side of a coin as him pounding on a door screaming at a terrified Tina about how much he loves her. But if the overall extended metaphor are that zombies represent the fears that older generations have about Kids These Days, and that fighting the zombies only makes them stronger and more of themselves, that tilts toward the positive end. Like someone else already mentioned, the movie is happy to mock the goofy fashion and self-importance these kids show, especially given there's like five cliques incongruously mashed together under the umbrella of Young People, but it ultimately portrays them as generally resourceful, accepting, and much kinder-hearted than the old folks. If Colonel Glover's plan is to nuke them over and over in the hopes that he can get back to his terrible boring life where even his favorite meal no longer brings him any joy, then the good news is that it's a poo poo plan and he's hosed.
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Apr 27, 2015 18:55
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Gaz2k21 posted:Just thought I'd say if you haven't already got it the ROTLD blu-Ray is worth a purchase the transfer is pretty nice and it has a pretty fun documentary on it to. 4 & 5 are such a loving travesty because the titles hint that they could be good movies, but no, nope, uh uh. Cheap, Romanian cash grabs shot simultaneously to maximize profits. gently caress those guys that made those pieces of poo poo.
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Apr 27, 2015 19:40
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Yeah, I mean, I'll talk poo poo about Land of the Dead and Diary of the Dead all day, but ROTLD 5 is a much worse disgrace to its legacy. It's such absolute garbage, it shoots past so bad it's funny and is just miserable.
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Apr 27, 2015 19:49
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ROTLD5 at least has a good name: Rave To The Grave. Or is that 4? Or is it 6?
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Apr 27, 2015 19:58
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4 is Necropolis, 5 is Rave to the Grave. Or it's reversed. Whatever. They're so bad I'm not even going to bother checking.
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Apr 27, 2015 19:59
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I was thinking of whichever one has the cyborgs show up at the end. I guess it really doesn't matter which number that is.
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Apr 27, 2015 20:04
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ruddiger posted:4 is Necropolis, 5 is Rave to the Grave. Or it's reversed. Whatever. They're so bad I'm not even going to bother checking. Yeah, I'm gonna be honest - I'm not even going to bother to check.
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Apr 27, 2015 20:06
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Necropolis was kinda fun, I thought. Not deserving of the name but a passable zombie movie on its own. Rave to the Grave can eat a hundred cocks though. Seriously, though, RotLD3 is way underrated.
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Apr 27, 2015 20:21
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I'm bummed that Return isn't on itunes, somehow every lovely sequel to it is though.
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Apr 27, 2015 20:25
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The first movie has some soundtrack issues that keep it from showing up on digital, if I remember correctly.
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If you're up for some bewildering cinema, make sure you check out Death Bed The Bed That Eats. The title is the basic premise. It's an evil bed that eats. At times, it is played as comedy (there is a scene where the Death Bed eats somebody's bucket of chicken). At other times, it is a weird baroque horror film. Sometimes it is just batshit. There is a man trapped inside a painting. Not in the artwork, but literally trapped in a box behind the painting, where he watches the Death Bed eat people for eternity. The painting is a painting of the bed. There is the scene I've shown here, which needs to be seen to be believed. There's an old lady reading some sort of lesbian newspaper on the Death Bed. There's so much to see. This movie is featured prominently in Nightmare USA and the Blu-Ray has an introduction from Stephen Thrower (a very lo-fi introduction, but it's there). This is also the movie that Patton Oswalt rants about in one of his specials, although he gets the title wrong, calling it "Death Bed the Bed That Eats People". It's actually just "the bed that eats" and we do in fact see it eat several things that are not people. Check it out. Definitely better than the later ROTLD sequels and a true curiousity.
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TheJoker138 posted:I thought I was the only person on the face of the earth to really like this movie until the last two pages of this thread. Part 2 also has that bit at the end where they're electrocuting the zombies who are all gyrating from the shock, and the Michael Jackson zombie from "Thriller" (impersonator, of course) stumbles across the screen for a second. I mean, yeah, it's a stupid gag, but it's hilariously stupid.
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Apr 27, 2015 22:33
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All great horror comedy lists itt. But I have to give SLiTHER my number one spot. It's a very special film to me.
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Apr 28, 2015 00:34
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A Spider Covets posted:does anyone else on the planet like the movie Yellowbrickroad or am i just a huge retarded person?
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We watched The Babadook and Housebound on Saturday. Neither are perfect films, but they are both good and were fun to watch. Last night, though, my roommate and I watched Hard Candy. Holy poo poo, that movie ate my soul.
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Apr 28, 2015 01:48
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Dead Alive wins this argument hands down because not only is it the best Horror Comedy, it's the greatest movie ever made. And I'll defend Return of the Living Dead Part 2 all day long, I know my view on it is tinged by nostalgia but I loving loved it as a kid and I still do, it's really the perfect zombie movie for kids.
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InfiniteZero posted:If you're up for some bewildering cinema, make sure you check out Death Bed The Bed That Eats. Seconding this. The bed eats thing by pulling them through beer. I think. It's been a while.
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Apr 28, 2015 03:23
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I'm also gonna pull for Death Bed. It's actually a half-way decent art film.
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Apr 28, 2015 03:28
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CelticPredator posted:All great horror comedy lists itt. But I have to give SLiTHER my number one spot. It's a very special film to me. Slither's top-notch.
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CelticPredator posted:All great horror comedy lists itt. But I have to give SLiTHER my number one spot. It's a very special film to me. There's definitely been some excellent horror-comedy since 2000, if I were putting together a lengthier all-time list stuff like Slither, Drag Me to Hell, and Shaun of the Dead would all probably end up in the top-10. From what I remember Drag Me to Hell is more divisive around here than Slither or Shaun of the Dead. Personally I think its Raimi's best film other than Evil Dead 2.
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Basebf555 posted:From what I remember Drag Me to Hell is more divisive around here than Slither or Shaun of the Dead. Personally I think its Raimi's best film other than Evil Dead 2. My biggest problem with Drag Me To Hell by far is the presence of Justin Long, an actor I hold a special kind of irrational distaste for. I believe that I've said before that for me he is the singular actor I know of capable of ruining a film that is playing in the theatre beside the film he actually appears in.
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InfiniteZero posted:My biggest problem with Drag Me To Hell by far is the presence of Justin Long, an actor I hold a special kind of irrational distaste for. I believe that I've said before that for me he is the singular actor I know of capable of ruining a film that is playing in the theatre beside the film he actually appears in. I'm the opposite in that I have this weird, irrational affection for Justin Long. He comes off as extremely likeable to me in everything he does, even poo poo that I don't like in general. His character in Drag Me to Hell goes a long way towards making me give a poo poo about whats going on, I really root for him and Christine to be ok in the end. They are both characters who are kinda assholes, but have a genuine quality about them that makes it impossible to root against them. Lohman and Long's performances are what give the characters that quality, otherwise the movie would have no heart.
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Ravenous? Possibly not a comedy, definitely really funny.
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InfiniteZero posted:My biggest problem with Drag Me To Hell by far is the presence of Justin Long, an actor I hold a special kind of irrational distaste for. I believe that I've said before that for me he is the singular actor I know of capable of ruining a film that is playing in the theatre beside the film he actually appears in. There IS something weird and repulsive about him but I think that's his charm, like Steve Buscemi or Peter Lorre dialed down to ~30%. It works really well in Tusk-- he can pull off a really dickish and unlikable performance if he wants. I'd like to see him cast as a creepy villain like Ryan Reynolds in The Voices or Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler.
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Neumonic posted:like Steve Buscemi or Peter Lorre Bite your tongue, unless you mean "Escape From LA" Steve Buscemi.
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Neumonic posted:There IS something weird and repulsive about him but I think that's his charm, like Steve Buscemi or Peter Lorre dialed down to ~30%. It works really well in Tusk-- he can pull off a really dickish and unlikable performance if he wants. I'd like to see him cast as a creepy villain like Ryan Reynolds in The Voices or Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler. He also plays a reprehensible douchebag junkie in The Lookalike, which is a piece of poo poo, but he's good in it.
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