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Hedenius posted:How is Roman? I've been told it's quite similar to May. Which sounds very interesting since it's directed by Angela Bettis and Lucky McKee plays the title role (in May it was the other way around for those who don't know). Roman's really cool. It's ultra low-budget and not quite as well-acted or visually impressive as May, but it's pretty well-executed for a first-time director and McKee's screenplay is really strong.
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:The Woods is honestly the least-"Lucky Mckee" of all of Lucky Mckee's movies (also, the only one where he didn't have a hand in the screenplay). Roman and the Masters of Horror episode "Sick Girl" are much closer in tone and, to my mind, much better. Roman I just couldn't finish watching, the low budget DV feel turned me off completely, and I wasn't thrilled with the acting. Although Kristen Bell shows up briefly and does a great job.
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RightClickSaveAs posted:Red from 2008 also didn't feel very much like his tone, although I'm basing that completely off of May (loved it) and Sick Girl (found it entertaining). Also Red had a weird co-director situation that I don't think was ever fully explained, McKee directed most of the movie then quit for some reason, and another director took over. Red was based on a book though so he probably didn't have much say in the story.
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If any of you guys like the Hostel films and live near LA, this year Universal is doing a Hostel haunted house as part of their Halloween Horror Nights. I think that's...interesting. Probably turn out better than their Saw house.
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:If any of you guys like the Hostel films and live near LA, this year Universal is doing a Hostel haunted house as part of their Halloween Horror Nights. I think that's...interesting. Probably turn out better than their Saw house.
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Huh... Found out there is a sequel to Quarantine (the shot for shot remake of Rec) coming out. Weirdly enough, it's a new premise. Instead of going the Rec2 route of entering the hotel right after the events in Rec1, we get : quote:Earlier tonight, a bizarre disease was unleashed in a run-down Los Angeles tenement... and no one got out alive. Yet something escaped. Now, aboard Flight 318, the first symptoms begin to show. As the infection begins to takes root, innocent passengers suddenly transform into terrifying, bloodthirsty killers. Forced to land at an isolated terminal, and surrounded by armed government agents, the crew and passengers grow increasingly desperate. The only question now is how far they will go to survive. Which... seems pretty god damned weird. Kinda wondering how exactly the virus that pops up in a hotel gets from there to airborne. Might have to check it out.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Huh... Found out there is a sequel to Quarantine (the shot for shot remake of Rec) coming out. Dont bother. It's loving wretched. It ditches the first person view and looks like it was made for whatever was in the director's wallet. It does link to Quarantine in a decent way but then completely squanders that idea. Terrible.
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Xenomrph posted:How was the Saw house? The videos I saw of it on youtube made it look really great but I didn't get to visit it in-person. I personally didn't get to go, but everything I watched made it seem pretty not-scary. It's a hard concept to throw guests walking through a maze into. Mostly it was just scenes of torture that don't include the guests, so it's a very passive haunted house. You mostly just watched. They did have "Jigsaw in a Pig Mask" running around though. Hopefully they do more with Hostel than just "scenes of torture you walk past."
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Huh... Found out there is a sequel to Quarantine (the shot for shot remake of Rec) coming out. It's definitely not as good as I'd hoped for based on the premise, but it's not as terrible that I figured any sequel to Quarantine would be. It's okay but it squanders the premise and there's nothing original in it. If you want a quick zombie/infected fix you could do a whole hell of a lot worse.
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:I personally didn't get to go, but everything I watched made it seem pretty not-scary. It's a hard concept to throw guests walking through a maze into. Mostly it was just scenes of torture that don't include the guests, so it's a very passive haunted house. You mostly just watched. They did have "Jigsaw in a Pig Mask" running around though. If I ever move to a neighborhood with trick-or-treaters, I plan on building an interactive saw-style candy dispensing device. In order to get the Holy Grail of halloween candy, the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, you have to stick your hand through a rusted steel pipe and hold down a button for 30 seconds to activate a cam that slowly releases the candy. But pushing the button also fires up a table saw blade, protected behind plexiglass and chicken wire, but right next to the steel pipe, making that horrible table saw noise and appearing as if it's intended to cut through your arm. Of course it doesn't, and if you can tough it out you get the peanut butter cup. If you fail the test, you get honey licorice.
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justlikedunkirk posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqkqF--v1tg I know this is from a ways back but holy crap that looks good. I don't want to know anything more about it, I just want to see it right now.
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Say what you will, but I found Flight of the Living dead to be cheese-tastic. Can't see Quarantine 2 really being worth it.
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weekly font posted:(RE: Grave Encounters)I'm not sure what I laughed harder at; the terrible CGI on the ghost face or "A Film by the Vicious Brothers" That scene is basically a carbon copy of the last shot of Blair Witch, minus all subtlety. A character standing in a corner all creepy-like? Let's do the exact same thing, only have her turn around and make a SPOOKY SCREAMY GHOST FACE. Plus the guy being thrown toward the camera (Paranormal Activity) and the requisite night vision (everything), it looks like "The Vicious Brothers" have created the particleboard of found footage movies, with only a slightly different coat of paint for the premise (which is also cribbed from an existing TV series). I think I'm looking for something new from Found Footage as a genre. I rather enjoyed Troll Hunter so it still manages to entertain, but I'm surprised it hasn't extended much beyond horror/supernatural yet. I'd actually really like to see it branch out into crime thriller more frequently.
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Watched a movie called Stake Land tonight. Premises is the world has been ruined by a plague of that turns people into vampires, but they aren't smart vampires, more like zombie vampires running on animal instinct. I like how most of the movie wasn't focused on the vampires themselves, more on human interaction and how people would turn into selfish power grabbing bastards in the wake of the USA collapsing. It's low budget but certainly entertaining, I'd give it a 7/10 at least.
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Bonk posted:That scene is basically a carbon copy of the last shot of Blair Witch, minus all subtlety. A character standing in a corner all creepy-like? Let's do the exact same thing, only have her turn around and make a SPOOKY SCREAMY GHOST FACE. Plus the guy being thrown toward the camera (Paranormal Activity) and the requisite night vision (everything), it looks like "The Vicious Brothers" have created the particleboard of found footage movies, with only a slightly different coat of paint for the premise (which is also cribbed from an existing TV series). Troll Hunter is an awesome movie  Must be watched in VO for the awesome Norwegian
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rxcowboy posted:Watched a movie called Stake Land tonight. Premises is the world has been ruined by a plague of that turns people into vampires, but they aren't smart vampires, more like zombie vampires running on animal instinct. I like how most of the movie wasn't focused on the vampires themselves, more on human interaction and how people would turn into selfish power grabbing bastards in the wake of the USA collapsing. Yeah, I really enjoyed this movie a fair bit. Of course, it could just be that I was expecting ultra low budget and was pleasantly surprised. Plus I'm a sucker for non-cgi special effects/makeup and their was a lot of that in this movie.
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RightClickSaveAs posted:Roman I just couldn't finish watching, the low budget DV feel turned me off completely, and I wasn't thrilled with the acting. Although Kristen Bell shows up briefly and does a great job. I thought Roman was okay but May and Sick Girl are much better. Angela Bettis is such an interesting actress; I tend to watch her movies just because she ends up in such weird stuff.
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weekly font posted:Suddenly I'm reminded of the COPS episode of X Files. I was thinking more along the lines of stuff like Zero Day, an interesting little Columbine-inspired indie flick made by a couple friends of mine. Man Bites Dog is another good example.
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I can't say that I recommend it, but S&MAN sortof fits the found footage genre (still def. horror).
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With regards to the found footage thing, there's an amateur film on youtube called Louise Paxton is Missing. I found it ages ago and I always pimp it in the ghost story threads in GBS, I thought some of the other found footage fans in this thread might enjoy it: You can either start watching here with is the "proper" beginning and is followed by a lot of background to set her up as a real person: http://www.youtube.com/user/LouisePaxton#p/u/35/sz4EHZJbKqg Or you can skip all that and start where all the spooky poo poo starts happening: http://www.youtube.com/user/LouisePaxton#p/u/27/9NT3slMhpj8 Sorry if it's not appropriate for the thread, but I love found footage so I really enjoyed it. Nothing major happens in it so don't expect too much, but there's some decent creepy moments and I really like how it ends. Also I've just watched The Last Exorcism and Cloverfield finally thanks to this thread. The former was okay until the last five minutes which pretty much ruined the film for me, the latter I enjoy much more than I was expecting.
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Crackerman posted:With regards to the found footage thing, there's an amateur film on youtube called Louise Paxton is Missing. I found it ages ago and I always pimp it in the ghost story threads in GBS, I thought some of the other found footage fans in this thread might enjoy it: edit- nevermind, I figured out that I just needed to look at the date added 
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foodfight posted:I can't say that I recommend it, but S&MAN sortof fits the found footage genre (still def. horror). I thought that S&MAN worked better as a commentary on a specific segment of horror fandom and its uncomfortable proximity to fetish porn than as an actual horror film. The most uncomfortable parts of that movie were, to me, the nonfictional ones.
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foodfight posted:I can't say that I recommend it, but S&MAN sortof fits the found footage genre (still def. horror). The non-Eric parts were legit, right? The interviews with that woman and the August Underground people were really interesting, I hope those were real.
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Warm und Fuzzy posted:If I ever move to a neighborhood with trick-or-treaters, I plan on building an interactive saw-style candy dispensing device. In order to get the Holy Grail of halloween candy, the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, you have to stick your hand through a rusted steel pipe and hold down a button for 30 seconds to activate a cam that slowly releases the candy. But pushing the button also fires up a table saw blade, protected behind plexiglass and chicken wire, but right next to the steel pipe, making that horrible table saw noise and appearing as if it's intended to cut through your arm. Of course it doesn't, and if you can tough it out you get the peanut butter cup. If you fail the test, you get honey licorice. Sounds like a poor man's Jom Gabbar.
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:I personally didn't get to go, but everything I watched made it seem pretty not-scary. It's a hard concept to throw guests walking through a maze into. Mostly it was just scenes of torture that don't include the guests, so it's a very passive haunted house. You mostly just watched. They did have "Jigsaw in a Pig Mask" running around though. They had a Saw house in Las Vegas Fright Dome and it was really well done, but it was so crowded you got ran through it. You did get to participate in some of the scenes. The first one was put your hand in the box and don't move or the trap would snap closed on your hand. The scenes were great and movie quality. They even implemented some smells into it which were foul enough to make you turn your head. But yeah, I was a bit bummed that the guides were forced to rush everyone through at a basic jog because I'd like to have checked out some of the scenes more. Also, they changed some of the scenes each week. There was a My Bloody Valentine house that used some direct scenes from the remake but it honestly was not scary whatsoever. It just looked sets from the film and occasionally you'd see a miner. Hostel seems like a good premise for a fright house really.
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:Sounds like a poor man's Jom Gabbar. Do you mean Gom jabbar?
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I finally watched Trick R Treat because of this thread and drat, you guys weren't kidding, it was really good (I didn't think I was going to enjoy it very much). I'm currently watching Isolation and I'm pretty surprised by it (imagine Black Sheep but with no comedy elements whatsoever). However, don't be like me and watch this movie while eating eggs for breakfast ugh. Also seconding that Troll Hunter was pretty awesome, though I wouldn't call it a horror movie per say.
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wormil posted:Do you mean Gom jabbar? Use this only if you have an old lady dress up like a nun and intone about how "fear is the mind killer, young dracula."
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Watched 'The Last Exorcism', I liked it quite a bit up until the last 5 minutes when it felt like the filmmakers just didn't know how to end the movie. I mean it had all kinds of creepy stuff and I don't regret watching it, but that ending just felt... lazy to me.
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Xenomrph posted:Watched 'The Last Exorcism', I liked it quite a bit up until the last 5 minutes when it felt like the filmmakers just didn't know how to end the movie. I mean it had all kinds of creepy stuff and I don't regret watching it, but that ending just felt... lazy to me. I actually kind of liked it. I thought it tied in nicely with what I saw as a larger theme about doing what you were born (and raised) to do.
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I feel a post coming on about how excellent the ending of the Last Exorcism is.
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Craig Spradlin posted:I actually kind of liked it. I thought it tied in nicely with what I saw as a larger theme about doing what you were born (and raised) to do. That and the ending is literally that Cotton goes out into the clearing and then 30 seconds later the other 2 characters get murdered, roll credits. It wasn't scary or shocking. Compare it to the ending to the Blair Witch Project, which was creepy as gently caress and left your imagination wondering what really happened, which made it even scarier. With the ending to 'the Last Exorcism' it doesn't have that ambiguity, you know what happened and it wasn't all that scary. Xenomrph fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Aug 3, 2011 |
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You don't find the idea that everything that your rational mind and experience has told you is outlandish and crazy and stupid and nothing more than folklore and hearsay from uneducated people turning out to be 100% true isn't absolutely terrifying? Cotton's basically seeing the actual battle for humanity tipping in one direction in those last minutes. It seems a bit late to regroup and warn the family when a baby has been tossed into a fire and is increasing the size of said fire twentyfold while a Satanic cult is calling on the return of the Antichrist. This is one of those cases where ambiguity will leave you slightly creeped out, sure, but seeing the curtain being pulled back is much more effective.
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The Cameo posted:You don't find the idea that everything that your rational mind and experience has told you is outlandish and crazy and stupid and nothing more than folklore and hearsay from uneducated people turning out to be 100% true isn't absolutely terrifying? Not to mention 'Fallen' played the successful demonic posession, with evil winning and the hero dying ending already and was much more successful with it because the foreshadowing wasn't so heavy-handed so the actual end came as much more of a surprise.
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The Cameo posted:You don't find the idea that everything that your rational mind and experience has told you is outlandish and crazy and stupid and nothing more than folklore and hearsay from uneducated people turning out to be 100% true isn't absolutely terrifying? This is a cheap comparison, but Rosemary's Baby used a similar device to much better effect. The horror comes from confirming our fears, but unless I missed something, The Last Exorcism was very careful about not allowing me any to harbor. They "foreshadowed" a lot, but every foreshadowing had a rational explanation laid out flat. It spent the entire movie demonstrating no matter how serious things seemed, it was all smoke and mirrors and psychological tricks, and then it showed me Satan..  I don't know, it just seemed clownish. When they went back to the house and found it defaced, my first thought was honestly that a completely unrelated satanic cult had shown up and kidnapped the incestuous pedophile rapist father.
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Xenomrph posted:Well it wasn't so much that as the heavy-handed foreshadowing that all 3 of them die anyway. I'd have rather had ambiguity as to their fate, rather than had it spelled out that all 3 die and fail to beat the satanic evil. That's what made the ending feel lazy for me. I think a good middleground would have been to include Nell's drawing of Cotton in front of the flames, but to omit the drawing of all 3 characters dying, and then have the movie ending with Cotton going towards the flames (like the drawing) but then maybe the flames explode bigger and the camera is knocked to the ground and breaks, so you're left wondering exactly what happened and if any of them lived. Instead the movie ends with "yeah they all died, sorry folks, roll credits". That isn't scary. You do realize you ruined the ending to The Last Exorcism in the post before this right? Because its strange that now you feel the need to use spoiler tags.
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Mouser.. posted:You do realize you ruined the ending to The Last Exorcism in the post before this right? Because its strange that now you feel the need to use spoiler tags. I can always go back and edit my post anyway.  Edit-- just did! 
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Watched Insidious last night and really didn't enjoy it that much. As other folks in this thread have said, the first 30 minutes or so of the movie is really pretty decent, the jump scares were weak but the tone was great. Pretty much after the home invasion scene it starts getting a bit poo poo when they over explain what is happening and the terrible haunted house effects at the end certainly didn't help. I actually kind of liked Dead Silence but this was not good.
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Cubone posted:When they went back to the house and found it defaced, my first thought was honestly that a completely unrelated satanic cult had shown up and kidnapped the incestuous pedophile rapist father. See, the thing that I liked was that the twist was that the father was not an incestous pedophile rapist.
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