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King Vidiot posted:Hey speaking of, I found the absolute best cover art for Christmas Evil: Strangely, the text describes Santa Claus Conquers the Martians: “The children of Mars are sad, we need a Santa Claus. Objective: kidnap him and bring him to Mars.”
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Benito Cereno posted:Strangely, the text describes Santa Claus Conquers the Martians: “The children of Mars are sad, we need a Santa Claus. Objective: kidnap him and bring him to Mars.” Nowadays it'd probably be the text from Jingle All the Way... or Spider-Man. I still can't get over how genuinely good that movie is, considering the director's only other two movies were softcore porn.
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King Vidiot posted:Nowadays it'd probably be the text from Jingle All the Way... or Spider-Man. Has anyone checked out the rest of his oeuvre?
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With all the talk of the xenomorph mouth, I'm surprised nobody has mentioned moray eels and their secondary phaerangel jaws that basically work the same way.
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Well with the size of the xenomorph the tiny mouth (My coworker and I have decided that all the tiny mouths are called Tim, by the way) couldn't possibly be the way that it gains nourishment. The xenomorph is too big and it's Tim would have to be eating non-stop to provide adequate sustenance. I'm gonna ask Ridley Scott on Twitter. Maybe he'll know.
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Pet Sematary as Child: Nightmares! Pet Sematary as Young Adult: Ho-Hum! Pet Sematary as husband and father: Nightmares! ...context is everything
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Untrustable posted:Well with the size of the xenomorph the tiny mouth (My coworker and I have decided that all the tiny mouths are called Tim, by the way) couldn't possibly be the way that it gains nourishment. The xenomorph is too big and it's Tim would have to be eating non-stop to provide adequate sustenance. I'm gonna ask Ridley Scott on Twitter. Maybe he'll know. I always imagined that the Tim also acted like a butterfly's mouth to suck up all the juices, in other words it bashes the food into a liquid and then drinks it all up like a spider. So a xenomorph is really a butterfly/spider hybrid when you think about it...
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Franchescanado posted:Oh, also, new horror thread OP is going to have a Staff Picks section, since that's fun for everyone. I want my staff pick to be Hauntedween.
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Dec 11, 2018 15:52
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I vote for either Bloodz vs Wolvez or Ice Queen.
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Dec 11, 2018 16:31
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Is Maniac Cop too obvious to recommend?
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I want my staff pick to be Hauntedween. Same
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:Is Maniac Cop too obvious to recommend? Not at all. The average person most definitely has not seen Maniac Cop.
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ruddiger posted:Yeah, but I think he means why a mouth instead of a tooth/fang or a barbed stinger. The inner mouth's stalk is cavernous and ribbed so more than likely it's an extension of the esophagus, which probably means the outer mouth is more for tearing and maiming, so when it attacks it probably goes inner mouth strike, outer mouth tearing/maiming, inner mouth slurping up the goo. Wasn’t there a scene in AvP:R that pretty blatantly showed the xenos using their secondary mouths to eat some of the dumb teens they kill?
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Yarbald posted:Wasn’t there a scene in AvP:R that pretty blatantly showed the xenos using their secondary mouths to eat some of the dumb teens they kill? Not really, it uses the mouth as a tool to bash holes in their skulls but I don't remember there being a scene where we see them actually eat with it.
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SecretOfSteel posted:Pet Sematary as Child: Nightmares! I remember laughing at the funeral scene a bunch of times before I became a father, but the last time I rewatched it I felt like I was on the verge of a panic attack. I'm probably going to keep that and Pumpkinhead on the shelf until my kid's a little bit older.
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Liberal Idiot posted:I remember laughing at the funeral scene a bunch of times before I became a father, but the last time I rewatched it I felt like I was on the verge of a panic attack. I'm probably going to keep that and Pumpkinhead on the shelf until my kid's a little bit older. I kind of wish Pumpkinhead was like, a little slower paced? Despite how rad Pumpkinhead itself is I actually like everything just the fully adult version of it's actually around a lot more. Good movie either way though.
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Sorry if it has been discussed before, but last night we saw "Cam" on Netflix and, holy poo poo, how come critics raved about that steaming piece of crap?
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Non Serviam posted:Sorry if it has been discussed before, but last night we saw "Cam" on Netflix and, holy poo poo, how come critics raved about that steaming piece of crap? They liked it more than you did? I thought the twist was novel for a horror film.
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Dec 11, 2018 17:35
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I've lurked in this thread much more than I've posted but I've discovered a lot of awesome films through it, so thanks all. My pick is The Living Dead Girl (La Morte Vivante)
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:They liked it more than you did? I thought the twist was novel for a horror film. I also don't understand how it has been hailed as "woke" or feminist, considering that the main character uses extreme violence on herself for masturbating male costumers, who get off on seeing a woman bleed. The ending also didn't make any sense (is she going to keep breaking her nose every time the AI comes back?) not to mention that the mother helping her makeup before she whores herself out again was just cringy as all hell.
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Neo Rasa posted:I kind of wish Pumpkinhead was like, a little slower paced? Despite how rad Pumpkinhead itself is I actually like everything just the fully adult version of it's actually around a lot more. Good movie either way though. I feel the opposite. Besides the start pumpkin head himself doesn’t appear til over halfway through the movie. I want more footage of the demon monster killing people not lance Henrickson being sad and some teenager being a douche!
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My staff pick is DEATHDREAM
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Does Barton Fink belong in this thread because I think that's my pick
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:My staff pick is DEATHDREAM  that was my pick for the October challenge, great movie
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Pomp posted:Does Barton Fink belong in this thread because I think that's my pick Idk it’s got the devil killing people so probably
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Non Serviam posted:It's the story of a camgirl who does everything stupidly, basically. I haven’t seen Cam, but I’m just gonna say that complaining people act stupidly in a horror movie is just about the weakest possible complaint you can lob against any film.
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I’m gonna go with the Purge: Anarchy as my pick, even if I only post sporadically
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Noroi for my recommendation.
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Basebf555 posted:I always imagined that the Tim also acted like a butterfly's mouth to suck up all the juices, in other words it bashes the food into a liquid and then drinks it all up like a spider. So a xenomorph is really a butterfly/spider hybrid when you think about it... This whole topic reminds me that when I saw Alien for the first time when I was like 8 or 9, I was under the impression that the little chest burster and the adult alien were in fact two completely separate entities, and that the chest burster found the alien on board the ship (who in this version, I guess was just another stowaway from the planet surface), and attached itself into the mouth of the adult alien, kind of like the parasites that attach themselves inside fish mouths. e: also, hearing that this thread is going to get locked is kinda bumming me out.
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My staff pick is Night Breed. It's not to everyone's tastes, and it's melodramatic, but I'm a big queer monster so it kind of has always been aimed squarely at me.
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My staff picks are Motel Hell, Messiah of Evil, and Re-Animator
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I haven’t seen Cam, but I’m just gonna say that complaining people act stupidly in a horror movie is just about the weakest possible complaint you can lob against any film. They didn't feel stupid in the traditional horror movie way (like saying "let's split up"), it was more like the decisions didn't make any sense whatsoever, down to the master plan in the end.
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It's a tinier xenomorph that lives inside the big xenomorph mouth.
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Choco1980 posted:My staff pick is Night Breed. It's not to everyone's tastes, and it's melodramatic, but I'm a big queer monster so it kind of has always been aimed squarely at me. Nightbreed rules I don't care what anyone says.
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Hollismason posted:It's a tinier xenomorph that lives inside the big xenomorph mouth. As usual mother nature is way more metal/horrifying than our favorite horror movies: https://roaring.earth/tongue-eating-parasitic-louse-replaces-fish-tongues/
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Nightbreed is great, and I unironically think Cronenberg is really good in it.
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Biomute posted:Nightbreed is great, and I unironically think Cronenberg is really good in it. He's the best part of the movie but I still think it's mostly unrealized potential. Just too big of an idea for the resources they had to work with.
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Franchescanado posted:Oh, also, new horror thread OP is going to have a Staff Picks section, since that's fun for everyone. Somebody already claimed my go to recommendation for Messiah of Evil so I'll go with Scream for Help.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOzeCPE5CI0 Probably the best teen coming of age mystery sex thriller horror exploitation film scored by a member of Led Zeppelin! The best review that I've seen for it that I wish I wrote was "The sleaziest Nancy Drew."
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InfiniteZero posted:Somebody already claimed my go to recommendation for Messiah of Evil so I'll go with Scream for Help. Lol I picked three movies so you're more than welcome to steal Messiah back
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