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lizardman posted:I actually thought Screams 2 & 3 were pretty solid all things considering. I was a huge Scream fanboy as a kid and will defend 2 to the ends of the earths, but 3? Man... they show that movie on YTV in Canada, which is like Nickelodeon.
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Darko posted:Diary is more annoying, Survival is more inept. Diary has the amish guy too. \/\/\/Exactly. Deaf Amish guy is basically the turning point from awful to amusingly awful LesterGroans fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Mar 31, 2010 |
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Keanu Grieves posted:As bad as I expected it to be, Paranormal Activity 4 was worse than I could've ever imagined. I liked the Kinnect gimmick...and the lead was a pretty naturalistic teen...and that's it.
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Keanu Grieves posted:Also, the boyfriend looked like Walt Jr. and I kept getting hungry for breakfast foods. The boyfriend may have been my favourite part, actually. "He doesn't like you." "Who doesn't like me?" "You'll see." "...the gently caress-" That being said, he doesn't hold a candle to the Galactus of Bacon.
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Jan 16, 2013 18:41
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Teenage Fansub posted:Looks like there's a computer in the wraparound story, so it seems they're being smarter about it and we wont have to wonder why someone taped a screencaptured video call. Nobody wondered this except crazy people.
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Jan 17, 2013 04:53
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Both The Devil's Rejects and Halloween II own completely, House of 1000 Corpses and Halloween have some interesting or downright great parts mixed with laughably terrible parts. I just watched the new trailer for Lords of Salem and it at least looks gorgeous. I'm completely down with it. And he most likely had nothing to do with that poster, I don't get the 90s aesthetic vibe from his films at all.
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Feb 5, 2013 16:34
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Insidious is both scary and goofy and turned into one of my favourite horror films in a long time. I can't wait for the sequel. Sinister was solid and had one of the best scares I've seen. Count me among the out-of-touch I guess.
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Profondo Rosso posted:I liked zombie's Halloween, but I loved his Halloween 2. It's no longer constrained by carpenter's original story, so zombie just goes bat poo poo insane with it. There are some sub par performances, but malcolm McDowell and scout taylor Compton own. Laurie's not a stereotypical "last girl", she's a traumatized teen trying to rebuild the remains of her life, who can't escape her past no matter what she tries. The dream sequences are pretty good if weird and stylish, with the hospital one being great. Yeah. Halloween bores me even though I appreciate Zombie's work in it. I pretty much love Halloween 2 though. It actually bothers to explore what a survivor of those situations would likely go through. I also loved the opening lip-service to the hospital setting of the original Halloween II.
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James Wan has narrowed horror down to "things that are slightly over Patrick Wilson's shoulder" and we're all the better for it. That movie looks great and Wan already deserves a place in the pantheon for the first Saw movie and Insidious alone. Hopefully this is icing on the cake.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I was just looking at the cast on IMDB and it's pretty much all people I love, except maybe Nick Cannon. Yeah, The Killing Room was a nice surprise. One of those, "Hey, never heard of this before and it doesn't star Cuba Gooding Jr or Val Kilmer. I'll give it a shot" kind of rentals. Really enjoyed it. Back to Saw chat: I think Saw 6 is the best of the series, ignoring some of the "mythology" or whatever. It had a fantastic lead performance by a great actor and the most memorable moment in the entire series, to me: When William decides who to save on that carousel and the one staffer yells at him to "You look at me when you kill me!"
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Apr 3, 2013 23:05
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Bring Me The Head of Machine Gun Woman sounds amazing.
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Jun 29, 2013 22:51
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axleblaze posted:The trailer makes it look like it might be better than Rodriguez style grindhouse but not by a whole lot. Shame. I don't think I'll even watch it because nothing can match the title for me.
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Jun 29, 2013 23:18
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Kevar posted:So how long until someone actually makes a horror movie called Die Cis Scum? Hopefully not too long, cause that sounds legit interesting. penismightier posted:What is a "straight people problem"? It's like the same weird people who don't like Social Network because Zuckerberg's rich.
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Question for the Horror Thread: Which are some of the best episodes of the Masters of Horror series? What are the essential ones I should watch?
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Thanks, that's a good list to start with. Has anyone seen that Fear, Itself anthology series? I remember seeing an episode or two but nothing memorable. Any of that worth checking out?
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I think I'm one of the people who've taken to Day over Dawn. Ever since the Dawn remake came out--and surpassed the original imo--I've liked Day better than original flavour Dawn.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The Mangler might be my favorite of King's pulpy short stories, that or The Lawnmower Man. The image that Lawnmower Man put into my head when I was 13 is still seared into my brain. It's a horrifying cartoonish image and I think King would love that.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:June 17th, 1994 is one of the best found footage movies ever made, "found footage" in the original documentary sense of the phrase. It and 102 Minutes That Changed America are basically the pinnacle of the "genre".
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Oct 6, 2013 21:46
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:Halloween is actually 70s, but it's one of the best, most important, and most influential horror movies of all time, so definitely watch that. Halloween is legit fantastic. It has one of the best third acts ever. It's relentless.
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So Dark Skies is hilarious and awesome. JK Simmons as a Quint with an "I don't give a gently caress" attitude is perfect.
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Xandoom posted:What are the best blood and guts Satan worshipping devil cult movies? Only meets half your criteria(it's not really blood and guts) but Race With the Devil is great.
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Nov 12, 2013 23:07
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Although the score was top-loving-notch. Love the score so much. Best part of the movie was near the end when it keeps cutting back to the lead and has that Carpenter-as-gently caress music.
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Besides some great effects at the end Jane Levy was the only good part of Evil Dead 2013. She really deserves to blow up huge.
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Everblight posted:How were any of the movies that came out after Scream "ripoffs," other than 'hey, let's put young, popular and nubile actresses on screen and chop them to bits'? I mean, they're not exact clones obviously, but if you don't see how the success of Scream influenced the making of stuff like I Know What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legend, Valentine, etc. then I don't know what to tell you. They weren't as good as Scream so they obviously weren't as successful/enduring but they're definitely products of its success.
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I watched the trailer for the remake of The Town That Dreaded Sundown and, even though it seems like it'd totally be My Kinda poo poo, I've never seen the original. I'm gonna track it down and watch it regardless so I won't ask if it's worth it, but what are people's thoughts on it?
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Thanks for The Town That Dreaded Sundown thoughts btw. I've tracked down a copy to watch tomorrow and I'll be able to actually read what you wrote then.
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sticklefifer posted:I'd almost consider Blue Ruin a horror movie with the tension it raises throughout, and the unflinching brutality in it. I loved that they could pull off something like have him hesitantly stab-fight a guy, slip on his blood, and have the guy convulse on the floor, because that's exactly how a revenge murder probably happens: Ugly and awkward. I love that movie so much. It's just got this awful, rising dread throughout the whole movie. I had to talk myself out of using it for my 31 Days of Horror thing because it may be stretching it too far. But drat, it's a lot like a dirty, low-budget, horror No Country For Old Men.
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Lurdiak posted:I don't know if I could ever watch Polytechnique. I kind of take my distance from popular culture for granted sometimes: every disturbing or crazy or gritty film or tv series I watch is inevitably set in America, sometimes Japan or Europe, places that might as well be on another planet for me. Seeing a documentary about 9/11 or Columbine simply can't hit me as hard as something about a massacre that happened in my own back yard, even though it happened when I was barely sentient. I feel the exact same way. Villeneuve is a current favourite director of mine--Enemy's one of the best movies of the year--but I don't think I could ever watch that. It's just so tragic and close to home. Which is odd, because I feel like I'd be totally into watching a film about Russell Williams' murders and that's even more in my backyard. Maybe because the Polytechnique shootings were one of the first things that made me realize "Oh, the world can be awful and hosed up".
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I watched the Fifth Estate episode about his confession and that was enough. I'm not sure how they'd do a movie about it and not make it salacious. That's true. I just really dig the idea of this guy being such a huge creep with such an important job. I know it's super cliche to be all "he seemed nice/never would have suspected him" but there's something intriguing to me about it in this case in particular. You're right that it would probably end up being icky as all hell and I don't think I'd be able to stomach that.
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Seeing him in that Fifth Estate episode, or even apparently in person, he comes off as that exactly. Even in the pictures he took of himself he seems composed and inscrutable. He's got a "girlfriend's standoffish dad" aura about him. But, ugh, I've thought too much about him today now.
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TheJoker138 posted:I don't see how anyone could like the first Scream and not 4, when it's just as smart about doing the same thing to modern horror films as the original was to the horror films from that era. Especially torture porn and remakes. I don't hate 4. it's not very good, but I don't hate it. However I can easily see someone hating it. The greasy soft-focus bullshit is enough justification as far as I'm concerned.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Rewatched Scream due to recent Scream discussion. Still dope. Some stray observations: Yeah, I rewatched it recently too and it's great. The opening and the final house party(which moves along so quickly I had no idea it was almost half the drat movie) are classics alone. It's basically Matthew Lillard's magnum opus too.
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So here's a question. A group of friends and I are watching horror movies we selected based on a theme on Halloween. The theme is "masks and costumes" to keep it kinda vague and open. I want to avoid picking the big ones that comes to mind (Halloween, Friday the 13th, etc) so any creative suggestions?
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Really cool lineup. Haven't gotten to watch any of them yet but I'll try to catch this one.
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Thanks for all the suggestions. Definitely going with Halloween III, now just need to decide on one of the other ones for a backup.
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harley posted:'The Guest' definitely had a similar vibe with 'The Stepfather.' The Guest is if John Carpenter directed Captain America in the 80s as a horror movie. It also has a dope-rear end synth score.
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schwenz posted:Is The Guest the movie with Niles from Frasier being much more terrifying than you would expect? That's The Perfect Host
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schwenz posted:Is there crossover potential here? I'd totally watch a tense thriller with David Hyde Pierce's character trying to entertain Dan Stevens' character for a weekend.
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People need to stop being so tight-rear end about genre. And American Psycho is an odd one to single out. It's as much a horror movie as Alien, in that they're both very much horror movies.
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