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spixxor posted:I thought Insidious was a great movie, and it did great at building tension, but Darth Maul demon really should have been designed differently. Even the jump scare where he was behind the guy was kinda ruined for me because that's all I could think of. This. My other problem was the song that played during the ghost boy scene, and (I think) later when Darth Maul was sharpening his claws, sounded a lot like the Tiny Tim song from Spongebob: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCtQmwJ1WAY. So the whole time this was going on, all I could think of was Spongebob making Krabby Patties for the anchovies.
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Darko posted:4's deaths were too predictable as well; the cause of death was generally what you'd expect when the sequence started. None of the whole "he dodges 17 deaths only to have a ladder go through his eye," or "she dodged the pipe - nope, airbag pushed her head back through it" touches that made the 2nd great. It also has the dude who gets crushed by the falling pane of glass, one of my favorite deaths in the series. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rne8gwWP2w
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Jul 1, 2011 07:31
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Darko posted:Tony Todd? Candyman? The guy who is in the trailer to this one? I like the idea that he realized he had a badass voice, so he gave up on the whole mortician job to become a full-time voice actor.
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Jul 12, 2011 05:09
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RichterIX posted:I liked Jennifer's Body and I don't really care who knows it. It may not be a good movie in the classical sense, but drat if it's not entertaining. It's on HBO all the time, so a lot of times, I'll just be like "Nothing else is on, I'll watch Jennifer's Body again!"
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Jul 20, 2011 20:09
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Is it just me, or is Final Destination 5 like if Remember Me was a really good horror movie instead of a mediocre romance movie? Also, with a fictional plane explosion, rather than 9/11.
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Aug 19, 2011 23:53
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I was gonna check out Never Sleep Again, even though I haven't seen them all (or any of them recently), and I was planning to marathon them. Would it be better if I watched them all before or afterwards?
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Sep 1, 2011 23:52
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The scene where the chick with the video camera walks into the room where all the ghosts are, and they all turn and stare at her freaked me out pretty good. Also, Chris Kattan losing his poo poo is pretty funny, too.
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Sep 4, 2011 22:53
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I just finished JDATE like a month ago, so I'm pretty excited for this. I only hope they can somehow make the "Prepare to meat your maker" joke work on the screen, I was hysterical laughing at that whole sequence. Edit: I forgot, does John actually die at the end? I don't remember now.
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Sep 26, 2011 18:21
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This is weird, I just watched Scream 2, too. Although mine was on a DVD that I bought, because I'm too cheap for Netflix and it was only $5. Now, despite only having the first two, I want to marathon the Scream movies.
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Oct 12, 2011 01:49
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ack! posted:My 14 year old niece was traumatized by The New Daughter which wasn't particularly memorable to me but I'm not a teenage girl. Kids can be funny that way. I probably saw Poltergeist a million times as a kid, and it never scared me. I was, however, scarred when my grandmother decided that The Silence of the Lambs would be a great movie for me to watch. Grandma 
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weekly font posted:My grandfather gave me a love of horror movies when he would show me It and Children of the Corn at age 4, traumatizing me to this day (gently caress clowns). I always thought he was kind of awesome for it. To quote my grandmother, "it's fun to scare little kids!" I refused to watch Silence of the Lambs again for the longest time. Weirdly though, Poltergeist never scared me at all.
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ZombieParts posted:Friday the 13th managed to keep the feel of the original series and honestly felt like a sequel as much as a remake. It had all of the elements from the original series and it also felt updated and not so 80's. Definitely a fantastic remake. My one problem with the F13 remake was that the tone was just slightly off, and some of the kills felt too mean, specifically Chewie getting the screwdriver in the throat, and Lawrence getting axed. The blonde couple on the boat were just the right tone though. Then again, the old ones had some pretty mean stuff, so maybe it's just a problem I have with it as a movie, not as an entry in the F13 series.
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Feb 17, 2012 21:28
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Crackerman posted:I just watched Diary of the Dead. I know it's not a recent horror (is this thread for "upcoming" horror anymore?) but I had to vent. The film was so loving bad. I just can't believe he made more movies after Land of the Dead. And yes, I said movies. 
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Feb 26, 2012 02:43
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ruddiger posted:loving Ving Rhames, I was flipping through Netflix and noticed Rhames is in yet another zombie movie, Zombie Apocalypse, made by Asylum Films (yes, THAT Asylum). Despite the terrible effects and worse acting, it's actually pretty enjoyable for what it is, and some of the dialogue and sequences are a little too clever for an Asylum picture (using airhorns as zombie distraction grenades, arrows vs. guns argument, etc.), but redeems itself by the end with a fantastically terrible cgi zombie-tiger fighting scene. Wouldn't a zombie tiger only be interested in eating other tigers?
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Feb 28, 2012 22:56
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I was a kid when it first came out, but the opening scene from Scream gave me some nightmares for a while, not to mention the fact that my grandmother thought showing me Silence of the Lambs was a great idea around that time.
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The Duke posted:The Grudge was horrible but there's something about an entity standing 1 step behind you, literally breathing on your neck and being completely unaware of it that still managed to be creepy at times. Things popping out of the dark as well. Didn't it have some sort of weird thing in the audio/bass mix that only worked in theatres to creep people out, that was lost in the transition to DVD?
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Mar 12, 2012 21:56
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Harminoff posted:Anyone else catch atm not that kind of atm? It stars Josh Peck and is written by the guy that wrote Buried. Same one place setup but with three people instead of one and thit time stuck at an atm booth with a killer standing outside the door. They pretty much stole the killer from the first Urban Legend movie. Or am I the only one to remember that? Movie still looks good, though.
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Mar 15, 2012 03:06
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I watched Grave Encounters last night, and for the most part I enjoyed it, although it did seem incredibly derivative. The backstory of the asylum was straight out of the remake of House on Haunted Hill, and the ghost hands scene seemed lifted directly from this well-known "demon" video. That being said, the shifting of the building was interesting to see, I feel like that's underused and freaky as hell.
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Mar 21, 2012 01:23
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TUS posted:Holy moley I haven't seen that movie in forever. I remember watching it like monthly growing up. Poor John Ritter I had no idea other people knew that movie, I saw it as a kid and thought it kicked rear end.
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Mar 24, 2012 04:34
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Blair Witch is a lot like Austin Powers in that on it's own meit, it's a fantastic movie, but it got way too popular for its own good. There was a time in the late 1990s/early 2000s where you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting some sort of parody.
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Apr 21, 2012 03:50
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:I can never get into They're Creeping Up on You. Maybe because I don't find bugs to be a scary thing in the slightest, or maybe it's because the actor does such a good job playing an unlikable character. Who knows. I'm partial to "Something To Tide You Over," mostly because Leslie Nielson.
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May 21, 2012 05:12
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Horns posted:It's not a Slenderman movie, or at least not an "official" one. The only similarity between the two is they both abduct children. Supposedly this is what The Tall Man in Pascal Laugier's movie looks like: So it's Bruce Willis' character in Unbreakable? And I watched Devil earlier, and I feel like they fumbled on a really good concept with a bad script, too high a budget, and not enough scares. I did enjoy the security guard freaking out about toast landing the wrong way, though.
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May 25, 2012 06:36
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CobiWann posted:I caught Grave Encounters on a whim this weekend. It was on one of the Showtime channels, I was on the computer, and thought "eh, I'm a sucker for haunted asylums." I liked it, but they stole too much from other sources for my liking. The "hand demon" youtube video was copied almost direction, and the ending was taken from a scene in the remake of House On Haunted Hill.
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Jul 6, 2012 23:25
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PaleInkedBoy posted:Has anyone here seen John Dies at the End? I'm dying to see that movie and I haven't heard anything about it in ages. According to their Facebook/Twitter, they're waiting on news of a release date.
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Well I know what I'm watching tonight. Going in completely blind, all I know is that it's called Detention, and it's insane.
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CrazyPanda posted:Shouid probabiy watch it with a good beer. No beer, but I do have a big bowl of awesome fried rice. So that's something.
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Aug 8, 2012 04:55
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Just finished Detention, too. I have no idea what happened, but I think it was awesome. I think.
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I like The Walking Dead  It has a lot of faults and things that could be a lot better, but it's good for a bit of schlocky fun. And it convinced my sister to watch Shaun of the Dead, so some good has come out of it.
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:Thir13en Ghosts is a total guilty pleasure of mine. I admit I have a certain fondness for that movie, mostly because of the  sets and the ghosts. Looking back on it, it seems almost like a precursor to the whole SCP thing.Which reminds me, has there ever been a movie to try to recreate the elaborate movie theater gags/gimmicks like the original Thirteen Ghosts, House on Haunted Hill, The Tingler, etc? Even a re-release of one of these would be really cool.
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Aug 23, 2012 01:42
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There really need to be more good werewolf movies. What is there, aside from the old "Wolfman" movies? An American Werewolf In London, Ginger Snaps, and Teen Wolf?
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Sep 3, 2012 02:01
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Mouser.. posted:It's not really a horror movie. Unless you considered Idle Hands to be a horror movie instead of just being loving stupid. Idle Hands is great, I don't know what you're talking about.
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Sep 3, 2012 03:40
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I feel like there has to be some sort of irony in the final girl of a "feminist" slasher movie wearing a shirt called a "wife beater."
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Sep 8, 2012 18:50
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:I liked the remake because it was actually a thrill ride of a film, which most remakes aren't, they are dark ride versions of the original. (theme park references, what of it?) I imagine that'd have to be close to watching Goodfellas with Henry Hill. But thanks to this thread, I'm having a TCM/Halloween remake double feature tonight.
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Alhazred posted:I thought Gunnar Hansen hated that movie. Considering the hellish conditions under which the original was shot, I could see it being easy to be bitter about those drat kids having it easy.
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Sep 8, 2012 23:00
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I'm watching the Texas Chainsaw remake...was that a Harry Knowles cameo as a severed face?
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Sep 9, 2012 03:59
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Glamorama26 posted:As I said earlier, the Leatherface depiction is so so lazy and that's a big part of my problem with the film. He's just a big angry dude with a chainsaw. Meh. Am I a sick person for laughing at the scene where his severed chainsaw-holding arm is spinning around in circles on the floor and he just can't pick it up? It just came off as comical.
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Sep 10, 2012 02:50
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Lock all the theater doors and have an actual masked serial killer loose with a chainsaw in the dark. That's a terrible idea, that's like having an actual terrorist in the theaters during The Dark Knight Rises.
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The Rover posted:Also from the past few years : Trick 'R Treat. I love the atmosphere of it. It literally feels like Halloween night to me, and that is one of my favorite feelings ever. I love Trick 'r Treat. I really can't picture it as something you'd watch in a movie theater, it feels like something you'd watch on Halloween night while you eat most of the big bowl of candy that was supposed to be for the trick or treaters. The atmosphere is incredible.
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Sep 23, 2012 18:24
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:Return of the Living Dead and Re-Animator form the holy trinity of "essential '80s comedy-horror" along with Evil Dead 2. I'd say Evil Dead 2 is my favorite, but in terms of mixing dread with comedy, I'd say Return of the Living Dead is the best. It's really impressive the feeling of utter hopelessness that movie creates while still remaining funny. Hey everybody, Trash is taking off her clothes again!
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Irish Taxi Driver posted:My fiance and I are going to attempt the halloween challenge again this year of 31 "horror" movies in October, we tried two years ago and got 2/3rds of the way through it. I think the failure that year was too much of the same, we watched a whole bunch of classic slashers and got burnt out. No Hocus Pocus? For shame.
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