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I just looked through some older pages of this thread looking for a movie to watch, and Lake Mungo came highly recommended. After watching it, I can't understand why. One slightly scary scene does not make a good movie when the rest of it is horridly boring. I guess if you enjoy looking at camera footage to occasionally see a GHOST WOOOH SPOOKY then this is terrifying?
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weekly font posted:Fuckin mood and tension, how does it work? usually best without an annoying interview laid over it
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I was really confused by this discussion of the hole being a fun teenage horror movie, but then I realized you weren't talking about http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242527/. Well not really a "fun movie" I thought the hole (2001) was pretty good, quite atmospheric, even if the twist was somewhat predictable and some of the acting was sub-par (teen actors are a mixed bag). Kind of a cool psychological horror that plays on the typical "teen movie" tropes.
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I haven't seen it, but IMDB leads me to believe its this (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt10857790/) one
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EgillSkallagrimsson posted:While they are 90's movies, I feel like Dead Alive and Cemetery Man both deserve a mention, too. Strongly seconding cemetery man, it's a pretty great little Italian flick. Much smarter than most horror-comedies and quite the under appreciated gem. It's much different in tone from say, reanimator or evil dead 2. Some wonderful dialogue and hilarious scenes with a weird as gently caress ending
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Sep 24, 2012 21:14
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I watched Marebito the other day, and it's an excellent little semi-found footage j-horror. I went into it expecting the typical "scary ghost girl" and it was anything but. A beautifully shot psychological horror that's multi layered. Also my favorite use of the camera in a found footage film I've seen. Highly recommended, much better than "dark water" which I watched the same night. Funnily enough its by the director who does the grudge films
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Just watched The Collector in anticipation of its sequel next month. It's a great little movie that is imho one of the best to come out of the "torture-porn" trend. Plays on the theme of breaking into a hostile house ala People Under the Stairs. Even has a S&M gear wearing killer that uses a shotgun  . A bit slow to start but once the house is reached the tension really amps up. Great sound design keeps the atmosphere up with copious use of interwoven music and a constant bassline to the movie with requisite horror movie sound effects. Worth watching alone for the scenes where a man is killed by falling onto a floor of bear traps and the one where a dog is lit on fire then thrown at its owner
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Anyone else been working through Troma's releases now that they are all free on youtube? I'm a huge fan and imho Troma movies are often legitimately good. Just watched Decampitated which is funnily enough, one of the best slasher deconstructions I've seen. Dropping the "horror" from "horror comedy" to make what can only be described as Slapstick comedy meets Friday the Thirteenth.
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flashy_mcflash posted:After seeing Lords of Salem a couple of months ago, I think this is fairly spot-on. He's trying some different stuff, namely, a Giallo style, in LoS but it ultimately suffers from being way too shallow. And I know it's shallow because he basically said as much in the Q&A after the film. People would ask him why he included [thing that looks like it'd be significant] and he'd say 'because it looks cool'. Thanks for nothing, Rob. I haven't seen Lords of Salem but this is p. much spot on for Giallos. Lots of heavy handed symbolism and other assorted cool looking stuff (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:I thought this movie was good, creepy and pretty. It's definitely slow-paced, but I like deliberately slow-paced horror movies. I agree. Tale of two sisters is probably the "best" Asian horror I've seen and the only one to actually make ghost children scary. The cinematography also is gorgeous. Besides being slow and kind of confusing I'm not sure what's not to like
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New York Ripper is a classic and I wont hear otherwise  competes with Zombi for my favorite fulci, and I love Zombi I rewatched NYR recently, and the scene where the protagonists prostitute girlfriend gets killed is still horrifying. Judging from The Beyond, Zombi, NYR and I'm sure others Fulci really loves doing terrible things to eyeballs Tolkien minority fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Nov 11, 2012 |
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Nov 11, 2012 23:39
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leokitty posted:The eye scene in The Beyond is at least quick, I can't watch the one in Zombi. It is so ridiculously brutal. You keep waiting for the camera to cut away and it just...doesn't. It's really quite brutal. Until that scene, you don't quite grasp just how hosed up things are on that island. After that, everything sort of descends into zombie hell
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Nov 12, 2012 05:00
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having a black dude as the main character in a movie with themes of isolation & class in american society could be cool, but holy poo poo that trailer looks horrible. And this is coming from someone that really liked the TCM remake and its sequel. Too bad platinum dunes didn't get the rights to this one
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Nov 16, 2012 06:11
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I watched the hills have eyes and its remake as a double feature last month, and the remake basically retells the same story with less tension & added dumb nuclear themes/over explanation. It also removes the mutants being actual characters and makes me want to see everyone in the family get killed(although the dude from monk as the dad is p. cool). To further drive this point home, any aspect of the humanity of the mutants is removed (ex the gas station owner purposely leading the family astray) making them into generic ugly slasher villains. Besides the crazies its probably the only remake I've seen and not liked (haven't seen the NoES one). Just a legitimately bad film also the Halloween remake(s) & rob zombie both own bones. Tolkien minority fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Nov 18, 2012 |
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Nov 18, 2012 02:22
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For ironic slasher deconstruction whatever whatever etc check out Decampitated. It's a Troma release, but absolutely hilarious and a pet favorite of mine. Definitely more comedy than horror but worth a watch
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so um, Evil Dead Trap  I'm not really sure what the gently caress I watched, but that was amazing. It's like the Japanese lovechild of cronenberg and fulci made an underground japanese horror film. What completely surreal second half. The scene where the main women opens the door thats rigged to shoot her friend, only to have the shot narrowly miss. Then she hits a tripwire and a giant blade smashes into her friends head anyway was insane Do yourself a favor and watch this if you like Giallo, Body Horror or 80's Japanese horror also it was kind of surreal to watch a horror movie where all the main actors are actually porn stars
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Jan 24, 2013 02:06
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From a few pages back, but the real best Nightmare on Elms St is Nightmare Detective 2
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Speaking of terrible found footage, I watched tunnel movie last night. Talking head interviews killed any tension over who would die and broke up any atmosphere the movie had going, plus bar none THE shakiest found footage film I've seen and the first to actually make me feel sick. It's a shame because the tunnels they shoot in are p. creepy (after ,1/3 of the movie passes with nothing happening before they even get there.) Also had the brilliant idea of almost exclusively giving .2 second, low res night vision shots of the monster. So yeah, don't watch tunnel movie its really bad! Good sound design though Also watched apartment 143 which was decent and grave encounters which I loved Tolkien minority fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Mar 4, 2013 |
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Mar 4, 2013 20:49
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If you are terrified by annoying Australian women screaming or grey pixelated mermen, then maybe it will scare you
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Check out the other films in Polanski's apartment trilogy (Repulsion & The Tenant). Both are slow burns and imo aged far better then RB. The tenant especially is excellent and oh my god the sound. Also the original wickerman. I love the remake, but that's because it's hilarious
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TCM is a really excellent film that is nothing like its reputation would lead you to believe. There is very little gore, a relatively low body count and barely any chainsaw murder. And it's probably one of the scariest films I've seen. People are mostly recommending American films (and suspiria). Not that anything is wrong with that, but ill throw out some of my favorite foreign horror. Diabolique (french, a mystery with an excellent conclusion and no gore. Incredibly eerie) A tale of two sisters (korea, slow & atmospheric, and a beautiful film that while confusing is worth the effort) Shutter (thailand, very much a genre film but very well done, with some scenes that really stick with you) The orphanage (spain, very sad film but well worth watching) Gozu (japan, Takashii doing lynch. So incredibly odd. Also hilarious and disgusting. My favorite film out of japan period) I hope this gives you some ideas! All of these are excellent and really worth a watch (or five)
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Mar 4, 2013 23:20
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Apartment 143 is worth a watch, nothing new but it gets right to the action and has some cool scenes. Im also gonna recommend quarantine even though you've already seen rec, they are similar but not the same and both own. Edit. Haven't seen it but apparently area 407 is laughably terrible found footage
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Mar 4, 2013 23:57
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Basically anything fulci/argento/bava is good. On the lesser known director note, sergio martino owns bones, check out all the colors of the dark first (personal favorite) then torso for a giallo. His other stuff is of varying quality but worth watching Cemetary man is also great, and one of the few worthwhile horror films to come out of Italy in the past few decades Cannibal holocaust/ferox are also essential italian horror You also need to see a woman in lizards skin, fulci at his weirdest Edit: after checking imdb I forgot how many giallo martino directed. They are all pretty good and id put im up with fulci/bava Tolkien minority fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Mar 5, 2013 |
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If goblins aren't real, then who scored so many of Argento's films 
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So I was watching horror shorts on YouTube, and this one really stuck out. It's an incredibly mean spirited throwback slasher about a clown with an ending that left me like this for about a minute. Very much worth 20 minutes of your time Terrifier - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARNeTMFJ2us Tolkien minority fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Mar 7, 2013 |
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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. My only real complaint is that the child actor they got for it sucked and gave a much worse performance than the kid in the first film.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:It's clearly the guy who made the film and his buddy. You can tell because the comments aren't pointlessly racist, misogynist, anti-religion, anti-Beiber, homophobic, witlessly parroting some meme or giving the timecode for a 2 second long view of tits. It's definitely a misogynistic littls short, but it had tension, decent acting and some pretty decent scares. But yeah those comments are horrifying. Re marebito I posted it a while ago as I really liked it. The scenes in the underground are great and the movie bleeds atmosphere. It also stars Shinya Tsukamoto aka probably the only other new wave Japanese director as influential and talented as takashi miike. Seriously, check out his stuff. Start with tetsuo, which is very very much not typical Japanese horror. His style is really unlike any other Nightmare detective 2 is his take on a more typical "j horror" and it owns hard and no one has seen it. (Plus it's on YouTube!) Soseji is another horror film of his that Is more psychological. (I also really like Bullet Ballet and Tokyo Fist, which although dark are not horror) I feel like in this thread he's known as "that dude who made Tetsuo" and y'all need to fix that!
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I have to disagree. It's definitely not the same as his early 90's out in that it's less "grimey" but with the exception of the first nightmare detective all of his films in the 2000's have been very good to great (I haven't seen his latest yet though) Have you seen Haze or Snake of June?
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I saw the new women in black in theaters and it has the honor of being the worst horror film I've seen on the big screen. As you said, it's not scary. It's essentially jump scares the movie, which might of worked if the jump scares weren't just CUT TO CREEPY DOLL AND PLAY A LOUD NOISE. I did think it was cool about how it broke the horror "movie laws“ with the kids dying/commiting suicide , ghost that isn't a "lost soul" but just a bitch, and the son dying at the end Also who cast Harry potter as a depressed widower with a kid
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Well, Insidious certainly went in a strange direction. What a shame, the first half was so good. I really feel insidious just because the first half had so much promise then they bombed so hard in the second
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Re horrible movies on streaming, literally all of Troma's movies are on YouTube. Definitely hit or miss, but I love em' Check out out the definitive slasher spoof of the 90's. Scream what? Im obviously talking about Decampitated!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKQJkJpdCnI (I unironically think it's great, much higher quality than most non Kaufman troma) Tolkien minority fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Mar 13, 2013 |
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For candyman, I feel like a lot of what makes it have such a sense of creeping dread is the location. Cabrini has a pervasive sort of "wrongess" to it that even though we rarely actually see the candyman, it still keeps you on edge. (Also felt this way about the asylum grave encounters was shot in)
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Mar 14, 2013 17:24
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The episode of Tftds called "Bigalow's last smoke" about some dude who signs up for a program to help him quit smoking, and ends up imprisoned in a replica of his apartment and psychologically tortured is pretty great! Also written by the great Michael McDowell. The series is really hit or miss (and misses more often than not) (It's also up on YouTube but I dunno if that's  or not. Just google
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Mar 14, 2013 18:24
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Never heard of that story, but yeah it does seem like it. Funnily enough upon further investigation it seems an adaptation of the "Quitter's inc." actually written by Stephen King came out the same year in "The Cat's Eye". I'd imagine this is no coincidence 
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Mar 14, 2013 18:54
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I watched absentia tonight and it was interesting in that it is based entirely around the idea of trying to understand and rationalize the unknowable. Well not strictly lovecraftian it seems similar to what y'all are discussing. In fact, well I missed it at the time the sister trying to convince everyone that a giant centipede monster that lives in the walls took her sister/sister's husband seems to be a bit of a homage
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Rewatching it led me to wonder why you don't see Tim Curry that much these days. He's great! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUhuPn8_d0Q
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Watching grave encounters 2. I really like it so far about halfway through. It seems like as scream was to slashers it is to found footage. Edit: I also can't hate any film with thermal cam fart scares/laughs Double edit: upon completion if you thought the first was over top, oh buy this turns it up this 11. Wonderful little film Tolkien minority fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Mar 28, 2013 |
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Red room is probably the most disturbing trapped in a room film I've seen. Like, I felt sort of dirty and uncomfortable after watching it. Low budget Japanese film featuring death by lightbulb breaking in vagina What makes it even worse is that it's not a game for loss or death like saw, just $$$$
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Apr 3, 2013 23:30
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Chichibu Demon aka "The mountain incident" is a found footage j-horror about a horror "documentary" in the style of occult or noroii. Can't find anything on it online but it's on YouTube. Not quite as well done as the aforementioned two but pretty creepy. Worth a watch if you enjoy j horror or found footage. No production credits but it's either Koji Shiraishi or an imitator
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InfiniteZero posted:80s splatter is one of my very favourite sub-genres too. Make sure to also see Night of the Creeps, Return of the Living Dead, Street Trash, the Basket Case trilogy, Evil Dead II, and of course The Thing. gently caress LotR, Basket Case is the greatest cinematic trilogy
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