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Some people I know created a horror anthology series for YouTube. It just launched last week. They're trying to do a less corny version of Elvira. Each episode is going to be a new short film by an independent horror director. It's a labor of love, and it's not bad. Here is Episode One and here is Episode Two. I've watched them, and I like it. It's nice to see that independent horror is getting recognized thanks to the Babadook and It Follows.
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Lurdiak posted:
I should clarify: there are still jokes, but they're not trying to be goofy or silly. They're trying to show off the short films, not make fun of them.
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May 15, 2015 01:04
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The 2015 October Horror Movie Challenge is up.
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Oct 1, 2015 13:06
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I love SLiTHER. It's a fantastic, hilarious movie, but I'm a big James Gunn fan. If you are a fan of the movie, I think the commentary is mandatory. James Gunn talks with Fillion about the difficulties in making a low-budget movie, how some of the cast didn't read the whole script until after accepting the role (the actress that plays Brenda cried when she found out she become a fat blob that explodes in slugs), and other fun stories. It is very funny. James Gunn is a movie fan, and he just loves sharing that with other fans. The dude is seriously awesome.
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Oct 4, 2015 17:24
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STAC Goat posted:Yeah, as I get older even though I consider Pet Semetary to be one of the best horror movies ever I just find myself less interested in watching. The horror stuff in the movie that scared me so much as a kid kind of take a backseat to the human agony that means more once you experience more life. Semetary is scary as anything but it's also loving depressing as hell. And I'm not sure I want to include that in my fun October this year any more than I want to finally watch Cannibal Holocaust or I Spit on Your Grave. I think you should marathon all three in one day. Throw in Antichrist.
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Oct 4, 2015 18:06
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Neumonic posted:In the order of Cannibal Holocaust, Antichrist, I Spit On Your Grave (2010). I say original I Spit. It is schlocky and gritty, and has an unreliable narrative.
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Oct 4, 2015 18:53
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:I feel like there's been a weird glut of really good horror films this year so far. Crimson Peak looks pretty fun, It Follows and the Babadok were pretty outstanding but everything else has been really forgettable. The Visit wasn't mind blowing, but it was a solid movie.
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Oct 5, 2015 02:05
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Glamorama26 posted:Read Pet Sematery. It's a miserable enthralling experience. Just a death march to infinity. It really is a great book. Concise, depressing, fast, and avoids most of King's worst tropes.
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Oct 5, 2015 04:18
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'Anti-christ' doesn't always mean an impersonator of a messiah, or a beast in disguise to bring forth the apocalypse. Another biblical connotation is "abomination", someone who doesn't hold up the ideals of Christian belief, or really any religious belief, someone who lacks faith in a higher power. Not really a monster; anyone can be an "anti-christ". An atheist, from a religious perspective for instance, is an "anti-christ", just like someone who perverts the ideas presented in religious doctrines can be considered one. The movie does a pretty good job exploring different definitions of "anti-christ" within its context.
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Jul 26, 2016 18:03
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Coffee And Pie posted:Concept: a modern day noir where the square-jawed lead is a hipster. Isn't that Brick? Coffee And Pie posted:Or a woman, have there been many female-led noirs? Mulholland Drive
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Jul 26, 2016 18:19
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Coffee And Pie posted:Brick from the movie Brick was more of a brooding geek than a hipster, I'm talking full on LA fashion photographer who wears a fedora and smokes American Spirits. Switch "LA fashion photographer" to "NY writer" and you've basically got Bored To Death. Still not flannel and longbeard hipster, but closer.
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Jul 26, 2016 18:37
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I don't remember finding anything funny in Dogville or Anti-Christ. Nympho Vol. 1 was pretty funny, though. Especially Uma. I never got around to Vol. 2, which is when poo poo gets mean-spirited, apparently.
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Jul 26, 2016 22:00
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SubG posted:The introductory set piece in Antichrist (2009) is one of the funniest scenes ever produced by self-conscious arthouse film. The slow motion black and white penetration shot while the child dies, set to moody orchestral music?
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Jul 26, 2016 23:02
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SubG posted:If it was anyone else it could be attributable simply to bad taste, but a shot lovingly lingering on balls swinging in slow motion, to an aria from Handel's The Triumph of Time and Truth, in a sequence with full-on penetration, by Lars von Trier, can only be interpreted as comedy, or misinterpreted entirely. I see irony and wit in the set-up, but not humor that is funny or would make me laugh. I actually find it pretty bleak. It's an act of intimacy, shot with intimacy and darkness. It is vulgar, mesmerizing, and human. They are so rapt in their lovemaking while a product if their love, an innocent child, falls to its death in the cold darkness. It's a great opener to the film, and it's self-aware, but that doesn't translate in laughter. Compared to the dinner scene in Eraserhead, which is self-aware of the situation it portays and audience reaction, and which I find hysterical.
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Jul 26, 2016 23:26
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FreudianSlippers posted:The Danish sense of humour is very dark. Tragedy is comedy in the north. Didn't think about that. My only Danish exposure is the few von Trier films I've seen and the Klovn movie.
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Jul 26, 2016 23:51
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Is Man Bites Dog considered found footage?
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Jul 27, 2016 00:28
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mysterious frankie posted:100% this. Going into Antichrist I knew what was going to initially happen, because of a review, and was expecting a bummer, but it was just too goofy to come off as anything but a joke. The whole movie felt very much like a deranged comedy. A lot of his films do. I guess it's time for me to do a Lars von Trier marathon and see if I react differently. I haven't seen Dogville or Anti-Christ in years, and I've never seen Melancholia or any of his older works.
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Jul 27, 2016 17:56
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mysterious frankie posted:Your mileage may vary, of course, but to me the opening of Antichrist felt very much like a parody of super serious Art Film\Cannes bait. I doubt that I'll be guffawing down the aisle, but re-watching horror typically diffuses a lot of the shock value and opens up different reactions, usually humor. So, we'll see. Now, to see if I can find a local library branch that carries it.
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Jul 27, 2016 18:54
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im gaye posted:Here's an interesting exercise: I want to hear some favorite horror picks that people are confident very few other posters have seen. I'm a fan of Virgin Witch and The Blood Spattered Bride. I randomly found Blood Freak on some movie channel late one night, and that viewing experience stuck with me. I couldn't find a name for it for years, and the memory felt like a fever dream. Edit: Probably not that obscure for this thread, though. There are some fuckin' impressive cinephiles in here.
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Jul 27, 2016 20:24
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Basebf555 posted:I've seen way more horror movies than anyone I'd be likely to meet in real life, the problem is that most of those came as recommendations from this thread, so I don't really have anything to offer here. The various box art creeped me the gently caress out as a child walking through video stores, but I've never seen it proper. That vampire, Count Orlok and the one from The Night Flier have always been scarier to me than vampires from Fright Night or Lost Boys.
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Jul 27, 2016 20:32
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The Taking of Deborah Logan was really good until the middle of the second act, and lost me with the snake monster demon reveal.
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Jul 28, 2016 16:06
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Ramadu posted:what? that was the best part because it was so silly I find Alzheimer's terrifying, and anatomically incorrect demon snake monsters not so much.
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Jul 28, 2016 21:17
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I've always enioyed Jacob's Ladder's twist, especially turning the entire movie towards optimism.
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Jul 29, 2016 14:37
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Guys I missed werewolf chat, can we backtrack a bit?
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Aug 1, 2016 20:17
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Feel free to correct the record. I watched In The Company of Wolves last weekend because of this thread. I loved the dreamy atmosphere and the use of many different wolf and werewolf legends. Are there any other semi-/art-house werewolf films out there, or good lesser known werewolf movies for me to check out? Are there werewolf movies that use werewolves at a metaphor besides sexual awakening and/or puberty?
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Aug 1, 2016 20:30
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Basebf555 posted:Can I ask how you watched it? I haven't been able to find it streaming anywhere, and I'd be willing to pay. Its probably the last great werewolf movie I haven't seen yet. My local library had a copy on DVD.
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Aug 1, 2016 20:36
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Basebf555 posted:You had to leave the house? Sorry friend, that's a bridge too far. I live 5 minutes from a library branch, and it's next to a burrito joint and a pizza joint. It was worth it, friend.
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Aug 1, 2016 20:48
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A lot of recent horror movies are getting good reviews, though? Like Lights Out. It was fine, kinda mediocre, but the reviews made it sound like it's amazing. Since It Follows, I feel like horror movies have been given less criticism from many critics. At least on Rotten Tomatoes, anyway. It Follows, Babadook, Green Room, Lights Out, The Shallows, The Witch, Goodnight Mommy, We Are Still Here, both Conjurings and many others have gotten good to great reviews. The only big one that comes to mind was Green Inferno? Even the new Purge got over 50%
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Aug 1, 2016 21:26
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morestuff posted:Pretty much all critics these days take the Ebert style of approaching genre stuff on its own terms. I would guess ObamaPhone doesn't like the critic reviews because they tend to like more formal movies with aggressive lesbians I mean, who doesn't like Ginger Snaps and Women in Cages?
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Aug 1, 2016 21:32
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:You can't say Rob Zombie doesn't know how to make a music video. I think he should have used all nine minutes of Freebird in The Devil's Rejects finale and then just had the rest of it play over the credits, instead of the weird fading-in and -out that he used.
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Aug 2, 2016 17:49
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Hat Thoughts posted:Bouncing off Starman what's the best one-off non-horror film from an otherwise horror director? David Lynch, while not strictly horror, has The Straight Story
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Aug 2, 2016 20:59
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Well, let's narrow it down. Fellowship Of The Ring. But Jackson (sadly) hasn't done a horror movie since 1996?
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Aug 2, 2016 21:11
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Alhazred posted:I wasn't completely serious, but at the time Peter Jackson did LotR he had almost exclusively done horror movies. Heavenly Creatures isn't really horror, nor is his Forgotten Silver. I only mentioned it because he was one of the first directors I thought of, then I realized he'll probably never direct horror again. 
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Aug 2, 2016 21:15
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Glamorama26 posted:I bet Jackson will do one more horror film and will probably gently caress it up, but nobly so. I hope you're half right. There was a debate about best horror movie openings a few pages ago and no one mentioned how great the intro sequence to Dead Alive is.
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Aug 2, 2016 21:21
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Alhazred posted:After the Hobbit movies I would be surprised if he ever directed anything again. That movie franchise was doomed from pre-production. I didn't follow it closely, but it sounded like no one wanted to do it: Del Toro dropping off after being attached for years, and then scrambling for other directors only for Peter Jackson to come back and say he'd help out, then they announce its' three movies instead of one or two, then saying they're adding a bunch of stuff from the Samarillion, then Jackson saying that he's doing the whole thing because no one else wanted to.
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Aug 2, 2016 21:29
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Alvarez IV posted:If I was having a party where I wanted some television screens playing disturbing looking movies on mute the whole time, and I didn't just want to get a half dozen copies of Un Chien Andalou, what horror movies would be best at saying "this guy has good taste and I never will let my children be around him"? Some Cronenberg for sure, like Videodrome; Eraserhead, Cannibal Holocaust, Friday the 13th Part V, Night of the Blood Beast, Creepshow; Meet the Feebles or Dead Alive, Netflix has these grindhouse movie trailer compilations that I like to throw on as background for parties, too.
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Aug 2, 2016 23:52
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I also want to add Galaxy of Terror to the 'visually fun party movie' list, but not only because of the giant worm rape.
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Aug 3, 2016 00:34
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Whispering Machines posted:I've only ever seen one RZ movie, Lords of Salem. It was visually stunning, but that's really all I can recall I guess. I'm seeing him play live this month though. Has anyone had the chance to watch the Cabin Fever remake that just came out? I'm curious why Roth would exec. produce what looks like a direct remake of a movie that's aged pretty well.
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Aug 3, 2016 12:31
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Alvarez IV posted:I haven't got all the raw materials for the wall of televisions yet, but I'll try and remember to get a pic once I'm finished knocking off Best Buy stores. The final list is as follows: Vampyros Lesbos or Blood Spattered Bride for lesbian vampire flick. Or if lesbian witches work, Virgin Witch or Daughters of Satan. Edit: Why did you pick I Think We're Alone Now? It's incredibly unsettling, but that comes more from their conversations with themselves and not anything visual. It's pretty boring visually, other than the hermaphrodite showing the filmmakers how fast she can run. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Aug 3, 2016 |
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sticklefifer posted:Is there any horror surrounding cave diving? Horror set in caves doesn't really bother me, and horror set underwater doesn't really either, but for some reason I get the willies every time I see one of those shows about people scuba diving into one of those jungle lakes where the water tunnels go down hundreds of feet and open to underwater caverns. It's pretty much the combination of running out of air but not being able to find your way back through a maze to get to a surface. I've also read about a phenomenon where scuba divers drown in those tunnels because they find a place where freshwater and saltwater streams flow together, which looks like the surface to divers because it creates a visual layer. I feel like a horror movie or even a thriller in that type of setting would terrify me. The Cave (2005) is The Descent with cave divers.
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