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Mover posted:The Exorcist is a worse movie than either The Exorcist 2 or The Exorcist 3 i'm not gonna argue but i'm curious about your reasoning
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STAC Goat posted:slasher movies aren’t horror, they’re just dumb thrillers.
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Jun 30, 2023 22:38
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thriller dumb aren't horror, giallo movies
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Jun 30, 2023 22:39
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:The Frankenstein Theory is technically a sequel to the book, but it’s by far Reading about it now, sounds fascinating! I'll check it out, thanks. Lol that a bunch of reviews criticize it for taking place in the arctic.
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Jun 30, 2023 22:43
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The Exorcist did nothing for me, and I think it more or less relies on the audience believing in real-life demons to work.
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Jun 30, 2023 22:46
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Clowns aren't scary and everyone who professes to coulrophobia is engaging in performative wussery. Hug your local clown today. (Yes if I lived in Crescent Cove I'd be dead within minutes what of it)
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feedmyleg posted:The Exorcist did nothing for me, and I think it more or less relies on the audience believing in real-life demons to work. so just believe in real-life demons then, simple as
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Jun 30, 2023 22:46
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also clowns aren't scary, but they are annoying, and that's even worse
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Jun 30, 2023 22:47
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I do agree with Lord Vetinari from Discworld that mimes should go straight into the scorpion pit. Climb an imaginary ladder out of there, pal.
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Jun 30, 2023 22:49
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I don’t think demonic possession films ask you to believe any more than any other supernatural horror but the Exorcist in particular loads itself up with skeptics and just the terror of your loved one being sick.
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Jun 30, 2023 22:49
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Clowns should be cute
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Jun 30, 2023 22:57
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Chucky > Freddy > Jason > Myers
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Evil Dead 2 is the only unequivocally good Sam Raimi film.
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Jun 30, 2023 23:07
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CelticPredator posted:You’re disgusting i don't think we know each other well enough for good-natured ribbing and i don't think the spirit of the past couple pages is such that i should reply to this seriously
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Jun 30, 2023 23:13
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I’ll tell Sam Raimi you said that
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Jun 30, 2023 23:15
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Settle down
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:Reading about it now, sounds fascinating! I'll check it out, thanks. Lol that a bunch of reviews criticize it for taking place in the arctic. It's been a decade since I've seen it but I'll second that it's pretty cool.
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Jun 30, 2023 23:17
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Hot take I don’t think I liked haunting of hill house and everyone who told me it was good irl doesn’t like cool horror movies like reanimator, return of the living dead or all of sam raimi’s movies. They like insidious. Which is fine but idk.
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Jun 30, 2023 23:19
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I saw SOME Frankenstein that does the whole arctic/Captain thing but I can’t for the life of me remember what it was. Maybe the Brannagh one.
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Jun 30, 2023 23:20
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CelticPredator posted:Hot take I don’t think I liked haunting of hill house and everyone who told me it was good irl doesn’t like cool horror movies like reanimator, return of the living dead or all of sam raimi’s movies. I love Sam Raimi, Return of the Living Dead, ReAnimator, and Haunting of Hill House.
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Jun 30, 2023 23:22
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The best thing to come out of Frankenstein (other than being a gigantic SF hit for a woman writer in a time when that was not at all a thing that happened) is how the English language eventually adopted it as a verb English itself is a frankensteined language.
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Jun 30, 2023 23:24
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I said irl lol. Everyone I talked said they don’t like gore or anything they like “psychological” horror movies. I wish I had more irl horror friends.
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Jun 30, 2023 23:25
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The Dark Castle remakes of the 2000s were all great and there should have been more.
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Jun 30, 2023 23:54
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Haunting of Hill House is a family drama with spooky elements, kinda a mistake to call it horror imo
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Jun 30, 2023 23:57
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shoeberto posted:Haunting of Hill House is a family drama with spooky elements, kinda a mistake to call it horror imo Most of Flan’s stuff is a flavor of gothic/romantic horror which is something no one else is really doing (Cure for Wellness was good fight me) so I appreciate his niche existing
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Jul 1, 2023 00:01
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I loving loved Hill House and a lot of the story resonated with me on a level that hosed me up for days after. But it's hard to lump it in with what people expect as a horror flick or show. Just a different vibe. Kinda like Silent Hill 2 imo.
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Jul 1, 2023 00:57
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As said Hill House and a lot of Flanagan’s stuff is a very standard and old school gothic romantic horror where ghosts are metaphors for loss and grief and the things that chase people and the story is ultimately about some kind of resolution. No one thinks if the Christmas Carol as a horror story but it’s a ghost story that very much is designed to scare in parts. Flanagan’s doing that kind of stuff. But not a lot of other people are doing that, especially in mainstream horror. I’d say GdT does it but he also does creature flicks. Benson and Moorehead probably have roots in it but they steer towards weird sci fi ideas over ghosts. Ari Aster is doing it but with his own dark humor and extreme sensibility. There’s others I’m sure but Flanagan is clearly the most dedicated and successful modern example. And it’s very different from the gore and slasher kind of stuff that is popular with so many fans. And for some people is central to what they define as “horror”
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I think its not as easy for me to relate too as hereditary was for me. That movie makes me lol with how much I can relate
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Jul 1, 2023 01:07
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I thought crimson peak was really boring too. I guess I don’t like gothic romances. Very far from what I’m remotely into lol
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Crimson Peak is certainly a fair example although a lesser GdT I think. If I were recommending a GdT gothic horror it would definitely be The Devil’s Backbone. Cronos and Pans Labyrinth as well but I’d put Backbone as the purest example of that. In fact if that counts and we’re still taking “hidden gems” or something that’s one I think everyone should see. Edit: it’s worth noting that “gothic romance” doesn’t necessarily speak to romance in it’s commonly understood way. But more sentimentality. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Jul 1, 2023 |
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guys I thought we were posting ridiculous takes so as to send this thread down in flames, not trying to stoke real conversation!!!
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More hot takes stoke the fires.
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Also I took issue with the mom being fairly fine until she got corrupted by the 20’s ghost introduced in the last few episodes and then she was then super crazy and people on the tv thread said she was mentally ill. And I’m like wha? Where lol I feel like you gotta half and half with that stuff. The ghosts can be a metaphor but also don’t make it not real either
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CelticPredator posted:Also I took issue with the mom being fairly fine until she got corrupted by the 20’s ghost introduced in the last few episodes and then she was then super crazy and people on the tv thread said she was mentally ill. And I’m like wha? Where lol I think the clear indication is that the mom has the shining and always has. And there’s mentions of that affecting her in the past but the house is such a concentrated collection of spirits and evil that it overwhelms her. Her children, especially Theo, have it as well but her husband being unrelated doesn’t have it which is why he’s kind of the one who sees it as mental illness and with a soberness. But the ghosts are absolutely real in Hill House. If you got something else from that I’d say that’s a wrong reading.
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Jul 1, 2023 01:23
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No I’m talking hill house. It jsur seemed weird this sweet lady became a psycho even at the end and idk. Left a bad taste
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Hot take: crimson peak is more of a horror movie than jaws
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Crimson Peak is very easily Del Toro’s best movie since Pan’s Labyrinth and i genuinely don’t know if that’s a nice thing to say or a mean thing to say
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Halloween is mid at best
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Origami Dali posted:Halloween is mid at best 1978, 2007 or 2018? 
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Hollismason posted:More hot takes stoke the fires. Every Texas Chainsaw movie is bad
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