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Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

FreudianSlippers posted:

It's been a while since I saw it but it has some very memorable scenes and I'm fairly certain the main character is technically undead..

*High Plains Drifter has logged on to the chat* This pretty much is a Western horror movie now that I think about it...

How gorey is Psycho Goreman? The trailer makes it look relatively tame and funny, is this balanced by scenes of ridiculous over the top violence? I'm super into it if it is, but I'm also looking for something new to watch with my parents on Halloween and if PG is ~relatively~ kid friendly it might work.

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Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

StrixNebulosa posted:

What movie are you watching? The VVitch?

Yeah that's the one that opens with baby organ harvesting. Fun fact, a lot of the dialog in that movie sounds weird and wrong because it was taken/inspired by real records and documents from the time. People used to actually talk like that :stare:


I̵͉͖͗̒ ̸̪̘̓̈w̶͇͓̉i̴͕̥̍́l̴̡̝͊̀l̵͔̓ ̴̤̏̒g̸̹̫̽ũ̷͇̾i̷̛͚d̶͖̦͂è̶̡̺ ̸͖̃͠y̵̜̋͘ó̶̧̥̃ù̷͎̎r̸̳̽ ̷͓͚̆h̷̠̑â̵̝̝ņ̶̧̽d̴̬̓͝

e:
Pretty sure the stick is bloody because that's a mortar/pestle in the beginning of VVitch, not because she'd been sitting on it. I just pulled it up on my Plex server and while that's definitely a stand-up mortar/pestle, she does appear to be cutting the baby's dick off, so there is that.

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Unrelated, but speaking of Plex I randomly watched Black Christmas last night on their hosted service, was pretty good, especially for the time, and it was neat to see arguably(?) the origin of the horror trope the calls are coming from inside the house :phoneb::phone:

Takes No Damage fucked around with this message at 02:43 on Oct 30, 2021

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer
^^^ Haven't seen it yet, but I watched most of the RLM review where they poo poo all over HKills for 45 minutes, and yeah by the clips and interviews they showed it does look pretty bad (EVIL DIES TONIGHT). Unfortunate they couldn't keep up the same quality as 2018, but if all we get out of it is watching Michael merk townsfolk in HD then at least that's something.

ThePopeOfFun posted:

Had some time to glance around at some of the articles and discussion that came out after The VVitch, I’m certainly not alone. Found some reddit discussion and a few blogs claiming the same. And I’m surprised ya’ll are so surprised! The family’s disintegration happens around Thomason’s coming of age/puberty. Sexual fear makes a big central theme, what with Caleb’s glances, mom’s accusations and the Seduction/Song of Solomon quoting. Perhaps it’s my mistaken claim that it happens in the opening scene, or my being hyperbolic using the word “lube” instead of ointment.

Regardless, where do you think the broomstick myth comes from anyways? Why a such a phallic object between one’s legs? It is because the myth is grounded in old folk remedies, which include suppositories and pessaries, as well as accusations on record against “witches.” Here’s a brief article covering the basics: https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/gvze93/ridin-dirty-a-sweeping-look-at-witches-and-their-broomsticks.

I’d link to the specific scene of the witch applying the ointment, then clutching the broom but I can’t find a clip.

I think people are confusing the stick she was using to mash up the ointment and the stick she used to fly away at the end of the scene.

This is the best shot I could get of her grinding up babydick, NWS for grannybutt
:nws:
The stick she rides away on looks much thinner and straighter, like a broomstick, and we see her spreading the ointment on that stick as well. Not that all the symbolism and sexy history you posted about isn't there, but nothing was actually inserted anywhere. This time.

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

dorium posted:

Evil dies tonight

As it should have done............

40 years ago !!

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

Cacator posted:

Last night I watched The Empty Man based on the mildly positive online word of mouth and 76% RT score. I do not recommend The Empty Man.

Last night I watched City of the Dead based on thread chat and Rob Zombie lyrics, and yeah pretty good for 1960. It was interesting structurally when the protagonist for the first half of the film gets instantly merced the second she investigates the spooky cobweb-filled cellar below her hotel room. Also it was pretty hilarious they shoehorned in one scene where she's changing clothes and she drops the giant frumpy housecoat she's wearing to reveal apparently she likes doing her thesis research homework in full on horny housewife pornstar lingerie :pervert: And as others mentioned at the time, fog. Recommended for your retro horror nights.

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

Marx Headroom posted:

Last episode of Hill House was one of the worst things I've seen this year. We started laughing halfway through. Every character had a cheesy, rambling monologue they delivered at each other full of lofty metaphors that probably sounded really good on paper but came off like Grandpa Simpson telling the onion belt story. Then some folk music played over an Old Navy commercial and everyone cried. The end.

I noticed the monologue spam at the end too. The first one is a few episodes in with the groundskeeper and you just kind of notice that we've been slowly pushing in on his face for 90 seconds while he pretty unprompted-ly lays out his life story. When each lead character started getting one it just got silly. I'd still recommend it for a generally creepy (not BOO! scary) show, but it does stumble across the finish line a bit.

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

Mooseontheloose posted:

I was thinking of things that are scary to me and a few things commonalities of movies I noticed.

*the visceral violence of some movies where you aren't given a quick death. Scream fits this for me.

This is a big one for me. I can watch Freddy or Jason hack people up all day, but watching someone suffer for extended periods of time can get pretty harrowing. That's what makes stuff like Human Centipede so effective for me. I wouldn't say that I like HC, but I at least respect it for accomplishing its goals, even if those goals were to make the viewer feel gross and bad. In a regular slasher/horror flick, the human centipede reveal would be the big act 3 climax, fade to black roll credits. But in HC that poo poo happens 40 minutes in, you've still got to watch those poor people crawl around like that for another half of a movie and it just suuuuuuucks :gonk:

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

Kvlt! posted:

5 Horror Movies SO MESSED UP PEOPLE WHO WATCHED THEM DIED

#1 is always just Martyrs or A Serbian Film lol

Serbian Film is pretty rough to get through, though knowing it was really just the director giving the big double middle fingers at Serbia's MPAA censorship does help a little bit. Martyrs is probably my favorite 'gore porn' movie because it at least tries to justify what's going on and has a few twists in the story that you probably won't see coming on first watch. Oh no she was crazy and murdered an innocent family. Twist 1: Oh No the family was actually a secret torture family with a dungeon built in to their house. Twist 2: OH NO they were part of a whole organization dedicated to torturing people to find out what happens when you die.

That's another good one for the 'slow death' thing I was talking about, there's like a 20 minute montage of the protagonist just being abused and it just :gonk: keeps :gonk: going :gonk:

King Vidiot posted:

With stuff like Human Centipede or Martyrs it's particularly uncomfortable to watch both for the pain and knowing the victims are now helpless and there's no going back. There's no "normal" once all your skin is gone. You're not getting a happy ending after that.

Yeah that's part of it too, when Jason machetes someone's head off at least they're done, terminal but not immediately fatal injury is worse all around.

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

Snooze Cruise posted:

I defeated my sleep paralysis when I got a weighted blanket because it usually happen whenever i turn onto my back in my sleep and I don't move around as much now.

The cure for sleep paralysis is making it so you can't move....... :aaa:

Pope Corky the IX posted:

I still really like Devil's Rejects but House of 1,000 Corpses bored the poo poo out of me when I saw it in the theater and I fell asleep trying to watch it again a few months later. But then again I don't care for the majority of the rest of what Zombie's done cinematically.

I only like/remember 2 scenes from House, the opening murderclown bit and that suuuuuuuuuuper slow crane pullback when that one dude has the cop on his knees and is pointing a gun at his head and they just stand there for like 90 seconds. Having time to sit there and imagine what that wait must be like while you actually wait for the scene to end is pretty creative and effective IMO. But agreed Devil's Rejects is better overall, and aside from that and his first Halloween I haven't seen much else from Rob that I really enjoy. White Zombie and Hellbilly Deluxe are still pretty choice jams tho :rock:

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

Police_monitoring posted:

Every time I’ve had sleep paralysis it’s always been during a nap after a big physical ordeal so I’ve always thought it was some obscure effect of mood on the sleep transition.

That makes sense, my understanding is sleep paralysis / walking is due to brain chemistry loving up. Normally your brain doesn't let your body move around when you dream, when it does you get sleepwalking. But sometimes your brain doesn't let your body move for a second even once you wake up, resulting in sleep paralysis. I've had paralysis a few times but they were minor enough I don't really remember anything about them other than feeling weird for a few seconds.

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

dorium posted:

Saw Possession in theaters last night with the new 4K restoration. So good.

Took me a second to realize you weren't bragging about seeing some late-stage Saw sequel in 4k :v:

Saw Possession in theaters last night?

No!

Saw: Possession, in theaters last night!

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

alf_pogs posted:

the guy that made From Dusk Till Dawn made Spy Kids?

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

Origami Dali posted:

freddys dead has a couple of decent gags and is imaginative in the fantasy-like way they all were, but yeah, not good. englund's having a good time, tho



Killer graphics :catdrugs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeJnuP2_yb8&t=120s

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

King Vidiot posted:

Are southern style dumplings those big fat spongy dumplings that look like noodles? Because they're the only dumplings I recognize for chicken and dumplings.

It's this

chopped up into bitsize pieces and boiled with also bitesize chicken. If you're feeling fancy you can throw in some chopped celery or scallion or something:

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

A Proper Uppercut posted:

I've probably read 90% or all of King's stuff, and definitely think his short stories are his strongest.

The short story The Jaunt is my favorite thing he's ever written

It's real good, horror Star Trek with a dash of Lovecraft and only 20 or 30 pages or so.

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer
Yeah, watching High Plains Drifter for the first time with my parents was a bit squirmy there at the beginning :yikes: They didn't show anything on screen because it was the 60s, but they also casually dismissed sexual assault because it was the 60s.

Darko posted:

Hateful Eight is already The Thing. Morricone was chosen for that reason and makes it super obvious. It even ends the same haha.

If only the original alien could have been identified as easily as 'looks dishonest' :allears:

H8 is OK, I feel it suffers from a lot latter-day Tarantino 'less than the sum of its parts'-itis where individual scenes are cool and good but mashing them all together into a movie feels jumbled and weird. Felt the same about Django and Once Upon a Time. It is however a fantastic example of why you don't bring in a voiceover narrater 90 minutes in; so weird and jarring.

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

Scissorfighter posted:

While I enjoy all those movies quite a bit, you're definitely feeling the loss of Sally Menke's editing. The editing from Inglourious Basterds to Django was a pretty big downturn.

Very possible, there's definitely a line between Kill Bill and Death Proof for me (the first half I quite like and which could kiiiiiiiinda work as a horror movie if you stretch it a bit). Basterds is the odd one out for me; I recognize it has all the same long slow scenes and endless dialogue that bore me in his later movies but I absolutely love everything about it and wish it were even longer. If I need to kill 20 minutes I'll still put on the movie and watch that first scene with Waltz at the dairy farm. Tarantino has said that's his favorite bit of writing he's ever done and I agree. I guess WWII is just a more engaging backdrop to hang all his Tarantion-y characters off of rather than the old west or 60s Hollywood...

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

Tarnop posted:

Being in my early 40s isn't great, but I'll take that over having endured school in the age of social media

:hfive: #blessed I grew up after the 70s Satanic Panic but graduated HS in '98 and got to completely miss all that post-Columbine bullshit.

King Vidiot posted:

You're Next really doesn't get enough credit for just being a drat good, tense slasher movie with a great premise and just enough blood.

I keep getting this movie and The Strangers mixed up and I don't know why. I guess they're both a bit home invader-y but beyond that :shrug:

I am still legit creeped out by a line from one of the attackers at the end of the movie: "Why are you doing this to us?" "Because you were home.". Something about completely random purposeless violence is more upsetting to me than 'regular' horror movie murder.

Kvlt! posted:

School's are wack. I got kicked out of a school once for posting a Cannibal Corpse song on my facebook. At home.

Who among us hasn't cum blood at one time or another...

Takes No Damage fucked around with this message at 09:26 on Nov 25, 2021

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer
But... how do they know how many species are undiscovered... if they haven't been discovered yet... :tizzy:

At best that looks like a knockoff of that Stephen King short story about an actual maneating oilspill in a lake (as seen in Creepshow 2), but more likely it's just The Floor is Lava (also Bikinis).

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer
Wait, is that the one where a pet gator gets flushed down the toilet and somehow grows into a giant Jaws-like monster? I have vague memories of something like that and a disconnected image of an alligator bursting up through the surface of the street and flipping over a cop car or something...

vvv Hell yeah, that was a TV movie staple for me when I was little :allears:

Takes No Damage fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Dec 1, 2021

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

Franchescanado posted:

I feel like it's more similar to Hellraiser, except with different demons and deities for each entry. Which is fine and cool with me. I'm cool with PA being a banner for FF with that focus. It's not a series I hold in high regard, despite the first one being a perfect movie for it's time.

My sister still refuses to sleep with a foot sticking out from the covers either because of, or reinforced by, that 3rd act train to spooktown :ghost:

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

moths posted:

Two with Freddy representing homosexual urges in a homophobic world was probably the "best" film in terms of having something to say.

I'm slowly making my way through that 8 hour NoES doc somebody linked to, with the F13 8 hour doc ready to go in the tab next to it :suicide: Anyway, in talking about Nightmare 2, while everyone admits it's gay as hell in retrospect, they also swear up and down they had no idea it would be perceived that way while they were making it. I guess that could still be bullshit, but the doc (I think) is from 2010 so there wouldn't be any reason to lie about it at this point.

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer
Yeah I think they at least mention all that in interview clips with the actor, though a dedicated doc does sound pretty interesting. I sigh as I unsheathe my browser and open a 3rd tab to effectively bookmark a video I'll probably not get to before the end of the year :sigh:

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

Opopanax posted:

The sequal is really good too, manages to elevate the concept without feeling like a retread or getting stupid

I'll have to check that out. I saw Creep mentioned in the thread and it's on Netflix so I checked it out and yeah, pretty good. The best praise I can give it is it took almost the entire runtime for me to realize we only see 2 people on camera the whole time.

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

Kvlt! posted:

EDIT: Found it on youtube and timestamped the cool bear attack scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrn3ObP8q9o&t=4464s

I'm the surviving cast waiting on a dock for literal minutes to see if the monster that walked into the lake chasing them is going to walk back out again :doh:

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

Basebf555 posted:

I have an issue with opening credits sequences in the late 90s/early 2000s more than anything else during that period. Even something like the opening credits of Se7en, which are celebrated to this day and considered one of the best title sequences, to me feels cheap and just not cinematic at all. I'm sure a lot of it is just me having grown up in the late 80s when simpler more elegant credits were the norm ala John Carpenter.

In the commentary track for Se7en the director (I think) talks about how they did the opening. He started out doing it the Right Way and all the work it was taking to line everything up with the images and make sure they were stable, then thought 'huh, what if we just don't do that?'. And that's how we got the scratchy jumping around credits that we did:

quote:

As Fincher explains, the opening credits came from a “practical place.” “Oftentimes, some of the most mundane things inspire,” says the director. His crew wanted to get Findlay Bunting, who shot the footage for the opening credits, a pin register camera, because they believed the titles needed to be steady. Fincher questioned this and felt that a shaky, uneven, dirty looking opening credits would fit closer to John Doe’s mindframe. The director also felt these credits gave the audience an awareness of how ugly the film would potentially get.

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Basebf555 posted:

Yea the guest stars are the real draw of the show from what I've seen so far. Price, Pleasence, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Dick Van Dyke, Janet Leigh, Robert Conrad, Ricardo Montolban, and a lot more that I'm forgetting.

I like that's it's basically a 1 on 1 show, each week you get Columbo vs. the guest star and there really aren't a lot of other characters involved. It's not like one of those modern cop shows where there's ten different main characters.

And not one but two episodes with Leslie Neilson :woop: Once he was the fiance of the murderer, then a few seasons later he was the killer.
There's also a very slow Colombo thread in TVIV, but some good discussions and recommendations still live there:
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3920575

Irony.or.Death posted:

I'm not even that much of an industrial guy it's just, like, how do you be a teenager and not spend a bunch of time listening to Too Dark Park? Absolutely baffling

I still remember some ancient Web 1.0 site that detailed the way you could tell if you had the original release of Rabies or the corrected remix :corsair: (thunder sound effect was at the end of track 10 in one, beginning of 11 in the other).

Takes No Damage fucked around with this message at 06:56 on Feb 3, 2022

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer
^^^ If you can find a sub file somewhere else you can just rip the file off of Youtube and mash them together.

Tea Bone posted:

I don't know precisely how to explain it but I'm looking for some recommendations for horror where the threat doesn't come from monsters or killers but the environment or the nature of the universe.

I know it's a loose description, but I mean stuff like House of Leaves or Coherence. I suppose what I'm looking for is cosmic horror minus the lovecraftian monsters.

The more novel the concept the better. Doesn't necessarily need to be a movie, books and TV are also appreciated.

Triangle, kind of. It's still people killing people but it's caused by their environment. Great little sci-fi/horror film this one.

Takes No Damage fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Feb 6, 2022

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

MacheteZombie posted:

I need more koji n foreign found footage in my life

Probably everybody in this thread already knows, but Noroi / The Curse is a found footage/mocumentary about, well, a curse. Structurally similar to The Ring in that most of the movie is people investigating weird poo poo, and things going well and truly off the rails in the last few minutes.

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer
Slowly making my way through the Chucky franchise so I can watch the series everybody liked so much. I didn't think they were going to top the doll sex scene from Bride of Chucky anytime soon, but watching John Waters creep on Chucky rubbing one out into a cup so Jennifer Tilly can turkey baster inseminate herself with the titular Seed of Chucky... yeah that'll fuckin' do it :stare:

Also :lol: at all the Tilly meta jokes. "What was that scream?" "Uh, nothing! I'm watching Bound! Gina Gershon is fingering me!"

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

Opopanax posted:

Which of the myriad “creepy Scandinavian dectective shows” on Netflix is worth watching? They all kind of look the same and there are a dozen of them

Let me save you some time...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-OOpZitfd0

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davidspackage posted:

I had some trouble getting through Seed because I found the Glen doll so viscerally upsetting to look at. Ziggy Stardust in the midst of having his teeth filed down to replace them with caps.

That was definitely weird to see the more traditional marionette-style dollface vs the other two. Was pretty neat to see what sounded like early trans acceptance in a horror movie from 2004 though.

Somebody earlier in the thread said this, but how are the killer doll movies the most consistent 80s slasher franchise?

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Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer
I'll always stan Martyrs as my favorite 'gore porn' movie, as it isn't JUST about putting the most hosed up thing you can think of on screen, there's an actual narrative reason for everything.

Oh no this girl was traumatized as a child and just murdered an innocent family. :(

Oh NO a secret basement, they really were a crazy murder family. :stare:

OHNO the family is part of a secret organization torturing women to see what's in the afterlife. :catstare:

And that ending :discourse:

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

EL BROMANCE posted:

I always love the way whenever people talk about Martyrs, it feels like they justify the extreme violence due to the reveal. Obviously it's more of a case of 'it makes sense from these characters POV as to what they're doing and why, and it's not just random' rather than 'oh yeah, well that's fine then! carry on!', I hope at least! It's also a movie where the final 30 minutes of a girl getting the absolute poo poo beaten out of her on an almost constant basis feels like a loving break from what happened previously. It's an experience, that's for sure.

Yeah, Martyrs gets points for having more plot justification for its gore than just "Do you want to play a game?" But that's still the worst part for me. I've noticed in terms of violence I'm bothered more by duration than magnitude. Just seeing someone get pasted by Freddy or Jason is fine, but extended sequences like what you mention in Martyrs are uncomfortable. That's why I say Human Centipede, while not really a good movie, is at least an effective one. In a 'normal' horror movie the characters getting all mashed together would be the big reveal at the end, cut to credits movie over. In HC, that poo poo is Act 2, you still have to watch these poor people crawl around for another 40 minutes :gonk:

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

flashy_mcflash posted:

Regarding justification, it's actually less scary to me to have an explanation for violence. Nothing is scarier to me than senseless killing, but it has to be deliberately crafted that way and not just lazily omitted.

I can see it both ways. For something large-scale and organized, I like where Martyrs goes more than something like Hostel or Saw where it's comic book silly and just an excuse to check out these sick gore effects bro.

But completely random meaningless violence can be pretty effective too. The end of the home invasion movie The Strangers, one of the characters asks their attackers something like "Why are you doing this to us?" "Because you were home." :gonk:

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

FreudianSlippers posted:

It's about an American journalist who is found dead in a square in Prague. But while catatonic he's actually fully conscious and is trying to piece together in his mind what lead to this situation and snap out of it before his autopsy.

There's a Tales from the Crypt episode about this, taking place during an autopsy, postulating that our minds remain conscious for hours or days after our bodies 'die'. S3E4: "Abra Cadaver"

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

This Is the Zodiac posted:

It has Beau Bridges and also a naked lady in the opening scene, and one of those things is the reason I very clearly remember when it came on HBO late at night when I was around fourteen.

First watched it when I was probably younger than that, in a hotel room with my dad. When the doctor was leering over that actress' fully nude 'dead body' my dad changed the channel for a minute :mad:

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

Everybody was freaking out about The Sadness, but between that guy's phone desktop and



I'm pretty sure this is an actual comedy. Only about half way through though so there's still time.

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

Count Thrashula posted:

Immediately added to my watch list thanks bud

+1 It Comes At Night that I also saw recommended earlier in the thread. I didn't think about it at the time but 'a zombie movie without the zombies' is basically the perfect elevator pitch for it.

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Lumbermouth posted:

Girl With All The Gifts hosed me up hard, but I think that has a lot to do with institutional cruelty towards children being super triggering for me. It's a fantastic take on a lot of standard zombie movie stuff.

The wiki plot summary makes it sound like The Last of Us, right down to the fungal infection and having to get a young macguffin girl from point A to B. Is this just The Last of Us: The Movie?

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Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

Jedit posted:

No. The novel was published after The Last of Us came out, but it's expanded from a short story written before. It was just steam time for the idea.

Fair enough, I'll check it out.

Unrelated, but when the thread first mentioned The Sadness the first search result that came up for me was a movie of the same name from 2008:

The Sadness 2008 posted:

A depraved couple abuse and eventually sell their own young daughter for drug money, where she is then given to a group of psychopathic wannabe satanists who kill her as a sacrifice. From the grave she rises to seek revenge on those who have caused her pain, using evil henchmen to torture and mutilate them one by one in the most brutal, disgusting ways possible.

That sounds like it could be effectively disgustingly horrible, or it could be dumb trash. The few reviews I've been able to find point directly towards dumb trash, anyone here c/d?

Oh god the trailer on IMDB...

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

dorium posted:

What I really want is a 90 minute movie made up up 90 second to 160 second trailers for movies that dont exist by major and budding horror directors and one gets made into a full production the following year.

Didn't this actually happen with one of the fake trailers from Grindhouse? Nazi Werewolves of the SS or something?

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Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

Baron von Eevl posted:

Yeah it refers to a specific process of looping it to record multiple takes, but it's used commonly to refer to any out of place or obvious dubbing, especially adding in lines from a character when their back is turned to the camera.

I saw Blood Diner for the first time a few weeks ago and it has some of the most aggressively terrible ADR/overdubbing I've ever heard. I actually paused it a few minutes in and looked up if it was originally an English movie and I was somehow watching a crappy USA dub of a foreign film. But that's what it sounds like, some bullshit 0 budget dub of like old Godzilla or Hercules movies from the '60s.

The movie itself is complete batshit, ridiculous over the top gore and more nudity than some pornos from that era. 3 words: Topless. Cheerleader. Aerobics.














Highly recommend.

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Count Thrashula posted:

Yeah there are so many movies that I hear about or find on Letterboxd and it's like... Not streaming, not even out there to pirate, the only possible way to see it is to buy off some shady third party storefront.

I don't even own a physical media player lmao

Recommended to not mention sketchy sites at all, fair enough.

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