King Vidiot posted:

You guys and your prefabbed NECA masks, get on my level

King Vidiot posted:

It's Angela from Night of the Demons, c'mon son!

Untrustable posted:

I very much want this now as well. drat that's cool.

Drunkboxer posted:

I watched Us a few days ago. It’s weird because it feels like a throwback to something but I don’t know what. It felt very familiar, I guess is what I’m saying. I liked that it didn’t quite make sense and that it slowly goes from pretty grounded and mundane to surreal. I didn’t read much of what was being said when it came out but I’m guessing a lot of people got annoyed trying figure out exactly what was going on.

Null of Undefined posted:

Hey sorry to bring back the F13 talk from a few pages ago, but did y'all literally forget the final scene of the first movie where a zombie child jason comes out of the water and attacks the final survivor?

The plot hole is how he went from a child to a full grown adult in the span of like 6 months but I always just attributed that to him being a deadite.

Untrustable posted:

Anyone have any thoughts on Brightburn? I really liked it and especially liked how the mid-credits scene shows that A. The Crimson Bolt is in that universe and B. There are more hosed up justice league evil knockoffs. There is potential for a cool sequel or two. There is just a lot of potential.

Darko posted:

To expand on this a little more...

IT in the book is a Galactus/Beerus/Unicron type of entity that comes from the space between worlds that works as a force of entropy in the universe. His opposite is the Turtle (lots of turtle drops in the first movie when you realize this) who is a force of creation and created the universe.

IT discovered Earth and found that he found fear especially tasty and filling as opposed to just destroying stuff. So instead of just eating planets or whatever, he, like Beerus, just sleeps, wakes up every 20 something years, eats until he feels full and goes back to sleep. He likes kids more because their imaginations are stronger so he gets more from scaring the poo poo out of them (and partially eating them because being eaten alive is one of the things people most fear).

IT's gluttony is kind of his undoing. IT's true self is basically an invincible unfathomable thing at the edge of the universe that Lovecrafts itself into "if you see my true self, you're catatonic or die." But to cause maximum fear, it puts itself into manifestations based on the person who it is chasing's imagination, which also gives itself the weaknesses of that person's imagination. So if it's like "hey this person is scared most of Dracula," it will become Dracula, but now it's weak against holy water and stakes and sun.

The Turtle and the actual G-God of the universe got tired of ITs poo poo, so they purposefully empowered and brought together the perfect group of imaginative kids who IT JUST missed killing and got obsessed with because of that. And then they subconsciously honed their same imagination/etc. as adults, instead of it falling off.

In the original sewer instance, nobody could figure out what it's true (physical) form was once they went to where it physical form was sitting (Pennywise is just basically a manifestation IT sends out) until Ben or someone realized it as a spider (webs stretching through Derry, many eyes, etc. metaphorically) and then everyone saw IT as that once he said that. So, when they face it again, they still understand it as a spider.

The miniseries...didn't, uh, do any of that, so it's just Tim Curry whose true form is a spider. The movie kind of played with it by portraying Pennywise as a marionette/puppet, but we'll see what they do here. It looks like they have the "get high by smoking yourself in a hatch as kids" sequence from the trailer, so they are probably getting into that. I'm wondering if they do a flashback of the kids chasing Pennywise after beating him to meet the spider form that we didn't see in the first movie.

Davros1 posted:

My thing is, clowns are creepy as is, and the creepier you try to make them, the less effective it is. So by adding the dirty clothes, the devil horn smile, the rat incisors, and the drooling, for me, made a less threatening character then Curry's simple make up with the only thing seemingly "unnatural" about his design being the larger cranium.

I mean, this was Bozo the Clown. Imagine this popping up in the sewer asking if you'd want a balloon.

Kvlt! posted:

did anyone actually ever have a clown come to their birthday party as a kid? thats a thing i've only seen in movies, growing up i never had a clown come to my or my friends bday parties. maybe we were too lame for clowns. or too cool for clowns

Tuxedo Catfish posted:

Spiders bite and, in some parts of the world, are genuinely dangerous.

Anyways, it's not really the specific phobia that confuses me -- anything can be traumatic by association. If you're from a generation where John Wayne Gacy would have been in the broader public consciousness then I sort of get it, but it baffles me that in the year 2019 this is such a widespread aspect of pop culture. It's like if everyone just kind of accepted that plumbers or magicians were inherently terrifying.

Basebf555 posted:

The clown thing is all about the rigid mask of false happiness that a clown wears, and how that covers their actual face and creates this sense that there must be something sinister under the surface. Not that these are explicit thoughts that a kid has when seeing a clown but there's a natural reaction that a lot of people have to someone who is always grinning like a maniac.

Iron Crowned posted:

They always had at least a divine good as part of their mythology. A lot of their lyrics were about terrible people receiving some sort of punishment at the hands of the Dark Carnival.

Davros1 posted:

Sid Haig has an accident and is in the ICU:

http://cultfaction.com/2019/09/06/sid-haig-in-hospital-following-accident/

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Gripweed posted:

I understand her appeal but I still support Bernie. I do wish she had qualified for the third debate though.