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Never seen it before so we decided to toss it on and holy poo poo this movie is rear end, never knew. Its got like a 66 or so on rotten tomatoes but thats about twice as high as it should be, goddamn, it hasnt got a single redeeming quality I knew I was going to hate this poo poo as soon as the family has what looks like a normal break in and instead of calling the cops just checked the genre of movie and decided 'its ghosts' without anything spooky even happening yet. Its like 46 mins before anything that doesnt seem like just human crime happens. Not done watching it tho, starting to make myself see it as a parody of horror movies and its a little better, its actually bringing some decent laughs e. The writing is so fuckin bad lmfao, characters will ask questions and the other character will just make a speech that has nothing to do with what they were asked. Im honestly astonished at how bad the writing, story, cinematography, music, acting, and all of the above are. The whole movie is either in a weird almost-grayscale or almost-sepia e2. A lady just put on a gas mask and huffed a guy's ears. Man just saw video evidence of an actual demon in the room with him and his reaction was an 'oh my god' in the tone you use when you're tired of listening to your friend tell a story about their job and just want it to be over e3. Lol I think they're doing that scene from constantine now except without keanu reeves so its not cool e4. These characters have a 30 second attention span/memory I swear, holy poo poo. Also this movie really really thinks it can just show you anything and make a loud DWANG sound and it counts as scary even when its the goofiest disney's haunted mansion poo poo you've ever seen e5. I cant believe this isnt supposed to be a parody, its actively making me laugh. The dad character is navigating a horror video game level and trying to interact with the NPCs. They keep trying to use the 'tip toe through the tulips' song as a scary thing and goosebumps-rear end fisheye lenses and I am actively laughing my rear end off e6. So the dad astral projects to rescue the kid from The Furthur™ and on the way back just fuckin ditches the kid at the last moment to get distracted by some poo poo and the kid's astral form gets attacked by a demon. Holy poo poo, these characters genuinely have the attention spans of gold fish. The ending was so loving bad lmao. Anyway its time to watch the second one at 4am because I have nothing better to do I know 'ooh wow no way its bad what a surprise' sarcastic reactions are great and all but I've watched a lot of fairly low budget horror movies and this one was genuinely worse than most and certainly horrible for a movie i've heard as much about. Also my roomate said this movie was 'too scary' for him to watch and went to bed so I had a molecule of expectation it wouldnt be a glorified goosebumps episode. Bismuth fucked around with this message at 13:20 on Feb 10, 2022 |
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Feb 10, 2022 12:35
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Pennywise the Frown posted:It's ok. 
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Feb 10, 2022 12:36
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I like a lot of horror films but that style has never appealed to me and I haven't watched Insidious. I'll take your post as an endorsement of continuing my abstention.
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Feb 10, 2022 12:46
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Marmaduke! posted:I like a lot of horror films but that style has never appealed to me and I haven't watched Insidious. I'll take your post as an endorsement of continuing my abstention. It's not really a horror movie. It's shot like one, and the plot is about ghosts, but I don't think you're ever supposed to feel scared.
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Feb 10, 2022 12:49
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A mass market movie that was made on a comparatively low budget of 1.5 million that was funded by the same guy who funded the paranormal activity movies and also the purge movies and managed to make almost 100 million is a bad movie ?????????? you don’t loving say op. its almost like the mass media is creatively bankrupt. it’s almost like rich people will throw millions at some derivative bullshit with the expectation that it will make them tens of millions in return. It’s almost like… media is bad ???
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Feb 10, 2022 12:56
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That can’t be. Media can’t be bad. I’m a ten year old playing Superman 64 and I don’t understand it. Video games are fun, and this video game should be fun, but I’m not having fun. Clearly I don’t understand the game. Clearly the problem is with me. Clearly if I were better at the n64 I would be having fun playing Superman 64 Mass media is good. Mass media can’t be bad, mass media is only ever misunderstood and failed by the consumer
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Feb 10, 2022 12:59
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Thank you! I felt like this for a long time but I've just been too afraid to speak out. It's not that scary and another thing about that's bad is that is stupid.
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Feb 10, 2022 13:00
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Such a salacious review I do declare
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Feb 10, 2022 13:11
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Where exactly does a red-faced demon buy all its grandma doilies and a 78 rpm copy of “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” in The Further? Bed, Bath, and Beyond the Astral Plane?
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Feb 10, 2022 13:14
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Ziv Zulander posted:A mass market movie that was made on a comparatively low budget of 1.5 million that was funded by the same guy who funded the paranormal activity movies and also the purge movies and managed to make almost 100 million is a bad movie ?????????? Yeah this. I remember seeing it around when it came out and while jt was a bad movie, I did note it was better than other horror movies I had seen. If you want to see something good stop watching horror op Edit except the Japanese movie House with the evil cat luring the teens to the murder house. That movie ruled
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Feb 10, 2022 13:16
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Is that the one with the Darth Maul ghost or the one with the paranormal investigator couple?
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Feb 10, 2022 13:22
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The special effects were good though. I really thought that the demon's face was red until I watched the director's commentary where he said that they used red paint to make it look red on film.
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Feb 10, 2022 13:23
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Chrs posted:Is that the one with the Darth Maul ghost or the one with the paranormal investigator couple? Darth Maul
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Feb 10, 2022 13:23
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All of those ghost films are absolute trash. If you make a low budget horror movie just stock up on ketchup and make it a slasher about bigfoot or astronauts
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Feb 10, 2022 14:13
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The first half of the movie is some of the best horror I've ever seen The second half is dogshit
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Feb 10, 2022 14:15
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This is the film where the tenacious d devil is the bad guy right?
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Feb 10, 2022 14:23
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this is basically how I feel about Hereditary
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Feb 10, 2022 14:28
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Colonel Cancer posted:and make it a slasher about bigfoot If you're going to go all out, go all out.
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Feb 10, 2022 16:44
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dr_rat posted:If you're going to go all out, go all out. So get this, earth's surface is all hosed and the remaining humanity ekes out an existence in synthetic space habitats in Lagrange points. But bigfoot got on... And the maulings begin.
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Feb 10, 2022 17:44
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Cost of filming: however much you'd pay to squat in a dilapidated office building, a gorilla suit, and a 2003 laptop to add space in every window. Also a lot of expired ketchup.
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Colonel Cancer posted:Cost of filming: however much you'd pay to squat in a dilapidated office building, a gorilla suit, and a 2003 laptop to add space in every window. Also a lot of expired ketchup. I have three out of four of those things! May have to wait for the local economy to collapse a bit more for the fourth... so everyone good to start filming in three weeks?
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Feb 10, 2022 17:50
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It's always demons. You try to watch a movie about ghosts, but nope, it's from America and the scariest thing they know is a big dumb idiot demon out of hell
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Feb 10, 2022 18:02
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Mooey Cow posted:It's always demons. You try to watch a movie about ghosts, but nope, it's from America and the scariest thing they know is a big dumb idiot demon out of hell Sometimes it was all a dream. The most cursed horror films of all!
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Feb 10, 2022 18:05
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people in horror movies sure do have nice big houses like, when the house is so big that 2/3rds of it is empty at any given time then sure it’s going to have a spooky feel and when the plot involves an entire section of the house that no one knows about it’s like, yeah, must be hard to have an extra whole house in your house
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Feb 10, 2022 20:21
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Movie owns
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Feb 10, 2022 20:24
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Seth Pecksniff posted:The first half of the movie is some of the best horror I've ever seen I 100% agree and it's so baffling that I've had to show it to others so they can share in on my confusion. I've never seen anything quite like it. Suddenly the mood, the direction, the acting gets BAD and... You-? You were just doing all those things well, movie?! What?! It makes my brain stutter. I've never even found a decent explanation as to why. It's just so goddamn bizarre!
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Feb 10, 2022 20:30
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Das Boo posted:I 100% agree and it's so baffling that I've had to show it to others so they can share in on my confusion. I've never seen anything quite like it. Suddenly the mood, the direction, the acting gets BAD and... You-? You were just doing all those things well, movie?! What?! It's because the movie is a direct homage to films like The Entity that have the same exact sort of tonal whiplash for better or for good.
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Feb 10, 2022 20:32
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:It's because the movie is a direct homage to films like The Entity that have the same exact sort of tonal whiplash for better or for good. I only saw The Entity once and I don't remember thinking any of it was good. Mostly the remember ghost rape, as you do.
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Feb 10, 2022 20:34
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It was a big thing for ghost movies back then to have the spooky af poo poo going on at first then have the paranormal investigators come in and explain everything/lighten the tone. Blame Poltergeist.
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There you go! It came across like trying to stitch Poltergeist onto The Exorcist halfway through. Both films follow the same general beats but loving hell, are they tonally miles apart.
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Feb 10, 2022 20:46
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I gasped at the scene where the seance ends and you think it's safe after all the tension, only for the woman to slightly move her head revealing the demon behind her. It was a really well done scare and the main thing I remember from the movie. The rest of it was pretty bad though, yeah.
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Feb 10, 2022 20:52
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First half of the movie is indeed really good. Then they enter a realm of people from the Black Hole Sun video and I’m like  Is this the movie where someone peeks inside a room from the doorway and sees Buster Brown popping and locking? Because that was both brilliantly done and incredibly stupid.
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Seth Pecksniff posted:The first half of the movie is some of the best horror I've ever seen I saw this in theatres, and only remember the demon in the dining room, and Lin Shaye going all out with the gas mask for... reasons? Anyway, at no point did I think it was great or terrible. It is a movie. So while opinions are whatever, I'm genuinely curious as to why the first half rated so high for you, because I remember nothing really notable.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I saw this in theatres, and only remember the demon in the dining room, and Lin Shaye going all out with the gas mask for... reasons? For me, it was because I didn't know where the jumpscares would come from and it played on that. It wasn't at all apparent where the next scare was and the pacing went from SUPERFAST to very quiet and slow superbly. When the family walks into the house, you see the demon in a corner, out of the corner of your eye. When the baby's crying, I did not expect the demon be outside, or actually even one to be there. The scene in the dining room especially got me. I was literally looking all around in every scene, seeing if something was there and was about to pop out. It takes a lot for me to be impressed or scared by horror movies because I can usually predict what happens. Oh gee, don't go down that hallway. Oh no, what's behind that door.  The horror movies I remember are ones where I cannot predict what's going to happen next, which is why I really, really enjoyed the first half of it and wish to God they had kept that up because it would have been entirely memorable, rather than just "meh" at the end.
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The movie drew a lot of it's horror from jump scares, which I hate. Sure they scared be but that's because it's startling. And they have a big *HUGE NOISE* when they do it. I think that's a cheap way to do horror. I like a slow burn like The Exorcist which is my favorite horror movie of all time. I didn't hate Insidious though despite it's massive flaws and "wtf is this gas mask poo poo" type scenes. I agree the first half was better.
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i got this confused with the movie sinister sinister sucked too
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What's actually a good horror movie Edit: yes, I've tried turning off my monitor.
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I slept on it and I think I might have been a bit too hasty last night. Honestly painting someone's face red isn't that impressive.
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