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I'll grant that Samara's cool with you as long as you get someone else to watch her video, too, but that makes her, like, the MLM of friendship, nawmean?
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Jun 19, 2022 20:55
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one big problem with horror movies is that my GF doesnt want to watch anything scarier than uhhhh star trek: tng like where the guys body gets stuck in the ship or something similar so all these cool horror movies just arnt the same watching solo its all about the group vibe. my brothers and cousin have a tradition of finding the best/worst horror movies when we get together for xmas and thanksgiving and stuff
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Jun 19, 2022 22:37
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There's a hole in my heart as deep as a well for that poor little girl who's stuck halfway to hell.
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Jun 19, 2022 23:15
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IT BURNS posted:Where's that video of a Japanese guy walking in circles in a dilapidated house that gets more and more infested saying things like "It's raining today..." I think it was part of a series? This channel also has a great blind minecraft playthrough.
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Jun 19, 2022 23:56
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Mooey Cow posted:I feel sorry for the ghost lady in the Ring and if she came out of my TV i would be her pal There is a homeless woman around my house that steers around one of those child push/ride cars piled with her recyclables. She wears what appears to be a bath robe and has long, black stringy hair that covers her face. My brother insist she is Asian (we are in a predominately Latino neighborhood). My security cams pick her up at about 11pm, stashing her cans inside our garden waste bins while she goes out to find more. I'd like to think that she is friendly but I don't want to encourage her stashing of homeless booty.
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Jun 20, 2022 03:40
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I've had an open eyed hallucination of multiple Sadako's crawling out of the floor and eating noobsaibot and have since viewed her as a a spirit animal of sorts. #teamsadako
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Jun 20, 2022 04:42
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Hereditary and Midsommar both had the same problem for me: The characters lack any real agency. We just watch terrible things happen to them and it never seems like they have even the slightest chance of overcoming the odds. It's like watching a movie where unsuspecting people get crushed with giant objects that only we, the audience, know about. That might be scary to some but to me it's just frustrating watching useless goobers accomplishing nothing and then dying or succumbing to their fate. I know that's a horror movie trope but I felt in those movies the goobers were especially useless, frustratingly so. I think Lake Mungo is the last movie I saw that legitimately creeped me out and I have to wonder if it's because they spend so much time building atmosphere in that. How subdued it was worked in it's favor for me. The Haunting of Hill House TV show is not a movie but it has some good scary ideas that they get across well. I still love Jacob's Ladder. I just realized that part of the reason a lot of horror isn't scary to me personally anymore is because a lot of horror is allegorical and as an adult I'm now always trying to figure out what the movie is "trying to say" instead of taking it all at face value Maybe that's the case for you too, OP?
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Jun 20, 2022 04:44
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I think horror that works for me is the type that doesn't feel the need to explain itself. Like something is happening, you don't know why, the characters don't know why, it's never explained at least fully and you're just left with questions that have no answers. This isn't the same thing as just random stuff happening. Like good horror still has a cohesive plot but whatever is causing it is left up to interpretation
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Jun 20, 2022 04:49
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Pitdragon posted:Hereditary and Midsommar both had the same problem for me: The characters lack any real agency. We just watch terrible things happen to them and it never seems like they have even the slightest chance of overcoming the odds. It's like watching a movie where unsuspecting people get crushed with giant objects that only we, the audience, know about. That might be scary to some but to me it's just frustrating watching useless goobers accomplishing nothing and then dying or succumbing to their fate. I know that's a horror movie trope but I felt in those movies the goobers were especially useless, frustratingly so. I get the frustration you might feel but the characters don't lack agency, they lack power, and knowledge - reasonably so. They're not slasher movie teens running upstairs instead of out. What are they supposed to do? Is the family in Hereditary supposed to just intuit that there's a demon king and his cult after them? What then? Do they go to the cops? Google for an exorcist?
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Jun 20, 2022 05:03
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Funky See Funky Do posted:I get the frustration you might feel but the characters don't lack agency, they lack power, and knowledge - reasonably so. They're not slasher movie teens running upstairs instead of out. What are they supposed to do? Is the family in Hereditary supposed to just intuit that there's a demon king and his cult after them? What then? Do they go to the cops? Google for an exorcist? Eh, to each their own. There just really isn't any sense of conflict in the way things are portrayed. The antagonists are too overwhelmingly powerful and our protagonists are too utterly powerless for my tastes. So powerless that there's essentially nothing at stake and it feels like just watching some kid crush bugs, but from the bug's perspective.
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Jun 20, 2022 05:21
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Das Boo posted:I remember Triangle being surprisingly good, but I've only seen it once. Just watched it and living forever in a time loop like that loving sucks. I know for certain that if it were me I'd never try to kill the other me though. gently caress myself? Maybe, but not kill me, we'd make a great team. I kept wondering why Jess kept acting so weird in the beginning but the ending explained everything. At what point does your mind not completely break after god knows how many loops?
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Jun 20, 2022 06:55
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That was actually a topic on a pro wrestling site I used to post on. Would you have sex with yourself if there was another one of you? Is that different than masturbating? The responses were all over the board
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Jun 20, 2022 07:03
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Aesop Poprock posted:That was actually a topic on a pro wrestling site I used to post on. Would you have sex with yourself if there was another one of you? Is that different than masturbating? It does seem like a GBS thread too. It has probably been made before. Time is a flat circle.
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Jun 20, 2022 07:16
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Recent-ish horror movies I've enjoyed: The Night House The Innocents The Empty Man I can generally watch horror movies unphased but anything with exceedingly awkward situations or where a character is embarassed/humiliated/gaslit etc. and I feel like I'm going to have an anxiety attack.
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Jun 20, 2022 07:43
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Traxis posted:Recent-ish horror movies I've enjoyed: yeah i'm way more likely to put my head under a blanket for a modern comedy than for a horror these days. psycho comedy writers of our generation get off on people being humiliated for some reason 
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Jun 20, 2022 14:14
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Enfys posted:Movies can still scare me, but books don't really anymore and that makes me sad I would try House of Leaves. It's my all time favorite book(and I'm a book nerd). There are many different interpretations, but my main one is that it is experimental horror: It tries to scare you in new and inventive ways. The second time I read it, I was more scared than the first time, because certain coded revelations toward the end paint parts of the narration in a new and horrifying shade.
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Jun 20, 2022 14:41
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Traxis posted:The Empty Man This movie had so much potential but it just couldn't make up its mind about what it wanted to be. It was still really well made and acted, though, but I wish it had been a little more focused.
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Jun 20, 2022 14:55
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It wasn't that scary but I really liked the new Candyman movie because I really hate police.
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Jun 20, 2022 15:31
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Big Scary Owl posted:I did see Resolution and The Endless and I enjoyed it them both (The Endless more). Are there more horror movies with a time loop theme like that as well? The part in The Endless that crosses over Resolution was such a spin out. I had no idea about the relation and had almost forgotten about the earlier movie.
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Jun 20, 2022 15:46
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The only thing I'm really scared of is bears and drowning. My favorite activities involve walking around in the backcountry and being on the river. Maybe I'm bored with life and this is my brain trying to spice things up. The movies that scare me are poo poo going bad in the wilds type stuff and I'm usually furiously trying to figure out how to avoid everything that goes wrong. Staying away from ghosts seems to be a good start.
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Jun 20, 2022 15:55
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They don’t know what horror is anymore
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Outrail posted:The only thing I'm really scared of is bears and drowning. My favorite activities involve walking around in the backcountry and being on the river. Maybe I'm bored with life and this is my brain trying to spice things up. Hey there's an entire YouTube channel called Scary Bear Attacks and this is probably the creepiest one because it's probably the worst I have ever heard that actually took place https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EXQjvpzVM0 Aesop Poprock fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Jun 20, 2022 |
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Jun 20, 2022 18:52
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Aesop Poprock posted:Hey there's an entire YouTube channel called Scary Bear Attacks and this is probably the creepiest one because it's probably the worst I have ever heard that actually took place Thre's a movie with a couple getting attacked by a grizzly that's on par with DiCaprio's Revanant with regards to 'oh gently caress that's brutal and possible'. I just don't watch those movies typically because why would you?
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Jun 20, 2022 18:57
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Outrail posted:Thre's a movie with a couple getting attacked by a grizzly that's on par with DiCaprio's Revanant with regards to 'oh gently caress that's brutal and possible'. I mean that brings up the question of why horror media exists as a concept which is extremely complex and I am not qualified to answer that. For me if it's done right it activated a thrill feeling in my brain that makes me think about long after it's over because I've barely in life threatening situations with predators
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Jun 20, 2022 19:02
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I don't enjoy gore porn movies by the way I still think Hostel is trash even though I was really disturbed watching it. Trash b level films that focus on gore just make me feel nauseous it's just not my thing
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Jun 20, 2022 19:08
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real life is far scarier than anything hollywood can come up
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Jun 20, 2022 19:15
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Horror movies don't scare me but I can't get even 15 minutes into Outlast 
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Jun 20, 2022 20:12
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watched brazil last night, seen it before but its still pretty good and also crazy
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Jun 20, 2022 20:20
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I'm gonna sound like an elitist prick, but people that don't find horror scary are probably watching it on Sunday afternoon when their mates are around and you can't immerse yourself because your friend keeps showing you some girl's instagram pics. At night, in a dark, empty flat, alone even the crappiest of movies can put one on edge.
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Jun 20, 2022 20:49
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1player posted:I'm gonna sound like an elitist prick, but people that don't find horror scary are probably watching it on Sunday afternoon when their mates are around and you can't immerse yourself because your friend keeps showing you some girl's instagram pics. I watch all movies alone at night tbh, with few exceptions
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Jun 20, 2022 22:10
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Nigmaetcetera posted:I’m still scared of cannibal hillbillies. They need to make more cannibal hillbilly movies. Have you watched Wrong Turn like 1 - .. i dunno 15 now? Pennywise the Frown posted:Surprisingly I wasn't the biggest fan of The Shining movie. I love the actors and Kubrick is ok I guess, but it was even too slow for me. It was Kubrick who did it though. Boring shots and holding onto them for too long. I like the pace a little but he held it for too long. In my opinion. I just read the book maybe 2 years ago or so and it was absolutely fantastic. Probably one of my favorite books ever. I'm jumping in from the first page, which I hate to do. The NBC (I think) Shining was much better than the movie. I watched the new Scream (2022), and bleh. They weren't that great to begin with. I joined a group on Facebook about horror movies, but they're all like the Campy B-C Horror movies. Which can be fun, but not scary. I can't really think of a movie that made me scurred. Ive seen all the classics. The Halloween jump scares still kinda get me. I remember Candyman scaring me in the theater. Are we just too old and jaded these days? I want to be scared of something besides the looming specter of Death
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numberoneposter posted:watched brazil last night, seen it before but its still pretty good and also crazy Brazil is extremely weird, I've never really considered it a horror film though it's just what happens when a creative Monty Python member makes a semi serious film. It is good though
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Scratch Monkey posted:The Endless was unsettling like that. Especially the guy stuck in his tent in a loop that lasted only a couple of seconds and ended with him getting exploded. Given his clothing and the gramophone it had to have been happening over and over and over for more than 100 years. Creepy as hell. Ohhhhh. I remember that one. It was pretty decent. Aesop Poprock posted:There was one I've never seen so I don't remember the name of it but it was people lost in a cornfield? It was similar to the endless because it was some mysterious higher being with unknowable plots controlling it behind the scenes I want to say it was The Maze. and like each character had a random object that was supposed to help them? then at the end of the maze, they had like death traps they had to get through or something? It was bad. But not the WORST. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1675758/?ref_=tt_mv_close I could totally be mixing it up, though It could of been In The Tall Grass, I guess. I can't remember. I have a habit of watching schlock at like 0200 on a weekend ee- The latest Chucky movie that took place in like a Wal-Mart analogue was pretty fun. Not scary at all, but enjoyable especially the end that had like a demon growing out of the roof, or whatever blight rhino fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Jun 20, 2022 |
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Jun 20, 2022 22:33
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blight rhino posted:The NBC (I think) Shining was much better than the movie. Oh hey I remember that. That had Steve Weber from Wings in it. I think I remember really liking it. I'll have to see if I can find it.
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blight rhino posted:Ohhhhh. I remember that one. It was pretty decent. It was the Tall Grass. Somebody cleared that up a page ago and apparently it sucks
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Do people actually not like The Shining anymore? I mean I know the actress was actually traumatized during it but every actress was treated badly in horror films for decades but it's still a really unique work of art Than again so is Salo and that movie is just disgusting garbage. Being unique doesn't necessarily mean good
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I'm traumatised by how much you post
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Jun 20, 2022 23:07
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turn. off. your. monitor. 
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kntfkr posted:It wasn't that scary but I really liked the new Candyman movie because I really hate police. emptyquote
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