|
|
#
¿
Jul 1, 2023 22:04
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 10, 2024 18:53 |
|
|
Shrecknet posted:who is a non-horror director who you'd like to see take on a horror project? Spielberg released two all-timers in a row with Duel and Jaws, then retreated to family fare and only toe-dipped with War of the World's later. Would love to see the King of Blocking take on a Werewolf movie Ang Lee.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 2, 2023 17:00
|
|
|
God I wish there was a bloody knife text reaction. I’d use that constantly.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 2, 2023 17:33
|
|
|
shoeberto posted:I never saw it but wasn't 1 Hour Photo kinda sold like that? And to a lesser extent, Insomnia, although that’s a straight up thriller for the most part.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 2, 2023 18:40
|
|
|
Is there some deep lore reason for why the Nostromo has a wet-chain tunnel with potable (?!?) water just falling on some concrete from a great height? It’s obviously just because it looks cool, and that’s a great reason and I support it. But Alien is a big enough franchise that someone must’ve tried writing like a GURPS supplement for it or something. That seems like the kind of a thing some beautiful nerd would try to defend.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 16, 2023 05:50
|
|
|
That sounds like the exact right amount of challenges. I like that October is the month with the most raw number of challenges, meta challenges are cool, 31 is the number of days in October so that makes sense logistically while being relevant? Sound dope as hell. In terms of feedback, I think you should make sure that none of the first-watch-required categories are relatively small and finite. Like, there's enough vampire movies out there that you could almost go forever, but some of the other categories it's not infeasible that someone has literally watched them all and is just hosed from the outset. Has there been like a murder-weapon scavenger hunt challenge? Like there's a list with "chainsaw" and "axe" and "blender" and you have to find movies where someone gets that shoved in their face? (I'm spit-balling, sorry if this is garbled.)
|
|
#
¿
Jul 17, 2023 16:43
|
|
|
Yeah that’d have to be a meta-category people are watching the whole month, and it should probably not need everything to count. (E.g. it’s 10 items but you only “need” 6 with the rest just bonus.) And it could be a bad idea. I’m just letting my stupid hands type things.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 17, 2023 16:56
|
|
|
Jedit posted:October 1st is a Sunday, so putting it up around September 29th/30th sounds reasonable for fitting it around your personal workload. O that'd be really convenient actually. The nerds going for a completion (or who just like strategizing) get a day or two to mull things over, and Sunday's a really convenient day to start. Even a really casual participant has good odds of knocking out two challenges on the first day. Have there been categories riffing off the horror formula before? e.g. movie with a final girl, movie with a subversion of the sex = death trope? I'm trying to think about other sorts of "kinds" of categories besides like "has this kind of monster" and "has themes X, Y, or Z".
|
|
#
¿
Jul 17, 2023 18:16
|
|
|
Why are we worried about new people getting scared off by the total number of challenges? It’s already a tiered system and they could just pick a smaller goal, couldn’t they? Like last year loads of people were just bopping in to do 13 movies, and maybe they’d throw in a single spooky bingo. Yeah there were also a bunch of people who filled out the whole card or watched 60+, but how does having a bunch of people having fun with a game make it less attractive? If we’re trying to be more inviting, maybe we should instead add a tier under 13. If you’re trying to make it easier to go up a ladder, you don’t cut off the top half, you add a rung to the bottom. If we lower the number from 31, that means us psychopaths who were looking forward to that don’t get as many challenges. We’d be making our game less fun to make it more inviting to hypothetical newcomers who were scared off by the people playing the game a lot. I’m not trying to be rude but that makes precisely zero sense to me. (That being said, I’m obviously just some schmuck and I don’t want to give a speech about how much work other people should do for me. This is kibitzing in its purest form.)
|
|
#
¿
Jul 18, 2023 02:58
|
|
|
I mean sort of riffing off STAC goat but a meta-challenge like “write X many reviews through a feminist lens” is a great idea and can be expanded on. gently caress yeah I’d do RED SCARE (X many movies through a Marxist interpretive framework). And then once we start having challenges in the review it’s a whole extra dial to turn. Write a review in verse or as a parody/filk song. Write the review as serialized reactions, like a collected live tweet. You can’t pick the next challenge you do, it’s fully randomized. The first letter of the next movie has to be the same as the last letter of the old movie (Nosferatu > Urban Legends). Both of those last two at the same time.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 18, 2023 04:25
|
|
|
STAC Goat posted:A couple of years ago Fran included a challenge connected to some other challenge elsewhere about drawing. And I decided to go the extra mile and draw something for the challenge. And I thought that would make a very cool challenge idea. But I also think something like that is probably too much because it demands a level of work or artistic expression that everyone just won’t want to do or feel comfortable doing. Yeah the downside would be that completionists are gonna have a hard time with it. Which might actually be good if newcomers really are intimidated by too much completionism. Now there’s less expectation to do everything. I would totally do reviews with a thematically related recipe. gently caress I might just start doing that.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 18, 2023 04:52
|
|
|
There’s a reason Stephen King is from Maine.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 19, 2023 02:21
|
|
|
Holy loving poo poo.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 19, 2023 03:14
|
|
|
feedmyleg posted:I was in some incredibly spooky fog in some very haunting locations this weekend. Spooky fog rules. The Mist.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 19, 2023 05:43
|
|
|
O I like that a lot.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 21, 2023 06:43
|
|
|
The blood test in The Thing.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 23, 2023 22:29
|
|
|
That is to this day the one movie I as an adult could not watch in one sitting. Ignoring little kid stuff. I got about half-way and just desperately needed to stand in the sun and pet a cat for 10 minutes. It was already the scariest movie before the bat monsters even showed up.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 24, 2023 06:00
|
|
|
I vividly remember it being the UK ending the first time, but the odds it actually was are precisely zero with when and where I watched it. I mostly bring this up to show how much more the UK cut’s ending is. C’mon. We all know she’s not getting out of that hole. We don’t have to pretend.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 24, 2023 06:19
|
|
|
Baron von Eevl posted:That reveal is great and has been copied a bunch, but the thing you might be forgetting is there are like 4 awful jumpscares before that. This is what happens to you when you Love Each Day.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 24, 2023 18:42
|
|
|
There can’t be a Descent 2 because, as we’ve clearly established, she is never getting out of that cave.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 25, 2023 04:23
|
|
|
Cosmic horror is basically a haunted house, but the house is the known universe.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 25, 2023 05:40
|
|
|
HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:David Gordon Green needs to go manage a Taco Bell or something. At this point, why don’t we just pass around Halloween between directors and see what they do with it. I wanna see Jane Campion’s Halloween.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 26, 2023 03:28
|
|
|
Hollismason posted:The Exorcist sequel just looks boring. That trailer thinks it's being so cute with teasing the theme, but it's like someone trying to hide an entire horse behind their back. A dead horse.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 26, 2023 15:02
|
|
|
A Fancy Hat posted:I just don't know what's left to mine from The Exorcist unless you go completely batshit crazy. Have the girls be faking the whole thing, or their parents are having them fake it. Turn it into a criticism of the church. I know that's just The Last Exorcism before the terrible ending, but it's at least something different. Money. They think there's money there.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 26, 2023 17:22
|
|
|
davidspackage posted:In the trailer thread, kiimo, who works on the campaign for the movie, mentioned this: Well then they (the execs, not kiimo and co, I'm sure they did their level best) hosed up both ways because it's right in the middle. I'm both angry that they're not changing things and angry at what they're changing, for the remake of a movie I never actually liked that much. It's kind of impressive.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 26, 2023 18:12
|
|
|
Gyro Zeppeli posted:Saw X now has a poster. The angles on the tubes aren’t right and it’s really bothering me.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 27, 2023 02:51
|
|
|
Personally, I'm a Halloween 6 guy.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 27, 2023 15:56
|
|
|
Crescent Wrench posted:From time to time I hear about how seeing Halloween 3 was one of the first dates my parents went on and they were confused as hell about what was going on in that movie. I'm choosing to believe this is the story of your conception.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 27, 2023 16:40
|
|
|
General Battuta posted:Sorry, what is the feeling on the original, not the remake! Has a couple of well-done bits in it, but pretty bland and very predictable. Like I don’t mind a tried-and-true simple story, but you get everything you’d expect from the first five minutes only it takes 87 minutes to do it.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 28, 2023 18:40
|
|
|
Deadite posted:I need a quick opinion, horror thread. Does this look better with the blood or without? I always like to add blood to these but I feel like I go to that well too often. In general definitely the top one with the blood. But I can see why you’d ask that because I’m not 100% happy with how that specific blood works. Is this still planning and you can mess with it? A revamp on the bloody bit might make it perfect.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 29, 2023 19:43
|
|
|
STAC Goat posted:Yeah. I think the missing teeth in the bloody one give it a kind of uncanny look. The bloody part ends up not looking like part of the blade and makes the whole image look a bit weird and not as instantly identifiable as the bloodless one. I suspect a version that looked like one single blade in size with all the teeth but bloody would be the winner. But of the two that exist I'd pick the bloodless one. Yeah could you (not you, STAC Goat, I’m building off you) mostly keep the blade and tooth shape but the end is red and with some drippy bits? Right now like I get it, but it looks a little like you just dipped it in a big blob of jam instead of it being a bloody chainsaw. Great instincts on the blood though. This is just workshopping specifics of the blood. I kind of want one, but neon does not work with any parts of my esthetic.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 29, 2023 20:06
|
|
|
MacheteZombie posted:If its possible, my suggestion is to make the blood drops flick on and off. O you could go for a whole animated spray effect if you did it right.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 29, 2023 20:11
|
|
|
2. A loving thousand times 2. Possibly with just a skosh more dribble. Edit to be clear 1 is good too. I just think 2 is close to perfect. Xiahou Dun fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Jul 29, 2023 |
|
#
¿
Jul 29, 2023 20:25
|
|
|
STAC Goat posted:This. If you could do drip on 2 it would be perfect but I recognize that might just be hard. But 2 is great. 1 is also great. I'd consider both bad rear end but probably pick 2. Early medical chainsaws didn’t have motors yet. It was the 1790’s so it was hand-cranked like an egg-beater made of nightmares. Long before anyone had miniaturized motors enough that you could do that they’d been replaced by the hilariously names Gigli saw, which is similar but distinct. It was basically a razor sharp wire with two handles that you wrap around the unfortunate person and sort of… do the twist at them until they don’t have a leg anymore. Xiahou Dun fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Jul 29, 2023 |
|
#
¿
Jul 29, 2023 21:56
|
|
|
feedmyleg posted:I think it's important to note that you can have the chain blink off and on, and if you make two of them at different rotations it will blink as if it's moving. And it could be on the same circuit as another chunk of red “splatter” too.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 29, 2023 22:56
|
|
|
Deadite posted:If I had any idea how to do that I would give it a shot. I've never made an animated sign but I would like to. You'd just need a double throw switch on a timer. It lights one loop, then the switch flips and it lights the second, switch flips back, etc. I don't know your set-up, but it's gotta have power coming in somewhere and you just put the switch between that and the actual loops. Switches are total nothing part, you can even get them crazy cheap if you get them in bulk. I think. I'm doing this from first principles.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 30, 2023 00:25
|
|
|
The Ninth Gate.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 30, 2023 15:12
|
|
|
PKMN Trainer Red posted:
This is amazing.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 30, 2023 23:06
|
|
|
Hollismason posted:I settled on Cast a Deadly Spell Julianne Moore is literally just Jessica Rabbit in that movie. And Clancy Brown was born to play a noir heavy.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 31, 2023 03:04
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 10, 2024 18:53 |
|
|
Hollismason posted:Cast a Deadly Spell is good but the use of the f slur and its derogatory approach to gay people is not. Like I understand its suppose to be 1940s but eh. Yeah its general handling of LGBT issues is a big ol’ negative and the one thing that stops me from recommending it to everyone.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 31, 2023 04:24
|
|