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Uncle Boogeyman posted:weirdly i've seen this but not the original Yeah I think that’s not uncommon. I THINK I’ve seen the first one but if so it was once and I was 9 or something, I’ve seen 2 like 400 times on tv
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Jul 24, 2023 17:04
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:Definitely watch Enemy Less horror, but Richard Ayoade’s version of The Double from the same year is also very good
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Jul 31, 2023 04:21
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weekly font posted:Did anyone say Videodrome? Solid investigation there and the lead being a scumbag makes James Woods’ worminess tolerable. Woods is a good actor and his being a total piece of trash just enhances a big chunk of his roles.
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Aug 2, 2023 20:13
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Darthemed posted:Bruce Coville’s Book of ____ (Monsters, Nightmares, Aliens, Ghosts, Magic, and Spine Tinglers) series are great for this. Each category has two books to it, and each book is a curated collection of short stories fitting the theme, with a nice variety of authors, though some of them do show up regularly. There’s contributions from Joe Lansdale, Jane Yolen, Terry Jones, Ray Bradbury, Michael Markiewicz, Neal Shusterman, and Al Sarrantonio (whose “Snow” still creeps me out), among others. Always loved these. My son picked up this https://www.amazon.com/Cabinet-Curi...ps%2C95&sr=8-10 at the library the other day and while I’ve only read one story it was very cool and he seems to be extremely into it. He’s nine but a high level nine in terms of things he’s been exposed to, it seemed aimed a little older than him to me.
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Aug 4, 2023 05:08
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Phy posted:That thing grossed me out bigtime but then it got Byford Dolphined so it was like double gross I didn’t understand this reference and…yikes
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Aug 7, 2023 21:33
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Xiahou Dun posted:I guess you were right not to google that. The GIS results aren’t exactly fun. Oh no I looked it up on Wikipedia, which has a helpful diagram of what happened with stick figures. The yikes was my response. I did not look up pictures however
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Aug 8, 2023 19:33
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Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:I was wondering about jazz. is there a horror soundtrack that’s all jazz? nothing is coming to me right now. I sort of vaguely remember Ganja & Hess running the gamut of Black music, like there’s some Afrobeat, some gospel… Rosemary’s Baby, Martin
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Aug 14, 2023 23:46
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Honestly, my biggest complaint about Malignant was that they color-graded it like one of those Mike Flanagan Netflix shows, which sapped a lot of the fun. Even that would be a fine gag if it was just the parts in the first act before it wilds out
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Aug 15, 2023 18:45
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feedmyleg posted:Just watched The Woman in Black, currently watching the remake. The first was solid, if a bit lacking in tension. So far I really like the style, tone, and mood of the remake, which is about 80% of what I'm here for anyway, plus Radcliffe has a great screen presence, but about 30 minutes in and it's quite clear to me that this film's primary problem is just how little it trusts its audience. It's all so obvious. I saw a stage production once and it’s really great in that format. Better than either film version, or at least the one I saw was
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Aug 19, 2023 00:07
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Hollismason posted:Midsommar is mid. Just not real impressed. I've still got like I think 20 minutes to go. The length of this doesn't really do it any favors. It could be like 120 minutes and still get across what it needs to say. yeah if i was a bit bemused by the ari aster hype after hereditary, i was outright perplexed after midsommar.
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Aug 22, 2023 00:59
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ruddiger posted:Bokeem Woodbine is great in it. Speaking of which, I just rewatched Caught Up with Bokeem Woodbine and Jeffrey Combs, it’s got some pretty fun Jamaican/voodoo stuff going on in it. How have I not seen this, what a cast
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Aug 24, 2023 18:39
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MacheteZombie posted:The end of that movie wrecked me the first time I saw it I just rewatched it a couple of weeks ago and I teared up a few times. I’m a big wuss for those kind of working people in a hopeless situation stories
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Aug 25, 2023 17:26
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M_Sinistrari posted:Barbie's starting to taper down a bit by me. Oppenheimer's still going strong, but that's expected with the New Mexico connection. That’s The Midnight Sun, it’s a Twilight Zone episode Edit I typed twilight instead of midnight DeimosRising fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Aug 25, 2023 |
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Aug 25, 2023 23:08
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Phy posted:The Interior: that one scare you were all talking about is indeed terrifying but I don't feel like the rest of it was quite worth the trip. Look I haven’t seen the movie but maybe a character with a terminal diagnosis might have a motivation for not prioritizing responsibility and safety, perhaps
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Aug 29, 2023 22:19
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Microwave massacre is the rare film for which a description is wilder and more interesting than watching the movie. It’s so poorly made it drains all the interest out of its gonzo plot and concepts
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Aug 30, 2023 18:47
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Jump scares are good, it’s fun when one gets you.
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Aug 31, 2023 21:39
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I think jump scares have their place, but often they're overused as a cheap tactic to prop up an otherwise uninteresting fBOO! Sure, a bad one is bad, no argument. I just think that’s trivially true. All the weak ones that make you roll your eyes just make the good ones more fun
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Sep 1, 2023 01:45
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The Carrier (1988) Ever since you made that movie of the month I think about this movie a lot
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Sep 5, 2023 15:59
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EL BROMANCE posted:It’s me, the other guy who liked A Cure For Wellness. I think it's quite popular around here. I liked it a lot
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Sep 8, 2023 04:48
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Gripweed posted:Earlier this year I managed to get literally ones of people to watch Legend of the Stardust Brothers, so I have faith that this will be the year I finally talk someone into watching X-Cross. It's such a fun movie! i watched i just forgot to post. i'll dredge up the thread tomorrow and say something
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Sep 13, 2023 04:37
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A Fancy Hat posted:I live in Western PA, I've got Kennywood Phantom Fright Nights as my major haunted attraction but we also have Hundred Acre Manor and The Scarehouse which are absolutely incredible. Hundred Acre Manor is on par or above anything I've done at Universal; just completely wild set design and costumes. Scarehouse used to be on par with that but I haven't gone in a few years. Down to what age would you say these are appropriate? I live in pittsburgh too and my kids would love a haunted house, but they're 6 and 9.
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Sep 21, 2023 14:02
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the whole premise of jigsaw's deal, finding out if you really love life and want to keep it and poo poo, is what happens every time i find 3 week old coleslaw in the fridge and try to decide if i should put it on my hot dog anyway
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Sep 27, 2023 05:00
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Watched the first two episodes of the Flanagan Poe series. Embarrassing. He clearly just wanted to direct some episodes of succession. Characters constantly saying the names of Poe short stories out loud is incredibly corny. The pseudo monologue framing story is some of his worst writing ever. When it’s being funny it’s actually decent, maybe he should try his hand at a comedy. The ghosts standing in the background of shots is such a playing the hits move I almost respect it. The hot club bangers being entirely mid tempo remixes of earth 90s radio staples tells you everything about the audience and the vibe here
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Oct 15, 2023 05:09
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Kart Barfunkel posted:Theater near me is doing a double feature tomorrow and I wanna know if this sounds worth it to you guys. Messiah of Evil is an all time banger so if you don’t like that one I’m not sure I can understand your taste well enough to be sure but : The sect/devil’s daughter is a Michael soavi movie, argento just wrote it. The church is also a soavi movie. Church is a lot wilder and more fun, though the sect has its moments. Church plays fast and loose with the idea of a plot, it’s sort of kind of Demons 3 but you don’t need to have seen any of the various other movies in the “series”. If you don’t mind the Italian style of blending horror with comedy and stringing scenes together more by vibes and feel than plot, it’s fun. The sect is more buttoned down but the plot is hackneyed to the point that it would be better if it wasn’t. Neither are a patch on Soavi’s next movie, Cemetery Man, which is getting a rerelease soon and is probably why your theatre is showing these two
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Oct 25, 2023 01:07
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Those are actually both by Michele Soavi. The Sect is just okay, but The Church is GREAT. I did not know when i wrote that earlier that the sect sometimes got billed as demons 4, and now I’m very amused that they’re screening them “out of order”
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Oct 25, 2023 02:27
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PriorMarcus posted:How is the remake of Susperia? You've already gotten a lot of answers, but if it were titled something different you might not recognize it as a remake. You could watch them back to back and you'd probably think, what a weird coincidence that those were both set at ballet academies and featured witches. i wonder if it was an intentional homage. i like both a lot
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Oct 25, 2023 17:33
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:If you want a weird 3 hour long gothic horror movie with Mia Goth, I can’t recommend A Cure for Wellness highly enough i can think of much worse ways to spend an evening that this double feature. i will say i've never wanted an intermission in a movie more than the suspiria remake though
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Oct 25, 2023 17:34
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Punkin Spunkin posted:his actress/director relationship with his wife reminds me of Polanski and Emmanuelle Seigner too...just obviously way less creepy... Tbf Rob and Sheri is also the wholesome version
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Oct 27, 2023 14:43
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:No one makes this comparison because it's not flattering but Flanagan is VERY much like Ryan Murphy. Absolutely, except it's not flattering to Ryan Murphy
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Oct 30, 2023 19:09
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:There isn't a single sequence from the first 3 V/H/S movies that seem anything like Eli Roth. Yeah I’m very bemused at the idea of Eli Roth directing Second Honeymoon or Slumber Party Alien Abduction. Seems like PS got so thrown by the dickhead frat boys in the first wraparound and Amateur Night it took him 3 movies to recover
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Nov 3, 2023 18:45
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pospysyl posted:Blumhouse Production’s box-office blockbuster Five Nights at Freddy’s grossed $80 million when it opened, just days after the American broadcast debut of Morrissey’s legitimately terrifying new song “Sure Enough, the Telephone Rings.” Morrissey’s taunt, “You should tell little kids / They’re living in hell now” calls out the unserious Blumhouse agenda and our current political nightmare. honestly i can barely even figure out what the gently caress armand is talking about these days, it's such a mismash of stuff that seems like he was half watching the movie and is throwing out right wing catchphrases whether or not they make sense at all.
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Nov 3, 2023 19:59
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Halloween Jack posted:Well, he's the National Review's film guy. Degenerating into that kind of hackery was inevitable. SuperMechagodzilla posted:Obscurantism fails when you can just skip to the conclusion. White's complaining that the Five Nights At Freddy's movie isn't promoting Qanon, as the failure of any artwork to do so is a moral failure. RIP to his drat mind. at first after his turn he at least made sense even if what he was saying was stupid but now it's just nonsense. i think you're right and it's not just grift for him, he's got Q brain and legitimately thinks sex trafficking is a common and normal thing to be worried about and "there are few childhood or adult amusements free from sexual grooming" M_Sinistrari posted:He's pretty much the contrarian for the sake of being a contrarian. You can have a thousand critics praising a film with ten times that in the audience praising a film and he's going to go the exact opposite. old armand was a contrarian, but often an insightful and interesting one. what's he being a contrarian about here? no one is arguing five nights at freddie's is actually great, he's not swimming against the current of critical acclaim. his problems with the movie are just really weird
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Nov 4, 2023 16:47
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Beyond The Black Rainbow and Mandy are absolutely better Leviathan and Rambo 2. psycho 3 is pretty good but i think oz perkins is better than his dad as well.
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Nov 21, 2023 17:29
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WeaponX posted:cowards Worse, the update has their statement which outright says there is no ethnic cleansing or genocide happening in Israel-Palestine. This is significantly more than just shying away from controversy
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Nov 25, 2023 01:51
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flashy_mcflash posted:Yeah I absolutely can and have told people to shut up but this was like half the theatre. It was actually one of the more bizarre experiences I've had because it was like a bunch of people just decided to have a party in a full movie theatre. so i've never sat in a 4dx screening and i'm finding this hard to picture. like has she got a full on showerhead over there or what dorium posted:Penelope Cruz completely steals the movie. She went deep into her bag on this one. Adam Driver dials down the crazy Italian accent into something reasonable. Mann delivered a solid film that’s way more character study than racing action movie. He used the same cinematographer that Fincher had on The Killer and the movie MOVES when it needs to but finds some real great angles for character moments. cruz is 100% the highlight, does some serious facial acting. this is a big time face movie, and as a lover of cinema featuring weird faces I appreciated it. this was the first time I did a dolby cinema and there's no way this movie lives up to that in any other setting, the doppler effect and vibrating seats when a car blasts across the screen was a hoot
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Dec 22, 2023 19:55
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Splint Chesthair posted:It’s been a while since I saw Dawn04 - which character are people saying was queer-coded? Ty Burrell? i have no idea but ty burrell is almost totally characterized by being a narcissistic lecher and enthusiastically fucks a woman on screen so probably not him
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Jan 16, 2024 21:54
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STAC Goat posted:Like a big pattern of the movie is basically the characters who do what need to be done and the characters who don’t. And Ty is constantly all “gently caress you, not my problem”. I’d say value in that movie is defined less morally and more by utility and bravery hence how CJ gets redeemed despite being the villain of the first act. He doesn’t have any deep emotional or character change, he just says “for fucks sake” and does the action stuff that needs to be done. Ty’s big moment on the other hand is him simply not doing his easy job in the big rescue mission and getting people killed. what does any of this have to do with "queer coding" STAC Goat posted:There’s a smaller character. The older bald guy who seems to have been written as gay. There’s some shot of him trying on heels and some deleted scene with him I think. But he’s hardly a “villain”. At most I think you could argue he’s one of the more passive characters lesser than the macho action stars. The sensitive dad who has a tender death scene with his daughter? i guess he could be gay as opposed to just kind of liking heels, but he's like...the least villainous character in the movie. his whole personality is being sweet CJ is "redeemed" by doing a suicide bombing to save other people
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Jan 16, 2024 22:33
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Queer God, the upcoming sequel to Mad God i would be extremely hype for this
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:heels guy and dead dad guy are two different guys. dead dad guy is in like two scenes including his death scene, heels guy makes it almost all the way to the end of the movie. ah i forgot there was another bald guy but still
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Jan 16, 2024 22:42
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