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elf help book posted:what a slog, every scene feels 3 times as long as it needs to be hanging around a bunch of one note cartoon characters who dont have the decency to be funny The main danger to the hero is him constantly getting so spooked that he trips or clumsily knocks furniture over on himself lol John Goodman couldn't even save this one.
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I wanted to pick Session 9 but couldn't find it streaming free anywhere. Haven't seen that in forever either though.
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I added the visit (2015), it's got some really funny and tense parts
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Oct 17, 2023 15:43
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Phantasm: I've seen it before and on rewatch it completely held up. I like that you have absolutely no idea what's going on for so long, there's just this creepy tall man, a lot of growling, and a flying metal ball. The reveal that the dwarves are corpses smushed down to mine on a heavy gravity alien world owns lol. Lots of funny dialogue throughout. Definitely a classic. Prince of Darkness: First time seeing this. Very slow build but the premise is really cool and the execution is good. Everything after the researchers are gathered together is great, highlights being the reveal about the dreams and the climactic part with the mirror. In the Mouth of Madness: First time watch. I'm a little more mixed on this, I think because it's more competently shot or it plays things safer with the structure/plot or something, it doesn't have some of the charm of older horror movies lol. Still good but it makes it not nearly as weird. Sam Neill in the movie theater was the standout scene for me.
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Oct 17, 2023 16:08
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The House of the Devil - I'm reminded of the post somebody made about TV Tropes:quote:By way of analogy: A troper will spend years learning about what kind of ingredients typically go into cakes, and compile an exhaustive list of every ingredient and what they taste like on their own. Then the troper will present all of the other tropers with a bowl full of whole unshelled eggs, raw flour, oil, milk, and sugar, all in unstirred heaps, and say 'look at my cake'! And everyone will agree that the cake is delicious because it has eggs, flour, oil, milk, and sugar in it. Ti West has good taste in horror movies, hired a bunch of great actors, nailed the look of an old horror movie, and came up with a great soundtrack, but the movie just doesn't feel like a complete story. It's just a collection of random cool shots and then suddenly the whole plot happens at once in the last 20 minutes.
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Oct 17, 2023 17:45
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phantasm - my grandma loved horror movies. i remember watching stuff like friday the 13th and nightmare on elm street with her when i was tiny. this is one of those movies i had hazy memories of watching with her but didn't really remember at all. its fun, campy and cheesy, with the just the right amount of creep from angus scrimm. dog soldiers - sick effects, great characters, and tense, claustrophobic setting. loved this the first time i saw it and it still holds up. i hope i give you the shits!! in the mouth of madness - big fan of cosmic horror so this was right up my alley. i had only seen it once on a late-night tv showing, so it was chopped to poo poo. obviously much better fully viewed, its definitely not carpenters greatest but sam neill loses his god drat mind so i was enthralled.
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The Visit - M. Night is pretty hit or miss but he absolutely nailed it here. Real strong Hitchcock vibes from the movie. Great performances from the child actors too.
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Oct 18, 2023 03:14
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Bram Stoker's Dracula elaborate and impressive as all hell given the length of the practical effects. loved Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins, felt like Keanu was kinda miscast but not in a bad acting way? idk. great movie if really overtly horny lol. ty based Coppola
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Oct 18, 2023 03:37
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Horror Express weird little movie but i ended up liking it more than i thought i would. feels like a campy movie taking itself 100% seriously aside from the British wit and Scooby-Doo sound effects. Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing play off each other really well and lmao at Telly Savalas feeling as if he just wandered onto the train to do whatever he wanted for the <10 minutes of screentime he gets and not even trying to do a Russian accent. this might actually be the most unsettling movie i've watched for exscreamvaganza so far thanks to the monster design, how he gets his victims, and the surgery scenes, god i wish i knew going in there'd be dead eyeball dissection cuz euuugghh. not sure if i liked how it started around the 2/3rds mark playing around with the kind of horror it wants to be for the rest of the film, going from this weird supernatural apeman to aliens and then also zombies..??, but it was still thoroughly entertaining
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watched Phantom of the Paradise today, god I love this movie lol. Paul Williams rules, Beef steals the whole movie, and all the music kicks rear end. think it's my favorite rock opera and certainly my favorite horror-comedy rock opera. Perfect october movie
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Oct 18, 2023 06:09
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i made a mistake and watched Phantom of the Park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dus7hHb0Je8&t=62s
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STONE COLD 64 posted:i made a mistake and watched Phantom of the Park lmao
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STONE COLD 64 posted:i made a mistake and watched Phantom of the Park Lol
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STONE COLD 64 posted:i made a mistake and watched Phantom of the Park lol
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STONE COLD 64 posted:i made a mistake and watched Phantom of the Park Lmao
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very tempted to make that same mistake lol
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Sub-Actuality posted:very tempted to make that same mistake lol Add it to the spreadsheet
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rolled the house of the devil, lets go
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house of the devil, pretty good cheap horror movie. they did a lot wth atmosphere for basically no money at all. theres no bruce campbell in th actors but theyre all fine except for the friend that gets her head blown off. wasnt amazing but i liked it. good score too. solid vibe.
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Oct 18, 2023 22:50
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Arachnophobia a movie that characters in a better movie would be watching briefly before being interrupted. i liked John Goodman as the dopey but no-nonsense exterminator and it was interesting seeing Jeff Daniels outside of Dumb & Dumber but man this just didn't do anything for me. creepy yeah but in the same way as a NatGeo documentary about spiders would be. i also really hate the trope of "innocent guy gets the initial blame for the bad poo poo happening/no one believes him about the actual catalyst" which happened for longer than it should've. good lol at the ending though, where the ultimate lesson is living in the country sucks but so does living in San Francisco. final verdict: a few less graphic details and it feels like it should be playing in a dentist's office waiting room
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watched horror express and it was cool made me wonder how they made the eyes glow back then, looks like contacts with lights under them but that would be blinding/hot right against the eye crazy not a super shitton to say, had some dry bits of humor that made me lol scattered throughout, i liked the song the baggage guy whistled that kind of became a motif throughout the movie, it was funny to think of some ape skeleton dude pursing its lips to whistle after the baggage guys song was cut short, it continued the song after he died lol because it absorbed his thoughts, didnt even put that together now how the ape knew to continue the song but thats the first clue it steals thoughts isnt it cool lol also i noticed creepshow in the list, theres a story in it very similar to this one called the crate
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still leaving a special movie i wanna watch for last.  rolled yet again and got Killer Klowns from Outer Spacedrat... i cant believe i liked this thought it was gonna be a real low effort just poo poo movie with nothing worthwhile to it besides the title, but its way better than ud think based on the elevator pitch milks the dumb premise for all its worth and doesnt overstay its welcome. costumes look surprisingly good. fun. even has a couple deece scares in it that got me, and idgaf ab clowns. good poo poo scary score: 2/5 score: 3/5
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Horror Express: I was looking forward to this one, I'd never heard of it before it was put on the list but I have been meaning to watch more Cushing/Lee horror movies since I loved The Horror of Dracula, and I know Bonaventure has good taste in weirdo older horror films. I enjoyed it a lot, every actor in it is a delight, Lee's never turned in a bad performance, Cushing was more roguish and funny than I'm used to seeing him, the actor who played the monk gave a fantastically hammy performance (I looked him up and he's been in a ton of Spanish-language stuff but nothing I recognized), and Telly Savalas is clearly having the time of his life. The idea behind the monster was cool and not quite like anything I'd seen before, or maybe it would be more accurate to say that it's a bunch of familiar ideas mixed together in a unique new way. I also really liked the mystery aspect and seeing Cushing and Lee piecing together exactly how the monster's abilities work and how to counter them was really interesting, especially in the way it made things you've already seen retroactively make sense like the monster picking the lock and then locking the cage back up after killing the thief. Definite recommend.
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And The House of the Devil. I know Ti West is mostly known for horror but this is the first horror movie of his I've seen, though I really loved his Western In a Valley of Violence. Really loved how well he nailed the stylistic throwbacks like using 16mm film and the opening and closing credits with the yellow text and freeze frames, etc. Very, very slow burn, which won't be to everyone's tastes but I liked it a lot, it reminded me of the first section of Barbarian where things are slow and tense and uncomfortable and you don't know when the shoe is going to drop or what it's going to look like when it does. I especially liked Tom Noonan's scenes earlier in the movie, where he's really weird and off-putting but not in an openly sinister way, just odd in the uncomfortable way that people are sometimes, he really sells it and it comes across as like, if you knew someone like that in real life you'd think he's just a harmless weirdo but since you know you're watching a horror movie you know there's got to be more than that. And then when the plot finally does explode it's just heart-pounding to the end. Great visuals too, I loved a lot of the effects like the pulsing flashes of the moon after she gets drugged by the pizza, or the road sequence as they're driving to the mansion that reminded me a lot of Lynch's Lost Highway. It's a hard recommend, because I know a lot of people won't like the pacing, but it gets by on an extremely well-executed atmosphere so if you're into that it's definitely worth a watch.
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Finished The House of the Devil, and I agree with Chuck. I enjoyed the movie, but it does take awhile if you're only in it for the spooks. Tom Noonan also does a great job.
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Punished Chuck posted:And The House of the Devil. I know Ti West is mostly known for horror but this is the first horror movie of his I've seen, though I really loved his Western In a Valley of Violence. Really loved how well he nailed the stylistic throwbacks like using 16mm film and the opening and closing credits with the yellow text and freeze frames, etc. Very, very slow burn, which won't be to everyone's tastes but I liked it a lot, it reminded me of the first section of Barbarian where things are slow and tense and uncomfortable and you don't know when the shoe is going to drop or what it's going to look like when it does. I especially liked Tom Noonan's scenes earlier in the movie, where he's really weird and off-putting but not in an openly sinister way, just odd in the uncomfortable way that people are sometimes, he really sells it and it comes across as like, if you knew someone like that in real life you'd think he's just a harmless weirdo but since you know you're watching a horror movie you know there's got to be more than that. And then when the plot finally does explode it's just heart-pounding to the end. yeh the more i think about it the more i liked it, and i already liked it a fair bit. its a super slow burn but in a way that builds tension and makes th scares actually work with minimal scary poo poo. also apparently the actress who i thought was phoning it in was greta gerwig lol
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i dunno those types of movies i think i like how it just wastes your time just simmering into the characters story, its like a lobster boil. that was something i actually liked about the early friday 13ths just how it took a while to get going because you were getting to know the characters, as one dimensional as they might be
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Videodrome: latter half was cool, needed way more body horror stuff throughout and less about pirating sadomasochistic porn lol. The one guy getting shot and having writhing guts start spilling out of him is the ideal, lots more of that. Definitely feels a little harsh but I'll give it 2.5/5 overall.
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sourdough posted:Videodrome: latter half was cool, needed way more body horror stuff throughout and less about pirating sadomasochistic porn lol. The one guy getting shot and having writhing guts start spilling out of him is the ideal, lots more of that. Definitely feels a little harsh but I'll give it 2.5/5 overall. videodrones in shambles
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Fucker posted:videodrones in shambles he gave forbidden zone a 2/5 you gotta add 3 to every score he gives
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The visit: solid 4/5, more downtime than I remembered but it does need that to make the epic parts epic. The grandparents are so good, the grandma especially. Grandma telling the girl to get all the way in the oven 
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trying to jack off posted:sounds like i should subtract 1 actually you should subtract yourself from the discussion additionally you can shut the hell up lardo your rear end is so fat your toilet paper is multiply (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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starbarry clock posted:you should subtract yourself from the discussion additionally you can shut the hell up lardo your rear end is so fat your toilet paper is multiply 
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Return of the Living Dead I watched my own movie pick. masterpiece 5/5 
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starbarry clock posted:you should subtract yourself from the discussion additionally you can shut the hell up lardo your rear end is so fat your toilet paper is multiply turns out i have powers over the subforums as well lol
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Sub-Actuality posted:Return of the Living Dead Lol
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trying to jack off posted:turns out i have powers over the subforums as well lol Lol
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rewatched Candyman (1992) it owns and its even cooler now that I live in Chicago. super gross and fairly gory film that draws a lot of dread out of racial tensions even before the supernatural stuff starts happening. but when it does start there are buckets of blood. can't believe all the bee stuff that was done in camera, Tony Todd is incredible in this. of course the Glass soundtrack is great. and it has a really strong ending, very cool that they finally let someone just scream like crazy right at the very end also i forgot about the part with the retarded kid getting his dick cut off and the kid recounting the tale just solemnly saying "worse than death" or something like that lol
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horror express (1972) - an old favorite. i remember my grandma having an ancient VHS copy of it from some bootleg distributor. lee and cushing are great as usual, adding gravitas when needed. i like the setting on the trans-siberian rail, its a really isolating feel thundering through untouched snowy wilderness. some of the effects are wild for the early 70s but it runs a bit out of steam in the third act when it can't seem to decide what kind of horror movie it is. great stuff 3/5 prince of darkness - this and the thing are carpenter at his finest imo. the bizarre dreamlike feel to everything helps to ramp up the tension. donald pleasence and victor wong are miles ahead of the other actors in this, their conversations on the metaphysical aspects of evil are really compelling to watch. great cameo from the king of shock himself too. 4.5/5 the thing - what can be said that hasn't already? a masterpiece of the genre. 5/5 arachnophobia - way creepier when you're 5 years old. it was just kind of slow and boring and the townspeople are extremely retarded. jeff fuckin daniels is hiding in your slipper waiting to kill you 1.5/5
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