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Post by DeepArcher on Oct 14, 2020 14:52:42 GMT
 Pulse (2001, Kiyoshi Kurosawa) (on tubi) This is prime early Internet horror. Fascinating exploration of CGI and digital media. It's a simple sort of premise that's been done to death in American mainstream horror for years but never to this same effect. Not only some of the creepiest imagery I've ever seen in a horror film, but a horrifying confrontation of the uncertainty and loneliness of death. Preying upon existential fears that are truly the most terrifying stuff imaginable. Probably one of the most outright unsettling films I've ever seen and one of the best ever movies for watching on a computer screen, in the dark, alone. |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 14, 2020 16:02:49 GMT
What's the last Gordon film you plan to watch? He's rather hit or miss but I love Re-Animator, Dolls has its moments and Stuck is rather effective. I love that he wrote Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.. Looking forward to it  Did you not like Dagon? I know it's reeeeally messy and the acting can pretty bad (esp. the protagonist) but I thought it was so atmospheric and otherworldy. Campy for sure but also quite unsettling. And Macarena Gómez's crazy eyes haha. I haven't seen much Lovecraftian horror of this kind so it was a rare treat. Can you recommend similar stuff that's maybe more polished? |
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Oct 14, 2020 18:58:15 GMT
The Lodge - Don't get me wrong, I love a slow burn... but at some point there has to be some fire. Hell, this had a lot of the slow but it didn't have any of the burn. Somehow this had a positive RT rating. Fucking beyond me how that happened. One of the better horror flicks I’ve seen over the last several years. Personally loved the hell outta it. |
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 14, 2020 20:15:08 GMT
What's the last Gordon film you plan to watch? He's rather hit or miss but I love Re-Animator, Dolls has its moments and Stuck is rather effective. I love that he wrote Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.. Looking forward to it Did you not like Dagon? I know it's reeeeally messy and the acting can pretty bad (esp. the protagonist) but I thought it was so atmospheric and otherworldy. Campy for sure but also quite unsettling. And Macarena Gómez's crazy eyes haha. I haven't seen much Lovecraftian horror of this kind so it was a rare treat. Can you recommend similar stuff that's maybe more polished? I haven't seen Dagon in ages but I really liked the atmosphere for sure. Other Lovecraftian horror I'd recommend are Messiah of Evil, The Beyond (1981), Cast a Deadly Spell, In the Mouth of Madness, Spring, The Whisperer in Darkness, Prince of Darkness, Event Horizon, Color out of Space, The Void, Beyond the Black Rainbow and A Cure for Wellness. |
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Oct 14, 2020 21:21:41 GMT
The Lodge - Don't get me wrong, I love a slow burn... but at some point there has to be some fire. Hell, this had a lot of the slow but it didn't have any of the burn. Somehow this had a positive RT rating. Fucking beyond me how that happened. One of the better horror flicks I’ve seen over the last several years. Personally loved the hell outta it.  |
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 14, 2020 22:35:45 GMT
One of the better horror flicks I’ve seen over the last several years. Personally loved the hell outta it.  I saw it at a film festival last October and I left so pissed. |
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 14, 2020 22:58:52 GMT
See The Sea (1997) 9/10 - re-watchStupendous short film - a quasi-horror and striking debut from François Ozon that evokes Hitchcock and Polanski......in some ways he never topped this. Tremendously nasty and creepy right from the get go, it is by turns specific, horrible, inevitable and enigmatic. Gorgeously shot too by Yorick Le Saux who did Personal Shopper and has quite a keen eye for beautiful horror himself.  |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 15, 2020 2:23:50 GMT
15. The Church (Michele Soavi, 1989)My first Soavi. A totally insane giallo-esque (in style, not in plot) dance with the devil in a medieval cathedral housing a centuries-old evil just about to wake up. Bangin' score by Goblin and some mesmeric editing (Soavi clearly knows how to craft a sequence) and exciting deaths. The plot becomes very murky towards the end but by that point you've already surrendered yourself to the vibe. (prime video) 
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 15, 2020 2:29:00 GMT
16. Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (Michael A. Simpson, 1988), watched on prime video Five years later... the kids are dumber, the dialogue is more cheesy, the kills more creative, the acting is so much worse, and it's a blast! Totally my trash. Low production budget meets charming self-awareness. There isn't a second it's taking itself seriously and it's one of the most entertaining flicks I've seen all season. And I just love how much Pamela Springsteen's Angela talks like a psychotic moralistic old lady. She's obsessed with sex, and by that I mean she hates anyone who's doing it or thinking about doing it. Where are those teens that you keep "sending home", Angela? Where are they? "Probably fornicating," she says. sooooo should I watch Part 3?? 
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Oct 15, 2020 3:07:52 GMT
Poltergeist - Believe it or not, never saw it until today... it's definitely dated, but it's still effective.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Oct 15, 2020 6:58:08 GMT
The Lie - I feel weird posting this here, but it was Blumhouse and listed as horror... it's not a horror. I didn't outright hate it, but it was far from good. Once you learn the reveal, the entire thing goes into "uhhh, how was this not done before now???"
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Oct 15, 2020 10:22:52 GMT
Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Silly, stupid fun. Another first watch for my 4-year-old son.
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 15, 2020 14:00:37 GMT
Fury of the Demon (2016) - 7.5/1062 minutes on TUBI
Sort of a fictionalized take on the fictional Cigarette Burns "film within that film" - you know the one that drives everyone mad or to murder.......this mock-umentary constructs a whole Blair Witch like backstory - who made it, how and why and when it was shown........and it does a superlative job at it. Some people won't like this because they don't like having their leg pulled - these are humorless wackjobs who say they like "naturalism" in acting and "realistic" movies and these people should be avoided as much as possible.......  For the rest of us that have imaginations ....well........you'll likely think that this mock-umentary and "the facts" presented in it should have a narrative movie script written around it and be shot as a feature film......... or that Cigarette Burns as great as it is, really needs a feature version to improve some of its shortcomings. Horror movies and detective stories never really work too well usually ( Angel Heart I'm looking at you, in the 2nd half!)....this is screaming (pun intended) for it.  |
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Post by Viced on Oct 15, 2020 16:37:21 GMT
11. Carnival of Souls (1962) - Some nice trippy moments, but overall this was incredibly awkward and boring. Lamest nightmare ever tbh. Lead actress was dreadful too. 12. Child's Play (2019) - great opening scene, and I lol'd at least a few times, but this is just too stupid overall. Nonsensical shit like Brian Tyree Henry's character's mother getting murdered was hard to fathom. 13. Freaks (1932) - I guess I'll assume that the pre-butchered 90 minute original cut was actually a horror movie... because the 60 minute version hardly is. Referring to it as a horror movie now kind of seems to miss the point of what I thought the movie was going for... that the "freaks" are horror characters just because of their appearance/who they are, which obviously isn't the case. But outside of that, this is one of the most strangely gripping movies I've ever seen. What a cast of characters! shoutouts @noahtannenbaum |
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Post by Billy_Costigan on Oct 15, 2020 16:40:37 GMT
Summer of '84 - shit. It's a bad Stranger Things knock-off that is surprisingly well shot but involves way too much plot armor and too much incompetence from the killer for it to be remotely scary. Decent ending, though. It was fun enough |
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 15, 2020 17:47:06 GMT
 Liked the first one, didn't like the next two. Critters (1986) creates some interesting pockets of small town America and unexpected humor from Lin Shaye and M Emmet Walsh and some crite one-liners though it sticks close to the home invasion formula and steals from the hot sci-fi of the day, it's all mapped out really well, and includes some great fx. Critters 2 (1988) is bigger and badder - one or two things I dug, how the town seems to want their own weird lore to be true, and the Playboy gag - but it's painfully cringeworthy for the most part. Critters 3 (1991) with Baby Leo DiCaprio takes away what's fun about the series and though it actually has a smart theme on its mind (tenant subterfuge by the landlord) it's all performed so awkwardly and awfully and annoyingly.  Inferno (1980) 6/10 - Barely there script, bad perfs, and a "huh?" lame as hell score. But with such mesmerizing visuals you kinda can't look away. Problem for me is my two favorite scenes are the first two scenes - especially the music classroom scene that I'm now obsessed with. Argento's dreamscape style is more sleekly paced, and with more on its mind, in Opera. He uses some other ideas and cues from Suspiria, Deep Red etc. Bava deserves a lot of credit for his help and the pieces he added - and this works best bc of its pieces, not the whole. Can't believe this almost starred James Woods and Nancy Allen - that would've been amazing.  Apt Pupil (1998) 7.5/10 - Not horror but horrory with a few nightmare sequences and the total disturbing content and character descent and what hangs over the movie with Singer and all. Very well-made across the board, the score, editing, vis, and with possibly a career-best Ian McKellen. |
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Post by quetee on Oct 15, 2020 17:57:28 GMT
My finger accidentally clicked on Hubie Halloween and it was a big boner. I have to give Sandler credit: he just throws ideas in a blender, spits out a script, and gives his friends a paycheck.
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 15, 2020 18:54:10 GMT
The Lie - I feel weird posting this here, but it was Blumhouse and listed as horror... it's not a horror. I didn't outright hate it, but it was far from good. Once you learn the reveal, the entire thing goes into "uhhh, how was this not done before now???" That was soooo bad. Filmed in 2017, aired at TIFF in 2018, then they sat on it for two years because it was so shit, only to quietly add it to their Halloween releases. |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 15, 2020 19:02:03 GMT
12. Child's Play (2019) - great opening scene, and I lol'd at least a few times, but this is just too stupid overall. Nonsensical shit like Brian Tyree Henry's character's mother getting murdered was hard to fathom. this movie wasted Aubrey Plaza so bad. |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 15, 2020 19:10:20 GMT
Inferno (1980) 6/10 - Barely there script, bad perfs, and a "huh?" lame as hell score. But with such mesmerizing visuals you kinda can't look away. Problem for me is my two favorite scenes are the first two scenes - especially the music classroom scene that I'm now obsessed with. Argento's dreamscape style is more sleekly paced, and with more on its mind, in Opera. He uses some other ideas and cues from Suspiria, Deep Red etc. Bava deserves a lot of credit for his help and the pieces he added - and this works best bc of its pieces, not the whole. Can't believe this almost starred James Woods and Nancy Allen - that would've been amazing. this movie is definitely messy but it was my very first Argento and I can't help but feel fond for it. It was the most on-edge I felt watching one of his films, way more than even Opera. Remember jumping like hell during that underwater ballroom sequence and was sweating bullets during the first cat-and-mouse chase with the gloved killer. Don't remember specifics, only that the sequence goes on for an uncomfortably long time (in a good way) before reaching its bloody conclusion, and the oversaturated blue and red visual tones make it IMO one of his best-looking films. Although that cheesy rock score playing with Leigh McCloskey in the crawlspace... yeah, I'll never forget that |
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Post by Sharbs on Oct 15, 2020 19:28:16 GMT
My finger accidentally clicked on Hubie Halloween and it was a big boner. I have to give Sandler credit: he just throws ideas in a blender, spits out a script, and gives his friends a paycheck. I didn't think this movie was thaaaaattt good, damn |
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Post by quetee on Oct 15, 2020 19:39:15 GMT
My finger accidentally clicked on Hubie Halloween and it was a big boner. I have to give Sandler credit: he just throws ideas in a blender, spits out a script, and gives his friends a paycheck. I didn't think this movie was thaaaaattt good, damn Making fun of the joke in the movie. |
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Post by Sharbs on Oct 15, 2020 19:54:56 GMT
I didn't think this movie was thaaaaattt good, damn Making fun of the joke in the movie. yikes, did i block this movie out quick. me a goof |
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Post by LaraQ on Oct 15, 2020 19:58:50 GMT
The Lie - I feel weird posting this here, but it was Blumhouse and listed as horror... it's not a horror. I didn't outright hate it, but it was far from good. Once you learn the reveal, the entire thing goes into "uhhh, how was this not done before now???" The twist actually surprised me, but yeah,overall it was pretty mediocre. |
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Post by quetee on Oct 15, 2020 20:02:21 GMT
Making fun of the joke in the movie. yikes, did i block this movie out quick. me a goof You did lmao. I watched it last night so it is still fresh. Remember the mom wore shirts with inappropriate sayings and she thought boner meant mistake. |
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I saw it at a film festival last October and I left so pissed.
