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[XYZpdq Jr.]

Really? I'm a big fan of the original, and the remake is garbage. They make Candyman a spirit of Black vengeance against Evil Whites, because blacks never did nuffin'. It would be insufferable race baiting garbage as a standalone property, and as a remake it spits in the face of the original.

I dunno, I just saw the end part where the dude has a hook shoved in his arm and the chick's in the cop car.

 

[Vampirella]

I've always thought vampires would be more interesting than zombies. A virus that makes humans and animals dependent on consuming blood and transmits through saliva-to-bloodstream contact would fuck the global population in a matter of months.

That was the overarching premise of Daybreakers, albeit from the vampire perspective where they 'won' but are now dealing with a food crisis. There are not enough humans to feed all the vampires, and without blood the human vampires devolve into weird mutant zombie freaks. Cool premise, but the script really ruins the second half and ending hard.

Also the plot of I am Legend, the book, not the gay adaptation with Will Smith. If you want to see movie based on it watch Last man on Earth with Vincent Price, or The Omega man with Charlton Heston. Will Smith's movie fucked the ending and lost the meaning of the novel because it it. He just turned it in to another action flick with ugly CGI zombies.

I remembered what I felt was a fun twist on zombies was an episode from the 80s show Monsters called My zombie lover. It takes a funny twist on a lot of things. I really like the twist at the end and I won't give it away.

 

[The Nothingness]

Really? I'm a big fan of the original, and the remake is garbage. They make Candyman a spirit of Black vengeance against Evil Whites, because blacks never did nuffin'. It would be insufferable race baiting garbage as a standalone property, and as a remake it spits in the face of the original.

Cue the "Ackchually Candyman was also about race" articles that likely came out with the latest installment and completely ignored the Clive Barker short story that described him as a Caucasian man.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

They should do comedy version of 28 Days/Weeks/Years Later in the style of Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D

 

[Calandrino]

What, exactly, is the big idea in this bog-standard post-apocalyptic zombie movie that requires five to six hours to tell?

That's not even half a season of Walking Dead... they'll have to cut a lot of scenes of people arguing and apologizing if they want to cram a whole zombie story into a mere six hours.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

I'm looking forward to Nosferatu, and Lily Rose Depp possibly becoming a vampire, but my favourite... "vampiresses", will always be the ones from Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola), and the ones from Van Helsing and House of Darkness are charming, too.

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Van Helsing

House of Darkness

 

[BrunoMattei]

I'm looking forward to Nosferatu, and Lily Rose Depp possibly becoming a vampire, but my favourite... "vampiresses", will always be the ones from Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola), and the ones from Van Helsing and House of Darkness are charming, too.

If you're looking for more obscure Vamp flicks you might like the films of Jean Rollin:

They're very French and have tons of lesbian arthouse sex.

I also highly recommend The Hunger (1983):

Starring David Bowie, Susan Sarandon, directed by Tony Scott, and it's dripping head to toe with style and it fucking opens with Bela Lugosi's Dead. This is the best vampire flick. You cannot convince me otherwise.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

If you're looking for more obscure Vamp flicks you might like the films of Jean Rollin:

They're very French and have tons of lesbian arthouse sex.

I also highly recommend The Hunger (1983):

Starring David Bowie, Susan Sarandon, directed by Tony Scott, and it's dripping head to toe with style and it fucking opens with Bela Lugosi's Dead. This is the best vampire flick. You cannot convince me otherwise.

I've yet to watch The Hunger. I first read about it in John Landis' Monsters in the Movies: 100 Years of Cinematic Nightmares, and I'm not into lesbian stuff, or French stuff, but Fascination looks good. I'll give both a try.

And seeing as you're recommending vampire movies, I'll recommend another one back, too: Blood (2022). To me, majority-wise, kids are annoying as fuck in horror films, but I just felt mostly unsettled and heartbroken. In a good way, though, if that makes sense. It's a unique bent, too, because, without giving too much away, it all kicks off because of the mum's dog.

 

[BrunoMattei]

and I'm not into lesbian stuff, or French stuff, but Fascination looks good. I'll give both a try.

Even when it involves Brigitte Lahaie?

Spoiler: based

 

[John.Doe]

I'm looking forward to Nosferatu,

Me too, should be a banger.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

Me too, should be a banger.

It's a Robert Eggers film, so I trust it to be decent. I still flip-flop, though, on how much I like The Lighthouse, however. It's good for a laugh, if you're looking for something morbid to chortle at.

Even when it involves Brigitte Lahaie?

Spoiler: based

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*Fear Boner Intensifies*

 

[SynthwaveDeux]

Day of the Dead satisfies my zombie movie needs; the soundtrack is amazing, it has interesting characters, the practical effects are great and the underground athmosphere deliciously claustrophobia inducing. I also enjoy it depicting zombies capable of learning to be "human" again.

"Day of the Dead (1985)

As the world is overrun by zombies, a group of scientists and military personnel sheltering in an underground bunker in Florida must decide on how they should deal with the undead horde."

 

[Calandrino]

I remembered what I felt was a fun twist on zombies was an episode from the 80s show Monsters called My zombie lover. It takes a funny twist on a lot of things. I really like the twist at the end and I won't give it away.

Monsters did a vampire apocalypse too

S3.E10 ∙ The Waiting Game Sun, Dec 9, 1990 Four survivors of a nuclear blowout hide in their shelters, only connected by a walkie-talkie. While unbeknownst to them, the corpses of the dead are reanimated by something older than the radioactivity.

 

[Vampirella]

Monsters did a vampire apocalypse too

Monsters was a great show.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

Day of the Dead satisfies my zombie movie needs; the soundtrack is amazing, it has interesting characters, the practical effects are great and the underground athmosphere deliciously claustrophobia inducing. I also enjoy it depicting zombies capable of learning to be "human" again.

"Day of the Dead (1985)

As the world is overrun by zombies, a group of scientists and military personnel sheltering in an underground bunker in Florida must decide on how they should deal with the undead horde."

Ch-ch-ch-CHOKE ON 'EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHOKE ON 'EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Commander X]

I decided to revisit, after some time, Burnt Offerings, both the 1976 film and the 1973 novel by Robert Marasco. The movie's just sort of OK, but the ending is a shocker. Though I think the novel gave the haunted house genre a bit of a kick, you can say it helped spawn the wave of haunted house stories that came later in the decade. It's a slim book - Marasco had originally conceived of it as a screenplay and later said in interviews that it started out as a black comedy but instead it "just came out black". It's a real nasty, cold-hearted piece of work, and I mean that as a compliment.

 

[Judge Holden]

Day of the Dead satisfies my zombie movie needs; the soundtrack is amazing, it has interesting characters, the practical effects are great and the underground athmosphere deliciously claustrophobia inducing. I also enjoy it depicting zombies capable of learning to be "human" again.

"Day of the Dead (1985)

As the world is overrun by zombies, a group of scientists and military personnel sheltering in an underground bunker in Florida must decide on how they should deal with the undead horde."

Yeah, you aint gonna find much pushback on this.

I have sperged at great length about this before, but I consider Day of the Dead to be probably the best zombie movie of the OG Living Dead trilogy due to the dual themes of "this zombie shit cant be explained or scienced away, and its fucking pointless to try so you may as well just learn to live with this shit being reality now" and "if we gotta be stuck with zombies from now on and have no way of eradicating them at this point, our only option going forward is to try and train them to be halfway useful" along with the "the zombies are capable of learning how to be people again" plotline, all of which go a hell of a lot fucking deeper in actually thinking about the genre than just about any other zombie movie before or after, with the focus usually being either on the pure horror aspect or the general apocalypse shit happening because of the zombies.

Speaking of which I would personally rank Night of the Living Dead being the best straight up horror of the bunch and a rare movie that managed to genuinely creep me out as a kid, and Dawn of the Dead is easily the best apocalypse/post-apocalypse movie of the three with how it shows society collapsing hard and fast in the face of an unfixable problem/phenomena.

 

[frozen_runner]

RE 28 Years Later: Civil War aside, Garland is a solid writer who will tackle a lot of these questions, I'm sure. He'll actually have to in order to explain how there are so many infected in existence all these years later.

Nitpicking a horror film to explain how it actually should have been a thriller where the authorities deftly stopped anything too horrifying from happening... seems like missing the point to me. But I get the complaints. I think 28 Days Laters works just fine, but I never watched all of 28 Weeks Later. (Awesome opening scene, though.)

Speaking of which I would personally rank Night of the Living Dead being the best straight up horror of the bunch and a rare movie that managed to genuinely creep me out as a kid, and Dawn of the Dead is easily the best apocalypse/post-apocalypse movie of the three with how it shows society collapsing hard and fast in the face of an unfixable problem/phenomena.

I love Dawn but wish they had shown more of what was happening on the surface. The lack of that honestly comes across like they didn't have the money to wow us with anything but the opening scenes, which is probably true.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

lack of that honestly comes across like they didn't have the money to wow us with anything but the opening scenes, which is probably true.

yeah that was absolutely "the events are so amazing and mind-boggling expensive that we'll have to wait until the bigger-budget sequel to show you!"

 

[Fig Kommandant]

RE 28 Years Later: Civil War aside, Garland is a solid writer

Garland is a terrible writer. 28 Days didn't have Garland as director, all his writer-director projects have had clumsy and slow dialogue with the exception of Ex Machina and Ex Machina is the only project where he had Mark Day as editor, for Devs, Annihinlation, Civil War or Men, he used either Jake Roberts of Barney Pilling as editors and those project did have Garland's signature dogshit dialogue.

Spoiler: Skipped from the movie, but good example of Garland's style