/horror/ general megathread - Let's talk about movies and shit.

[PS1gamenwatch]

I saw it and also hated it. The movie wants to wag its finger at the audience for wanting to watch a violent home invasion movie, but that's essentially just an ineffectual, smug whine about human nature. Go make something else then, faggot.

Don't care that it's a remake. I won't watch the original.

I saw this in another forum years ago, what if they made a parody of Funny Games? Like the same pair of psychos kidnap a group of folks for sadistic games. Only problem, the folks they kidnap are too stupid to understand a thing to the point the two have to over explain everything, and they are too stupid to feel pain or die. It gets worse when they get the remote as they rewind and fast forward things get out of control and the film turns into a surreal absurdist comedy version of Cabin In The Woods.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Media telling you you're a bad person for enjoying it is dumb. If I'm bad for enjoying it you're a monster for making it.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I saw this in another forum years ago, what if they made a parody of Funny Games? Like the same pair of psychos kidnap a group of folks for sadistic games. Only problem, the folks they kidnap are too stupid to understand a thing to the point the two have to over explain everything, and they are too stupid to feel pain or die. It gets worse when they get the remote as they rewind and fast forward things get out of control and the film turns into a surreal absurdist comedy version of Cabin In The Woods.

Hellraiser vs The Three Stooges

 

[Cardinal Cardinal]

I saw this in another forum years ago, what if they made a parody of Funny Games? Like the same pair of psychos kidnap a group of folks for sadistic games. Only problem, the folks they kidnap are too stupid to understand a thing to the point the two have to over explain everything, and they are too stupid to feel pain or die. It gets worse when they get the remote as they rewind and fast forward things get out of control and the film turns into a surreal absurdist comedy version of Cabin In The Woods.

Everytime he drops the eggs they just get more eggs without getting mad. Eventually it's like the simpsons "Homer Thompson" scene until the Killers just get mad and leave. I could laugh at that.

Hellraiser vs The Three Stooges

We gotta solve this box ya numbskulls. Give me that hammer.

 

[lurkin]

Back as a wee lad, I was a schizo who loved the supernatural, my uncle gave me a blank VHS saying it's proof of the supernatural. Aliens.

There was no title crawl, no credits, just a family celebrating their birthday party when the power goes out, and while investigating, they find alien invaders at a UFO and even shoot one and take it as a sample. This was a found footage horror movie with such a no budget aesthetic that it sold it. It was an insane experience and I pity that younger generations will never experience such a thing.

Got to see the Blair witch at the cinemas, underage. The only thing I heard about the movie was the chatter in the car ride there. It was like being present for a snuff movie. Will never feel that with media again.

 

[PrettySneakyCis]

Got to see the Blair witch at the cinemas, underage. The only thing I heard about the movie was the chatter in the car ride there. It was like being present for a snuff movie. Will never feel that with media again.

I was 19 when it came out. The internet wasn't what it is today back then, so all I had to go on was that Sci-Fi channel "documentary" that did an insane amount of lifting for the movie from an advertising perspective. What an amazing perfect storm of a filmgoing experience. Makes me wonder what it must have been like for the people who were handed Cannibal Holocaust without any context.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I was 19 when it came out. The internet wasn't what it is today back then, so all I had to go on was that Sci-Fi channel "documentary" that did an insane amount of lifting for the movie from an advertising perspective. What an amazing perfect storm of a filmgoing experience. Makes me wonder what it must have been like for the people who were handed Cannibal Holocaust without any context.

Have you seen the deleted scenes? Editing saved that movie so hard. There's scenes of a guy shouting he can see the KKK in the woods and his message to his friends and family is so badly acted it's funny. They got really lucky in screwing up some stuff and editing what they had together well. It could have so easily been a train wreck with 1 different editing decision.

 

[lurkin]

I was 19 when it came out. The internet wasn't what it is today back then, so all I had to go on was that Sci-Fi channel "documentary" that did an insane amount of lifting for the movie from an advertising perspective. What an amazing perfect storm of a filmgoing experience. Makes me wonder what it must have been like for the people who were handed Cannibal Holocaust without any context.

Agreed, last house on the left, any of those movies in some fucking grimey run down 42nd street grindhouse would of been kino.

 

[Fig Kommandant]

Editing saved that movie so hard.

Not sure I'd say the editing, but the movie didn't actually have a script. The actors were given a GPS thing and had drops to visit and shoot their scenes. Whenever they got to a drop, they've each have a letter telling them their role in the scene but no lines and they couldn't share with each other. The entire movie was more or less improv.
The lead actress talked about it during an interview, they were actually alone in the forest for a few days and didn't have any food by the end of the shoot. She also brought a knife just in case because she didn't know the two other actors beforehand. The whole movie was lightning in a bottle, from the making to the marketing and release.

 

[12345]

The only really bad buzz you heard about the movie at the time was that it made some people have motion sickness in the theaters.

Edit so as not to double post: Robert Englund will be getting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Halloween this year.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Not sure I'd say the editing, but the movie didn't actually have a script. The actors were given a GPS thing and had drops to visit and shoot their scenes. Whenever they got to a drop, they've each have a letter telling them their role in the scene but no lines and they couldn't share with each other. The entire movie was more or less improv.
The lead actress talked about it during an interview, they were actually alone in the forest for a few days and didn't have any food by the end of the shoot. She also brought a knife just in case because she didn't know the two other actors beforehand. The whole movie was lightning in a bottle, from the making to the marketing and release.

That's not how the whole film was shot.

They did have a witch during one of the final night scenes. There was a woman in a white gown they were supposed to catch on film but didn't. There was more to it than just 3 people in the woods alone getting notes.

 

[Vampirella]

I was 19 when it came out. The internet wasn't what it is today back then, so all I had to go on was that Sci-Fi channel "documentary" that did an insane amount of lifting for the movie from an advertising perspective. What an amazing perfect storm of a filmgoing experience. Makes me wonder what it must have been like for the people who were handed Cannibal Holocaust without any context.

I was around the same age when I saw it. I didn't see the Sci-Fi documentary, but I saw some things on the net about it. For me it's one of those movies that I can only see once. Seeing it in a full theater with other horror fans was the best experience and it's never felt the same watching it after.

Have you seen the deleted scenes? Editing saved that movie so hard. There's scenes of a guy shouting he can see the KKK in the woods and his message to his friends and family is so badly acted it's funny. They got really lucky in screwing up some stuff and editing what they had together well. It could have so easily been a train wreck with 1 different editing decision.

It had 4 endings too, and I'm glad they went with the one that they did. Perfect example of how less is more can work.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Everytime he drops the eggs they just get more eggs without getting mad. Eventually it's like the simpsons "Homer Thompson" scene until the Killers just get mad and leave. I could laugh at that.


We gotta solve this box ya numbskulls. Give me that hammer.

I remember when the IMDB forums were active there was a thread on the Funny Games forum: "What if the cast of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia that were held by the two psychos?"

 

[800 Chupacabras]

After posting about it in the BMJ thread, I’ve got a hankering to discuss Fear Itself, and other awesome horror anthology TV series from the 2000s. Masters of Horror is obviously the best, but the mid-to-low budget series like Fear Itself and Lost Tapes (Animal Planet’s cheesy attempt at found footage horror) were still staples of my teenage years. Any other fans of these series?

I watched The Poughkeepsie Tapes and it was an enjoyable flick (as fucked up as it is) since I really liked the documentary style for it. I want to now rewatch Noroi and see if there are other horror mockumentary movies that scratch this itch.

Noroi is fucking awesome. One of the best of the mockumentary found footage styles. The main monster now appears in most of the TTRPG games I run. I find a way to fit it in.

This truly is beyond parody. Honestly the high RT score was also a red flag, knowing "critics".
On the bright side I only wasted like 15 minutes so thanks for front loading all of that.

Midnight Mass is another one of those Netflix slops that bewilders me with its acclaim. Why does every character need to have a soliloquy? It was a boring slog for such a good concept.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Has shudder put out anything good lately? I keep meaning to sub to them but they never had any smash hits.

 

[TV's Adam West]

Has shudder put out anything good lately? I keep meaning to sub to them but they never had any smash hits.

The last good thing that was good was the GWAR documentary, and that was years ago. Once they start putting the drag queen shit at the top of every banner and spamming my emails, I dropped them.

 

[BrunoMattei]

After posting about it in the BMJ thread, I’ve got a hankering to discuss Fear Itself, and other awesome horror anthology TV series from the 2000s. Masters of Horror is obviously the best,

Tales from the Crypt, Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Night Gallery shit all over Masters of Horror.

 

[TV's Adam West]

After posting about it in the BMJ thread, I’ve got a hankering to discuss Fear Itself, and other awesome horror anthology TV series from the 2000s.

I remember really enjoying it as a kid, especially the cannibal in the police station episode. Didn't serj tankian also do the soundtrack?

 

[Kofi Drinka]

The last good thing that was good was the GWAR documentary, and that was years ago. Once they start putting the drag queen shit at the top of every banner and spamming my emails, I dropped them.

I didn't know they were doing that now. I thought they were still the low budget and indie horror steaming version to dump stuff on. That would explain why I've not seen anything from them I want to watch.

 

[Vampirella]

Tales from the Crypt, Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Night Gallery shit all over Masters of Horror.

There are some Masters of Horror that I love and then there are some that I think to myself "What the fuck is this shit bug girl lesbians, fucking deviant art shit isn't horror. Also fuck that one where the guy shared thoughts or whatever with a random chick."

If I took all of those series and listed out the number of episodes I like vs the number I skip Masters of Horror would have the most that I skip. Some are really good some are awful, some are a girl trying to get an abortion because her religious dad thinks the baby is Jesus when it's really a demon baby and the demon dad cries when his baby dies. I only saw that once and it never left me god damn.