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Trannies are attempting to boycott "Scream 7." Anticipatedly, "Scream 7" may ultimately become the highest-grossing film in the series.
People will increasingly associate shit that trannies scream insanely about with stuff they like. Trannies screaming will increasingly improve the sales of stuff they scream insanely demanding that normies boycott shit for reasons that nobody gives a single shit about.

Eat shit, troons.
 
Anyone watch Keeper? It’s Osgood Perkin or whatever, the guy behind Long Legs, The Blackcoat’s Daughter, I Am The Pretty Thing that Lives Inside the House and The Monkey.

For some reason I heard fuck all about it. You’d think that after LL (or even The Monkey, which was decent) there would be more buzz about him.
 
Anyone watch Keeper? It’s Osgood Perkin or whatever, the guy behind Long Legs, The Blackcoat’s Daughter, I Am The Pretty Thing that Lives Inside the House and The Monkey.

For some reason I heard fuck all about it. You’d think that after LL (or even The Monkey, which was decent) there would be more buzz about him.
🤷‍♂️ I didn't much like Long Legs. I haven't seen the others but I guess this guy is a thing now.
 
Derry is starting off with Pennywise's backstory, which is fun and how he gets taken by It.

Edit: White guys in mask showed up looking for someone theyre blaming for killing kids. They of course light the black folks party on fire and start firing shotguns into the crowd. Seems like they saved the budget for these last two episodes.

Edit2: The general wants to release It from the native american cages because...if people are afraid, they wont do race riots.
 
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🤷‍♂️ I didn't much like Long Legs. I haven't seen the others but I guess this guy is a thing now.
I guess no one is talking about Keeper because it fucking blows. It's basically that Boys or Sons or Men movie whatever from A24 about that Irish chick from that Fargo series and the message is basically MEN BAD BOO THEY LIVE THROUGH TAKING WOMEN'S ENERGY

Fuck that shit. 0/10. Do not waste any time on that pile of garbage...

The only reason I'm giving Perkins a chance in the future is because he didn't write that shit, he only directed it, and he did a decent job at that.
 
Welcome to Derry has spent more time bemoaning the manifold evils of wyte-peepo than it has focused on actually being scary, or interesting, or entertaining.

If they weren't pushing politics every other scene the characters would be far more interesting. It's interesting that the most likeable realistic character is the black female lead who is having a realistic experience to being thrown into Derry. Even though part of her character is living with "racism" its the least abrasive political thing in the show imo.
 
I'm just glad the horror genre has finally "grown up" and is at last addressing racism and white supremacy for the very first time ever... it's bold, it's fresh, it's innovative, and it's long overdue
 
Welcome to Derry has spent more time bemoaning the manifold evils of wyte-peepo than it has focused on actually being scary, or interesting, or entertaining.
King does love his magic nigger trope.

Anyway, has anyone heard of The Devil's Men AKA Land Of The Minotaur? I just heard about it and it sounds interesting. I've been enjoying some older movies.

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Anyway, has anyone heard of The Devil's Men AKA Land Of The Minotaur? I just heard about it and it sounds interesting. I've been enjoying some older movies.

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It's a bit of a weird one, it has a good atmosphere and Cushing is fun, but the narrative is flat and it's much a do about nothing. If you're into 70s Hammer-adjacent stuff I'd consider it a safe recommendation, carried by the location and the leads.
 
Land of the Minotaur (UK title: The Devil's Men; also known as Minotaur, The Mask of the Demons)[2] is a 1976 horror film starring Donald Pleasence and Peter Cushing, directed by Kostas Karagiannis, written by Arthur Rowe, with a score by Brian Eno.[3]
Never heard of it but sounds auspicious
 
Why was horror of all genres sanitized so much anyway? It's horror, people are going to be blown to giblets, raped, tortured, burned, every bad thing under the sun. Now its something for trauma dumping, humans are the real monsters, racism bad, or the monster is grief. People don't want to fight literal demons because its a demon, they want to talk it to death.

Thread Tax: Will resume my previous movie list but I wanted to say Borderlands/Final Prayer is nice. I usually hate slow burns because most movies use it as an excuse to meander to the finish line, but this film is the one of the few that I can give a pass to because the movie is basically two inspectors doing their jobs until shit increasingly gets worse over time. Found Footage so might dock points from those who hate that format, but I like some of the scenes where even the camera gets affected.
 
Why was horror of all genres sanitized so much anyway? It's horror, people are going to be blown to giblets, raped, tortured, burned, every bad thing under the sun. Now its something for trauma dumping, humans are the real monsters, racism bad, or the monster is grief. People don't want to fight literal demons because its a demon, they want to talk it to death.
I'm going to add on to this and say, I tired of horror movies just ending, they don't have an ending they just end on some weird shot. I'm tired of it, a movie ending like that makes me feel like I wasted my time. And directors that just repeat the same story over and over and over, yeah yeah, family trauma, family trauma, my mama didn't love me, family trauma. The sad thing is dealing with grief and trauma in a horror movie can and has worked, the problem I have is the ending. I think the Babadook is one that did this well because it had a happy ending, at least for the mother and her son. Is it realistic no, but it's a nice story with a nice ending, and sometimes people want something simple like that. Lady in the yard or whatever it was was called didn't hit the same for me. It felt like it was trying too hard and the ending wasn't as enjoyable. I think it's because it's a bit of a downer with the message of "She's going to try and kill herself again because she's depressed" While that is a more realistic depiction of depressions and suicidal thoughts it's not a good movie that you watch to escape from the world for a bit. Horror movies especially should be escapism experiences, because they're built for it. The classic story of good vs evil, a priest sacrifices himself to save a possessed girls soul, a group of kids fight demons to close a portal to hell that opened up in their backyard, the first two Hellraiser movies. I'm not saying we need to go back to the Hays code and have every monster die from falling rocks, but it's nice to have a happish ending even if you add sequel bait. Not everything has to be symbolic sometimes it's fun to watch a big retard in a mask kill people then get killed then come back. I don't know I'm ranting, a lot of recent horror has just been meh for me at best, not even bad, it's just that once you get what the "message" is it's not interesting. I'm just ranting.

As for why you don't see much gore anymore, PG13 horror movies to get kids in the seats, then release the "Uncensored" version later.
 
Derry is starting off with Pennywise's backstory, which is fun and how he gets taken by It.

Edit: White guys in mask showed up looking for someone theyre blaming for killing kids. They of course light the black folks party on fire and start firing shotguns into the crowd. Seems like they saved the budget for these last two episodes.

Edit2: The general wants to release It from the native american cages because...if people are afraid, they wont do race riots.

Bill Skaarsgard doing the dumb deep voice for human Pennywise is so silly. It's high school theater tier acting.

What a nonsensical slopfest the whole Black Spot fire was. Holy shit. It's one of the most harrowing parts of the book and it's turned into a CGI mess.

Christ, I'm so sick of every single bit of media being a struggle session put on by self-loathihg white people.

Lmao, and just when you can't think it could get any dumber, the military plot is revealed to be making America afraid. How fucking retarded.
 
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Why was horror of all genres sanitized so much anyway? It's horror, people are going to be blown to giblets, raped, tortured, burned, every bad thing under the sun. Now its something for trauma dumping, humans are the real monsters, racism bad, or the monster is grief. People don't want to fight literal demons because its a demon, they want to talk it to death.
The horror space became pretty outsider-friendly once it went indie in the '60s. You'd struggle to find many people involved who weren't counterculture types, somewhat above-average involved in weird sex, drugs, civil activism, ecological activism, etc. Horror is also the easiest genre to play counterfactual hypothetical games with, in which the fantasy demon can represent any type of gender or political symbol.

As "progressive" circles became more prudish and puritanical, any transgressive aspects are forbidden, only thinly-veiled attacks on political enemies.

A particular loss resulting from this is subjectivity. It doesn't matter how many people are killed in what ways, if the narrative is wrapped up in a tidy way, it will feel less dangerous. The narratives in which there are no allegories and inconclusive endings tend to affect people more. It's why mediocre minds love extended universe slop in which all the unanswered questions that made the originals great are relentlessly demystified with what amounts to bad fanfiction.

This lack of social maturity/broad life experience affects writing in other genres as well. Watching dramas focused on an individual's internal thoughts or insular experiences are so much more mediocre now than the wild stuff you'd find in the '70s.
 
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Horror becoming a "comfort genre" for extremely online losers who demand nothing too dark and upsetting happen in their horror films, television shows, games, etc. is possibly the worst thing to happen to horror. "What if the real monster...was bigotry/sexism/trauma/etc.?" The worst of these people, the sort who will post pretentious college thesis-length reviews on Letterboxd. seriously want all horror to be nothing but A24 bone-chilling spine-tingling character driven trope-subverting high concept slow-burn elevated horror with no jumpscares.
 
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