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Late Night With The Devil - Fumbles the final act but totally worth a watch, they did a great job recreating the 1970’s down to the color saturation. Reminded me of a BBC movie that also did the “live Halloween show goes awry” thing, Ghostwatch.

Evil Dead Rise - I liked this a lot more than the 2013 reboot. The director understood the assignment. Watch this bitch on Dolby Atmos or 7.2, the sound design for this film slaps.

That’s 2 newer movies, but I’ve opted for more TV series this season:

Wolf Creek TV series...much less graphic than the Wolf Creek movies, but if you like the movies you’ll like the series. John Jarrat really sells that serial killer Crocodile Dundee.

Servant ...M. Night Shwarmadingdong’s daughter got a nepo show, and it’s a schlocky hoot. Doesn’t quite know what to do in its final season but it was still good. Nell Tiger really does it for me, I’ll watch that new Omen flick just because she’s in it.

From - this new series is overlooked. Take ‘Lost’ back when it seemed like the showrunners had a plan, The Walking Dead before Scott Gimple took it to retardsville, and add a lot of gore and messed up body & psychological horror.

Dead Set - Reality TV inspired zombie miniseries made by Charlie Brooker before he did Black Mirror. Nothing revolutionary but a good premise & very well done.

Chapelwaite - Like From, another MGM+ show that’s underseen because nobody has MGM+. Forget about that new Salem‘s Lot, this is way better. Unfortunately didn’t get renewed but it ends well, open-doored with no cliffhangers.

XYZpdq Jr. said:
I was half-assedly looking for some manner of Goblin megamix and saw this of them doing the theme to Suspiria live on tv because nothing says ratings gold like instrumental synth prog rock horror themes
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Great find, dig those retracting amp stack walls. Goblin’s best OST after Zombi/DOTD. Here’s one to rip before it gets taken down, I can’t find affordable physical copies of this anywhere...the Goblin DOTD soundtrack + every DeWolfe library track used in Dawn Of The Dead:
 
BullfrogBill said:
Trying to give Michael this oppressed and sympathetic story was really dumb
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I don't think Zombie was trying to make the audience sympathize with Michael. I think he was trying to show how a boy becomes a merciless killer. In any case, it doesn't work. Even the most amoral, merciless serial killers have personalities in real life. In Zombie's movie, Michael as a boy has a personality, but somehow during his time in the slammer, he becomes a wordless, hulking brute nearly incapable of being mortally wounded. There's a disconnect between the mentally ill boy who kills his bully, father and sister for very personal reasons, and Michael the rampage murderer who simply cuts down anyone he comes across. Zombie spends a significant amount of time depicting this transition, and it just doesn't work. Nobody who watches the movie buys it.
 
Samhain said:
I don't think Zombie was trying to make the audience sympathize with Michael. I think he was trying to show how a boy becomes a merciless killer. In any case, it doesn't work. Even the most amoral, merciless serial killers have personalities in real life. In Zombie's movie, Michael as a boy has a personality, but somehow during his time in the slammer, he becomes a wordless, hulking brute nearly incapable of being mortally wounded. There's a disconnect between the mentally ill boy who kills his bully, father and sister for very personal reasons, and Michael the rampage murderer who simply cuts down anyone he comes across. Zombie spends a significant amount of time depicting this transition, and it just doesn't work. Nobody who watches the movie buys it.
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After the security told him he could escape into his own head he stopped talking and then his mom killed herself that was the catalyst in my mind but yea they really never give any reasoning.
 
The first Zombie Halloween movie could've been a decent modern slasher if they removed the Halloween connection and made it its own thing. The second one was just dog shit, though... but I will give it some credit for handling Laura's final girl trauma more interestingly than most slasher direct sequels do.
 
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ibeatmywife said:
After the security told him he could escape into his own head he stopped talking and then his mom killed herself that was the catalyst in my mind but yea they really never give any reasoning.
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Yeah, we do get the scenes where Michael starts to withdraw into his head while he makes masks before his mother kills herself. He then kills the nurse, but once again, that murder is precipitated by the nurse making a negative comment about Michael. It's a personal murder, not the random killing Michael eventually embarks on.

Although now that I think about it, many of the murders Michael commits in Zombie's Halloween are a result of Michael searching for Laurie, so in a roundabout way, those murders are personal. He wants Laurie. Why? Zombie doesn't really delve into why Michael wants to find his sister beyond the fact that's she's his sister. Why does Michael care about locating Laurie after so many years? Zombie doesn't tell us. He's just driven to find Laurie for some reason, which makes Zombie's Michael less scary that Carpenter's Michael. Carpenter's Michael has no motive, he just kills people he comes across.
 
Is it illegal to show children getting hacked into pieces in movies? Yes, Art does kill children in the movie. But they're offscreen. The movie is already unrated so it's weird to "cross the line" but not really. Also, I think the dumb angel vs demon angle since 2 was and still is corny.
 
斯尼 德之王 said:
Is it illegal to show children getting hacked into pieces in movies? Yes, Art does kill children in the movie. But they're offscreen. The movie is already unrated so it's weird to "cross the line" but not really. Also, I think the dumb angel vs demon angle since 2 was and still is corny.
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Art kills the kids in all hallows eve and it shows them on screen, not being killed but them dismembered
 
Calandrino said:
How come muh indie offbeat atmospheric slowburn understated subtle art horror Longlegs has more stingers and jumpscares than the mindless gore evil clown movie for dumdums
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Two different audiences/subreddits.

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I'm fine with art horror, personally the worst of modern horror easily comes from Blumhouse since they put out so much boring and forgettable slop along with absolute garbage like the Purge series, and all of the crap made by the director of The Pineapple Express
 
Doctor of Autism said:
I'm fine with art horror, personally the worst of modern horror easily comes from Blumhouse since they put out so much boring and forgettable slop along with absolute garbage like the Purge series, and all of the crap made by the director of The Pineapple Express
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Blumehouse is gay.

Your Starter for 10 said:
Hulu horror makes Blumhouse look like fucking Kubrick.
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This makes me sad.
 
I watched Dog Soldiers (2002) last night, something I had meant to get around to for years based on the strength of The Descent (2005). I was a little worried about how low budget it seemed at first, but it very quickly won me over, and I thought the ending was great. The cast is excellent (love me some Kevin McKidd), the script is very smart, and the werewolves look fantastic. And it's actually frightening at times! It's a shame the other two planned films will never be made.
 
I get it can't just be killing zombies 24/7 but holy shit I cannot fucking stand The Talking People, The Talking People Go To France, or any of the other seventy five spinoffs when it's them just running their fucking mouths at each other about the same damn things over and over and over and over
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
I get it can't just be killing zombies 24/7 but holy shit I cannot fucking stand The Talking People, The Talking People Go To France, or any of the other seventy five spinoffs when it's them just running their fucking mouths at each other about the same damn things over and over and over and over
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The Walking Dead has always been a drama with zombies. People got hoodwinked by the first season because it was a relatively tight 10 episodes, but season 2 revealed just how talky and poorly written everything would be moving forward. The comics weren't much better, but due to being a different medium, you can plow through many issues of the comic book in the same time it would take you to watch even half a season of the show, making it much more bearable. I think TWD is a shitty series regardless of whether it's the comics or TV show, though.

I'm sure there are much better zombie shows, but I wouldn't know because I don't think zombies are all that interesting. Black Summer (RIP) was pretty good. Apparently it was a spinoff of another zombie show, but I had no idea when I watched it.
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
I get it can't just be killing zombies 24/7 but holy shit I cannot fucking stand The Talking People, The Talking People Go To France, or any of the other seventy five spinoffs when it's them just running their fucking mouths at each other about the same damn things over and over and over and over
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Honestly this is why I dropped the show around season 6, like while I heard the hype for Negan, it wasn't enough to really keep me invested when the show is the same formula

Group finds new area -> Stay at new area -> Infighting -> Bad guy from area or different place starts feuding with them -> They fight -> Walkers take over the area -> Go back to step 1

I don't care if the show changed it up after Season 6 but the fact I heard it is still continuing makes me feel like I dodged a nuke.
 
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