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KiwiFuzz2 said:
The original Gaslight and the movie Rebecca (which is annoyingly not available to stream) seemed like obvious inspirations.
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I think Les Diaboliques might have some lineage there too, there was a 90s remake around the same time. I rarely see people rep the original Gaslight, I like how both have value since the remake completely changes the perspective. The first one is more interesting/novel to me. The remake is a good gothic psycho-woman thing, but there were so many of those coming from the US in the '40s.
 
Big Miss Steak said:
My mom had a rough couple days and wanted to go see a movie together. I said okay, her pick. Went into Send Help pretty blind; I only knew that Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien are the leads and they're coworkers who get stranded on an island together. I had a total blast. Really not a horror film at all, more of a black comedy.
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It had some good moments but holy shit did it drag in the middle and the end.
1) How did the bird survive for weeks on its own?
2) What purpose did the house on the island serve? It was already established that boats passed by the island. Having a redundant way to escape or communicate with the outside world seemed pointless. The knife could have as easily came from the airplane rather than the house.
3)She went through all this effort to stay on the island and avoid rescue then just decides to leave and become what her boss was.
4) CG scenes in a Sam Raimi movie.
 
Man vs persistent rats said:
I think Les Diaboliques might have some lineage there too, there was a 90s remake around the same time. I rarely see people rep the original Gaslight, I like how both have value since the remake completely changes the perspective. The first one is more interesting/novel to me. The remake is a good gothic psycho-woman thing, but there were so many of those coming from the US in the '40s.
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I saw the remake and it was meh.

I never did see the original and I totally should.
 
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1) How did the bird survive for weeks on its own?
2) What purpose did the house on the island serve? It was already established that boats passed by the island. Having a redundant way to escape or communicate with the outside world seemed pointless. The knife could have as easily came from the airplane rather than the house.
3)She went through all this effort to stay on the island and avoid rescue then just decides to leave and become what her boss was.
4) CG scenes in a Sam Raimi movie.
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1. Linda already had plans to go on a work trip out of the country, I assume she made arrangements for the bird to be boarded or petsat.
2. IMO the mansion exists for a couple reasons. There's the shock value of Bradley emerging from the trees and seeing a massive mansion when he's thought they are hundreds if not thousands of miles from any civilization. It also illustrates how close he was to rescue if he had just bothered to take any agency in his survival and explore the island himself, or make a large fire for some sort of smoke signal. It shows that Linda has been sabotaging their chances of escape since far earlier than we previously thought and has been lying more than we thought. It also provides a reason for boats that are not a rescue party to be passing by the island when they are literally in the middle of nowhere. Small, sinkable objects from the plane are not likely to have washed up on the shore and IIRC Linda even says this, mocking Bradley for thinking the knife could have come from the plane.
3. Linda was trying to stay on the island with Bradley in particular. She liked having him under her power and she was starting to crush on him. Once he was out of the picture, she had no reason to stay. I don't think she necessarily planned to use her story to get rich, but when the success came she took it. She, ironically, was enough (her pep talk from earlier in the movie); once she let her natural batshit out, success came right to her doorstep.
4. The CG zombie was shit but I found the disgusting, snotting, CG pig monstrosity to be endearing. I can't recall if there was additional CG. I guess the plane crash.
 
Since I couldn't find them by searching (and I'm not going to scroll through 450 pages) I want to plug this gold tier youtube channel: that's a bad idea
This short film (and their others including Warnings) have a foundational atmosphere to them that I can't explain in words. I'm admittedly not a kinophile but from what I've seen from the horror genre in the last few years, they really encapsulate the feeling of anxiety and uncertainty in them, which is absolutely phenomenal.

Also this video introduced me to the very funny concept of "you are dying of Alzheimer's disease but you keep forgetting about it"
 
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Oh wonderful.

A24 has officially acquired the rights for ‘TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE’

• A TV series will happen first, exec produced by Glen Powell & directed by JT Mollner (‘The Long Walk’)•

A movie is also in the early stages of development
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What the Texas Chainsaw Massacre really needed was an adaption where in the last five minutes of the eighth episode, Leatherface is seen reaching for his iconic mask from where it's hanging up, putting it on and then picking up a chainsaw and after a fade to black, we hear it being started up.
 
Kofi Drinka said:
Excuse the double post, here is the full Return to Silent Hill spoilers and my insane rantings.
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Can I just say how much I fucking hate everyone for doing everything possible to leech the original SH2 of all the narrative power it has?

Classic horror stories do not get more effective the more you go back to them. They don't get more scary the more you analyze and dissect them. They don't improve the more you remake them. They don't change for the better when other writers alter them.

Not only will Steam not stop recommending the remake to me (fuck you, I'm not playing that shit), now I get to hear about how the story has been bastardized again... and for no reason, and to no good effect.

Let this series be dead forever. Nobody but the original writers understood it. It is art (yes, even 4), and art is a product of and requires specific artists. They are gone. Yamaoka being involved in a project is clearly not enough.

No, I do not want to play a $70 weird Soulslike with a tired story about Japanese feminism in the Year of our Lord 2025 2026. No, I do not want to see Bloober Team's "take" on Silent Hill 1. I just want the nightmare to end.

And no, they can't erase the originals. But they can dilute the image of the originals to the point dumbfuck Zoomies think they know what the series is because they played a bastardized version of it or watched a YouTube video or saw an awful film.

There is no hope for the franchise. Nobody else will never "get it." Just kill it. Kill Konami while you're at it.
 
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Commander X said:
Oh wonderful.



What the Texas Chainsaw Massacre really needed was an adaption where in the last five minutes of the eighth episode, Leatherface is seen reaching for his iconic mask from where it's hanging up, putting it on and then picking up a chainsaw and after a fade to black, we hear it being started up.
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I can picture it now: the Sawyers accept Leatherface as a female, they use the correct pronouns, and the people they kill are Christians who happen to be bigots.
 
Commander X said:
What the Texas Chainsaw Massacre really needed was an adaption where in the last five minutes of the eighth episode, Leatherface is seen reaching for his iconic mask from where it's hanging up, putting it on and then picking up a chainsaw and after a fade to black, we hear it being started up.
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Leave Leatherface ALOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE!

I'm trying to think about how bad this will be. Maybe Leatherface will be a misunderstood troon who was forced to do what he did because of society's transphobia.

Tobe Hooper is spinning in his grave.
 
Commander X said:
Oh wonderful.



What the Texas Chainsaw Massacre really needed was an adaption where in the last five minutes of the eighth episode, Leatherface is seen reaching for his iconic mask from where it's hanging up, putting it on and then picking up a chainsaw and after a fade to black, we hear it being started up.
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The first item on the agenda in the production meeting: How do we diversity the Texas Chainsaw Massacre story?
 
Dragged Into Sunlight said:
The first item on the agenda in the production meeting: How do we diversity the Texas Chainsaw Massacre story?
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Didn't they already do that when they made the first remake and made him an ugly retard that got picked on so his fat white trash family ate the bullies or whatever. I only saw the remake once and that was enough. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a product of it's time and should be left alone. It's an exploration film that just happened to be made a bit more palatable for mainstream audiences. Now if someone tried to remake something like the Corpse Grinders or I Drink your Blood.
 
Vampirella said:
Didn't they already do that when they made the first remake and made him an ugly retard that got picked on so his fat white trash family ate the bullies or whatever. I only saw the remake once and that was enough. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a product of it's time and should be left alone. It's an exploration film that just happened to be made a bit more palatable for mainstream audiences. Now if someone tried to remake something like the Corpse Grinders or I Drink your Blood.
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That is such an early 2000s answer, fam. Every 2026 ally knows that even a differently-chromosomed young white male has like between 13 to 52 times as much privilege as the average strong black but (also helplessly victimized) person of brown womb-anhood. You need to do better.

Clearly, what we need is a hispanic transwoman to play the role of a new, Ethically-Sourced-Leather Face. Our new ESL Face's family will be played by straight white MAGA coded men, setting us up for an EPIC third-act twist where ESL Face will turn on xer family allowed the remaining cast members (all played by Zendaya) to escape.

Expectations = SUBVERTED ftw.
 
Leatherface is canonically a tranny.

Technically he's three different women depending on which skin suit he is wearing.

Really one of the most honest portrayals of a tranny on film - other than he's less sexually deviant than your average tranny and he isn't a pedo. Other than that they pretty much nailed it. Or hooked it, I guess.
 
strumpets exeunt said:
That is such an early 2000s answer, fam. Every 2026 ally knows that even a differently-chromosomed young white male has like between 13 to 52 times as much privilege as the average strong black but (also helplessly victimized) person of brown womb-anhood. You need to do better.
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Sorry I'm still stuck in the 80s where we had to learn that being retarded didn't stop you from being a good neighbor.


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Technically he's three different women depending on which skin suit he is wearing.
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I remember the granny mask and the one with makeup, what was the third?
 
Vampirella said:
I remember the granny mask and the one with makeup, what was the third?
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The regular old "Killing Mask." It's not just the dinner/pretty lady mask with makeup removed, it's a different one.

(I'm sorry if you were making a joke, I'm just taking your question literally).
 
They already played up the tranny thing in TCM: The Next Generation. Leatherface was in a pretty lady getup for a good chunk of the movie, and you even see him applying makeup. In TCM 3D, Leatherface is unjustly persecuted by evil police, and there are multiple interracial sex scenes. And they already did a Leatherface origin story movie that nobody liked. AND there was that direct-to-Netflix one which was a crappy ripoff of the (also crappy) Halloween reboot.

If they really want the new one to be the absolute worst and most pozzed take on TCM ever, they've got their work cut out for them.
 
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