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

[Beelzebub's Lawyer]

Looks like they are really cashing in on the Evil Dead brand.

After the last one was a hit, they've said that there's going to be an Evil Dead movie every 2 years.
They're already filming the next one because this one will definitely make a profit, it's scheduled for 2028.

Raimi and Campbell are producing these and I bet they're really fucking happy that this franchise is finally commercially successful and not just a series of cult movies.

I'm ok with the new ones.
The main complaint against them I have is that they have no memorable characters or dialogue.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

I saw Obsession, and before I did I saw Curry Barker's previous movie, Milk & Serial

Will say that I see talent in this guy and I am glad he is going to helm the next Texas chainsaw massacre. This man knows how to take some pretty fucked up concepts far and isn't afraid to do messed up shit.

It's honestly funny though how comedians and YouTubers who don't review movies tend to get into horror more smoothly compared to critics who desperately want to be film directors like Chris Cuckmann and Linkara

 

[Big Miss Steak]

I think because jaguars are more arboreal than panthers. Jaguars can get up to 250 lbs, and Florida panthers only get up to like 180 (although I'm sure the one I petted was bigger than that since he was pretty much domesticated), but jaguars are much more lithe and less stumpy.

Spoiler: Cat Sperging

Florida panthers are the same animal as the puma/cougar. Not even a different subspecies. They are just a genetically isolated population that is smaller and skinnier to deal with the mucky ground and heat in Florida.

You may be confusing leopards (very lithe and lean) and jaguars. Jaguars are the tanks of the cat kingdom and considered the strongest big cat pound for pound. They eat caiman and turtles regularly and have block heads like pitbulls. Excellent swimmers.

Played No Means Nothing



Steam description: PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR // ANTI-DATING SIM about learning to say NO.

It's quite short and if you aren't trying to do multiple playthroughs, I think you could finish it in an hour and a half or two hours. The actual gameplay leaves a lot to be desired; it doesn't feel like your choices affect a whole lot, and there's a resource management system (anger, energy, etc.) that isn't conveyed very well.

Spoiler: Plot

You (a man) are in a tight financial spot, broke as a joke with a mom who's shortly kicking you out of the apartment. An old friend reconnects with you and gets you a job at a warehouse with him. This friend becomes increasingly clingy and weird with you, pressing you on why you left the friend group, trying to get you to hang out with him outside of work, and making an increasing number of homosexual "jokes." Mom kicks you out while you're still pretty broke, and your friend says you can move in with him (you don't get a choice here). Jump to him cuddling up next to you on the couch and bringing up pornography on his laptop. He tries to get you to have sex with him and this is pretty much the only point where your previous and current choices matter. After initially shoving him off of you, you can either give him a sanctimonious lecture about consent and boundaries and leave unscathed (best ending), or you can flee to the bathroom. Your friend tries to break into the bathroom and eventually gives up. If you open the door before he leaves, he rapes you and you end up living with him and being continually sexually abused because you don't have the means to support yourself. If you wait until he leaves, there's a maze chase through the hallways of his apartment building. If he catches you, you get the bad rape ending. If you escape, you get a mid ending where you ask your mom to take you back in and block your friend's number.

I think the over-the-top grotesque art style actually detracts from the creepiness and if the characters looked more normal, I think the plot and message would have been more impactful. With this nasty fucker leering at you the whole time, you can see the sex predator stuff coming at you a mile away. Steam reviews are peppered with retards saying this sort of thing wouldn't happen to a man.



This and Mouthwashing should be sold together as the "woman experience" bundle, lol.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

Steam reviews are peppered with retards saying this sort of thing wouldn't happen to a man.

I mean, I can see why they say that. There's a simple fix though to change people's opinion. Change the setting to jail. This situation then becomes plenty more fearful for guys.

 

[Big Miss Steak]

I mean, I can see why they say that. There's a simple fix though to change people's opinion. Change the setting to jail. This situation then becomes plenty more fearful for guys.

I think that removes a lot of the message behind the game, which is to be firm with setting boundaries and removing dangerous people from your life. I forgot to mention that the main dev based this on his real life experiences, which is concerning.

 

[Calandrino]

I tried watching Scream 5 or Scream (2022), and could not fully get into this movie. Movie felt like a mix of tryhard film making and just being an annoyance with a splash of weird characters. I guess people found that appealing to get two other sequels.

I did the unthinkable and finally caught up on the Scream sequels. I'd only seen up to 3 and for the life of me I can't really remember anything about it, except that it felt completely out of ideas. Jenny McCarthy and Jay & Silent Bob should be showing up in the Stab movie the characters are watching, not the one we're watching. It's the kind of movie that a decent Scream entry would be mocking. As it turns out, that's pretty much what 4 is.

5 faltered a bit, but by 6 we're back to purely generic Hollywood slop with every current year cliche. The annoying not-Randy character claims that anybody can die, but as it turns out, anybody can return to life. I've never been repeatedly stabbed up to the hilt with a giant hunting knife, but I was under the impression that it usually caused you to die, or at least it kind of hurt, or at least inhibited one's ability to carry on a conversation? Ghost Face might as well use a safety pin.

Hard to say whether 6 or 7 is worse. 6 is schlocky, safe, and retarded, but does have some cool kills at least. 7 at least attempts to tell a real story and Kevil Williamson's dialog is less awful, but it's boring and the plot is stupid. They could've salvaged it if every single character from 6 came back and died horribly in the pre-credits sequence but I guess they really want them to be "fan favorites" despite the fact that I'm quite sure nobody gives a fuck about them. Maybe 3 is still the real worst but I ain't watching it again.

If (when) they make another one, the killer should be somebody who idolizes Sydney, since by this point I'm pretty sure she's killed more people than most of the Ghost Faces and without getting her head blown off.

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

I have to say, I find the A24 horror genre less appealing than the 2000s PG-13 horror remake trend. Hokum is the worst movie I've seen all year, and it makes me nostalgic for the era of hyper-realistic blood in creepypasta storytelling. The fact that the same segment of the analog horror community is praising Jack the Jackass as a new icon of horror, while criticizing Jeff the Killer and Art the Clown, reveals a clear inconsistency in their preferences. I hope Zoomers get drafted to fight for WW3 for hyping up Hokum.

 

[modern horrors]

I thought Trevor Moore died

 

[Alaska20k]

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I have to say, I find the A24 horror genre less appealing than the 2000s PG-13 horror remake trend. Hokum is the worst movie I've seen all year, and it makes me nostalgic for the era of hyper-realistic blood in creepypasta storytelling. The fact that the same segment of the analog horror community is praising Jack the Jackass as a new icon of horror, while criticizing Jeff the Killer and Art the Clown, reveals a clear inconsistency in their preferences. I hope Zoomers get drafted to fight for WW3 for hyping up Hokum.

No way my man is defending Jeff the Killer

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

No way my man is defending Jeff the Killer

Hokum Is about a fucking generational trauma Monster. It had the same story beats of every Disney and Pixar movie in the last 10 years outside of Zootopia 2. The main character inadvertently caused the death of his mother through an accidental shooting. However, the true source of danger was the toxic masculinity he absorbed from his traditionally masculine father. That’s the movie. Hokum makes Jeff the killer indeed look straight.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

I hope Zoomers get drafted to fight for WW3 for hyping up Hokum

I thought it was okay. I also didn't really come in expecting much so what I got was ultimately a fun movie that drags on a little too long and is a little too stupid to be anything more than "fun". I don't really think you're supposed to like the main character. He's a such an insufferable cocksucker and a lot of the movie's humor comes from how much a jerk he is. He 100% deserves a lot of these things that happened to him. Again, it wasn't great but I thought it was decent enough.

I'd be lying though if I wasn't cracking SpongeBob Jokes about the circle thing though.

 

[Product Placement]

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I have to say, I find the A24 horror genre less appealing than the 2000s PG-13 horror remake trend. Hokum is the worst movie I've seen all year, and it makes me nostalgic for the era of hyper-realistic blood in creepypasta storytelling. The fact that the same segment of the analog horror community is praising Jack the Jackass as a new icon of horror, while criticizing Jeff the Killer and Art the Clown, reveals a clear inconsistency in their preferences. I hope Zoomers get drafted to fight for WW3 for hyping up Hokum.

I liked Hokum well enough, 6/10 movie. But that dude is only in one scene of the movie, how can he be an icon? and was the worst part of the movie with how over done it was.

 

[Beelzebub's Lawyer]

If (when) they make another one, the killer should be somebody who idolizes Sydney, since by this point I'm pretty sure she's killed more people than most of the Ghost Faces and without getting her head blown off.

The ending of this stupid franchise should be Sidney and Gale being the killers, they have plenty of experience with murdering people and the kind of PTSD that would turn a normal person into a maniac.

Also, these bitches have a combined age of 113, it's time to end this shit.

 

[Product Placement]

The ending of this stupid franchise should be Sidney and Gale being the killers, they have plenty of experience with murdering people and the kind of PTSD that would turn a normal person into a maniac.

Also, these bitches have a combined age of 113, it's time to end this shit.

Nah they should have the killer kill everyone and get away with it, without telling people who he really is or why he did it

 

[Calandrino]

Nah they should have the killer kill everyone and get away with it, without telling people who he really is or why he did it

I hope Neve Campbell goes crazy and stabs a bunch of people wearing a ghostface mask irl amd the next Scream movie is just a documentary about that

 

[Big Miss Steak]

Hokum Is about a fucking generational trauma Monster.

Generational trauma is trauma passed down from your ancestors. Some people think this is literally a genetic thing and others think it's a pattern of behavior that causes trauma in subsequent generations but either way there's not generational trauma in Hokum. Ohm has childhood trauma, and a shitton of horror is based on that. Idk about Disney movies involving that, maybe the Lion King.

However, the true source of danger was the toxic masculinity he absorbed from his traditionally masculine father. That’s the movie.

It's been a few weeks since I've seen it but I am 90% sure that the father is never mentioned beyond Ohm saying that the dad became mean in his grief after the mom died or something. I remember him kind of casually dumping the dad's ashes and calling him an asshole but I genuinely don't recall the father being mentioned beyond that. Ohm lives because he makes peace with his mother's ghost. I don't think any single thing Ohm does could be classified as toxic masculinity. Or even masculine. You could put a female character in his place and it would be the exact same story.

Hokum makes Jeff the killer indeed look straight.

Agreed with those saying Jack is in like one damn scene. I don't know how people could possibly be trying to bend him into an icon. Maybe because he was in promotional trailers. Jack's also not real and not the antagonist of the film.

Anyway Hokum's fine but not something I would ever rewatch.

 

[Gamer Dan]

Maybe 3 is still the real worst but I ain't watching it again.

I actually didn't hate Scream 3 all that much when I first saw it. At least not as much as Scream 5.

I hope Zoomers get drafted to fight for WW3 for hyping up Hokum.

Seems about any mediocre film gets hyped up nowadays. Especially since majority of films today are slop.

 

[Cardinal Cardinal]

Just finished "Obsession" and I recommend it.

Spoiler

The girl who played Nikki really nailed being what seemed like severe bi-polar. Most of the time in movies when someone acts crazy it's just big eyes, labored breathing, and being slightly confused.
It's another take on the monkeys paw story but it's just done really well.

It's been a while since I left a theater and felt like it was worth it.

 

[Calandrino]

Will say that I see talent in this guy and I am glad he is going to helm the next Texas chainsaw massacre.

I'm not glad anybody's making another Texas Chainsaw Massacre but I'll try to keep an open mind...

I actually didn't hate Scream 3 all that much when I first saw it. At least not as much as Scream 5.

For all my complaining, I didn't hate any of the newer ones. If nothing else, they've had a lot more money and talent put into them than most franchises that have gone on as long. But 4 is the only one that tried to subvert expectations in the way the original did. The others are paint-by-numbers fan service. Every time they tease a new direction, they puss out. What they did with Dewey in 5 (EVERYTHING about his part) had already been a cliche for years, and it's the only one where I had the killers pegged immediately.

Everything that was fresh about the first one has been beaten into the ground. Hard to imagine now, but the two-killers reveal in the original was fairly unique and caught most viewers off guard. At this point, if my count is right, there have been 17 Ghost Faces across the 7 movies.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

https://attractionsmagazine.com/announcement-sinners-halloween-horror-nights-2026/

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/uJ9VQ

“Sinners” announced for Halloween Horror Nights 2026 – prepare for crowds​

Halloween Horror Nights 2026 at Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood will be home to a “Sinners” haunted experience. Announced on May 21, 2026, fans immediately took to social media to share their excitement and their fears.
Halloween Horror Nights (HHN) is a separately ticketed event at Universal Studios Florida and Universal Studios Hollywood featuring haunted houses, scare zones, and live entertainment. This announcement for “Sinners” adds to the growing lineup of experiences coming to Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights 35th year.

“Sinners” at HHN details so far​

Halloween Horror Nights 2026 on both coasts is beginning to take shape. And now with the announcement of “Sinners” we know this year is going to be huge!
“It’s been incredible to see audiences connect with Sinners in such a powerful way,” said Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Coogler and Sev Ohanian, producers of Sinners and founders of Proximity Media, in a joint statement. “Now, partnering with Halloween Horror Nights gives fans the chance to step even deeper into the world of the film — to feel the music, the atmosphere and the tension all around them. Watching it come to life on this scale has been really special for all of us.”
The terrifying Halloween Horror Nights house will transport guests back in time to Club Juke, where the music is lively but danger lurks around every corner. What begins as a night of celebration quickly turns sinister when the red-eyed vampires Remmick, Bert, and Joan emerge with an insatiable hunger.

As guests move through the eerie juke joint and surrounding spaces, they’ll realize nothing is quite as it seems.

While attempting to escape the vampires at every turn, fans will come face-to-face with characters pulled straight from “Sinners,” including Sammie, Mary, Annie, Pearline and Cornbread. Caught in the deadly conflict between twins Smoke and Stack and the bloodthirsty creatures pursuing them, guests must fight to survive the night — because the terror won’t end until the sun finally rises.

ngl Sinners would work a shitload better as a dinner show than a movie
but it's HHN so I'll go with "the waiting in line for an hour and a half will simulate the front part of the movie lolololol"