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Kofi Drinka said:
Clowns are for some reason the approved urban leftists horror monster. I don't understand why but it's been a meme for ages now.
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Probably because it isn't "othering" any culture (clown-like figures have existed in most cultures) and so it's a safe monster for globalist ghoul shitlibs. It's also somewhat ironic to make clowns horror icons, and modern leftists area poisoned by irony.
 
Gaear Grimsrud said:
I saw the new I Know What You Did Last Summer. It's alright.
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I just saw this last night and I HATED IT. I'm pretty sure this just made my Top 10 Most Hated Movies of all time. I can forgive EVERYTHING it does to the originals. I really, really can, even if it's ungodly horrifically stupid. But I cannot forgive the political pandering. I can't forgive the wokeness. I can't forgive this director for wanting to beat the audience over the head with a Club of Wokeness and waiting until the very end to really do it. I hate this movie. I hate this director. Its a mean spirited movie that in every way is designed to spit in your face because the director hates you.

I'll leave my review below. Spoilers for everything so you don't have to watch it.

Let me get one thing straight off the bat. The kids are all rich NEPO babies snobs with the most gifted of gifted lives. Right off the bat you hate these people and want to see them killed off. Especially Danica, she's hired a new empath a long with her life coach, and therapist and crystal reader. She really loves pissing away Daddy's money. She's exactly the kind of person you want to see die in this movie for just being insufferable. "Its not astrology, it's sign reading duhhh." I'm pretty sure that's an accurate quote but it's close enough.

So this whole thing starts because the kids go to watch some fireworks on a hill near a cliffside. They're high and drunk and dick around in the road and an oncoming car veers off the road to avoid them. They TRIED to help save the person inside, but were unsuccessful before the car and victim plummeted off the cliff. They called the cops but didn't stick around to talk to them because they're kids and they're stupid and think they'll get charged with manslaughter. This is none of their faults. This is a known dangerous curve and it was a freak accident. In fact, another car passed by just fine and didn't hit them and didn't veer off course. Anyway, half the group want to talk to the cops, half don't. Danica and Tommy tells them nobody talks to the cop. Much to the main girl Ava's (who's bisexual/lesbian, it's not clear) protest. By the way, this whole thing becomes much dumber later on.

As the killer starts picking them off, they seek the help of the two survivors from the original, Ray and Julia. One of the girls, Stevie works for Ray and has for awhile now. Ray and Julia have Jurassic Park 3 Syndrome where they're divorced and unhappy. Tommy suggests just leaving for the Bahamas on one of their boats. To which Ray says "For a whole host of reasons I won't explain, no". Funny. So later on after most of the cast is dead, Ray tells them to get on a boat for the Bahamas.

Julia's whole schtick in this is about PTSD and trauma, which is a little heavy handed but fine for the moment. The cops in the town won't help because whites and tourism. They don't bother until everything goes to hell in a hand basket and a lot of people die. Which is hilarious, because you realize even if they did go to the cops, they're so inept, corrupt, and stupid that they probably would've swept the accident under the rug anyway. They really have to jump through a lot of hoops to make this story work. Anyway, on the boat it's Ava, Danica, and Stevie. The whole movie ends with the reveal that Stevie is the killer. The person who drove off the road was her boyfriend using the priest's car. He was coming to get her suspecting she might've relapsed and she didn't even know it was him until much later. Why was he speeding then if he was looking for her? Who the fuck knows. Anyway, she's clearly insane and decided to start killing them.

So far, perfectly fine.

Danica constantly eludes death throughout the movie for some reason though despite being infuriating and remarkably easy to kill. She's one of the ones responsible for all this aside from Tommy, so if anyone deserves to die, it's her. So when Stevie finally kills her on the boat, it's the most satisfying thing ever. Ray takes the chance to shoot Stevie and save Ava. Now this all fine and dandy. The movie could end here and be fine. We're at the 110 minute mark, we could end here and there would be nothing wrong. It'd be a dumb but fun teen slasher flick a la a Lesser Final Destination. That's what will happen, right? The movie does not end here.

Ava is back at Rays place, thanking him for saving her. However she recognizes his shirt on the killer and realizes they were both the killers. Julia shows up to save Ava and naturally asks WTF. Ray explains he was tired of the town ignoring and covering up what happened to them. Helping Stevie do a copy cat was a good way to remind them. You know, the guy who has PTSD from this whole thing decides to re-enact it on a bunch of actually innocent kids. In fact, I can buy that Stevie might not believe they're innocent because she's nuts, but Ray KNOWS the town is the one who would've covered up the accident anyway. So he's knowingly killing innocent kids just because. Julia says he's sick and needs help, and "Who cares about nostalgia? It doesn't matter anyway". Cute. Anyway, Ava kills Ray. Alright, movie over right? We can't do anything else? We pan out, maybe a quick scene with sequel bait? Movie over and it'd be dumb but harmless?

You'd think the movie ends here. It doesn't.

The movie does not end there. Danica washes up on shore. SHE'S FUCKING ALIVE. Fuck you movie. You knew how annoying she was and purposefully made her that annoying knowing how much the audience would want her dead. But noooo, wouldn't it be great if we "subverted the audience's expectations?". Fuck you movie, you're just spitting in the audience's face at this point. Her and Ava go to the hospital and get patched up. They decide to get lunch on the beach having not eaten real food in awhile. And because this movie has no restraint, it takes another dump on the audience. Ava says this whole thing could've been avoided if "Men just went to therapy!!!" Just go to therapy men! Even if that is applicable here, fuck you movie. Not everyone has PTSD and needs to go to therapy. Oh and Stevie isn't dead. Oh and Danica, in the wake of losing not one but two fiance's in all of this, decides Ava is her soulmate now and she's in lesbians with Ava. FUCK. YOU. MOVIE.

You had two, fucking TWO CHANCES to end this movie in a proper fashion. But you couldn't fucking help yourself. You had to shove your ham fisted awful message about mental health and therapy down everyone's fucking throat. Oh yeah, the day would've been saved if Stevie just went to therapy. She clearly wasn't a crazy drug addict who was off her God damn loony bin. No therapist was going to fucking save her. Ray? Fuck you, you shit all over the first movie. You're really going to simultaneously say Ray has severe PTSD and mental problems from what happened to him and decided to force that onto others? HOW DOES THAT MAKE ANY GOD DAMN SENSE. But hey, we gotta give Julia her badass girl boss moment right? We gotta make Ray sad, lonely, and divorced from Julia right? We can't have them be happy and have overcome their trauma together and help a new generation with a copycat killer. No fuck that, it's 2025 where all men are evil and we're all in lesbians with each other. FUCK. Fuck this movie. Fuck everyone involved in it. Fuck the director. Fuck the writer. And ESPECIALLY, FUCK YOU DANICA. You couldn't have the tiniest ounce of fucking restraint. It would've been a fine movie if you just ended it at any of the two points I listed. But no you have to hamfist and beat your audience over the fucking head with your mental health GARBAGE. Of course, the bitch who made Love and Thunder made this trash pile.
 
The Nothingness said:
The therapy soapbox needs to die off. And on the subject of horror movies now being feature-length therapy sessions.
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That's been going on for a long time. Just off the top of my head, New York Ripper was Fulci exorcising some of his thoughts towards women he hated.


He was going through his 2nd divorce at the time... Also, the ending with the paralyzed dying little girl was him expressing his lament over his daughter's health issues.
 
Jesus, I want that Mario Bava boxset Shot Factory is putting out so goddamn bad. But I've never paid almost 200 dollars for a any physical media collection and don't plan on starting now. I still beat myself up for lending one of my old Bava dvd boxsets to some hot italian woman I worked with who never gave them back. Bitch.

Oh... but at least Vinegar Syndrome is putting out a nice 4k release of "Let's Scare Jessica To Death", one of my all-time favorite horror films... Let's see how much that's running for...
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Fuck these labels.


Just some random thoughts on previous posts.
Watched Stay Alive recently with a friend one day. We paired it with a couple intentional horror comedies and Stay Alive was easily the funniest thing we watched that day. I'm not going to pretend it's good but I think if you're in the right mood or with the right company it's a lot of fun.

And yes... Funny Games is easily the worst film I've ever fucking seen. It's a shame because I really love The Piano Teacher, also by the same guy. I only watched the american version but it's a shot-for-shot remake so I'm not going to give the original a try. It's pretty much the definitive pretentious smug gay art film for me. And I love me some pretentious shit. It's just so fucking tryhard and beats you over the fucking head with the point. We get it. You're not deep, Haneke.
 
Among recent watchings, the Blu-Ray collection of the three standalone V-cinema (direct to video) films from the early 90s in the Kamen Rider tokusatsu franchise. The first film, Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue was supposed to be an attempt at a new direction for the franchise, a darker, bloodier, more horrific bent, informed by the original Kamen Rider manga by creator Shotaro Ishinomori, as well as the "darker" manga version of the 80s TV series Kamen Rider BLACK. Ishinomori's passing in 1994 and a lack of interest from fans at the time lead to it going nowhere after the prologue though "Shin" has made appearances in other iterations of the series. The idea was, in part instead of a hero who transforms because he's a cyborg with some gadget, in this case the main character, Shin Kazamatsuri, undergoes a very body-horror transformation due to experiments performed on him by his famous geneticist father and his father's partner.

 
Commander X said:
Among recent watchings, the Blu-Ray collection of the three standalone V-cinema (direct to video) films from the early 90s in the Kamen Rider tokusatsu franchise. The first film, Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue was supposed to be an attempt at a new direction for the franchise, a darker, bloodier, more horrific bent, informed by the original Kamen Rider manga by creator Shotaro Ishinomori, as well as the "darker" manga version of the 80s TV series Kamen Rider BLACK. Ishinomori's passing in 1994 and a lack of interest from fans at the time lead to it going nowhere after the prologue though "Shin" has made appearances in other iterations of the series. The idea was, in part instead of a hero who transforms because he's a cyborg with some gadget, in this case the main character, Shin Kazamatsuri, undergoes a very body-horror transformation due to experiments performed on him by his famous geneticist father and his father's partner.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-r2-cTSAJlw
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it's a very cool idea and a very meh movie
Ishinomori having an important on-screen role is cool

really should have jumped into Lone Bug And Pupa doing The Incredible Hulk from town-to-town and then given an origin after he's over
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
it's a very cool idea and a very meh movie
Ishinomori having an important on-screen role is cool

really should have jumped into Lone Bug And Pupa doing The Incredible Hulk from town-to-town and then given an origin after he's over
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I liked it well enough, but the other two films in the package, Kamen Rider ZO and Kamen Rider J both directed by Keita Amemiya are more my meat. Not horror, but some nasty creatures in both.

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