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Tor Lugosi said:
iirc, they wanted him to look like an actual burn victim... but then they actually researched what real burn victims looked like, were horrified by it, and so just sorta half-assed it and made him look bland
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Too bad Freddy looked more like melted grilled cheese sandwich in the 2010 remake, making it more uncanny compared to the OG Freddy.
 
Double posting here. Did anyone checked out the new horror movie from Spider One (yes, the same lead singer and frontman of Powerman 5000) called Allegoria as of yet? I heard good things about it and I'll probably check it out soon.
 
TVBForever said:
Double posting here. Did anyone checked out the new horror movie from Spider One (yes, the same lead singer and frontman of Powerman 5000) called Allegoria as of yet? I heard good things about it and I'll probably check it out soon.
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I just looked at the trailer and it looks terrible, but I'd like to hear what you think of it after you see it, I wouldn't mind being wrong about the film because I do like Spider One's music.
 
SnurgleDirge said:
I just looked at the trailer and it looks terrible, but I'd like to hear what you think of it after you see it, I wouldn't mind being wrong about the film because I do like Spider One's music.
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Will do. I mean yes, the trailer looked like shit but I am very curious about it seeing as how Spider's music is underrated stuff. Plus, him being a brother of Rob Zombie and following his filmmaking footsteps is a thought that made me more curious about this movie.
 
TVBForever said:
Will do. I mean yes, the trailer looked like shit but I am very curious about it seeing as how Spider's music is underrated stuff. Plus, him being a brother of Rob Zombie and following his filmmaking footsteps is a thought that made me more curious about this movie.
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I don't want to derail the thread too much but I do agree that his music is underrated. I just feel like Powerman 5000 stood the test of time a bit better than some others. I remember hearing that Spider and Rob weren't on the best of terms and if that's the case I hope they come together through film making. I wouldn't mind seeing a joint project or something in the future.
 
I sat down and watched The Wailing (2016) recently because I was blown away by Na Hong-jin's excellent thriller The Chaser, and I haven't yet gotten to watch The Yellow Sea. (Never streaming on any of the platforms I have.)

Anything I say about the plot would ruin the experience, and you are better off going into it without knowing anything. But I will say I think it was supposed to feel to the audience like a nightmare. The shifts in tone throughout the film are unexpected but also feel natural. The events almost make sense but don't really even if they make sense (sort of like a Lynch film) emotionally. I can't say I liked it more than The Chaser (which is the better film IMO), but I admire it. It's definitely art, and I had never seen anything like it before.
Love Na Hong-jin as a director.

I also finally saw Upgrade (2018), which isn't a horror movie per se but which definitely has a body horror edge to it. I honestly loved it. It might be the best-looking $3 million movie ever made. (Some say it looks low budget. I don't really agree.)
 
Not strictly a horror movie, more of a dark comedy, The Menu flew under my radar. Holiday releases are always a miss for me just due to all of the shit going on during that time. If you haven't seen this movie, it gave me The Hunt vibes. I especially encourage you to watch it if you've ever had a service industry job.
 
finally saw Cocaine Bear
not bad
from the first ten minutes or so I was expecting a lot more off-screen death and bear, but it worked out pretty decently
surprised to see Dentsu listed in the credits
 
I've recently watched two British horror movies and have come to the conclusion that British people suck at making movies (and most other things). When they write a unlikable character that they want the audience to hate they make them speak and act like no human being behaves. It just comes off as goofy and unreasonable.

There is also just no logic in British horror movies. The one film I watched was a zombie movie in which two characters found a revolver with only four shots in it. So you'd think they'd make them count right? No, they randomly fire at zombies out of a car window while speeding down the road. In the other film I watched called Barge People there are cannibal fish men that gently nibble people to death. In any other horror film you'd see creatures with big sharp teeth taking giant gory bites. But not here, it's so anticlimactic and laughable when you see it.

British people suck so bad.

TVBForever said:
Double posting here. Did anyone checked out the new horror movie from Spider One (yes, the same lead singer and frontman of Powerman 5000) called Allegoria as of yet? I heard good things about it and I'll probably check it out soon.
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No but I just watched his newest movie called Bury The Bride and it sucked. It's a vampire movie where the vampires have no powers, can walk around in the daylight, and are killed as easy as a normal human. There was no reason to even make the antagonists vampires at all.
 
A Rastafarian Skeleton said:
I've recently watched two British horror movies and have come to the conclusion that British people suck at making movies (and most other things). When they write a unlikable character that they want the audience to hate they make them speak and act like no human being behaves. It just comes off as goofy and unreasonable.

There is also just no logic in British horror movies. The one film I watched was a zombie movie in which two characters found a revolver with only four shots in it. So you'd think they'd make them count right? No, they randomly fire at zombies out of a car window while speeding down the road. In the other film I watched called Barge People there are cannibal fish men that gently nibble people to death. In any other horror film you'd see creatures with big sharp teeth taking giant gory bites. But not here, it's so anticlimactic and laughable when you see it.

British people suck so bad.
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There's good British horror out there. But it's kind of few and far between. Off the top of my head: most of the Hammer and Amicus catalogue including Tales From the Crypt (best or 2nd best anthology horror film of all time), 28 Days Later (even though I prefer the sequel), Raw Meat from 1980, and of course Shaun of the Dead. It's when Hammer and Amicus died off that the genre film production massively slowed down.
 
frozen_runner said:
I sat down and watched The Wailing (2016) recently because I was blown away by Na Hong-jin's excellent thriller The Chaser, and I haven't yet gotten to watch The Yellow Sea. (Never streaming on any of the platforms I have.)

Anything I say about the plot would ruin the experience, and you are better off going into it without knowing anything. But I will say I think it was supposed to feel to the audience like a nightmare. The shifts in tone throughout the film are unexpected but also feel natural. The events almost make sense but don't really even if they make sense (sort of like a Lynch film) emotionally. I can't say I liked it more than The Chaser (which is the better film IMO), but I admire it. It's definitely art, and I had never seen anything like it before.
Love Na Hong-jin as a director.

I also finally saw Upgrade (2018), which isn't a horror movie per se but which definitely has a body horror edge to it. I honestly loved it. It might be the best-looking $3 million movie ever made. (Some say it looks low budget. I don't really agree.)
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Really agree with you on The Wailing, it's been a minute since I last watched it but I do remember there being a lot of moments where characters were asleep experiencing a nightmare or just waking up from one, think you're on to something with the nightmare idea. I might rewatch it soon.

A Rastafarian Skeleton said:
I've recently watched two British horror movies and have come to the conclusion that British people suck at making movies (and most other things). When they write a unlikable character that they want the audience to hate they make them speak and act like no human being behaves. It just comes off as goofy and unreasonable.

There is also just no logic in British horror movies. The one film I watched was a zombie movie in which two characters found a revolver with only four shots in it. So you'd think they'd make them count right? No, they randomly fire at zombies out of a car window while speeding down the road. In the other film I watched called Barge People there are cannibal fish men that gently nibble people to death. In any other horror film you'd see creatures with big sharp teeth taking giant gory bites. But not here, it's so anticlimactic and laughable when you see it.

British people suck so bad.


No but I just watched his newest movie called Bury The Bride and it sucked. It's a vampire movie where the vampires have no powers, can walk around in the daylight, and are killed as easy as a normal human. There was no reason to even make the antagonists vampires at all.
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I don't think the British are any different from most other film exporters, there's good, bad and just alright British films. Bruno has named some good ones already, I'd like to add: Kill List (2011), The Borderlands (2013) and Dog Soldiers (2002). If you end up checking them out I hope you like em and if you've seen them already I still hope you liked them.
 
Oddly enough there are a lot of good Irish horror movies from the past 5-10 years. Which is odd considering they are even more egregious faggots than even the British. Still I'll take good horror movies where I can get them.
 
Your Starter for 10 said:
Oddly enough there are a lot of good Irish horror movies from the past 5-10 years. Which is odd considering they are even more egregious faggots than even the British. Still I'll take good horror movies where I can get them.
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there was a cute enough Irish flick about squid monsters from the deep from a little while back
but yeah for every Amicus/ Hammer joint there's a half-dozen "the studio is legally obligated to fund a British movie to get their USA movie in the UK"
Horror Express is a really great no-budget UK movie. iirc legends say it was "we got a train car set cheap, what can we do to make a movie with it" so you get Cushing and Lee vs a monster on The Orient Express (with guest star Yul Brenner)
 
SnurgleDirge said:
Really agree with you on The Wailing, it's been a minute since I last watched it but I do remember there being a lot of moments where characters were asleep experiencing a nightmare or just waking up from one, think you're on to something with the nightmare idea. I might rewatch it soon.
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I read some Reddit responses to the film after watching it that made the case it combines mythologies, from Japanese to (obviously) traditional Korean to Catholicism. I think that's obviously true, but I don't think it explains the plot aside from specific things. The female ghost they kept seeing is probably the guardian spirit of the town (who, I think, intentionally looks like a Korean virgin spirit), and she was trying to protect the townsfolk from the outside evil of the Japanese shaman.

But yeah, I think it's intentionally designed not to be fully understood.
 
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