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

[Ged!]

I wanna know, why can't horror movies look like this anymore? What happened to all the amazing sets and color? All these shitty slasher and ghost movies nowadays are the most visually boring things on the market. I know things like matte paintings and practical effects have fallen out of fashion nowadays, but is it too much to ask to have a mainstream horror movie that isn't grey or fucking sepia?

It's easier and cheaper to pay some third worlder to slap together a bunch of bullshit on a computer than to pay a set designer to design something like this + rent the physical studio space + pay a bunch of union construction workers $40/hr to build the thing only to tear it down once filming is complete.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

Watched Dagon, and hadn't seen it in quite a while (probably 15 years), what a good movie. Stuart Gordon's last Lovecraft movie, and pretty much last one he had any passion for, and probably the best HP Lovecraft movie we'll ever get. Lots of cheesy effects, lots of titties, some traditional Gordon pseudo-slapstick fighting, and a 20 minute voice-over by an ancient, drunken Spaniard that probably made Robert McKee's head explode (if he ever watched it). And, of course, the best batshit Lovecraft ending ever. Lots of fun, maybe 10-15 minutes too long, but the last 20 minutes make it all worth it. 4/5 stars, check it out.

Two things about this film: I'm pretty sure that like a cargo ship full of Dagon videotapes somehow crashed in Sinoloa, and every Mexican cartel got their hands on a copy and decided to base their torture methods on the face peeling scenes.

And a scant 5 years later, Stuart Gordon was working with David Mamet and William H. Macy on one of the most conflicted cuck-edgelord movies ever. I mean that's mostly due to Mamet, the super-jew who got a mad after 9/11 because he finally figured out what Muslims were, but still had to pretend he hadn't made the last logical step in his head, so turned to nigger-worship instead. Anyway, I digest, the important thing being that the Re-Animator guy and the Glengary Glen Ross guy got together and made a movie after this one, and I'm 90% sure it's only because either Nyarlothep or Shub-Niggurath got directly involved.

 

[TVB]

HDD and HDD2 were great fucking movies

What next, you didn’t like Detention, you nigger?

Woah calm down, I thought Happy Death Day 1 and 2 were just okay. They're not actually that good. Detention is a better movie.

 

[Calandrino]

You know, we give Horrorfan shit for his autistic takes, but you somehow have managed to usurp the retard throne, you fucking boomer. Did you think Unfriended was kino?

I enjoy the diversity of opinions one finds here

Got around to watching the Pit and the Pendulum from 1961, I loved it. Pure gothic horror. Dusty sets covered in cobwebs, orchestral score, really really overused thunder sound effects. Vincent Price. And the color is beautiful.

I also liked The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967), which is like German Pit and the Pendulum. It has Christopher Lee but the soundtrack is doing a lot of the work.

The only actually accurate Poe adaptation I can remember watching is Extraordinary Tales (2013), which is animated... has both Christopher Lee and Bela Lugosi among others as narrators.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

Bill Skarsgard was wasted.

Bill Skarsgård should be fed through a wood chipper!

 

[Product Placement]

Happy Death Day good idea, awful movie. Freaky maybe even worse than those two and Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse was total shit as well.

Scream 5 and 6, weren't good but I expect 7 to be even worse now.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

M8, do you post while your drunk?

im praising hdd at 3am saturday night what do you think

You know, we give Horrorfan shit for his autistic takes, but you somehow have managed to usurp the retard throne, you fucking boomer. Did you think Unfriended was kino?

is... is that a trick question?

yes, its definitely underrated and only got shit because of its title but its a legit good FF movie.

Woah calm down, I thought Happy Death Day 1 and 2 were just okay. They're not actually that good. Detention is a better movie.

I think they were better than ok, though I'd agree with "not that good". Detention otoh was actually pretty fucking great imo

 

[Commander X]

Coming soon from director Joe Meredith, a sequel to his trilogy of short films about an alien virus out of control, transforming humans into monstrous entities in the spirit of no-budget, shot-on-video horror films with bespoke practical effects.

 

[BrunoMattei]

After the pleasant surprise that was Demons I watched the sequel, but unfortunately it was a case of diminishing returns. On the plus side, the makeup is good and the savage nature of the creatures is unsettling (silhouetted figures with glowing eyes will always be creepy to me.) The problem is that it's the exact same as the first film, just set in a different location and even more nonsensical. The idea of a cursed film or mask from the original is at least believable, but here it's a movie on tv that only possesses one person. They also reuse the punks in a car subplot, but whilst in the first they were a plot device to let the infection spread outside, here they just crash into someone and are never heard from again. Or the end demon suddenly being blind for...reasons? So whilst entertaining, still a bit of a disappointment

I know some people who like Demons 2 just because of the soundtrack having some New Wave bands. That's it.

It's not technically a sequel but it's often regarded as such but you need to watch The Church (1989). Same basic premise as a Demons movie and it was supposed to be part 3 until Michele Soavi got involved and it went into it's own weird and unique direction.

 

[BrunoMattei]

This is why I like Bruno more than you.

Right in the feels. We all know that the instant Internet Boomer Criminal read this that he threw his leather jacket inspired by the Fonz right into the trash along with his never read Complete Idiots Guide to coding books.

Ok they weren’t “great” movies as in they were fucking citizen Kane, they were great movies because they are entertaining

As I’ve said before:
As a regular horror movie, HDD and HDD2 are great. 8/10. Maybe 9/10.

Doesn’t mean they are classic, but they are fun, entertaining, gory, nice t&a and a fun time to watch while drunk

if youd rather jerkoff eyetalian pretentious schlock from the 1970s with retraded dialogue, go ahead. I’ll take this shit over it any day.

The Happy Death Day movies suck and are made for retarded Zoomers who browse TikTok.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

I saw Gonjiam Haunted Asylum, and it was a really fun haunted house movie.

 

[TVB]

The Happy Death Day movies suck and are made for retarded Zoomers who browse TikTok.

I can't stand Christopher Landon as a filmmaker. He may seem like a chill dude in real life judging from interviews, but yes his movies are shit made for social media zoomerfags.

 

[SnurgleDirge]

Man, Barbarian was...a movie. I'm not one of those strong women who are oppressed, held back and beaten by The Patriarchy on a daily basis, so maybe I missed something. Not even the jump scares were enjoyable.

Bill Skarsgard was wasted.

Barbarian feels like a short movie or proof of concept that was expanded upon to it's detriment or benefit seems to be up to the viewer. My brother didn't like it but I thought it was one of the best Horror Comedies we've had in a good while (granted some of that is probably my appreciation of Justin Long as a presence; I've always enjoyed him on screen no matter what he's been in and find he's always been a bit underrated)

 

[Commander X]

Rewatch of one of the odder and at times confounding horror films out there, an attempt at cross-genre melding, Psychomania. In the 1970s British horror films were trying to get 'with it' to attract younger audiences. Quite a few films about bikers were being made, so why not a biker horror film? Scriptwritten by Arnaud d'Usseau, whose previous script had been the British-Spanish production Horror Express (starring Cushing, Lee and Telly Savalas), he paired with veteran Hammer Studios director Don Sharp and their collaboration on the script resulted in what comes off like a blend of the occult, Easy Rider and A Clockwork Orange.

Tom Latham (Nicky Henson), the arrogant, spoilt and occult-obsessed son of a witch and medium leads a gang called "The Living Dead" going on rampages for kicks. He's also obsessed with the idea of immortality, something his late father had obsessively experimented with. Consulting with his mother and her sinister butler Shadwell (George Sanders in what would be last role) he becomes demented over the idea and goes off a bridge after another rampage and is buried sitting straight up on his bike by his gang. Thanks to a spell cast by his mother, this doesn't last long.

 

[Calandrino]

Rewatch of one of the odder and at times confounding horror films out there, an attempt at cross-genre melding, Psychomania. In the 1970s British horror films were trying to get 'with it' to attract younger audiences. Quite a few films about bikers were being made, so why not a biker horror film? Scriptwritten by Arnaud d'Usseau, whose previous script had been the British-Spanish production Horror Express (starring Cushing, Lee and Telly Savalas), he paired with veteran Hammer Studios director Don Sharp and their collaboration on the script resulted in what comes off like a blend of the occult, Easy Rider and A Clockwork Orange.

Tom Latham (Nicky Henson), the arrogant, spoilt and occult-obsessed son of a witch and medium leads a gang called "The Living Dead" going on rampages for kicks. He's also obsessed with the idea of immortality, something his late father had obsessively experimented with. Consulting with his mother and her sinister butler Shadwell (George Sanders in what would be last role) he becomes demented over the idea and goes off a bridge after another rampage and is buried sitting straight up on his bike by his gang. Thanks to a spell cast by his mother, this doesn't last long.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Qa8zcFMRwxo

I couldn't get over their cutesy little British bikes. Might as well tie pink streamers to the handlebars. That gang would get destroyed by the Werewolves on Wheels dudes.

 

[BrunoMattei]

I never liked Psychomania.

 

[Local Fed]

I re-watched Session 9 last night. It's probably the third or fourth time that I've seen it, the last time maybe being about five years ago. Such an underrated movie in my opinion, a must watch for anyone who likes the psychological horror genre.

I had totally forgotten that the scene below was part of this movie and I nearly shit myself laughing. It's so out of place in a movie that's good at keeping things consistently tense.

 

[BrunoMattei]

I re-watched Session 9 last night. It's probably the third or fourth time that I've seen it, the last time maybe being about five years ago. Such an underrated movie in my opinion, a must watch for anyone who likes the psychological horror genre.

I had totally forgotten that the scene below was part of this movie and I nearly shit myself laughing. It's so out of place in a movie that's good at keeping things consistently tense.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mz5ODQCueP8

I like to think the "fuck you" scene was an in-joke because it was the first R-rated movie produced by USA Films which was an extension of the cable channel.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Rewatch of one of the odder and at times confounding horror films out there, an attempt at cross-genre melding, Psychomania. In the 1970s British horror films were trying to get 'with it' to attract younger audiences. Quite a few films about bikers were being made, so why not a biker horror film? Scriptwritten by Arnaud d'Usseau, whose previous script had been the British-Spanish production Horror Express (starring Cushing, Lee and Telly Savalas), he paired with veteran Hammer Studios director Don Sharp and their collaboration on the script resulted in what comes off like a blend of the occult, Easy Rider and A Clockwork Orange.

Tom Latham (Nicky Henson), the arrogant, spoilt and occult-obsessed son of a witch and medium leads a gang called "The Living Dead" going on rampages for kicks. He's also obsessed with the idea of immortality, something his late father had obsessively experimented with. Consulting with his mother and her sinister butler Shadwell (George Sanders in what would be last role) he becomes demented over the idea and goes off a bridge after another rampage and is buried sitting straight up on his bike by his gang. Thanks to a spell cast by his mother, this doesn't last long.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Qa8zcFMRwxo

almost watched Psychomania a week or few back, sounded kinda cool

I couldn't get over their cutesy little British bikes. Might as well tie pink streamers to the handlebars. That gang would get destroyed by the Werewolves on Wheels dudes.

WoW was fun
not quite what I expected from the title but still did what it said more or less

 

[HiveDull]

Talk to Me and Baghead are on my to-watch list.