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Commander X said:
But this is all stuff I had heard about well before there was Wikipedia, while marinating myself in horror and movie trivia in my misspent youth. I actually had, seeing it repeated elsewhere by people who seemed to know what they were talking about, believed the bit about Max Schreck being some unknown actor and felt somewhat silly, if not retarded when I learned the facts later.
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Are you sure you're not Horrorfan1488 using an alt?
 
King Metalia said:
I'm very much looking forward to Nosferatu this year. I've only seen the version from the late 70s so far. I've heard great things about the 1922 version as well.
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I'll probably be there opening day for Nosferatu '24. If it sucks it sucks, but I have to see it for myself. I'm not even saying it's bound to be bad, I just don't want to get my hopes up.

Shiverpeaks said:
Puppet master 3 sucks.
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Richard Lynch is always a delight.

XYZpdq Jr. said:
Ed Wood was pretty inaccurate about basically everything but it's still a good movie.
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That movie is high on my list of favorites. Best Tim Burton movie for sure.
 
What would you consider to be off the beaten path horror franchises worth watching? Straight to VHS movies with a low budget but still capable of delivering a good monster or story.
 
Shiverpeaks said:
What would you consider to be off the beaten path horror franchises worth watching? Straight to VHS movies with a low budget but still capable of delivering a good monster or story.
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As far as franchises go, it's pretty much non-existent. Probably the best one is Puppet Master which is yeah, kind of sets the bar low. But in general, great straight to video flicks:

Two scarecrow flicks that are pretty different from each other:

Scarecrows (1988 )


Yes, it got a tiny theatrical release but it may as well have been straight to video. And I really hate that gotcha that faggots use "Well actually, it's not straight to video because it got a token theatrical release for 2 days in some 3rd world country." Those people deserve to die. Not even joking. Because almost every straight to video production gets a token release somewhere. Puppet Master was release theatrically in Thailand so according to the contrarian retards that does not count as straight to video.

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... Anyway, Scarecrows. Fun gory scarecrow flick where the scarecrows act more like zombies so if you squint a little you can imagine it as a zombie movie as well.


I love Night of the Scarecrow. It is my favorite straight to video horror. Super fun movie that deserved to be a franchise. I was planning to go to a con to get my tape autographed by the director (same guy who made From a Whisper to a Scream and Texas Chainsaw Massacre part 3) but I couldn't get out there and the director died just a few months ago. So yeah, but this movie is awesome and comes highly recommended.

The Wrong Turn franchise is one of the few times where a series going straight to video turned out well. All of the sequels except for part 3 and the reboot/remake are good in the sense of being sleazy ultra-violent slashers. I've gushed over part 2 enough times but check that one out. I also enjoyed part 4 and part 6 just for being really fucking twisted especially part 6.

Then you have Japanese V cinema. That's when you get into the likes of the Guinea Pig series and a small but diverse variety of other twisted gems:



Not horror but close enough, Takashi Miike's Fudoh: the New Generation was straight to video and is one of Miike's best films.


If you want something really unique then I can't recommend enough Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning. You don't need to see the others. This is it's own thing. And what's amazing about it is that it's a fusion of arthouse/horror/action. It really is like if David Lynch or maybe Cronenberg was drafted to make an action movie. And it goes hard with the gore as well. I would describe this as surrealist action horror.

 
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BrunoMattei said:
The Wrong Turn franchise is one of the few times where a series going straight to video turned out well. All of the sequels except for part 4 and the reboot/remake are good in the sense of being sleazy ultra-violent slashers. I've gushed over part 2 enough times but check that one out. I also enjoyed part 4 and part 6 just for being really fucking twisted especially part 6.
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Wrong turn movies blend together for me. I watched them in a marathon and they're all a similar film.

I spit on your grave is one I would recommend. They're all pretty good low budget movies even if they are a big girl boss by the end of the franchise.
 
Shiverpeaks said:
I spit on your grave is one I would recommend. They're all pretty good low budget movies even if they are a big girl boss by the end of the franchise.
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The first film is great. The definitive rape revenge movie. But everything else is terrible especially the remake and sequels to the remake. But what's even worse is the direct sequel Deja Vu.


The nicest thing you could say about this 2 and a half hour POS is that the Joe Bob Briggs commentary is great.
 
Shiverpeaks said:
I didn't know deja vu existed. Does she get raped again?
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Probably. I don't even remember.

Shiverpeaks said:
What would you consider to be off the beaten path horror franchises worth watching? Straight to VHS movies with a low budget but still capable of delivering a good monster or story.
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Phantasm went semi-DTV after 2. As far as starting DTV and going on and on with a gazillion sequels, Puppet Master seems hard to top.
 
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