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BrunoMattei said:
I would add From A Whisper to a Scream AKA The Offspring to that list of great anthology horrors along with the original Tales from the Crypt (shame on you) and The Asylum.
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Amicus Productions had a slew of memorable anthology horrors, I should definitely give them a rewatch sometime.
Gotta give a shout out to Mario Bava's Black Sabbath (1963) which is probably my favorite anthology.
 
HereCometheWarmJets said:
Amicus Productions had a slew of memorable anthology horrors, I should definitely give them a rewatch sometime.
Gotta give a shout out to Mario Bava's Black Sabbath (1963) which is probably my favorite anthology.
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I'm weird. I don't really like Black Sabbath aside from The Drop of Water segment which is genius. I like Bava but his filmography is very hit and miss for me but when it hits it's fucking genius.
 
There's a kickstarter for a Silent Night, Deadly Night board game, apparently. Well. I'd hate for any interested parties to miss out.

www.kickstarter.com

Silent Night, Deadly Night: The Game

A horrifyingly fun board game based on the classic 1984 horror film... Silent Night, Deadly Night!
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Those of you who care about Horror tv shows and serial killers and shit, the Dexter revival was fantastic... until the last half hour of the finale. Just watch the first 9 episodes, which was as good as any point in Dexter's history, then make up your own ending because I can guarantee whatever you come up with won't be as shitty and bland as this finale was.
 
Internet War Criminal said:
Those of you who care about Horror tv shows and serial killers and shit, the Dexter revival was fantastic... until the last half hour of the finale. Just watch the first 9 episodes, which was as good as any point in Dexter's history, then make up your own ending because I can guarantee whatever you come up with won't be as shitty and bland as this finale was.
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I never got into it. My favorite all time horror show is still Hannibal followed by Tales From the Crypt.
 
Internet War Criminal said:
Those of you who care about Horror tv shows and serial killers and shit, the Dexter revival was fantastic... until the last half hour of the finale. Just watch the first 9 episodes, which was as good as any point in Dexter's history, then make up your own ending because I can guarantee whatever you come up with won't be as shitty and bland as this finale was.
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Spoiler it. I'm curious.
 
BrunoMattei said:
I never got into it. My favorite all time horror show is still Hannibal followed by Tales From the Crypt.
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I regret not buying the final season of Tales on DVD because it's out of print individually and the complete box set goes for $100

FYI I got them all individually at a Samsclub for $60
 
I saw the original Friday the 13th for the first time (I saw the 2009 version when it came out, I think), and that was a real Rambo-moment. It's pretty funny to find out first hand that the original in a franchise is nothing like the rest. But idk if it was very good, it was intended to cash in on Halloween and it shows.
 
Speaking of slasher movies, I recently read the somewhat meta horror novel Camp Ghoul Mountain VI: The Official Novelization. by Jonathan Raab.

The idea is that "Jonathan Raab" has been commissioned by Malthus Pictures International to write a tie-in novel of the most controversial black sheep entry in a 80s cult horror movie series. - it diverged wildly from the previous franchise films which were considered derivative of already derivative movies, a weird retcon of previously established series lore similar to Halloween 6 or TCM: The Next Generation but much stranger. The director of VI was Monty Blackwood, a psychedelic-mushroom addicted conspiracy theorist who used the franchise to tell his own bizarre story about occult conspiracies and counter-culture protests against the Vietnam War, etc. The production company was left with a movie they didn't understand and released to box office failure that become a cult classic despite itself. The movie gained notoriety for drawing down the wrath of moral guardians who unwittingly provided it all the publicity it needs to escape it's bizarre plot as well as nonsensical twists. The director and the producer of the franchise joined forces to save the film if for different motives: an auteur who had a message to share and a man who wanted to make money with movies about people being murdered but also with plenty of women showing their tits onscreen. Conspiracy kooks were drawn to the movie over the years, claiming secret messages were encoded into it.

The book is thus divided in telling the story of the slasher movie franchise's most infamous entry ( what starts out as a straightforward Friday the 13th knockoff descends into mindscrew territory with black-robed cultists, cover-ups and talking animal heads) as well as "Raab'"s research into the increasingly bizarre and sinister backstory about it's troubled production history and crew (the sighting of strange lights in the Colorado sky near the filming location was the least of the crew's problems), it's path to becoming a midnight movie classic, and the various rabbit holes he is lead down, involving conspiracy theories, reports of "high strangeness", the tragic end of Monty Blackwood (mountain compound, raided by Feds) and if there was an agenda behind Raab being selected to write the book accompanied by his paranoia ramping up due to strange phone calls and the like. Supplemental materials are included like magazine interviews, convention Q&A session transcripts and even part of a Satanic Panic-era religious tract.

While this sounds drily-metafictional as all get out, the tone is pulpy and Raab is an obvious slasher aficionado, and not out of some detached ironic stance either.
 
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I don't give a fuck about Scream but I would give the powers that be some credit if they finally killed off either Courtney Cox, David Arquette or Neve Campbell. They've been around for way too long. Grow some balls and kill at least one of them off for good.
 
It can't possibly be lamer than Scream 4 was. I hope.
 
Commander X said:
Speaking of slasher movies, I recently read the somewhat meta horror novel Camp Ghoul Mountain VI: The Official Novelization. by Jonathan Raab.

The idea is that "Jonathan Raab" has been commissioned by Malthus Pictures International to write a tie-in novel of the most controversial black sheep entry in a 80s cult horror movie series. - it diverged wildly from the previous franchise films which were considered derivative of already derivative movies, a weird retcon of previously established series lore similar to Halloween 6 or TCM: The Next Generation but much stranger. The director of VI was Monty Blackwood, a psychedelic-mushroom addicted conspiracy theorist who used the franchise to tell his own bizarre story about occult conspiracies and counter-culture protests against the Vietnam War, etc. The production company was left with a movie they didn't understand and released to box office failure that become a cult classic despite itself. The movie gained notoriety for drawing down the wrath of moral guardians who unwittingly provided it all the publicity it needs to escape it's bizarre plot as well as nonsensical twists. The director and the producer of the franchise joining forces to save the film if for different motives: an auteur who had a message to share and a man who wanted to make money with movies about people being murdered and plenty of women showing their tits onscreen. Conspiracy kooks were drawn to the movie over the years, claiming secret messages were encoded into it.

The book is thus divided in telling the story of the slasher movie franchise's most infamous entry ( what starts out as a straightforward Friday the 13th knockoff descends into mindscrew territory with black-robed cultists, cover-ups and talking animal heads) as well as "Raab'"s research into the increasingly bizarre and sinister backstory about it's troubled production history and crew (the sighting of strange lights in the sky near the location was the least of the crew's problems), it's path to becoming a midnight movie classic, and the various rabbit holes he is lead down, involving conspiracy theories, reports of "high strangeness", the tragic end of Monty Blackwood (mountain compound, raided by Feds) and if there was an agenda behind Raab being selected to write the book accompanied by his paranoia ramping up due to strange phone calls and the like.

While this sounds drily-metafictional as all get out, the tone is pulpy and Raab is an obvious slasher aficionado, and not out of some detached ironic stance either.
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that reminds me, wasn't there some book about "it's from Jason's point of view" in the works?
 

Just going to link this fan edit that combines the 2018 Halloween with Halloween Kills. It does use the extended cut of Kills. I like the fact that (1) this guy is very committed to his fan-edits and (2) he just gives you the link and doesn't make you do some convoluted bullshit to download it. You do need the Megasync program in order to download a massive file though. I get why the fan-edit community is very protective over sharing the works but they make it so difficult to actually download the fucking things. You have to download some program that last time I tried it I got some spyware, then go to some obscure part of the site and then download a part of the file to finally download the fucking fan-edit. Meanwhile you can just go on any fucking torrent site to download the original version of the movie... It makes no sense to me and I can only chalk it up to some kind of tism.
 
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