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New Trailer for the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre came out

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zcI6SFiK_yk
Not going to lie, I was open minded for it until they showed Sally from the first movie which at that point it just became cringeworthy. If we are at a point with horror films that even mainstream series like Scream are making fun of this soft reboot shit, then it's pretty damn bad.

I can't wait for Friday the 13th (2023) where we have super old survivor Tommy Jarvis fighting Jason.
Nah Friday the 13th (2023) can skip that trend and go the whole worse multiverse one instead, Corey Feldman, John Shepherd, and Thom Mathews versions of Tommy Jarvis fighting kid Jason, Part 2 Jason, Hockey mask Jason, Zombie Jason, Jason X and remake Jason. I'm sure audiences will eat that shit up
 
Nah Friday the 13th (2023) can skip that trend and go the whole worse multiverse one instead, Corey Feldman, John Shepherd, and Thom Mathews versions of Tommy Jarvis fighting kid Jason, Part 2 Jason, Hockey mask Jason, Zombie Jason, Jason X and remake Jason. I'm sure audiences will eat that shit up
If this actually happens I am sending a nail bomb to your house, you son of a bitch.
 
Is this the same Arrow Video that complains on their official podcast about problematic content in the films they release and devoted an enitre episode to condemning Alejandro Jodorowsky because of some crazy comment he made after Arrow re-released his films? But they're okay with releasing hardcore footage for a movie about the rape and murder of teenage girls? :story:
So it would seem. Evidently they do the same for any movie with x-rated footage. To me the weird/funny part is that this stuff is apparently being sold at mainstream outlets like Target, Best Buy etc, or at least through their websites. I am just a simple patron of historically significant foreign films who was hoodwinked by these misogynist filth-mongers into purchasing pornography.

Nah Friday the 13th (2023) can skip that trend and go the whole worse multiverse one instead, Corey Feldman, John Shepherd, and Thom Mathews versions of Tommy Jarvis fighting kid Jason, Part 2 Jason, Hockey mask Jason, Zombie Jason, Jason X and remake Jason. I'm sure audiences will eat that shit up
TCM has had alternate timelines from the get-go, they should have been doing that concept years ago. Maybe it's just learned helplessness but I can't even imagine another good TCM movie being made, but they're not going to stop either. It's not like F13 or Elm Street where they can just have Leatherface wise fwom his gwabe and start killing people and have an ok-ish movie. Decades from now they'll still be at it, either with a 100-year-old Leatherface or a prequel or god knows what, and probably losing money every time they try to make another one.

I don't remember anything about What Have They Done To Your Daughters. I remember being unimpressed with it in comparison to the previous film of the "trilogy" What Have They Done to Solange that stars Camille Keaton from I Spit on Your Grave. I don't think I've ever seen the 3rd one Red Rings of Fear which has a similar plot as the other two. I remember Solange being an okay Giallo.
I haven't seen the other two. The one thing I'm likely to remember about this one a year from now is its coincidental resemblance to Twin Peaks: it opens with a girl's corpse, and the ensuing police investigation reveals the assorted seedy goings-on she was involved with. It's actually not nearly as sleazy of a movie as I've made it sound, compared to your average giallo anyway. It's a culture shock that a fairly serious movie like this would even have x-rated inserts entertained as an option.
 
I recently watched a zombie movie called The Roost and thought it was decent. I liked it because it wasn't an apocalypse movie. Every single modern zombie movie takes place during or after a zombie apocalypse and it's too cliche now. I like a small scale zombie movie where it's just happening in a certain area like how Zombi 2 or Zombie Holocaust were on an island. Or this movie The Roost took place on a dark abandoned road and a farm house.
 
I recently watched a zombie movie called The Roost and thought it was decent. I liked it because it wasn't an apocalypse movie. Every single modern zombie movie takes place during or after a zombie apocalypse and it's too cliche now. I like a small scale zombie movie where it's just happening in a certain area like how Zombi 2 or Zombie Holocaust were on an island. Or this movie The Roost took place on a dark abandoned road and a farm house.
Honestly I feel that. Dying Light was so much more interesting to me as a zombie game because it was a single isolated outbreak. Something about the world ending in one small area hits different.
 
I saw It Follows because I kept hearing about it like it was a thing and um okay did I miss something? Okay death and sex as a symbol of transition of the inevitable change from child to adult as a monster also lol it literally fucks you to death. Great. Not that scary. Acting wasn’t that great. It was aggressively okay.
 
I saw It Follows because I kept hearing about it like it was a thing and um okay did I miss something? Okay death and sex as a symbol of transition of the inevitable change from child to adult as a monster also lol it literally fucks you to death. Great. Not that scary. Acting wasn’t that great. It was aggressively okay.

I thought it was pretty good but I wouldn't say it set the world on fire.
 
I recently watched a zombie movie called The Roost and thought it was decent. I liked it because it wasn't an apocalypse movie. Every single modern zombie movie takes place during or after a zombie apocalypse and it's too cliche now. I like a small scale zombie movie where it's just happening in a certain area like how Zombi 2 or Zombie Holocaust were on an island. Or this movie The Roost took place on a dark abandoned road and a farm house.
Pre-millennial zombie movies were often more small-scale, more corpses getting up out of graves and bothering a small group of people and such with classical horror imagery, with the apocalypse maybe only being the predictable twist ending. I think it might just be that digital effects made it easier to do a post-apocalyptic survivalist movie. Maybe the collective hivemind is more fixated on societal breakdown and survivalism now.
 
Are horror movies just not allowed to be scary anymore? All this nudging and winking at the camera shit gets old fast. Like, I’m a total weenie when it comes to horror, but this is getting sad.
A lot of stuff goes into the sci-fi power fantasy route where the main character saves the world for some reason. I think the horror series are better because they make the characters and setting interesting, and can have false starts. There needs to be some execution and fear for the characters, but the problem is they expect people to be scared of the monster and don't put much thought into it or its role. Getting stabbed or slashed was enough for quite a while in media to terrify audiences.
 
Pre-millennial zombie movies were often more small-scale, more corpses getting up out of graves and bothering a small group of people and such with classical horror imagery, with the apocalypse maybe only being the predictable twist ending. I think it might just be that digital effects made it easier to do a post-apocalyptic survivalist movie. Maybe the collective hivemind is more fixated on societal breakdown and survivalism now.

Pretty much this. The only major zombie movies from before 2000 that I'd qualify as a true and honest "Zombie Apocalypse" would be Day of the Dead and to a lesser extent, Dawn of the Dead.

Even then the apocalypse angle in Dawn is more in the background since most of the movie takes place in the mall. When I saw Dawn for the first time as a kid, I thought the zombie apocalypse was just a regional thing confined to the Northeast.

Romero went with the apocalyptic angle in Day of the Dead mainly because he envisioned it as this grand epic finale and thought the only way he could outdo Dawn of the Dead was to set it months or years after society collapsed.

Some of the Italian zombie movies of the genre's late 70's-early 80's heyday had the global zombie apocalypse thing going but only as a twist ending. So I wouldn't really count those.
 
I just watched from Dusk Till Dawn and had no idea what I was expecting.

That said it was a VERY enjoyable experience, especially the PUSSY part.
 
I think I mentioned earlier in this thread about a film called Dark Side of the Moon and how it never got a rerelease outside its original vhs run

Unearthed Films just picked it up for DVD and Bluray so that's nice, i might pick it up.
They were supposed to release the Profane Exhibit last year but nothing came of it.


Check out the list of directors. It was screened at a couple of festivals as a work in progress but never saw a wide release.
 
I downloaded the new Scream. It was a cam copy. Good quality.

The gore was very good. The returning cast was fine. The new Scooby gang, a literal rainbow squad with a half black chick, an Asian and something else. They were very annoying. Not sure if they were made to be deliberately made to be so.

I always like how in these fucking movies Ghostface calls them and the first instinct of these assholes is to grab a kitchen knife. No one in this universe has a gun? Especially if you live in a town that has had repeated serial murders by copy cats? No is armed?

It's an okay slasher.
 
I always like how in these fucking movies Ghostface calls them and the first instinct of these assholes is to grab a kitchen knife. No one in this universe has a gun? Especially if you live in a town that has had repeated serial murders by copy cats? No is armed?
It's California. Remember, Dewey only had a gun in the original because he was a Deputy.

E: Also, arguing for logic in a horror movie? You could say, "Why doesn't Sydney strap an AR-15 everywhere she goes?".
 
It's California. Remember, Dewey only had a gun in the original because he was a Deputy.

E: Also, arguing for logic in a horror movie? You could say, "Why doesn't Sydney strap an AR-15 everywhere she goes?".
Yeah, why doesn't she?????

Also, I'll spoil this, the killers in the new Scream are Redditors or at least one of them is a Redditor. And the motivation for what they're doing is to be involved in the Stab movies and do their own Reboot/Requel. I don't know if that's based or not.
 
I agree, logically, all the traditional principals of Scream should be strapped at ALL fucking times given their histories, but that'd just make for a boring movie once Ghostface comes around and gets instantly domed because Sydney and Gail have spent hundreds of hours training for gun fighting.
 
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