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Tom Savini is a fucking beast, in fact the fucking GOAT.

So I watched The Toll (2020) and it was.... generic but decent. I don't want to describe the movie, because there's very few ways to do so that's not gonna make it sound gay as fuck, but somehow the performances and the villain itself are not. I'd say 8/10, definitely worth a watch
 
BrunoMattei said:
The effects are the star of that movie. It's a shame that there's a good 20 minutes where literally nothing happens.
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Humongous Faggotous said:
So many movies were saved by Savini's excellent effects. I watched The Burning a couple of years ago and it's a pretty forgettable Slasher outside of the impressive effects and kills.
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Typical slasher movie experience: 80 seconds of gore (cut from 4 minutes by the MPAA), 10 seconds of breasts, but a 15 minute scene of the characters painting their kitchen or something. They tend to be structured in such a way that absolutely nothing is happening for a good piece of the running time.

BrunoMattei said:
The Miner has become very popular over the last decade or so.
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The remake did very well financially. I guess it used the same design... I haven't seen it.
 
BrunoMattei said:
Now something like My Bloody Valentine desperately needed the gore because without it it was fairly average experience saved by the iconic design of The Miner.
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I disagree, at least with the original MBV. I found that the story was actually rather compelling, and the small town setting and characters were more charming than most. There is an undercurrent of character drama, interpersonal and with the town itself.

The movie just punches above it's weight in story, to me.
 
Calandrino said:
Typical slasher movie experience: 80 seconds of gore (cut from 4 minutes by the MPAA), 10 seconds of breasts, but a 15 minute scene of the characters painting their kitchen or something. They tend to be structured in such a way that absolutely nothing is happening for a good piece of the running time.


The remake did very well financially. I guess it used the same design... I haven't seen it.
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I didn't like the remake precisely because it was just kill after kill after kill. "Character" is introduced, not even given a name, killed off. Rinse and repeat for an overlong 100 minutes. Yes, we're here to see the gory kills with some T&A sprinkled on top. But you need to set that up and pace it so that it's effective. It's exactly like a comedian setting up each joke so that it lands harder.

This is something the uncut version of the original does extremely well.
 
Humongous Faggotous said:
So many movies were saved by Savini's excellent effects. I watched The Burning a couple of years ago and it's a pretty forgettable Slasher outside of the impressive effects and kills.
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Maniac shotgun blast scene. Give me a practical effect any day of the week over the CGI crap that infests horror these days. That is why John Carpenter's The Thing still rules supreme to this day, and not the CGI-fest remake they did a few years ago.
 
Fuuuuuuuuuuuck I hate how horror is getting so fucking pozzed, especially British Horror.

So I saw rave reviews for The Power last year but never got around to it. So I decided to watch it and, well, fuck me. About 10 minutes in, immediately the movie just hits you with the message that SEXUALLY HARRASSING STRAIGHT CIS WHITE MALE were the real evil and ghost all along!! Same fucking bullshit happened with Last Night in Soho. I'm halfway in and I don't even want to continue.

I mean how the fuck can you take a movie that 1) happens in bleak 70s Britain, 2) in a deserted hospital 3) in the midst of a fucking power shutdown 4) that imagery with the gas lanterns and shit

and completely ruin it because of ~the message~.

For fuck's sake. -4/10

I'm gonna finish it just in case but right now it looks like she just vomited ghost sperm from being raped by a ghost and no one is believing that she was raped because METAPHOR ABOUT HOW WE DON'T BELIEVE THE VICTIMS.

Seriously this is a minor spoiler, click that shit and tell me this isn't one of the most retarded things you've read since the last A&E thread you clicked on.

-10/10 would rather watch Freddy Got Fingered on repeat for a full day than ever watch that movie again

"Fuck, that last movie was so shit, I need to wash my mouth out of that bad taste, what do I have... What's Death Trip (2021)? I mean the name is a bit dumb, sounds shlocky... 'four friends in a cabin' 'dark secrets' 'bloody' ok fine... I mean it starts with a story about how the next door neighbor of this isolated cabin might have murdered his wife and plows his daughter, ok, redneck horror it is, sounds gre- ok fine the only male protagonist saying to the other three girls he doesn't believe in the institution of marriage and that 'fuck' implies women are object is pretty fucking gay but I guess it's gonna make it even better when the maniac kills hi- wait do we need a subplot about potential small town frat boy date rapists wait why is the protagonist acting so sketch OH FUCK ME ANOTHER WHITE CIS MALES ARE THE REAL MONSTER movie and that ones with a tiny black woman overpowering and beating a much larger guy to death with a fucking mallet after he clobbered hit with a hammer fucking end this already I'm not watching any horror made after 2009 fuck all of this fuck all of you and fuck current year"

kill me/10

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Been watching a whole bunch of straight to video, under an hour in length, Japanese gore films. Yes, there's quite a few of these beyond the Guinea Pig movies. Here's a damn good one I played on Movie Night on a Saturday once:


There's several more out there like Gakidama, Cyclops, Guzoo, not to mention the more infamous Guts of a Virgin and Entrails of a Beautiful Woman.

There's some 90's ones that are more than worth a look like Evil Dead Trap (which is fucking amazing) and Organ (1996).
 
Remembered this site, devoted to horror reviews also had this, tongue firmly in cheek, The Do-It-Yourself Giallo Generator.

Just click and get your own randomly generated giallo film title with synopsis.

White Cat on the Table at Evening
Directed by
Fulvio Lucci

A wealthy man ritually slaughters young women in an old, abandoned warehouse. A desperate writer finds a letter that contains some unknown details about the the crime. After discovering an old painting, the crime turns out to have been a hoax calculated by his best friend to drive him insane.​
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A Bloodstained White Rose in a Field of Lilacs
Directed by
Xerxe Silveri

A young student ritually slaughters young women in a train station. His brother finds a letter that contains some unknown details about the the killing. The crime turns out to have been a hoax calculated by his sister to drive him insane.​
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A Gecko with Eyes of Ice
Directed by
Carlo Smelmi

A girl , with no memory of the past few hours, finds herself standing drenched in blood in the trunk of a famous politician's car. Her friend is implicated in the murder. After discovering an old painting, she kills the maniac in self-defense, but is mistakenly blamed for all the crimes by the police and arrested.​
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I recently watched "Atroz", which is a found footage hybrid movie and is basically Mexico's answer to August Underground. AU somehow managed to tell a more coherent story. Atroz went off the fucking rails in the second half and turned into a completely different movie. But it's got plenty of gore if you like gore. It also has an 'anal rape cam'. No I'm not kidding.
 
If you thought recent horror movies that were social commentaries on race were cringe, Blumhouse is about to up the ante.
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Meanwhile the director said this choice quote that was unintentionally based :story:
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Watched The Sadness last night - its basically Crossed. Crossed but set in Taiwan...and you know what? I'm here for it.
For real though, it was fun. Trashy, gory, explicit. I love a cheeky bit of depravity and it definitely had that.
 
The Penultimate Warrior said:
Just ticked Exorcist 3 off my "really should have watched it but for some reason never got round to it" list, and glad I did as it's excellent and feels like the true sequel to the original rather than the mess that was Heretic. Personally I never found the original that scary, perhaps because it's been parodied so much, and always though the creepiest scene was the opening in Iraq. So whilst I'd say 3 is scarier, I'd need some repeat viewings to decide which I think is better.

The hospital scene has one of the all time great jump scares as well. 99% of horror films would have had rising music and the camera following her to build up tension. This scene does the complete opposite to much greater effect.
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You reminded me of this shirt:

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