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Frank D'arbo said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=uplxZ9JiA1o
This is finally getting an American release.
Honestly don't bother, Bruno and I saw it one night and it sucked. The only positive I can say about it is that it's a step up from Dracula 3D
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Of all the oldschool horror directors that peaked in the 70's and 80's Argento has to be the saddest example of a fall from grace. There's others that come close like Romero and Tobe Hooper but Argento was operating at another wave length. Then it all went bad.
 
I have to say, fuck that guy:

Power Glove said:
Dashcam. Oh boy. I thought this was going to be your run of the mill found footage shlock, and it is absolutely found footage shlock but there is something so very sick and disturbing about it. It's fast-paced, a bit too much maybe at the moment and it perfectly utilises the low budget tools it has at its disposal. I really enjoyed this one. Sadly the horror is not the main reason why the movie is being discussed, it's the main character. Probably the most unlikeable character in the history of modern horror. She certainly is interesting to say the least. Mostly, she's just a cunt.
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Nigga, there's two movies named Dashcam that were released in 2021. I was all psyched to watch some horror shlock, I kept expecting for shit to happen and go crazy when it never did, was confused why you thought the main character was so unlikeable, and then the movie just fucking ended.

Turns out I watched the shitty found footage thriller about a cop coverup of a shooting, and not the actual movie you were talking about, which I have queued up for tomorrow.

Give at least a one sentence rundown of the plot in the future, pal.

edit: and as far as the other dashcam movie goes, probably 6/10, with the potential of being an 8/10 if they had revealed a bit more information than they did. It's just not horror, but rather a found footage thriller that happens on halloween. which is super confusing.
 
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Internet War Criminal said:
I have to say, fuck that guy:



Nigga, there's two movies named Dashcam that were released in 2021. I was all psyched to watch some horror shlock, I kept expecting for shit to happen and go crazy when it never did, was confused why you thought the main character was so unlikeable, and then the movie just fucking ended.

Turns out I watched the shitty found footage thriller about a cop coverup of a shooting, and not the actual movie you were talking about, which I have queued up for tomorrow.

Give at least a one sentence rundown of the plot in the future, pal.
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Cool it.
 
Dave. said:
I plan on seeing other niche horror films as well like Black Devil Doll From Hell (2007 since I heard that was the “good one”), Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Demonic Toys, Serbian Film, Guinea Pig, and maybe Haunted Bong(?), and Troll. I want to get through puppet master first because I’m intrigued to see where that goes from the first film.
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The Guinea Pig movies are pretty fun. My favorite is the third one, He Never Dies. It's a fun, darkly humorous splatter comedy. The unofficial installment Lucky Sky Diamond is pretty rad too. It's just nonstop gory psychedelic madness for an hour.
Internet War Criminal said:
I never bothered with A Serbian Film. Is there any reason to watch it except to say you have?
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It's not for the squeamish, that's for sure, but It's honestly a really well made neo-noir. I thought it was well done but its not something i'd watch over and over.
 
White Devil said:
I haven't seen either of them in so long I can't remember if I disliked them or not.
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I only know two unrelated horror films that bare the name, "Night Watch," and one of them is an underrated 90s American remake of its Danish film of the same name.
 
Dashcam (2022) is about... a liberal's idea of an Alt-Right streamer going to England to meet up with a friend, and shit goes wrong. Fucking wrong.

Not just an alt-right streamer, she's a musical alt-right streamer. She also likes to rap a lot (she's not terrible, sometimes really funny), and while she was slandered as 'the worst protagonist ever' and shit earlier, but no that's a lie. I can see how she would grate on a lot of people's nerves, but I thought she was great (even though yeah she definitely has her annoying parts of her personality, but she felt real. Like, not an actor playing a role, but like yeah, she's a legit annoying streamer.

And yeah, another great thing is that this movie doesn't fuck around for an hour and keep all of their crazy shit for the last 20 minutes or so like so many found footage horror movies. It's the opposite. Less than 20 minutes of character building (which is more than enough for the characters to be fully fleshed out and have real personality, somehow), and then for the last hour or so, it's fucking balls to the wall insane.

As found footage, a strong 9/10, will have to rewatch but might be a 9.5/10. As a regular horror movie, I'd say a strong 8.5/10

I think the only thing that will stop this movie from being a cult classic is because of just how many people are going to hate the main character and dislike the movie as a result, when really the point of the character is that she's unlikeable.
 
Internet War Criminal said:
Dashcam (2022) is about... a liberal's idea of an Alt-Right streamer going to England to meet up with a friend, and shit goes wrong. Fucking wrong.

As found footage, a strong 9/10, will have to rewatch but might be a 9.5/10. As a regular horror movie, I'd say a strong 8.5/10

I think the only thing that will stop this movie from being a cult classic is because of just how many people are going to hate the main character and dislike the movie as a result, when really the point of the character is that she's unlikeable.
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Thanks for the review. It's the Blumhouse one, right? I don't really want to watch the thriller about the journalist lol. How does it compare to other found footage like Grave Encounters or Hell House?
 
Humongous Faggotous said:
Thanks for the review. It's the Blumhouse one, right? I don't really want to watch the thriller about the journalist lol. How does it compare to other found footage like Grave Encounters or Hell House?
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Yeah, it's the Bloomhouse one (2022). The Dashcam thriller (2021) wasn't horrible, but yeah I wouldn't recommend anyone to watch it, I'm just not angry that I did watch it.

Grave Encounters is the gold standard of Found Footage for me. It's a pure 10/10, not just as FF (which needs its own adjusted scale) but I'd say it's a 10/10 as a horror movie as well.

So, it's definitely not that kind of excellence... but I don't think it's that far. It depends entirely on one thing I think: how you feel about the main actress. It seems to be one that either people love, or hate, mostly entirely due to how they react to her. I thought she was annoying but in a very entertaining way, and as I said, I liked that it felt like a real person and not a character putting on an annoying act.

There are plenty of scares and such, but unlike GE it's more of a holy fucking shit this is crazy and reliant on gore (which is top notch) than it is on pure scares.

I think with a few little tweaks (and npcs people not freaking out that character believes things that Makes Them Angry) it would have become a cult favorite. It might still become one, but I feel it's gonna be more niche because of faggots who are gonna whine about blumhouse making alt-right propaganda or whatever.
 
Did anyone else kind of not like the babysister 2 making the villain from the first one good (granted I'm not a fan of reddem villains in general mainly because i feel its been overplayed in recent years). I don't know I just find it didn't make sense how she was portrayed in the first one.
 
I agree with you, I think it's just a reflection of how popular Samara Weaving became/how much people liked her in the first movie...
 
Internet War Criminal said:
I agree with you, I think it's just a reflection of how popular Samara Weaving became/how much people liked her in the first movie...
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True I had a similar feeling too. But that's that seems to be a problem I notice lately. A villain and their actor gets super popular and the writers feel like they need to redeem them. When in reality you don't, what made them popular was being a villain. Taking the villain part from them ruins it for me.

I like her in the first movie because I thought she was a fun and cool villain.
 
Oats12345 said:
True I had a similar feeling too. But that's that seems to be a problem I notice lately. A villain and their actor gets super popular and the writers feel like they need to redeem them. When in reality you don't, what made them popular was being a villain. Taking the villain part from them ruins it for me.

I like her in the first movie because I thought she was a fun and cool villain.
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The only recent movie where I thought it made sense to turn the villain into a(n anti-)hero so to speak was Don't Breathe 2, because at the end of the day while the blind guy absolutely did something evil (kidnapping and forced pregnancy (no rape though)), he was not evil per se. Went crazy because of grief and PTSD, but only took revenge on the people who killed his daughter and got away with it. As far as him killing the home intruders, fuck them, they were home intruding on a blind guy they deserved to be killed. DB2 was about trying to repair what he fucked up in the original Don't Breathe. That's a whole lot more understandable than just being a satanist who sacrifices people for shits and giggles.
 
Internet War Criminal said:
The only recent movie where I thought it made sense to turn the villain into a(n anti-)hero so to speak was Don't Breathe 2, because at the end of the day while the blind guy absolutely did something evil (kidnapping and forced pregnancy (no rape though)), he was not evil per se. Went crazy because of grief and PTSD, but only took revenge on the people who were drunk driving and killed his daughter. As far as him killing the home intruders, fuck them, they were home intruding on a blind guy they deserved to be killed. DB2 was about trying to repair what he fucked up in the original Don't Breathe.
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He was about to rape. So no, I disagree, he cannot be redeemed. Grief is one thing but you didn't see Charles Bronson attempt to rape anyone.
 
BrunoMattei said:
He was about to rape. So no, I disagree, he cannot be redeemed. Grief is one thing but you didn't see Charles Bronson attempt to rape anyone.
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He wasn't about to rape, he was about to redo the turkey baster thing; again, because he blamed her for killing cindy who was pregnant with his child... unless I forgot that part of the movie.
 
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