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Anyone watched The Midnight Club yet (from Mike Flannagan, director of Midnight Mass, Haunting of Hill House, Oculus, Doctor Sleep)? I'm only 3 episodes in so far, I really dig it. It's definitely different from his last two series, but fairly creepy and the mystery is very interesting so far.

Both Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass were 10/10 shows, I hope this is the case here too

Honestly the only thing grating me in The Midnight Club is the injection of modern politics in the 90s. Especially the AIDS subplot. Fag nurse going to fag teenager 'Hey, we know that people don't just get aids from unprotected anal sex, for example they also get it from sharing needles! Also, no one is scared of aids blood!'

Nigga people were 100% scared of aids blood back then, today they would still be freaked about it if someone with aids splashed blood in their direction, and guess what, yeah unprotected gay sex, sharing needles... AND THAT'S IT. You're more likely to win the lottery twice in a row than ever get aids if you're not a sexual deviant or junkie.

Teenagers in the 90s were not cool with faggots either, and certainly not super religious kids either. That and the anti-religious shit. Especially if this is happening in 1994/early 1995 like the Interview with the Vampire reference seems to indicate

It feels like a step back from Midnight Mass as far as maturity goes, and it's a disappointment. The curse of expectations I guess.

So, yeah, great show, it's only a tiny part of the plot, but it's fucking grating when it pops up and if it gets worse, it's not getting a 10/10 for sure though. Even if it's just 9.5/10.
 
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Internet War Criminal said:
Honestly the only thing grating me in The Midnight Club is the injection of modern politics in the 90s. Especially the AIDS subplot. Fag nurse going to fag teenager 'Hey, we know that people don't just get aids from unprotected anal sex, for example they also get it from sharing needles! Also, no one is scared of aids blood!'

Nigga people were 100% scared of aids blood back then, today they would still be freaked about it if someone with aids splashed blood in their direction, and guess what, yeah unprotected gay sex, sharing needles... AND THAT'S IT. You're more likely to win the lottery twice in a row than ever get aids if you're not a sexual deviant or junkie.

Teenagers in the 90s were not cool with faggots either, and certainly not super religious kids either. That and the anti-religious shit. Especially if this is happening in 1994/early 1995 like the Interview with the Vampire reference seems to indicate

It feels like a step back from Midnight Mass as far as maturity goes, and it's a disappointment. The curse of expectations I guess.

So, yeah, great show, it's only a tiny part of the plot, but it's fucking grating when it pops up and if it gets worse, it's not getting a 10/10 for sure though. Even if it's just 9.5/10.
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Remmber you still got gays who are still mad at Regan for telling them to stop having insane amounts of unprotected sex so they could slow down the AIDs .
 
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Any one remember when Dario Argento kickstarted a movie and it never happened, good times
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DARIO ARGENTO'S THE SANDMAN starring Iggy Pop

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I remember that. They even hit the goal but nothing ever came from it and updates were hidden away on a Facebook page. Everyone who donated got screwed.
 
Product Placement said:
Any one remember when Dario Argento kickstarted a movie and it never happened, good times
www.indiegogo.com

DARIO ARGENTO'S THE SANDMAN starring Iggy Pop

Support The Maestro Dario Argento and his creative freedom as he crafts his most HORRIFIC FILM EVER! | Check out 'DARIO ARGENTO'S THE SANDMAN starring Iggy Pop' on Indiegogo.
www.indiegogo.com www.indiegogo.com
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Paying Dario Argento to not make a movie sounds like a worthy cause
 
Product Placement said:
He has a new movie coming out but watch no journos have the balls to ask him about it
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Bruno and I streamed it one night.
He said it best, its not as bad as Dracula 3D (which is seriously one of the worst films I've ever seen.) but that isn't saying much. I was laughing more than anything.
 
Going to echo everybody else in the thread on the new Hellraiser being very dull. Some thoughts (trying to avoid spoilers, but skip if you don't want anything revealed).

* I hated all of the main characters almost immediately. The protagonist was especially unlikeable, and was the epitome of "awful New York bitch" down having a ukulele in the trunk of her filthy car. The scene were she screamed out directions at her boyfriend despite having no idea where they were driving gave me PTSD flashbacks.

* While the cenobites used to be the end of the line for degen hedonists that burnt out their dopamine receptors, they now operate like one of those sandwich places where if you get your card punched for buying 6 sandwiches you get a free sandwich or equally shitty gift.

* The new cenobites were alright, their overall look reminded me a lot of the monsters in Doom 3. Definitely prefer the original, grimier cenobites. Doug Bradley is also sorely missed.

* The violence is pretty tame, especially for a Hellraiser movie. Hellraiser 3 isn't a particularly good movie, but the gore was top notch for the time and it absolutely freaked the fuck out of me as a kid. New Hellraiser is substantially less graphic than even cable shows like Preacher.

* Despite being in a series that at its core is about perverts contacting BDSM demons, the movie really doesn't have much sexuality aside from a pointless sex scene at the beginning and a pointless scene of two gay guys cuddling. This isn't to say they should have catered to the coomer crowd and put boobs in every scene, but one of the most effective scenes in the original is Julia sucking the gross, fleshless finger of reborn Frank. Something creatively horrifying like that would have definitely broken up the dullness.

* The whole movie feels like a weaker version of Hellbound and the Dr. Channard equivalent doesn't come close to matching Kenneth Cranham (he was Pompey, a consul of Rome after all).

* There was no need for this movie to be two fucking hours long, good grief.
 
There's something about Hereditary that just stays with you. I initially kind of wrote it off (not implying it was bad) because the first 20-30 minutes is the film at it's strongest and after that it peters out. But it leaves an indelible impression. It's a film that truly haunts you in a multi-faceted way just like The Shining.

You need to watch it more than once and you catch a lot of foreshadowing.
 
Just watched Grimcutty, a new horror movie that dropped on hulu and disney+
Plot: A suburban teen girl and her little brother must stop a terrifying internet meme brought to life by the hysteria of their parents.

I went in expecting bad, but this is on a level I did not expect. If anyone of you are aware of those awful Dhar Mann videos on youtube, it is very much like he tried his hand a full horror movie. I'm struggling to think of a movie with characters this nonsensical and devoid of any logic.

The writer/director is a guy called John Ross, who most of note work is co-executive producer on 1 episode The World's Funniest Animals, only reason I bring it up is because it made me laugh and made me question why Disney would throw money at him to make this turd.
 
BrunoMattei said:
There's something about Hereditary that just stays with you. I initially kind of wrote it off (not implying it was bad) because the first 20-30 minutes is the film at it's strongest and after that it peters out. But it leaves an indelible impression. It's a film that truly haunts you in a multi-faceted way just like The Shining.

You need to watch it more than once and you catch a lot of foreshadowing.
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I had my first legitimate nightmare in years a few days after watching it.

It doesn't scare me per se but it leaves me with so much dread that it sucks the energy out of me.
 
We watched the original Amityville Horror last night and I can truly understand how home ownership can drive you to murder your wife and her kids.
 
Just saw the Halloween Ends trailer and it looks as disjointed and aimless as you'd probably expect. I still don't get why they keep insisting Michael's human in this reboot series with no supernatural elements. He's like Jason crossed with the Terminator and seems literally unkillable, when the most he survived in the first two were a few shots to the chest through his boiler suit, which isn't completely impossible. The characters all seem as dumb as before, if not dumber, since apparently Michael's just gone under the radar for four years despite being a big lumbering dumbass who kills at random and makes no attempt at stealth, unlike the originals, and despite killing multiple cops the only law response to him is still a few idiot deputies and a senile sheriff.

The idea that Michael's a delusion and everything's been in Laurie's head also seems to have been disproven, which could've actually been an interesting twist. I'm not expecting much at this point. Like shit, if you're gonna make Michael into the Jasonator, at least own up to it and say your movie's a cheesy splatterfest. They keep up this running theme that it's serious and not supernatural, and it doesn't match up at all with what we see. Everything being Laurie's hallucination or nightmare was pretty much the only way they could justify anything in the last two movies and still make at least a little sense.
 
BrunoMattei said:
BoomerFan.
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Missed you too Bruno, but that's not me anymore. At least I'm trying not to be..."him" anymore. I actually went back and reread my old posts in here and my god how drunk was I when I said most of the things I said? I don't even know if I can blame most of my fucked up basic opinions in here on being drunk.
BiggerChungus said:
if you're gonna make Michael into the Jasonator, at least own up to it and say your movie's a cheesy splatterfest.
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They kind of did with the the kills in Halloween kills, which are probably the goriest in the series. But I do see your point. If you're gonna give us 12 pumpkins including one that bursts into flames like something outta Trick r treat in the opening credits, then at least deliver the same level of over the top that movie did.
 
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