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They actually brought up a very good point/very good reason why they liked it... and I get where they come from, and why they liked it. I'm gonna have to rewatch it from their perspective now.

If it had been a passing of the torch, if their idea of the ending being that Michael Myers gets thrown into the shredder, cut to the incel, sits right up in Michael Myers fashion, Halloween theme starts, evil doesn't die, it just changes form, leave the ending open ended etc.. etc.. would have been a much better way to end the trilogy.

Fuck.
 
Syaoran Li said:
Every year, I always make a point of watching both the original 1978 Dawn of the Dead and The Lost Boys for Halloween.

I might also do a Hellraiser marathon but I'm not sure if I should stop after the third or fourth film or grab a bottle of Jameson and then just go full retard and watch all of the films including the shitty Direct-To-Video ones.
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No Fright Night?!?!
Internet War Criminal said:
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They actually brought up a very good point/very good reason why they liked it... and I get where they come from, and why they liked it. I'm gonna have to rewatch it from their perspective now.

If it had been a passing of the torch, if their idea of the ending being that Michael Myers gets thrown into the shredder, cut to the incel, sits right up in Michael Myers fashion, Halloween theme starts, evil doesn't die, it just changes form, leave the ending open ended etc.. etc.. would have been a much better way to end the trilogy.

Fuck.
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Sucking RLM dick outside of the RLM thread should be a bannable offense.
 
Who gives a shit who an argument is from, they said something about Halloween Ends that's worth considering, and we've been discussing that movie for days and pages at this point, and it's not something that was brought up yet. Stop being a humongous faggot for once.
 
Syaoran Li said:
Every year, I always make a point of watching both the original 1978 Dawn of the Dead and The Lost Boys for Halloween.

I might also do a Hellraiser marathon but I'm not sure if I should stop after the third or fourth film or grab a bottle of Jameson and then just go full retard and watch all of the films including the shitty Direct-To-Video ones.
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Lost Boys is a fantastic movie and I don't care what anyone says, the ending was spectacular.
 
Internet War Criminal said:
Who gives a shit who an argument is from, they said something about Halloween Ends that's worth considering, and we've been discussing that movie for days and pages at this point, and it's not something that was brought up yet. Stop being a humongous faggot for once.
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You literally talked about how they would be hackfrauds for liking it and then immediately suck their dick the moment they said they liked it.

Would be fine if you said nothing prior, but this dickriding is pretty gay
 
It's not dickriding to admit that I was wrong, that they made good points, and they made me rethink the movie you dumb cunt. Only fucking autists stick to their original opinions and don't budge away from them no matter what.
 
I've been backreading for recs and stuff I might have never heard of/forgot about, and while the Halloween talk has been going on for some pages I'll be honest: I barely had interest to begin with and I lost what little I had when my movie buff friend told me about the twist. And not in the "oh you spoiled me" kind of way, I was asked beforehand if I cared. Once I heard what it was I just gave up. At least Rob Zombie's reboot was pretty entertaining to watch, I tried watching the nu-nu-reboot of Halloween and I think I can pinpoint the exact moment I gave up: the black chick dressed as a nurse shooting at Michael in the car. Door's open the entire time she's approaching, in a split second though once she's close enough suddenly it's shut and Michael swings it open, it hits her hand as she fires the gun, it turns and blows her own brains out. Except, if you pay attention, the gun is aimed nowhere near her head, it fires off straight up in front of her.

I don't claim to be an expert but when you start failing basic cinematography I think it's time to pack it the fuck in.
 
Watched The McPherson tapes, an old, shot on film found footage about a family being attacked by aliens. Oh god, it's kind of fucking great? It really doesn't rely on tropes you see in modern found footage and a lot of it feels like filler, like I'm actually just watching this family being attacked by these creatures. It's really just dreadful, especially at the point where they
bring in the corpse of a dead alien, which is later revealed not to be dead.
I don't know if you watched it, but I liked it.
Resident Evil welcome to Raccoon City. I'm a die hard RE sperg, so I finally gave it a shot. Simultaneously the most faithful to the games, while somehow the most disrespectful. There's literally a running joke of making Leon everyones bitch. You're not here for the lore sperging though, so I'll cut it short. It's okay. It has way more moments that are actually funny, but as a standalone zombie movie, eh? Skip it
My next movies are Dead Rising Watchtower and the original The Crazies.
 
I almost never rewatch horror films during October. I've noticed this is the month everybody gets on their spooky nostalgia train and I personally don't get the appeal. I try to use October as an excuse to see as many horrors that I haven't seen yet as possible. Maybe I'm just retarded but otherwise I'd probably never get around to it.

Not that I'd blame someone for marathoning god-tier shit like Dawn of the Dead. The other day I rewatched Idle Hands which is a big nostalgia movie for me.

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Garth was actually likeable. He's more like the comic book guy from The Simpsons.
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I'm not the one walking around complaining how everything is the worst. thing. ever. all the time. that's fucking imax quality projection right here.

Cistern Rumbler said:
Not that I'd blame someone for marathoning god-tier shit like Dawn of the Dead.
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Your autocorrect somehow changed Day for Dawn
 
Calandrino said:
Well, I'm up to date on my Halloween boosters so far.

3) Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959) - A bit better than I expected. The monsters are cool and the human bits are halfway watchable.

4) The Monster Walks (1932) - I thought I'd watch the most cliche old timey horror movie possible, and here it is: set at an old mansion during a thunderstorm, a murder occurs after a dead rich man's will reading. And there's an ape on the loose, and there's a dumb cowardly black guy that calls everybody BAWCE.

5) The Vampire Bat (1933) - Features Dwight Frye and Fay Wray, but no vampires or bats.

6) The Manster (1959) - Like a cheesy 50s version of the 80s The Fly (but not much like the 50s The Fly). Has a famous and gruesome shot of the protagonist discovering a mutation on his shoulder...

7) A Bucket of Blood (1959) - I guess this is where the original Little Shop of Horrors borrowed most of its plot from, although this is the better movie.

8 ) Hellraiser (1987) - A rewatch in honor of skipping the remake. Frank is literally Hunter Biden: photographs himself with Asian prostitutes, bangs his sister-in-law, creeps on his niece, and even makes a bargain with an evil Chinaman. Durr, somehow never realized Garak was in this.

9) Young Frankenstein (1974) - Scared the hell out of me.

10) The Devil Bat (1940) - Bela Lugosi trains an adorable fruitbat to kill anyone wearing an aftershave he developed, as revenge for something or other. Would have been better if it were just Bela Lugosi monologing about his evil plans for an hour.

11) Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) - Reminds me a lot of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and not very much of the Poe story. Really dark movie, nice-looking, but the story's not great.
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Running behind, ngmi horrorbros

12) The Ape Man (1943) - Bela Lugosi is a mad doctor who spends the whole movie in Garth Marhengi-tier ape makeup, searching for the cure for his ape-itis. There's also a gorilla, portrayed guy in a gorilla costume. It ends with a Looney Tunes gag where the movie's writer shows up as a character. Really subverted my expectations.

13) Return of the Ape Man (1944) - Unrelated plotwise to the original. Bela Lugosi and John Carradine are both mad scientists who revive a caveman, so there's usually at least one actor who's actually trying onscreen at any given time. Both Ape Man movies are only about an hour long each and it's probably best that way.

14) Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957) - I got sucked into rewatching this after watching some clips of Tim Burton's Ed Wood on YouTube. That's one of my favorite movies and it really can't help but color your perception of this movie and make you like it better. As WORST EVER movies go I haven't seen The Room all the way through, or Disaster Artist, but apparently everybody just thinks Tommy Wisseau is an asshole. Plan 9 is actually charming and fun, not just an accidental Adult Swim stoner comedy. Speaking of future events that will affect you in the future, Glen or Glenda opens with a transvestite's suicide... very prescient.

15) Hocus Pocus 2 (2022) - A Satanic interracial teen lesbian virgin witch coven are initiated to the dark arts by a more experienced, mature trio of witches.

16) Nosferatu (1922) - You can't watch this too many times, I hope, or it's probably given me brain cancer from overexposure by now.

17) The Brain (1988 ) - Unprocessed late eighties Canadian cheese with the bad guy from Reanimator and a giant rubber brain prop with mind control powers. All the basics are there but the premise never gets further development after the first ten minutes, and there are like ten police chase scenes, and the main character is an unlikable douche. Oh, and the main girl is dressed like a trans pride flag.

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Cistern Rumbler said:
Bruh. Day is my favorite too. But I was referring to @Syaoran Li's comment:
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Oh I missed that part, lol.

I can't see myself rewatching Dawn 1978 every year, definitely not anymore. I thought watching all the various cuts would make me gain more appreciation for it, but really it just kind of highlights the many flaws of the movie, and Day is just so much better on almost every aspect.
 
Cistern Rumbler said:
The other day I rewatched Idle Hands which is a big nostalgia movie for me.
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Dude I loved Idle Hands, such an underrated movie. I think my favorite scene was when the hand tossed the cat out the window.
Devon Sawa I thought was criminally underrated in the 90s. There aren't a whole lot of really good horror comedies out there, most of them are too on the nose.
 
TV's Adam West said:
Watched The McPherson tapes, an old, shot on film found footage about a family being attacked by aliens. Oh god, it's kind of fucking great? It really doesn't rely on tropes you see in modern found footage and a lot of it feels like filler, like I'm actually just watching this family being attacked by these creatures. It's really just dreadful, especially at the point where they
bring in the corpse of a dead alien, which is later revealed not to be dead.
I don't know if you watched it, but I liked it.
Resident Evil welcome to Raccoon City. I'm a die hard RE sperg, so I finally gave it a shot. Simultaneously the most faithful to the games, while somehow the most disrespectful. There's literally a running joke of making Leon everyones bitch. You're not here for the lore sperging though, so I'll cut it short. It's okay. It has way more moments that are actually funny, but as a standalone zombie movie, eh? Skip it
My next movies are Dead Rising Watchtower and the original The Crazies.
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MCPHERSON tapes is alien horror movie done right!! Look it up back than alot people thought that was real. Like no joke that's how scary it was for alot of people.

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon city is probably the best resident Evil live action adaptation compare to the Alice movies and offer (thankfully canceled) Netflix series
 
Oats12345 said:
MCPHERSON tapes is alien horror movie done right!! Look it up back than alot people thought that was real. Like no joke that's how scary it was for alot of people.

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon city is probably the best resident Evil live action adaptation compare to the Alice movies and offer (thankfully canceled) Netflix series
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I can see the McPherson tape working at the time, but the problem with trying to watch something made on an 80's camcorder, is that it looks like something made on an 80's camcorder. Admittedly it was kindof ahead of the found footage game in that you can't tell what is going on half the time and no one acts like a real person (so they witness an alien spacecraft landing, then go back to the house to eat and open presents? Did they put those scenes in the wrong order?)

Got to admit though, I enjoyed Raccoon City far more than I should. No classic, and trying to squeeze 2 games into one film was never going to work, but it was better than those mind-numbingly boring cgi movies.
 
The Penultimate Warrior said:
I can see the McPherson tape working at the time, but the problem with trying to watch something made on an 80's camcorder, is that it looks like something made on an 80's camcorder. Admittedly it was kindof ahead of the found footage game in that you can't tell what is going on half the time and no one acts like a real person (so they witness an alien spacecraft landing, then go back to the house to eat and open presents? Did they put those scenes in the wrong order?)

Got to admit though, I enjoyed Raccoon City far more than I should. No classic, and trying to squeeze 2 games into one film was never going to work, but it was better than those mind-numbingly boring cgi movies.
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True the the McPherson tapes aren't as impressive these days. But for the time it was
 
TV's Adam West said:
Watched The McPherson tapes, an old, shot on film found footage about a family being attacked by aliens. Oh god, it's kind of fucking great? It really doesn't rely on tropes you see in modern found footage and a lot of it feels like filler, like I'm actually just watching this family being attacked by these creatures. It's really just dreadful, especially at the point where they
bring in the corpse of a dead alien, which is later revealed not to be dead.
I don't know if you watched it, but I liked it.
Resident Evil welcome to Raccoon City. I'm a die hard RE sperg, so I finally gave it a shot. Simultaneously the most faithful to the games, while somehow the most disrespectful. There's literally a running joke of making Leon everyones bitch. You're not here for the lore sperging though, so I'll cut it short. It's okay. It has way more moments that are actually funny, but as a standalone zombie movie, eh? Skip it
My next movies are Dead Rising Watchtower and the original The Crazies.
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I actually love found footage as a niche, and I've gone through a bunch of them just to see what I like and what I don't. I have some pretty generic and even edgy answers, like The Poughkeepsie Tapes and The Cohasset Snuff Film, Behind the Mask the Rise of Leslie Vernon(I saw someone call this one shit while backreading, personally I thought it was a fun movie). I never heard of the McPherson tapes though, so I'll definitely check that out. There's one that I liked, I'm pretty sure it was just called Alien Abduction. Probably the only off thing about it is the handwave example of why they have a camera in the first place(the reason is literally "my son is autistic and he likes recording with it" but it ends up being how the "footage" gets shot), but even in spite of that it was great. There's another called The Fourth Kind but I really feel I should give that one another shot because I tried it once and I honest to God almost fell asleep because a lot of it early on is just interviews and shit with abductees and witnesses, it's like watching an actual television program and kind of boring.

Speaking of, there is one i want to watch even if it's a slow burn. I believe it's called Life Tracker, and it's literally "liveleak cameras" the movie, being multiple different peoples' day/life viewed from the perspective of security cameras and the like, in disjointed segments where it cycles through each person periodically throughout the movie. Seems kind of interesting as a concept and I wanna try it.

For other recommendations I have some I can throw out as well. Noroi: The Curse, Hell House LLC 1 and 2, Rec 1 and 2(I honestly don't care for 3 and 4, I think 2 is a great stopping point but to each their own), Grave Encounters 1 and 2, the first Cloverfield movie was fantastic imo. There's also two really nice classics I'd recommend in Found Footage: Digging Up the Marrow and The Last Broadcast. I had fun watching the former, but the latter actually blew me away, I thoroughly enjoyed that one.

Sorry for the rambling but I keep some of my movie collection catalogued so seeing talk of found footage made me just bust out the FF section. I'll grab and check out the McPherson Tapes today. On a final note, I was pretty tired last night and couldn't finish Hellraiser, but I'm about to, and I'll try to go through at least 2 and 3 this evening.
 
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