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A lot of these movies, if not all of them, just shouldn't have been made into franchises.
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The original Bernard Rose "Candyman (1992)" was creepy as fuck, especially since Cabrini Green still existed at the time and people got murdered there on an almost daily basis.
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Forgot Wolf Creek 2.
7/10
7/10
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Hard agree. Barbarian was better than average but the tepid social commentary, the bland main character, and the weird fucking pacing were all strikes against it for me. Also teasing us with Richard Brake being creepy as fuck and then barely having him in the movie was some real bullshit. Side note: While Richard Brake has been kind of typecast as a menacing criminal these days, he is very entertaining as a slicked-back, sleazy corporate executive in Death Machine, one of my all time favorite low-budget sci-fi horror movies.
Genuinely loved Terrifier 2. Some thoughts (will try to keep spoilers as minimal as possible):
* The movie looked really fucking good for only having a budget of $250,000. There's a couple of wonkey shots, but it belongs with The Void (roughly $82,500), Resolution ($20,000), and The Battery (amazingly only $6,000 apparently) as examples of you can still make a great horror film on the tightest of budgets. Contrast Jeepers Creepers: Reborn, which as far as I can tell had a budget of something like $10 mil and was legitimately the worst looking theatrically-released movie I have ever seen.
* I expected them to go the route of sequels like The Collection and Don't Breath 2 and massively up the body-count, but they actually slowed things down and spread out the violence. The plot and pacing are weirdly similar to Halloween 4 of all things, but I thought it worked. The ambiguous lore stuff also kind of felt like the Thorn shit in Halloween 4 and 5, but overall didn't detract from the movie for me.
* Art the Clown sort of fits into that Nightmare on Elm Street 3 mold, where Freddy was both an entertaining dick but still more dangerous than goofy. Another thing I thought worked well.
* The opening sequence might have been my favorite part overall. Art being reanimated with a giant gunshot wound to the head and not quite understanding how he's alive but immediately taking advantage of it to keep wreaking havoc really fit with the character and wasn't too meta.
* CGI fire is the worst looking shit in the world, so I'm glad this movie had the balls to actually set shit on fire for real.
* One thing in common with this movie and Barbarian is that it is apparently really difficult to make a fake crushed head look realistic.
* The only real knock I have on the movie is there is one kill that goes on for so long and the character takes so much damage that it just becomes kind of silly. Probably would have worked better if it was split into two characters being attacked. The rest of the kills were memorably gross and unique.
* The stuff going around on Twitter and Youtube about this being the "grossest movie ever" is overly dramatic. Dead-Alive/Brain Dead is gorier, The Golden Glove is more graphic/disturbing, and Ebola Syndrome (an absolute all-timer; criminally underrated) is just plain grosser. Glad a really fun movie like Terrifier 2 is getting a lot of hype, but people need to settle down just a little bit.
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The payoff for Barbarian was so disappointing. Once you know where it was going the movie became a lot less engaging.
Oh we are doing the inbred hillbilly monster thing. Lame.
Terrifier 2 was fun and over the top. Only knock on it is the running time is a bit long. The last act seems to go on forever. The long kill was the funniest part of the movie I liked it.
Especially when Art got salt and bleach to rub into the girl's wounds.
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I felt the same way. I thought it was weird how much she got tortured out of all the characters. Given out obnoxious the mom was, I thought she'd get a slower death, but she got the quickest one of them all somehow.
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That's exactly how I feel.
I also thought Terrifier 1 was shit, and Terrifier 2 was slightly less shit but way too long and self-indulgent.
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This movie actually made the gorehound in our group feel dizzy. Imagine a spiny parasite that pierces your skin to dig into you and puppets your body with you still inside it, and it doesn't understand how your body is supposed to move. It's a pretty simple production, it all takes place at a gas station, but you can really tell some love and talent went into this movie. I was caught off guard by the acting chops on the nobodies involved in this production. I very much recommend if you're into body horror and appreciate smaller scale horror survival scenarios.
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To me these are the only three worth watching. First one still holds up today, fantastic cinematography and atmosphere and unnerving as fuck despite the extremely restrained violence. That was actually one of their goals while making it, a horror movie that didn't rely on shock or bloody visuals to scare you. They absolutely nailed it. Second one is very silly, but still manages some unnerving bits and the acting is surprisingly good despite the obvious comedic angle the movie's going for. It's nowhere near as good as the first one, but somehow manages to be decent on its own. It was an experimental movie of a different kind, just like the first one.
2003 remake is one of very few horror remakes that I think really stands on its own and doesn't detract from or retread the original. Unlike its sequels it keeps the themes of the first one, a horror slasher with an emphasis on atmosphere and tension rather than blood and gore. Ermey steals the show, but everyone else is still good too. I wish more remakes were like this, because this is a shining example of how to do it right. No shitting on or subverting the original, no lazy copying of the original or pointless fanservice, just the same idea that, despite its bigger budget and higher quality, keeps the feel of the original intact.
This was surprisingly good. I liked the shaky shots of the parasite-zombie things, made me think of 28 Days Later in a way. The two(?) humans it takes over especially. I don't know how much of it's digital or the actors themselves, but the way they move like flailing ragdolls not only makes it creepier but also realistic in the movie's logic. A carnivorous parasite isn't gonna make them stretch their arms out and walk slowly at you like a human, it's gonna make them behave erratically and almost insect-like, doing shit like slamming into doors uncaring if it damages its host body or not. I think there was a weird global warming subplot to it that didn't make much sense, but I can barely even remember it coming up aside from a few quips by the chick lead.
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Among rewatches, the Psycho sequels are pretty good. The second one is a solid 3/5. the third one is insane (I thought Perkins did a really solid job of directing; it was fun even if it wasn’t “good” in the traditional sense.) the fourth one is much better than a TV-movie that's the fourth sequel should have been.
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I think Psycho 2 is slightly better than the original. Part 3 is a lot of fun and even the made for Showtime part 4 is decent.
The Psycho franchise is surprisingly solid.
The Psycho franchise is surprisingly solid.
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Barbarian was cool, way overhyped though imo. Richard Brake was underused, hopefully if they do a Barbarian 2 it covers the years between the flashbacks and the events of 1.
That poor hobo lmfao.
That poor hobo lmfao.
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It doesn't need a sequel or prequel.
I'm watching Smile since it leaked on VOD. It's surprisingly competent. It's a decent little horror film. 7/10.
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[SPOILERS FOR BARBARIAN]
(Bruno MATI's over something that isn't Dead by Daylight or another asym horror game for once)
I used to like this faggot's reviews. They were funny and insightful. Nitpicky. Sure. But almost all analytical reviews are. Then he got the Youtube ego and disappeared up his own ass. Plus he stopped making consistent reviews in favor of the quickie videos and react videos which are easier to make and milk his audience.
Then came the dog fucking defense from this fur fag.
I lost a lot of respect but still enjoyed the reviews on the rare occasion they came out. Then he just stopped making them completely and devoted 2+ years to making a video on the Live Action Lion King which he's said publicly is his favorite film and the source of his fur faggot awakening.
It became pretty clear that he enjoys being contrarian and it's probably fueled by movie burn out too. But ya' know, when you publicly defend dog fucking and willingly post pictures of yourself with your dick out and wearing skirt then you forsake any kind of authority on movies. No one can take such a person seriously. But I'm watching this video, which is several weeks late BTW, curious on his take.
He's very dismissive towards Barbarian. Calling the 1st act standard horror fare, the 2nd act subversive comedy and the 3rd act a mix of the two. He whines that it's cliched and by the book decrying it as sketch comedy level (?).
Then he gets to the Hellraiser reboot and of course he liked it. His big thing is that the characters are incredibly unique and something that hasn't been done in horror (?) and they had real emotional reactions to the scenes????
7:00 in faggot say's "So many horror films don't care about it's characters because a large amount of audiences don't want to feel bad when someone dies. A lot of horror fans don't want to experience real emotion. There's a large amount of audiences that want nothing more than blood and gore and jump scares."
Oh it's on.
People want characters they like. That's the basis for every final girl ever in a slasher. He clearly doesn't know what he's talking about. Even Smile had characters with real emotion and some heft even if it were a little on the generic side. And his soapbox grandstanding decrying audiences wanting gore is a joke CONSIDERING THIS IS A FUCKING REBOOT OF FUCKING HELLRAISER.
Fuck that ugly junkie bitch in the Hellraiser reboot and fuck tranny Pinhead. No homo.
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I remember that one. Interesting premise, but I wish the cameraman didn't have a seizure every time one of the monsters showed up. I get it makes it more intense or whatever, but it gets pretty annoying at times.
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Yeah, I agree. And the reason it's so unpredictable is because it's rife with red herrings and stuff that makes no sense in retrospect.
If you cut the entire first part of the movie and the opening scene was Justin Long driving, I think the movie might actually make more logical sense and have fewer unexplained loose ends. But the first act and the flashback are the best parts...
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Gentlemen, there will be no shitting on Barbarian.
The worst thing Adam has done related to Lion King is his Kimba video where he craps on Osamu Tezuka and calls him a racist even though his body of work is full of anti-racism and the worst that can be found is blackface imagery common to the time those works were done.
I used to like Adam a lot, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't have fond memories of watching his 13 Reasons Why and Oscar videos, but it's true that while he's very technically knowledgeable of film his skills regarding history, story, etc. are very lacking. He almost comes off like an alien trying to fit in and engage with a human artform.
Holy fuck but Terrifier 2 was terrible. The highlights were main girls cleveage in the last 3rd of the film and Chris Jericho in the post credits scene.
The first movie was zero budget and fun as fuck but this disaster stayed too long and tried too hard. Just an utter mess.
The first movie was zero budget and fun as fuck but this disaster stayed too long and tried too hard. Just an utter mess.
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Totally disagree, I want more of the Richard Brake plot and less of all the faggoty gender subversion and #MeToo commentary.