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Terrifier 3 has been officially announced and will get a wide theatrical release.

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Mexican_Wizard_711 said:
I like horror stories. But modern horror movies in my opinion kinda suck. The only one I like in recent memory is 'The Menu' since it shat on Food Critics and Elitist Snobs.
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What is it about modern horror that you don't like? Is it something in particular?
frozen_runner said:
I read some Reddit responses to the film after watching it that made the case it combines mythologies, from Japanese to (obviously) traditional Korean to Catholicism. I think that's obviously true, but I don't think it explains the plot aside from specific things. The female ghost they kept seeing is probably the guardian spirit of the town (who, I think, intentionally looks like a Korean virgin spirit), and she was trying to protect the townsfolk from the outside evil of the Japanese shaman.

But yeah, I think it's intentionally designed not to be fully understood.
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I watched a video after reading your previous post that discussed how the editing of the film creates ambiguity and tries to blur the lines between which events are dreams and which events are real. Think it was by Spikima Movies.
I only really thought about the mixed mythologies on a surface level when I watched it and I remember thinking it was cool how Na Hong-jin had managed to tie them together. I never really took in or looked into the depth of those influences. Thanks for sharing some of that with us.
 
I recently finished the Asian horror anthology series, Folklore, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. While some episodes were weaker than others, they were all unique in their own way. Most of them had bad endings, including one I found downright depressing, and some had twists. However, there were a few episodes with bittersweet endings or what would be considered a happy ending. The CGI wasn't top-notch but the practical effects made up for that. I would have loved another season (or two) since there are probably other Asian myths to make episodes out of.
 
October 27th is going to be weird, both FNaF and Saw X released in the same date? Now, which one will get their dates shifted?
 
BrunoMattei said:
There's good British horror out there. But it's kind of few and far between. Off the top of my head: most of the Hammer and Amicus catalogue including Tales From the Crypt (best or 2nd best anthology horror film of all time), 28 Days Later (even though I prefer the sequel), Raw Meat from 1980, and of course Shaun of the Dead. It's when Hammer and Amicus died off that the genre film production massively slowed down.
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Throwing in Blood on Satan's Claw... it's very British though. I don't know what I mean, maybe just people standing around and arguing in a semi-polite way.

XYZpdq Jr. said:
Horror Express is a really great no-budget UK movie. iirc legends say it was "we got a train car set cheap, what can we do to make a movie with it" so you get Cushing and Lee vs a monster on The Orient Express (with guest star Yul Brenner)
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and Telly Savalas, also I think it's public domain for some reason so that's why it's somehow everywhere, if you ever noticed.

Mexican_Wizard_711 said:
Name Five, I'll wait
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The whole time during The Menu I was just sitting there being angry about how much I hated it. I'd watch a documentary where all the actors from that movie were put into a similar situation irl because I'm pretty sure they're all even bigger assholes than the characters they're portraying.
 
Calandrino said:
and Telly Savalas, also I think it's public domain for some reason so that's why it's somehow everywhere, if you ever noticed.
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Telly is particularly fun in it. Just as the movie starts to sag he marches in and starts chewing scenery
 
The Nothingness said:
"Strong female" characters and it being Lovecraftian horror without being a Lovecraft adaptation, given the particular views he had.
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It's a strong female lead movie done right, a more classical female lead that's way better than any of modern day woke shit.
 
BrunoMattei said:
I'm also amused that Five Nights at Fuccbois is being released same weekend as the next Saw. It's going to be generational battle: Zoomer horror versus Millennial horror.
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Funny, because this is something I literally said almost two months ago. Are we gonna have a Saw VI/Paranormal Activity situation this Halloween?
 
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