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Just watched Savageland and the Poughkeepsie Tapes, both really good takes on found footage and crime documentaries. Savageland is a really fresh take on zombies with them only being seen through the lens of the only survivor of an attack who photographed the carnage before escaping. The Poughkeepsie Tapes are really dark and it feels like you're watching the story of a super serial killer (which did make it a bit hard to believe but the story worked great as horror). Both are made up like TV documentaries and make for a really good double feature.
 
TotalNematodeDeath said:
Just watched Savageland and the Poughkeepsie Tapes, both really good takes on found footage and crime documentaries. Savageland is a really fresh take on zombies with them only being seen through the lens of the only survivor of an attack who photographed the carnage before escaping. The Poughkeepsie Tapes are really dark and it feels like you're watching the story of a super serial killer (which did make it a bit hard to believe but the story worked great as horror). Both are made up like TV documentaries and make for a really good double feature.
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It's even more interesting to find out that Poughkeepsie Tapes was originally set for a theatrical release on February 29, 2008, as there were ads well before release, but a few weeks before it was supposed to come out, MGM pulled it from release with zero given reasons why. Some sources could be pointed at MGM's financial troubles during the late-2000s as it was one of the many victims of the recession and why they had to dump the movies to theatres with little promotion or just not release them at all. Others can be pointed at the lukewarm test audience response. Either way, it didn't take until 2014 to finally be released on VOD (under its then newly-resurrected Orion banner) and three years later on DVD with licensing by Shout Factory (under its horror/thriller-based Scream Factory sublabel).
 
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TotalNematodeDeath said:
Just watched Savageland and the Poughkeepsie Tapes, both really good takes on found footage and crime documentaries. Savageland is a really fresh take on zombies with them only being seen through the lens of the only survivor of an attack who photographed the carnage before escaping. The Poughkeepsie Tapes are really dark and it feels like you're watching the story of a super serial killer (which did make it a bit hard to believe but the story worked great as horror). Both are made up like TV documentaries and make for a really good double feature.
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I heard about Savageland when Ryan Hollinger covered it on his channel. What has kept me from seeing that film is the not so subtle social commentary (and I noticed Ryan's biases have been showing more in his recent videos but I digress). Perhaps when I get to Savageland, I will endure the identity politics.
 
The Nothingness said:
I heard about Savageland when Ryan Hollinger covered it on his channel. What has kept me from seeing that film is the not so subtle social commentary (and I noticed Ryan's biases have been showing more in his recent videos but I digress). Perhaps when I get to Savageland, I will endure the identity politics.
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What I got from watching it was a bunch of people arguing over the case and completely missing the point, no one in the film seemed to believe that zombies were on the move and wanted to push the case as a part of their agenda. In a way I thought it was a pretty good message, the real threat got lost in identity politics. It legit protrayed the border control agent as the only guy taking the threat seriously.
 
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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Except this idea was already done in the ending for Halloween 4 you fucking pleb!


Get your ass back on the Farms so I can yell at you.
 
Oh yeah I finally watched Ends at some point, I don't remember if I came ITT to register my grievances. I knew what I was in for when the gang of vicious street thugs were high school band geeks. They were even race/gender balanced, lmaooooo.
 
The Cunting Death said:
Personally the only thing worse than Ends was Resurrection.
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Gotta say after the Blumhouse trilogy I think I'd enjoy watching JLC get stabbed a whole lot more

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An A24-style of horror film starring Barney the Fucking Dinosaur is happening. And it's going to be PG-13... Greatest timeline? I don't know anymore.
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“Barney was a ubiquitous figure in many of our childhoods, then he disappeared into the shadows, left misunderstood,” Kaluuya added at the time. “We’re excited to explore this compelling modern-day hero and see if his message of ‘I love you, you love me’ can stand the test of time.”
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Barney the Christ Figure
 
Tubi-diving recently revealed that a few of the films released by Visual Vengeance, the imprint for releasing rare Shot On Video titles and so on, are on that site.


Heartland of Darkness, a "lost" low-budget Satanic Panic era flick


Bloody Muscle Bodybuilder in Hell, a blatant Evil Dead inspired Japanese film shot by an enthusiast in 1995, not released to Japanese home video until 2012 or around then.


From low-budget filmmaker Todd Sheets comes his extremely low-budget story of a man with wolf DNA on the run from the really low-budget dystopian government that played mix-and-match with his genes and planted a bomb in his gut.
 
Tubi is a gold mine for content. It's just a shame you really have to dig through their catalog and use search engines to find most of the good shit.
 
Just finished watching Meghan, it's pretty alright and inoffensive. Basically reminded me of the hysteria we are experiencing at current with AI. I like how they wrote the lead as an actual independent woman and not some caricature of one; she was actually pretty complex and relatable. The writing is pretty tight, even down to how this antagonist was even allowed to exist within the story's logic. The child actress I recognized from the Hill House and Bly Manor adaptations. She's a good actress for a child actor and she does really well with the heavy emotional scenes she's been handed. It really has the Blumhouse feel, very limited set locations, character driven story and not a spectacle or a cgi fest. The bot themselves is pretty creepy and it is hard to tell when it is a computer generation vs makeup. There are some bits of lunacy that are obviously shot for the trailer, but they are motivated earlier on in the story. All in all, it's pretty mid-tier in a good way, I'd watch it if there isn't anything else on and probably with friends if they want.

BrunoMattei said:

An A24-style of horror film starring Barney the Fucking Dinosaur is happening. And it's going to be PG-13... Greatest timeline? I don't know anymore.
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As long as the director does better than the Winnie The Poh horror movie. Talk about a missed opportunity.
 
Nobody has nostalgia for Barney the Dinosaur, though when you looked back a lot of the anti-Barney sentiment on the internet back in the 1990s, it was very "Reddit" if you get my meaning. People were getting way too into it back then. Writing endless reams of anti-Barney fanfiction and going on about a Jihad against the dinosaur. Yes, we get it, it was a cheap, dopey kid's show, move on.

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Commander X said:
Nobody has nostalgia for Barney the Dinosaur, though when you looked back a lot of the anti-Barney sentiment on the internet back in the 1990s, it was very "Reddit" if you get my meaning. People were getting way too into it back then. Writing endless reams of anti-Barney fanfiction and going on about a Jihad against the dinosaur. Yes, we get it, it was a cheap, dopey kid's show, move on.

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I get why parents hated the show, but shit like that was made by college-age kids who would have only been exposed to Barney by social osmosis rather than ever being made to watch the show,

Bringing Barney back even as a horror movie makes little sense, it's a brand that holds little to no nostalgia and has been a dead brand for a long time. Really comes across as Mattle looking at what other brands they own to make movies out of due to the Barbie movie tracking very well.
 
my mom was a preschool teacher and was massively butthurt over it for various reasons, especially him talking like a sped and rewriting public domain songs instead of teaching kids the real OG songs
 
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