/horror/ general megathread - Let's talk about movies and shit.
- Thread starter Internet War Criminal
- Start date
-
🏰 The Fediverse is up. If you know, you know.
-
Want to keep track of this thread?
Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
Create account
Product Placement
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Dec 1, 2020
was looking at upcoming horror movies and found this trailer
- Joined
- Apr 22, 2015
We are SO movie nighting this bitch.
- Joined
- Apr 14, 2018
This movie looks like it'd be a fun watch. The trailer music sucks though.
Not gonna lie, this looks like a very entertaining watch
- Joined
- Apr 22, 2015
I'm a little pissed off today because I checked out the new UHD of Fulci's City of the Living Dead and the idiots fucked up the color for the finale of the movie. This is not nit-picky film nerd shit. This is pretty glaring:
Old Blu:
Idiots. Absolute fucking retards. Did no one watch the movie? It reminds me of what Arrow did with their Blu of The Beyond and they fucked up the opening and released it in black and white instead of sepia and some film critic cocksuckers like Troy Howarth were defending this mistake.
Imagine if cocksuckers released Suspiria and fucked up the colors... There would be riots in the streets. Jesus Fucking Christ.
Old Blu:
Idiots. Absolute fucking retards. Did no one watch the movie? It reminds me of what Arrow did with their Blu of The Beyond and they fucked up the opening and released it in black and white instead of sepia and some film critic cocksuckers like Troy Howarth were defending this mistake.
Imagine if cocksuckers released Suspiria and fucked up the colors... There would be riots in the streets. Jesus Fucking Christ.
- Joined
- May 10, 2019
Well, I'm disappointed. Colors in an Italian film are important, why do they have to go and make it look so dull.
- Joined
- Apr 22, 2015
I'm always miffed when something like that slips by because it just shows that someone wasn't paying attention. Keep in mind that it's a UHD so it goes for about $40+ shipping. That said, the sound mix was great and the 4K resolution is fantastic on the movie. But god damn, that was a major fuck up. Hopefully replacement discs will get out soon.
- Joined
- May 10, 2019
I'm going to hold off getting a copy till then.
- Joined
- Feb 19, 2020
Apparently the script has been getting batted around for like a million years which goes a little ways towards explaining some of the problems. It's woke in a really perfunctory way that's only conveyed through four or five lines (and the lead being cast as a Black man of color, which apparently wasn't the original plan), but the bigger problem is that it overall just plain sucks and is boring.
Speaking of Gremlins, sort of, turns out there was a Hobgoblins 2, made in 2009, ~20 years after the original. I was actually impressed by how well they recreated the look and sound of the original and late 80s/early 90s DTV horror. Not that it's even slightly worthwhile or anything like that. It's not like it's worse than a fair portion of the Puppetmaster movies, if that's worth anything (it's not).
A quality thread for quality people, where one has to clarify that the movie with the zombie masturbation movie isn't worth watching.
iirc Shatter Dead is the zombie movie with the extreme closeup of a pussy getting fucked with a handgun I think? That's more bait for suckers, it is very boring.
- Joined
- Jan 30, 2018
I saw Demeter last night and thought it was bland and toothless. It's biggest sin for me was that it absolutely failed to utilize the dread of isolation and claustrophobia that a horror movie set on a ship should inherently have. You could've set the movie in some small village that Dracula comes into to hunt and it would've been essentially the same. Clemens being black doesn't really add anything to the movie but outside of one scene where he whines about racism it also doesn't really negatively affect the film. The biggest problem with him is that the actor just wasn't great (and also looked like he has FAS). Dracula's also more of a generic monster (would've been interesting to see him become more human and intelligent as he fed but that would've been too creative for the film). Lastly, I would've given the movie some credit if it had the balls to kill off the entire cast but instead it ends with Clemens seemingly becoming a Van Helsing type character.
I haven't seen it in years but the film kept making me think of Shadow of the Vampire, which I remember enjoying a lot more.
I haven't seen it in years but the film kept making me think of Shadow of the Vampire, which I remember enjoying a lot more.
- Joined
- Apr 22, 2015
It's even better with the full context: a zombie can't get his dick up so he ties a gun to his cock to fuck a chick.
- Joined
- Jun 25, 2020
One of Willem Dafoes most underrated roles.
- Joined
- Feb 19, 2020
They somehow missed the obvious Alien/Thing-on-a-boat angle and replaced it with nothing interesting at all.
Oh ok. I knew there had to be a rational, plot-motivated reason for that very important scene to happen but I couldn't remember circumstances. They kinda messed up by not having the zombie accidentally rip his own dick off though, see you could combine those two concepts.
- Joined
- May 4, 2022
Saw Consecration (2023) by Christopher Smith (who did Triangle and Creep (the 2004 one with Famke Potente, not the great 2014 one, Mark Duplass' only good movie) and Black Death. Honestly, this is probably the best of his films, although that's not saying much. Maybe it's because the last few newer horrors I watched have been such complete and utter shit, but Consecration actually seemed pretty good on first watch with no reflection.
Sure, Jena Malone is kind of a shitty lead, and Danny Huston is, well, Danny Huston, but everyone else is pretty good, and while the leads aren't great, they're not really asked to do much, so they don't get too too irritating (Jena's inexplicable mild London accent aside). It's in a convent, but it's not just a bandwagon scary nun movie, the jump scares involving spooky nuns are few and far between AND, more importantly, they're actually all played for a purpose, and come into play in the plot. There are no shoe-horned darkies, which is fucking amazing (and probably why a lot of critic bagged on this one), there's one black nun in like two scenes and she gets horror movied, which was fucking refreshing (how can a decades old trope be refreshing? Well it fucking was).
Anyway, I won't spoil anything, since one of the good things about it is figuring out what's going on (you should have it all pieced together at about the 45 minute mark, and it is a pretty fun discovery, which makes watching what they do with it for the last half of the movie pretty damn satisfying). Honestly, with a better lead and co-lead, and maybe one more writing pass, this could've been a GREAT movie. It's a pretty good and little explored take on the Catholic horror genre, the scares, while nothing groundbreaking, are there and are actually not played retardedly, the pacing and atmosphere are really good, and the things that seem dumb or out of character are actually fucking explained or played out later. If that sounds like fucking film basics, well it is, and it's also a fucking rarity anymore.
I guess like the rest of Smith's filmography, it's an interesting idea, presented in a competent way, that could've been great with just a bit more time/money/talent. That being said, this is probably my favorite of his films, by far; but again, that could be because I've been plowing through such a morass of utter shit horror lately. I wouldn't even say I was disappointed by this, despite how it missed the mark on being great, just because it's actually OK instead of utter shit.
Anyway, solid 3.5/5, no titties, little bit of gore, not a scary nun movie, and the last 10 minutes is just very fun and satisfying (you see it coming, but it's very entertaining actually watching it play out). At 90 minutes it doesn't overstay its welcome at all, and doesn't have any fucking forced DEI shit in it. Give it a shot if you got a free night. Can't believe I'm so happy for having watched a fucking 3.5/5, but that's the world we live in.
Sure, Jena Malone is kind of a shitty lead, and Danny Huston is, well, Danny Huston, but everyone else is pretty good, and while the leads aren't great, they're not really asked to do much, so they don't get too too irritating (Jena's inexplicable mild London accent aside). It's in a convent, but it's not just a bandwagon scary nun movie, the jump scares involving spooky nuns are few and far between AND, more importantly, they're actually all played for a purpose, and come into play in the plot. There are no shoe-horned darkies, which is fucking amazing (and probably why a lot of critic bagged on this one), there's one black nun in like two scenes and she gets horror movied, which was fucking refreshing (how can a decades old trope be refreshing? Well it fucking was).
Anyway, I won't spoil anything, since one of the good things about it is figuring out what's going on (you should have it all pieced together at about the 45 minute mark, and it is a pretty fun discovery, which makes watching what they do with it for the last half of the movie pretty damn satisfying). Honestly, with a better lead and co-lead, and maybe one more writing pass, this could've been a GREAT movie. It's a pretty good and little explored take on the Catholic horror genre, the scares, while nothing groundbreaking, are there and are actually not played retardedly, the pacing and atmosphere are really good, and the things that seem dumb or out of character are actually fucking explained or played out later. If that sounds like fucking film basics, well it is, and it's also a fucking rarity anymore.
I guess like the rest of Smith's filmography, it's an interesting idea, presented in a competent way, that could've been great with just a bit more time/money/talent. That being said, this is probably my favorite of his films, by far; but again, that could be because I've been plowing through such a morass of utter shit horror lately. I wouldn't even say I was disappointed by this, despite how it missed the mark on being great, just because it's actually OK instead of utter shit.
Anyway, solid 3.5/5, no titties, little bit of gore, not a scary nun movie, and the last 10 minutes is just very fun and satisfying (you see it coming, but it's very entertaining actually watching it play out). At 90 minutes it doesn't overstay its welcome at all, and doesn't have any fucking forced DEI shit in it. Give it a shot if you got a free night. Can't believe I'm so happy for having watched a fucking 3.5/5, but that's the world we live in.
- Joined
- Apr 22, 2015
I loved Triangle. I showed that on a movie night once when the site was down and it got a literal 50/50 love it or hate it kind of response. Perhaps I just picked the wrong time because during that period of the site being offline we had a lot of pol guys in the chat? Pol is not a big fan of Triangle, sadly. But I hated Black Death and kind of wrote off the director after that but I'll add Consecration to the list.
- Joined
- May 4, 2022
I am probably under-rating Triangle, really, and I might give it a re-watch. I haven't seen it since it came out (or shortly thereafter, during that time period it would've been on a, ahem, DVD in some third-world country, so not exactly a cinematic experience). Probably had issues with it since it was mostly on boats, and I used to work on boats, so I'm sure it had some nit-picky things that bothered me. Plus, there were a lot of GOOD movies at the time, so it was competing with real stuff, not current garbage. Anyway, I'll give it another watch and see what happens.
Do check out Consecration, though, if nothing else, let me know if I'm retarded for just thinking the third act was just fun.
- Joined
- Apr 22, 2015
Triangle -for me- is the first Nietzschean horror film: the horror of eternal recurrence.
This sounds really interesting. I'll give that one a go first and then I'll check out Consecration after