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A Rastafarian Skeleton said:
Last night I watched The American Scream 1988 it was weird and almost indescribable. It's about a family and two of their kids friends on vacation that stop in a strange town populated by only adults. The whole film has a strange dream logic like quality to it that even made me uncomfortable in some parts. Other parts were comedy, intentional and unintentional, like a scene where the father gets a cold and starts rubbing his snot all over his face when he blows his noses as his teeth fall out and an ear falls off. Definitely worth a watch.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=S6Rgv4LO5yI
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My god! I saw that on TV years and years ago and never knew what it was. What I remember was so strange. Thanks for finding it.
 
I saw Funny games and my god, it's one of the most pretentious movies I've ever seen. I hate in general when a piece of media guilts the audience for enjoying violence, and they're at fault for the violence that happens despite all an audience member does is just sit on their ass to watch images that the creator provides or in a video game, is because of choices forced on them than of their own volition (like the Last of Us Part 2).
 
Doctor of Autism said:
I saw Funny games and my god, it's one of the most pretentious movies I've ever seen. I hate in general when a piece of media guilts the audience for enjoying violence, and they're at fault for the violence that happens despite all an audience member does is just sit on their ass to watch images that the creator provides or in a video game, is because of choices forced on them than of their own volition (like the Last of Us Part 2).
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I hated it too it's like if the two psychos from Scream were trolling the audience. I saw both versions 97 and 08 ones, and hate them both.
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
The scene of the little girl that didn’t have a “random blessing on her given while in the womb that gets revealed literal last minute” being dragged down to hell while crying seemed incredibly unnecessary.
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After reading the Wiki entry and seeing most of RLM's video on the newest Exorcist movie, the ending continues to show me just how ideological and mean-spirited the current crop of Hollywood writers are. The white father is a phony Christian, a "Trump supporter" (RLM's words), and doesn't really care about his daughter since he has more than one kid unlike the single black (atheist) father? Sorry, little girl. You are eternally damned for the sins of your daddy.
 
Lone Star said:
What damage has he actually done aside from being cringe?
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I'll admit, I have a hate boner for him, but there's a few examples I have.

He's a fucking shill. The best example I have of this is Spiral. Spiral fucking sucks. We can all agree. Before he did the kill count on it, he declared spiral was one of the best and that it wasn't political. Yeah, sure.

He also takes any chance he can to praise a movie for featuring minorities or women and will give a shitty movie the sloppiest of a blowjob, just for this.

I'm tired of him getting political, taking shots at republicans, demanding people get the vaccine, shilling the census and what not.

He facilitates this attitude about horror that I can only describe as "You can rip someone to death with a hatchet, but you can't be rude. " I remember in I think it was the terrifier, he shits on it for being mean spirited. Yes, the evil killer clown is going to be mean spirited.

And finally is how he coddles his audience. This speaks for itself with how he talks to them as if he's their fucking internet daddy.
 
Commander X said:
Tubi-diving revealed to me that this film had been added, from indie Japanese director Yugo Sakamoto (who's directed some micro-budget action films that have gained attention) Yellow Dragon's Village, a 68-minute micro-budget movie about a group of college students who end up in remote village that's the home of a cult, it lacks some of the polish of Sakamoto's later endeavors but this folk horror/slasher/martial-arts hybrid is ambitious and has fun.
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Well that sure was something. This one made him seem like Japan's answer to Len Kabasinski (minus the nu-metal scores). The best part was how likeable the cast was, even the ones that were supposed to be a bit unlikeable. Also, I guess the "tired" guy is like a Japanese trope or something? I've seen that quite a few times now, and it's always a bit weird. Never sure if it's supposed to be funny or it's just like a cultural thing that I'm not getting. It always weirds me out since I've been in a lot of situations with big guys like that, and they're always the last ones to complain about being fatigued, then again, I've never hung out with Japanese body builders, so who knows.
 
Doctor of Autism said:
I saw Funny games and my god, it's one of the most pretentious movies I've ever seen. I hate in general when a piece of media guilts the audience for enjoying violence, and they're at fault for the violence that happens despite all an audience member does is just sit on their ass to watch images that the creator provides or in a video game, is because of choices forced on them than of their own volition (like the Last of Us Part 2).
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I saw the remake and genuinely hated it. The film is very proud of itself for lecturing the audience, but a better film could have induced feelings of disgust with its depicted violence without calling attention to it. That's called a theme, children!

Or maybe the idea is to confront an audience that will applaud any form of torture porn, an audience that is beyond reaching with subtlety. But if so, what's the point? People are what they are. You can make a film exploring and even condemning that without breaking the fourth wall and reaching your hand out of the screen in 3D to wag your finger at them like a church lady. Just dreadful shit.
The Nothingness said:
After reading the Wiki entry and seeing most of RLM's video on the newest Exorcist movie, the ending continues to show me just how ideological and mean-spirited the current crop of Hollywood writers are. The white father is a phony Christian, a "Trump supporter" (RLM's words), and doesn't really care about his daughter since he has more than one kid unlike the single black (atheist) father? Sorry, little girl. You are eternally damned for the sins of your daddy.
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This is how you write a character (in a "serious" drama) when you don't understand anything about people who are different from you. And in that case you really shouldn't have.
 
TV's Adam West said:
I'll admit, I have a hate boner for him, but there's a few examples I have.

He's a fucking shill. The best example I have of this is Spiral. Spiral fucking sucks. We can all agree. Before he did the kill count on it, he declared spiral was one of the best and that it wasn't political. Yeah, sure.

He also takes any chance he can to praise a movie for featuring minorities or women and will give a shitty movie the sloppiest of a blowjob, just for this.

I'm tired of him getting political, taking shots at republicans, demanding people get the vaccine, shilling the census and what not.

He facilitates this attitude about horror that I can only describe as "You can rip someone to death with a hatchet, but you can't be rude. " I remember in I think it was the terrifier, he shits on it for being mean spirited. Yes, the evil killer clown is going to be mean spirited.

And finally is how he coddles his audience. This speaks for itself with how he talks to them as if he's their fucking internet daddy.
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Oh, I hate him too, I just thought people were acting a certain way about horror directly because of him. If that's happened, it's something I haven't noticed. But yeah, the guy is annoying as fuck and I stopped being able to stomach his videos ages ago.
 
A kill count video should just be about the kill count. Not the host and certainly not social issues. But I think I find the schtick actors like that use for YT and other social medial shill spots to be more offensive.
 
Doctor of Autism said:
I saw Funny games and my god, it's one of the most pretentious movies I've ever seen. I hate in general when a piece of media guilts the audience for enjoying violence, and they're at fault for the violence that happens despite all an audience member does is just sit on their ass to watch images that the creator provides or in a video game, is because of choices forced on them than of their own volition (like the Last of Us Part 2).
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What’s the name of the film where it’s essentially the same thing but it’s about two women fucking with Keanu Reeves? It’s essentially the same film only without the “talking to the audience” shtick.
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
What’s the name of the film where it’s essentially the same thing but it’s about two women fucking with Keanu Reeves? It’s essentially the same film only without the “talking to the audience” shtick.
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No, you're thinking of Knock Knock that was made by Eli Roth. It's a remake of Death Game. Death Game is better.
 
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