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Commander X said:
Recent watch "The Passenger", a 2021 release from Spain, a horror-suspense-comedy sort of outing with some creepy moods and gloopy FX.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ldSbEpwQIdE
It feels like one of those regional B horror films released in the 1990s that would languish in obscurity until it gets licensed by one of those labels like Vinegar Syndrome. I mean that in a complimentary way.
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Looks like I have that to add on my watchlist
 
Your Starter for 10 said:
Other than the fact that they were low budget and involved "open spaces," I never got that Night of Fear and TCM ever had anything in common. Just seems like ex post facto bullshit "criticism" to me, bolstered by the fact that people want to shit on TCM and Tobe Hooper and that no one's ever seen Night of Fear (it's not even a movie, it's a 45 minute made for TV (albeit, I don't think it was ever shown on TV) show).
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I was joking, I don't actually think Tobe ripped off Night of Fear. That concept makes me laugh, a clear example of Australian critics huffing their own farts way too much.
 
Lone Star said:
Have there been any good sequels/remakes/reboots to this? I've seen a few (3D, Next Generation,
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3D sucked, Next Generation was pretty good, the 2003 reboot was stupid but fun while its 2006 prequel was kinda shit, and the 2022 Netflix nuboot was dogshit
 
Lone Star said:
Have there been any good sequels/remakes/reboots to this? I've seen a few (3D, Next Generation,
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I have yet to see a good reboot to TCM. It really doesn't need it, it's fine how it is. One of the scariest things about the family and Leatherface was you didn't really know why they are the way they are, and it's better that way. The remake trying to make Leatherface sympathetic was stupid.

"BOO HOO HOO! Our boy was done born ugly and retarded! Lets get our revenge by eating people!!" That was so stupid.
 
Found footage is really hard to get right. I find most of it boring really, most of the film is just POV shot with heavy breathing. Thanks Blair Witch. I enjoy the found footage movies that actually look like raw documentary footage not wondering why they have a camera on that at this time while they hide from the killer.
 
Vampirella said:
Found footage is really hard to get right. I find most of it boring really, most of the film is just POV shot with heavy breathing. Thanks Blair Witch. I enjoy the found footage movies that actually look like raw documentary footage not wondering why they have a camera on that at this time while they hide from the killer.
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Or the Diary of The Dead shit where narrator says she put music to scare everyone. She put comedic sounds in it as well.
 
Lone Star said:
Have there been any good sequels/remakes/reboots to this? I've seen a few (3D, Next Generation,
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The only genuinely good sequel was Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 which is one of the best horror comedies out there.

3 was a very mid movie while 4 was garbage.

The 2000s reboot was pretty decent

3D is the worst one in the series for trying to make the Entire Sawyer family sympathetic especially Leatherface and trying to frame some corrupt cops who want to kill them as the bad guys, even though they're cannibals who actively still sell the meat of their victims. It's sequel, Leatherface doubled down on trying to make the Sawyers sympathetic with some weird way of making Young Leatherface suave and continued to make the "corrupt" cops look like the bad guys.

The 2022 nostalgic reboot was garbage except for the bus scene since it was just a ripoff of Halloween 2018. It doesn't even show the Sawyers at all.
 
Somehow my post got all cut off, how weird.

But a real shame how such a good movie like Texas Chainsaw pretty much hit its peak at the start and never recaptured the magic. I did see the 2022 one yeah, and aside from some very annoying characters dying, it was dumb. 3D was always super baffling to me, like I really can't wrap my head around this idea that the Sawyers are even the least bit sympathetic. You'd think one person involved would pause and go "You know, making the cannibal murderers the good guys might be really stupid..."
 
Lone Star said:
Somehow my post got all cut off, how weird.

But a real shame how such a good movie like Texas Chainsaw pretty much hit its peak at the start and never recaptured the magic. I did see the 2022 one yeah, and aside from some very annoying characters dying, it was dumb. 3D was always super baffling to me, like I really can't wrap my head around this idea that the Sawyers are even the least bit sympathetic. You'd think one person involved would pause and go "You know, making the cannibal murderers the good guys might be really stupid..."
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The first movie was just too perfect. It's as simple as that. Another example would be 2010: The Year We Made Contact. A fine film by itself. But, as a sequel to 2001... Yeah. It cannot compare. Nothing else can.

And yes, I am comparing Texas Chainsaw Massacre to Kubrick and fun fact: TCM was on Kubrick's all time favorite film list (alongside American Werewolf in London and White Man Can't Jump).


All of these were confirmed by his widow. Eraserhead he said publicly is one of the few films he wished he had directed.
 
Lone Star said:
Somehow my post got all cut off, how weird.

But a real shame how such a good movie like Texas Chainsaw pretty much hit its peak at the start and never recaptured the magic. I did see the 2022 one yeah, and aside from some very annoying characters dying, it was dumb. 3D was always super baffling to me, like I really can't wrap my head around this idea that the Sawyers are even the least bit sympathetic. You'd think one person involved would pause and go "You know, making the cannibal murderers the good guys might be really stupid..."
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Yeah personally I think the first 2 Texas Chainsaw Films are pretty much the peak.

3D gets even stupider with the sympathy angle because the main character helps Leatherface despite the fact he killed all her friends only because he's family, the only "good" cop lets the fucking Chainsaw killer loose, and the ending has Leatherface kill the main character's abusive foster parents and its played as a happy ending. Not to mention the movie tries to be hip with Leatherface scaring away a kid in the Saw pig mask to show how cool it is.

3D is honestly one of the worst horror films out there for being excessive in whitewashing the Sawyers in the worst possible way, and the only good thing about it is just the cameos in the opening scene and Bill Mosley as Drayton.
 
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