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wtfNeedSignUp said:
A meta question. Does anyone else find it more disturbing when there are horror media where reviving people is extremely easy? Like life itself is just a function and there is nothing intrinsically special and you can recreate a person as easily as printing a page.
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In general no. It becomes unsettling when you don't revive the person but recreate them. How creepy is it knowing your wife isn't the woman you married 10 years ago but another person wearing her skin and holding her memories? What if you know you're not wtfNeedSignUp1 but you might be wtfNeedSignUp29 like in Moon? How do you deal knowing you're not the original and tomorrow when you take the teleporter to work you're going to be replaced with wtfNeedSignUp30 and wtfNeedSignUp31 is going to be getting the blowjob Wife42 promised but Wife 47 will be giving?
 
Shiverpeaks said:
In general no. It becomes unsettling when you don't revive the person but recreate them. How creepy is it knowing your wife isn't the woman you married 10 years ago but another person wearing her skin and holding her memories? What if you know you're not wtfNeedSignUp1 but you might be wtfNeedSignUp29 like in Moon? How do you deal knowing you're not the original and tomorrow when you take the teleporter to work you're going to be replaced with wtfNeedSignUp30 and wtfNeedSignUp31 is going to be getting the blowjob Wife42 promised but Wife 47 will be giving?
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I was thinking more in that direction. The work doesn't need to outright talk about souls, but the implication is clear. The most immediate example I can think of is Gantz.
 
BrunoMattei said:
That doesn't count.
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Probably shouldn't but it's the best I can do

Commander X said:
While looking for info on recent physical media releases of the movie, Arrow announced they were working on a restored release but the project supposedly has been slow-going; I found Leif Jonkers' bloody DIY vampire siege film Darkness on the Archive: here. The director really made the most of his micro-budget.
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That guy is fat but I want to see his movie, he also has a cool name
 
Wendell X said:
I'm tempted to check out Into The Earth, by the same director, but the reviews are too polarised. Has anyone here seen it and what did you think?
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Tremendously late, but I love this movie and think it's very underrated. If you like folk horror, forests and mushrooms, weirdness, and an aggressive portrayal of the unknowable/unthinkable, it is really an awesome film. Actors all did a great job, even Joel Fry (maybe it's the material not his skill that's the problem but I usually think he's ass).

Curious why it flopped so hard with the nature horror fans. I would have thought they'd be all over it? America explain!!!
 
Trananarama said:
Tremendously late, but I love this movie and think it's very underrated. If you like folk horror, forests and mushrooms, weirdness, and an aggressive portrayal of the unknowable/unthinkable, it is really an awesome film. Actors all did a great job, even Joel Fry (maybe it's the material not his skill that's the problem but I usually think he's ass).

Curious why it flopped so hard with the nature horror fans. I would have thought they'd be all over it? America explain!!!
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Alright I'm going to bump it up in my playlist, I want to see why it's so divisive (well I want to watch a good movie, but now if I turn out to not enjoy it I'll have another reason to keep at it.)

In the mean time though, I watched a couple of movies over the weekend, a mixed bag as usual.

Creep (2014) is no doubt old hat to found footage fans, but I only got into the format recently, so it blew my mind seeing Pete from The League act like a lunatic. As a horror film goes it's too goofy imo, and too grounded, but part of the problem is also that I just didn't find Duplass intimidating. I read on Wikipedia that he was supposedly maintaining eye contact constantly to unsettle, but I just thought he was staring into the camera the way everyone does when addressing someone through a video. And the 'jump scares' are just fucking annoying. At no point did they scare, they were just aggravating. The cheapest of cheap emotional manipulation.

Annoyingly, I reckon they could have made a pretty good actual horror movie with a bit of tweaking. There's a bit where Aaron (the victim) is having dreams about being connected to Josef that imply Josef's madness is infecting Aaron too - if they leant into that, have Aaron feel compelled to start pretending to be his neighbours then work his way up to killing, until he gets his own mask and song - that would have been cool. And you could tell the sophisticates it's about csam.

I also watched Bloody Hell (2020), which I thought was brilliant, even though every single American accent in the film is constantly shifting into Australian. It's about a guy who gets kidnapped by a crazy Finnish family who cut off one of his legs, so he gets payback while bantering with himself (he started talking to himself in prison). It's full of that kind of detached comedy you see in the best horror comedies like Evil Dead, where the characters immediately accept the craziness and start riffing on it.
 
Puppet master 3 sucks. It gets rid of all the interesting stuff and adds a puppet that doesn't move for action scenes. The pistol twirling is impressive stop motion animation but other than some nice tits the movie has nothing to offer.
 
Calandrino said:
Also applies to First Omen, incidentally. He's going to be in Nosferatu 2024 too.
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I'm very much looking forward to Nosferatu this year. I've only seen the version from the late 70s so far. I've heard great things about the 1922 version as well.
 
Shadow of the Vampire utilized many of the myths repeated over the years about the original Nosferatu, especially that actor "Max Schreck" in the title role, was an unknown and/or it was his only role in a Murnau production. Schreck was in fact a veteran actor of the German theater who also starred in over twenty films and had a role in a later Murnau film, a silent comedy Die Finanzen des Großherzogs or The Grand Duke's Finances.

Another rumor about Nosferatu over the years was that the part of Count Orlock was played by Alfred Abel (who played Joh Frederson in Fritz Lang's Metropolis) under a pseudonym,
 
Commander X said:
Shadow of the Vampire utilized many of the myths repeated over the years about the original Nosferatu, especially that actor "Max Schreck" in the title role, was an unknown and/or it was his only role in a Murnau production. Schreck was in fact a veteran actor of the German theater who also starred in over twenty films and had a role in a later Murnau film, a silent comedy Die Finanzen des Großherzogs or The Grand Duke's Finances.

Another rumor about Nosferatu over the years was that the part of Count Orlock was played by Alfred Abel (who played Joh Frederson in Fritz Lang's Metropolis) under a pseudonym,
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Yes, we all have access to Wikipedia.
 
BrunoMattei said:
Yes, we all have access to Wikipedia.
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But this is all stuff I had heard about well before there was Wikipedia, while marinating myself in horror and movie trivia in my misspent youth. I actually had, seeing it repeated elsewhere by people who seemed to know what they were talking about, believed the bit about Max Schreck being some unknown actor and felt somewhat silly, if not retarded when I learned the facts later.
 
Commander X said:
But this is all stuff I had heard about well before there was Wikipedia, while marinating myself in horror and movie trivia in my misspent youth. I actually had, seeing it repeated elsewhere by people who seemed to know what they were talking about, believed the bit about Max Schreck being some unknown actor and felt somewhat silly, if not retarded when I learned the facts later.
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Ed Wood was pretty inaccurate about basically everything but it's still a good movie.
 
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