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I'm not sure if this really qualifies as a horror film, but my late ass finally got around to watching The Frighteners (1996) yesterday.

I'm not going to sperg too much about the movie, but I really enjoyed it. (And was annoyed to find out there's a director's cut afterwards.) The premise is clever, Michael J. Fox reminded me why I love(d) him so much as an actor, most of the effects still look great, and the plot was genuinely hard to predict. Peter Jackson has a natural talent with schlock, and that extends to elevating schlock, too. I actually shed a tear at the end of this stupid movie where Marty McFly is wrestling on the ground with a phony-looking CGI sludge monster!

Oh, and Trini Alvarado is insanely attractive as the female lead. It does not get better than that IMO.
XYZpdq Jr. said:
so why hasn't there been a Gremlins 3
other than the obvious "because it would suck" because that doesn't stop Hollywood
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Mike, Jay, and Rich are demanding too much money for their brilliant script idea.
 
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Watched Exhuma, the Korean horror movie from this year everyone seemed to love. bit over hyped but still a solid 7/10. It is a odd one that almost feels like a movie edited to together with it's sequel, but it does work. Main issue I had was the iffy effects, lots of bad cgi in here, mostly for animals like foxes, and even some of the practical effects end up looking worse than they should with the filters put over them.

If you want a good ghost movie I would give it a recommendation.
 
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Hey, I need some opinions on the Terrifier movies. I watched the first and thought it was kinda garbage and overhyped. I don't know if I want to waste my time watching the second.
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Wot Zit Too Yah0996 said:
The more I watch Terrifier, the more irritated I am. I have no incentive to watch All Hallows Eve, or Terrifier 2, for that matter, in all honesty. What, he's just a seemingly immortal dickhead that always murders whoever beats him? Even Michael Myers knows when to fuck off.
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I first learned of the Terrifier series through osmosis, shortly before the release of Terrifier 2, on Instagram. I consider myself something of a fan of horror and I follow a lot of horror-themed accounts, and I kept seeing this unfamiliar creepy clown character being depicted in fan art alongside other iconic slasher villains, like he apparently had a fucking right to be there. It was bizarre, because there were so many of these art pieces featuring this clown alongside these other, much more famous horror icons and I had genuinely never seen this character before.

It was like if a load of people suddenly started creating artwork that depicted Freddy Krueger, Jason, Michael Myers, Ghostface, Chucky, Pinhead and, completely arbitrarily, Crispin Glover's character, Simon, from the 2006 horror movie, Simon Says. One of these things is not like the others.

I have since been informed that the film's director, Damian Leone, is a Hollywood rich kid who's obsessed with the idea of Art the Clown becoming a new slasher icon in the vein of Freddy, Jason and all the rest, and who basically tried to completely astroturf that shit, commissioning a lot of those pieces himself, which to me, just felt really inauthentic and frankly, extremely fucking gay. The audience decides who's a horror icon, Mr. Leone, not your fucking chequebook. Apparently, he'd also contacted the people behind Dead By Daylight on multiple occasions, asking them, time and time again, to add Art the Clown to the roster of killers in that game, and was eventually told by them to fuck off, because nobody knew who the fuck he was.

Having learned that - as well has having watched the first Terrifier movie (singularly unimpressive garbage that it is) - I must confess to actively rooting against Leone, Art the Clown and the franchise as a whole, now. That the astroturfing has apparently been somewhat successful, that some people have apparently bought into the entirely fake hype around the franchise and are getting tattoos of the Art character and dressing up as him for conventions and stuff, to me, is frankly quite sad, because it's proved that if you have enough money to throw at your vanity project, you can basically force the culture to accept anything, irrespective of quality (or, in Terrifier's case, the lack thereof).
 
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Having learned that - as well has having watched the first Terrifier movie (singularly unimpressive garbage that it is) - I must confess to actively rooting against Leone, Art the Clown and the franchise as a whole, now. That the astroturfing has apparently been somewhat successful, that some people have apparently bought into the entirely fake hype around the franchise and are getting tattoos of the Art character and dressing up as him for conventions and stuff, to me, is frankly quite sad, because it's proved that if you have enough money to throw at your vanity project, you can basically force the culture to accept anything, irrespective of quality (or, in Terrifier's case, the lack thereof).
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I guess another lesson from this whole situation is that the market really wants properly brutal slasher films to make a comeback as a genre. But they haven't, so this faggot can make an easy buck.
 
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I guess another lesson from this whole situation is that the market really wants properly brutal slasher films to make a comeback as a genre. But they haven't, so this faggot can make an easy buck.
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The market's telling them that people want to see an evil clown saw naked women in half, and they just don't want to hear it.

Anyhoo, happy Texas Chainsaw Massacre Day

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@Miriam Margoyles @frozen_runner Slasher movies are stale. The fact they're making a comeback/becoming popular again is annoying. Maybe it's because people my age and younger like to binge-watch Friday the 13th and Halloween, and are enthralled by them. I do personally prefer the Friday the 13th films, though. The most fun one is Jason Takes Manhattan.
 
Miriam Margoyles said:
Having learned that - as well has having watched the first Terrifier movie (singularly unimpressive garbage that it is) - I must confess to actively rooting against Leone, Art the Clown and the franchise as a whole, now. That the astroturfing has apparently been somewhat successful, that some people have apparently bought into the entirely fake hype around the franchise and are getting tattoos of the Art character and dressing up as him for conventions and stuff, to me, is frankly quite sad, because it's proved that if you have enough money to throw at your vanity project, you can basically force the culture to accept anything, irrespective of quality (or, in Terrifier's case, the lack thereof).
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Did you huff one of your farts after writing that dribble?
 
Miriam Margoyles said:
I have since been informed that the film's director, Damian Leone, is a Hollywood rich kid
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I'm not sure this is correct info, since Leone worked as a special effects guy on low budget stuff for over a decade before making the first Terrifier movie.

Actually, the description of a Hollywood rich kid with a completely astroturfed horror career immediately made me think of James Cullen Bressack, who was directing feature length movies at 19 because of his parents and is still churning out shit to clog up my Tubi recommendations.
 
Even if the director was a rich kid doesn't change the fact that the movies are fun. Lest I remind that Don Coscarelli's career is entirely because he had rich parents who financed his first few movies including the original Phantasm.
 
I don't care if the director was a rich kid or not, but I watched the first Terrifier because of the mega hype behind it and so many people saying I'd love the movie so much. It was so disappointing. I hate that movie, fuck Art the Clown he sucks. and it's pretty gay if it's true that the director is the guy who commissioned the billions of artworks with his character alongside other much more iconic and deserving characters.
 
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Art the clown can kill kids and shit, but he can't spell out the n word even after the director shows the remains of said kids on camera. Lol.
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Reminds me of whenever I watch Dirty Harry on 5 Action. When Scorpio pays that big black bloke to beat him silly, there's this exchange:

Scary Black Man With Glasses: "You sure you want the rest of it?"

Scorpio: "Every PENNY'S WORTH... you BLACK son of a BITCH...!"

Thrashing and stomping continues. Scorpio provoking What's-His-Name gets cut out in very recent years. As in, they cut it right after he says, "Every PENNY'S WORTH...", but they still show him shooting a girl swimming in her pool on her balcony, him murdering/grievously injuring a shopkeeper, and we're even treated to a scene where Callahan and his partner look over the crime scene of a little black kid, who Scorpio murdered by literally blowing a crater in the poor little bugger's face. You don't see it, but you still see his corpse.

So, yeah, what's the lesson? Be a sick, sadistic, violent, murdering freak, but pwease, pwease, PWEASE, don't be a WACIST, sick, sadistic, violent, murdering freak?

@WhitePanther1776 @BrunoMattei Cheers, fellas. :) I was pointing out skewed morals and priorities, but nevermind.
 
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I miss older horror movies like cabin fever where they still said the word nigger and then worked it into the movie at the end. Yea that guns "Fer niggers" then the niggers come and pickup the gun from the old guy at the end of the movie he fixed it for them.
 
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