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I was half-assedly looking for some manner of Goblin megamix and saw this of them doing the theme to Suspiria live on tv because nothing says ratings gold like instrumental synth prog rock horror themes
 
Internet War Criminal said:
One simple fucking reason:

Scream Queens

The best thing he’s ever done as a whole, fucking consistent throughout, absolutely hilarious, good gore, rewatchable, etc.. He somehow managed to make something great that lasted longer than a season, so he clearly has it in him.

Or more likely he’s just Rob Zombie who made one great movie (The Devil’s Rejects) and everything else just fucking plain sucks because he’s not talented, just got lucky.
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House of 1000 Corpses rules, I don't care what anyone says. I like it better than Devil's Rejects even.
 
for some reason it bugged the fuck out of me that there was nowhere near one thousand corpses in the movie
like maybe a few hundred at most
 
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I personally think this is extremely lame.

It reminds me of the Child's Play remake where instead of Chucky being a doll possessed by a serial killer he was just a killer robot. A possessed doll is a much funner more unique idea for a movie.

I like werewolf lore and supernatural stuff, making werewolves a metaphor for covid seems significantly less interesting and less fun. Maybe the movie will be good, but the more I see of it the less interested I get from the wolf man design to it being a science fiction story now instead of spooky old fashioned supernatural stuff.

John.Doe said:
The decision to explain Art's invincibility and regeneration as "a demon, lol" was just stupid and generated a lot of idiotic babble on screen.
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I enjoyed the movie so we disagree on pretty much all points, the demon thing has been there from the start though. The cheap as fuck short film that kicked it off was Art The Clown and going to hell with Demons. It's called "The 9th Circle", it used to be on youtube I tried to find a link for you but it looks like it was taken down by copyright.
 
so now being a wolfman is a slight inconvenience unless you're a fatty or stupid enough to get a dozen anti-wolfman shots?
 
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I will only watch this movie if it has a scene were someone puts on a face mask thinking it will stop the werewolf from mauling them, and then they get mauled and scream "THE MASK DOES NOTHING!!" Because that is how stupid this movies sounds to me. So it should just be all stupid.
 
urr13 account said:
I like werewolf lore and supernatural stuff, making werewolves a metaphor for covid seems significantly less interesting and less fun. Maybe the movie will be good, but the more I see of it the less interested I get from the wolf man design to it being a science fiction story now instead of spooky old fashioned supernatural stuff.
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When I saw the trailer, my thoughts were, this is the worst fucking trailer ever. At first it looks like a crappy zombie disease infection movie, then only at the very end they show the title and reveal that they are ruining Wolfman.
 
urr13 account said:
I enjoyed the movie so we disagree on pretty much all points, the demon thing has been there from the start though. The cheap as fuck short film that kicked it off was Art The Clown and going to hell with Demons. It's called "The 9th Circle", it used to be on youtube I tried to find a link for you but it looks like it was taken down by copyright.
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I don't remember any of that in Terrifier 1, though. Which was a perfectly okay movie, I guess. If the sequels had just been Art killing a group of characters every year on Halloween it'd probably be better to me. Instead of having these bloated storylines and recurring characters that just don't work.
 
I watched the trailer just now, and the guy who transforms gets scratched, which is still a common pop culture method for spreading lycanthropy. Enchanted wolf skins, magic ointments, pacts with the devil, the classic werewolf bite, etc., are in folklore and pop culture.

It seems the new Wolfman movie is definitely going for a more human-like take on werewolves, like this:

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But then I saw photos of the display at Halloween Horror Nights and was confused. It's definitely still more "wolfman" than "werewolf," but I don't see how this movie is about an infection in any way that's different from most "werewolf bites person, person is now also a werewolf" movies. You'd need a lot of heavy lifting from the sci-fi angle to explain this:

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50 movies that came out from January 1st 2010 to April 18th 2013 that are better than fucking Lords of Salem, in no particular order:

- Absentia
- American Mary
- Antiviral
- Attack of the Block
- Curse of Chucky
- Cold Fish
- Detention
- Devil
- Dread
- Doghouse
- Descent Part 2
- Evil Dead
- Final Destination 5
- Frozen
- Grave Encounters
- Hatchet 2
- Hobo with a Shotgun
- I Saw the Devil
- Insidious
- Kill List
- Let Me In
- Martha Marcy Marley Marlene
- Paranormal Activity 3
- Resolution
- REC 2
- Rubber
- Saw 3D (Yes, seriously)
- Scream 4
- Sleep Tight
- Sinister
- Splice
- Stake Land
- Stitches
- The Bay
- The Cabin in the Woods
- The Crazies
- The Divide
- The Loved Ones
- The House of the Devil
- The Innkeepers
- The Killer Inside Me
- The Last Exorcism
- The Tunnel
- The Woman
- Trollhunter
- Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
- V/H/S
- V/H/S 2
- You’re Next
- Warm Bodies
- Willow Creek


Would have made it if I included all of 2013:

- All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
- Cheap Thrills
- Insidious 2
- Hatchet 3
- Maniac
- The Battery
- The Border Lands
- The Conjuring
- The World’s End
- This Is The End
- We Are What We Are

I’d rewatch any of them (and probably another 50 others) before I’d ever touch Lords of Salem ever again.
 
Internet War Criminal said:
50 movies that came out from January 1st 2010 to April 18th 2013 that are better than fucking Lords of Salem, in no particular order:

- Absentia
- American Mary
- Antiviral
- Attack of the Block
- Curse of Chucky
- Cold Fish
- Detention
- Devil
- Dread
- Doghouse
- Descent Part 2
- Evil Dead
- Final Destination 5
- Frozen
- Grave Encounters
- Hatchet 2
- Hobo with a Shotgun
- I Saw the Devil
- Insidious
- Kill List
- Let Me In
- Martha Marcy Marley Marlene
- Paranormal Activity 3
- Resolution
- REC 2
- Rubber
- Saw 3D (Yes, seriously)
- Scream 4
- Sleep Tight
- Sinister
- Splice
- Stake Land
- Stitches
- The Bay
- The Cabin in the Woods
- The Crazies
- The Divide
- The Loved Ones
- The House of the Devil
- The Innkeepers
- The Killer Inside Me
- The Last Exorcism
- The Tunnel
- The Woman
- Trollhunter
- Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
- V/H/S
- V/H/S 2
- You’re Next
- Warm Bodies
- Willow Creek


Would have made it if I included all of 2013:

- All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
- Cheap Thrills
- Insidious 2
- Hatchet 3
- Maniac
- The Battery
- The Border Lands
- The Conjuring
- The World’s End
- This Is The End
- We Are What We Are

I’d rewatch any of them (and probably another 50 others) before I’d ever touch Lords of Salem ever again.
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What did Rob Zombie do to you, man?
 
Internet War Criminal said:
50 movies that came out from January 1st 2010 to April 18th 2013 that are better than fucking Lords of Salem, in no particular order:

- Absentia
- American Mary
- Antiviral
- Attack of the Block
- Curse of Chucky
- Cold Fish
- Detention
- Devil
- Dread
- Doghouse
- Descent Part 2
- Evil Dead
- Final Destination 5
- Frozen
- Grave Encounters
- Hatchet 2
- Hobo with a Shotgun
- I Saw the Devil
- Insidious
- Kill List
- Let Me In
- Martha Marcy Marley Marlene
- Paranormal Activity 3
- Resolution
- REC 2
- Rubber
- Saw 3D (Yes, seriously)
- Scream 4
- Sleep Tight
- Sinister
- Splice
- Stake Land
- Stitches
- The Bay
- The Cabin in the Woods
- The Crazies
- The Divide
- The Loved Ones
- The House of the Devil
- The Innkeepers
- The Killer Inside Me
- The Last Exorcism
- The Tunnel
- The Woman
- Trollhunter
- Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
- V/H/S
- V/H/S 2
- You’re Next
- Warm Bodies
- Willow Creek


Would have made it if I included all of 2013:

- All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
- Cheap Thrills
- Insidious 2
- Hatchet 3
- Maniac
- The Battery
- The Border Lands
- The Conjuring
- The World’s End
- This Is The End
- We Are What We Are

I’d rewatch any of them (and probably another 50 others) before I’d ever touch Lords of Salem ever again.
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Lords of Salem does suck, but so do most of the movies on this list.
 
BullfrogBill said:
Lords of Salem does suck, but so do most of the movies on this list.
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Nah I’d say at least a third to half of the movies on that list are easily 8+/10, including up to a dozen movies that are absolute 10/10 classics that can’t be touched (I See the Devil, Kill List, Resolution, You’re Next, The House of the Devil, etc…) and a bunch of solid horror comedies like Tucker & Dale, This is the End, etc…

A bunch of them are like 5-6/10 and I wouldn’t want to rewatch them on any given day, but I’d still pick em over LoS.

Edit: Also, House of 1000 Corpses isn’t bad, it’s a pretty fun movie to watch while drunk and shit, but it still suffers from RZ trying to hard to make his hillbilly TCM remake and the characters are just so much better and fleshed out in the sequel
 
Well I honestly thought terrifier 3 was kind of garbage. Had high expectations and fell flat almost everywhere, half the movie feel like a unorganized mess with no semblance of a coherent plot. Some really cool cameos by horror icons Clint Howard and Tom Savini slightly made up for it but not much. I always thought Siennas acting was terrible (her trying to explain the fire to her friends at school in 2 always came off extremely forced and cringe to me) but I expected it to get better and unfortunately I do not feel it has. Overall I give it a 6/10. Terrifier was a 9/10 for me and 2 was like a 7.5 or 8.
 
Samhain said:
I watched the trailer just now, and the guy who transforms gets scratched, which is still a common pop culture method for spreading lycanthropy. Enchanted wolf skins, magic ointments, pacts with the devil, the classic werewolf bite, etc., are in folklore and pop culture.
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You know the one I always found interesting when it comes to "How to become a werewolf lore" is being born on Christmas, and I've only found one werewolf movie that uses this. It's called The Curse of the Werewolf. I like it well enough. The main guy is born with the curse because he was born on Christmas, and his father was a crazy begger that raped his mother, so sins of the father I guess. It's a classic Hammer movie if you like those movies. Werewolf is more on the wolfman side, I like it.
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