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Fresh from rounds elsewhere about the "Lost Media" discourse, ie people who make a big deal about being hunters of "Lost Media" online spending most of their time tracking down "lost" media like failed pilots for obscure Nickelodeon shows from the early 2000s, or other kiddie stuff, some people brought up lost media in horror and someone brought up a "lost" grindhouse slasher film that I vaguely recalled hearing about, no one seems to have actually seen since the 1980s, the only confirmed viewer being Richard Sullivan, who reviewed it in his 'zine Gore Gazette

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Commander X said:
Fresh from rounds elsewhere about the "Lost Media" discourse, ie people who make a big deal about being hunters of "Lost Media" online spending most of their time tracking down "lost" media like failed pilots for obscure Nickelodeon shows from the early 2000s, or other kiddie stuff, some people brought up lost media in horror and someone brought up a "lost" grindhouse slasher film that I vaguely recalled hearing about, no one seems to have actually seen since the 1980s, the only confirmed viewer being Richard Sullivan, who reviewed it in his 'zine Gore Gazette

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I heard about that one a couple of weeks ago. It's undoubtedly crap but it would be fun to see and it seems much more plausible that it actually exists unlike crap like Dead End (1985) which seems to be completely made up.

My dream lost film has been Alberto Cavallone's Maldoror: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230495/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_2

It's an adaptation of the book that was only screened at a handful of festivals if not just a single festival and has been lost forever. There's a chance that a print is still out there in someone's attic.

Cavallone was an Eyetalian hack/pornographer who made -I guess you could say- arthouse erotica is the nicest way to describe it. But his take on the book sounds interesting and plays into the profound meta aspect of the material:

 
The only "lost media" I'd want to see would be London After Midnight. Which is odd for me, since I don't like old (well, that old) , silent, or even Gothic stuff that much. It'd mainly be for the Whitechapel (tv show) reference where it drove the guy that owned the last copy crazy.

Although I swear there's a version of The Prophecy (1980) out there SOMEWHERE that has a ton more gore and nudity in it, that I KNOW I saw when I was a kid. I watched it again in the '00s and all that stuff was missing, but I can't find any references to other cuts, but that version of it definitely wouldn't have scared me like the version I saw did. Also, yes, I know I was scared of all the wrong shit as a kid, I don't know why. I guess to balance that out, I was NOT scared of a bunch of shit that should have been scary.
 
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Although I swear there's a version of The Prophecy (1980) out there SOMEWHERE that has a ton more gore and nudity in it, that I KNOW I saw when I was a kid. I watched it again in the '00s and all that stuff was missing, but I can't find any references to other cuts, but that version of it definitely wouldn't have scared me like the version I saw did. Also, yes, I know I was scared of all the wrong shit as a kid, I don't know why. I guess to balance that out, I was NOT scared of a bunch of shit that should have been scary.
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There's plenty of lost versions of uncut movies. Like the NC-17 cut of Predator 2, Event Horizon is another one pleb's rant and rave about, another pipe dream of mine is to watch the uncut version of Stallone's Cobra that restores tons of gore and squib shots along with 20-30 minutes of more footage.

It was a small miracle when the uncut footage from Friday the 13th Part 2 finally saw the light of day with the new Blu-ray box set.
 
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There's plenty of lost versions of uncut movies. Like the NC-17 cut of Predator 2, Event Horizon is another one pleb's rant and rave about, another pipe dream of mine is to watch the uncut version of Stallone's Cobra that restores tons of gore and squib shots along with 20-30 minutes of more footage.
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The '80s was so hilarious about gore and nudity. I can't remember who was talking about it (someone fairly big in the '90s, possibly Tarantino? Someone like that who was pretty frank and hated the MPAA), but they were like (heavily paraphrased) "I can show all the tits I want and all the gore I want, but I can't show tits and gore at the same time." So I imagine the Predator 2 one was just an expanded scene of killing the drug lord guy in bed, but who knows. It's amazing how much got into that movie and it still got an R.

Is the Event Horizon one really lost still? I thought they found and published (somewhere) the extra hell scenes, and they wound up being relatively tame. Maybe there's more, I guess there's always more, or at least rumors of more.

Haven't heard of the Cobra one, but that does sound freaking awesome. I have an attitude problem, but it's just a little one. Cobretti you sly bastard.
 
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That's Girlhouse, ain't it? Well, it's 'Boobs! The Movie', but then it gets decently brutal when the killer gets into the non-copywright Playboy-Onlyfans Mansion.

@BrunoMattei Bill Paxton is annoyingly overrated for two things: 1.) Aliens, and 2.) Being dead.
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I liked him in mortuary

He's also Joe loder in nightcrawler which I didn't realize but is also pretty good
 
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I liked him in mortuary

He's also Joe loder in nightcrawler which I didn't realize but is also pretty good
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Mortuary seems like Flatliners, but less convoluted and slow. Never seen it, though. Never seen Nightcrawler, either.

Edited because I meant After.Life, not Flatliners. Never seen Flatliners. The original, nor the remake.
 
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The only "lost media" I'd want to see would be London After Midnight. Which is odd for me, since I don't like old (well, that old) , silent, or even Gothic stuff that much.
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Well, that's how these things usually go: if wasn't a lost movie, you probably wouldn't be that interested in it. People who had actually seen it didn't seem to think it was that great. And that's a Tod Browning/Lon Chaney movie, which at least has that much historical importance/talent behind it. Something like Silent Death is on a whole different level. Still way more interesting than tracking down every last Nickelodeon bumper that ever aired.
 
Saw nosferatu recently, loved it. classic horror, the makeup on skarsgard looked great It’s his iconic image but grittier still keeping the stiff clunky movements like max schreck, an act so great he might top Lee, and Lugosi. the sets are beautiful too, I recommend seeing it and also consider shadow of the vampire and the 1979 version

the classic can’t be beat though, the fact it survived for this long and orlok is ingrained in pop culture to the point he might just as well be immortal.
 
I could swear I've seen the Belushi Godzilla / Baba Wawa bit despite being not born at the time and allegedly it's never been replayed
maybe it was a clip shown during the NBC studio tour around 1990 or so?.

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the NC-17 cut of Predator 2,
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if they were even half as dank as the comics that must have been some amazingly great shit, iirc a lot of people get skinned
 
Your Starter for 10 said:
The only "lost media" I'd want to see would be London After Midnight. Which is odd for me, since I don't like old (well, that old) , silent, or even Gothic stuff that much. It'd mainly be for the Whitechapel (tv show) reference where it drove the guy that owned the last copy crazy.
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Eyy I memba Whitechapel....well I memba season 1 with the Jack the Ripper copycat. Was kinda confused it kept going after that and evolved/devolved into a supernatural detective series with random ass historical crimes repeating because of ghosts or shit.
 
It's gonna be another deboot that follows straight from the original. I'm glad they're pissing on the Blumhouse movies and I'm glad Halloween 2 is getting buried even further, assuming they don't go giga-retard and do the sister thing with a recast Laurie Strode, which I wouldn't rule out tbh. If it's set in the past then any DEI aspects will be that much more obviously forced. Actually, they should go all in with the Halloween 3/Thorn kind of lucky charms nonsense. I think we're still allowed to be racist against the Irish; they're often considered "white" for some reason.
 
I had an idea for a "woke" Predator sequel. You remember that scene in Predator 2 where it couldn't kill the female officer because she was pregnant? Fan theories speculate that the reason why it didn't kill her is that the baby technically can't defend itself and it would be seen as a 2 for 1 kill.

So, my idea is that you form a squad of pregnant women to hunt the beast down in the jungle. Starring Melissa McCarthy and concluding with the Predator delivering a caesarian and thoroughly skinning Melissa McCarthy alive afterward.

It could go more retarded with the Predator raising the child as a feral tomboy. Hollywood, where is my paycheck?
 
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