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My sister was cleaning out my recently deceased grandmother's home and found a VCR and box of dozens of creature features she recorded on tv. Shit like Ghost of Frankenstein vs Dracula's Son. Real Svengoolie shit. The one tape I tested was a double feature of Chud 2: Bud the Chud and Cellar Dweller from Cinemax in what has to be the early 90s. Wife and I are gonna save them all for October. Gonna be absolute vibes.

Love you, mawmaw.
 
You know what's weird about army of the dead? Several plot points are directly stolen. Undead is a 2003 Australian zombie Horror Comedy, written and directed by The Spierig Brothers and it basically boils down to aliens accidentally cause a zombie apocalypse and now people must survive it. That's the opening to army of the dead.

Las Vegas gets walled off to contain the outbreak, just like Australia, and the movies both end with the outbreak being contained, only to have one infected escape to imply it's only getting started.

Zack Snyder essentially took Undead, injected it with steroids, robbed it of its weird Aussie charm, and slathered it in digital color grading and “cool” slow motion.

I'm gonna double post because I need help.

There's a movie where two strangers are traveling through the snow. I don't think either were named, but it's a guy and a girl against the harsh elements. The only scene I remember is them finding a church of sorts with the priests dead mid prayer in their beds.
 
The Woman in the Yard is the latest Blumhouse project, and features: a black dad who’d rather yeet himself out of existence than raise his kids, his young son who only talks about getting a gun and driving a car the entire time, his young daughter who can’t read or write, a dog being mistreated, and the scariest most abusive monster of all: the single black mother.

I give it watermelon out of 5
 
Internet War Criminal said:
The Woman in the Yard is the latest Blumhouse project, and features: a black dad who’d rather yeet himself out of existence than raise his kids, his young son who only talks about getting a gun and driving a car the entire time, his young daughter who can’t read or write, a dog being mistreated, and the scariest most abusive monster of all: the single black mother.

I give it watermelon out of 5
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I saw the poster and thought it might be good. Then I saw the cast and decided not to watch it. Nigger horror is never good.
 
TV's Adam West said:
Holy shit, you're a fucking legend. Thank you so much! Bit of a power level but this was the last movie I remember watching with my mom and given her passing, I want to get a physical copy and add it to my collection.
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You’re welcome. I remember seeing that movie on I think IFC and thinking it was a good movie.
I also remember the snow part because not too many horror films (or films in general) are filmed in the snow.
 
Among recent watches, Armed (2025), a film with a somewhat intriguing set-up but didn't quite mesh for me. I had enjoyed two previous films by the director, Neil Mackay - the home-invasion thriller 60 Minutes to Midnight, where a construction worker finds himself the subject of an interactive and sadistic "game" as New Year's Eve '99 comes to an end and Death Hunt, which was OK...-ish for an indie action thriller take on The Most Dangerous Game, if the runtime felt a bit longer than it needed to be. (I also, some time ago, saw his 2012 film Battleground, where a band of bank robbers run afoul of a heavily armed Vietnam vet out in the middle of nowhere, but that one did not appeal to me, some OK carnage but it just sort of petered out.)

Armed is I think set in the 1990s -a group of disgruntled ex-soldiers steal crates of weapons to sell on the black market only to discover one crate contained a leftover Cold War project that gets loose and we have the dwindling party holed up in a building scenario, it's like a slasher though instead of 20-somethings or 20-somethings playing teens the victims are a group of grizzled gentlemen with firepower. It was OK-ish at times but it didn't quite pop for me.

 
The Nothingness said:
Vampire in Brooklyn is better than Jordan Peele's entire filmography.
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The back story for that one is interesting: Eddie Murphy is a horror fan and wanted to work with Wes Craven. Eddie pitches this idea to Wes and Eddie to play it completely straight as the villain but Wes wanted to make it a comedy because he's working with Eddie Murphy. The result was an abortion.

XYZpdq Jr. said:
It kind of itches a little!
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I did laugh at the line "This is my stomach! This is my heart!"
 
Heavy Rainfall2 said:
agree but I never got a racial or woke bent from it.
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The movie in general is "woke," in the sense that Justin Long's character is the prototypical #metoo rapist. And the movie's position is that any man with an accusation against him is definitely guilty, irredeemable, and deserves to die. The hero of the movie, of course, is a strong bipoc woman. Oh, and the movie briefly touches on the evils of white flight. I didn't hate the movie, but this stuff is undeniably in there.
 
Karamanlis said:
The movie in general is "woke," in the sense that Justin Long's character is the prototypical #metoo rapist. And the movie's position is that any man with an accusation against him is definitely guilty, irredeemable, and deserves to die. The hero of the movie, of course, is a strong bipoc woman. Oh, and the movie briefly touches on the evils of white flight. I didn't hate the movie, but this stuff is undeniably in there.
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Justin Long's character is a Hollywood predator. He wasn't #metoo'd since he actively talked about him pressuring a woman into sex. The main character, a woman, misplaced her trust in someone like Justin Long over the slightly creepy Bill Skarsgawhatever the fuck. Which was the entire point because he betrayed her trust by trying to kill her to satisfy the incest monster..

It's a movie about trust and rape, and where women should trust men vs when they shouldn't. The movie spelled it out in black and white when "Carlos" was invited into a home because he was "trusted". I don't think any movie about women's themes is woke, but if you think Barbarian was one, you missed the entire fucking point of the first third of the movie.
 
Heavy Rainfall2 said:
He wasn't #metoo'd
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Brother, it's 100% a commentary on the metoo movement. Long's character is the metoo strawman that's set up to be knocked down. It's obvious that the movie supports the movement fully. There's no nuance whatsoever in its interpretation of it. The bad man is irredeemably bad and deserves death. It's not exactly what you would call a balanced view on the matter. I'm not saying the movie doesn't explore any other themes. But metoo is a big part of it. And when the movie stands so firmly on the side of the metoo movement, I don't see how anyone could say that it doesn't have a "woke bent" to it. I didn't hate the movie. I thought it was fairly entertaining. But it is what it is.
 
Karamanlis said:
And when the movie stands so firmly on the side of the metoo movement, I don't see how anyone could say that it doesn't have a "woke bent" to it. I didn't hate the movie. I thought it was fairly entertaining. But it is what it is.
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No I personally disagree. I can understand how you can come to that conclusion. But Justin Long's character pretty clearly raped a girl as he confessed in the bar talk with Zach whatever-the-fuck-director. Like he talked about how "she wanted it" and all other sorta shit but that's why Justin Long's character in the movie is compelling. Mc girl *shouldn't* trust him. As the girl who "Carlos" intruded the home of. And MC girl ignored (rightfully) the Skarsgard MC because he also could've been a rapist but reflected against the audience.

So, at least to me, the theme of the movie is trust from a woman's perspective. And I get that can come across as woke. But I really don't think it is. If it was meant to be lame and gay the movie would've been a trans girl and the cops would of been black.
 
Heavy Rainfall2 said:
No I personally disagree. I can understand how you can come to that conclusion. But Justin Long's character pretty clearly raped a girl as he confessed in the bar talk with Zach whatever-the-fuck-director. Like he talked about how "she wanted it" and all other sorta shit but that's why Justin Long's character in the movie is compelling. Mc girl *shouldn't* trust him. As the girl who "Carlos" intruded the home of. And MC girl ignored (rightfully) the Skarsgard MC because he also could've been a rapist but reflected against the audience.

So, at least to me, the theme of the movie is trust from a woman's perspective. And I get that can come across as woke. But I really don't think it is. If it was meant to be lame and gay the movie would've been a trans girl and the cops would of been black.
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You missed the point of the only good character in the film.

Long didn't clearly rape a girl. It's left up in the air as to what actually happened. He says he was pushy, but being pushy does not make it rape. If he talked a girl into sex and she regretted it later it's not rape. Long's character arc is questioning if he's a bad person or if he is a good person who did something bad. Which implies he didn't force himself on the woman, but he's a man who may have crossed the line where he did something bad but not outright rape bad. Him questioning if what he did was right or not makes his character have depth and he constantly straddles between the two sides of his character. He protects the half nigger when he could have fled and left her. When he has no other options he throws her to the wolves. He is a bumbling clumsy woke male character at the core of him (and this is what gets him captured and killed) which is plain to see. His story doesn't get fully explained because we only know a woman is accusing him and he was pushy. But being pushy isn't the same as being a rapist. Most men have probably been pushy at some point to get sex, even if it's a wife saying 'I don't feel in the mood tonight' and the husband talks her into a quickie before bed. Talking a woman into sex doesn't make it rape, there are ways you can be pushy that do make it rape but pushy is a grey area and depends on the people involved and what was said and done. I didn't see it as a #metoo statement or a confession of guilt. Long's character second guesses himself and a woman accusing him of rape maybe enough for him to think he is a rapist or could be a rapist. But if #metoo is active there are a lot of false accusations. Unless there is a deleted scene of the sex we can't judge if what he did was right or wrong. Being pushy isn't nice, but it's also not rape and Long struggles with that grey area in between.

I can see why you would see Long as a rapist. The accusation is there and when getting drunk with his faggot friend he does say he was pushy but she wanted it. It's up to you to judge what sort of a man he is as the movie goes on. He has good and bad traits surrounding the anti-white-male persona. He does try to protect the woman, he does try to help the old man even when he knows he did some fucked up stuff. He also does bad stuff at the end. I think you're supposed to make up your own mind on him and decide if he's a good person who slips into grey areas or if he's a bad person pretending to be good. Which fits the theme of a woman making bad judgement calls about the dangers around her.

Heavy Rainfall2 said:
And I get that can come across as woke. But I really don't think it is. If it was meant to be lame and gay the movie would've been a trans girl and the cops would of been black.
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You don't have to be 120% woke to be a woke movie. Bumbling idiot white men or evil white man and a strong black woman queen is enough to be woke. We know the director was being mentored by Jordan Peele so a lot of the decisions around the movie were influenced by Hollywood's premiere woke horror director.
 
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