/horror/ general megathread - Let's talk about movies and shit.

[Pretty Sneaky Cis]

Is any one else making nostalgia documentaries with minor film actors talking about their roles?

RoboDoc (not really horror sorry) is the only one that rises to A Good Documentary and not solely for die hards of the movie. More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead is a fun if you enjoy ROTLD. Best Worst Movie (Troll 2) is good but weird since it's largely a cast of misfits (one is totally out to lunch) and not real actors. Dick Miller has a documentary but it's more biographical than "'member that movie?"

I want to watch some good new horror. I've been trying to find movies and failing to find anything modern worth watching. Can any of you recommend me some movies from the last 5 years that are good? Not "good for a modern movie", just good.

Another vote for Spree. Out There Halloween Mega Tape is fun if you have an affinity for 90s trash TV. It's a found footage pastiche of Ricki Lake and a Fox Alien Investigation.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Am I old or are new horror movies being made for the faggiest people on the planet?

Heart Eyes had some cool kills. I was into the opening and then it was about some shitty marketing company and a bitchy woman who was pretending she wasn't a slut. Then I tried Smile 2 and who the fuck wants Miley Cyrus as the lead in a horror movie? Do people interested in fashion have the slightest interest in horror?

Smile 2's sound track is terrible as well. It's generic loud bassy noises.

While I'm on a rant. How lazy are writers now where "and then a car runs them over" is used to end a scene? There's no pay off or climax. A car appears from no where and splatters the monster.

 

[Aib Ld]

Am I old or are new horror movies being made for the faggiest people on the planet?

Heart Eyes had some cool kills. I was into the opening and then it was about some shitty marketing company and a bitchy woman who was pretending she wasn't a slut. Then I tried Smile 2 and who the fuck wants Miley Cyrus as the lead in a horror movie? Do people interested in fashion have the slightest interest in horror?

Smile 2's sound track is terrible as well. It's generic loud bassy noises.

While I'm on a rant. How lazy are writers now where "and then a car runs them over" is used to end a scene? There's no pay off or climax. A car appears from no where and splatters the monster.

The only good thing about Heart Eyes is the kills, I agree. Smile 2 really got me with the opening and the rest of the movie wasn't like that. It feels like most of the films nowadays are meant to be short films that are extended to be feature-length without thinking they can carry themselves for that long.

"Exit: run over by a car " only fits for creature features types. Outside of that genre feels like a copout.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

I watched Night of the Reaper, and...it was pretty OK. First off, no niggers, which was great. There weren't very many kills in it, and none of them had gore, but it was much more about the tension and "mystery" than the killings.

No one was pants-shitting retarded in it, which was a breath of fresh air. Neither the killer nor the victim nor even any of the supporting cast did absolutely dumb shit (outside of baby-sitter horror trope dumb shit, which is acceptable).

Now, I (an autist) saw the first twist a mile off, but my wife (a normie) didn't, and didn't even believe me when I told her what was coming (what a jerk). But the killer's identity I didn't guess (because it was pretty dumb, and my idea was way better). But it didn't really bother me.

I only really had 3 quibbles with the movie. The acting wasn't great, to put it mildly. The kid actors were definitely kid actors but they're not in it enough to bother you all THAT much. But the supporting cast kind of really sucked in most scenes. The main chick was OK, but she kind of looks and holds herself like Anna Faris, which kept making me feel like I was watching a Scary Movie. It was weird, but that's probably only me.

The ending is kind of a let down - but only relative to how good the rest of the movie was. It wasn't dumb or had people acting out of character or anything, it was just a little rushed and "let's just end it here"-ish. Basically no denoument. I give it credit for not being retarded though. It had an ending that was set up and made sense and tied everything up.

Very minor bonus quibbles- there's like a five minute stretch with like 8 jump scares in it. I mean not the shitty music sting jump scares in shitty movies, but diagetic ones that, while they made sense, still got a little laughable and old. But I get it, it was just that one stretch and it was the tensest part of the movie.

No nudity. Ok fair enough, it's a babysitter movie, so it wouldn't really be appropriate, but come on, shoehorn in a shower scene for the dads out there. TBF there weren't any chicks in the movie I'd want to see topless anyway, so they'd really need to do a whole other scene.

I'd give it a solid 3.5/5. No hateable protagonists, everything made sense, people talked and acted like actual humans. Even when there were a couple things where I thought "Hey there's no way she would know that yet," they circled back and showed how she did know it. Very solid picture despite no gore and no titties. By far the best Shudder movie so far, and probably the best sequel to Halloween ever (outside of Season of the Witch if you count it).

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I tried watching The Monkey and it's so Jewish I gave up on it. Constant sexual stuff involving kids, mocking Christianity and broken homes/weak kids being bullied. I wanted monkey Final Destination and got revenge of the nerds with pedophilia.

 

[The Nothingness]

I tried watching The Monkey and it's so Jewish I gave up on it. Constant sexual stuff involving kids, mocking Christianity and broken homes/weak kids being bullied. I wanted monkey Final Destination and got revenge of the nerds with pedophilia.

The movies Osgood Perkins has directed are all his personal therapy sessions since his mom hid the fact Osgood's dad, Anthony Perkins (yes, Norman Bates), was having a homosexual affair from him and his older brother when they were growing up.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

The movies Osgood Perkins has directed are all his personal therapy sessions since his mom hid the fact Osgood's dad, Anthony Perkins (yes, Norman Bates), was having a homosexual affair from him and his older brother when they were growing up.

I don't normally look into who made a film. I browse sites until I find one I like the look of. After ten pages of having seen everything or black racial cry bullying pretending to be horror. Monkey popped up. I'm not a fan of Stephen King but I was getting fed up of browsing.

 

[AnOminous]

The movies Osgood Perkins has directed are all his personal therapy sessions since his mom hid the fact Osgood's dad, Anthony Perkins (yes, Norman Bates), was having a homosexual affair from him and his older brother when they were growing up.

I've always found it darkly amusing that the portrayal of a deranged severely mentally ill troon in Psycho was by a gay guy. No wonder the T is so jealous of the LGB.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Here's what you can find out about @BrunoMattei there:

there has to be something where the guy is hanging out at a video store, looking at the horror section, gets into a conversation about the genre with the person next to him, then a couple of minutes into it he looks over and sees the person is carrying a severed head by the hair

 

[The Token Ethnic]

I tried watching The Monkey and it's so Jewish I gave up on it. Constant sexual stuff involving kids, mocking Christianity and broken homes/weak kids being bullied. I wanted monkey Final Destination and got revenge of the nerds with pedophilia.

The entire movie reminded me of this scene from The Kids in the Hall movie:

 

[12345]

John Carpenter just got his star on the Hollywood walk of fame. In attendance was Greg Nicotero, Kurt Russel, and Keith David.

 

[Calandrino]

I've always found it darkly amusing that the portrayal of a deranged severely mentally ill troon in Psycho was by a gay guy. No wonder the T is so jealous of the LGB.

What aged badly about the movie is Norman being able to do a convincing female voice. Now we are sadly all too familiar with how that goes.

 

[TV's Adam West]

Indie horror exploitation game company Puppet Combo is making a videogame adaptation of their game Stay Out Of The House and I'm excited for this.

https://youtu.be/TAUnOcIw2Lc

 

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Currently watching shitty edited versions of Halloween 4 and 5 on AMC. That's how you know October has officially begun.

 

[Dropa5pack]

They're all sluts in Hollywood.

Tried another Shudder talking head thing and there was a black woman complaining about the Male gaze over the start of It Follows within 2 minutes of it starting.

Is any one else making nostalgia documentaries with minor film actors talking about their roles? I am sick of feminist bollocks taking up run time. I wouldn't have minded if it was at least on topic but it's political sperging by activists. I remember when Shudder came out and I was excited for them to make TV series like this and instead it's garbage. Worse than youtube reviews.

It’s ironic that most of the women that complain about “the male gaze” would never need to worry about it. It’s pure projection on their part.



Anyways I’m going to start watching horror movies tonight it’s the season maybe starting with psycho II, session 9, or The omen. I’ve seen the latter two.

 

[The Nothingness]

Did you know Dark Night of the Scarecrow got a sequel decades later? It absolutely sucked! The characters were terrible. The acting was terrible. The kills were generic. The runtime is shorter than the original, yet it felt longer because of how boring the movie is. This is what I was saying internally while watching it.

 

[strumpets exeunt]

Started a rewatch of Over the Garden Wall for October. The older I get, the more I appreciate things that acknowledge death in a thoughtful, though certainly not desirable way. Bradbury was always very good at that, what with works like Halloween Tree and Something Wicked This Way Comes. LAIKA seem to be the only people trying to recreate that dark, yet child-approachable output with movies like Coraline and Paranorman. God, I hope Willdwood is good.

 

[frozen_runner]

Indie horror exploitation game company Puppet Combo is making a videogame adaptation of their game Stay Out Of The House and I'm excited for this.

https://youtu.be/TAUnOcIw2Lc

Puppet Combo makes shitty games that look like old, good games.

I paid for some of them, so I can say that.

"Exit: run over by a car " only fits for creature features types. Outside of that genre feels like a copout.

It worked well in Ginger Snaps. I laughed out loud when the guy instantly recognized that it was a werewolf.

 

[Calandrino]

Did you know Dark Night of the Scarecrow got a sequel decades later? It absolutely sucked! The characters and acting was terrible. The kills were generic. The runtime is shorter than the original, yet it felt longer because of how boring the movie is. This is what I was saying internally while watching it.

I starting fast forwarding after five minutes to see if anything would ever happen. Apparently, nothing did. Original is great though.

 

[Lone Star]

Saw that new Strangers movie. I actually think it was better than the first one, not that that's saying much.

Spoiler

The format was different, at least, not yet another home invasion situation. Instead it was the main girl basically fleeing the hospital and going from place to place outrunning the Strangers, who are really obsessed with making sure she dies, and it feels like they kill half the town trying. We actually do get some background on two of the strangers here, which I remember feeling perplexed since it was something mentioned in the advertising, but never happened in the first one. It was nothing substantial, one of the girls just had a crush on the male Stranger as kids and killed a girl that was crushing on him. They even gave an explanation for the smiley face and the "Is Tamera there?" bit. Still no explanation on why the town acts the way it does, that's still pretty vague. Oh...and also, the Strangers have giant pet boar that they set on the main girl. The suspense of disbelief was a lot for how she managed to survive this movie. It happened the night after the first movie basically, so all the injuries there apply. She jumped out of a moving car, got attacked by a boar, got in a car accident, amongst other injuries, but is still mostly okay.