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New trailer for Frankenstein just dropped. I think I'm a bit more excited for this then I was for 28 Years Later. Here's to hoping it will be better than 28 Years Later.
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I wasn’t expecting The Toxic Avenger remake to include a parody of the Insane Clown Posse, the Proud Boys, along with 
gestures and "are you triggered?" quips alongside parkour jokes. The movie also makes fun of people making fun of pronouns, Toxie is a stepdad to a son who paints his nails and has autism and Toxie now has a black girl sidekick. Yeesh. There are callbacks to the original film repurposed (such as the fast food restaurant and head crushing scene) and they manage to work in a Class of Nuke 'Em High reference by calling a local school New Chem High. You're better off watching the original film. The post credits scene teaches you how to make a grilled cheese sandwich and they throw in Marvel/DC sequel jabs that aren't funny.
gestures and "are you triggered?" quips alongside parkour jokes. The movie also makes fun of people making fun of pronouns, Toxie is a stepdad to a son who paints his nails and has autism and Toxie now has a black girl sidekick. Yeesh. There are callbacks to the original film repurposed (such as the fast food restaurant and head crushing scene) and they manage to work in a Class of Nuke 'Em High reference by calling a local school New Chem High. You're better off watching the original film. The post credits scene teaches you how to make a grilled cheese sandwich and they throw in Marvel/DC sequel jabs that aren't funny.
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Well, might as well get October going.
Silent Madness (1984)
It seems I already watched this just last Halloween, but my memories of it are sketchy at best. Alcohol may have been involved.
Not a shabby movie, but especially notable for being shot in 3D. I viewed it in anaglyphic 3D headache-o-vision with my premium-quality red-blue glasses ($4 on Amazon iirc), and I think it does add an extra dimension to the experience (so to speak). Like Friday the 13th 3D, it leans hard into the gimmick.
The story: a mental asylum releases the wrong lunatic by mistake, and guess what happens. We spend a lot of time getting to know the corrupt hospital staff between kills. Likely a comment on the Reagan-era asylum shutdowns. It is, anyway, more interesting than the filler scenes in most slashers.
Behold, the FBI's secret database of KiwiFarms users:
In a scene seemingly drawn from my own subconscious, sorority girls divide their time between doing gymnastics in spandex and playing Dragon's Lair:
Silent Madness (1984)
It seems I already watched this just last Halloween, but my memories of it are sketchy at best. Alcohol may have been involved.
Not a shabby movie, but especially notable for being shot in 3D. I viewed it in anaglyphic 3D headache-o-vision with my premium-quality red-blue glasses ($4 on Amazon iirc), and I think it does add an extra dimension to the experience (so to speak). Like Friday the 13th 3D, it leans hard into the gimmick.
The story: a mental asylum releases the wrong lunatic by mistake, and guess what happens. We spend a lot of time getting to know the corrupt hospital staff between kills. Likely a comment on the Reagan-era asylum shutdowns. It is, anyway, more interesting than the filler scenes in most slashers.
Behold, the FBI's secret database of KiwiFarms users:
In a scene seemingly drawn from my own subconscious, sorority girls divide their time between doing gymnastics in spandex and playing Dragon's Lair:
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God damn I miss the 80s. I was too young to realize how good we had it. THIS IS THE WORLD WE COULD HAVE, NIGGERS.
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I saw the new VHS film, V/H/S: Halloween
So I will go over each segment
Overall it really is just an average VHS film where it's a grab bag of short films of various quality with some really being ones that can even work as a full horror film.
So I will go over each segment
Diet Phantasma: This is fine, I feel it overstays its welcome and should've been an individual segment. Some of the body horror is neat, and I find it funny that the villain of this short is a Rothschild.
Coochie Coochie Coo: It felt more less like a horror short and more like some weird fetish thing with some creepy visuals, but overall it really didn't do anything beyond just feeling mildly weird.
Ut Supra Sic Infra: Interesting segment that felt neat for how it intersplices footage from the past and present and the supernatural angle was pretty fun. The acting in it was also pretty good. Not surprising that the director of REC can still cook
Fun Size: Outside the cheap effects when the adults go trick or treating while it also recycles a gag where an old dude asks adults that they're too old for it. This one is pretty fun with the body horror and how mean spirited it is.
Kid Print: I think this is the 2nd best segment of the bunch just for how fucked up it is. The most fucked up part is the killer in this segment since his actor really knows how to sell just being a normal friendly guy and a creepy serial killer whose probably a pedophile.
Home Haunt: I really like this one too and think it's the best one, the idea of a fake haunted house becoming the real deal is a great concept especially with how it doesn't pull any punches with not letting anyone be safe, while really utilizing the Halloween theme in the most creative aspect from the demonic forces turning the haunts into real monsters even as something basic as a witch on a broomstick. The last shot too is pretty nice. Really saved the best for last. I feel this could've been better as the wrap around segment even with a good excuse of the dad getting scary tapes for his Haunted House.
Coochie Coochie Coo: It felt more less like a horror short and more like some weird fetish thing with some creepy visuals, but overall it really didn't do anything beyond just feeling mildly weird.
Ut Supra Sic Infra: Interesting segment that felt neat for how it intersplices footage from the past and present and the supernatural angle was pretty fun. The acting in it was also pretty good. Not surprising that the director of REC can still cook
Fun Size: Outside the cheap effects when the adults go trick or treating while it also recycles a gag where an old dude asks adults that they're too old for it. This one is pretty fun with the body horror and how mean spirited it is.
Kid Print: I think this is the 2nd best segment of the bunch just for how fucked up it is. The most fucked up part is the killer in this segment since his actor really knows how to sell just being a normal friendly guy and a creepy serial killer whose probably a pedophile.
Home Haunt: I really like this one too and think it's the best one, the idea of a fake haunted house becoming the real deal is a great concept especially with how it doesn't pull any punches with not letting anyone be safe, while really utilizing the Halloween theme in the most creative aspect from the demonic forces turning the haunts into real monsters even as something basic as a witch on a broomstick. The last shot too is pretty nice. Really saved the best for last. I feel this could've been better as the wrap around segment even with a good excuse of the dad getting scary tapes for his Haunted House.
Overall it really is just an average VHS film where it's a grab bag of short films of various quality with some really being ones that can even work as a full horror film.
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I'm watching that new Monster: Ed Gein series on Netflix.
It's shot really good and the acting's good and all that but it feels kind of distasteful in parts.
Like they use one of his real victims to recreate the hammer scene from Texas Chainsaw, and I'm sure that's some kind of brilliant meta commentary on film or something but it makes me kind of uncomfortable knowing this guy murdered real people and they're using the death of this woman for a cheap obvious horror reference.
I know way more distasteful things have been done in horror but something about it rubs me the wrong way, I don't know. Granted Ed Gein got most of his ideas for graverobbing and murder from pulp comics, but do you literally have to use this real life murderer to make the 30 year olds in your audience go "ooooh i understand that reference!"
It's shot really good and the acting's good and all that but it feels kind of distasteful in parts.
Like they use one of his real victims to recreate the hammer scene from Texas Chainsaw, and I'm sure that's some kind of brilliant meta commentary on film or something but it makes me kind of uncomfortable knowing this guy murdered real people and they're using the death of this woman for a cheap obvious horror reference.
I know way more distasteful things have been done in horror but something about it rubs me the wrong way, I don't know. Granted Ed Gein got most of his ideas for graverobbing and murder from pulp comics, but do you literally have to use this real life murderer to make the 30 year olds in your audience go "ooooh i understand that reference!"
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I thought the new VHS was better than average for the series. Maybe third best, or something.
Wraparound - It's fine. Nothing to really note, it added nothing and took nothing away.
First segment - I like the monster and the effects, otherwise I don't really care for the frantic screaming shaky-cam AHHH RUN OH NO, SOMETHING! AHHH RUN THE OTHER DIRECTION type stuff. 4/10
Second segment - Known Good Director, not a lot else to say. Very slick shooting. Ceiling scene very cool, tied for best in the compilation. 8/10
Third segment - Crude and meanspirited and boring, but fine. 5/10. I liked the stupid effect when the first guy gets pulled into the bowl, but this one felt like a bunch of youtubers or something just doing a dumb skit.
Fourth segment - Tasteless but effective, I'm a little sensitive about stuff with kids, but it was definitely Horror. 6.5/10
Fifth segment - This one felt the most like "VHS when it's good" to me, much like Beyond (which I really didn't care for, generally,) the best was saved for last. 8/10
First segment - I like the monster and the effects, otherwise I don't really care for the frantic screaming shaky-cam AHHH RUN OH NO, SOMETHING! AHHH RUN THE OTHER DIRECTION type stuff. 4/10
Second segment - Known Good Director, not a lot else to say. Very slick shooting. Ceiling scene very cool, tied for best in the compilation. 8/10
Third segment - Crude and meanspirited and boring, but fine. 5/10. I liked the stupid effect when the first guy gets pulled into the bowl, but this one felt like a bunch of youtubers or something just doing a dumb skit.
Fourth segment - Tasteless but effective, I'm a little sensitive about stuff with kids, but it was definitely Horror. 6.5/10
Fifth segment - This one felt the most like "VHS when it's good" to me, much like Beyond (which I really didn't care for, generally,) the best was saved for last. 8/10
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Hellmaster (1992) aka Them (but not the giant ant one) aka Soulstealer
I admit I have absolutely no idea what was happening during almost the entire movie. The sound is badly-recorded, making the dialog difficult to understand, and the plot is fairly complicated and exposition-heavy, and it seems to jump around between scenes and characters almost at random. I'm also kinda stupid at points and could've paid better attention.
Apparently John Saxon is creating superzombie slaves in the college basement, or something like that. There's a director's cut that might be elucidating. The film takes place at "Kant University" and a Nietzsche and Poe are both referenced, and the characters argue about religion a little, so an attempt was made to make something heady. Best scene, towards the end, is a cripple being beaten to death with his own crutch lmao.
Maddeningly, I can't figure out what game this is:
Average thing happening:
Between the name and the Argento lighting maybe just don't go inside:
"TAKE YOUR SLEEP MEDS NANCY":
I admit I have absolutely no idea what was happening during almost the entire movie. The sound is badly-recorded, making the dialog difficult to understand, and the plot is fairly complicated and exposition-heavy, and it seems to jump around between scenes and characters almost at random. I'm also kinda stupid at points and could've paid better attention.
Apparently John Saxon is creating superzombie slaves in the college basement, or something like that. There's a director's cut that might be elucidating. The film takes place at "Kant University" and a Nietzsche and Poe are both referenced, and the characters argue about religion a little, so an attempt was made to make something heady. Best scene, towards the end, is a cripple being beaten to death with his own crutch lmao.
Maddeningly, I can't figure out what game this is:
Average thing happening:
Between the name and the Argento lighting maybe just don't go inside:
"TAKE YOUR SLEEP MEDS NANCY":
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A while back I acquired a ton of old DVDs from a library that was "modernizing" (ugh), and so I have an opportunity to watch a bunch of stuff I've never seen and might never have watched otherwise. (If only because I never would have gotten around to them.)
And so last night I watched Cat People (1982) for the first time. I have a Paul Schrader hole in my movie-watching experience, having only seen Light Sleeper a long time ago (and really loving it). So this was almost an introduction to Schrader as a director for me.
This is a classic film, so I don't have to sell it to anyone and probably won't have original thoughts about it. But yes, it really impressed. The cast is uniformly great, the female nudity is sumptuous, the special effects are bizarre and interesting, and the script takes a potentially silly premise (people who turn into large predator cats) and really makes it work. The film nails the feeling of a nightmare or a fable quite well. And the gore is appropriately shocking.
And I've got to say, whatever was or wasn't going on between her and the director behind the scenes, Nastassja Kinski is insane to think this film was a bad idea for her career. She's wonderful in it. Maybe she didn't love doing all the nudity, but this movie is from a time when actresses (and actors) understood that nudity might be appropriate in a good script. (Annette O'Toole's attitude towards her gorgeous nude scene is so refreshing to read about. Just part of the job!)
And, to top it all off, you've got a David Bowie-penned opening and closing theme? Come on, that's awesome.
This was a great first horror movie for Halloween month. Hopefully they'll all be this good.
And so last night I watched Cat People (1982) for the first time. I have a Paul Schrader hole in my movie-watching experience, having only seen Light Sleeper a long time ago (and really loving it). So this was almost an introduction to Schrader as a director for me.
This is a classic film, so I don't have to sell it to anyone and probably won't have original thoughts about it. But yes, it really impressed. The cast is uniformly great, the female nudity is sumptuous, the special effects are bizarre and interesting, and the script takes a potentially silly premise (people who turn into large predator cats) and really makes it work. The film nails the feeling of a nightmare or a fable quite well. And the gore is appropriately shocking.
And I've got to say, whatever was or wasn't going on between her and the director behind the scenes, Nastassja Kinski is insane to think this film was a bad idea for her career. She's wonderful in it. Maybe she didn't love doing all the nudity, but this movie is from a time when actresses (and actors) understood that nudity might be appropriate in a good script. (Annette O'Toole's attitude towards her gorgeous nude scene is so refreshing to read about. Just part of the job!)
And, to top it all off, you've got a David Bowie-penned opening and closing theme? Come on, that's awesome.
This was a great first horror movie for Halloween month. Hopefully they'll all be this good.
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fuck you now it's bugging me too because I recognize that "the buttons on each side of the stick" but can't place it
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The top art looks a lot like the one from Ms. Pacman. But the art under the buttons is different, I don't know. Might be a generic mix-and-match prop for movies.Maddeningly, I can't figure out what game this is:
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I watched “I Saw The TV Glow” recently (I know), without looking into its director or cast beforehand - it was truly miserable as a movie but did inspire a nauseous dread in me so I guess it works as a horror movie in that regard. It manages a decent shot composition and cinematography of the writhing and howling inner monologue of a tortured, embittered transexual man. I don’t think I know of anyone I could recommend it to, maybe my queer, wiccan stepsister - it felt less like a movie and more like a rape based energy weapon beamed from an HBO Max satellite.
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I got to here before I realized I was watching Sissy Hypno: The Movie, and the weird tranny conversion monologue about, like, "Are you sure? Are you suuuure there's not someone inside of you? Someone beautiful and strong and just screaming to be free???" had me with my jaw on the floor at how blatant it was
Edit: His other movie, We're All Going to the World's Fair is somehow worse, if you haven't seen it already.
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Sucks because I personally really like the visual style of I Saw The TV Glow and the whole analogue-horror-esque aesthetic it goes for (friend showed me some clips) but man I just don't want to sit through tranny propaganda just to see some pretty lighting. And normally I'd try to ignore something like that but the tranny metaphor is apparently such a big part of the film that I just decided to skip on it entirely. Why are all movies about the same few things nowadays? What's the point of all these metaphors and "deep writing" if we're all just going to talk about the same topics over and over and over again? We had some variety of talking points in film a few decades past, I feel like there was a good selection of more right wing leaning films and left wing along with completely a-political films that just tried to tell a cool story. Everything I've seen recently is just lefty political slop and I'm not even mad anymore, just fatigued of it all. There's so much good potential that's permanently stained by the foul smelling shit ideologies of our times.
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Funny enough the main character doesn’t troon out (which is accomplished in the movie by literally killing yourself btw) in the end he’s a decrepit old main that has a mental breakdown at his workplace and slices/pulls apart his chest to “let the light out”.
Lmao
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I know it's weeks old but going back at topic, I looked at a comment on a Milo and Otis video that says this
I wonder what Kevin Bacon and Harry Crosby or even Tom Savini say about that scene with the snake. How does William Shatner feel about the tarantulas dying for real?
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A lot of games had buttons on either side of the stick (Dragon's Lair does). The single joystick means it's probably pre-1985. The start buttons being on the front of the cab instead of the control panel is pretty distinctive. So's the art on the panel. In conclusion I dunno sorry, maybe there's a better shot in the director's cut, I'll circle back...
I bet Friday the 13th got it done with one take and one snake. Pretty much the same deal with Cannibal Holocaust even though the deaths are more disgusting and drawn-out. Milo and Otis looks like whole kitten and puppy massacre went into making it.
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I'm leaning towards Pengo. About the only cabinet I can find that always has the start buttons on the front with a single joystick and single button on each side. The art is pretty close but it's hard to tell for sure from that angle and clarity, but that stripe under the screen is right (although could fit other stuff).
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Well if we really want to do this, here it is in higher res:
I was saying "early 80" because I only noticed one button on each side, but looks like there's two. Lots of late 80s games still had that kind of button layout. The woodgrain is kinda early 80s, but I'm leaning towards something later now.
Blowing up the art at the top of the cab, I see a man on the right, maybe two people standing next to each other.
I was saying "early 80" because I only noticed one button on each side, but looks like there's two. Lots of late 80s games still had that kind of button layout. The woodgrain is kinda early 80s, but I'm leaning towards something later now.
Blowing up the art at the top of the cab, I see a man on the right, maybe two people standing next to each other.