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

[Kari Kamiya]

Back to movies, though, there's a dude I like who does horror movie analysis (without it being boring or up his own butt) he's got some good vids for little known horror movies and I've watched a good amount due to his recommends.

Ryan Hollinger is great, and just because he reviews horror films, YouTube fucks with him and it's unfortunate. He permanently won me over with his video on the history of spider movies because Arachnophobia is a childhood favorite of mine, and I remember having a blast seeing Eight-Legged Freaks in the theater.

 

[Valstrax]

If you like Ito though, they've done a manga version for the Mountains of Madness that is not Ito but very good and faithful to the Lovecraft story while expanding on it a little.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

A couple of recommendations in the "huh, that's interesting" category.

Pontypool - I really liked it and it uses a small budget very well to look more expensive and it tells an interesting story. Don't scroll through IMDB, it ruins it.

13: Game of death - Thai movie, a dark comedy where the comedy is stripped away until only darkness remains. Don't watch the American version.

Kill List - British movie. It's pretty ok, they try to channel Polanski and it's not really working so well but it builds up to something and that thing is why I remember it.

I Sell the Dead - horror comedy with Dominic Monaghan, Larry Fessenden and Ron Perlman. The tone is very light and humorous(as you would expect from a movie about grave robbing) and it is low-budget, but it works.

Feast 1-3 isn't that great of a watch IMO but then it ends.

 

[Euler's identity]

Kill List - British movie. It's pretty ok, they try to channel Polanski and it's not really working so well but it builds up to something and that thing is why I remember it.

I liked that film. Ben Wheatley is a good director. Check out Sightseers by him if you haven't seen it.

Spoiler

The hammer scene with 'The Librarian' in Kill List is brutal.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

Maybe it's because I don't wanna watch it and Ju-On alone for some reason, in which case make fun of me for it,

Oh, the Ju-On movies, especially the J-videos one (as opposed to the theatrical remake) are known to be extremely scary so maybe don't start there lol. I've shown the movie to someone who ended up running out of the room screaming. Granted she wasn't used to horror movies, but yeah they are definitely enough to creep anyone watching them alone, at the very least.


Anyone watched the Ju-On TV show that came out recently?

 

[The Fair Lady]

Big horror fan, I've watched a bit of everything. Some of my favorites are A Nightmare on Elm Street (namely 1 and 3), Mama, Sleepaway Camp, The Blair Witch Project and Thinner.

I was honestly disappointed with the original Ju-On and didn't find it that scary; the TV scene is about the worst it gets. Kayako is a hell of a lot creepier in the American remake, and Ringu is also pretty tame. That's not to say they're bad movies - which they aren't - they just didn't freak me out. I love Japanese horror in particular so I did enjoy watching them.

Didn't know there was a Ju-On show until now. Is it good?

 

[KEKMUHLORD]

Ryan Hollinger is great, and just because he reviews horror films, YouTube fucks with him and it's unfortunate. He permanently won me over with his video on the history of spider movies because Arachnophobia is a childhood favorite of mine, and I remember having a blast seeing Eight-Legged Freaks in the theater.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DPeX-jL1spk

Ryan is great. I remember watching his Lake Mungo video and watching it right after. It is definitely a horror movie that sticks with you after it is finished.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Anyone here a fan of the really old-school horror films like Universal and Hammer's outputs?

 

[Comicsgeist]

Two vampire movies tonight, one of them shit and the other one just half shite

Ten Minutes Before Midnight is about some DJ who hears that she's gonna be replaced after her show, and it devolves into a Jacob's Ladder daydream with violence and nonsense and overall, fuck that movie. Could have been something, turned out to be terrible
1.5/5

Boys from Hell County
Irish humor has been hit and miss, with some gems like Get Duked and some valiant attempts that fell flat like Caveat (still worth a watch). In this case, a construction project unveils some vampires thought to be buried, and shit breaks loose. It's not a bad movie in any way, I just can't recommend it to anyone who is not into specifically the vampire genre, or indie European horror.
Either a strong 2.5 or weak 3 outta 5

I just watched Blood Red Sky, a new release German co-production that is essentially Train to Busan on a plane, with vampires.
It was pretty good. Its a solid action/horror about a vampire trying to get to New York on an overnight flight when terrorists sieze the plane leaving her in something of a quandary when it changes direction and starts heading towards the dawn.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

I just watched Blood Red Sky, a new release German co-production that is essentially Train to Busan on a plane, with vampires.

Sold.

I was gonna pass on it, the description made it sound like it would be shit and something entirely different. Made it sound like it would be something psychological, the mother being mentally ill and another spin on the babadook or some shit.

Lake Mungo

Am I the only one who fucking hated that movie? Maybe it's because of all of the hype and how much people were selling it but I was fucking bored out of my mind, and it felt just like a fucking waste of time.

 

[KEKMUHLORD]

Am I the only one who fucking hated that movie? Maybe it's because of all of the hype and how much people were selling it but I was fucking bored out of my mind, and it felt just like a fucking waste of time.

Nah, I can understand not liking it. It is definitely a slow burn. Just stuck with me after it was finished. Not many horror movies do that to me anymore.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

Nah, I can understand not liking it. It is definitely a slow burn. Just stuck with me after it was finished. Not many horror movies do that to me anymore.

The last one that really stuck with me afterwards recently was Midsommar because of

Spoiler: the ending

partly because I couldn't believe how cruel the girl ended up being in the end, but also because I looked at people's reactions and they were like YAS QUEEN.

Like, what the fuck. He wasn't the best of boyfriends, but he stuck with her far longer than he wanted to in the first place because of her personal shit, she invited herself on that trip, and she chooses for him to burn alive after he was roofied and raped against his will and people celebrated that shit?

 

[BrunoMattei]

I really liked Midsommar.

 

[Comicsgeist]

Sold.

I was gonna pass on it, the description made it sound like it would be shit and something entirely different. Made it sound like it would be something psychological, the mother being mentally ill and another spin on the babadook or some shit.


Am I the only one who fucking hated that movie? Maybe it's because of all of the hype and how much people were selling it but I was fucking bored out of my mind, and it felt just like a fucking waste of time.

They do play that angle initially and you wonder, is she really just suffering from a rare form of leukemia like her son suggests and the vampire shit is just a delusion? But that's quickly dispensed with when she goes full fucking nosferatu.

And also yes, The Babadook is a boring chore and a tediously laboured metaphor.

I really liked Midsommar.

As is your right, I found it a cheap millennial Wicker Man knock off with nothing to say about much thematically, except perhaps how shockingly narcissistic millennial women are, which I don't think it intended.
When it comes to arthouse horror that slowly builds a sense of inescapable dread, The Witch wins hands down for me.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

And also yes, The Babadook is a boring chore and a tediously laboured metaphor.

I watched the trailer and it really looks like the first episode from Fringe (which was a great fucking tv show)

To this day people keep praising the babadook, and I can't bring myself to watch it. It's still in my 'To Watch' list ever since it got a huge buzz when it did its first festival run, but honestly the fact that ~its all in her head~ and ~deep metaphors~ make it sound like it's gonna be a fucking waste of time.

As is your right, I found it a cheap millennial Wicker Man knock off with nothing to say about much thematically, except perhaps how shockingly narcissistic millennial women are, which I don't think it intended.
When it comes to arthouse horror that slowly builds a sense of inescapable dread, The Witch wins hands down for me.

Right there with you on the first part, as far as The Witch... I mean I liked it. I genuinely think it's a good movie, but I don't get why people were acting like it was the best horror movie to come out in the last 10 years when it did, because it simply wasn't. Just because a director makes sure that a period piece is fully accurate and you can google afterwards and go 'oh looks like they were all tripping on ergot OR WERE THEY' it's like, who cares? I'd say it's a solid 4 even 4.5/5 but it's not the GOAT either.

I mean shit it wasn't even the best period Horror movie that came out in 2015, that title goes to fucking Bone Tomahawk.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Midsommar was pretty good. Not quite as good as some people make it out to be but it'd make for a far superior Wicker Man remake than the Nicolas Cage travesty that was the actual remake.

 

[Ärsyyntynyt Suomalainen]

I remember watching Midori (Chika Gentō Gekiga: Shōjo Tsubaki), and a fucking retard that I am, I watched both versions. Now I regret wasting my time on them.
SpoilersThe Live-action was a lot tamer than I expected.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

I'm not even finished with Rondo but I'm already gonna give it a strong 4.5/5.

It's an exploitation movie about a vet with a PTSD and drinking problem who enters some underground world of sex, violence and drugs.

I'm not gonna say more, because that movie has actually managed to fucking blindside me quite a few times, it's shockingly violent in the best of ways, pure exploitation I didn't know they did nowadays. Go in blind and enjoy the wild fucking ride.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

One last thought on Midsommar, I think the movie would have been completely saved and much more enjoyable if,

Spoiler: few tweaks

at the end, more or less the exact same thing happens but instead of being framed the way that it is, it is framed as her doing exactly what her sister did to her parents. Her mental health is completely gone, she wants to kill herself and decides to doom those around her as well, instead of that rebirth bullshit. Her doing the same thing her sister did to her family to her boyfriend and their social circle would have rhymed like pottery

 

[Syaoran Li]

I've mentioned this in other threads, but I'm honestly surprised some low-budget independent filmmaker hasn't decided to do their own take on the "Dark Universe" since Universal's actual big-budget attempt bombed so badly.

Hammer's whole schtick in the early days was doing their own takes on Universal Horror but in color and without the restrictions of the old Hays Code and it worked.

Most of the Universal Monsters are from public domain sources (Dracula, Frankenstein, Phantom of the Opera, The Invisible Man) or are monsters that lend themselves well to genericized versions like The Mummy and The Wolf Man (werewolves and mummies can't be copyrighted, so as long as you change a few minor details, you're golden)

Most of the Hammer films were made on a low budget and recycled a lot of props, costumes, and sets.

The hard part would be trying to find a platform to host it on who won't censor it if it's too "problematic" and also getting Zoomers to even give it a chance.