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cypocraphy said:
My favorite horror/scary movies are: John Carpenter's Halloween, Friday the 13th Part 2, The Entity,and The Exorcist III.

I'd say that 'The Entity' is the scariest movie I've ever seen, and 'Friday the 13th' is my favorite series overall.
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Coincidentally I just ordered The Entity on blu ray a few hours ago, haven't seen it in a long time but I recall it being very creepy.
 
A-Stump said:
Sleepaway Camp is one of my favorites. Even the shittier ones are OK. 2 had some of my all-time favorite kills in any movie.
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Part 2 is better than the original. Part 3 is okay but it got gutted by the MPAA. Luckily, the uncut footage was released on DVD and fan-edits have been made.
 
BrunoMattei said:
Part 2 is better than the original. Part 3 is okay but it got gutted by the MPAA. Luckily, the uncut footage was released on DVD and fan-edits have been made.
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Hmm. Depends. I'd say 2 is more fun, especially considering rewatching. The original has the cook getting merced and the screeching at the end was always memorable to me.
 
A-Stump said:
Hmm. Depends. I'd say 2 is more fun, especially considering rewatching. The original has the cook getting merced and the screeching at the end was always memorable to me.
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I don't like 2 just because of the body count and nudity but it's a great deconstruction of the slasher while not being obnoxious about it unlike Scream. It has the best slut character of any slasher movie too that has actual depth and an arc that culminates with her drowning in shit and leeches. Genius.
 
Say what you want about Freddy's dead but Carlo's death is genuinely terrifying. To have a cotton rod jamed in your skull then robbed of your hearing and stumbling around only to get back with every small noise hurting you. Sure englund cracks too many of the late stage goofy one liners Freddy was infamous for by this point.

"Calos lend me your ear!"

"Nice hearing from ya Carlos!"

But I never really minded that version of Freddy as much as others do. And yes I am aware we lost out on versions of elm street 6 that could have been a lot different arguably better, including one that would have been directed by Peter Jackson of all people fresh off his cult hits Brain Dead and Bad Taste.
 
Tonight's movie was Vicious Fun. I'm gonna have to go and give a 4.25/5. It's strong enough that it's ahead of the 4/5 fare, but not strong enough to make it into the 'rewatch in the future' 4.5 category. It's still close enough that if there's a sequel it might just become one of those by default.

Set is basically, drunk bumbling asshole manages to accidentally make his way into a room full of very very dangerous people without realizing it until it's much too late.... then shit hits the gory fan.

Good, funny, new retro wave synth soundtrack, clearly made by lovers of the genre, kinda has a low budget You're Next vibes, gore is on fucking point. Really worth a watch.
 
Terrorvision is another one of my favs. Pretty much everything is bizarre and over the top I can't help but love it. Chopping Mall was pretty badass too.

Maybe someone here could help me find something. It's a movie from Troma that's a series of shorts. Weird advertisements and skits, mostly. The ending segment is a horror movie parody around 24 minutes long, about a house that makes people kill one another/come back from the dead and has a greasy Italian guy constantly going 'What, are you kidding me? What are ya a hubcab? A shrimpboat? Whaddya fuckin' retahded!?'

If anyone remembers the name of that I'd very much like to know
 
I'm tempted to watch Frankenstein's Army. Was catching up with Resident Evil and found the film thanks to accusations the director had about how some monster designs looked similar in Village to the ones in his movie. The acting looks trash but the monster designs really appeal to me.

Calandrino said:
Martin Scorsese considered Exorcist 2 better than the original. Now that's a hot take.

(he's got a point though)
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The second one has a drunk Richard Burton in it so the first one is automatically trash.

In all seriousness though I love the first film. It's nice to see Christians and priests being portrayed as more than just strawmen and any scene involving Possessed Blair/Pazuzu is amazing.
 
Finished watching Frankenstein's Army. For me it was a mix of awesome and disappointing.

On one hand I feel that the Soviet part of the plot was underwhelming. None of the characters are particularly likeable which is a shame - a survival horror story about a group of soldiers uncovering unspeakably horrific Nazi experience at the end of WWII is an extremely interesting premise. If you're looking for a good story you're not gonna get it here.

The real stars of the film were obviously the Zombots. The director knew it, the people who made the promotional stuff knew it and I knew it too before going in. This film was made with people who love horror monsters in mind and the best bits of the film were when these guys showed up. Frankenstein gets a special mention as well - he's a big ham and the last 20-30 minutes that involve him are great. The only problem with these things is that because the film is found-footage it makes actually seeing the Zombots and the carnage they cause tricky (in fact I'm fairly sure Mosquito is the most memorable Zombot because he was visibly the clearest).

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As for the Resident Evil plagiarism allegations? The Propeller Zombot legit only appeared in the movie for about 30-40 seconds while Sturm is a miniboss that's a lot more fleshed out (pun not intended). I feel he's more of a reference to the film and improved what FA brought to the table.

EDIT: after going back and comparing Heisenberg's Factory monsters to Frankenstein's Army my feelings have changed a bit. I do think the game was inspired by FA and Capcom being quiet about it is kind of a dick move, even if financially it's the safest move they can make.

Propellerhead still looked a lot better in concept art tho.

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TL;DR: Happily watch the Zombots cause carnage - skip the bits that involve plot.
 
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Watching Villains (2019) and it's fantastic so far. Stars the clown from It, that chick from It Follows, the main dude from Burn Notice and that older chick you know you've seen in tons of shit and she's great but you have no idea what her name is or what those movies were (but she does the job)

It would be easy to say that they made this movie to try and cash in on Don't Breathe but 1) all the characters are interesting 2) none of them are cunts 3) there's people to root for and 4) it's actually really funny and also really gory.

Not gonna go ahead and make the same mistake I made with Rondo and call it already a 4.5 just in case it ends up being a 4 due to the ending, but well that's what I would have done otherwise. Will edit later.

Definitely a must check out though

edit: final thoughts, liked it slightly more than Vicious Fun, but I guess it doesn't make it to the 'rewatch worthy' category either, so I guess 4.3/5?

It's really good, though, and more than worth a watch.
 
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I once saw the Japanese "Ring" movie, but never saw the American remake.

How was "The Ring"?
 
Nowhere near as good as the Japanese one, but neither 1 or 2 were bad movies either.

I think that a huge part of what makes Ringu or Ju-On scary is the fact that they are in a foreign language in a foreign setting using foreign tropes we're not used to.
 
Been on a Werner Herzog kick as of late and re-watching films that I haven't seen in 5-10 years. Started with Stroszek which I appreciated much more on my 2nd viewing and then watched Aguirre: the Wrath of God and Woyzeck. None of which are horror of course but I've decided to re-watch Herzog's remake of Nosferatu.

It's one of those remakes that might be better than the original or at least on par with it. It greatly benefits from casting Klaus Kinski as the vampire. The opening scene is genuinely unnerving and perfectly sets the tone.


These mummies were also featured in the first Faces of Death.
Another bit of trivia: Robert Englund partially based his performance as Freddy in the first Nightmare on Elm Street on Kinski's portrayal of the vampire in this film.

Try to watch the German version because -in an eerie similarity- Herzog shot the movie twice. Once with the actors speaking English and again with them speaking German and the German version is superior. Much like the Spanish version of Dracula.

It's a slow burn of a film so the ADHD crowd will probably be bored but it's among Herzog's best films and one of the best horror remakes out there.
 
Watching the first final destination for the first time in a long time and I must say, it's so different from the sequels. Sure you could say it was the first and the creative team didn't know quite what they wanted yet but you see things that would either be toned down 9r removed in the later films.

While James Wong said one major thing he had in mind from the very beginning was that the film wasn't going to be a conventional slasher flick of the time (scream I known what you did last summer ect) there was no man in a mask for the characters to fight back against. You do see death take something a form in a few scenes. Most notably the shadow that hovers over tod in the mirror, the lightning that strikes, the bus reflection that passes in a mirror just before it flattens someone, or the skull like face you just barely see in the tea kettle.

That and the deaths are mostly simple, the goriest being a tie between Ms lewton and Billy's deaths. Simple when compared to the deaths of the sequels where someone's intestines are sucked out through a pool pump or a couple tanning beds overcharging and having the kids blocked by a fallen shelf.
 
Comicsgeist said:
And also yes, The Babadook is a boring chore and a tediously laboured metaphor.
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I do agree with the critics on this one, it did creep me the fuck out. However, the ending sucked ass.
BrunoMattei said:
I like the Friday the 13th remake. All the remakes by Platinum Dunes (Michael Bay's company) were cynically made cash grabs. That much is true. But Friday the 13th -let's be honest- was in itself a cynically made cash grab. So in a weird kind of serendipity it all worked out with the remake. It also helped that the writers of Freddy VS Jason worked on it. And I liked Freddy VS Jason despite some issues like CGI gore and Freddy only killing one person in a very uncreative manner.

All the elements are in place for the Friday the 13th remake:

Adult Jason. Who is wearing the hockey mask for the majority of the run time. Jason is a force of nature and not easily subdued by a 110 LB woman like in part 2 or 3.

It's set at Camp Crystal Lake which was refreshing after parts 8-10.

The fodder or red shirts or our main characters are actually likable.

The opening 20 minutes is genius and is a good example of subverting expectations.

Tits and gore are top notch. It plays hand in hand with the cynicism but the suites understood that the average consumer knows that the franchise is known for these things: Jason with the hockey mask, Camp Crystal Lake setting, and an abundance of tits and gore. This one certainly delivers with some of the best kills in the franchise.
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I've said this to you before but I'll say it here, I enjoyed the Texas Chainsaw remake Platinum Dunes did, if only because R Lee Ermey stole the show in that one.


IMO I don't consider Exorcist as much of a horror movie as much it as is a really powerful drama. That's not a knock against the movie, its still one of my all time favorites.
Exorcist 3's patchwork cut on the Scream Factory release is really damn close in quality to the original Exorcist.
 
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