from hell otm
― roxymuzak, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:07 (sixteen years ago) link
You know, it was somewhat spelled out in the movie that it may have been "all in his mind," but I think I chose to deliberately ignore that (consciously or unconsciously) because it's so much more entertaining that way.
― Abbott, Monday, 10 September 2007 04:51 (sixteen years ago) link
15. Henry: a portarit of a serial killer. the best serial killer movie ever made,guarentied
― Zeno, Monday, 10 September 2007 04:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh wait, here's one... PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER (tho it's not stupid, but fantastic)
― Abbott, Monday, 10 September 2007 04:58 (sixteen years ago) link
-19. Heathers
― MsLaura, Monday, 10 September 2007 05:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I definitely don't think Henry counts. It's so very unnerving because it's so very probable.
― Deric W. Haircare, Monday, 10 September 2007 12:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Henry is a great movie (albeit one I've only managed to stomach watching once) but hues pretty closely to a tone of flat, mundane realism. Henry doesn't do anything particularly unbelievable or genius or impossible, its all just garden-variety assault/violence.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 10 September 2007 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Something that actually happened: Special needs kid gets drunk on tequila.
Probable movie: Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.
― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 06:35 (sixteen years ago) link
What's the point of this thread?
― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 06:41 (sixteen years ago) link
btw american psycho was so obv ambiguous aka whole point fyi duh
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 06:43 (sixteen years ago) link
American Psycho is improbable! The movie was a gas and the novel was a bloated corpse. Why are we debating the probability? Patrick Bateman is not probable.
― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 06:49 (sixteen years ago) link
-20. Zodiac
― John Justen, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 06:50 (sixteen years ago) link
HI FB!
I agree that Henry is an awesome movie.
― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 06:51 (sixteen years ago) link
HI JJ!
― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 06:52 (sixteen years ago) link
HI -21. Zodiac!
― John Justen, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 06:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Listen, I got bored with the Illusionist when I realized the whole movie turned on the ability of the inscrutable Asians inventing holographic projection in the nineteenth century, but I realized it kinda blew before that.
I mean, how probable is it that a Danish graveyard attendant from the sixteenth century was actually that witty? (moving on here to a diferent reference)
Amirite?
― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 07:08 (sixteen years ago) link
P.S. I'm not wearing pants.
― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 07:09 (sixteen years ago) link
U R IMPROBABLE
― John Justen, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 07:10 (sixteen years ago) link
the illusionist suked but the prestige was bobm
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 07:11 (sixteen years ago) link
While we're on the subject, does anyone remember an Australian(?) indie flick from the nineties, which mostly consisted of a female psychiatrist interviewing a serial killer in jail? I'm not sure if it was that improbable, but I can't remember the name of the movie.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 07:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I is a not wearing pants actually happened. LOGIK 101
― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 07:12 (sixteen years ago) link
-22. Zodiac -23. Zodiac
― Deric W. Haircare, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 00:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Wait...The Illusionist? The Prestige? I didn't see those movies, but weren't they about magicians? Do all magicians kill people?
OH GOD...DOES DAVID COPPERFIELD KILL PEOPLE?!?
― Deric W. Haircare, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 03:09 (sixteen years ago) link
No they're improbable, which means NO MAGICIAN HAS EVER KILLED ANYONE EVER.
― John Justen, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 04:21 (sixteen years ago) link
-24. The Number 23
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 05:03 (sixteen years ago) link
No Country For Old Men haw
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 8 February 2008 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
HOUSE OF WAX
― Jarlrmai, Friday, 8 February 2008 23:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Don't anyone be dismissing
http://www.horror-movies.ca/albums/userpics/Feed1.jpg
― Eric H., Friday, 8 February 2008 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/untraceable/
― Martin Van Burne, Friday, 8 February 2008 23:59 (sixteen years ago) link
no mention of the "scream" or any of the slasher film sub-genre yet
― murderdogger, Saturday, 9 February 2008 00:18 (sixteen years ago) link
slasher subgenre is discussed upthread as being something of a different animal
― Shakey Mo Collier, Saturday, 9 February 2008 00:24 (sixteen years ago) link
All serial killers are ridiculously improbable, including the real ones
I don't know what this means... I'm referring to movies wherein serial killers are presented as superhumanly intelligent and attentive to details, while also being violently psychopathic and remarkably skillful at psychological manipulation. They are also usually very "cool" and calm and collected.
does this include straight-up slasher movies?
taking the above into account, no. It also rules out most serial killer movies about actual real-life serial killers, who usually are more pathetic and dysfunctional than superhuman.
-- Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, September 7, 2007 8:51 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Saturday, 9 February 2008 00:25 (sixteen years ago) link
93. Identity
ya and it sucked too!
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 9 February 2008 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link
-25. the devils rejects -26. whats eating gilbert grape -27. zodiac
― sadie8707, Saturday, 9 February 2008 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
-28. the first power
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
-29. shocker
(how the fuck did this get this far w/o mention of)
-30. the stepfather (& sequels)
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
lol the first power
I kind of love that movie.
― ENBB, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I spent all of October talking about how I wanted to watch -25. the devils rejects but then I forgot about it and still haven't seen it.
― ENBB, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
xp - jeff kober: ridiculously improbable tho his character may have been, u gotta admit that dude looks like a serial killing mf
http://content7.flixster.com/photo/48/42/27/4842277_gal.jpg
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
E, your reaction to TDR should correspond how well you enjoy 70s-era exploitation horror & the strength of your tolerance for (often comically ott, but still potentially upsetting) sadism & gore. you have been warned!
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm pretty OK with all of those things tbh which is why I really want to see it.
― ENBB, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Plus it's supposed to be much better than his first, right?
once again you prove to be a woman after my own heart!
*sigh*
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
house of 1000 corpses? supposed to be pretty dud, so I've actually never seen it.
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
so yeah, TDR is just fine as a standalone narrative (if, by narrative, u mean cavalcade of violence & grotesquery)
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Loosely based on a real guy, although he only killed the one family.
It strikes me that, among real-life dudes, the BTK and Green River killers were almost as ludicrous as any of these fictional guys. They got away with that shit for a loooooong time. Also the Zodiac, obvs.
― Tub Girl Time Machine (Phil D.), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Have there been movies about the Green River Killer? I'm sort of obsessed with that story.
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, December 21, 2010 3:44 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
Yeah, I need to see it. Also want to see it for the final "Freebird" scene which I hear is pretty epic.
― ENBB, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
although he only killed the one family. - thus not engaging in the ridiculously improbable repeat activity of marrying, mudering, remarrying, murdering etc.
pretty sure this was borrowed (stolen) pretty blatantly from Night of the Hunter, now that I think about it.
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link