People liked Bone Tomahawk? I thought it was super dopey, and not much more than a generic old-fashioned “townsfolk vs Savage Injuns” movie that disguises itself in the thinnest veneer.
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 1 November 2019 04:23 (four years ago) link
That's exactly what Bone Tomahawk is.
Watched The Lost Boys with my kids the other night - first time I'd seen it in years. It's dumb and great. I'd forgotten how ugly the feeding scene is.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Friday, 1 November 2019 09:40 (four years ago) link
Fulci did make a great, late Spaghetti Western called Four of the Apocalypse that's plenty violent but with no overt supernatural element:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_of_the_Apocalypse
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 1 November 2019 10:44 (four years ago) link
I think Bone Tomahawk is way more than "generic." The ornate dialogue, the pace, the flashes of humor, the shocking extremity of the unexpected (even when expected!) violence ... these all set it apart.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 November 2019 12:09 (four years ago) link
There was a time when I wanted to see Bone Tomahawk. That time was before I saw the dude's other movie, Brawl In Cell Block 99.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 1 November 2019 12:31 (four years ago) link
Now *that* movie is pretty generic, by design (I think), though entertainingly ridiculous and ott. Bone Tomahawk is much better.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 November 2019 13:37 (four years ago) link
Tale Of TalesThe WitchNovember A Field In EnglandMandyAcross The RiverUnder The SkinIt Follows Hagazussa
I regretted giving into the hype for Oculus, The Pact (which seems to be forgotten now), Hereditary, The Invitation and Get Out so I'm not seeing Midsommar or Us.
Baskin has its moments but not enough.
Incident In A Ghostland is not great but it deserved far more mentions than it got, pretty grueling and first film I'd seen in some time that really "went there" where other films would stop. Martyrs/Tall Man/House Of Voices director. Worth a try, some of you might really like it.
Green Room is solid but I didn't feel strongly about it. Climax is great but not quite my version of horror.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 1 November 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
speaking of martyrs, I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it yet. it's so unfriendly that it's hard to recommend without some kind of warning but it's unique and you'll probably get something out of the experience, for better or worse.
also -
here comes the devil - mexican horror notable for its goregrind usage, among other thingsdream home - well-made HK slasher with some really brutal kills
mandy is probably my favorite modern horror film by some margin tho. feels like a classic.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 2 November 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
the original Martyrs is amazing and one of my favourite horror films ever, don't think i'll ever bother with the remake
― Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 2 November 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
yep, that one. I always forget that there even is a remake. seems bizarre!
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 2 November 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
God I hate Martyrs, I'm sure I went over this at some point.
― Simon H., Saturday, 2 November 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
One I forgotten: We Are The Flesh.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 2 November 2019 20:34 (four years ago) link
We are the Flesh was weird and messed up and funny and nuts.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 November 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
where are we discussing Doctor Sleep? Here?
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
nah this is the horror movies thread
― Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
missed the brief martyrs discussion upthread a couple of days ago, but it's an extraordinary movie that has stayed with me in a way that very few have since i saw it at least five years ago
i still don't really know what to make of it tbh
― Titanic was cliched Marxist crap. (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link
If it's only a shaggy dog story leading you to the punchline it's still a tremendous punchline, it fucked with me in a manner I can only compare with "Oldboy"
― Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
will check it out
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
the french one, right?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
xxxp I'd say if The Shining counts as horror then so does Doctor Sleep (PS I actually really enjoyed it FWIW)
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
xp yeah i've never seen the remake but let's assume it's shit like every other anglophone remake
― Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
Fairly certain this wasn't cleared through legal... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7446638/(trailer NSFW or for sanity)
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 8 November 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link
For me the scary woman in the house is the best thing about Martyrs and then it moves away from that. Always surprised that many people prefer the torture.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 8 November 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
i uh don’t think anyone here has said anything like that
― Titanic was cliched Marxist crap. (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 8 November 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
Anyone else seen Tale Of Tales and November?
Across The River has some camera footage stuff but otherwise it's like a brutal MR James thing.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 8 November 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
Here's a review of that KFC movie. Sounds NFM (Not For Me) but thoughtful and well crafted.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 8 November 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
shit realized I left the Babadook off my decade list, would def add that
many xps
― Οὖτις, Friday, 8 November 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agnpaFLo0to
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 9 November 2019 04:25 (four years ago) link
oh jeez that looks tight
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 9 November 2019 05:07 (four years ago) link
Man, what has Richard Stanley been up to? A career of bad luck?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 9 November 2019 05:58 (four years ago) link
I saw COOS. It's alright. The last 15 minutes is by far the best part, which makes it seem / feel better than it is.
― Simon H., Saturday, 9 November 2019 06:02 (four years ago) link
I enjoyed Doctor Sleep. The predators of the movie are one of the creepier vampire posses
― mh, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 02:14 (four years ago) link
Our Joel described it as a well-crafted entertaining rendering of a book that should never have been written
― The Man Who Was Thirsty (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 02:22 (four years ago) link
I described it as one of the spookiest Charmed season finales OF ALL TIMESeems like Flanagan is the guy if you want a polished realisation of a wholly misbegotten project for sure, this is probably the pinnacle of that. You could remove an hour of this film and it would just be serviceable glossy Netflix garbage (or just... a slightly above par Stephen King adaptation, the book is goofy King and Flanagan massively increases the schmaltz as is his wont) but the entire enterprise is so perverse it’s hilariousLike it’s one thing that (MILD SPOILERS) it’s this YA adventure with a psychic child doing battle with a Disney villain called “Rose the hat” whose catchphrase is “hi there” and who says shit like “curses! The brat’s powers are stronger than I feared!”but then at the same time it’s going out of its way to constantly remind you that this film — in which everything is explained and there is no trace of the uncanny — is a sequel to STANLEY KUBRICK’S THE SHINING. It’s fuckin wild. This isn’t a spoiler really since it’s present right from the beginning, but they have actors made up to look like characters/apparitions from the original film, but with performances & writing much closer to the 90s miniseries, and I’m sitting there like “it rules that someone thought this was a good idea”
― YouGov to see it (wins), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
i think King approves of it which is as damning as it gets
― The Man Who Was Thirsty (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link
Wait: does someone in this movie actually sincerely say 'curses!' because I didn't realize this movie was Hocus Pocus.
― Maybe you wanna lay off the Mountain Dew, there, Burt. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link
I’ve seen ppl giving MF credit for his attempt to “reconcile” Kubrick’s vision with King’s, ymmv on whether this kind of puppyish eagerness to please all the people all the time makes for good horror but it certainly doesn’t seem like a trait that either of the SKs share
― YouGov to see it (wins), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 14:36 (four years ago) link
I’m paraphrasing the “curses” part but it kind of is hocus pocus yes
wins pretty much has it
I was joking with a friend that half the plot is the same as The Last Jedi, with a prospective teacher hiding his magic powers away for decades and spurning a young apprentice
― mh, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link
FWIW I thought the shot recreations were artfully integrated and way preferable to reused footage. And the astral projection sequence was cool.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 12 November 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
It's annoying that Flanagan is so respectful of King.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 12 November 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
On the marketing side, I'm pleasantly surprised that the execs didn't push hard for The Shining 2. Particularly since Doctor Sleep is and always has been a really awful title.
― Maybe you wanna lay off the Mountain Dew, there, Burt. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
Having not been a Stephen King reader but having watched a number of film adaptations, I'm wondering: is the Overlook as a place that feeds on those with the shining something that was extrapolated on more in the books? It wasn't quite clunky, but as a parallel to these energy vampire people who also feed, it made me wonder why they didn't seem to know such places existed.
― mh, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
The series is, like the book, much more about alcoholism than Kubrick’s version.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
(And the scene that would be the ‘here’s Johnny’ scene is completely trapped by the Kubrick version - it’s kind of interesting)
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 15:04 (four years ago) link
― YouGov to see it (wins), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
lol, this looks abundantly bad; somebody watch it and tell me if you diehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=1WbXAOBuo6A
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
i can't find the thread wherein people post their favorite jump scares or scenes from horror films.. help?
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 16 November 2019 02:06 (four years ago) link
Best and/or Scariest and/or Creepiest Scenes Ever (from horror films or TV shows or whatever, I don't care)
― Vernon Locke, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 02:46 (four years ago) link
There's really not much to it - medieval-ish monster hunter doing the rounds a la "The Witcher" - and I can see why the ending might be divisive (it also gives it an ironic horror anthology vibe), but I thought "The Head Hunter" was extremely well done, especially since it reportedly only cost $30,000. If that's true that's crazy, because it looks great, the props are great, the location shooting perfect, even the make-up an sound design is pretty good. Very impressed.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 23 November 2019 13:56 (four years ago) link