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Post by mystermystery on Nov 16, 2022 21:13:53 GMT -5
Having seen GRAVE ENCOUNTERS (and GRAVE ENCOUNTERS 2), I decided to quest into the land of Tubi to find some Found Footage movies using the "TV Show crew filming a new episode end up in A REAL HAUNTED ______" plotline.
EPISODE 50 follows a TV Show crew filming a new episode end up in A REAL HAUNTED ASYLUM! It leans heavy on the main team relying heavy on science while having a competing teams that leans heavier towards religion. It seemingly begins abandoning the found footage aspect the later in the film it goes. In all, it doesn't do much with its set ups and eventually pulls the trigger on crazy, but it's too little too late. Also, bring a flow chart to keep track of who is on whose team.
HOLLOW'S GROVE follows a TV Show crew filming a new episode end up in A REAL HAUNTED HOSPITAL! The main filming conceit is the 'behind the scenes' guys. It's a found footage movie that feels like it should be a satire or parody of the genre...but ends up being a played straight film for the most part. It's got Lance Henriksen as the retired movie special effects dude who helps set up haunted areas for added shocks to the episodes and he...is not utilized nearly enough despite showing much more of himself than I ever expected to see. The wrap around of the film is a "The government has collected this video" story with Mykelti Willamson (probably best known as Bubba from Forrest Gump) playing a military man in what is probably the most tongue in cheek aspect of the film, down to the outright absurd last 'scare.'
They are...exactly what I expected so...I guess that's on me.
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Post by ace on Nov 17, 2022 20:03:57 GMT -5
Thumbs up for The Menu. The blackest of comedies that is funny in different ways. It’s listed as a horror comedy and I guess that’s true. It’s really interested in entertaining you more than suspense though.
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Post by Saiyanic Panic on Nov 17, 2022 20:38:06 GMT -5
Thumbs up for The Menu. The blackest of comedies that is funny in different ways. It’s listed as a horror comedy and I guess that’s true. It’s really interested in entertaining you more than suspense though. I'm actually really curious as to how much of the original ending from the script I read a while ago they kept.
{Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW} From memory, Taylor-Joy's character tells the chef flat-out she hates his food because he can't simply make a dish patrons can enjoy anymore; it's all got to be overthought BS. She challenges him to make a basic cheeseburger. Not some deconstructed avant garde piece, just a well-made American freakin' cheeseburger. He does, she takes a bite and it's actually REAAAAALLLY good. She then asks for the rest to go. There's a long pause before she's allowed to leave, escaping the rest of the dining room's fate of becoming a s'more.
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Post by tntchamp on Nov 17, 2022 21:04:22 GMT -5
Thumbs up for The Menu. The blackest of comedies that is funny in different ways. It’s listed as a horror comedy and I guess that’s true. It’s really interested in entertaining you more than suspense though. I will see this Saturday. It looks so promising.
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Nov 18, 2022 17:33:15 GMT -5
In horror novels it is obligatory for the characters to have some skepticism and to search for rational explanations, when confronted with the supernatural, but it is a fine balancing act. A bountiful amount of it and the matter gets repetitive and creates characters that are annoying and hard to root for, which this novel suffers from. Toned down this would have made for a much better read, because everything else is top notch writing. Dread drips off the pages; the haunted children make for a believable bunch, and it is hard to read about them suffering as much as they do. Despite lagging somewhat in the middle, it is a fast-paced read. I myself read the latter half of the novel without taking a single non-bathroom break, eager to see how it turned out and to take joy in the crazy bitch behind it all take her coup de grâce.
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Post by pinja on Nov 19, 2022 8:12:22 GMT -5
Pontypool (2008) by Bruce McDonald It's been roughly ten years since I've first seen "Pontypool" and knew I wanted to come back to it. There's a nice vendor in my town selling used movies and music. The bad stuff or unremarkable mass produced movies usually sell for about 3 €. I went through the stacks and came across "Fear of the Living Dead: Radio Zombie": What an awful title, what an awful cover. It sounds and looks like garbage. I still glanced at the back cover. Then it dawned on me that "Radio Zombie" is an abomination of a translated title. Some genius German distributor thought "Pontypool" would do better when it's instantly identifiable as a zombie movie. At least I got it for 3 € that way.
"Pontypool" is a flawed movie with a great premise: Radio host Grant Mazzy is doing his little morning show in Canadian small town Pontypool. He apparently was a big name somewhere else and now has to realize that his days in the limelight are over. But then news come in of people behaving erratically and increasingly violent. A type of zombie outbreak happens and "Pontypool" restrains from showing most of it. The movie is told from within the radio station and mostly through Mazzy's voice and those of his co-workers. Sort of a variation of "War of the Worlds".
The third act has the "zombies" break into the radio station and "Pontypool" becomes a more standard affair. It still is unique in the way the infection occurs. It's transmitted via language. There're contaminated words that when understood and heared often enough make the listeners lose their grasp of language and subsequently become feral. Sounds stupid? It isn't. It's in the tradition of many interesting literary experiments and Tony Burgess, writer of both the script and the novel it's based on ("Pontypool Changes Everything"), has a degree in Semiotics. "Pontypool" is pretty much an exercise in Semiotics combined with Burgess' punk rock attitude. Parts of the script are really bad and make no sense, but the overall tone works fine. If nothing else, I really hope for a sequel that irons out the problems, because language is such an underused theme in movies.
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Post by tntchamp on Nov 19, 2022 18:18:07 GMT -5
In horror novels it is obligatory for the characters to have some skepticism and to search for rational explanations, when confronted with the supernatural, but it is a fine balancing act. A bountiful amount of it and the matter gets repetitive and creates characters that are annoying and hard to root for, which this novel suffers from. Toned down this would have made for a much better read, because everything else is top notch writing. Dread drips off the pages; the haunted children make for a believable bunch, and it is hard to read about them suffering as much as they do. Despite lagging somewhat in the middle, it is a fast-paced read. I myself read the latter half of the novel without taking a single non-bathroom break, eager to see how it turned out and to take joy in the crazy bitch behind it all take her coup de grâce. I dig doing a book review. I love those old 80s book covers. It is (no pun intended) a lost art. Finally saw the menu and it was such a really good movie. The tension and build up was exciting and Raph and Anna were top notch. It is also very funny in certain parts and a entertaining (if not unsubtle) social statire.
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Post by ace on Nov 19, 2022 18:41:35 GMT -5
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Post by mystermystery on Nov 19, 2022 20:18:41 GMT -5
NOPE is on Peacock and NOPE is pretty cool, y'all.
Really liked that thing. Some really good stuff and some real bummer 'fridge thinking' about certain character's fates.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Nov 19, 2022 22:49:33 GMT -5
Anyone doing any Black Friday shopping for horror this year?
I’m hitting up the same three I hit up last year plus maybe some more.
I have a feeling my Severin hall will be much lighter than last year due to them phasing out DVDs. My Vinegar Syndrome hall should be about the same as last year. I already completed my shopping with Grindhouse Video. I was going to forego shopping with them altogether, but both the quality of their sale and shipping speed improved BIG TIME since last year.
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Post by DSR on Nov 20, 2022 1:08:26 GMT -5
Anyone doing any Black Friday shopping for horror this year? I’m hitting up the same three I hit up last year plus maybe some more. I have a feeling my Severin hall will be much lighter than last year due to them phasing out DVDs. My Vinegar Syndrome hall should be about the same as last year. I already completed my shopping with Grindhouse Video. I was going to forego shopping with them altogether, but both the quality of their sale and shipping speed improved BIG TIME since last year. Yeah, Severin has three Blu-Ray/DVD combos they're reducing the price on significantly (PATRICK, THIRST, and DEAD KIDS). I intend to grab all three of those. That's about all I've got planned for Black Friday horror.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Nov 20, 2022 1:12:59 GMT -5
Anyone doing any Black Friday shopping for horror this year? I’m hitting up the same three I hit up last year plus maybe some more. I have a feeling my Severin hall will be much lighter than last year due to them phasing out DVDs. My Vinegar Syndrome hall should be about the same as last year. I already completed my shopping with Grindhouse Video. I was going to forego shopping with them altogether, but both the quality of their sale and shipping speed improved BIG TIME since last year. Yeah, Severin has three Blu-Ray/DVD combos they're reducing the price on significantly (PATRICK, THIRST, and DEAD KIDS). I intend to grab all three of those. That's about all I've got planned for Black Friday horror. Also, 2 different versions of Plague Town, but I already have that one. I plan on getting the 3 you mentioned too. I wouldn’t be shocked if Severin has something else up it’s sleeve. For the halfway to Black Friday sale they had a flash sale for box sets that really hit the old wallet.
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Post by pinja on Nov 20, 2022 9:09:00 GMT -5
I just watched The Curse (1987) by David Keith and wanted to recommend it. Then I've read the Wikipedia entry. Then I've read Wil Wheaton's recent blog post from August 2022 on the production. Bottom line: No recommendation to put it lightly.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Nov 20, 2022 16:41:02 GMT -5
Had pretty mild expectations for Smile, and was pleasantly surprised at how well done it was. Between that and Barbarian this has been a good year for higher concept horror films in the mainstream.
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Post by ace on Nov 20, 2022 17:05:07 GMT -5
Had pretty mild expectations for Smile, and was pleasantly surprised at how well done it was. Between that and Barbarian this has been a good year for higher concept horror films in the mainstream. Those were my thoughts on Smile exactly. I went in expecting the basics and it had more thought put into it than that. I’m glad it did huge business. A lot of horror succeeded this year with an overall down box office. That bodes well for more ideas breaking into the mainstream soon.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Nov 20, 2022 20:17:10 GMT -5
I know I'm super late to the party, but I picked up Shout Factory's Friday the 13th deluxe box set. Holy crap these films look incredible. It's like they were just shot yesterday. I'm watching part IV now. So I'll make it through the Jason as a human films then tomorrow is V-VIII aka the end of Paramount's run.
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Post by FinalGwen on Nov 20, 2022 21:49:46 GMT -5
Been watching the Childs Play series for the first time in years, and as iconic as Chucky is, the real terror comes from just that sense of isolation in being a kid and not believed about what's happening to you. Really masterfully done.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Nov 23, 2022 0:16:11 GMT -5
Has anyone checked out any horror from the Kino Lorber Studio Classics line? I have a bunch of them, so I did a double feature of The Crimson Cult (1968) and House of 1,000 Dolls (1967). The Crimson Cult was the funner of the two. It features Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee in major roles. It had a lot of similarities to The Whicker Man which came out a few years later. It’s about an antiques dealer whose brother goes missing in a rural British town. Lee plays a wealthy resident while Karloff is a professor. It turns out that years ago a witch was unjustly burned at the stake and cursed all the descendants of those who accused her. The antiques dealer finds out he has a connection to all this as murder and intrigue take place. Michael Gough and Barbara Steele are also featured. Gough does a great job playing against type as an Igor-esque character though Steele is woefully underutilized. While there is not much blood there are some scenes that border on light S&M. As far as I know this is the only movie to feature Karloff and S&M. Although I don’t know. Towards the end he was taking money for all kinds of crap. House of 1,000 Dolls isn’t really horror, but gives top billing to horror icon Vincent Price. Price plays a magician and the finale of his act is he makes a woman from the audience disappear. Only instead of making them reappear they get transported to an international brothel. The Spanish boyfriend of one woman tracks the magician down to Tangiers, but gets killed trying to be the hero. An American doctor who was friends with the would-be hero steps in to track down the magician, avenge his friend, and end the whole seedy operation. The picture quality on the Blu-ray for this one looks great, but I have a feeling the originally sound for this film was horrible. So even with the restoration work there was only so much they can do with it. The film itself has some great visuals, but the plot is pretty predictable.
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Nov 23, 2022 3:20:59 GMT -5
They should make a horror film about Boglins. That's the post.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Nov 23, 2022 14:45:57 GMT -5
They should make a horror film about Boglins. That's the post. They did my pet monster and garbage pail kids. You got to figure is the toy line was a bit more popular it would have made it. I could see it working in a creepers/ghoulies type of movie. So I'm watching the Friday the 13th remake. Hot take, it's the only PD remake that's any good. Texas Chainsaw Massacre I couldn't get past that Harry Knowles skin/face. It took me out of the movie. Nightmare on Elm Street outside a good performance of Jackie Earle Haley, the makeup for Freddy, cgi, and other performances were all bad. With the PD version of Jason, the changes they made I feel add to the mythos. Making Jason a survivalist works and the film clears up the timeline a bit.
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