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| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/12/24 4:16:13 PM #261 | Anthology films are among my personal favorite types of films so incorporate that into your predictions if you so wish!
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| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/12/24 2:40:33 PM #250 | Outlier
Fortybelowsummer - 86 Inviso - 64 Jcgamer107 - 61 Karo - 61 Seginustemple - 60 Evilordexdeath - 55 Johnbobb - 49 Rockus - 43 Mythiot - 37 Snake - 33 Plasmabeam - 32 Bitto - 31 Lightning - 27 *machinery grinding noises* --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. If you're gonna scream, scream with me |
| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/12/24 1:42:41 PM #245 | Bitto - Rating: D+
Yeah, that certainly was a movie. There's some good stuff in here. I think the movie being in black-and-white is pretty neat. When blood spills, it's black so it kinda looks like oil spurts instead. There's some...oddball WarioWare-esque humor in here, like the woman laughing on TV or the choppiness of the chase scenes or the sound effects. It actually works kinda well. I want to like this movie more. It's just really difficult for me to care about anything when it's this abstract. Like, the guy's girlfriend dies after getting on his drill penis. OK? Did she actually die? I don't know! If she did die, am I supposed to care? I don't know anything about this woman, other than she enjoyed having sex with this man and she makes metal noises when she eats. Jcgamer107 - 3/10 Plasmabeam - Its wild and visually electrifying, but who cares? Nothing about the story or its characters did anything for me, and despite the brief run time, I was begging for this one to end. Lightning - That sounds interesting. Oh boy, where to start with this one. I suppose that this is a film where I fully recognise a lot of the craft and meaning behind it, as well as appreciate some of the style. Unfortunately I found it pretty unpleasant, almost nauseating, to actually watch. That is likely the purpose of the film but maybe it works a little bit too well. There are a lot of interesting aspects here, and it does seem to be making the same kind of commentary that Videodrome and The Fly are about the melding of humans with technology. As technological advances increased pace in the 1980s so too did commentary on what it does to our lives. There are also a lot of nice stylistic touches here. In particular I was quite fond of the way the car collision near the start was shot and set to gentle, jazzy music. David Lynchs influence here is obvious. The story is very simple but told in a way that makes it difficult to comprehend but also satisfying to think about. The effects and the low-fi look make the whole thing more effective. Unfortunately those gnarly effects and images are what made me mostly just wish for this film to be over. It was all a bit too much, and I think the lack of colour and detail only lets your mind add to it. There is definitely something here for people who are into films that are both incomprehensible and nasty. Overall however this was not one of the best on the list. 3/5 Inviso - I have not had the greatest success when it comes to these horror lists and Japanese movies. I have managed to sit through almost every movie on the list thus far (Tetsuo being the last one I watched) without feeling squeamish at the grotesque amount of gore and body horror on display. But this one managed to gross me out in the first five minutes. Its just a never-ending sequence of metal being inserted into people or welded onto people, and something I think Ive learned after watching this film and a few othersI REALLY dont like seeing human faces makeupped into part of a larger whole. Seeing the guys face sticking out from this mass of metallic shrapnel made me more squeamish than some of the outright blood and guts this movie has had to offer. Beyond that though, this movie is a mess from a technical standpoint. Theres a ton of shaky cam and a bunch of seizure-inducing quick cuts to obscure the stop motion I guess. And then you have the score, which is just ear-raping metallic and electrical noise. Not music; just NOISE. And its so loud and it goes on (along with pained screaming) throughout the majority of the film. Nothing about this movie was enjoyable, and the one thing I will give it credit for is that the plot seemed simple enough? Guy has a car accident with someone turning into a metal monster, and he gets infected and starts transforming himself. In the hands of a better filmmaker, this could be good (particularly since we had several superior transformation horror films on this list), but I did not enjoy this even at a paltry runtime of sub-seventy minutes. Fortybelowsummer - You know the Side Eye Chloe meme? I feel like thats what my face looked like the whole time I was watching Tetsuo. Ive never seen anything so experimentally raw, jarring, and bizarre. If youre looking for the plot here, its going to be difficult to decipher because its far from conventional. Basically, its two guys that cross paths and theyre turning into metal and then they merge and try to turn the world into metal \m/. I believe its about industrialization and mans relationship with technology. I respect the imaginative sound design, the originality, and the Lynchian-cyberpunk visuals, but is it an enjoyable experience? Overall, no. Even at a little over an hour it felt like an assault on the senses that was going on for too long. By the end I felt like Id been worked over by a giant penis drill, and Im not knocking it if thats what youre into but its just not for me. Karo - Far as I can tell, this is about a japanese salaryman accidentally running over a metal demon and getting cursed or something to all his body parts slowly turning mechanical? This nonsensical and headache-inducing mess feels weird just for weird's sake and is not helped by a cameraman who keeps having a seizure on set. I cannot understand half the movie, nor do I even want to understand it and its carnival of mindless grotesquery that has about as much to say as your average porno. It's not even exceptionally scary because one, it is very hard to tell what is going on thanks to incompetent cinematography and editing, and two, it has a penchant for out of place silliness. When the penis drill happened I just couldn't take the movie seriously any more, I mean come on are you fucking 12 or something. Tetuso is one of the most thoroughly unpleasant experiences I've ever had watching a movie, and even though it had the shortest runtime in the project it was still way too long. --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. If you're gonna scream, scream with me |
| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/12/24 1:42:31 PM #244 | 23. Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989 / 245 points)
Directed / Written by: Shinya Tsukamoto https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/8bd3cd7d.jpg Why Its Significant - Shinya Tsukamoto's 1989 cyberpunk nightmare transcends mere horror movie status. It's a genre-bending assault on the senses, a low-budget explosion of body horror and social anxieties that redefined horror for a new generation as it left the 80s behind feeling prudish in comparison. Decades before films like Martyrs or Antichrist pushed the boundaries of bodily violation, Tetsuo reveled in the grotesque as flesh contorted, metal erupted, and the line between human and machine blurred viciously and without mercy. Tetsuo's raw energy and unapologetic violence of course paved the way for the wave of Asian Extreme horror to come too, notable examples of its influence seen in films like Audition or Ichi the Killer. Tetsuo: The Iron Man isn't horror for the faint of heart - it forces you to confront your anxieties about the human condition in the face of a technological future that may be coming sooner than we think. It received two sequels and is commonly included on lists of the best Japanese films ever made. The Rankers Seginustemple - 5 Evilordexdeath - 6 Rockus - 6 Johnbobb - 7 Mythiot - 11 Snake - 18 Bitto - 24 Jcgamer107 - 24 Plasmabeam - 27 Lightning - 28 Inviso - 29 Fortybelowsummer - 30 Karo - 30 Seginustemple - This is what happens if you put a tape of Eraserhead into James Wood's chest cavity from Videodrome. It's bonkers and I adore it. Could I explain the plot if I had to? Hardly. I'm all about the aesthetic. High-velocity body horror rendered in starkly contrasted black-and-white imagery with a kickass industrial soundtrack, hyperactive editing, bursting with expressionist sets/costumes/performances. It's kinetic to the point of exhileration and exhaustion, eventually smothering its subjects as well as the viewer under heavy metal chaos. Also features a great drillbit penis gag. Evilordexdeath - Easily the most "wtf did I just watch?" film on the list. Believe it or not, this is considered a highly influential movie in Japan, though I'm not a huge enough weeb to name drop any later films it inspired except maybe a couple shonen anime of all things. There's a part where the main character boots around town on rocket skates fused to his body which made me wonder if this movie is where the idea for that one guy with glasses from My Hero Academia originated, and while it's more of a reach the very memorable scene where the guy's dick transforms into a drill reminded me of the part of the hot spring episode of Gurren Lagann where they make Simon's drill-shaped necklace grow bigger and hang lower to cover him up. Of course, in its turn Tetsuo was inspired by Akira, whose anti-hero its name comes from, and Akira is one of my favorite movies so I always wanted to see this one, but you have to look pretty hard to find similarities between them. Tetsuo actually makes Akira seem like a slow-paced and straightforward narrative in comparison. There is almost no dialogue, it cuts around like crazy on the timeline and abruptly fades in and out of dream sequences that aren't much more surreal than the stuff that actually happens, and there's basically no story. A salaryman runs over someone called "The Metal Fetishist" who curses him to gradually transform into a metal body horror monstrosity. Then he gets pegged by a dancing woman with a hose around her neck and has fatal sex with his girlfriend because his penis transforms into a drill. There's a lot of really weird shit in this movie. What is reminiscent of Akira is that the latter half of the movie is mostly just two guys yelling and fighting each other. The metal fetishist comes back to life as another part-mechanical mutant and they fight for a while and then fuse into one being, declare their love for each other, and set out to take over the world by turning everyone else into a metal mutant. Now, Akira works because the characters are complex and there's a sense of emotional conflict. Yes Tetsuo and Kaneda spend half the movie yelling each other's names while fighting, but they've known each other since they were kids and they love each other. Kaneda remembers the shy kid he was a big brother to and wants to be the one to stop him because he feels its his responsibility as the leader of the Pills. Tetsuo doesn't squash Kaneda like a bug with his psychic powers even though he probably could and does to many others because deep down he still thinks of Kaneda as his friend and protector. A lot of his toxic macho posturing comes from wanting Kaneda to be proud of him and think he's cool. That's why the climax of the film where Tetsuo mutates into a weird monster and then Kaneda jumps into that singularity thing to try and save him is so powerful - when it really comes down to it, their true feelings for each other come out. Tetsuo: the Iron Man doesn't have complex characterization or emotionally resonant moments like that. The salaryman and the metal fetishist barely know one another. If you want to get into interpreting it you might say that the salaryman is victimized as a sort of underclass revenge fantasy because the metal fetishist seems like a way more punk kind of guy. It works because it's really, really weird and funny. A deeply strange Japanese movie like this made a great change of pace after watching so many samey American horror flicks. Rockus - A surreal gonzo body horror film thats wholly original and unforgettable. A testament to what ingenuity and a visionary auteur voice can accomplish on such a small budget. Theres really nothing like Tetsuo or the rest of Shinya Tsukamotos work. The gnarly production design, black and white cinematography, and fantastic sound design come together to make Tetsuo such a blast. Bizarre and darkly funny, its a cinematic experience like no other, and it might have the best opening title sequence of the decade. It goes so hard. Johnbobb - https://imgur.com/HWS3i7n Snake - Yeah, a film pretty much just based entirely on atmosphere for me. And its sick nasty. I just absolutely dig grimy, filthy, industrial shit like this, always. Its like my favorite aesthetic. I dont think this film lets up for a single second. Reading between the lines, its so evident that as the Salarymans body contorts and metal takes over, it becomes a metaphor for anxieties about technology's increasing hold on our lives. Its genuinely something I think about all the time as we hurtle towards a future where the line between human and machine blurs entirely, our eyes fused with screens, our hands with phones, our bodies to factories, trapped forever as we become one giant, pulsating organism in an increasingly emotionally cold, inhospitable, numbing world. But, the beauty of Tetsuro is that it doesn't belabor the point. Its gone in a flash, offers no respite from the pounding score, the flickering black and white, the constant sense of unease, the gruesomeness of it all. Its maybe the idealized version of what horror should be - sickening to consume and like suffering through a nightmare. --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. If you're gonna scream, scream with me |
| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/12/24 1:16:57 PM #242 | Next one coming up very soon
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| Topic | Fill in the Blank 253: Blood ___ |
| Snake5555555555 04/12/24 2:16:18 AM #26 | Simple
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| Topic | What is the most technically impressive Playstation 1 game? (Day 8) + N64 final |
| Snake5555555555 04/12/24 12:10:15 AM #2 | Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
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| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/11/24 10:35:23 PM #221 | redrocket posted...
80s horror I mean there's a reality where I load this up with art horror movies from the 80s - Santa Sangre, Anguish, In a Glass Cage, The Appointment, The Territory - just to name a few. I'm not a fan of the notion that a particular decade in a genre can't be considered artsy or that mainstream horror movies can't be art in their own right. --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. If you're gonna scream, scream with me |
| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/11/24 10:17:41 PM #217 | I would consider The Shining, Possession, Henry, Tetsuo, and maybe Phenomena & Videodrome as artsy movies, though some or perhaps all are very debatable having that moniker!
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| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/11/24 9:24:37 PM #211 | Outlier
Fortybelowsummer - 79 Jcgamer107 - 60 Inviso - 58 Karo - 54 Seginustemple - 42 Evilordexdeath - 38 Johnbobb - 33 Bitto - 30 Plasmabeam - 28 Snake - 28 Rockus - 26 Mythiot - 25 Lightning - 22 Forty still on top with minor shake-ups at the bottom - you can't keep a good outlier down --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. If you're gonna scream, scream with me |
| Topic | What four movies are on the Time Travel Movies Mount Rushmore? +TIEBREAKER |
| Snake5555555555 04/11/24 9:10:06 PM #24 | Good time to plug my list of time loop movies, the most comprehensive list out there, let no one tell you otherwise!
https://letterboxd.com/crossbonesgt/list/time-loop-movies/ --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. If you're gonna scream, scream with me |
| Topic | What four movies are on the Time Travel Movies Mount Rushmore? +TIEBREAKER |
| Snake5555555555 04/11/24 8:48:18 PM #11 | The Terminator
Interstellar Back to the Future Groundhog Day --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. If you're gonna scream, scream with me |
| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/11/24 8:41:42 PM #207 | This coming in low was honestly a HUGE shock for me. I thought it would've been mid-tier for sure.
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| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/11/24 8:31:54 PM #205 | Snake - Definitely one in the canon of films that freaked me the HELL out when I was a kid. As a kid, it really doesnt get any more terrifying than a toy, especially one youre attached to, one, being alive, and two, trying to ruthlessly murder you and possess your body no matter what. Even as an adult now, Brad Dourif's voice acting sells it as terrifying rather than goofy even if the film threads that thin line mightily carefully. I love Chuckys jerky movements, sudden head snaps, but then surprisingly agile attacks, theres a real kinetic energy to Chucky that keeps him sold as a threat throughout the run time. I like that the film doesnt rely so much on kills as much as other slashers do. The murders drive the plot here and then the rest is built on this quite solid foundation of psychological tension, especially in the strong parent-child bond between Andy and his mom Karen, Andys desperate attempts to convince adults of the situation becoming a quite sobering and harsh reality check. So, a great horror film if you ask me, and kicked off a franchise with more surprising hits then you would expect.
Plasmabeam - Simple yet fun, and the characters all serve a meaningful purpose. Evilordexdeath - https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c2b5e706.jpg Bitto - Rating: C- The movie tries really hard to convince me that the kid could be doing the murders and that it's crazy to think that Chucky is alive. Of course, we live in 2024 and we all know Chucky as a mascot. But even without that...it just seems really obvious, especially with the cold open? Even if you remove that, the clues seem pretty obvious, especially Chucky just...outright admitting that he's a serial killer to the kid after the coworker dies. That said, once Chucky is out and about, it gets good. I really liked the scene of Chucky trying to kill the detective in the car. I feel like if you're going for a "evil mundane object" story, you need to make use of that fact and the car scene feels unique in that aspect. Also...Chucky's trying to take over the kid's body, right? So...why is he trying to kill the kid at the end? Lightning - Hi, Im Chucky. Wanna play? One of the most iconic and influential movies of the 80s, spawning a huge franchise of campy horror films, Childs Play is mostly a relatively straight psychological horror for a lot of its runtime, not even fully revealing the living doll until most of the way through the film. It is here that the film is at by far its most effective, when it is playing on that tension of what you cant see. Once Chucky is revealed in a bravura sequence, it does lose a little bit of terror. There are some great sequences and like Fright Night this is well directed by Tom Holland (not that one, or that one, or that one). I do wish it had kept the mystery going a bit longer, it tips its hand too early with the opening sequence and showing you parts of Chucky moving before the full reveal. Also, all the voodoo parts of this are fairly weird and rooted largely in stereotypes. For me though the big flaw of this film is something I usually try to not worry too much about in horror movies. This was the only movie on the list where I actually got frustrated with the actions of characters in the movie. Everybody was constantly leaving Chucky unattended despite knowing he was a threat, not aiming for the heart when they knew they had to do that, and not taking the care to fully destroy the doll at the end. It just broke my connection with the movie at a certain point. I dont want to be too harsh though, because the film is genuinely tense in the first half and has some good laughs too like Chucky in the lift. It is just the kind of film thats decent, but you cant help but make it better in your head. 3/5 Karo - A shootout in a toy store leaves a serial murderer mortally wounded, but because this criminal just randomly seems to know black magic, he implants his soul into one of the dolls. A sketchy peddler sells it to an unsuspecting family and much stabby time was had. Seriously. someone was tasked with making a backstory for an evil doll character and this shit is the best they could come up with? Ugh. The movie is a dull and predictable affair featuring loads of unconvincing child acting, and some truly shoddy and half-assed writing. Run down abandoned houses generally do not have active gas service, but you do you, script. All throughout the movie I was like please Chucky just kill the obnoxious kid and generic cop and let this be over. It's just not good, and is emblematic of so many of the problems with 1980's cinema. Johnbobb - Don't think I don't see what you're doing here, Snake. I know you're gonna say something like "oh, Child's Play is essential to have on an 80s horror list, Chucky is one of the biggest horror icons to come out of the decade and is still relevant 35 years later." But that's not why this movie is here, it's here simply to spite me, the same reason Chucky movies have been in the last two horror lists. I'm on to your game. But joke's on you, the original Child's Play isn't quite as terrible as its sequels. The kid actor is surprisingly not terrible and I do like the general gaslighting paranoia aspect. But I still don't fuck with living dolls Rockus - Ive never been a huge fan of the Childs Play franchise and probably get more out of them with later installments when they lean more into just how campy the franchise would become. Chucky is still a great villain with a lot of personality though, but his attitude works even more for me in the later films where they can have more fun with it. But one highlight from the first film is you get to see Brad Douriff in it as more than just the voice of Chucky, whom Ive always thought was really underappreciated. An interesting but ultimately kind of novel horror movie, but Im glad they kept making more of them because of how much I like the character. Seginustemple - This is why you do background checks before teaching high-level voodoo incantations to people. I had the same annoyance with this as I did Fright Night (the other Tom Holland film on the list) which is that it dedicates so much time to the characters failing to convince anyone of the crazy thing that's happening to them, and it comes off as a narratively weak obstacle that drags the story out. I suppose I like my horror to play up the environmental obstacle instead, where the characters can't even waste time with all that 'please won't someone believe me' nonsense because the setting itself cuts off outside communication - arctic base, deep jungle, cabin in the woods, that sort of thing. Anyway, Chucky is certainly an inspired villain with surprisingly intricate animatronics, and Brad Dourif owns the role. I can see the concept being a clever hook in a pre-Seth MacFarlane world, but nowadays the foul-mouthed doll isn't enough to carry the movie for me. --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. If you're gonna scream, scream with me |
| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/11/24 8:31:30 PM #204 | 24. Childs Play (1988 / 253 points)
Directed by: Tom Holland / Screenplay by: Don Mancini, John Lafia, & Tom Holland https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/fae812ad.jpg Why Its Significant - It spites Johnbobb. *ahem* I mean, through a combination of fear, dark humor, and social commentary, Childs Play introduced what is perhaps the most unique slasher in the mainstream canon - Chucky. Chucky's one-liners and sardonic wit lighten the mood while never diminishing the threat he poses, his small stature and innocent appearance making him unpredictable and nigh-indetectable in the right circumstances. Meanwhile, the film subtly critiques consumer culture, the relentless marketing of Good Guy dolls reflecting a society obsessed with possessions and branding. Child's Play spawned a successful franchise, with six sequels, a remake, TV series, two short films, amusement park attractions, video game appearances, and has been endlessly referenced when theres even a slight hint that a doll might be alive in a piece of media. The Rankers Inviso - 6 Fortybelowsummer - 12 Jcgamer107 - 13 Snake - 13 Plasmabeam - 16 Evilordexdeath - 20 Bitto - 21 Mythiot - 21 Lightning - 23 Karo - 26 Johnbobb - 27 Rockus - 27 Seginustemple - 28 Inviso - I went into this movie fully expecting it to be exceptionally dumband in a way, it was. But in a way, it was one of the better slasher films Ive seen on this list, if only because the writers had a concept fully formed in their head, and they made it a reality. They justified almost every single choice in the film, and maybe some of those justifications are really insanebut at least they MADE them. I mean, the general concept of this film is that a serial killer received voodoo training so that when he gets cornered by the cops, he can stow his soul in the body of a child-sized doll. Even BEFORE the slasher element, thats insane, yet Im FULLY willing to accept that as a plot because the movie bothered to give a shit about explaining it to me. I was initially going to give Childs Play shit about how the first section of the movie has Chucky solely from a first-person perspective, almost like theyre trying to tease the fact that maybe Chucky ISNT the killer and its REALLY Andy. But that gets dropped surprisingly early in the film. Like, the scene where the mom realizes Chucky never had batteries put in him to justifying talkingyoud expect that scene to come in the climax of the film. Im picturing it now: the whole movie has been hinting that Chucky is evil, and even though its pretty obvious, they keep everything to those first-person shots. And the endgame arrives and Andy is being accused of being a psychotic murderer, so the mom is at their apartment and begging him to tell the truth. This all leads to her trying to throw Chucky out, and she finds the batteries. Then the ending plays out how it did. That would have been fine, and its what I would have expected from this kind of movie after those first couple kills. But instead, the film actually gives the audience what it came to see, and you have Chucky calling the mom a bitch and biting her before fleeing into the city. He tries to kill the lead detective, and eventually DOES kill his voodoo teacher (which againis insane, yet amazing as a plot point) before learning that he has to possess Andy as soon as possible to maintain his immortality or something. This leads to a climactic battle where Chucky gets fucked up ALL kinds of ways, yet he keeps coming. Hes like the goddamn Terminator in the form of a childs plaything. Hell, even after it seems like hes dead, he gets one last jump scare where he bursts out of a vent to strangle the detectives partner, who still doesnt believe Chucky is really alive. Its campy and goofy and amazing. Kill-wise, Ive gotta give credit as well, because I feel like it could have been so easy to just have a slasher that stabs everything. Hell, Chucky gets a knife from the voodoo house later in the film. But in terms of kills, we get: hammer to the face to knock Maggy out of a window; turning on the gas so Eddy blows himself up when he shoots his gun and sparks the gas; attempted strangulation and just general vehicular manslaughter on Detective Norris; stabbing a VOODOO DOLL of Dr. Death; and then forcibly administering electroshock therapy to Dr. Ardmore. That is an eclectic collection of kills from a movie that could have done a lot less. Finally, I have to give this movie props for its uniqueness. There arent a lot of children on this list; its largely adults, or more often teenagers in slasher films. And I myself dont tend to care for children in movies, because theyre either obnoxious brats, or precocious bratsboth of which are given far more leeway than they deserve. Yet hereas much as Andy exhibits some annoying traits early on (during that first sequence when it felt like the movie was going to go all in on the Is it really Chucky, or is Andy evil? plot twist), he really steps up in the back half of the film. This is a child who, despite being six years old, manages to escape Chucky, get home, barricade the apartment, and arm himself with a bat before Chucky unfortunately manages to get the best of him. And then when it becomes a tag team effort from Andy, his mom, and the detective, Andy delivers an amazing one-liner as he sets Chucky ablaze. This IS the end, FRIEND. Even though Chucky still isnt dead after that, its still fucking awesome to see a little kid after to riff one-liners in a horror movie, and the fact that hes actually in danger is an added bonus, since most movies wouldnt dare risk a child like that (or write one into the story to begin with). Im just generally stunned at how much better this movie was, across the board, than I ever anticipated. Fortybelowsummer - Mount Rushmores are all the rage on board 8 right now so Ill submit that Chucky has a case for being on the movie slashers Rushmore. I would probably give the nod to Ghostface over Leatherface for that fourth spot, but the Chuckster is right up there. I honestly think Ive heard of more people being scared of Chucky than any other character. Mention Childs Play and inevitably someone will say Oh, so-and-so is terrified of that doll! Anyway, this is where it all begins when a Good Guy doll comes to life after becoming the vessel for the soul of a serial killer through a spur of the moment voodoo ritual. This is a case where the original remains the best even after numerous sequels. They all have something going for them (except the 2019 remake, we dont talk about that one), whether its on the more sinister side or the sillier side, but Childs Play is Chucky at his foul-mouthed violent best. Jcgamer107 - 6/10 --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. If you're gonna scream, scream with me |
| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/11/24 7:36:22 PM #199 | Next one within the hour, feel like giving out a hint - this one is definitely the most divisive film to drop yet, with the top 5 rankers of it having it 16 or higher.
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| Topic | Video Game Character of the 2010s - Alan Wake vs. Bayonetta / Chrom vs. Shulk |
| Snake5555555555 04/11/24 7:11:02 PM #2 | Wake
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| Topic | Video Game Character of the 2010s - Alan Wake vs. Bayonetta / Chrom vs. Shulk |
| Snake5555555555 04/11/24 7:10:14 PM #1 |
Welcome to the best video game character of the 2010s, a continuation of an ongoing contest series dedicated to finding who is the best video game character introduced in each decade. The 2010s saw the amazing tail-end of the 7th generation & the rise of the 8th generation with incredible games and amazing characters from said games. Bracket - https://challonge.com/1e9oonm5 Previous Result - Ori / Missile (16 / 16) Papyrus / Lucina (21 / 15) Alan Wake (Alan Wake) https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9095feea.jpg vs. Bayonetta (Bayonetta) https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/01fe4b03.jpg Chrom (Fire Emblem: Awakening) https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a4e423c7.jpg vs. Shulk (Xenoblade Chronicles) https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/353bb083.jpg Easy Vote Wake / Bayonetta Chrom / Shulk Missile / Ori (TIEBREAKER) --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. If you're gonna scream, scream with me |
| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/11/24 5:04:10 PM #194 | And thanks for doing the compatibility sheet!
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| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/11/24 5:03:39 PM #193 | Bitto posted...
I'm working on a user compatibility sheet for this gauntlet. Snake, it looks like you have Friday the 13th and Prince of Darkness both at 25. Just a clerical error putting up the ranking PoD is my 24 --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. If you're gonna scream, scream with me |
| Topic | Finally played Bloddborne |
| Snake5555555555 04/11/24 3:51:22 PM #4 | Been replaying through them all (just need to do Demon's Souls remake now) in anticipation for Elden Ring DLC and I'd rank them
ER > DS3 > Sekiro > Bloodborne > DS1 > DS2 Bloodborne is still awesome, has the best lore and world of any of them I feel, but I definitely noticed this time around its age and 30 fps limitations. Downright sluggish at times! --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. If you're gonna scream, scream with me |
| Topic | Best Game of 1994 tournament **NOMINATION TOPIC** |
| Snake5555555555 04/11/24 3:10:54 PM #15 | StifledSilence posted...
I would say unite Sonic 3 and Knuckles as one game.
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| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/11/24 2:23:00 PM #184 | Outlier
Fortybelowsummer - 67 Karo - 52 Jcgamer107 - 49 Inviso - 40 Seginustemple - 38 Evilordexdeath - 34 Johnbobb - 30 Bitto - 27 Rockus - 23 Mythiot - 22 Lightning - 21 Plasmabeam - 20 Snake - 16 Karo will not be saved from outlier --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. If you're gonna scream, scream with me |
| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/11/24 1:32:18 PM #175 | Inviso - I dont understand this movie. Its clearly trying to take elements of religious dogma and demons and tie them into a more modern, scientific arenafor some reason. Seriously, the supernatural shit the movie has going onmeans nothing in the context of anything scientific, expect for the idea that having a bunch of grad students show up to investigate this weird tube of glowing, green ectoplasm hidden under a church inLos Angeles? But yeahtheres a LOT of scientific technobabble going on, because it feels like the movie is TRYING to couch itself in a more serious tone, while never doing a decent job of explaining WHY. Like, you have this weird relationship with Donald Pleasance and Victor Wong where they both seem to be talking PAST each other almost, because one represents faith, and the other represents science, and theyre only there to serve as mouthpieces for those points of view.
But yeah, its a really slow movie, and its really boring when youre looking at a subject matter the average person isnt going to grasp. The music sets a spooky tone, and there is some atmospheric stuff (namely the liberal use of ants, worms and beetles) that helps to at least inspire a sense of dread, but overall, it takes SO LONG to get going and to actually DO anything. And that really sucks when youre got an overly-complicated and preachy plot. Once enough people have been possessed and killed, the movie gets a LITTLE better, but even then, theres so much padding of the runtime. Theres a scene where the non-possessed people keep looking outside to see a bunch of vagrants blocking off the two ends of the alley. Despite this, our male lead (who has the personality of a block of wood, mind you) jumps out into the alley forsome reason. The vagrants predictably start slowly moving towards him (since theyre already established to the audience as killing anyone who leaves the church), and so he scrambles back inside. That scene didnt need to exist. Nor did we need an extended scene of Calder, having been possessed, breaking into Donald Pleasances room and standing in front of a mirrorat the same time as Walter is locked in a closet, spitting witty banter at a pair of possessed muteswho are themselves standing around a girl slowly converting into the devil, I think? The point is that shit hits the fan and a bunch of characters get isolated and locked into different roomsand then the movie just slowly keeps cycling through the same sequences of events that arent really changing from scene to scene. Finally, the ending is nonsense. The movie has not done a good job of explain what exactly the devil (Im FAIRLY confident the green ectoplasm is meant to be the devil) is, nor what its plans are. So once it fully possesses Kelly, it sees a compact and tries to stick its fingers into the mirror, but its too small. So then it tries to go to the bigger mirror in Donald Pleasances room and stick a whole arm inside to try and pull something outandwhy? Also, why does Catherine (who is caught between the possessed Dr. Leahy, the sight of her pinned love interest that she has no chemistry with, and the sight of the demonic mirror attempt) suddenly understand that she needs to push the demon fully into the mirror? She does that, and Donald Pleasance breaks the mirror with a thrown fire axeand then thats it? That saves the dayfor some reason? Thats being reductive, and in any other movie, I could see Push the bad guy into a portal and break the portal behind them as a legitimate ending. But this movie does not do a good job of explaining WHY theres a secondary portal after the devil has already been born anew into our world. So it feels random and almost a cop-out for how to defeat a bad guy thats too powerful to take out by conventional means. Also, lead character Brian, who had like, two scenes trying to hit on Catherine, is so dejected by her loss that he starts having nightmares and visions about her after she got left behind in the mirror realm. Its nonsense. Its absolute nonsense, and the concept of this movie (along with a few genuinely unsettling horror elements) are the only reason I dont rank it lower. Jcgamer107 - 3/10 Johnbobb - This is a very interesting concept that is an absolute drag to get through. Like it's one of the more complex topics ideas on a list of a lot of fairly simple movies (titles like An American Werewolf in London and Killer Klowns from Outer Space tell you directly up front what you're getting), but it was presented like a lecture in between the brief moments of disconnected violence. Overall just didn't click with me nearly as much as I expected it would Snake - I absolutely love John Carpenter, he might be my favorite director of all time, Ive seen nearly all his films multiple times, and Prince of Darkness is no exception, and theres a lot to like here. And I do mean A LOT. This film packs so much in its comparatively short run time, making a film that feels at once overly-bloated and at the same time half-baked. Firstly, the film masterfully blends scientific inquiry with religious horror, hitting constantly on the main driving question of the film - is the sentient liquid demonic or a scientific anomaly? And of course, its not a Carpenter film without oodles & oodles of thick atmospheric locations, paranoia and claustrophobia, that creates a sense of isolation within the viewer, coupled with the pulsating score that of course is pure sensory perfection. We come to the main problem with PoD though - uneven pacing. While the film excels at building dread, the middle section suffers from absolutely sluggish plodding. Long stretches of scientific exposition tests my patience like no other. I can never seem to remember any specific characters either outside of who plays them, which hardly counts. The focus on scientific exploration comes at the cost of character development, which when compared to something like The Thing where each character is uniquely personified making the tension that much higher, Prince of Darkness flounders and loses some of its terror when I just dont care what happens to these people. I will always appreciate this film for its ambition and its chilling moments - after all, at the end of the day, its still a Carpenter piece and no other horror films ever quite feel like his work no matter how messy or drunk on their own sauce they become. Bitto - Rating: D What a disappointing movie. I love the premise of this movie a lot. Having a bunch of scientifically-minded university students working with a priest inside a church to study and contain Satan is good. The idea that Satan is trying to find an "anti-God" to mirror matter and anti-matter is really good. Unfortunately, all the characters are kinda flat. Walter is especially bad. He feels really out-of-place here, like someone on the team felt like they needed some snark in the script but didn't know how to write it. But the others aren't much better. The main couple has a bit of promise in the beginning, but they get shuffled away as soon as they go into the church. It also feels like the tension kinda died 2/3rds into the movie while everyone waits for Satan to wake up...and then immediately job. The shared dream thing is really neat, but they don't really go anywhere with that either. --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. If you're gonna scream, scream with me |
| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/11/24 1:32:09 PM #174 | 25. Prince of Darkness (1987 / 257 points)
Directed / Written by: John Carpenter (writer credit as Martin Quatermass) https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/ba77047e.jpg Why Its Significant - The second installment in John Carpenters loosely themed "Apocalypse Trilogy" (also consisting of The Thing & In The Mouth of Madness), Prince of Darkness uses a unique blend of scientific inquiry, religious horror, body horror, & cosmic horror to create an oppressing sense of evil & unstoppable dread, showing us a force beyond human control, making us contemplate the fragility of our own existence. Like most of Carpenters work, though cult-like in its status, its influence and ingenious melding of genres can be seen reflected in various future horror works, from the technological cosmic horror of Event Horizon to the trippy and mind-melding world of Annihilation and even its soundtrack has contributed to many unique creations through sampling from future artists. The Rankers Karo - 2 Evilordexdeath - 10 Lightning - 15 Rockus - 17 Seginustemple - 19 Plasmabeam - 20 Fortybelowsummer - 21 Inviso - 24 Jcgamer107 - 25 Johnbobb - 25 Snake - 25 Bitto - 26 Mythiot - 29 Karo - It is discovered that the basement of an old church contains a glowy stasis pod with Satan inside and thus they decide to do the logical thing and poke around it with a university research team. There's this very cool fusion of nerdy science and christian theology that isn't often seen in things, as well as a truly terrifying plotline that revolves around the concept of 'God isn't who we think'. Though the scenario was great I think there was much untapped potential to go further than they did, particularly with all the talk of quantum physics there should have been some sort of quantum angle but whatever. Still its a very good movie that is actually scary rather than just gross or silly, and so many of the people who make all this 'rawr monsters' crap without any depth behind it could learn a lot from this. Evilordexdeath - I don't know... it's cool, very slow paced, John Carpenter's music adds a lot of atmosphere, there's this sense that the ineffable dark forces of the film's Satan figure are so unstoppable that what the heroes are doing is futile, the imagery with the mirrors is neat and I like the way the ending plays out. I just don't feel very strongly about the movie in the end. Maybe it's a little too slow, maybe it's how the characters aren't really interesting enough to make me feel invested in whether they live or die, maybe the world-threatening stakes make the individual deaths and everything feel less significant. I was reasonably into it but it just didn't leave a huge impression on me. Lightning - You will not be saved by the holy ghost. You will not be saved by the god Plutonium. In fact, YOU WILL NOT BE SAVED! This film is a take on satanic horror so refreshing I wound up really enjoying it despite some plainly apparent flaws. So the basic setup of this film is that satan is already manifested on earth in the form of goo in a giant sealed jar, and aims to possess people to turn one of them into an Antichrist who can release the Anti-God from an antimatter dimension to bring about the end of the world. Also, Jesus was an alien. It is put simply a lot to take in. The film has some flaws and you could nitpick it all day. A lot of the lore is confusing, Im still not quite clear what was up with the homeless people (they dont seem to be possessed as they dont die at the end), some of the effects look tacky and the male lead Brian is pretty unlikeable. However, I found myself so wrapped up in this twisted mythology I didnt care that much. Of course it also helps that the film is genuinely disturbing, the signal that plays in peoples dreams is one of the creepiest images of any horror movie this decade, and the scene where the possessed translator is typing is nearly as creepy. This is actually possibly the scariest film on the list for me. It also has a great Donald Pleasance performance and of course a great score from director John Carpenter. What really makes this film for me though is the ending, the whole last sequence is great. First you get the setup with the mirrors, the image of the arm reaching out, Catherine sacrificing herself and that heartbreaking image of her reaching back towards the mirror after its broken. This is then elevated by the final dream signal showing her emerging from the church, that great final scare, and the film cutting right before Brian touches the mirror. Its a real rollercoaster of emotion and terror. I truly wish we had more horror films that were not afraid to get weird like this one. 4/5 Rockus - Underappreciated John Carpenter. Remarkable in that the films biggest challenge is adding weight to a kind of abstract evil, a sinister force, that is largely just given a physical body through the drones of people it possesses and that it mostly accomplishes that task. Something I look forward to seeing again because a number of its nightmarish images are unforgettable and its best qualities will likely outweigh its faults the more times I watch it, and the more I think Ill grow to appreciate it. Seginustemple - Admirably cerebral, although the attempts to square science and religion are frequently more silly than insightful or poignant (this close to guys in lab coats measuring holy water into beakers). It's just fun to watch Victor Wong and Donald Pleasance chew up the technobabble and theobabble respectively. Carpenter knows how to develop tension but most of the actual scares have little impact - unconvincing zombies, guy that turns into beetles, homeless Alice Cooper.The most effective bits are the dream transmissions from the future and the ending sequence leading to the final mirror shot. Plasmabeam - I love John Carpenter, but this movie doesnt do it for me. Feels generic, especially when compared to the other Carpenter movies of its time. Fortybelowsummer - Hail liquid Satan! Now this is how you do suspense, and of all the legendary directors I have watched for this project, this one solidifies John Carpenter as the best for me. Its not just his style of filming; the panoramic shots and odd angles, the slow burning minimalism, the reliance on tension but the willingness to use jump scares or gore. Its the scores he creates, in PoD especially where it flows like an undercurrent throughout the whole film and maximizes the unsettling tension. Other than maybe Phenomena (hail Donald Pleasence while were at it), no other movie has so much added to it by the music, all pulsing and synthy, ominous and ethereal. The problem is, and its a pretty big problem, is that it ends up being anti-climactic after all the superb buildup, and it doesnt feel significant enough. Like, theres the possibility of Satan himself being released from his slumber but it seems confined to this church and this group of people and the small army of homeless people around the area. It never feels like humanity itself is actually at stake. Upon reflection, you would think that the all-powerful devil would have a better plan than zombifying a small group of people that would probably get easily wiped out right away. Still though, I like the blend of science and theology and theres plenty to like even if it does disappoint in the end. --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. If you're gonna scream, scream with me |
| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/11/24 12:51:06 PM #173 | Next one coming up soon
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| Topic | Best Video Game Character of the 2010s - Ori vs. Missile / Papyrus vs. Lucina |
| Snake5555555555 04/11/24 3:31:03 AM #26 | up
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| Topic | Fill in the Blank 252: ___ Hard |
| Snake5555555555 04/11/24 12:58:35 AM #9 | Die
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| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/10/24 11:28:25 PM #163 | Next film has a #2 ranking by one ranker
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| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/10/24 9:07:40 PM #154 | Outlier
Fortybelowsummer - 63 Jcgamer107 - 49 Inviso - 39 Seginustemple - 32 Johnbobb - 30 Karo - 29 Bitto - 26 Evilordexdeath - 19 Mythiot - 18 Snake - 16 Rockus - 15 Plasmabeam - 15 Lightning - 11 Sometimes no huge changes are better --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. If you're gonna scream, scream with me |
| Topic | What's the most technically impressive Nintendo 64 game? (Day 7) + Game G. final |
| Snake5555555555 04/10/24 8:46:33 PM #6 | Perfect Dark
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| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/10/24 8:38:52 PM #149 | Sometimes dead is better is one of the best horror quotes of all time, top 5 at least
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| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/10/24 8:29:07 PM #145 | Karo - A family moves into a house astride a country road where the speed limit is way too high and these oil tanker trucks fly down the pavement at 70 MPH and despite this being a cause for grave concern for a number of reasons, everyone is just like 'by jiminy, that's one hell of a road!'.
Also nearby this house is a path leading to a creepy little graveyard for pets, which despite the movie's title, has almost nothing to do with the plot. You see, there's also an Indian burial ground that can resurrect dead things and the way everything is going to go is pretty damn predictable the minute the protagonist says 'have they ever done a person'. Then it just turns into a Chucky movie with an unconvincing murderous toddler and everyone dies. The film is an utter mess throughout, nothing feels real or engaging, and everything seems off somehow in a way that I can't really quantify. I am used to child acting being stilted and fake, especially in a movie this old, but somehow the adults were even worse. Congratulations Anakin, you no longer have the worst 'NOOOOOOOO' in cinema. It is just an unremarkable movie that doesnt bring anything new to the table and it needed to be buried a good ten feet under so it could never come to life again. Plasmabeam - An unforgivable crime against the novel its based on. In the book there was a fantastic found-family subplot involving Louis and Jud (and Juds wife), but that all got cut so they couldrush the rest of the story? I cant believe Stephen King wrote this screenplay. Lightning - Sometimes deads better. This is kind of a strange one. This film is intensely memorable with some really strong quotes and moments like the line above. It is also ultimately very flawed and not that well made. The performances are mostly weak other than the actor playing Jud. The directing is mostly pretty unremarkable too. Stephen King does a good job with the screenplay adapting his own book but its not as textured as whats on the page. Yet there is something about this film that sticks in the mind. The film attempts a few stylistic flourishes from time to time like intercutting the family photos, yet they usually fall flat. There are strange tonal shifts, like all of the frankly pretty strange humour with the ghost in the last act. The film also plays what would have been better done subtly very obviously, most notably the final scene. The film has a good sense of creeping dread but not much by the way of moment to moment scares. Also frankly that zombie cat looks terrible. Yet despite that I couldnt look away. This film was actually quite gripping as the story of a family being destroyed by their inability to cope with grief and loss, both historic and recent, takes hold. In that sense this is a precursor to a lot of the horror films of the 2010s that were very focused on grief. At the end of the day it all comes down to story. The central story is so strong here it doesnt matter that the execution on a lot of it is not as well done as it could have been. You want to see what will happen and you are engaged by the themes, so the weaker technical aspects matter less. This all speaks to the sheer strength of the source material. It is a shame that there hasnt really been an optimal adaptation of Pet Sematary. This film falls down on the technical aspects and the 2019 film is better technically but makes some very strange choices in the adaptation. It would be good to have a truly great live action telling of this story because it is very filmable, it just hasnt been done to its best potential yet. Still, for now this flawed film will do. 3/5 Rockus - Mostly works because of how good the premise is. The simple and clear themes carry it when the scene to scene writing and performances are kind of weak. Setting up an anxious talk about death with their kid after the cat dies is a great way to introduce thoughts on mortality and a refusal to accept it and an inability to even truly understand it. If only the craft of the production was better I would admire this film a lot more. Mostly pretty decent though. Seginustemple - Worth it entirely for Fred Gwynn's rural Maine accent. All the hits are here: trouble up on that road, don't wanna go down that rhoad theah, and sometimes dead is bettah! I find the story unfocused, whether by adaptation or by King's hand. The side plot with Denise Crosby being haunted by her infirmed aunt never seems to fit, the 'helpful zombie' guy doesn't work for me at all, and it just feels like this stuff distracts from the main thrust of the burial ground/resurrection business. There's something to be said for the theme of grief and letting go, but I think there is another zombie cat movie on the list that already does that theme bettah. I do like that it maintains a palpable gloomy atmosphere and takes itself seriously throughout, even when it goes full slasher-toddler-zombie mode. Because it's pretty hard to take that seriously. Bitto - Rating: F I heard that King movies are often tough adaptations because King books are so wrapped up in getting into the mind of their characters and their inner thoughts and perspectives. All of those are pretty tough to translate into a much more visual realm. That's all I can think about with Pet Sematary. I feel like I would like this story so much more if I could just relate to the dad. But there's just nothing here. Even his immediate reaction to his son dying feels underwhelming and I just could not really grasp how desperate he feels at the end. I don't know what it is, he just feels really wooden. And as a result, this movie that's about genuine despair is just hard to relate to because the dad is just so...whatever. The other characters are alright, but they aren't enough to save it. I do like the evil son at the end. He does a good job of portraying evil while still having a bit of child-like innocence to him. --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. If you're gonna scream, scream with me |
| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/10/24 8:28:57 PM #144 | 26. Pet Sematary (1989 / 261 points)
Directed by: Mary Lambert / Screenplay by: Stephen King https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/62190cd6.jpg Why Its Significant - Based on the classic Stephen King novel, the film preys on the primal fear of losing a loved one, particularly a child, and the desperation that can cloud judgment. Pet Sematary forces us to confront the monstrous potential that lurks within us all when driven by grief. Unlike slashers or supernatural entities, the true horror in Pet Sematary comes from the corruption of innocence when Gage becomes a monstrous shell of his former self. The film is also a prominent example of a female directed horror film, being directed by Mary Lambert (most well known otherwise for directing several Madonna music videos & modern day Netflix Christmas movies) and was a decent box office hit. Well-referenced, well-quoted (sometimes dead is better), and it received a sequel also directed by Lambert, remake in 2019, and prequel to the remake released in 2023. The Rankers Jcgamer107 - 5 Johnbobb - 11 Inviso - 15 Fortybelowsummer - 16 Snake - 17 Evilordexdeath - 19 Karo - 20 Plasmabeam - 21 Lightning - 25 Rockus - 25 Seginustemple - 27 Bitto - 30 Mythiot - 30 Jcgamer107 - 7/10 Johnbobb - The semi truck scene might honestly be the most unintentionally hilarious horror movie scene I can think of. I mean, the screams, the truck driving absurdly fast through a residential area, the man letting his baby play unattended 10 feet from the highway, the same man unable to sprint after a baby that can barely walk, the faceplant. It just has everything. That being said, I do legitimately like this movie a good bit. For how silly a lot of it is, it's also legitimately creepy and weird and campy and nothing if not memorable. Also Pet Sematary by the Ramones is a fuckin jam Inviso - So yeah, the worst things to happen in this movie were all Juds fault right? I mean, sure, having your family live directly on a road where tanker trucks blaze past without any regard for speed limitsthats asking for trouble. But really, once the cat died, that shouldve been it. You saw how monstrous your dead dog turned out, and how the zombie guy led to the complete burning down of a housejust let Ellie learn that death is a natural thing, thats the end of it. But yeah, he brought Louis to the titular Pet Sematary and showed him its resurrection power, which meant when Gage got run over by a truck, what kind of father WOULDNT try to bring his young son back to life? And now everyone is dead. Seriously though, this movie had an interesting concept, but I cant help but feel it was a little TOO close to Stephen Kings standard writing style (you know, random ghosts for no reason, random premonitions for no reason) to work perfectly. The subplot of a guy dying in the hospital under Louis watch, but he respects Louis from trying to help, so he wants to help toI dont GET it? But at the same time, I do appreciate the slow, creeping horror of resurrecting the cat, but its an evil cat, and then shit hits the fan with Gage getting hit by a truck (under freak circumstances), and Louis sends his family away so he can do what must be done in peace. I will say, the brief period of time when zombie Gage is running around murdering people with childlike gleeprobably the best part of the film. If we got more of that, or more of a slow burn on Gages resurrection, I think Id like this more. As it stands, its just a LITTLE too slow paced in getting to the good part. Fortybelowsummer - I dont wanna be buried in a pet sematary (sorry johnbobb). Pet Sematary (1989) would be pretty solid if it were just the movie. It has enough skin crawling moments to make it serviceable. Unfortunately, the book exists, and I cant help but make the comparison even if I try not to. So, say I look past things like how Louis and Juds relationship is fleshed out, the silliness of Gage, and the botched ending (at least better than the 2019 one). Im still left with wooden acting (other than Fred Gwynne, cant hate on him), poor direction, and a plot that doesnt capture the nuance of the written story. It just doesnt feel as anxious and suspenseful as it should. Still, though, it does have that chilly autumnal vibe thats so appealing. Church and Zelda are classic creepy, and the Jud death is all-timer. I realize reading back through this that it comes off as conflicted (does he like it or not?) but I guess it captures my feelings about it. Not bottom of the barrel and there is enough here to like, but sometimes, book is better ayuh. Snake - A mid-tier King adaptation - which means at the very least it has those cozy nostalgic vibes I love with a strong premise carrying it throughout. Its exploration of grief and the desperate lengths love can push us to is appropriately melancholy and given a lot of quiet room to breathe while the film builds dread throughout. Then Gage returns and things go haywire, leading to what I think is one of the most memorable climaxes in the King canon. I dont really have anything negative to say except for the fact that the film plays everything pretty straight-forward without any real shocks or twists I feel. Its just super focused on the grief aspect and thats great but I think it lacks a certain something special that makes it a favorite for me. Made for one of the best Ice Nine Kills tracks though. Evilordexdeath - I think I have five writeups detailing my feelings toward Stephen King as a writer already, so instead of repeating myself yet again I'll say I liked this one more than expected. I feel like I'll even end up rating it higher than it deserves. This is the second-last movie on the list and the only film I watched to break up the last 28 was Pokmon Movie 05: Mizu no Miyako no Mamorigami Latias to Latios (which I rank as my honorary #16,) so I'm kind of going insane at this point. I'm so sick of dumb-ass, corny-ass T.V. movie-tier horror that the fact this one spends almost an hour building up and letting you get to know characters before it turns into that makes it almost refreshing. Fred Gwynne is great in this. --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. If you're gonna scream, scream with me |
| Topic | What four villains are on the Movie Villains Mount Rushmore? |
| Snake5555555555 04/10/24 8:01:18 PM #50 | Third Horror Movie Villains
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| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/10/24 7:19:01 PM #132 | Next one is up in a bit, small hint - First film in a top 5 to be dropping
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| Topic | Best Video Game Character of the 2010s - Ori vs. Missile / Papyrus vs. Lucina |
| Snake5555555555 04/10/24 7:10:42 PM #1 |
Welcome to the best video game character of the 2010s, a continuation of an ongoing contest series dedicated to finding who is the best video game character introduced in each decade. The 2010s saw the amazing tail-end of the 7th generation & the rise of the 8th generation with incredible games and amazing characters from said games. Bracket - https://challonge.com/1e9oonm5 Ori (Ori & the Blind Forest) https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/326124f4.jpg vs. Missile (Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective) https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/906535f4.jpg Papyrus (Undertale) https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9fc71ed9.jpg vs. Lucina (Fire Emblem: Awakening) https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/87c868da.jpg Easy Vote: Ori / Missile Papyrus / Lucina --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. If you're gonna scream, scream with me |
| Topic | What four villains are on the Movie Villains Mount Rushmore? |
| Snake5555555555 04/10/24 6:57:57 PM #9 | Snake5555555555 posted...
Hannibal Lecter Oh somehow I missed that Joker rule, nevermind! I'll replace Norman Bates with Joker (Heath Ledger) --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. If you're gonna scream, scream with me |
| Topic | What four villains are on the Movie Villains Mount Rushmore? |
| Snake5555555555 04/10/24 6:56:55 PM #7 | Hannibal Lecter
Norman Bates Darth Vader The Wicked Witch of the West (gonna get denied just like she did in Green characters I can feel it) Joker sort of seems like a no-brainer but I'm not sure if his original source is significantly dwarfed enough. --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. If you're gonna scream, scream with me |
| Topic | PotD: How many of the 264 issues of EGM do you own? |
| Snake5555555555 04/10/24 6:47:11 PM #7 | Some days I wished I kept them but just didn't have the space!
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| Topic | PotD: How many of the 264 issues of EGM do you own? |
| Snake5555555555 04/10/24 6:34:11 PM #3 | Use to own the first 184 complete, sold them all except for 1 with Resident Evil Remake coverage inside. Not sure why my dumbass didn't keep all the RE issues though!
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| Topic | Best Video Game Character of the 2010s - Wheatley vs Solaire / Phelps vs. Corvo |
| Snake5555555555 04/10/24 6:07:13 PM #26 | up
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| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/10/24 5:22:20 PM #128 | I can definitely see why Suprak did not finish the write-ups, damnnnnnn. Much appreciated regardless!
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| Topic | Signalis |
| Snake5555555555 04/10/24 4:28:34 PM #53 | I was preaching this game back in 2022 but nobody listened T_T
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| Topic | Best Video Game Character of the 2010s - Wheatley vs Solaire / Phelps vs. Corvo |
| Snake5555555555 04/10/24 4:27:29 PM #25 | up
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| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/10/24 4:08:06 PM #121 | jcgamer107 posted...
which kinda rips off Carrie if we're honest Tom Savini admitted this himself! --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. If you're gonna scream, scream with me |
| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/10/24 3:14:17 PM #112 | Perhaps I am underrating 6 a bit but 4 gets a ton of praise!
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| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/10/24 3:05:36 PM #110 | The only films in the series that potentially hold more interest are probably 2 or 4 (which is by and large considered the best entry in the entire series). But to be honest, that doesn't mean they are anywhere nearly as significant as the first. And genuinely, outside of some kills, these movies are god damn boring as hell! I am not a Friday fan!
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| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/10/24 1:44:24 PM #103 | Outlier
Fortybelowsummer - 53 Jcgamer107 - 38 Seginustemple - 31 Inviso - 28 Karo - 23 Bitto - 22 Johnbobb - 15 Mythiot - 14 Rockus - 14 Evilordexdeath - 12 Plasmabeam - 10 Lightning - 10 Snake - 7 Forty takes a gigantic lead while the rest of the counselors were off having FILTHY sex --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. If you're gonna scream, scream with me |
| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/10/24 1:31:14 PM #102 | Whoops sorry, added it!
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