Board 8 > All Purpose Horror Topic 2018: so Suspiria was fucking weird (again)

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all right so if Ditto turned into a human does that mean it would suddenly be capable of human speech?

or would it just be like doing it with the outer shell of a person

Yo, Into the Dark is super good.

Pooka is the best episode. Watch it.
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handsomeboy2012 posted...

Man it would be funny if someone dies after just a few months of ruling

It happens. I once had a character (Erika) rule for 1 day. I was confused when it happened because I only got 1 succession menu that said "Long Live Erika" but then the portrait was her heir Morgan.
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my students at the school i work at drew this on the whiteboard yesterday


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post mfc

i want to seeeeeee

Only about 2 more weeks until US
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I saw "We Are What We Are" last night and I'm not sure i want to eat chili anymore
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So I'm two episodes into American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace

and while it's certainly not a horror show by any means, I do get some definite Patrick Bateman vibes from Darren Criss
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actually yeah this is definitely bordering on horror way more than I thought it would

it's so good
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StarKid represent
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This season is lookin' good.
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watched Jacob's Ladder

not gonna say anything to avoid Gauntlet spoilers except that it was actually tamer than I expected, having always heard of it as being one of the most disturbing films of all time
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Jacob's Ladder is fantastic but I do feel that the disturbing aspects of it get over hyped. It's super cool to see how much it's influenced other works like Silent Hill, though!

Watched Cam last night. I've heard super mixed things about it but I actually enjoyed it quite a bit! Definitely feels like it landed the exploration of internet/tech based ideas significantly better than other horror works I could name. (Unfriended being the easy whipping boy on this one, lol.)
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Yeah I loved Cam so much! If you haven't seen it yet, Searching also does the internet thing really well too. It's not really horror of course but it's fringe enough.
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Us is fantastic. Will be very hard to top this year. I like how it's basically a zombie movie, but you don't realize it until halfway through.

+ Imposter Syndrome

Really great visuals/cinematography. The twist is actually pretty cool and doesn't feel cheap. The whole 'underground people' thing is kinda goofy, I think some of their backstory would be better left unsaid, but the subtle foreshadowing of what's to come later, and of the twist, is excellent.
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Jacob's Ladder holds the distinction of being the only movie Macauley Culkin was ever cute in
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https://letterboxd.com/darrencb/list/the-american-horror-revival-2014-present/

so someone gathered together most of the most acclaimed horror movies of the last 5 years, calling it "The American Horror Revival"

it caught my interest because it's something I've thought about quite a bit. It really seems like there's just been a big wave of really, really good horror the last decade, and while there's still plenty of horror trash, it seems like there's a surprising amount that are not only excellent, but decently popular too.
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Neat idea, the list seems a little incomplete (it's a work in progress I assume) but it's definitely something I've noticed as well.
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cast reflect on yourself and see what happens
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God the new Twilight Zone is an absolute dud.
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Yeah I haven't heard anything good
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this is a weird time because I'm watching SO MANY horror movies because of Gauntlet but also can't talk about them because of Gauntlet
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don't know how many of you read Erma, but you should

and for those who do, shit is going down

https://tapas.io/episode/1376617
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The third episode of Twilight Zone is legit good.
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The Pet Sematary remake managed to make Zelda look less-scary, although I suppose the original is hard to top. Some of the ways in which they used her for scares were good. Also having an older child turn evil makes the third act more believable than when they used a 2-year-old. Overall it's probably a little better than the original - more polished with some good additions, just a less scary Zelda, the original version of her still being the scariest thing of either movie imo.
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new Billie Eilish video is something else

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I watched Sadako vs Kayako. That was...I can't say it was good, but interesting. None of this Freddy vs Jason wishy washy no one beats the other one, either. Sadako just walks in and whups ghost ass until additional plot happens
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I like the substance of You Were Never Really Here over its style. The story was good but I'm really not interested in constantly cutting to flashbacks, and between what's real and what's not. That Jacob's Ladder type of filmmaking doesn't do it for me.

The energy of the whole thing felt kind of low too, like I was watching a Yorgos Lanthimos movie with a little more going on.

It was interesting but I don't get the rave reviews for it.
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aw man the substance and style were both excellent

Cinefix has done really good breakdowns of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ntV_XX_Er0" data-time="&start=886

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4DvATwdjM0" data-time="&start=604

it's pretty easily one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. I think about it pretty frequently
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dawww

UItimaterializer posted...

Anyone who looks at this contest and thinks it was better than the Undertale/Melee match needs to not have any children.

on it
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Could keep a list of poll topics!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/77717389

In case anyone wants to talk Night in the Woods with me, preferably if you've already finished a playthrough first (spoilers). It's not a pure horror game by any means, but it has clear elements at least.
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That is amazing! This season has been incredible so far. I'm on episode 7 right now.
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downloaded Escape Room

time to find out if it's as bad as I think it's gonna be
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I actually kinda liked it, it's not too bad.
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Apparently Brightburn is actually really good. Looking forward to it.
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apparently there's also 2 other movies titled "Escape Room" that both released in 2017

here's hoping I have the right Escape Room
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Johnbobb posted...

apparently there's also 2 other movies titled "Escape Room" that both released in 2017

here's hoping I have the right Escape Room

so it turns out I DON'T have the right Escape Room

but fuck it now I'm watching Will Wernick's Escape Room

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5159414/

a movie obscure enough to not have a wikipedia page and only 3 reviews on RT
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so it wasn't actually as bad as I expected. Writing was kind of weak, acting was hit-or-miss, and there's some super unwarranted nudity that felt shoehorned in even by horror standards, but even with all that, I didn't not enjoy myself.

Kind of want to watch the 2019 one tomorrow just to see how it compares.
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watching the 2019 Escape Room

Production value of everything is WAY higher (the 2017 one seemed like it could be a legitimate escape room but this basically seems like an amusement park)

but the characters are largely pretty terrible so far. How is it that like only one person in the escape room knows how escape rooms work
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Johnbobb posted...

watching the 2019 Escape Room

Production value of everything is WAY higher (the 2017 one seemed like it could be a legitimate escape room but this basically seems like an amusement park)

but the characters are largely pretty terrible so far. How is it that like only one person in the escape room knows how escape rooms work

so it was definitely not terrible. The designs of the rooms were all really cool, even if the puzzles themselves were a simplistic given the effort that seems to have gone into crafting the rooms themselves (literally every room is basically one single, simple puzzle). My biggest issue was the writing and characters though. In literally the very beginning of the first room everyone's already losing their minds like they didn't voluntarily come to an escape room, and most of the characters seem to actively work against solving the puzzles to the point that the main protagonist has to solve nearly every one solo.
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Martyrs + Aronofsky + #MeToo = The Perfection
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https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/1135701487995088901
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Ma was certainly a movie that I viewed in a theater.

Without Octavia Spencer's acting, there is literally nothing in this.
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Watched the original Carrie after realizing I had never seen it all the way through. Man what brilliant storytelling. If you knew nothing going in you might think it's a feel-good coming-of-age film about acceptance until the last 15 minutes, there's really not too much in the way of horror up till that point, aside from some stuff with the mom. The ending had more of an impact now that I actually saw how well it's sold that Carrie's life is finally going to improve, how she finally stands up to her mom and asserts herself. Genius tragic horror. And the last scene, holy smokes. I mean I had seen that part before but imagining it in a theater, people must've gone as nuts as they did at the Psycho twist.

Anyway that's my 40-years-late review, go catch Carrie in theaters, this Stephen King guy's the hot new name in horror.
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Carrie is excellent
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Saw Hole in the Ground on Amazon. It was actually really good. Basic story, but it did a lot of really good stuff with the "my child is different" kind of story. Some legitimately creepy moments in it.

I'd recommend.
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I thought Ma was decent for what it was. Definitely not a lot of depth to it, but some fairly effective shock horror and weird humor. It reminded me of if Annie Wilkes was let loose on a bunch of teenagers.

Saw the Suspiria remake a little while ago - it does somewhat stand on its own, because of how different it is from the original, but at the same time it's not nearly as stylish or interesting. The original was great because it was bombastic and in-your-face right from the start, and got good mileage out of its 100-minute runtime. At almost an hour longer, the new one tried to be a bit of a slow burn, which does not fit the spirit of the original at all. It had some OK set pieces and side plots, and the dream sequences were cool, but really I just wanted to go back and watch Argento's version.

Looking ahead, Midsommar comes out in July, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark in August, and It 2 in September, so this is shaping up to be an extremely good year for horror.
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