Board 8 > All Purpose Horror Topic 2021: Living Through Our Own Horror Stories

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It was lol

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final fantasy - all the non-online mainline titles, tactics, a handful of spinoffs, sequels, and remakes
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i'm sure some of those votes are people who can't help but vote on a poll whenever they see one regardless if they know anything about it (am one of them)

those people wouldn't actually stay in the topic

but also there could be people looking through the later pages

it ain't safe no more

The final tally after redistribution was 5-4-0-0-0-1

did you want more detail?

MAX on Amaterasu
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i sleep

I, Sleep

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Eye, Sleep

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Ice Leap

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@Snake5555555555

What are your thoughts on the Outlast games? What kind of horror is it? Jump scare horror? Psychological horror etc?

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Just bought Daymare 1998. Not got my hopes up but it intrigued me

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The Outlast games are two of my favorite games ever. They're a little bit of jump scare horror mixed with psychological & survival horror. I can best describe it as being in a slasher film but cranked up to 11, with a nonstop brutal assault on the senses that never lets up until the credits roll. You will never feel safe anywhere, and even if there's no stalker chasing you, the feeling of paranoia and how the game constantly plays tricks and cruel jokes on the player is enough to make you feel cautious of every step you take, especially true in O2. The atmosphere in both games is superb; though Outlast 2 is my overall favorite game of the pair, the Mount Massive Asylum in Outlast 1 is the gold standard of horror ambiance in video games. Red Barrels truly crafted a claustrophobic puzzle box, a building with nothing but hopelessness and despair around every corner, as lunatics rule the roost and it seems like iron bars and caved in floors make your death seem destined to occur. I think it takes what makes the original RE games so much to fun and memorable explore while taking your defense away allowing you to focus more on tight movement and spotting escape routes.

So yeah I think they're amazing! If you are looking for something more psychological, Outlast 2 is your better bet, I personally put it on a near Silent Hill 2/3 level.

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Wow, high praise indeed! I like the sound of that! Think I might have to get them. Cheers mate!

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No problem, I think you won't be disappointed!

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I am always hesitant when it comes to horror games mainly due to not being a huge fan jumpscares. This is because I'm a wuss, not because I necessarily dislike the mechanic. For instance I had a lot better time playing RE8 than RE7 for this very reason. (FNAF is excluded as the jumpscare is a result of the players actions and I can sense when a jumpscare/failure is coming).

However, I just saw a little clip of outlast which included a jumpscare just to get the feel of it and I think I can cope with it lol. I hope so anyway cos you got me excited for it haha

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Oh yeah that's understandable. From what I remember the jump scares are pretty nicely spaced apart so I think you will be fine.

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With CBB over, I can finally start going through "First One Out" to know everyone.

based on likeability so far

Laurel
Kellyn
Chelsea
Bradley
James
Wendel

I'm surprised after I was almost the only Discharge nom and I didn't even vote for it!
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moving out of state and just when i'm about to leave, Califiornia breaks off at the Nevada border

i'm stuck!!

"Pathetic" - Rob Zombie

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https://twitter.com/ccbookdesign/status/1412759896936886277?s=19

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Those are so awesome!

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Done a really terrible job keeping up with this topic lately

Saw The Forever Purge. It was trash.

Pretty excited for the new Escape Room, but not necessarily because I think it'll be good

Saw House (1977) through the movie club topic a few weeks ago and that was an instant favorite

Super hyped for Last Night In Soho and new Candyman

Watching Fear Street 1994 now. Had decently high hopes for it after hearing great things about the series, but I'm not super impressed so far. It's not terrible bit it's ridiculously on the nose but not in a way that really seems self-aware of how absurd it is. Also music is soooooooooooo on the nose but I'm willing to forgive it because 94 was an excellent year for music

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Also for Fear St the sheriff's name is Good and they keep talking about witches so just gonna go ahead and assume he's the ancestor of Sarah Good because of course

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Damn sucks to hear about The Forever Purge. I really wanted the series to end on a high note.

I've been really enjoying the Fear Streets! I think there's certainly a tongue-in-cheek element to them it's just not always on the forefront. But honestly it's just some fun horror for me that's just pushing the right buttons currently.

I'm behind on a few new releases but definitely planning to catch up real quick and the second half of the year has some really hyped films coming up.

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I guess my issue with Fear Street is that it just falls into a bunch of tropes I'm pretty tired of. The bloody nose, the "accused witch from Salem was ACTUALLY a witch," etc

Forever Purge took itself really seriously and came across as the producers thinking it was a lot deeper than it actually was. A LOT of dumb jump scares

I might also just be getting jaded toward horror cliches. I just downloaded a handful of more obscure horrors and thrillers I hadn't heard of from this year, so hoping to find some gems

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That's fair, I can admit they are SUPER tropey of course.

I really want to check out Censor and Classic Horror Story which came out on Netflix yesterday or today I believe.

Also I just looked it up and they're actually making Purge 6, so LOL.

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Censor is one of the ones I downloaded!

also Slaxx, Gaia, Fried Barry and Psycho Goreman

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Never heard of Gaia but the other three are supposed to be bonkers.

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This is so fucking good
https://youtu.be/ozOb5FcnDf4

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I'm hesitant to click; never been an INK fan


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You better change that right quick!

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not bad! Not necessarily my favorite musically (though on the upper portion of things I've heard by them) but love the American Psycho parody in the middle of it

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Kinda came around to the Fear Street movies by the end. What didn't work as well with the first solo was made up for by the anthology. I can't really imagine a better way for them to portray this story. There's still some obvious cheesiness (the line "Goode is evil" was particularly rough) and there are some inconsistencies (why did only a few of the killers come back to life when there were dozens of names on the stone, like the first pastor? How did they get whole buckets of blood from Deena without it effecting her? Why forget with that strategy at all if they just had to stab Nick? How did they not get charged with the death of the cops when Deena's blood is literally all over the mall? Wouldn't the lawyer of the super rich Goode family be able to exonerate a cop who had been killed in the line of duty along with two others with some wanted teenagers at the only witnesses and no legitimate evidence of Nick's crimes beyond the existence of an unmarked cave under his home? Why did the curse end by killing Nick if he still has living blood relatives that could continue the curse? If Nick wanted Deena dead so bad why not just give the devil her name? Why did the cops get murdered by the undead but then they walked right by the others?)
But overall I enjoyed it! Deena I had previously liked in Trinkets and she did great here, with a mostly solid supporting cast, great soundtrack, great lighting and set work (it might be cheesy but I loved the mall covered in blacklights). Plus a horror movie with gay main protagonists that actually survive is a pretty huge deal.

On the whole, definitely worth seeing, kinda like a special horror event, though probably not like an instant classic


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more horror catchup

Omori
finished this game a few days ago after seeing a couple people talking very highly of it in the VG Story topic. It's absolutely a must-play for fans of weird indie depression/horror. Strong Undertale/Earthbound vibes; equal parts goofy and fun and downright terrifying. Highly recommend.

Escape Room: Tournament of Champions
Don't watch the trailer because it'll spoil half the movie. I enjoyed it more than the first one! That being said, still a really dumb movie, but a fun one. The biggest draw here are that the puzzles themselves are more complex and intricate to solve, which makes them more fun to follow along. That also comes at the cost of the fact that, realistically, there is literally any chance any of these get solved without everybody dying except maybe the first one, as most of the danger is just completely random luck AND there's like a 90% chance of essential puzzle pieces getting destroyed by the traps before they're even discovered. It's a fun ride but man it suspends disbelief so hard that it often comes across as borderline silly. Also has some issues with pacing; the movie is under 90 minutes which gives it an insanely quick pace, which is kind of a detriment because these characters are flat even by horror movie standards and it feels like you're being rushed through these intricate and really interesting trap rooms too fast to appreciate them as much as they deserve. Anyway, worth seeing once (particularly on the big screen) but also you kinda need to turn your brain all the way off.

Maneater
Been playing this for a bit and it's barely horror, moreso just excessively violent and gruesome comedy, but it's pretty fun when the camera will stop fighting you.

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Having a horror night tomorrow - trying to decide between In the Earth and Old ... anyone have thoughts?

Also, I recently learned a guy I went to school with from like 3rd-8th grade was the Visual FX editor for Midsommar, lol wtf. He just messaged me back on Facebook telling me he did a lot of work on the "tripping" scenes, pretty amazing.

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never heard of In The Earth but I am looking forward to seeing Old

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Johnbobb posted...

never heard of In The Earth but I am looking forward to seeing Old

And nice on the Midsommar thing jc, that's pretty crazy.

I watched The Forever Purge; I didn't hate it but man was it leagues worse than the others. I just felt like it lacked so much passion and weirdness that made the other Purges so enjoyable. And it's like, the premise of it is awful, like this type of thing where people want to keep the purge going should've happened ages ago. And since the movie technically ISN'T about the actual purge it feels like any old generic action apocalyptic movie. And yes the jumpscares were literally some of THE WORST I've ever seen in the whole horror genre. Jesus Christ. I don't even remember the other movies having jumpscares except for the first.

In brighter news, I watched this almost a week ago now but forgot to talk about it: Quiet Place Part 2 was excellent! One of the best intros I've seen in modern horror. Characters are smart and inventive and I even feel like the premise is a lot better served here. The score, direction, and cinematography were all magnificent. The only problem was I feel the ending was a little cut short and also the movie has some weird retcons from the previous film too (like the ending of the first clearly showed a lot of creatures coming to attack the house and in this they're just not there...?)

Escape Room will probably be coming up pretty soon for me and also Omori definitely looks interesting. I tried Maneater but I found it kind of boring unfortunately, but the game did have some great comedy!

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@jcgamer107

I did not like In The Earth very much. I think it squandered it's concept terribly. It basically never goes all in on any of the ideas it presents and it just leaves you with kind of a gross movie that is rather forgettable.

Also, this movie has the worst epilepsy triggers I've ever seen. They give you a warning for it at the beginning of the movie, but it in no way is enough. I don't know how they shipped the movie with minutes long blinding strobe lights. I feel like I missed so much of the movie because I HAD to cover my eyes and it was STILL going past my hand with the flashes. Whatever you think is the worst epilepsy trigger you've seen in a movie, I promise you this one is a dozen times worse.

Also I am marathoning the Bad Ben movies for some reason. It's $100 budget Paranormal Activity, but the director and lead actor is terrible but I enjoy that he takes the piss out of everything. There are 7 films in the Bad Ben Cinematic Universe and I'm on 5 right now. I can't stop. Send help.

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OH MY GOD Bad Ben is such an awfully amazing series.

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*Invisible demonic entity pulls a chair away.*
Tom Riley: Hey, stop it.
*Invisible demonic entity pushes chair back to where it was.*

I knew I was in for some good shit when I saw that in the trailer. It starts progressively taking itself less and less seriously as the movies go on and it's so much better for it.


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The first one I had seen was The Mandela Effect one because I was just obsessed with that at the time and was watching anything associated with it, and I was just a mix of awestruck & dumbfounded the whole time.

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Man I guess I need to check out Bad Ben

Even though by the title it just sounds like a tame knockoff of Mad Max

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I was wrong, there are 8 Bad Ben movies.

Plus Benign is supposed to come out soon.

help

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Old was "fine".

The twist sucked. And if it ended before the twist I would have been more satisfied than if it ended with the twist.

Like bruh keep it in your pants M. Night. Jesus.

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so I watched Triangle last night and... I have pretty mixed thoughts. It kinda reminds me of Vivarium in a lot of ways, which was another movie that I thought had some really interesting and surreal concepts orchestrated in bizarre and intriguing ways... that ultimately was held back a little by inconsistencies in its own logic and writing and inconsistent performances.So back to Triangle, I've seen a lot of praise for the main performance of Melissa George but honestly I wasn't feeling it. Some of it she does fine; particularly the aggression, but in the slower moments when she's trying to act unsettled or frightened, I thought it came off as overly forced and melodramatic. It doesn't help that she has to carry the entire film because every other character is one-note and awful (especially Sally, goddamn is she just irritating every time she's on screen) and I just don't think her performance was strong enough to carry it. Compare it to someone like Samara Weaving in Ready Or Not (another young woman thrown unexpectedly into a weird fantasy horror scenario in a fixed location she's unfamiliar with) and it's easier to define why one performance feels strong enough to carry it and the other doesn't.

The story itself was really interesting: from what I can gather, she was either given or willingly accepted an eternal punishment for accidentally killing herself and her autistic child, who she had abused, and now she's forced to relive that over and over. This is really cool, and there are some incredible scenes. In particular, two scenes really stick out to me as highlights: Sally crawling over to a section of boat where dozens of her corpses are gathered with similar wounds and Jess killing the abusive version of herself with a hammer. If more of the film was along this line, it would've done a lot better for me.

Some of it was a little cringeworthy though. In particular, the one Jess line, "My world is waiting for his mom to pick him up from school. Don't talk to me about MY WORLD" that repeats like 3 or 4 times in the film is just... not good. It's bad writing and delivered in a tone that doesn't match the scene. I also laughed out loud at Jess needing to copy down a note she found onto another sheet of paper to compare the handwriting, somehow being an adult who doesn't recognize her own handwriting.

Other things just really detract from the mysterious and wild puzzle plot it has going. Namely, inconsistencies in its own logic. Things like 1. some things showing up by the dozens, like the notes/bodies/dead birds, but other things (the bodies killed in the theater, the axe, the wrecked car, etc) resetting with each loop. 2. Jess making obvious mistakes like telling herself to "kill them all" despite already having lived that scene and knowing that doesn't work 3. the fact that we see her go through the entire process of getting on the boat -> pushing masked jess over after everyone is killed -> trying to stop the killings and failing -> becoming the masked killer -> washing up on the shore and starting the loop over. However, there are WAY more copies of everything in every scenario than what there should be if that's the entire loop. Similarly, things happen that the Jess we're following doesn't ever experience which doesn't make sense given that we witness the entire loop.

The issue with a movie like this, that breaks the laws of reality in order to set its own rules, is that when done right, this can lead to some of the most incredible fantasy/scifi/magicalrealism movies out there, but when they don't follow the rules that they themselves establish, it feels frustrating and incomplete

Overall I'm torn on how to rank or define my feelings, because it held itself back in a few essential spots, but what it did well it did really well.

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speaking of movies with interesting ideas and bad execution

saw Old tonight

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Story of M. Night Shyamalan's life

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Snake5555555555 posted...

Story of M. Night Shyamalan's life

honestly if the dude would just produce/direct and not screenwrite or at least let someone else screenwrite for him, it would be 200% better. He has so many cool ideas but doesn't even slightly understand dialogue

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Oh man, yeah. I said to my girlfriend while watching that it was the most M. Night movie ever because of the dialogue in the first ten minutes. Like, you have to go in expected SyFy Original levels of dialogue with M. Night movies. I didn't even mind them too much.

But man, the ending was just completely miserable to sit through. Just so outrageously contrived it took me out of the movie entirely.

And then the movie just. wouldn't. end.

It just keeps going, and you have a feeling it might keep going, but it goes past the part where you think it has to stop going. And keeps going. And then goes more!

Like there is a lot to like in Old, but just sloppy screenwriting in the middle of the movie muddled things, but not to an unwatchable degree. But it's hilarious that the first 10-15 minutes of the movie was only there to set up the twist in the last 10 minutes of the movie.

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