/horror/ general megathread - Let's talk about movies and shit.

[XYZpdq Jr.]

He’s still alive?

iirc signs point to yes, an online account or two of his pinged
not conclusive but def a hint

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

Not even five minutes into the video. This homo sucking off the finale of The Boys. The only TV show finale more hated than the ending of Game of Thrones because only fascist hate bad writing. No wonder why analog horror a borderline dead genre now. The analog horror thread borderline dead now.

 

[Calandrino]

Bruno’s fake death made this thread better because no one argued that the ultimate Romero ranking is Day, then Night, then Dawn.

Night is clearly best, I'm just going along to get along.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

Night is clearly best, I'm just going along to get along.

But day has Bub! I dunno. And then the goofy ones (Revenge) have Linnea Quigley which is its own thing. It's a tough decision.

 

[Cardinal Cardinal]

I think you're right. In that one scene she literally speaks to Bear telepathically while she's asleep, begging him to kill her and saying "she's" asleep. How this is possible is never explained.

I took it as the real Nikki is buried under the fake Nikki and can only communicate while the dominant one is asleep. I thought I remembered her mouth moving when she is talking to him so it wouldn't be telepathic.
It's a trope I've seen used before and there was an earlier scene where it seemed like the real Nikki was trying to talk to Bear. Her face briefly switches to being scared, says something, then reverts back.
I would consider it a possession since she snaps out of it when bear dies and shoves his ass to the floor. It depends how you define "possessed" but she looked like she wasn't aware of what was going on and suddenly woke up to see Bear dead on her lap.

Also saw Backrooms, the only thing I have to add is that I was severely dissapointed when They're at the dinner table and the dude is now crazy. It's an overused movie conveyance and very few people can pull crazy off convincingly. (wide eyes, shallow breaths, fragmented thoughts) I was irritated enough when the psychiatrist entered the backrooms and was startled for 10 minutes. I'm not saying it wouldn't be scary but we already established that the earlier group was also freaked out. Let's pick up the pace a little.
But then again my irritation at the black guy (sorry I forgot his name already) could be misplaced since it seemed like it was hinted that this whole thing was an incorrect memory of the version of the psychiatrist in the backrooms.
Too Blair Witchy for me.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

At the risk of repeating myself, if you’re not watching Widow’s Bay you’re a transgender homosexual who jerks off in his mother’s skull and writes shit poetry you are @BrunoMattei

 

[Gamer Dan]

I don't think there's ever really been enough of a fad in demon possession for it to be overdone. Slashers? Kind of. There are definitely more of those than zombie movies, but there also a lot more types of slasher film, even though they have the same repetitiousness problem.

The "let's do a slasher movie but have it be an artfag film" thing is definitely overdone.

I think overdone is more about story beats than setting. A zombie movie I enjoy is Patient Zero, it's about a sentient zombie getting interrogated by doctors. Meanwhile most zombies movies are almost entirely the same story (familyman stuck in the early days of a zombie plague), the only variation is the speed and intellect of the zombies. Other horror genres regularly come up with different stories for the same monster.

I guess you guys might be right. It is just that the other horror genres are also filled with cliches.

The reason why I have a soft spot for the zombie genre is that you actually get the occasional cool character. Not to mention a chance of fighting back, and even half-decent action set pieces.

 

[Stains Davidson]

I watched this one I'd never heard of called Honey Bunch yesterday, and wound up really enjoying it. A little hard to talk about without ruining/spoiling anything, but I'd recommend it if you like "slow burn" stuff/amnesia-mystery movies. Some people might find the two leads annoying because they're both playing annoying people.

 

[Big Miss Steak]

I saw Backrooms and liked it way more than Obsessed. I think the cinematography and set design are the strongest suits. My main complaints were that the movie took a little too long to really get going and I don't buy that Clark would choose to stay in the Backrooms. I mean yeah his life had sort of spiraled but the Backrooms is an unnerving hellscape for anyone with a fraction of normalcy. I think it would have been more convincing if Clark had a terminal illness that paused in the Backrooms or something.

Ultimately I think it's a really difficult concept to adapt into a full-length movie and they did a good job.

 

[J.K.K.K. Rowling]

I saw Backrooms and liked it way more than Obsessed. I think the cinematography and set design are the strongest suits. My main complaints were that the movie took a little too long to really get going and I don't buy that Clark would choose to stay in the Backrooms. I mean yeah his life had sort of spiraled but the Backrooms is an unnerving hellscape for anyone with a fraction of normalcy. I think it would have been more convincing if Clark had a terminal illness that paused in the Backrooms or something.

Ultimately I think it's a really difficult concept to adapt into a full-length movie and they did a good job.

Would've made more sense if Clark was hinted to be crazy, suicidal or have murder tendencies which causes him to snap once he gets stuck in the backrooms. But no instead you just have a dude with a shit life that finds the backrooms, looks insane because he tells the craziest most impossible story to his psychiatrist and behaves like a normal dude compared to all the backrooms youtube videos we've seen yet. The movie just forgot that it needed an antagonist at some point so it turned Clark into a psycho off-screen, killed the dude and the girl off-screen and made friends with the creatures for some reason even though they were always shown as hostile so far. And then just lists a bunch of reasons why the dude is shitty that were never hinted before because... Yeah look we really forgot to write an antagonist into the story.

Overall, it was okay for an average movie, not great, not terrible.

Also wuh oh, the black guy is a drunkard that beats up and kidnaps a woman and most likely beat up his wife too.

 

[Zenos Yae Viator]

Clark didn't become crazy, he was crazy regardless of the Backrooms, he simply became truly unhinged

 

[The Nothingness]

For someone who casually viewed the early Backrooms videos years ago, the movie was a good adaptation for a normie audience. I share similar criticisms for the underdeveloped side characters and for the third act where Clark goes crazy out of nowhere. I initially thought the twist was going to be it wasn't Clark, but the Lifeform mimicking him (like in the scene where Mary received a call from Clark). Pirate Clark was a bit underwhelming since it reminded me of the giant CGI monsters from It Chapter 2. I'm curious if a sequel will incorporate more of the lore from the YouTube series.

 

[frozen_runner]

But then again my irritation at the black guy (sorry I forgot his name already) could be misplaced since it seemed like it was hinted that this whole thing was an incorrect memory of the version of the psychiatrist in the backrooms.

I don't think that's the implication of the ending. You don't go into the backrooms and get turned into one of those things. The backrooms generates degraded and warped versions of you. We see Clark and his copy. He didn't turn into that.

I think the implication of the ending is that the lifeless copies share some kind of memory or consciousness with the real person. So they're not just automatons like we assumed before. They suffer and remember things.

I wouldn't be surprised if we see the therapist character show up alive in the inevitable sequel(s).

 

[Zenos Yae Viator]

For someone who casually viewed the early Backrooms videos years ago, the movie was a good adaptation for a normie audience. I share similar criticisms for the underdeveloped side characters and for the third act where Clark goes crazy out of nowhere. I initially thought the twist was going to be it wasn't Clark, but the Lifeform mimicking him (like in the scene where Mary received a call from Clark). Pirate Clark was a bit underwhelming since it reminded me of the giant CGI monsters from It Chapter 2. I'm curious if a sequel will incorporate more of the lore from the YouTube series.

Like I said, the movie sort of hides from you the obvious, Clark is insane and violent, before the movie, he has a therapist afterall.

 

[Mussolini’s Merkin]

The Night Eats the World and One Cut are GOATED

The audio work in The Night Eats The World is phenomenal, I've never seen another movie that does the whole 'was that sound something I did or is it something else?' thing better. Hard to describe but if you've seen the movie you probably know what I'm talking about.

 

[Fig Kommandant]

I saw Eyes Without a Face (1960), it frankly was a bit boring by modern horror standards but interesting as part of horror history. The surgeon character had a very interesting gravitas that you really don't see outside of parody trying to emulate it for laughs.

 

[Stains Davidson]

I watched this one I'd never heard of called Honey Bunch yesterday, and wound up really enjoying it. A little hard to talk about without ruining/spoiling anything, but I'd recommend it if you like "slow burn" stuff/amnesia-mystery movies. Some people might find the two leads annoying because they're both playing annoying people.

I've been trying to remember which movie it reminded me of ever since watching it, I couldn't quite place it until now. It felt quite a bit like the movie Woken (which I also thought was pretty good,) but also completely different.

 

[Big Miss Steak]

Clark is insane and violent, before the movie, he has a therapist afterall.

They tried to foreshadow it with his outburst with his therapist, but it could easily be interpreted that this was his frustration with his current circumstances coming out, rather than that being how he truly is as a person. Maybe I'm just retarded.

 

[Brain Problems]

At the risk of repeating myself, if you’re not watching Widow’s Bay you’re a transgender homosexual who jerks off in his mother’s skull and writes shit poetry you are @BrunoMattei

It's really good. I don't think it's A+ but as far as prestige TV goes the Apple money isn't being wasted. I'm always worried with these things that they don't really have a big plan figured out ie. they're JJ Abrams-ing it, so I hope they've got it planned and/or this is just a single season.

 

[Cardinal Cardinal]

I don't think that's the implication of the ending. You don't go into the backrooms and get turned into one of those things. The backrooms generates degraded and warped versions of you. We see Clark and his copy. He didn't turn into that.

I think the implication of the ending is that the lifeless copies share some kind of memory or consciousness with the real person. So they're not just automatons like we assumed before. They suffer and remember things.

I wouldn't be surprised if we see the therapist character show up alive in the inevitable sequel(s).

I guess I worded it wrong. I was trying to say
the version of the psychiatrist (clone) in the backrooms was the one trying to recall all the events of the movie. I didn't mean they were the same person.
Which might be the reason why she remembered her mom as a man(or maybe he was just a troon).