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Dog Rough dijo:
Just finished episode 6 of Widows Bay and Im enjoying it so much. Real surprise.
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I'm really enjoying it so far. When they want to they can shoot a scene that's pretty tense and spooky, and there's almost this Evil Deadish approach to the mayor being abused by everyone and everything and fucking up constantly. I'm only just done episode three though so unsure if things will change.
 
Aib Ld dijo:
It feels like modern horror movies have to be taboo for some reason instead of being a movie. I have no problem if it was already established that it was going to be extreme within reason ala Green Inferno. A group of newbie ecologists decides to visit a tribe of savages beyond their level. You know what will happen next by the plot alone.
Meanwhile, in Lee Cronin's Mummy, you get unnecessary scenes like a scorpion cutting off vocal chords and the person has to keep her throat in to speak for some weird reason. It never made sense in-universe, just did it like "fuck that guy in particular" and its not even done for black comedy. Its like that Jurassic World movie where the woman gets eaten by the Mosasaurus out of nowwhere. You can cut it off and nothing changes. That scene is just... there.
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Modern horror movies are competing with pornography and videos of people dying. They probably feel they have to get more extreme to draw attention.

If so, it threatens to ruin movies the way the internet ruined news media.
 
frozen_runner dijo:
Modern horror movies are competing with pornography and videos of people dying. They probably feel they have to get more extreme to draw attention.
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Not really. They're competing with social media and twitch.

I watched Hellraiser Revelations and it's living up to the rule of any movie with revelation in the title is bad 2/10 maybe 3/10.

The movie has huge identity issues. It starts found footage, switches to mystery "Filmed in the directors mcmansion" then switches to Funny games with the original Hellraisers effects and story elements weaved in. It does not work on any level. You can't so mystery found footage when we know the villains from 7 movies. It's even worse because the main character carrying it cannot act.

Pinhead is fat and talks too much. He doesn't even sound like the same character in the writing and the acting is bad. The effects in general are decent but very dated. They look 80s and not in a good way.

The only tits are so small when the bitch lays down you think it's a dude. The main character makes out and grabs his sisters tits (It's revealed it's her boyfriend in his skin but that's a later reveal). A girl almost orgasms in front of her mother by playing with the puzzle box.

This movie is just bad. Being Hellraiser ruins the found footage mystery elements. The Hellraiser elements are just Hellraiser 1 but done worse. And the funny games bit doesn't work because the main actor cannot act.

I thought a movie like Book of shadows could be interesting in Hellraiser but it's got too many identity issues. The series isn't even psychological horror any more it's just whatever shit they could add the name to and put on a DVD. I'm glad there's only 1 film left and saddened it's got this bad. RIP Pinhead, you are now Butterball with piercings.
 
frozen_runner dijo:
Modern horror movies are competing with pornography and videos of people dying.
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Well, so is everything else. Hard to find an excuse to make it to a theater when I could be watching cartel torture footage at home, and I don't even have to wear pants.

Kofi Drinka dijo:
Not really. They're competing with social media and twitch.
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That too.

I am dumb enough to have subjected myself to some of Full Moon Features' (ed. - the Puppetmaster guys) recent atrocities. They've fully embraced using AI, and with the completely unfettered power to do anything, they're still doing movies with four lousy actors on a cheap soundstage talking a lot, NOW! with some LLM-slop gore effects that could be done by any literal retard with an uncensored text-to-video model.

Full Moon have been out-of-touch ever since people stopped needing to pay a fee to Blockbuster to see a nipple, but at this point they're lagging way behind what you'd get from searching "AI horror" on YouTube. I'm pretty sure Charles Band is living on Patreon donations from nostalgic boomers and merch sales and none of their "movies" are otherwise making back their budgets.

Terrifier seems to demonstrate that you can still make a lotta money on cheap thrills and shock value, you don't need some bold new idea, just don't be extremely actively shitty. Apparently that's too hard or something, dunno.
 
Cardinal Cardinal dijo:
Just finished "Obsession" and I recommend it.
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Same

The Token Ethnic dijo:
Good to know, I was on the fence about watching it when the Alamo Drafthouse pointed this out as one of the reasons it's a must watch:
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I was worried it was going to be another cautionary tale about the evils of incels for a minute there. Oh, and the Blumhouse logo at the beginning threw me to. Are they producing/distributing good movies now or is this one a fluke?
 
Finished the backrooms. It's a definite 7/10.

My favorite part of the movie was when the black guy was running from the monster and roaming around the place. It felt like what a backrooms movie should have been. I didn't like how the white dude got killed so early. Or how Clark became crazy so fast. I think it would have been more productive if the film tried to carry that energy onto the second half of the flick before rushing everything along to the end. Like, Clark should have been Act 1 and the couple act 2 while the therapist comes in for act 3 and wraps it up. That would have made for a thrilling ride through the backrooms. Oh and the movie is about trauma not about toxic masculinity, but I know magazine rags and video essayists will miss the point which is spelled out at the ending montage. The therapist was wrong to tell clark he couldn't change.

Impressive for a first film. Glad I picked this over obsession. Will watch scary movie 6 next month; got no expectations for that one other than it will give me some laughs.
 
umseriously dijo:
Finished the backrooms. It's a definite 7/10.

Impressive for a first film. Glad I picked this over obsession. Will watch scary movie 6 next month; got no expectations for that one other than it will give me some laughs.
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Fucking useless website. You quote a spoiler and it shows you the text in the spoiler.

How much is a nigger in it? The first trailer was just a nigger in a hallway. I don't want to watch nigger in a hallway simulator. If he dies straight away then sure.
 
Kofi Drinka dijo:
Fucking useless website. You quote a spoiler and it shows you the text in the spoiler.

How much is a nigger in it? The first trailer was just a nigger in a hallway. I don't want to watch nigger in a hallway simulator. If he dies straight away then sure.
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He's present for the 1st and 3rd act. But he does die and is replaced by the white woman protag. I recommend you to skip it, because the movie does focus a lot on his character development.
 
For your viewing pleasure, Here's some youtube leaks of the Backrooms movie:





A Pirate did it!
 
Obsession is peak. So many scenes that activated my lizard brain and go "fuuuuuck that." The scene where Nikki is just standing outside her house, just a black silhouette, really got me.
 
Gamer Dan dijo:
So the zombie genre is virtually dead?
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probably not, ROK is still making zombie stuff, there's probably a walking dead spinoff in the wings at any given moment
really in hindsight it seems there's just been some slight lulls in the genre like around the 90s and even then there was action on the global stage
 
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