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

[Gamer Dan]

Keep this in mind when the new Resident Evil movie is released.

I feel like they will try to add some weird 2020s elevated horror edge to Resident Evil.

 

[King Metalia]

Weapons was utter shite too. The Babadook too. Just utter garbage. The Evolution of Horror Podcast I used to enjoy and somewhat still do, But if they hype up an "Elevated Horror" (Bleh), it's going to be woke, pretenious arthouse, theatre kid, garbage.

The Babadook had a good concept but utterly shit execution. Plus about 15 minutes in I wanted to slap the main character's annoying brat of a son. Weapons in my opinion is not a horror film solely because the Oscars approved of it. For as we all know the Oscars have an irrational hatred of horror films.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

The Keep is peak male horror.

Also the male version of heaven. Man I wish I was living that movie.

 

[Big Miss Steak]

When you're in space alone and your only option is to fuck a washed up cunty actress who never looked better than a 3/10 with make up. And it drives you so crazy you start going Bing Bing Wahoo! From Jurassic world's red head to being so hungry it's almost a game.

I meant more like waking up early on a space voyage that is going to last long beyond your lifetime and realizing that you will never see another living person other than this guy and then you guys bond despite the horrible situation and fall in love and you're like okay well maybe I can see the silver lining here at least we have chemistry and then finding out that the guy woke you up on purpose because he's lonely and horney and bored and he intentionally doomed you to a life with no one other than him and any kids you birth without the aid of doctors so you either make up with him or you live the rest of your life completely and utterly alone. But I guess having to settle for a woman you don't find very attractive is comparable.

Male horror tends to be more of a thriller. Stuff like Jacob's ladder or Taken.

Haven't seen Jacob's Ladder to my immense embarrassment but Taken is a male hero fantasy. It's what every out of shape, middle-aged dad wishes he was. You made me start thinking about "my daughter's missing" movies though and I feel like Prisoners could be a good example of helpless father horror. That movie made me sick to my stomach. The Fly could also be an example, as Jeff Goldblum loses his looks/physicality/mind and ends up posing a direct threat to his gf's life.

Being falsely accused of something is also up there but they usually make TV series of that rather than horror and the guy is always guilty any way.

You should check out The Hunt with Mads. It's a drama though, not a thriller.

I would say Gone Girl is a pretty male focused horror, but it's often told from a feminine perspective. Especially the ending is hard on men.

It's embarrassing but I haven't seen or read this one either. Doesn't she vanish and frame him for her disappearance/murder as revenge for something he did?

I would half joke that romantic comedies are male horror. You see a woman take advantage of two guys, one's just a dick and the other's a wet blanket. And they both keep getting strung along until she fucks both of them over and ends up marrying one of them any way. It makes me genuinely angry at some of those. Men really struggle with seeing injustice, it taps into a primal level of disgust and seeing women get away with that cuts deep.

No one likes seeing injustice, it's not a male thing. In fact given that women tend to have more liberal leanings I'd say it's actually a more feminine thing. I do hate romantic comedies because they tend to glorify or downplay behavior that is very hurtful to others and will ruin your life/reputation. The fact that a woman stringing a guy along is "male horror" is probably an indicator we need more actual male horror.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Saw Longlegs and it's got me convinced that someone cloned Uwe Boll and started giving him decent budgets for horror movies because the amount of straight up shit coming out with plots that are paper thin and require a shortbus level of suspension of belief to work are a dime a dozen.

I like to keep an open mind with horror movies I really do, I'll excuse a few things here and there if the film is overall good but if a character that's meant to be smart immediately starts acting like a retard then it's usually the sign that we're headfirst into a movie going downhill and once it hits a certain point of breaking disbelief I'm out of it and hatewatching the rest.

But Longlegs has everything beat, it's not just bad bad but there's straight up misdirection in the form of the notes for the sole purpose of saying "fuck you" to the viewer. The plot is bad, the pacing is bad, it's literally an investigative thriller that punishes the viewer for trying to fucking INVESTIGATE the movie. The kicker? The writer uses the magic voodoo defence to try and explain away anything that doesn't work.

Like I'm genuinely pissed off at a movie and I'm even more mad that it's too late to watch another movie to take the edge off. What's worse is that this was a film that was heavily recommended to me by a horror buff friend of mine, and I cannot even comprehend how they'd find it tolerable, let alone their favourite horror from the past few years.

 

[Heavy Rainfall2]

Thought you were talking about 2016 Passengers with Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence, which is a horror movie imo.

Funny story, my dumbass watched that movie thinking I was watching the recent one like a week ago. I liked Passengers (2016) but I have a huge soft spot for sci-fi horror. And while it wasn't quite that, still found it entertaining. 6/10 depends how much you like sci-fi and can stand Chris Pratt.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

Longlegs was actually pretty good and holds up on rewatch so you’re just wrong

 

[Aib Ld]

but idk I feel like Bear is meant to be sympathetic.

Pretty sure he is and isn't at the same. Ian set him up to fail and deliberately gave him bad advice, and never directed him to the girl (Sarah?) that wants him, which kicked off the whole plot. Nikki also didn't like him because both Ian and Nikki herself are fucking each other behind Bear's back. By the time Bear learned of how demonic his friend group was, it was too late for everyone to save themselves.

 

[AbbaZabba]

Maybe the wrong avenue to post this, but in case any of you feel like decorating your living spaces with some bat-shit lolcow-esque art prints, there's this US based storefront that works with Ghanan artists to make movie posters. There's a bunch of fun horror movie posters mixed in here!

Deadly Prey Gallery

 

[Disguised In Cognito]

Maybe the wrong avenue to post this, but in case any of you feel like decorating your living spaces with some bat-shit lolcow-esque art prints, there's this US based storefront that works with Ghanan artists to make movie posters. There's a bunch of fun horror movie posters mixed in here!

Deadly Prey Gallery

There are some horror ones in there, that's enough relevance for me. They're just weird and cool as hell though so thanks for the link.

 

[AbbaZabba]

There are some horror ones in there, that's enough relevance for me. They're just weird and cool as hell though so thanks for the link.

No problem! They had a gallery showing at a local art museum in my city today, and I figured I'd pass the link here! Almost bought the Videodrome, Barton Fink, American Movie, and Battle Royale ones but I'm both out of wall space in my current apartment and also between jobs.

 

[Alaska20k]

Saw Backrooms and thought it was pretty solid, felt like it zoomed by

We Bury The Dead - started pretty strong but fell apart halfway through. Major tonal problems and Daisy Ridley’s American accent is laughable. Give it a miss.


Also can we not feed retarded pink triangle people that like to jerk themselves off and shit up every thread they’re in? That’d be sick.

 

[The Nothingness]

Weapons in my opinion is not a horror film solely because the Oscars approved of it. For as we all know the Oscars have an irrational hatred of horror films.

The same could be said about Sinners when you see the number of Oscar nominations it got compared to Nosferatu the previous year.

 

[Big Miss Steak]

Saw Longlegs

That movie pissed me off so bad. Started out with so much promise and then fell to shit. Also Nick Cage isn't scary in that movie.

Pretty sure he is and isn't at the same.

Ian was a piece of shit undoubtedly. At the same time, once Bear realized that Nikki was under some sort of thrall/mind control and continued in a relationship with her, I think he kind of deserved everything that happened to him after that. He doesn't even consider finding some way to break the spell until Nikki's weirdo behavior starts scaring him.

 

[Aib Ld]

Ian was a piece of shit undoubtedly.

Spoiler: Obsession

Everyone is at fault, but Ian doomed them all. If Ian didn't set Bear up while also knowing Sarah wanted him, the movie would be vastly different. Sarah even told Ian she has a crush on Bear, and Ian still directed Bear to get shut down.
Nikki's refusal to come upfront on fucking his homeboy while saying evasive stuff like "i like [bear] as a brother" too also heavily implies she plays a part on Bear falling to extreme measures on doing the wish. Would the movie be different if Bear was refused before he got the Willow? Probably. He never got a 'no', he never got a 'yes' either. He was strung along by the two, waiting. Then he got tired of waiting, dreamed all loud to himself and the Willow (which he didn't believe was real at this point), and that was that.
I think the implication was that Bear's wish is his idealization version of Nikki. There was no possession, it was a personification version of his wish manifested in Nikki. If he knew what his friens were doing behind his back since the start or was simply told 'no' instead of forced to play the waiting game, he wouldn't have done the wish. Dude was even in shock when he learned Sarah wanted him.
While all this doesnt excuse Bear keeping Nikki under, he was kicked into it in the first place. Bear is the antagonist, but the real villain is Ian.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

They are all villains.

Spoiler

Nikki gave Sarah's $20 to a bum. She wasn't punished enough IMO.

 

[JustKiwiPosting]

Spoiler: Obsession

Everyone is at fault, but Ian doomed them all. If Ian didn't set Bear up while also knowing Sarah wanted him, the movie would be vastly different. Sarah even told Ian she has a crush on Bear, and Ian still directed Bear to get shut down.
Nikki's refusal to come upfront on fucking his homeboy while saying evasive stuff like "i like [bear] as a brother" too also heavily implies she plays a part on Bear falling to extreme measures on doing the wish. Would the movie be different if Bear was refused before he got the Willow? Probably. He never got a 'no', he never got a 'yes' either. He was strung along by the two, waiting. Then he got tired of waiting, dreamed all loud to himself and the Willow (which he didn't believe was real at this point), and that was that.
I think the implication was that Bear's wish is his idealization version of Nikki. There was no possession, it was a personification version of his wish manifested in Nikki. If he knew what his friens were doing behind his back since the start or was simply told 'no' instead of forced to play the waiting game, he wouldn't have done the wish. Dude was even in shock when he learned Sarah wanted him.
While all this doesnt excuse Bear keeping Nikki under, he was kicked into it in the first place. Bear is the antagonist, but the real villain is Ian.

They are all villains.

Spoiler

Nikki gave Sarah's $20 to a bum. She wasn't punished enough IMO.

The real villain is poorly labeled and regulated products pushed by Big Corporate Witchcraft. One thing that does bother me is this concept that what Nikki is doing is actually love.

Spoiler: More thoughts on a 5/10 flick

What's interesting to me in all of this discussion about Bear being a rapist/villain/etc. is no one has stopped and asked who considers what Nikki is doing to be love. What's especially strange is if the One Wish Willow is supposed to be a Monkey's Paw, it's strange how it works perfectly fine for Ian and possessed Nikki, but only Bear got the Monkey's Paw version. Who's concept of love includes digging up a dead cat or putting it in someone's sandwich? Why wouldn't Nikki have the sort of love where she valued Bear's well being over her own? It just seems to be a very jaded interpretation of what love is, which I think betrays the views of the faggot who wrote the movie. Which isn't even to bring up that the Willow didn't even work in regards to Nikki since her real consciousness is portrayed as being buried under a possession. But for some reason when Ian wishes for a Billion dollars he just gets it and it doesn't even crush him. I think the director is a total faggot, and it's hard to really blame a character in a film when there definitely seems to be an agenda from the Zoomer faggot director to just specifically fuck this character over.

 

[Big Miss Steak]

There was no possession, it was a personification version of his wish manifested in Nikki.

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.

no one has stopped and asked who considers what Nikki is doing to be love

That also bothered me. Bear didn't wish for Nikki to be obsessed with him, which IMO would have been believable in that scene. He just wishes for her to love him more than anyone. Why does that manifest in her digging up and mincing his beloved cat into lunch meat, missing and vomiting all over his carpet, screaming at him, etc?

 

[pork and beans]

But Longlegs has everything beat, it's not just bad bad but there's straight up misdirection in the form of the notes for the sole purpose of saying "fuck you" to the viewer.

it was so disappointing. anything it attempts to do has already been done better a bajillion times and better, whether it be silence of the lambs, carrie or sharp objects.

Visually it's not a bad movie and I remember the first half being very entrancing, until you realise the writers did not know what they wanted to do or what they wanted to explore.

Saw Backrooms and thought it was pretty solid, felt like it zoomed by

agreed, it was quite fun and the direction was promising, I hope he keeps making movies and perfecting his craft.

Spoiler: sperging

I like how the movie balanced the directors own personal interpretation of the backrooms and the homage to the concept itself which obviously existed prior to Kane Pixels videos; this is visible through the interextuality, the authorial choice to include Everywhere at the end of time (both the tracks and the artwork), BOC and that one Ulterior Motives song, the laundry pile scene that looked like those Stroke Simulation images... its a big time capsule of that intersection of communities in digital spaces during 2021.
I thought the story was pretty meh and the acting and dialogue sometimes pretty subpar, but ah what can you do.

 

[Aib Ld]

how it works perfectly fine for Ian and possessed Nikki, but only Bear got the Monkey's Paw version.

Spoiler: Obsession

I think it is because of the phrasing used. Ian is simply "I wish for a billion dollars".
Bear is "I wish Nikki loves me more than anything else in the world" which probably includes the 'love' from crazy bitches and then more. If Bear said "I wish Nikki loves me", maybe she wouldn't be crazy.