horror maniacs 🔪 🩸

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favorite horror movies. parodies included!

shaun of the dead is one of the best zombie movies i’ve ever seen

the film making is so good

horror movie maniacs 🔪 🩸

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i’m usually not a zombie movie person but shaun of the dead is fun

the only other zombie movie i’ve seen that i enjoyed was the girl with all the gifts

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don’t know if i’ve seen that one

i don’t watch too many zombie movies, just ones that catch my eye

my fav type of horror movie is haunted house

[sweet yew]

Shaun of the Dead makes fun of zombie movies, but also is one of the best examples of it. It's silly, it's fun, but they never make death and danger seem meaningless, so when it gets high stakes, the movie's able to pivot to serious and emotional so well.

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i really want to watch the 1977 house but i’m waiting to see if it lands on one of my streaming services

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exactly

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girl with all the gifts features a protagonist who is part zombie, and it’s less a horror thriller but a gory exploration of what it means to be human and how right it is that we can decide who has the right to live or die

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precisely

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OH RIGHT that movie! The girl with all the gifts was really good.

I loved the ending.

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have you all seen US

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oh yeah the ending was wonderful

i have not but i’ve watched a synopsis bc i wasn’t gonna watch it

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i think it’s really cool the way they turned I Got 5 into a scary song

it totally matches the vibes of something familiar turned sinister

it’s also just a banger song

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mhm mhm

[sweet yew]

So my big horror recommendation is Savageland. Free on youtube. It starts slow, but it does so to make itself seem believable, get you emotionally attached and lay important plot threads. When it picks up, it does not stop.

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https://youtu.be/ERtkpnXLrL4?feature=shared regular and tethered https://youtu.be/WFGmO1e_sAU?feature=shared

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i will try it

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oh fun song turned scary reminds me, i need to know y’all’s thoughts on jennifer’s body

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so far on my list i got:
jacob’s ladder
savageland

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i’ll watch it the next wednesday i have free for movie time :-)

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never seen it but it seems pretty wacky

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it’s delightful
campy in the right ways, it achieves what it sets out to achieve and i adore it

[sweet yew]

Honest to god? Jennifer's Body isn't high cinema and it's not overly scary, but it's a fun popcorn movie.

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yeah like, it’s not high brow horror but it never claimed to be

[sweet yew]

Yes. And that's okay! Not every movie has to be Oscar bait. There's nothing wrong with doing an 80s camp horror movie that's just fun.

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exactly!

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have you guys seen any halloween movies

the michael myers ones

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i’ve seen the very first one

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All of them, including season of the witch.

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i saw one of the more recent ones on a hotel channel with three minutes of ads every ten minutes

i don’t really remember the plot but i do remember that you can save 15% or more on car insurance with geico

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loll

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that was the real fright

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The original Halloweens and the continuations with Jamie Lee Curtis are pretty solid. Halloween Kills is a little eh, but they're just great slasher films.

The remakes by Rob Zombie are...I love Rob Zombie, but he cannot do subtlety, so they're just endless gore fests.

Halloween III: Season of the Witch doesn't involve Michael Meyers. The series was always meant to be a 'different scary thing every movie' and the director tried to go back to that. I LOVE Halloween III because if you want to talk 'campy horror fun', it wins. It's so bonkers it's amazing.

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i will watch that

to watch:
Savageland
Jacob’s Ladder
Halloween III: Season of the Witch

i think the Mist is a nearly perfect horror movie

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Ha, agreed. I forgot about The Mist, but you're right. I think Stephen King can get a little too...weird with his religion=evil and the super market lady almost became a cartoon villain at the end, but that's such a minor complaint given that the rest of the movie was -perfect-.

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i still need to watch the mist

i haven’t really read or watched a lot of stephen king, not on putting it kinda just never happened

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don’t look up anything about the mist because you WILL be spoiled just watch it

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That. Don't do anything to spoil yourself, go in blind.

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okie!

ohhh have y’all seen the autopsy of jane doe?

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No, actually. Is it good?

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i think it’s quite good, i really enjoyed the mystery of it and the twists

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I knew you guys would show me some things I'd missed. Thank you!

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yaya ofc!

i also highly recommend before i wake

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Autopsy of Jane Doe and Before I wake. Wonderful.

What about you, Wup? Any big recommendations? What's your favorite horror film?

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let me think

the purge tv series is really good. not exactly horror more thriller but really good

Alien, if you somehow haven’t seen it.

also more like a thriller but still really awesome

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New Alien movie coming out this year.

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oh shit?

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hereditary will make you sleep with the lights on for a week

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haven’t heard about this but that’s awesome

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dude hereditary is the only horror film i’ve ever watched that had me laying there eyes wide open afterwards feeling nauseous and jittery for hours

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Fucking Hereditary...

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the message of inherited mental illness being impossible to ever really escape hit me like a truck

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Alien: Romulus. From what I understand, it takes place between Alien and Aliens. It's going back to the old school plot of a group of colonists settling on the WRONG world...

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oooo

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the first season of stranger things is fantastic horror

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it is

it was very well done and intriguing

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Now I'm trying to think of the scariest series I-...oh, I know one.

Okay so lemme explain this. There's a really good Japanese horror show, but Japanese horror is sometimes a little jarring, because they believe something that doesn't always resonate with foreign audiences.

Horror does not always have to make sense. Ghosts and the paranormal can be beyond your understanding.

So if you want to be confused and scared, I recommend Ju-On Origins. It's a prequel to the Japanese version of The Grudge.

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i love horror that doesn’t even make sense at times

japanese horror is amazing at that
y’all seen that youtube video my house walk-through

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nope

but if it’s about a scary house then i’d love it

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yes it is!

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No, but now I want to.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qWXnt2Z2D1E

it’s very well made

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i think this movie is actually not bad https://letterboxd.com/film/skinamarink/

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oooo i’ve been meaning to watch skinamarink

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this is jams’ review if you were wondering

“You really need to be immersed for this movie to work, like you gotta watch it alone without lights. Not even as like a 'challenge', but just because the movie is so slow and the shots are so ambiguous it's very easy to lose your attention. If you watch it with friends, you guys are just gonna be talking the whole time like "OH whats that? is that a face? wait what room is this? have we seen this corner before. OH is that the dad? Did the legos move?" etc. My immersion wasn't great for this movie because I was eating a really yummy bowl of chili, honestly it was REALLY good chili I really knocked it out of the park like it wasn't crazy or complex or anything it didn't even have meat it was just beans and peppers and fire-roasted tomatoes but i think adding a little bit of dark chocolate gave the flavors more depth also I used really good smoked paprika imported from spain and I had a lil bit of greek yogurt on top because im not gonna buy sour cream for one dish when greek yogurt is a good substitute plus can be used for breakfast (i add it to smoothies) but the extra tanginess of the yogurt complemented the chili wonderfully anyway yeah just eating that bowl of chili broke my immersion kinda :/“ - Jams

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lolll

[sweet yew]

Oh, that's lovely!

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that sounded like a phenomenal chili

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i was so sad i missed the horror film talk in the general while im editing my fanfic rn
i really enjoy all the saw movies. tho i haven’t had a chance to see saw x yet

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i’ve seen the first saw but none of the others, i’ll probably end up watching them at some point tho bc my friend i watch movies with loves the saw movies

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OH MY GOD I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO PUKE WATCHING HEREDITARY LIKE THE ONLYYYY HORROR MOVIE I HAD TO LOOK UP SPOILERS TO CONTINUE WATXHING

[sweet yew]

Saw is...it's like horror movie Jackass. You don't watch for the plot.

You watch to see whatever wacky stunts Jigsaw is up to this time.

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the first 3 are sooo great. AND THEN IT LOSES THE PLOT FOR ME

i could go on and on how about they weren’t following his original rules

[sweet yew]

You're right, the first three actually have a decent plot, but then they just went absolutely bonkers.

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like he had a POINT IN THE FIRST THREE AND THEY WENT CRAZY

like 😭😭😭😭

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this is pretty scary, don’t totally get it but it’s spooky for sure

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oh my god the movie ending of the mist….
the book is different from the movie if im not mistaken? but im not totally sure

[sweet yew]

The problem was that they decided to kill him, and then didn't have any interesting ideas to replace him with, so the last seven fucking movies have been 'uuuuuh look at the traps'.

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yeah! exactly it’s like, the slow build of tension, and i love the pt like looping of the house

[sweet yew]

Don't spoil it for her. 😄 She hasn't seen it!

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LITERALLLLYYYYYYY

omg okay i wont say anything

you have to watch it. that’s a great movie

i love stephen king stuff. we all went through an IT phase right?

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i promise i’ll watch mist as soon as i have the time to so we can talk about it lol

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Of course, IT's iconic.

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i did see it, the newer one, it was pretty good, i really should see the older one someday

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the older one is so terrible BAHAHAH

like ik it’s a classic and i appreciate it in all its glory but

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The older one is worth seeing just so you can laugh at how it was considered terrifying back in its day. The new one absolutely dances around it.

[thorny barn]

^^^^ exactly.

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it can be very interesting to see what was once phenomenal horror looking goofy and tame next to more modern horror

god you know what has withstood the test of time pretty well though? the thing

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so i read the comments and apparently ||there was a typhoon in japan with 3 casualties . in this movie it’s assumed that it was his grandma, grandpa, and him||

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idk if i’ve seen that one

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I'm someone who generally appreciates retro horror and believes that practical effects can be amazing. I'm usually the guy saying 'that remake was pointless'. So when I say the new one's better, that's almost hard to admit.

Oh god yes, The Thing is a top 10 recommendation.

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oh my gosh you haven’t seen the thing? duuuude it’s so good, the practical effects guy went crazy

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i’m really bad at watching classic horror movies 🫣 like i’ve never seen the shining, psycho, scream, carrie

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ooo the first scream is really good too

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they’re all on my list, especially scream

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i’m usually very good at catching twists before they happen and scream caught me totally off guard

[sweet yew]

Much like Shaun of the Dead, Scream manages to make fun of its material while also being a great example of it. It breaks the rules to make things scarier.

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this is so me with shutter island. ik not technically horror but

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No, no, Shutter Island's a good one.

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exactly! it’s masterfully done. scary but silly at the same time

ooooh shutter island is wonderful

[thorny barn]

i loveeee it. it was sooo good. my brother tricked me into watching by saying he was just going to play the trailer but it was just the whole movie LOL

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lmaooo that’s such a brother thing to do

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have any of y’all seen X? that was a recent movie but felt like such an old timey slasher

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Yes, actually! I loved everything about X. The theme of the fear of aging, the old fashioned horror in an old fashioned setting, it was much more than a stupid horror film.

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for some reason i saw x and my brain jumped right to jason x

i still need to see x

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Jason X is not a good movie, but it's a great fuckin' movie, you know?

[thorny barn]

ugh YES!!!!

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i still need to see it lol, it’s on my terrible good movies to watch list

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i’ve never even heard of it 😭 immediately on my watch list

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it’s about jason voorhees but he’s in outer space

[thorny barn]

BAHAHAHHAHAHA WHAT

[feral oyster]

whats everyone’s favorite snacks to eat while watching scary movies

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Jason X is...it's almost a send up of pointless sequels where the horror char is somewhere ridiculous or they have to come up with a new concept. So they just put Jason on a space station in the future because why not. And yes, this is dumb. The writers and cast know this. So they go all out.

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m&ms and horror just go so well

i love putting m&ms in my popcorn

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i go DEEP in this. I love m&ms. and raisinets in the popcorn is perfect. but, the chewy sweetarts and a movie are next level

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buttery popcorn, pretzels, and something chocolatey
i like to cronch mostly when i watch horror

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this is so funny LOLLL

[sweet yew]

Pizza bagels for the red stains.

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ohhhh the wild berry skittles go hard too

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bottle caps are good too

OH HOW COULD I FORGET MY BELOVED: BLACK LICORICE?
EVERY MOVIE VIEWING EXPERIENCE MUST HAVE IT

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THAT’S A CRAZY SAY

HOLY SHIT BOTH OF THESE ARE CRAZY SAYS

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crazy positive or crazy negative lol

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neutral.

i like a lil chalky candy, so bottle caps are sometimes yum

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Oh oh, wait, I have a movie for you all. If you want an amazingly corny horror film. But it's amazing due to one small detail.

[thorny barn]

but i can’ttttt do black licorice

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black licorice is a scary candy

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i have a little brother so as a defense mechanism when i was young i learned to love the candies most people enjoy less lol

black licorice is so gooood

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like if candy had genres black licorice is scary

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good and plenties are my jam

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yeah you have some interesting tastes but i respect it

peanut butter candy and scary movies are so good

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reece’s pieces

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i just really like the taste of anise
i like anisette cookies a lot too

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i HATEEE anise which is why i hate black licorice

i can spot anise from a mile away

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i have a licorice tea i drink too 💀

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have you had jujyfruits

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i have not!

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It's called Blades. It's about a killer lawnmower loose at a golf course. Yes, that's another dumb concept. But the best part is...

...it's nearly a line for line remake of the movie JAWS, but the shark replaced with a fucking lawnmower. And yes, it's intentional.

On the surface, it's already a corny movie, but as soon as you realize that and see the similarities, it becomes art. The whole thing is a Jaws parody in disguise and most critics did not notice.

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im waitingggg

omg YAY

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OH MY GOD?

YES

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BAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA I NEED TO SEE THAT RIGHT NOW

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IM SO GLAD I LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE THAT MOVIE EXISTS

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they’re yummy chewy gummy candies with one that’s anisé flavor

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oh dude i gotta see this

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ooo if i see some ill try them out

itemlabel horror fans blades movie night

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Movies to see:
Jacob’s Ladder
Savageland
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Blades

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IT BASED IN NEW JERSEY MAKES IT BETTER BAHAHHAHAHA

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terrifying..

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I'm gonna find out where it's streaming, but that one's amazing if only for the fact that nearly no critic realized it and the director NEVER makes it too obvious in the movie.

Yeah, it's made by a group called Troma Team in New Jersey which loves making silly movies.

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HELLO WHERE’S MY TED LASSO FANS
ONE OF THE CHARACTERS NAME IS ROY KENT???

now ik if i ever meet jason sudeikis im gonna ask if that was the inspiration behind the name

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i love that, more people need to just make stupid shit that doesn’t take itself seriously the world would be such a bright place

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it’s on peacock

yeah immediately added to watch list

[sweet yew]

Absolutely agreed. XD

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blades is on my watchlist too it looks delightful

[sweet yew]

Of all the movies I did not expect to talk about today.

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lol fr

what’s y’all’s favorite horror trope/ theme?

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character thinks they escaped but doesn’t

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i really just like ghost shit

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Oh hell yes.

Average group of people suddenly put in a survival situation. Alien, The Thing, Event Horizon, that's just off the top of my head. This trope is often used for disaster movies, but it can be really effective in horror, because banding together to survive is essential. Plus it often means one of them might be the killer.

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ooooo that’s a good one

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ooo yes yes yes all good choices

i love it when a house is an active participant in its own haunting

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for sure

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like when it’s less the house is haunted and more the house is the haunting

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IT NEEDS TO BE. For a scary haunted house movie, the house needs to have a lot of personality. It needs to be an entity like a slasher villain.

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all i can think about is monster house with you saying that

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exactly!

lmaooo god monster house..,

[sweet yew]

Monster House may have been for kids, but it was effectively scary.

[feral oyster]

i think also normal town, normal house that slowly shows more and more signs that something is wrong, a la Get Out

[thorny barn]

OH YESSSSSS

i love jordan peele movies. Us is a great example of put into survivor mode but in such a unique way

[sweet yew]

Hahah, that's always fun. Paranormal Activity does this too.

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a prime example of what i mean is kitty horrorshow’s game anatomy

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yes yes yessss

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specifically like when the danger is immediately present and not hidden but the character hasn’t figured this out yet. a zombie hiding doesn’t count

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yes like, it’s hidden in plain sight and all the signs have been ignored until it’s too late

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have you all seen the newer episodes of the twilight zone

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good shit

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Jordan Peele was the right man for the job.

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ah fuck i haven’t watched twilight zone in forever

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another on the watch list. everyone always talks about it but never have seen any

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the only one i really remember is the one where that guy who loves to read steps on his glasses after everyone else in the world dies and so he can’t read anymore

[sweet yew]

Of course you remember that one, that's one of the most tragic episodes of anything ever written. XD

[thorny barn]

holy shit

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it was so sad :-(

[sweet yew]

That's one of the old episodes. And old Twilight Zone had hit and miss episodes, but the good ones hold up even today.

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nvm now i dont know if i want to watch if it’s that devastating DAMN

[sweet yew]

I think it's both one of the first series where every episode is its own story and definitely one of the first series where you don't always get a happy ending.

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oh wait i remember one other and it’s only bc a chowder episode riffed on it:
that retired actress who spends all day watching her old movies lamenting that she’s not as young and pretty anymore and then she ends up getting sucked into the movies
idk if im remembering that one correctly

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CHOWDER

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CHOWDER FAN??

A FELLOW CHOWDER ENJOYER??

[thorny barn]

I REMEMBER WATCHING THAT 😭😭

I USED TO HAVE A TINY LITTLE FIGURINE OF HIM

[sweet yew]

You are absolutely remembering that one correctly.

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i would like to thank chowder for taking a big role in forming my sense of humor

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duuuude i have a belt with his face all over it

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i remember watching the marvelous misadventures of flapjack around that time too

i love the chowder hats people make nowadays

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i actually never got to see flapjack as a kid but from clips i’ve seen the humor looks very similar

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godddd i need me one of these so badly

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Oh jeez, can I give one more horror recommendation? Little Monsters. It's about a Kindergarten class on a field trip when a zombie apocalypse hits, and the teachers are not only trying to keep them safe, but convince them all its just a game of pretend.

It's a lot like Shaun of the Dead where its funny, but the danger is real and it can become emotional on a dime.

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OH MY GOD?

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oh i’ve heard of this one!

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added to my note to watch

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and there’s that children’s entertainment actor there too right? that one?

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YEP.

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yes okay that’s been on my watchlist for a bit it looks so funny

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Played by the guy who did Olof from Frozen, and he is not a good person in this one. XD

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YO JOSH GAD AND LUPITA

i need to see this immediately actually

like this looks incredible

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never heard of this but it sounds good

[sweet yew]

Yeah, it's worth it. It's the most emotionally attached I have -ever- been to the survivors in a horror film. I did not expect that from the Kindergarten zombie movie, but Lupita kills it.

Like I said, I'm a total horror movie buff. My favorite genre. So I frigging love getting to geek out about my top picks. And now ya'll have given me a watch list too.

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hell yeah! i love horror, my goal in life is to be a graphic novelist and write horror stories

[thorny barn]

oh that’s so awesome

[sweet yew]

Fun goal. And the more good/fun horror you see, the more you can spot examples of what works.

Any idea what kind of horror stories you wanna do? Fun plots in mind?

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i have a few ideas i’ve had pinging around for a while:
guy goes out geocaching and ends up finding a dismembered corpse. then his gps becomes haunted by the ghost of the deceased who gives him the coordinates for all the missing body parts.
a girl goes looking for her missing dog and has a run in with a small towns local cryptid, the roadkill queen
the angry spirit of a miscarriage is summoned up by the blue baby game and it wants a host mother so it can be born properly this time

i get so nervous about not executing things the way i want to that i haven’t finished any but im working on getting over it lol

[thorny barn]

i love the geocaching idea especially the ghost haunting the gps

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Do you accept ideas? Because I think something might turn the miscarriage idea into pure terror.

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yes?

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The angry spirit of a miscarriage one? Reincarnation. There's plenty of ghost horror stories, but not many horror stories about the concept of reincarnation. Imagine some serial killer or some terrible person who was supposed to be born again, only for it to screw up and now they're trapped in limbo. And of course, being the terrible person they are, they blame the mother.

Like it's not just some innocent kid they were carrying. It's an existing soul who was ready for another shot at the world, and blames the mom for taking it away.

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oo yes i like this

bc the less innocent the better tbh, the ghost i’ve been calling the yolk, and it’s kind of supposed to be allegorical for unwanted pregnancy, hence the horror of it being its unwanted entry into the womb

[thorny barn]

yolk 😭

[sweet yew]

Absolutely. That's such a fun theme to play with because it's a horror that hits on a primal level. They didn't want this THING and now it's here and in their body.

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that’s one of the aspects of alien that i loved the most, was the fact that the horror of it took some inspiration from the idea of unwanted pregnancy

it’s scary shit and i feel like horror is a wonderful medium to draw attention to things we find important to discuss

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yeah it’s a bit silly but i like how yolk means the yolk of an egg, but it also sounds like yoke, the frame that binds work animals together. an unwanted set of shackles

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Alien did that. Ridley Scott wanted Alien to feel super uncomfortable and gross to guys, because it's female horror. The facehuggers are forcible pregnancy that's unwanted, there's something wrong growing inside of you and you can't get it out. And with the reincarnation thing, you have the ability to essentially turn it into an Exorcist story with an unwanted entity inside, but with that very real parallel.

I love love love love drawing from actual fear and natural body horror when it comes to horror stories, because yeah, you can explore the roots of that fear.

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exactly exactly! horror that is inspired by real human horrors we can experience any day is wonderful and a very good means of expressing frustration or drawing attention

that’s why the babadook is my favorite horror movie <3

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omg i didn’t know that? that makes it even better. i love it

[sweet yew]

Yep. Oh that's so cool, keep us updated here. I do like your other ideas too (the GPS one is fun because digital horror is always a good time), but that one really jumped out at me.

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thank you, will do! sometime i’ll post some of my concept art and good examples of my work in the art channel or something, not right now just bc i done wanna get up and rifle through all my papers lol

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John kramer is cool

I like saw their fun movies

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they are pretty good

i liked Spiral

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the writer of spiral follows me on twitter for some reason

does anyone else have a separate favorite “bad” horror movie and “good” horror movie?

my favorites are saw and nope, respectively

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lol

[feral oyster]

yes i definitely do. i think scary movie is arguably terrible even as a parody but i still love it. for like actual bad horror movies i would say jason X. good horror movies, Us or Hereditary

[sweet yew]

I did not like Spiral. There are so many things that had to go perfectly right for that plan to happen. Like how the hell did he manage to construct an entire saw trap in the basement of a police station with no one noticing? And that blood trap thing? The science of how that works boggles the mind. How did he even learn to make those highly complex traps? Where did he get the materials? Not to mention there are two plotholes that are too big to ignore.

1. Apparently background checks don't exist in the Saw Universe. The death of the villain's father was big enough news to cause major changes in the police force, but not important enough that the police force would realize the dude's SON joined the force? Seriously, a basic internet search would reveal that. It doesn't matter if the cops didn't know he was there that day, they'd know that guy had a son just from family records.

2. His grand plan was to turn the cop who saved his life into an ally...by murdering their father in front of them? Remember, he planned to kill the dad either way with that puppet gun gimmick. Like this villain OF ALL PEOPLE should understand how bad getting a dad killed in front of him is. Remember his origin story?

[feral oyster]

yeah i agree with #1 but i’m willing to let the rest go for the sake of the movie

most sequels are cash grabs unfortunately

[sweet yew]

How can you let it go if the final encounter makes no sense? Like the entire plan of this guy was 'I need you to be on my side...so I'm going to do the one thing guaranteed to piss anyone off, and then hope I can beat you in a fist fight'.

Like he could have brought a gun too. That probably would have helped. Got time to build a trap that sucks the blood from Samuel Jackson and then turns him into a death puppet, but can't hide a pistol under the rug?

[feral oyster]

🥲

it’s ok that you didn’t like it and i can see why but i still thought it was a fun movie

if a movie is fun im willing to ignore a LOT

not trying to convince you to like it, just stating my personal opinions.

[sweet yew]

Okay yes, I'll admit it's a fun movie. But I think that's why it hurts for me because Saw used to be REALLY GOOD. There was a time when the plot twists were astounding and very little suspension of disbelief was required. But Saw is a hard franchise to write for because it requires a bad guy who's a genius. They're building these traps without anyone finding out and manipulating everyone. And writing a genius is hard.

I don't blame you for liking Spiral, Spiral would be a much better movie if the rest of the Saw franchise hadn't existed, you know?

[feral oyster]

yes, i agree with all of that

[timber pendant]

so excited, this wednesday my friend agreed to theme the watch party around horror media. i’m showing him nope and the first scream bc he’s never seen them, then we’re watching perfect blue, then we’re gonna start watching the corpse party anime :-D

we both loved satoshi kon’s paranoia agent so i’m super excited about perfect blue

[thorny barn]

that sounds so fun!!!

[sweet yew]

I am so glad Nope is getting love. I feel like it didn't make as much of a splash as Get Out and Us, despite the fact that it's every bit as good.

[timber pendant]

yeah, i think it deserved more attention than it got

[sweet yew]

Especially the secret in the movie poster. Did you hear about that?

[feral oyster]

no, what was it?

[timber pendant]

ooooo no i didn’t :-0

[sweet yew]

Look closely. That's not a hat.

And of course they chose that character for it.

[timber pendant]

oh my goddd jean jacket was right there???

[sweet yew]

That poster was out for months and NO ONE caught it. That madman revealed the monster (and its victim) off the bat and the world missed it.

[timber pendant]

that’s so fucking good????

thank whatever powers may be for jordan peele

[sweet yew]

Seriously, between Jordan Peele, the success of IT and Stranger Things, we're living in a good age of horror right now.

[thorny barn]

god i love stranger things

the amount of funkos i have for it. it’s one of my biggest hyperfixations

[timber pendant]

i have a couple funkos they’re really cute i can’t help myself
i only have one stranger things funko, it was a gift from a friend

these are the only horror related little guys i have :-)

[thorny barn]

chase eleven!!!! that’s a good one

i don’t recognize the others tho

[timber pendant]

the one in the middle is sal fisher from sally face and the one on the right is the corpse of laura palmer, from twin peaks

[timber pendant]

btw here’s some of the examples i mentioned
can’t really post my favorites bc i don’t want to try my luck with what is and is not gore lol

[feral oyster]

that’s a really awesome fact about the poster btw i definitely did not catch that

[feral oyster]

these are so cool!

i wonder if sterling would let us post stuff that’s maybe a little more violent than typically allowed. it is a horror movie forum..

not sure

[timber pendant]

i suppose we could ask. the worst thing that happens is they say no

[thorny barn]

your art style is sooo cool. i love the roadkill queen

[timber pendant]

:-D thank you!

[timber pendant]

watched saw 2 for the first time a few days ago

it was really good!

[thorny barn]

ohhhh saw 2 is soooo good!!!!

i meant to reply like ages ago but i forgor LOL

[timber pendant]

lol it’s all good

saw 2 was great, tomorrow i might end up being shown saw 3 if there’s time

[thorny barn]

YESS!!!!

the first three saw movies, as most movies go, are the best

[sweet yew]

I actually heard Saw X is shockingly good. I'm gonna see it once its streaming.

[thorny barn]

same, i’m waiting. i was too scared to see it in theaters despite it being my fav horror movies LOL

[timber pendant]

my movie day friend is a huge saw fan, owns all the movies. he said he loved the first three, and then took the piss out of pretty much all the other ones except x iirc, and then said he absolutely has to show me all of them lol

[thorny barn]

oh yeah the others one makes me so angry

i could go on and on about how they stop following the rules and the whole purpose of the games

[timber pendant]

it’s a strange thing to have someone show you their favorite movie series ever and point out many of them and be like “this is slop. absolute pig shit. worst movie ever. i can’t wait to make you watch it.”

[thorny barn]

LOLLLLLL

they’re garbage, but absolute perfection

[sweet yew]

Okay but watching bad movies can be amazing. There's a point where the bad plot wraps around to being hysterical, and Saw's gore at least makes it fun to watch.

Like yes, the post Saw III movies aren't good movies. But that doesn't mean they can't be REALLY fun to watch.

[timber pendant]

trashgarbage but in a good way

[feral oyster]

it builds character

[timber pendant]

lmaoo fr

[timber pendant]

my dad when he had me watch the animated watership down movie when i was, like, 8

(it was a mistake he saw cute animated bunnies and forgot that watership down was not for kids. it made me funny tho so im not mad lol)

[bleak plover]

i was scared too... scared to.... ask the guy I've been crushing on for well over a year if he wanted to see it with me

[timber pendant]

idk if any of yall also happen to play dead by daylight but the new killer???? its design???? phenomenal.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz9_9bok38c

it looks like it got hit by a truck

[feral oyster]

i don’t, but it does seem like a fun game

[timber pendant]

it’s fun it’s also very frustrating lol

it’s like being in a horror film which is fun

[gentle forge]

my five year old kid watching someones jaw get ripped open (owchie)

[timber pendant]

yall

perfect blue is so fucking good

holy shit i loved it

[sweet yew]

Oh that's a fun one. 😄

[timber pendant]

it’s so good i didn’t expect the twist at all

the way your perception of reality warps as mami’s does… chefs kiss

[thorny barn]

putting on my list to watch ✍️

[timber pendant]

hell yes dude

satoshi kon was a genius

[sweet yew]

I am once again encouraging you guys to watch Savageland if you want an amazing horror film for free. 😄

[thorny barn]

added ✍️

[sweet yew]

Savageland starts slow, but stick with it.

Also haaaa, Little Monsters, forgot about that one.

[thorny barn]

i have not stopped thinking about watching it. literally the next time i have free time i want to

[timber pendant]

yall i am so fucking excited about beetlejuice beetlejuice

[sweet yew]

I don't know if I'd consider Beetlejuice a horror or a comedy, but saaaaame.

[timber pendant]

i’ve always considered it a bit of both

i usually hate going to see movies in theaters but i think i actually might go to one for this

[limpid flame]

ohhhh okok my faves r

• the eyes of my mother
• creep
• the ritual
• rosemarys baby
• the thing (1982)
• silence of the lambs
• the blair witch project
• midsommar
• the killing of a sacred deer
• piercing
  there's more but

also love the saw movies even though they're ass

[timber pendant]

ooo i haven’t seen some of those i’ll have to check them out

[sweet yew]

Who wants the pants scared off them right now?

[timber pendant]

i like where this is going

[sweet yew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI9fKfX5V68 The scariest short film I have ever seen. 😄 Enjoy.

Be sure to watch in full screen. 😄

[limpid flame]

oh wow

[sweet yew]

You wanna get even more freaked out? Go to 1:25 and keep your eyes on the space to her left.

[torn solstice]

dunno if it counts as a horror movie or if its a thriller but i remember walking into the living room when i has like five and my dad was watching as the gods will

duuude i fucking love that movie

[timber pendant]

ohhhh portrait of god! i’ve been meaning to watch it for ages

i’ll watch it tonight when everything is dark so i can put it up on the tv without a bunch of glare from the windows

[sweet yew]

As the Gods Will is absolutely a horror movie. It's a horror comedy, but it's pretty messed up. And funny as it is, it really symbolizes Japanese horror. You're not supposed to 'understand' why things are happening. Spirits and higher powers are under no obligation to make sense.

[feral oyster]

DAMN. that’s a good short film

i’ve almost never been so tense watching a movie

the ||reveal at the end is super creepy too||

[sweet yew]

Go back to 1:25 and keep watching the space to her left.

||It was watching the whole time.||

[torn solstice]

oh my fucking god

[sweet yew]

That it is.

[brisk rune]

I watched get out, wouldn’t say its horror but its definitely kinda unnerving.

[feral oyster]

how is it not horror???

[brisk rune]

Idk it’s categorized as that I just wasn’t really scared by it kinda thing

It was a damn good movie

Idk tho

[feral oyster]

😬

[brisk rune]

Yeah idk honestly from what I’ve seen honestly some horror movies don’t really get to me

And get out was one of ‘em js

[feral oyster]

i thought it was really scary but it was definitely more psychological horror. like the fear of being in a super dangerous situation with absolutely no where to go and no one to feel secure with. i guess it wouldn’t be as scary if you’ve never been in a situation like that, and that’s probably good!

there’s a horror movie for everyone, but not every movie is for everyone. i get it

[brisk rune]

I was not as much scared as I was uncomfortable. I hate eye contact so when they were just looking at him it was kinda iffy, but yeah.

But yeah it was a damn good movie. Definitely one of my favorites. (I dont watch movies often)

[brisk rune]

Watched saw and saw 2 a couple days ago. Really great stuff imo !

[sweet yew]

Fun story, the genre confusion behind Get Out is why Jordan Peele decided to make 'Us'. He wanted to do a full on horror film.

[feral oyster]

i rewatched Get Out again and thought it was super scary but it wasn’t in the same style as others, that’s for sure. Us was better, imo

[sweet yew]

Well it's not that Get Out is a bad movie. It's phenomenal. I just think he was going for more of a dark sci fi vibe than out and out scary. And Jordan Peele must have to, because he went 'okay, you guys want scary, watch this'.

[limpid flame]

i loved nope

[torn solstice]

nope is so good holy FUCK

[timber pendant]

nope is absolutely phenomenal

in my top ten favorite movies

[sweet yew]

I loved Nope, but I think I liked Us most of all.

Spoiler for those who haven't seen it. Apologies for the wall of text, but I think you all might appreciate this.

||The final showdown where the Lupita's Doppleganger were talking...then it suddenly started walking backward toward her? Easily one of the most afraid I've been in horror films. That caught me so off guard. I kept thinking of the Doppleganger as a human threat, as 'okay, she's safe if it's turned around'. And then it comes at her like that to the deep strings of the theme song. Its completely eerie calm...

To me, Red is up there with Michael Meyers and Jason as a 'human shaped horror monster'.

AND watch the fight again once you know the ending. As the fight goes on, Red stays extremely calm and graceful, but Addy gets wild and animalistic...like a Tethered.||

[brisk rune]

I absolutely loved nope. was the first film I watched this year actually!

Also I watched the silence of the lambs last night, it was great imo

[thorny barn]

oooo that is a classic

[sweet yew]

Fun fact. Did you know that the book Hannibal has a different ending than the movie?

[thorny barn]

Oooo I love when movies do that, unpopular opinion LOL. I believe it also happened in The Mist

[sweet yew]

So have you seen Hannibal?

[thorny barn]

I have seen Hannibal but it’s been awhileeee

[sweet yew]

So you know at the end of the movie when ||Hannibal captures Clarice, brings out the one cop that had looked down on her and makes a fancy meal of his brain while he's still alive? Clarice ends up escaping, but Hannibal gets away?||

In the book, ||Clarice falls in love with Hannibal then. She realizes he's the only one who ever saw her potential. They eat the cop's brain and escape together.||

Because the kind of fucked up thing about the whole scenario is that|| the police force never saw Clarice for the powerful woman she was. Hannibal was the only one who ever treated her like an equal. And so he corrupts her.||

[feral oyster]

that’s a really good ending imo

i’ve seen the movie but didn’t know there was a book

[sweet yew]

Yes, agreed. And they kept elements of it in the movie with how ||despite capturing a notorious serial killer, Clarice is always pushed around or belittled by her male colleagues. But they didn't go all the way with it. I guess because it might have been too dark and Clarice was so beloved? I don't know.||

But yes, I think the book's ending is better. Not to say the movie's bad. It's amazing and possibly a better whole product than the book. I just think the book has a better ending.

[thorny barn]

THE WAY MY JAW JUST DROPPED WHATT

the book ending wouldve been so much better in the movie damn

[sweet yew]

Right? ||The whole theme of that book is that monsters make monsters. Clarice tried her best to be a good cop, but even in the movie, it never worked out. She always was belittled, ignored, passed up for promotion and disciplined harshly for the slightest mistake. And the idea is that if there's no angels who have your back, eventually you'll go to the devil.||

I think they didn't do it because it was a little too dark for the time it came out in. But yeah, it would have kicked ass.

.> Also sorry I am such a horror geek, I don't usually get an audience like this.

[thorny barn]

No no i love background like that. I’ve never read the book, but now I want to. It would’ve been so cooler to see that play out in the movie

[sweet yew]

Watching a new horror film on Netflix. Bodies, Bodies, Bodies. I'll report back!

[sweet yew]

It's a horror mystery that's half dark comedy, but it's quite scary when it wants to be. At its core it is a 'killer on the lose' movie, and the reveal is beyond satisfying.

Highly recommend, it's on Netflix.

[muted pine]

Has anyone here watched the 7 original Puppet Master movies? I think theyre really funny and maybe not very good but really entertaining

[timber pendant]

ooo i’ll have to add that to my list. sounds neat!

[sweet yew]

Yes. No, they aren't 'good', but they're great corny fun, much like the Friday the 13th sequels. They cannot figure out if they want the puppetmaster to be good or evil. XD

[muted pine]

Yeah, i love all of them except the first one and littlest reich! The first one is kinda weird and littlest reich was just disgusting

[sweet yew]

...Maybe the AI understands memes better than we think.

[gentle forge]

When even is the 6th one supposed to be

[timber pendant]

“this girl loves bj’s wholesale club”

[timber pendant]

just saw a couple pretty good horror shorts

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hs3paMLb9Qg

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mhazCS14Tas

[feral oyster]

awesome, i’ll check em out

[timber pendant]

i really like the acting in the chair it’s my favorite of the two

the way the wife can so seamlessly transition from screaming in terror to smiling to being angry then acting like nothing ever happened

so good

[feral oyster]

i agree

[sweet yew]

Those were awesome! Great finds!

[torn solstice]

beware children at play has to be my favorite bad horror movie

[sweet yew]

...Well, I do love bad horror movies. I'll watch tomorrow.

I just watched Haunting of Hill House trying to spot all the ghosts in the background with the help of a TV guide. Good god that scared me. I missed like...all of them and they were right there.

[thorny barn]

watched night swim tonight. not great, not bad. the ending was meh, and I wish there was a lil more background explanation, but still decent

[thorny barn]

omg i just watched little monsters, that was SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!

[sweet yew]

AAAAA I'm so glad you liked it.

||One of the few times that a happy ending to a horror film got me emotional.||

[brisk rune]

OMG I WAS JUST THINKING OF THAT MOVIE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS LIKE 2 WEEKS AGO! That was apparently one of my dad’s favorite movies as a kid, so I watched it when I was younger and got scared of it but absolutely adored it!

I don’t remember much from it, but I remember it was a really fun movie

[next fern]

my savageland theory: francisco is a christ allegory

[sweet yew]

...He kind of is, now that I think about it. I don't know if it's intentional or not, but I could see it!

||Including the resurrection!||

[next fern]

here’s my full thing on it:

||when jesus was sentenced to death, he was forced to carry the cross he was crucified on until he collapsed from exhaustion. this isn’t unlike francisco salazar, who carried his camera (his cross) until he collapsed on the side of the road, where he was eventually led to his death.

the name of the town “sangre de cristo” is literally “the blood of christ”. the name seems purposefully chosen.

when duane, the father of Grace, is leaving the voice message he says “only god can judge me. only he has seen what i’ve seen.” interesting to note, since francisco was the only other person alive witnessing it.

in the artistic rendition of francisco’s execution, his arms are outstretched like a crucifixion.

francisco’s body goes missing from his grave. when jesus’ tomb was opened, he was also missing. they both resurrected.

during the credits, there’s a huge painting on a building of francisco as a christ figure. the paintings also include the zombies. the people shown all have tattoos of francisco, as if they’re all followers surrounding a christ like symbol of him. ||

[sweet yew]

...Welp, time to watch again, that kind of changes ||what the monsters could be!||

That's such a good theory. XD

[feral oyster]

i def agree

something to kind of support the ||spiritual monster theory is that people don’t seem to turn until after death. salazar is seen with injuries on his hand but doesn’t turn until after execution||

[next fern]

watched final prayer / the borderlands and the ending actually got me

i had to pause because it was physically so hard to watch LOL. good movie!

[next fern]

all horror movie situations could be avoided if white people knew when to mind their own business. if a church was making noises at me you know what i would do? i would leave

[sweet yew]

So many horror films could be avoided that way. "Hey, do you want to go use a ouija board in the haunted asylum?" "Absolutely not."

[next fern]

exactly. im not doing that

[torn solstice]

either
A. oujia ghost kills you and nae naes hard
or
B. nothing happened and you wasted your time idiot

[next fern]

if i used a ouija board in an asylum the ghosts would be like “you’re mentally ill too why you bothering us” and i’d be like “you’re right my bad.” and id leave

[sweet yew]

Yeah, they always summon Zuul, they never summon Carl the janitor.

[feral oyster]

cute chiikawa comic about watching horror movies with friends 🥹

[timber pendant]

a video essay i saw exploring one of my absolute favorite horror tropes, it’s a good watch :-)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mexs39y0Imw

[sweet yew]

Great post!

[brittle dust]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=THrVeKRwIH4&si=IkbY4k50AdYALjoo

[pulsar spruce]

This movie is peak.

It changed me as a person!

[mild path]

Not a movie, but RADAR is pretty cool. (only seen an analysis video of it)

[mild path]

Also, is zombieland horror?

Or could maybe be counted as a parody of sorts

[feral oyster]

parody horror yeah you can def talk about it here

i thought you meant savageland at first lol

[sweet yew]

Zombieland is absolutely horror. You can have very effective horror comedies, as comedy makes you care about the chars, which makes the horror parts have higher stakes. Shawn of the Dead is a very good example of this. Half the movie is funny, but from ||his mom revealing the bite onward|| it's zombie horror that pulls on all the emotional strings it wove.

For me it's a horror so long as the stakes of life and death are real.

[sweet yew]

...Also yes, highly recommend this one. XD

[pulsar spruce]

https://tenor.com/view/the-banana-splits-movie-band-dance-dance-move-guitar-gif-15084921

Fun fact: It’s one of my favorite movies. :3

[sweet yew]

As it should be.

Like it's so much fun.

[pulsar spruce]

It is fun! Fleegle is my favorite character.

[mild path]

Yeah, I suppose that’s true. I find “It” funny, while also finding it scary

[sweet yew]

Oh, good example!

We could probably go all day about examples of horror comedies. And there's kind of two genres. One is where it knows its ridiculous and the 'horror' part is more of fun. Like all the Friday the 13th sequels. Then the other kind is stuff like It and Shawn of the Dead where it does both in a kind of balance.

[mild path]

I feel “it” is the second type. Zombieland would be the first

I used to watch analogue horror, but I kind of stopped

No idea why

Kind of related to horror, Curious Archive on YouTube makes cool videos. If you don’t mind video essays, I would recommend listening to one

[sweet yew]

Ooooh, I just might!

[mild path]

Most of them are serious, although the “earth has terrible world building” is a bit of a joke

[mild path]

Anyone seen “ready or not”?

[lucid vortex]

My two favorite horror movies are Killer Klowns from outer space and tusk

[feral oyster]

dude i love killer klowns from outer space

the practical effects are just so fun

[lucid vortex]

Ikr!!!

[sweet yew]

I have not, is it any good?

Killer Klowns is a personal favorite. >.> It manages to be goofy, but also so frigging morbid/spooky.

[mild path]

How much can you handle in horror movies?

[sweet yew]

I've yet to find my limit?

[mild path]

Okay, so extreme swearing and gore is fine?

[sweet yew]

Par for the course for any Rob Zombie film, I'll be fine!

[mild path]

I would recommend “ready or not” then

It’s on Disney, or you can always pirate it

[brisk rune]

POV: You have been inspired by peepy to commit these kind of acts

[feral oyster]

yeah peepy probably would watch disney… especially with ouioui

i’ll check out ready or not

[thorny barn]

late to the party but this is a crazy movie. pretty good and memorable too

such an interesting concept too

[mild path]

Fire movie.

[sweet yew]

You guys might appreciate this. Clipping is a band that does a lot of urban horror and storytelling. A personal favorite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIrpLBShe1A

[feral oyster]

couldn’t find it on disney… do you live in the united states?

[mild path]

Canada

You also need to have an account without restrictions

[mild path]

Don’t forget the alternative

[feral oyster]

i was thinking about this last night.. still scary several months later!

highly recommend you all watch it if you haven’t already

apparently the new terrifier movie is good but i don’t like that series

[sweet yew]

😄

[feral oyster]

i saw a quiet place part 2 recently. not super scary but fun

[mild path]

I saw day one with my homie bothedestroyer

Hey, did you watch “ready or not?”

@feral oyster

[feral oyster]

yes

it’s not my fav horror movie but it’s fun

i liked the twist

[mild path]

Yeah

Daniel is a real one

[limpid flame]

im finally having my friends watch creep with me on sunday

[mild path]

“You’re just like an angel”

[limpid flame]

noo.... peachfuzz creep

[mild path]

Have fun.

Or, rather, I hope you have fun

[feral oyster]

anyone wanting to see a good horror movie should check out tubi, so many classics on here https://tubitv.com/category/horror

“It Follows” is also on there. it’s a really unique movie but might not be for everyone

[hazy hinge]

Tubi is great. Kanopy has some good ones too if you have a library card

[feral oyster]

i have a buddy coming over tomorrow… i’m gonna make some popcorn and special cookies ( #halloween-treat-competition ❤️) but i need to pick a movie to watch!!

any suggestions? he doesn’t get scared easily..

[timber pendant]

well my absolute favorite is the babadook, i’m actually doing last minute prep on my mr. babadook costume right now

[feral oyster]

already seen it! great movie though

[timber pendant]

smile was genuinely very fucking good i do recommend it

[feral oyster]

the first or second one

[timber pendant]

first one, i haven’t seen the second one yet bc im waiting to watch it with my mom

[feral oyster]

i think he told me he saw it but i haven’t.. i’m interested and will probably watch it soon

thanks for the recommendation

[timber pendant]

ofc!

i also really enjoyed the autopsy of jane doe, and hereditary was so upsetting to me i had to go lay down and stare up at the ceiling for an hour

[feral oyster]

those are too scary for me LOL

great movies though i just couldn’t finish them

[timber pendant]

part of me wishes i’d put hereditary down bc the themes of hereditary mental illness really screwed with me bad, but at the same time it feels almost cathartic now with some time past the initial watch lol

somewhat tangential but my buddy has been trying to get me to watch the terrifier movies with him recently and i’m hesitant bc im not usually a slasher guy

[feral oyster]

i kinda hate terrifier

a good horror movie should make you scared to look at the villain, not grossed out

that’s my opinion at least

[timber pendant]

true true

personally excessive gore doesn’t really bother me as long as i’m aware it’s coming

[timber pendant]

my issue with slashers is like
the whole point is there’s this big scary dude who kills people and the origins are somewhat vague or very quickly explained
and then like
they become a franchise and one thousand movies are made trying to expand the lore and it’s like
it’s a big spooky guy that kills people you don’t have to keep digging it was fine as it is

[feral oyster]

i think there just needs to be a balance

[feral oyster]

yeah i mean some franchises have more problems with this than others

cough cough Jason X

[timber pendant]

godddd jason xxxxxx 😭😭😭😭

[feral oyster]

https://tenor.com/view/smash-throw-gif-7856984

[timber pendant]

i’ve been hesitant to watch more scream movies bc i genuinely really wnjoyed the first one and felt it was tied off with a neat bow so im worried anything else will just disappoint me

[feral oyster]

don’t watch more scream movies

v/h/s is good

they’re hit or miss but mostly good

[timber pendant]

oo that looks interesting

something i’ve been meaning to get into is japanese horror films

[feral oyster]

Juon and the ring are classics if you haven’t seen those

[timber pendant]

i keep promising myself i’ll watch the first ringu and im always forgetting when i finally have spare time

for how much i love movies i am terrible at sitting down and watching them it’s the adhd curse

[feral oyster]

Tetsuo the Iron Man and House 1977 are technically horror but more just good movies

[timber pendant]

gahhh i’ll have to add those to my list

speaking of being terrible at watching movies i need to watch fight club again soon
not a horror movie but i just remembered im turning 22 soon which means i need a 22nd fight club viewing..,

[feral oyster]

lol

[sweet yew]

House 1977 is highly recommended. It was the director's first movie. He'd only made commercials before that. I could go on for paragraphs about my thoughts on this movie.

I've never seen Tetsuo the Iron Man, so I know what I'm watching tonight!

[mild path]

Hardcore Henry is good. Not a horror movie, but it’s still good.

[limpid flame]

i need to rewarch the eyes of my mother again i love that movie

my friends and i watched pearl today and a lot of the scenes remind me of it

[torn solstice]

smile was kinda stupid ngl,,

[feral oyster]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNCeYM9bfOg fun video

[next fern]

tony todd passed away

[feral oyster]

really sad. what an amazing dude

horror would not be the same without him

so many other great roles in other genres too…

[next fern]

kazuo umezu and tony todd in one month really fucking me up

[feral oyster]

i didn’t know about kazuo umezu… that’s sad

the drifting classroom is so good

[next fern]

i literally just read it last month and always took a lot of inspiration from his work 😭

[sweet yew]

I'm gonna read it now, thanks for the recommendation.

Also frigging Tony Todd, that one made me sad. Loved him in the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead.

[feral oyster]

same 😢

[next fern]

he was so good in every role

[mild path]

FEED ME A STRAY CAT

[feral oyster]

https://youtu.be/JtHuyYhfg14?si=BkXIR1rj6pGuePyb good video

[torn solstice]

lets talk about too many cooks

[timber pendant]

hello horror maniacs i come baring a gift

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IyhoT3smJEQ

this short always makes me so upset that i get a little nauseous

[mild path]

Bruh

[feral oyster]

oh my god

@sweet yew you would love this

the safe vibes of the christmas movie claymation but with constant reminders of the danger he’s in, like the photos showing the reality of the situation and having the ||fairy poke his arm and head through the window to show that he can infiltrate his space||

[mild path]

What happened at the end?

[timber pendant]

ok so basically ||the kipsneed was actually just a puppet being used by a man who was stalking calem and planning to murder him in the abandoned house. he took advantage of a child’s imagination to lure him into danger. the man is in the last picture calem took.||

[mild path]

I get that

||But why were just his feet left?||

[feral oyster]

a comment i read that makes sense is that ||the antenna of the kipsneed look like human eyes||

[timber pendant]

ohhh idk
probably just to be extra upsetting and mysterious

[timber pendant]

OH MY GOD I NEVER EVEN NOTICED THAT 💀

[feral oyster]

||we don’t know that he’s dead, only that they never found the rest of him. it’s possible he only took his feet so he couldn’t escape||

[mild path]

Damn

Whiplash is my favourite horror film… yeah, definitely horror

[timber pendant]

whiplash is that movie where a guy gets psychologically tormented by his band director or whatever right?

[mild path]

I guess you could say that’s what it is. It’s about drumming. It’s not so much torture than just verbal abuse.

[timber pendant]

ag right yes

i haven’t been able to make myself watch it bc i had a terrible time with a band teacher in elementary school 💀

[mild path]

I though it was really good, but it’s heavy. If you want something lighter, I’d recommend the knives out films

[timber pendant]

oo yeah i’ve heard good things about those

i’m thinking of watching cuckoo soon. i meant to when it came out but im admittedly terrible at watching new things. even if it seems like ill like it lol

[feral oyster]

are you guys excited for the new nosferatu movie?

[sweet yew]

You are correct, I do love that. I love everything about that, great find!

And yeeees, the OG Hollywood vamp coming back!

[timber pendant]

oh worm there’s a nosferatu movie coming out??

[next fern]

horror movie fans i got a new movie for you

the cured (2017)

not entirely horror but it’s a post-zombie movie

really good. can watch it free on youtube

[sweet yew]

Post-zombie is a really cool little theme that there isn't much of. I'll give it a watch!

[mild path]

Alien Romulus is good

[sweet yew]

Alien Romulus on Hulu. Highly recommend!

Also I just watched The Birds for the first time. I cannot overstate how effectively scary it still is.

[feral oyster]

oh alien romulus is on hulu now sweet

definitely will watch it

[next fern]

i still haven’t watched romulus yet

i thought it was a sequel to covenant and was sad when i found out it wasn’t

[mild path]

Romulus is also on Disney

[sweet yew]

If you guys want a great horror film, Thanksgiving on Netflix.

Trust me. It should not be as good as it is.

And tonight's the night to enjoy it. 😄

[feral oyster]

i’ll check it out!!

[mild path]

Tonight is the night. November 28th…

[feral oyster]

https://www.badspacecomics.com/

not movies but really good horror

[mild path]

Distractible two sentence horror stories episode is bone chilling

[feral oyster]

i’ll check it out

[mild path]

not actually, though

It’s just silly

[feral oyster]

oh lol

has anyone seen smile 2?

[timber pendant]

hey gang i just remembered this exists https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HAqBh5KDFgQ

[feral oyster]

lol

[torn solstice]

sa rah

[timber pendant]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Drqsgn3CYow

[mild path]

I just skipped to the end
||Bro got snatched 💀💀💀||

[feral oyster]

somewhat scary... good animation but story is a bit bland imo

still a cool find

not as good as "the kid and the camera" (kipsneed) but this guy makes cool claymation horror too https://www.youtube.com/@mrfriendhorror/videos

[brisk rune]

Ok so there’s this really underrated horror game series that would go hard as a movie… too bad it probably won’t happen… https://store.steampowered.com/app/319510/Five_Nights_at_Freddys/

Steam

Five Nights at Freddy's

Welcome to your new summer job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where kids and parents alike come for entertainment and food as far as the eye can see! The main attraction is Freddy Fazbear, of course; and his two friends. They are animatronic robots, programmed to please the crowds! The robots' behavior has become somewhat unpredictable at night howe...

Price

$4.99

Recommendations

45385

Metacritic

78

▶ Play video

[feral oyster]

horror maniacs 🔪 🩸

changed the thread to include all horror because honestly thats what this thread has been about since the beginning..

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2909110/Nuclear_Nightmare/

Steam

Nuclear Nightmare

Join your fellow players in assembling an elite extraction team for a thrilling mission to recover classified materials hidden in the harsh Arctic landscape. Gather the necessary supplies to call in an evacuation chopper and make your escape back to civilization. Will you succeed?Explore a vast open world with a variety of vehicles and trusty hu...

Price

$2.79

Recommendations

5427

▶ Play video

this game is on sale for only $2.79 and its great

super super inspired by The Thing

[brisk rune]

Aside from my joke post, I’m sure a bunch of y’all heard of “Bad Parenting” but if you haven’t, the story telling of that game is so good. I wouldn’t say it’s THAT scary but it is a bit unsettling. It looks like it’s straight out of a PS1 game or something.

[limpid flame]

i wanna find more good body horror so bad

[timber pendant]

oh if video game horror is welcome here, i’ve been really into world of horror. it’s a roguelite mystery horror game that’s heavily inspired by the works of junji ito and hp lovecraft. lots of achievements to go after, lots of variation on characters you can play, backgrounds you can come from, curses you can suffer, ancient gods that you need to prevent the awakening of, and levels of difficulty you can play.
i’d love to keep gushing about this but yall probably aren’t interested in reading a wall of text lol, here’s the release trailer
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe4gVfZ1Q2I

i could talk for ages about how much i love this game lol

[feral oyster]

i am interested in reading a wall of text

everyone here is that’s what this forum is for

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1175708102209847376/1304483643133263973/ezgif-3-1c8d32b3de.gif

[feral oyster]

this trailer is awesome but one of my biggest pet peeves is video game trailers that don’t show any gameplay

[timber pendant]

aah true true
so like
basically the goal of each playthrough is to beat a doom counter
if the counter reaches 100 then the old god is awakened. to reach the old god and end the ceremony you need to copmplete a series of mysteries that are selected at random at the beginning of the run and have a variety of endings
completing actions and exploding locations and visiting shops and such can run up that counter by various degrees

and sometimes depending on what status effects you have or mysteries you have completed beforehand, you can achieve very specific mystery endings

[feral oyster]

interesting

[timber pendant]

like in one mystery, in which the schools girls swim team is being abducted one by one, if you enter the final encounter with a specific curse inflicted on your character, you get a secret ending

or if you take a hatchet from the final monster in one mystery, it allows you to access a secret exit in another mystery that is normally blocked off

there’s a wide variety of characters to play that each have their own stats and effects

like haru, who starts with a nicotine addiction and can gain a yakuza card for cheaper prices in shops, he starts with better strength but bad knowledge

my favorite i’ve been playing is juri okusawa, she’s a girl being stalked by a terrible entity, and she begins with family curse. as she does actions and explores locations, a counter for the closeness of her curse rises. she can level up at half the exp cost when the presence hasn’t caught her yet, but once her curse reaches 100% half of her face starts peeling off and she doesn’t get the leveling boost anymore

i’m currently trying to unlock a secret character, whose existence is only hinted at by finding a bloody sweater in the woods, and a tv news report that can be encountered during the rest period between mysteries

i’m also trying to encounter Something Truly Evil, which is the creature at the beginning of the trailer. but so far i haven’t been able to draw its attention and raise its meter enough to draw it out

when i do it’s probably gonna kick my ass but i really wanna see it lol

[timber pendant]

here’s the other trailer, which does have gameplay
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfQ0KELzcqI

[feral oyster]

this is sweet

[timber pendant]

another thing i really like is there’s a wide variety of old gods to face off against! and successfully banishing one can open up the option to try your luck against another

each ancient god has its own negative effect

[feral oyster]

the gameplay looks fun

[timber pendant]

like the spider god preventing escape from battle, the dreaming god causing doom to raise when your reason drops, and the horror from the stars messing up your stats when you raise the doom too high

it’s very fun!!!

and its actually pretty suspenseful. climbing the lighthouse at the end to get to the ceremony while your doom meter keeps climbing is honestly really nerve wracking for me lol

i just unlocked a new backstory effect that i need to beat and im dreading it
ill-fated: all event skill checks automatically fail 💀

[feral oyster]

does using these unlock dif endings?

[timber pendant]

it allows access to the next backstory, and beating some backstories can earn achievements or unlock new content in the game
so they can be difficult but they’re worth the challenge of playing with

[limpid flame]

just finished the substance. wowzers

[feral oyster]

how scary is it? ive heard good things about the story but i need something scary

[limpid flame]

i wouldn't say its necessarily scary but it has really good tension and suspense building stuff. body horror/needles and such as well

it had some moments that actually make me disgusted and like. repulsed to what i was seeing

i definitely would recommend it

now im finally watching longlegs

[limpid flame]

wowie ! longlegs was good

[feral oyster]

yeah i liked it

[feral oyster]

okay i might have to check it out… a lot of movies don’t gross me out any more

i didn’t like terrifier though. too over the top

[limpid flame]

yea im pretty desensitized when it comes to movie gore but this one really did it

i haven't seen terrifier yet

[sweet yew]

Terrifier's a mixed bag for me. A slasher with a villain who's got a lot of personality, but there's times when it just borders on sadism.

I really want to see The Substance!

[limpid flame]

u should its great

[feral oyster]

the new nosferatu movie is really good i think

ive read dracula but i havent seen the original nosferatu so i cant compare it to that

but compared to dracula the book its a good adaptation

i think the messages around the dangers of different kinds of desire (money, lust, power) are all very interesting and well-communicated

theres a ||twist near the end|| that was done well

[mild path]

Guys

“Woman of the Hour” is pretty good

I think that’s what it’s called

[feral oyster]

what is it?

[mild path]

It’s about the real life serial killer Rodney Alcala

Not a documentary though

[feral oyster]

☹️

i don’t really like movies about real serial murderers

[mild path]

It’s cool though

[feral oyster]

whether they aim to or not they always end up glamorizing the killers

[mild path]

Fair. I still recommend it, though

[feral oyster]

i think horror movies are best at using fictional monsters to represent grander ideas or struggles

there are no moral conversations to be had around real murderers

just senseless violence

[feral oyster]

^^^

[mild path]

Do you not like Terrifier then?

[feral oyster]

i don’t

[mild path]

I’m with you on that

Too much gore for no reason, except it just being the point of the movie

To be honest, I haven’t watched any of them, but that’s my understanding of them

[feral oyster]

lol

i’ve seen parts, never wanted to finish them

[next fern]

terrifier is just splatterhouse shit i can’t enjoy at all

sure it’s funny in parts but it just feels like nothing to me. gore is the substance and not like how SAW is with a convoluted plot that’s fun to follow

terrifier is just low quality trash to put on in the background

really lame shit

[feral oyster]

https://tenor.com/view/falling-stars-cutecore-kiss-kissing-kitty-gif-13813612529105010696

glad u guys agree with me... some of my buddies really like terrifier

[next fern]

my friendgroup all hates it except for once who just thinks its funny

[limpid flame]

i think i will watch all of the vhs movies tonight

[feral oyster]

how did it go? i think some are def better than others so im excited to see if we agree

[limpid flame]

unfortunately it has been rescheduled for tmrw night due to work training :[ however i have seen the first one and its now one of my favorite movies. i love both found footage and anthology movies so it was absolutely my jam

i will update once i do my marathon

[feral oyster]

yeah dude anthology and found footage is a match made in heaven (or HELL ! because its scary)

[next fern]

RIP david lynch

[timber pendant]

im gonna have to rewatch the elephant man in his memory

[limpid flame]

my bestie got me the creep special blu ray thing with a book and cards and stuff im going to frame them omg

[sweet yew]

Oh those are awesome!

[timber pendant]

just watched smile 2 with my mom!! the monster looked goofy as hell right at the end but it was pretty good

i really liked the scene where skye is in her apartment and it’s full of her backup dancers that are attacking her in a way that looks like choreographed dance. very well done imo

[torn solstice]

IKR smile 1's reveal was way better, the face difference is night and day

kinda looked like a dhmis puppet

[timber pendant]

i knowwww the eyes were so silly 😭

i honestly think the monster would have looked WAY better if it had no eyes at all.
if it was that big fleshy thing but with no eyes and just a huge smile

why take attention away from what was always supposed to be its defining feature?

[mild path]

I’m a computer

[timber pendant]

maniacs, i saw repo the genetic opera a couple days ago and i cannot stop thinking about it. it’s gloriously campy. delightfully gory. fascinating landscape. i generally dislike musicals but i loved it. why did people hate this masterpiece of a film. why didn’t that sequel that they were clearly gunning for not happen. it’s so fun. i’m obsessed.

[mild path]

Vivarium is weird

[timber pendant]

the movie about the cuckoo bird boy?

[sweet yew]

I have no idea why Repo didn't get a sequel and will die mad about it.

[timber pendant]

it was so fun!!!!! i think maybe people didn’t understand that camp is meant to not be taken too seriously. but i’m obsessed with it. it’s taken over my brain. i want to run a ttrpg with my friends set in this fucked up sugery world

[sweet yew]

I'm a big Cyberpunk fan and the aesthetic is very similar. Fresh organs give you better performance, but there's always strings attached.

[feral oyster]

I’m SO EXCITED FOR WEAPONS!!!the trailer looks good, i loved Barbarian, and i’ve read word on the street that jordan peele was extremely interested in the script

[timber pendant]

yeah it’s like. victorian steampunk with the body augmentation influences of cyberpunk. so cool

[timber pendant]

oooooo anything mr peele is on board with immediately has my attention

[covert narwhal]

Has anyone watched yellowjackets? I NEED to yap about it with someone. The music choices in that show are literally perfect, and I love the factor of not knowing if it's all actually supernatural or psychological

[timber pendant]

i haven’t seen it but i’ve heard of it, and i know i need to watch it. i’ve also listened to florence and the machine’s cover of im just a girl that was used in the soundtrack and i loved it

[feral oyster]

i’ve seen a little bit. it was okay i just wasn’t super ensnared

[covert narwhal]

Fair! I binged it all, it hooked me immediately.

The twists it takes are all completely unexpected and every time I thought I knew what was going to happen I was so wrong

[sweet yew]

I've watched Yellowjackets! I 100% agree on the music choices. Weirdly enough, I kind of think that the 'supernatural or psychological' works for the kid portion, but not the adult portion as much. But that might just be because I think the adult portion needs something to make it a bit more urgent/exciting.

All in all, it's a great show and like I really, REALLY hope that its building to something on the adult side. The kids side is some of the most tense, consequential and twisty stuff I've seen. Them grown ups need to pick it up!

[cloud musk]

here’s my horror