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I'm doing a month-long series of campy, classic and unique horror movies. I'm pretty liberal in what gets included, trying for a lot of variety. I'm particularly a fan of spooky comedies (like the Burbs), and generally avoiding big franchise horror series to see more unique stuff. I'm enjoying seeing so many movies I would never come across any other way, even if many of them aren't all that great. So far my favorite is probably Cabin in the Woods or Happy Death Day. Anything I should add to the list? Watched (in order) The Burbs Batman Death Becomes Her Slotherhouse Cabin in the Woods Happy Death Day Llamageddon The Thing Pride and Prejudice and Zombies The Final Girls Attack of the Killer Donuts Drag Me to Hell Ernest Scared Stupid Final Girl Killer Sofa Coming up (no particular order) We have a ghost The Babysitter Antebellum The Fly Little Monsters Rocky Horror Picture Show Last Night in Soho The Mousetrap Hell Baby Get Out Us Happy Death Day 2U Leprechaun The Cult of Humpty Dumpty Prom Night Killer Klowns From Outer Space Lisa Frankenstein Becky Cinderella's Revenge Saturday the 14th The Monster Squad Severance
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cross-posted from: https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/1559544 > Fans customized the Wicked movie poster to more closely match the original Broadway poster. > > Original Broadway Poster: > >  > > Movie poster: > >  > > > Some fans, disappointed by the poster, altered it to be closer to the original, moving Grande’s hand and lowering the brim of Erivo’s hat to cover her eyes. The edits prompted Erivo to respond. “This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen > > > “None of this is funny. None of it is cute. It degrades me. It degrades us,” Erivo continued. “The original poster is an ILLUSTRATION. I am a real life human being, who chose to look right down the barrel of the camera to you, the viewer… because, without words we communicate with our eyes.” > > So, this seems like a completely reasonable reaction to fans making fan content.
>Described as The Purge with werewolves, Steven C. Miller‘s (Silent Night) Werewolves will be unleashed **in theaters December 6, 2024.**
>Millie Bobby Brown & Chris Pratt star in the latest Russo Brother epic, THE ELECTRIC STATE, **only on Netflix MARCH 14**.
I just watched alien romulus and I thought it was really frustrating. What happened to the lethal face huggers and the older, experienced crew of spaceships that got paid like shit by the company? Now they are hitting face huggers left and right with sticks, and people just get up after having one over their face. I didn't feel like I cared about the characters. They were actually quite unlikeable. I really miss Ripley. She had enormous amount of character, strength and intelligence. What did we get in this movie? They are all super generic. Just disappointed. How about you guys?
I watched Possession(1981) for the first time last night and holy heck was that a mindf*ck of a trip. I had heard great things about it and how it had a cult following but I went in blind otherwise. Loved almost everything about it, very surreal and the film itself contorts to things I can’t even describe by the end - solid 8/10 I also viewed Jacob’s Ladder(1990) last week and that was a wild ride as well! Anyone have any personal favs or recommendations? I’m not a horror fan by default but just trying to watch some gems I’ve missed during the spooky season 🎃
Title pretty much says it all. When I watched the Sadness I learned, much to my surprise, that I sort of have limits where the gore becomes a bit too much. That being said, that movie was on another level of impressively realistic horribleness happening for about two straight hours. Terrifier seems more Western and classic blood and stuff but wondered if anyone had seen both and had thoughts?
>From writer/director Isaiah Saxon and starring Helena Zengel, Finn Wolfhard, Emily Watson and Willem Dafoe. THE LEGEND OF OCHI – Coming Soon.
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> 'The Legend of Ochi' writer/director Isaiah Saxon confirmed that the A24 film used practical effects and 3D animation, not AI.
does anyone have any insight into this? actual behind the scenes knowledge? the sets either look like cheap plastic or ps3 graphics. It's very distracting and making it almost impossible for me to immerse myself in the story. It's very frustrating because I like the movie and the story and I think the actors are mostly doing a good job, kamala and her family are hilarious, but I can't get over how dog shit the CGI , editing and set pieces are. did anyone else notice this? and the budget was 220 million. it was huge, I can't understand why the effects and set pieces are so terrible. a small example: when captain Marvel "changes" her clothes in the singing Palace, her entire wardrobe is clearly changed off screen, she's already wearing her new costume when the camera switches back to her and there are literal like 1970s cartoon Disney sparkles floating around her for a second to imply that she morphed her costume? have Marvel movies always looked this ridiculous? I feel like 10 years ago the effects and settings were more believable, or at the very least more immersive. All of these effects look like they were made in one frantic week. oh, and the costumes? Why are all the costumes baggy? like professor Marvel's costume is baggy, everyone on Nick Fury ship is wearing baggy jumpsuits. and it's not like cool baggy, they just didn't make costumes that fit for everybody on set? professor's Marvel's mom's hair looks crazy, it looks like they sprayed white spray paint on her head and was like okay, she's old now. the kittens are rough, their textures, movements and physics are absurd.
>Every holiday season millions travel safely by air. This Christmas will be different. Carry-On. Only on Netflix. **December 13**.
>THE MONKEY. >Based on the short story by Stephen King, produced by James Wan, and written and directed >Osgood Perkins. >In theaters February 21, 2025.
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> 'Ready Or Not 2' Is happening with Samara Weaving and directors Radio Silence returning.
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Hello. Every year I enjoy watching The Birds directed by Alfred Hitchcock on Halloween. So I decided to expand my watchlist and checkout movies I had never seen. So I am doing a 30 day marathon from October 1-30, watching only horror movies I have not seen. The only qualifier is that I haven’t seen them. My list may change for whatever reason. Since it is now October 11, I have seen ten movies. I’ll post them with my reviews (not all are intensive) and update two more times with 11-20 and 21-30. Hope you enjoy reading about my marathon. 30 for 31 1. Ring directed by Hideo Nakata (1998) ⭐️⭐️⭐️½ *A straightforward supernatural story. The American remake in contrast is flashy in comparison, utilizing more graphic imagery than this adaption (it’s based on a novel)* 2. Evil Dead directed by Fede Álvarez (2013) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ *What if The Evil Dead was redone without Ash and all the continuity connecting it to the previous movies had to be explained by the director because textually none of it is in the movie?* 3. Jennifer’s Body directed by Karyn Kusama (2009) ⭐️⭐️ *I don’t think due to the dialogue that this movie wouldn’t get made today. Overall this is a product of its time. Couldn’t imagine such a movie being made without going hard on a satirical angle. Would teenagers want to watch this? The soundtrack itself even is from a decade of music that just gets seen as cringe.* 4. Poltergeist directed by Tobe Hooper (1982) ⭐️½ *I fell asleep. Less than amusing. Might as well have been a weird rendition of Bedknobs and Broomsticks.* 5. Martyrs directed by Pascal Laugier (2008) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ *A deeply violent story with little in terms of a plot. However, the plot that is present does take time to reveal itself. The disjointed two halves make you unprepared. The first half is a rough tale of revenge that leads to a second half that is a polished approach to what the story is trying (or possibly succeeds) in accomplishing. A hard movie to recommend, but certainly a provocative one. Many people who can handle the gore might be unsettled by the philosophical horror. At times I kept wondering what the endgame was. The graphical display of violence is purposeful. It doesn’t try to upset you for the sake of scarring you. It goes deeper. But does it adequately achieve that goal? Maybe the audience is meant to question what it all was? Maybe we are meant to question existence as a whole? Maybe the violence itself was the only way to manifest that goal? What was the goal? Without spoiling it, you have to be prepared for something grounded in reality but very unexpected.* 6. We're All Going to the World's Fair directed by Jane Schoenburn (2021) ⭐️⭐️ *A atmospheric dud. Nothing innovative or truly substantive occurs. The plot feels like a mental body horror mixed with found footage/web cam story telling. By the end you feel like the tropes of genre have been done better before this. At some point I wondered if the actual horror part was not seeing anything really occur. Felt like over the course of the plot, I had to take for granted by on limited dialogue that something was progressing. The indie rock vibe eluded the climax of an actual narrative. Or maybe I did not understand the type of movie this was trying to be.* 7. Event Horizon directed by Paul W.S. Anderson (1997) ⭐️⭐️½ *A bland but visually decent space horror. The one big flaw is the graphic intensity of story never last long enough to sink in. From moment to moment you want the visuals to be on screen longer. Much of the acting fails to sound more than simple line reading. The only time I truly had a sense of scare, it was taken away almost as fast. The story has an unbalanced pace with a rush to meet an arbitrary plot deadline. It was like being told to expect the tone of Alien but given the speed of Apollo 11.* 8. The Fog directed by John Carpenter (1980) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ *A campy ghost story mixed with collective fear. A wonderful movie.* 9. Carnival of Souls directed by Herk Harvey (1962) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ½ *A errie score with an atmosphere of an unknown force make for a spooky time.* 10. Skinamarink directed by Kyle Edward Ball (2023) ⭐️⭐️½ *A visual unorthodox movie that works better as an art piece than truly a horror movie. Unconventional angles, unconventional plot structure, unconventional use of actors (you rarely saw more than someone from the waist down) can be frightening to those unprepared for what I would considered very experimental. At times I wasn’t sure if the plot was advancing. Other times you have to trust what is on screen is from the prospective of the characters. Other times you just take in an abstract lack of visuals. If anything is truly horrifying, it would be not getting a clear understanding of what is being shown. Feels like someone trying to explain the plot of a movie they experienced within a dream and trying to explain that plot from the perspective of that dream, being very disjointed and twisted.*
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> Top film executives from Europe and Asia convened at the Busan to dissect the evolving landscape of cross-continental film distribution and sales.