What's The Latest Film You Have Seen?

The Batlord · 08-20-2019, 03:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle

have you seen Black Christmas from 1974

The Gore Gore Girls from 1972 is one of my favorites but I dunno if you'd think it was good, seems like exploitation isn't what you're all about

Yeah I remember Black Christmas being good but it doesn't really have the same problems as your average slasher movie. And I love exploitation. Bland exploitation can suck it though. Slasher movies tend to be pretty bland.

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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

2018 Halloween was great if you like slasher movies. Candyman is the best one though.

Candyman's OK but it has that 90's horror boring quality that's hard to define.

The Batlord · 08-20-2019, 08:55 PM

And this to me is the coolest slasher kill. It's low key as ****, but the dude gets lifted off of his feet, stabbed and planted into the wall, and then Michael Myers just kind of looks at his handiwork. That tilt of the head is everything that all the movies trying to be Halloween didn't have. It's not about the death. It's about the killer caring about the death. That is what elevates the scene from horror movie kill to just being kinda ****ing wrong.

Lucem Ferre · 08-20-2019, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Doug McClasky

And this to me is the coolest slasher kill. It's low key as ****, but the dude gets lifted off of his feet, stabbed and planted into the wall, and then Michael Myers just kind of looks at his handiwork. That tilt of the head is everything that all the movies trying to be Halloween didn't have. It's not about the death. It's about the killer caring about the death. That is what elevates the scene from horror movie kill to just being kinda ****ing wrong.

There's a reason why it's a classic while I don't think Jason ever had a true classic. I don't think there's many Friday films I actually enjoy outside of Jason Takes Manhattan for the silliness of it. I liked the first and third Freddy films and I think New Nightmare was a pretty cool take too but the rest were mostly trash. I liked Freddy Vs Jason contrary to how hated that movie seems to be. Candyman is may all time favorite though. There's just a rawness to it that you don't really get from most slasher films which end up becoming really cartoon with their kills.

**Frownland** · 08-20-2019, 10:08 PM

Halloween is up there but how can you not love when Leatherface sticks that one girl on the hook and butchers her boyfriend in front of her while she bleeds out.

Lucem Ferre · 08-20-2019, 10:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Halloween is up there but how can you not love when Leatherface sticks that one girl on the hook and butchers her boyfriend in front of her while she bleeds out.

I think he considers Texas Chainsaw Massacre as a whole different beast from the slasher genre made in Halloween's image.

Oriphiel · 08-21-2019, 06:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Doug McClasky

It's not about the death. It's about the killer caring about the death.

You should watch Sleepaway Camp 2.

The Batlord · 08-21-2019, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

I think he considers Texas Chainsaw Massacre as a whole different beast from the slasher genre made in Halloween's image.

Maybe not a whole different beast but yeah not quite the same thing. Also I've only seen it once and don't remember it that well.

Lucem Ferre · 08-21-2019, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Doug McClasky

Maybe not a whole different beast but yeah not quite the same thing. Also I've only seen it once and don't remember it that well.

I watched it recently. The kills are very brutal and gritty where in most slasher films they tend to be a bit cartoonish, but the acting and characters are flamboyantly cartoony so it kind of kills the tone of it for me. Remake is pretty much the same problem added that it also takes away the eerie daylight of the original which was one of the most important and impactful aesthetics.

Mondo Bungle · 08-21-2019, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Doug McClasky

Yeah I remember Black Christmas being good but it doesn't really have the same problems as your average slasher movie. And I love exploitation. Bland exploitation can suck it though. Slasher movies tend to be pretty bland.

Candyman's OK but it has that 90's horror boring quality that's hard to define.

bland anything can suck it imo

The Batlord · 08-22-2019, 11:15 AM

Rewatched Scream last night and now I'm moving on to Scream 2 and I have two things to say:

1. I wish it was the 90s so I could still be in love with Neve Campbell.

2. Matthew Lillard had twenty minutes of being the best horror villain ever. Who'd have thought live action Shaggy from Scooby Doo would be the perfect campy psychopath? Like, all other campy psychopaths are now lessened in my eyes cause how the **** do you deliver a bull**** line like "IT'S A SCREAM, BABY!" in a movie called Scream and have it be even more awesome than it is silly?

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