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

[It's Alright]

I loved the first one but I was playing it during COVID lockdowns so it just hit right. Tried to revisit it a few months ago and could not get into it for the life of me. Don't have a ton of interest in the sequel because IMO the first told a complete story.

Yeah, first was better for that. Second's just there so you can get more of Jokeima's references to various properties. For example, theres a mechanic where you can summon giant BT's to fight for you. If you do, the music that accompanies them is from Ultraman

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

CAN YOU BELEIVE IT
THE HELL'S RAZORS ARE IN THE IMPACT ZONE

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Journey through the original ‘Hellraiser’ trilogy​

Based on 1987’s “Hellraiser,” 1988’s “Hellbound: Hellraiser II” and 1992’s “Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth,” the haunted house places guests directly inside the franchise’s disturbing mythology centered around the mysterious Lament Configuration puzzle box. According to Universal, the experience begins as guests enter the iconic puzzle box itself, unknowingly opening a gateway into another dimension inhabited by the Cenobites.

From there, visitors will travel through several memorable locations from the films, including Frank Cotton’s attic, where his pursuit of forbidden pleasure first led him into Hell, and the Channard Institute, where the Lament Configuration continues to tempt victims with promises that quickly become eternal torment.

The experience concludes inside the Labyrinth, where Pinhead and the Cenobites await to claim new souls. Adding an authentic touch, Doug Bradley will voice Pinhead for both coasts’ haunted houses.

 

[The Nothingness]

What the fuck are TikTok faces

The face acting and lipsyncing shit. Meme faces. Thumbnail faces to get attention.
Basically, theater kid overacting that is done on stage so the back of the audience can read it.
Horror movies now overuse this trope and zoom in very close so they can go viral on cellphone screens.

Sounds like Sleepaway Camp was the precursor of this current trend.

 

[JeffreyMaxwell]

Sounds like Sleepaway Camp was the precursor of this current trend.
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Well look at it in context. The whole movie built to that reveal, and it was chilling. This actress still does this face to this day, it's a calling card for her. Like Linnea Quigley's tombstone dance.
It's not the act of overacting or doing big faces that necessarily sucks; strategically it can elevate a moment or scene big time. But these theater kids basically abandon and condescend to every facet of horror and focus entirely on this overacting that makes it lame, turning their nose up to every other element of horror that makes the genre captivating, then replacing it with this for an entire film to appeal to social media that makes it insufferable.

How can "elevated horror" be a term when John Carpenter's The Thing exists? That's a movie that has all the beats of psychological introspection and interesting interpersonal dynamics but doesn't need to sacrifice all the stuff that makes horror fun to make a ham-fisted point that is essentially condescending to the people who are steeped in the genre.

Just seems like an excuse to steep modern horror in trauma dumps and cut out everything interesting, artistically, that makes horror horror while shitting on legends who churned out more character development in a single scene than these Tumblr writers can across 6 pretentious toddler ethics movies. Your social media facial overacting ain't trumping the special effects of Tom Savini. It's just a way to cut budget and appeal to kids raised on lipsync videos.

Make your trauma dump movies, just stop calling it "elevated" and acting like slashers or zombie flicks are lesser than these boring, droll, lethargic therapy speak soaked Lifetime dramas. You ain't ABOVE horror...you can't even compete with B movies.

 

[Commander X]

Something I've noticed, especially recently in the "discourse" over films like Backrooms and Obsession, but other films in other genres too is how a how a lot of people will talk about characters in movies like they’re gossiping about real people they actually know in their daily lives. It's really strange. I saw this sort of behavior from Tumblr-ites and other people, as part of their weird, warped parasocial relationships with "media" they treat fictional characters like real people often while they treat real people like they're fictional characters.

 

[Big Miss Steak]

Something I've noticed, especially recently in the "discourse" over films like Backrooms and Obsession, but other films in other genres too is how a how a lot of people will talk about characters in movies like they’re gossiping about real people they actually know in their daily lives. It's really strange. I saw this sort of behavior from Tumblr-ites and other people, as part of their weird, warped parasocial relationships with "media" they treat fictional characters like real people often while they treat real people like they're fictional characters.

There's nothing wrong with character analysis, or with enjoying character analysis. I do agree that fandom obsession is incredibly creepy and parasocial but I don't think that is what's happening with Obsession or Backrooms.

 

[The Nothingness]

Not a remake of the Clint Howard movie. Same title but a different premise.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

Finally finished Widow's Bay, and what a huge fucking surprise. Really just enjoyable. The least amount of niggers possible (like 1 supporting role that has maybe 10 minutes of screen time across the series and isn't really irritating except for being shoehorned in and out of place; and two bit parts with basically a scene each. And the supporting role one is actually not even married to a white chick. Fucking amazing.). No girlbosses girlbossing across the screen either (there's one scene that semi-skewers it, but it does it for comedy, and wouldn't have been out of place prior to 2015).

The lore and story are engaging and meted out in an interesting way (people are saying a couple of the early episodes are slow, but I didn't really find them that way, there's enough going on that keeps it moving forward). And it actually stays within the rules it sets up, and has characters actually stick to their motivations and characterizations throughout the series.

Now it is a Stranger Things type 'homage' show, where virtually everything in it is a reference to something else (virtually every horror movie ever set in New England, and a few that aren't); however it doesn't really rely on those references. They just kind of give you a chuckle from the reference.

I have very few complaints really. It isn't a self-contained season, for sure - there is somewhat of an ending, but it's clearly set up for another season...but I'm actually fine with that if it's as good as this one. It leans into the humor a bit too much at some point, but honestly, a lot of times it's pretty unexpected and I actually LOL'd quite a few times, which is saying something as I'm a miserable curmudgeon. And the teen actors all suck - thankfully they're not in it too much, but it does drag it down every time they're on screen. I mean the main guy (the mayor) kind of sucks as well, or I guess he's fine, but he's not meant to be likeable or charismatic, but I guess it's fine, and at least they stick with it.

Anyway, I know I'm late to the party, but yeah, another highly recommend.

 

[Gamer Dan]

The face acting and lipsyncing shit. Meme faces. Thumbnail faces to get attention.
Basically, theater kid overacting that is done on stage so the back of the audience can read it.
Horror movies now overuse this trope and zoom in very close so they can go viral on cellphone screens.
A quick way to hit the algorithm. Modern culture seems to center around people primarily filming themselves or taking selfies rather than learning skills or picking up hobbies.

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Yeah. I have seen thumbnails of Inde Navarratte's face.

I still see heavy praise for Obsession. Even The Critical Drinker loves this movie.

Is the positive response only coming due to the current state of Hollywood?

 

[Quijibo69]

I saw the extra 15 of the Backrooms movie online, it's just Async dicking around with signs. I'm pretty sure that's why it was cut out of the film.