Board 8 > All-Purpose Horror Topic 2018: New Year, New Fear

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It's been awhile and the board always needs more horror!

I made a 2018 horror movie release schedule (I will update it as the year goes on):
http://www.listal.com/list/2018-horror-movies

Guide for recommended horror films:
http://www.listal.com/list/horror-films-guide

Guide for recommended survival horror games:
http://www.listal.com/list/survival-horror-video-game-guide
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It > Get Out > Split > Jigsaw

I think, but they could easily swap around too
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There's no Black Mirror topic anymore so I just want to say in here that I loved Metalhead (finally an episode I can say I truly loved this season). It's refreshingly simple and straightforward; no twist, no simulation, no messy merging of various tech and ideas. It's like The Terminator mixed with the classic Twilight Zone episode The Invaders, and the sparse dialogue and black-and-white stylization were used perfectly. Very nice classic horror shots used throughout too. Maxine Peake was a great emotive actress for an episode like this.
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Hey guys, you don't need to be told this but Insidious 4 is a bad movie.

They had that really cool effect from the trailers where the girl is screaming and then he puts the key finger in her throat and it gets all muted. Instead of using that effect, they just cut off the screaming entirely.

Also, the plot is a mess. Nothing is explained or anything.

And Cleft Lip Key Fingers will never be a horror icon. Because he is a bad monster.
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I'm torn on Metalhead. I think it's good as it's own thing but doesn't quite fit as a Black Mirror episode
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I think it fits really well. It portrays the unrelenting march of technological evolution in a grounded manner. The need and means to create the most advanced AI isn't too far away from the present, and Metalhead doesn't feel too far-fetched as a result. Despite the antagonistic nature of the dogs, it's still our own fault for pushing technology too far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8YjvHYbZ9w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgaO45SyaO4
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I don't know though, the big things I like about Black Mirror is how the tech almost always works as intended (it's almost always the humans themselves causing the issues) and how it shows the effect the developing tech has on society

Metalhead doesn't really do either. The tech is all but objectively evil (it serves no purpose except hunting and killing) and there's not much of a society left

Honestly I could see Metalhead being made into its own post-apocalyptic sci-fi horror movie but as part of an anthology it just felt really out of place

Just finished the season, overall I think I rank them

Hang the DJ > USS Callister > Black Museum > Metalhead = Crocodile > Arkangel

Arkangel was the only one I really found disappointing. Story was way too predictable.
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seeing those real robot dogs though is super creepy

sort of like


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Really enjoyed Black Museum as well. I love the futuristic update on the Tourist Trap/Wax Museum hook, and the vignettes were pretty terrifying. I'm always a sucker for both of these things, especially anthology formats.

So I'd rank the episodes:
Metalhead > Black Museum > Hang the DJ > USS Callister > Crocodile > Arkangel

Overall, an honestly disappointing season of Black Mirror. They definitely saved the best for last, those 2 alone salvaged the season for me. I mean, I won't say even the weaker episodes aren't absolutely engaging, gripping, well-shot, and imaginative, because they definitely are, they're just missing crucial elements that make stand-out less compared to the rest of the series.
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Get Out was good but It was way more fun
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Terror Trailers Thursday

Hellraiser: Judgment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T4oDRP69Xo

It's the 10th Hellraiser film! It will feature yet another new actor in the Pinhead role. Despite the last film being made merely to keep the rights to the franchise, Judgment actually seems to have some effort put into it. Still, pretty hard to be excited for this considering the series track record.

Slender Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySy8mcceTno

I like the Slender Man and was excited for a film adaptation, but this doesn't look too hot. I get Bye Bye Man vibes from this for real. Obviously, the real film might be different, but so far this looks boring and watered-down.

Channel Zero Season 3: Butcher's Block

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW6MQwIYKwY

Channel Zero is a criminally underlooked anthology horror series, which bases its seasons on different Creepypasta stories. Butcher's Block is based of the story Search And Rescue Woods, one I'm not too familiar with, but basically it deals with mysterious happenings and unsolved disappearances. It looks like another wicked season for a great show!

Victor Crowley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAY1YKne0RQ

This film was actually released last year, in surprise screenings for fans who thought they were going to the see the original Hatchet film. Now, the comedy-slasher is coming to DVD, and obviously it looks like a super-fun time! I really like that Q from Impractical Jokers in this one, that alone has me excited.
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Gerald's game is brutal on so many fronts, holy shit
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jcgamer107 posted...

Gerald's Game is brutal on so many fronts, holy shit. what a ride.

not sure I like the slapped-on explanation that the moonlight man was a real, actual grave robber. he still looks terrifying but i think it would have worked way better if he was just left as this mysterious, haunting entity.

I read the book in high school and thought the exact same thing about him

For what it's worth though, the movie is pretty faithful to the book

One difference from the book:
In the movie he just kind of had a heart attack, but in the movie, it's brought on by her kicking him in the junk when he's trying to force himself on her. It makes her a little more complicit in his death (it was self defense, but she wrestled with the idea that nobody's going to believe her and that even if she manages to escape, she's still responsible for it)
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Wait how did I miss that they're rebooting Nightmare Creatures?!
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well I watched The Killing of a Sacred Deer

not sure what to say about it yet
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Oh yes it's a very strange film indeed.

Also, I beat Doki Doki Literature Club, pretty neat experience.
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oh I assumed you had played that months ago

And I'm really not sure how I felt about Sacred Deer. It was my third film from the director (after Dogtooth and The Lobster).

Part of what throws me off is the stilted acting and almost robotic personalities. It's becoming a recurring trait of Lanthimos. In Dogtooth and The Lobster, it kind of fit. Dogtooth was a notably bizarre family where the children didn't understand socially acceptable behavior. The Lobster was a world that was just completely backwards, where nothing was normal about society so people having off personalities/behaviors made sense. Sacred Deer isn't like that though; the world is presented as normal in every way besides the stilted behavior (and later the powers that Martin may have had) so I feel like having everyone act the way they did took away from it.

That being said, the score was easily one of the best of the year and the atmosphere was fantastic, so I'm a little torn.

Edit: I think part of the issue with that too is that I think Martin had developmental issues? (If it didn't say that it implied it, I can't quite remember). But it's really hard to understand what among his behavior is part of his personal issues and what is part of just the stilted acting that's so common in Lanthimos films).
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My favorite review of it I've read so far:

https://letterboxd.com/refns/film/the-killing-of-a-sacred-deer/
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I've decided I'm pretty OK with the 'Moonlight Man' being a real guy, because his line + delivery in the courtroom scene is hilarious. Makes him way less scary to me :P.
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for what it's worth I think him being a real guy felt more appropriate in the movie than it did in the book
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Gonna try one of these auto #bump# things
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also, it's pretty nuts that the kid from E.T. played the molesting dad, lol wtf.
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jcgamer107 posted...

also, it's pretty nuts that the kid from E.T. played the molesting dad, lol wtf.

Oh shit Drew Barrymore has a lot more range than I realized
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Wow was Split really last year? Must have been early. Either way I recall very little actual horror in it, though it was a great thriller unlike It Comes at Night which excelled at exactly one thing. Still pissed at that marketing team.

Get Out > It > Split for me but last year wasn't great for horror in general

And this one started with the worst Insidious yet. Oy vey. They really need to quit that franchise now before they shit themselves.
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What's even the next horror movie out? I can't think of one anytime soon but that Winchester movie. Unless that horrific looking Truth or Dare movie comes out soon.
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Of all the crappy but undeniably unique horror movies to get a reboot... Truth or Dare is like near the bottom on my list of what I would have suspected.

I watched the original like a month before the new one was announced. On SyFy of all places I'm pretty sure.
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Truth or Dare and Slenderman both come out this year I think and both look terrible

New Mutants was supposed to be the next one in early April but it's been pushed back until 2019
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My girlfriend and I watched Pretty Little Liars, so we're still going to see Truth or Dare in theaters to rip on it since it seems like it's a so bad it's good. That's the perks of Movie Pass! You can watch anything bad and feel like you didn't waste money!
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

That's the perks of Movie Pass!

Dude Movie Pass is so great

I might actually get to see all the best picture nominees BEFORE they're even announced

And I could justify going to see Jigsaw in theaters which is also awesome
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I think the only movie I said "This movie is so bad I don't think Movie Pass could justify it" that I was interested in was freaking Snowman.

But everything else has been fine, even bad movies like Insidious 4 because at the very least it's a fun story and an inside joke about it as well.
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

I think the only movie I said "This movie is so bad I don't think Movie Pass could justify it" that I was interested in was freaking Snowman.

Same here, I was actually really looking forward to it but then when I saw the reviews and stuff it was such a disappointment
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Johnbobb posted...

Oh s*** Drew Barrymore has a lot more range than I realized

lol

GenesisSaga posted...

Get Out > It > Split for me but last year wasn't great for horror in general

Really tough call between Gerald's Game and It for me. Then Get Out third. That makes for a pretty good year, I'd say.
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See, I liked Gerald's Game, but I feel like it got too Stephen King by the end of it. I would have been perfectly fine with it ending after she recovers, but letting it end on something hinting that the Moonlight Man was real after all rather than going into full blown expository mode to reveal everything about him makes it less special to me. I get why they did it, and I'm sure it plays out better in the book, but I felt like that was a bit too much.
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About an hour and a half into Detroit

it's not listed as a horror movie but goddamn it should be

easiest comparison is Get Out, which is similar subject matter. Get Out is a lot more clever in its racial commentary but Detroit is probably scarier
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Interesting, I actually don't know much about Detroit.
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basically it's about the 1967 Detroit riots, but with heavy focus on the Algiers Motel incident

essentially the movie starts as a wide-scale period crime drama before going full on horror movie about half an hour in
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This definitely shot-up on my need to watch list.
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Snake5555555555 posted...

This definitely shot-up on my need to watch list.

fair warning: it's not an easy watch

it's one I'm glad to have watched but never want to watch again
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oh so nobody's mentioned A Quiet Place yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9wE8dyzEJE

coming early April. Looks pretty good!
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Oh, yeah. The Quiet Place looks really good too. I feel like Emily Blunt and Jim from the Office wouldn't sign on unless they really believed in it. I just like the ambiguity of it all. Can't wait to see the trailer a month from release that spoils the whole thing though!
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Hold on, John Krasinski is the one writing and directing it? And Emily Blunt is married to him? I have no ungodly idea how this will turn out now. It feels like it might end up being a project created from a "cool" idea that Krasinski had.

Also if you rate horror movies, you have to include mother! And if you include mother! you also need to include it in it's own ranking because it's such a freaking impossibly strange movie that I can't really compare to anything and I'm still not sure if I liked it or not or if I want to live life after seeing it months ago.
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

See, I liked Gerald's Game, but I feel like it got too Stephen King by the end of it. I would have been perfectly fine with it ending after she recovers, but letting it end on something hinting that the Moonlight Man was real after all rather than going into full blown expository mode to reveal everything about him makes it less special to me. I get why they did it, and I'm sure it plays out better in the book, but I felt like that was a bit too much.

see i like his dialogue too much to mind
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Just watched the first episode of Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, felt just like an episode of Black Mirror and it's great!
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Terror Trailers Thursday
The weekly update for the latest in horror trailers and news that piques my interest.

The Executioners

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY0hzw-kGYo

AKA trashy, low-budget You're Next remake.

Invasion on Chestnut Ridge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUHc2eKiJ9Y

This was originally released as part of Amazon's Small Town Monsters series in October 2017, but it's just now getting its own wide VOD release. I wanted to bring more attention to it as someone deeply interested in happenings like this one.

Remothered: Tormented Fathers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdj3YPilUP0

This Clock Tower spiritual successor has been a long time coming, and it gives me the chills to think the release is now so soon! The game looks absolutely terrifying and could very well be horror game of the year already.

The Housemaid

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

Originally released in Vietnam in 2016, The Housemaid is seeing a VOD release this February. It doesn't look like the most original movie but it's still good to some Vietnamese horror films getting made.

Honest Trailers: It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ubwGb-vLA0
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ok so yesterday I went to see Paddington, the least "horror" movie of the year, but at the theater there was a stand-up for The Strangers 2: Prey at Night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n_QL9FyUr4

the fuck

of all the horror movies that was definitely one of the ones I least expected to ever get a sequel
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It's been in development hell for like a decade now. I'm still shocked it's finally coming out.
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spongebob chester?

mother! was trash imhooooo
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