Board 8 > All Purpose Horror Topic 2018: so Suspiria was fucking weird (again)

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So I'd call Don't Let Go a suspense thriller; referring to it as horror at all is really pushing it.

As a film, it's ok. Nothing particularly new or groundbreaking. It's a Groundhog Dog type of movie in some ways, combined with this time travel sort of aspect that allows one of the characters to alter the future by doing things differently in the past. It isn't bad, but I wouldn't call it a must see either.
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IT Chapter 2 thoughts:

The adult cast has great chemistry; they were able to really recapture the magic of Richie/Eddie from the child actors with their adult casting. I loved the Chinese restaurant scene. All the acting was unquestionably better than the miniseries version and the different scares Pennywise used were great. I enjoyed the little side trips the adults made; it's reminiscent of how it was in the original version where they each confront a personal memory they have involving Pennywise. I thought some of the changes they made were for the best; Beverly still believes and always has that Bill wrote the poem for her, and Ben basically has to tell her it was him this time. The Kersh scene from the trailer was a little different from the movie version, but the movie version was actually scarier. For Ben's solo scene, they kept the "kiss me fat boy" idea, which was nice, but it was portrayed this time in a much darker and sinister light. I'd probably consider Ben's scene with Pennywise in the old school one of the most tormenting in the film since not only does it play into Ben's psychological fears that no matter how successful or in shape he gets, he'll never get the girl he wants and he'll always be alone. This was a much welcome look at the psyche of his character that we haven't really got before. They could, once again, have done more with Mike but that's my only real criticism of the movie. Henry Bowers was probably wasted a little bit too I guess.

Best Stuff:

-Ben's psychological horror segment where Pennywise torments him about Beverly preferring Bill.
-Richie and Eddie's chemistry; and the big swerve that Richie is in fact gay, and has secretly always loved Eddie.
-Stephen King's elongated cameo as an antique store dealer.
-Stan's poignant final message to the rest of the group; this was something very different and in general, Stan's character in this film gets to look much better than he did in the original.

All in all, it's a great film in general. There's tons of scares, really great acting and chemistry among the cast and another incredible performance from Skarsgard. Honestly, he probably upped the ante in terms of that this time around. I read an article a week or so ago that Skarsgard says he plays Pennywise as this dark entity rather than just a clown. He also said he plays the character in a way that yes he's this evil all-powerful entity, but he doesn't really know what he's doing because he's not human and has trouble conversing with humans. It's an interesting take, and I think it shows up well in this one.
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as a reminder i will be going through the list and slashing anything i've ever heard before. this is not only so i have to do less but also so that i can go into everything with a real first impression. so if i've heard it before, it won't be on the final list but i will say something about it separately, ranging anywhere from one word to a paragraph depending on how lazy i feel at that moment.

Anyone watch the trailer for Gretel and Hansel yet? Looks pretty fucking great.
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LJA started sucking

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https://www.reddit.com/r/cursedimages/

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Snake5555555555 posted...

https://www.reddit.com/r/cursedimages/

why
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AHS 1984 was pretty good!

I can't wait to find out what the witches, murder house, and cult all have to do with this too as we start to forget about the main camp plot completely.

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man I'm so behind on AHS

last I finished was Roanoke which I wasn't super into
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I will tell you how 1984 turns out if you don't watch it by the time it's over.

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I'm starting to consider this one of the best horror soundtracks ever. Even the opening is like, fairy tale from hell.

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The entire first 15-20 minutes of that movie is seriously incredibly compelling and perfectly crafted. I just remain disappointed by the rest of that movie so much.
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https://twitter.com/danieIgayIewis/status/1175782170763366402

bro whhhhaaaaattttttttt

this movie's amazing

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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

The entire first 15-20 minutes of that movie is seriously incredibly compelling and perfectly crafted. I just remain disappointed by the rest of that movie so much.

This is exactly how I feel about Hereditary, though in that case it's more like 30-40 minutes.
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Hereditary never stops being great until, arguably, the last 10 minutes or so. Even then I feel like, eh, it's okay. It's just not as good of an ending as it could have been. Midsommar definitely loses any appeal after the cliff scene. That's like the last time it was any good, even slightly.
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Nooooo, RIP Sid Haig :(

https://ew.com/movies/2019/09/23/sid-haig-dies-house-of-1000-corpses/

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tfw you download something and it is not what it said it was

my sister's got her Halloween costume ready lol

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Meow1000 posted...

And I find it very curious how few people seem to actually care right now when there's a guy already at -2.

Don't worry Corrik's vote is already down
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This looks cool, but probably not $60-cool

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Oh it's finally coming out! $60 is a bit much though, you're right.
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well they allowed a tyson will be on season 40 spoiler in the newsaf facebook group

The house show never happen.

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Put together a Halloween basket to surprise my girlfriend
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That is really nice!
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One of the best Halloween baskets of the decade

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Snake5555555555 posted...

That is really nice!

jcgamer107 posted...

One of the best Halloween baskets of the decade

Thanks!
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Dude nice!
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Ff6
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The Lighthouse is fucking incredible

easily the best horror/thriller experience of the year so far. This is like David Lynch in his prime levels of dark and disturbing
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Hmmmm, I'll have to go see it. Wasn't a huge fan of The VVitch but maybe I'll like Lighthouse better.

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Man this season of AHS is truly great. I feel like it's the first time since Asylum where the more campy bits of the show actually work super well.
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excel just autofilled the column of author last names.

i didn't know it could do that.

https://i.imgur.com/AbcbjWp.png

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looool

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Nicely done AHS finale! Surprising amount of blood & gore and really gruesome deaths, the last couple of seasons are kind of a blur but I don't remember there being too much of that. I still think they juggled a little too many plotlines & characters for their own good (one more episode would've been a good choice), but I think it ended as well as it could've. Probably my 4th favorite season overall.

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wtf is even happening and why

GTN posted...

wtf is even happening and why

good question

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Since Akira was nominated in Snake's topic:

https://twitter.com/lucky6669/status/1198802016459354112?s=19
This is pretty awesome

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Holy bajesus that cosplay is fantastic
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Happy Thanksgiving!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADhBXGvgC0o

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I've been taking the kids chronologically, one movie per night, through the WDAS films. They've seen a bunch of them in the past but that hasn't slowed their enjoyment any. We'll see how they do tonight with Fantasia, which it's been a while since they've seen due to one of them losing the DVD copy we have. <_<
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I got duped into thinking that was going to turn into something horror related.

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Fantasia has the Night on Bald Mountain sequence so kinda!

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Finally watched Lake Mungo. The scene where Alice's own bloated, waterlogged corpse walks towards her is one of the scariest things I've ever seen. It's like The Ring but replace Samara with yourself. There are several really good payoffs, like Alice and her mom's dreams connecting, and Alice's ghost actually being present after we thought it was a hoax created by her brother.

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